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         Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?
      
       
         
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             A short discouerie of the vnobserued dangers of seuerall sorts of ignorant and vnconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie: by Iohn Cotta of Northampton Doctor in Physicke.
             Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?
          
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           A
           SHORT
           DISCOVERIE
           OF
           THE
           VNOBSERVED
           DANGERS
           OF
           seuerall
           sorts
           of
           ignorant
           and
           vnconsiderate
           
             Practisers
             of
             Physicke
             in
             England
          
           :
           Profitable
           not
           onely
           for
           the
           deceiued
           multitude
           ,
           and
           easie
           for
           their
           meane
           capacities
           ,
           but
           
             raising
             reformed
             and
             more
             aduised
             thoughts
          
           in
           the
           best
           vnderstandings
           :
           With
           Direction
           for
           the
           safest
           election
           of
           a
           Physition
           in
           necessitie
           :
           BY
           IOHN
           COTTA
           
             of
             Northampton
             Doctor
             in
             Physicke
          
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Imprinted
           for
           WILLIAM
           IONES
           ,
           and
           RICHARD
           BOYLE
           dwelling
           in
           the
           Blacke-Friers
           .
           1612.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           RIGHT
           HONORABLE
           ,
           RIGHT
           WORSHIPFVLL
           AND
           WORTHY
           Gentlemen
           ,
           my
           desired
           friends
           and
           deseruing
           Patients
           of
           Northamptonshire
           ,
           honour
           ,
           health
           and
           happinesse
           of
           life
           .
        
         
           RIght
           noble
           and
           renowned
           Gentlemen
           ,
           it
           is
           now
           the
           tenth
           yeares
           since
           the
           singular
           fauors
           ,
           loue
           ,
           merite
           and
           tried
           worth
           of
           my
           thrice
           a
           honored
           friend
           hath
           first
           here
           detained
           mee
           in
           the
           eye
           of
           your
           vse
           .
           In
           this
           short
           space
           of
           quick
           time
           ,
           as
           my
           publicke
           office
           hath
           bene
           truly
           deuoted
           vnto
           you
           all
           the
           common
           right
           ,
           so
           many
           your
           noble
           peculiar
           deserts
           haue
           worthily
           challenged
           their
           speciall
           claime
           .
           In
           pledge
           therefore
           of
           my
           loue
           and
           dutie
           vnto
           you
           all
           ,
           and
           in
           memorie
           of
           my
           trauels
           amongst
           you
           ▪
           (
           when
           former
           vowes
           shall
           haply
           hence
           re●all
           me
           )
           what
           my
           time
           here
           passed
           hath
           brought
           forth
           ,
           most
           rare
           or
           worthy
           vnto
           choice
           obseruation
           ,
           I
           freely
           publish
           ,
           and
           reciprocally
           here
           present
           vnto
           the
           countries
           good
           ,
           and
           together
           with
           generall
           caution
           and
           rule
           for
           safe
           and
           wholesome
           medication
           ,
           repay
           and
           dedicate
           .
           The
           matter
           and
           subiect
           it selfe
           ,
           vnto
           common
           reading
           ,
           is
           of
           a
           
           virgine
           fresh
           and
           as
           yet
           vndiuulged
           view
           ,
           and
           no
           lesse
           of
           necessarie
           and
           serious
           vse
           .
           The
           stile
           can
           neither
           be
           so
           farre
           in
           loue
           with
           it selfe
           as
           to
           forget
           the
           matter
           ,
           nor
           altogether
           sauoureth
           of
           his
           oft
           interrupted
           &
           vnsetled
           leisure
           ;
           and
           breuity
           doth
           not
           suffer
           the
           reading
           to
           be
           any
           burthen
           .
           The
           paines
           and
           losse
           of
           secured
           safetie
           b
           in
           silence
           are
           mine
           own
           ,
           and
           the
           opportunity
           euery
           mans
           that
           lusteth
           to
           censure
           ,
           or
           to
           satisfie
           any
           other
           more
           honest
           end
           :
           I
           haue
           thus
           freely
           exposed
           my selfe
           in
           a
           proposed
           hope
           ,
           that
           the
           hence
           deriued
           good
           of
           many
           may
           make
           good
           my
           good
           desire
           vnto
           all
           .
           Since
           thē
           this
           small
           sacrifise
           of
           my selfe
           to
           all
           your
           happy
           healths
           (
           a
           mite
           answerable
           to
           my
           might
           )
           doth
           therwith
           include
           a
           needful
           vse
           vnto
           a
           common
           good
           ,
           that
           after
           succeeding
           participation
           may
           enlarge
           the
           benefite
           vnto
           all
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           my
           poore
           paines
           awake
           more
           ample
           merite
           in
           some
           others
           worth
           ,
           vouchsafe
           my
           free
           &
           honest
           labor
           in
           your
           friendly
           acceptance
           ,
           shrowded
           by
           the
           true
           splendor
           of
           your
           generose
           and
           noble
           worthes
           ,
           may
           dazle
           the
           narrow
           sight
           of
           base
           obtrectation
           .
           Thus
           shal
           your
           euer
           deseruing
           loues
           and
           now
           desired
           patronages
           ,
           make
           both
           so
           much
           more
           deserued
           loue
           your
           desirous
           seruant
           ,
           and
           religiously
           euer
           oblige
           my selfe
           in
           all
           true
           rights
           vnto
           your
           daigned
           fauours
           ,
           perpetuall
           solicitor
           of
           humble
           ,
           officious
           and
           thankfull
           memorie
           .
        
         
           
             IOHN
             COTTA
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           THe
           Sunne
           doth
           rise
           and
           fall
           ,
           and
           returneth
           euerie
           day
           :
           but
           when
           the
           short
           day
           of
           mans
           life
           once
           goeth
           downe
           ,
           it
           neuer
           a
           dawneth
           .
           Life
           is
           deare
           ,
           and
           too
           deare
           (
           being
           lost
           )
           for
           all
           inestimable
           valewes
           to
           redeeme
           :
           and
           health
           is
           the
           sweetnesse
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           the
           verie
           life
           of
           b
           liuing
           ,
           without
           which
           ,
           men
           while
           they
           liue
           are
           alreadie
           dead
           .
           Thou
           therefore
           that
           louest
           thy
           life
           ,
           and
           for
           thy
           life
           thy
           health
           ,
           take
           counsell
           of
           a
           Physition
           without
           a
           fee.
           So
           many
           and
           so
           infinitely
           do
           the
           numbers
           of
           barbarous
           and
           vnlearned
           counsellours
           of
           health
           at
           this
           time
           ouerspread
           all
           corners
           of
           this
           kingdome
           ,
           that
           their
           confused
           swarmes
           do
           not
           onely
           euery
           where
           couer
           and
           eclipse
           the
           Sun-shine
           of
           all
           true
           learning
           &
           vnderstanding
           but
           generally
           darken
           and
           extinguish
           the
           very
           light
           of
           cōmon
           sense
           and
           reason
           .
           It
           is
           euery
           mans
           office
           to
           do
           good
           for
           goodnesse
           sake
           ,
           and
           both
           my
           generall
           duty
           vnto
           a
           common
           good
           ,
           and
           my
           speciall
           bond
           vnto
           my
           friends
           ,
           do
           earnestly
           solicite
           me
           hereto
           ,
           since
           no
           man
           (
           that
           as
           yet
           I
           heare
           )
           hath
           hitherto
           vndertaken
           this
           taske
           .
           For
           their
           sakes
           therefore
           ,
           for
           whose
           harmes
           by
           vnskilfull
           hands
           I
           haue
           oft
           heretofore
           sorrowed
           ,
           and
           for
           their
           loues
           ,
           whose
           life
           and
           health
           I
           wish
           heareafter
           preserued
           ,
           and
           for
           their
           good
           who
           will
           take
           paines
           to
           know
           it
           ,
           I
           here
           commend
           (
           leauing
           the
           common
           mischiefe
           to
           the
           common
           care
           )
           vnto
           euerie
           particular
           for
           himselfe
           this
           needfull
           detection
           of
           harmefull
           c
           succours
           ,
           
           and
           necessarie
           counsell
           for
           safe
           supplie
           (
           necessitie
           being
           neuer
           more
           distractedly
           miserable
           in
           hard
           choyce
           of
           good
           )
           in
           so
           common
           and
           confused
           multitudes
           of
           ill
           .
           For
           the
           meanest
           readers
           sake
           (
           whom
           in
           this
           whole
           worke
           I
           labour
           equally
           to
           obserue
           )
           I
           haue
           suited
           the
           plainnes
           and
           simplicitie
           of
           a
           familiar
           style
           :
           and
           for
           facilitie
           of
           common
           reading
           haue
           also
           smoothed
           and
           cleared
           the
           streame
           and
           current
           of
           this
           little
           volume
           ,
           from
           the
           stops
           and
           interruptions
           of
           vnusuall
           sounds
           and
           language
           (
           as
           farre
           as
           the
           subiect
           will
           permit
           )
           refreshing
           onely
           the
           learned
           in
           the
           margine
           .
           Neither
           haue
           I
           esteemed
           it
           any
           indecorum
           for
           the
           meanest
           vnderstanding
           sake
           ,
           together
           with
           generall
           cautions
           and
           rules
           to
           insert
           particular
           cases
           and
           reports
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           both
           an
           inducement
           to
           reade
           ,
           and
           an
           enticement
           to
           continue
           ,
           example
           being
           neither
           least
           pleasing
           nor
           least
           profitable
           vnto
           the
           vulgar
           .
           There
           shall
           appeare
           in
           this
           following
           treatise
           described
           ,
           first
           ,
           such
           insufficient
           workemen
           and
           practitioners
           ,
           as
           this
           time
           doth
           generally
           set
           forth
           ,
           with
           their
           seuerall
           manners
           ,
           defects
           and
           dangers
           :
           and
           after
           shall
           succeed
           a
           plaine
           patterne
           of
           that
           sufficient
           Artist
           ,
           vnto
           whom
           with
           iudgement
           and
           better
           satisfaction
           vnto
           thy
           owne
           vnderstanding
           ,
           thou
           maist
           commend
           thy
           health
           ,
           and
           whom
           the
           Ancients
           ,
           right
           reason
           ,
           and
           experience
           haue
           euer
           allowed
           .
           I
           labour
           not
           in
           this
           plaine
           discouerie
           with
           words
           to
           feast
           prodigalitie
           ,
           nor
           hope
           altogether
           for
           want
           of
           correspondence
           vnto
           satisfaction
           to
           macerate
           frugall
           satietie
           .
           Few
           words
           do
           best
           hold
           d
           memorie
           ,
           and
           a
           short
           taste
           doth
           breede
           more
           eager
           appetite
           .
           I
           will
           therefore
           onely
           briefly
           point
           the
           common
           forgetfulnesse
           by
           bare
           aduertisement
           to
           better
           memorie
           ,
           which
           after
           may
           better
           thence
           guide
           it selfe
           to
           more
           
           large
           and
           accurate
           consideration
           .
           This
           plaine
           endeauour
           begotten
           of
           succisiue
           houres
           by
           good
           desire
           ,
           thy
           proposed
           benefite
           (
           deseruing
           Reader
           )
           hath
           here
           brought
           forth
           into
           this
           common
           light
           .
           Enioy
           therefore
           therein
           what
           seemeth
           liking
           ,
           or
           of
           vse
           :
           the
           rest
           thy
           wiser
           thoughts
           may
           either
           in
           reading
           ,
           abstract
           ,
           or
           thy
           ingenuous
           mind
           compare
           with
           that
           is
           better
           ,
           or
           by
           it selfe
           censure
           as
           a
           cipher
           .
           Farewell
           .
        
         
           
             Thy
             weale-aduising
             friend
             ,
             IOHN
             COTTA
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THE
           SEVERALL
           TRACTATES
           of
           the
           Treatise
           following
           .
        
         
           
             In
             the
             first
             Booke
             .
          
           
             
               Chap.
               1.
               
               The
               Introduction
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               The
               Empericke
               his
               defects
               and
               danger
               .
            
             
               3.
               
               Women
               their
               custome
               and
               practise
               about
               the
               sicke
               ,
               commonuisiting
               counsellours
               ,
               and
               commenders
               of
               medicines
               .
            
             
               4.
               
               Fugitiues
               ,
               workers
               of
               iugling
               wonders
               ,
               Quacksaluers
               .
            
             
               5.
               
               Surgeons
               .
            
             
               6.
               
               Apothecaries
               .
            
             
               7.
               
               Practisers
               by
               spels
               .
            
             
               8.
               
               The
               explication
               of
               the
               true
               discouerie
               of
               witchcraft
               in
               the
               sicke
               ,
               together
               with
               many
               and
               wondered
               instances
               in
               that
               kind
               .
            
             
               9.
               
               Wisards
               .
            
             
               10.
               
               Seruants
               of
               Physitions
               ,
               ministring
               helpers
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             In
             the
             second
             booke
             .
          
           
             
               Chap.
               1.
               
               The
               methodian
               learned
               deceiuer
               or
               hereticke
               Physition
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               Benificed
               Practisers
               .
            
             
               3.
               
               Astrologers
               ,
               Ephemerides-maisters
               .
            
             
               4.
               
               Coniectors
               by
               vrine
               .
            
             
               5.
               
               Trauellers
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             In
             the
             third
             Booke
             .
          
           
             
               The
               true
               Artist
               his
               right
               description
               and
               election
               .
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THE
           FIRST
           BOOKE
           .
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             I.
             
          
           
             The
             Introduction
             .
          
           
             THE
             dignitie
             and
             worth
             of
             Physicks
             skill
             consisteth
             not
             (
             as
             is
             imagined
             commonly
             )
             in
             the
             excellence
             and
             preheminence
             of
             remedies
             ,
             but
             in
             their
             wise
             and
             prudent
             vse
             .
             It
             is
             an
             ancient
             true
             saying
             ,
             that
             wholesome
             medicines
             by
             the
             hands
             of
             the
             iudicious
             dispenser
             ,
             are
             as
             a
             Angels
             of
             God
             sent
             for
             the
             good
             of
             men
             ;
             but
             in
             the
             hands
             of
             the
             vnlearned
             ,
             are
             messengers
             of
             death
             vnto
             their
             farther
             euill
             .
             Good
             medicines
             are
             in
             themselues
             excellent
             instruments
             of
             health
             and
             life
             ,
             but
             require
             a
             learned
             workeman
             iudiciously
             to
             guide
             them
             vnto
             their
             destined
             end
             .
             It
             is
             order
             and
             not
             confusion
             ,
             that
             is
             euer
             safe
             and
             happie
             ;
             and
             knowledge
             (
             which
             worketh
             by
             election
             ,
             and
             b
             true
             reason
             ,
             and
             not
             rash
             boldnesse
             ,
             which
             doth
             good
             by
             chance
             c
             and
             vncertaine
             euent
             )
             that
             is
             the
             light
             and
             safe
             guide
             of
             vnderstanding
             mindes
             .
             Who
             knoweth
             not
             how
             much
             d
             opportunity
             aduanceth
             in
             all
             performances
             ?
             how
             descreete
             obseruation
             of
             smallest
             e
             circumstances
             aduantageth
             ?
             how
             wise
             and
             learned
             f
             cunctation
             ,
             and
             sometimes
             anticipation
             ,
             make
             fortunate
             an
             action
             ?
             Who
             seeth
             not
             in
             euerie
             dayes
             experience
             ,
             how
             necessarie
             it
             is
             by
             a
             mature
             and
             iudicious
             eye
             to
             foresee
             in
             all
             attemps
             the
             after
             vnauoydable
             g
             hinderances
             ?
             Who
             discerneth
             not
             that
             without
             prudent
             circumspection
             and
             prouident
             forecast
             ,
             blinde
             rashnesse
             and
             ignorance
             do
             alwaies
             
             hazard
             ,
             &
             oft
             vnrecouerably
             ouerthrow
             all
             good
             successe
             .
             Through
             want
             of
             knowledge
             to
             mistake
             h
             time
             ,
             is
             losse
             of
             labor
             and
             of
             time
             .
             Ignorant
             slownesse
             doth
             come
             too
             late
             ,
             and
             rash
             haste
             doth
             stumble
             :
             he
             that
             knoweth
             not
             the
             danger
             ,
             doth
             easily
             runne
             vpon
             the
             rocke
             .
             Thus
             is
             it
             easie
             for
             the
             vnlearned
             to
             erre
             ,
             and
             those
             that
             want
             vnderstanding
             to
             fall
             into
             the
             snare
             .
             If
             then
             all
             enterprises
             prosper
             by
             wise
             aduice
             ,
             &
             it
             is
             wisedome
             in
             matters
             of
             meanest
             moment
             to
             consult
             with
             a
             wise
             and
             iudicious
             friend
             ,
             in
             cases
             of
             health
             and
             life
             certainly
             euery
             man
             is
             not
             a
             sufficient
             counsellor
             .
             He
             that
             considereth
             the
             multitude
             of
             causes
             in
             diseases
             ,
             their
             infinite
             kindes
             ,
             manners
             ,
             and
             natures
             ,
             the
             varietie
             of
             accidents
             ,
             their
             sodaine
             and
             variable
             mutations
             ,
             the
             soone
             lost
             occasions
             ,
             and
             hardly
             gained
             i
             opportunities
             ,
             the
             wisedome
             which
             circumstances
             require
             ,
             the
             care
             and
             vigilance
             which
             the
             subiect
             exacteth
             ,
             the
             doubts
             which
             repugnances
             bring
             ,
             the
             resolutions
             which
             necessities
             vrge
             ;
             shall
             find
             the
             most
             exquisite
             powers
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             iudgement
             ,
             wit
             ,
             discretion
             ,
             and
             learning
             herein
             exactly
             sifted
             .
             From
             the
             varietie
             of
             k
             causes
             of
             diseases
             ,
             what
             varying
             differences
             arise
             in
             the
             manner
             ,
             quantity
             ,
             qualitie
             ,
             and
             times
             of
             remedies
             :
             euery
             one
             requiring
             a
             separate
             and
             distinct
             respect
             and
             dispensation
             ,
             euen
             in
             the
             same
             disease
             and
             person
             ?
             The
             immediate
             cause
             from
             the
             mediate
             ,
             the
             antecedent
             from
             the
             continent
             ,
             the
             necessarie
             from
             the
             casuall
             and
             contingent
             ,
             require
             both
             a
             diuers
             handling
             ,
             and
             also
             a
             distinction
             in
             order
             of
             handling
             :
             neither
             is
             there
             a
             like
             consideration
             of
             the
             externall
             and
             internall
             ,
             the
             positiue
             ,
             the
             priuatiue
             ,
             the
             materiall
             ,
             the
             immateriall
             ,
             those
             that
             are
             single
             and
             alone
             ,
             and
             those
             that
             are
             ioyntly
             and
             with
             others
             .
             Sometimes
             many
             causes
             are
             coincident
             in
             one
             effect
             ,
             sometimes
             many
             diseases
             from
             one
             cause
             .
             Sometimes
             the
             same
             cause
             receiueth
             a
             difference
             from
             it selfe
             ,
             and
             exacteth
             an
             exact
             difference
             in
             his
             owne
             remedies
             .
             Sometime
             the
             same
             cause
             is
             so
             farre
             vnlike
             it selfe
             that
             it
             seemeth
             not
             it selfe
             ,
             being
             either
             more
             then
             it selfe
             in
             quantity
             ,
             or
             a
             monster
             to
             l
             it selfe
             in
             malignant
             quality
             .
             As
             causes
             &
             diseases
             (
             according
             
             to
             their
             causes
             :
             )
             so
             no
             lesse
             materiall
             are
             accidents
             to
             be
             distinctly
             knowne
             and
             considered
             .
             Some
             of
             them
             bring
             m
             certaine
             knowledge
             ,
             some
             artificiall
             coniecture
             ,
             some
             matter
             of
             presumption
             and
             probability
             .
             Some
             are
             manifest
             ,
             some
             anxious
             and
             ambiguous
             ,
             some
             significant
             by
             themselues
             ,
             some
             consignificant
             with
             others
             .
             Some
             are
             of
             vertue
             in
             singularitie
             ,
             some
             in
             multitude
             :
             some
             are
             considered
             as
             signes
             and
             causes
             ,
             some
             as
             neither
             ,
             some
             as
             both
             .
             Some
             accidents
             go
             before
             the
             disease
             ,
             some
             accompany
             ,
             some
             follow
             after
             .
             Ordinarily
             the
             disease
             doth
             draw
             all
             attendance
             vnto
             it selfe
             ,
             sometimes
             the
             n
             accident
             doth
             obscure
             the
             disease
             .
             Some
             accidents
             alone
             are
             ciphers
             ,
             but
             added
             vnto
             other
             make
             vp
             a
             iust
             account
             ;
             some
             prognosticate
             ,
             some
             iudicate
             ,
             some
             are
             idle
             :
             some
             iudicate
             the
             constitution
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             some
             the
             humour
             ,
             some
             the
             diseased
             part
             ,
             some
             the
             disease
             it selfe
             ,
             and
             some
             the
             issue
             .
             Sometimes
             diseases
             are
             discouered
             by
             no
             signes
             at
             all
             ,
             but
             by
             an
             exact
             and
             exquisite
             o
             disquisition
             of
             a
             sound
             and
             p
             solert
             iudgement
             .
             So
             that
             according
             to
             the
             kindes
             ,
             places
             ,
             courses
             ,
             changes
             and
             courses
             of
             accidents
             ,
             varie
             significations
             ,
             iudications
             and
             prognostications
             ,
             and
             follow
             safe
             administration
             and
             application
             of
             apt
             remedies
             ,
             vnto
             the
             more
             speedy
             q
             benefite
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             facilitie
             of
             cure
             ,
             and
             securitie
             of
             after
             health
             .
             Diseases
             ,
             their
             causes
             and
             circumstances
             wisely
             distinguished
             and
             knowne
             ,
             do
             point
             a
             discreete
             knowing
             workman
             to
             a
             more
             certaine
             issue
             ;
             without
             which
             as
             the
             beginning
             of
             cure
             must
             necessarily
             be
             rash
             ,
             so
             must
             the
             end
             be
             doubtlesly
             vncertaine
             .
             Hence
             it
             must
             needs
             be
             apparent
             ,
             that
             by
             the
             common
             neglect
             and
             ignorance
             herein
             ,
             the
             monopolizing
             of
             cures
             vnto
             the
             prerogatiue
             of
             this
             or
             that
             secret
             ,
             and
             thereby
             the
             contempt
             of
             the
             due
             permutation
             of
             medicines
             ,
             according
             to
             requisite
             circumstances
             and
             necessities
             ,
             and
             the
             omission
             &
             reiection
             of
             the
             wholesome
             administratiō
             of
             the
             generall
             r
             remedies
             (
             without
             which
             the
             particular
             are
             vaine
             and
             preposterous
             )
             
             do
             commonly
             turne
             to
             the
             common
             perdition
             of
             most
             valetudinary
             men
             .
             From
             hence
             also
             it
             doth
             come
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             many
             disea●es
             ,
             beyond
             their
             owne
             nature
             ,
             and
             besides
             the
             constitution
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             grow
             so
             commonly
             ,
             so
             easily
             rooted
             ,
             and
             vnobseruedly
             confirmed
             in
             mens
             bodies
             ,
             that
             oft
             they
             can
             neuer
             haue
             end
             ,
             which
             by
             due
             ordering
             should
             neuer
             haue
             had
             beginning
             .
             Hence
             grow
             so
             frequent
             the
             multitude
             of
             strange
             and
             vnnaturall
             changes
             ,
             and
             new
             fashions
             of
             fits
             ,
             euen
             through
             the
             too
             common
             vse
             of
             wholesome
             remedies
             in
             vulgar
             and
             prophane
             hands
             .
             For
             through
             this
             presumption
             ,
             either
             by
             idle
             trifling
             and
             vaine
             flattery
             of
             ease
             ,
             dangerous
             diseases
             quickly
             &
             in
             short
             time
             grow
             too
             proud
             for
             any
             medication
             :
             or
             else
             in
             the
             other
             ſ
             extreme
             ,
             by
             too
             much
             haste
             and
             violence
             are
             hunted
             out
             of
             their
             owne
             course
             ,
             t
             and
             so
             metamorphize
             themselues
             into
             wilde
             and
             vnaccustomed
             shapes
             .
             Hence
             likewise
             it
             cometh
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             diseases
             in
             their
             owne
             kind
             easie
             and
             of
             small
             continuance
             ,
             by
             the
             wrong
             and
             iniury
             of
             remedies
             (
             without
             aduice
             admitted
             and
             celebrated
             )
             are
             not
             onely
             extended
             ,
             to
             a
             lingring
             age
             of
             many
             daies
             :
             but
             from
             daies
             to
             weekes
             ,
             from
             weekes
             to
             yeares
             ,
             yea
             oft
             vnto
             a
             longer
             life
             then
             the
             sicke
             himselfe
             ,
             after
             him
             inheriting
             his
             children
             and
             posteritie
             .
             It
             is
             a
             verified
             and
             true
             saying
             ,
             Worse
             are
             the
             bad
             after-consequences
             of
             ill
             applied
             medicines
             ,
             then
             diseases
             themselues
             .
             Although
             this
             be
             often
             apparent
             ,
             euen
             vnto
             the
             common
             sence
             of
             vulgar
             sight
             ,
             yet
             much
             more
             infinite
             are
             the
             impeachments
             and
             ruines
             of
             health
             by
             the
             learned
             seene
             and
             discouered
             daily
             ,
             whereof
             a
             common
             eye
             is
             not
             u
             capable
             ;
             while
             vnperceiued
             mischiefes
             stealingly
             x
             &
             insensibly
             enter
             with
             vnpriuiledged
             remedies
             ,
             and
             by
             some
             present
             benefite
             or
             ease
             for
             a
             time
             ,
             gayning
             credit
             and
             entertainement
             ,
             by
             litle
             and
             litle
             secretly
             vndermine
             the
             verie
             frame
             and
             foundation
             of
             life
             .
             We
             may
             instance
             in
             Tobacco
             :
             with
             what
             high
             fame
             and
             great
             renowne
             was
             it
             at
             his
             first
             arriuall
             here
             in
             England
             entertained
             as
             an
             incomparable
             iewell
             of
             health
             ,
             and
             an
             vniuersall
             antidote
             and
             supersedeas
             against
             the
             force
             ,
             
             and
             capias
             of
             all
             diseases
             ,
             euery
             man
             with
             the
             smoke
             thereof
             in
             his
             nosthrils
             ,
             breathing
             the
             prayles
             and
             excellencies
             thereof
             in
             his
             mouth
             ?
             But
             now
             hath
             not
             time
             and
             many
             a
             mans
             wofull
             experience
             giuen
             testimonie
             to
             right
             reason
             and
             iudgement
             ,
             from
             the
             first
             suspecting
             ,
             and
             vntill
             this
             prouing
             time
             suspending
             the
             too
             great
             name
             thereof
             ?
             Is
             not
             now
             this
             high
             blased
             remedy
             manifestly
             discouered
             ▪
             through
             intemperance
             and
             custome
             ,
             to
             be
             a
             monster
             of
             many
             diseases
             ?
             Since
             the
             riotous
             vse
             of
             this
             strange
             Indian
             ,
             let
             it
             be
             noted
             how
             many
             strange
             &
             before
             vnknowne
             diseases
             haue
             crept
             in
             vnnaturally
             ,
             besides
             the
             former
             custome
             and
             nature
             of
             the
             nation
             ,
             prouing
             now
             naturall
             and
             customary
             to
             the
             follies
             of
             the
             nation
             .
             Is
             it
             not
             apparent
             that
             the
             aire
             of
             this
             vapor
             and
             smoke
             by
             the
             subtility
             therof
             ,
             doth
             sodainly
             search
             all
             parts
             with
             a
             generall
             distresse
             oft
             times
             to
             nature
             ?
             And
             is
             it
             not
             thence
             probable
             ,
             that
             by
             aduantage
             in
             the
             weakest
             ,
             it
             may
             oft
             leaue
             behinde
             it
             (
             especially
             where
             it
             is
             any
             time
             vsed
             )
             such
             impression
             and
             print
             ,
             besides
             painefull
             distention
             through
             his
             inclosed
             vapour
             ,
             that
             no
             time
             of
             life
             ,
             no
             remedies
             ,
             oft
             times
             ,
             are
             euer
             after
             able
             to
             blot
             y
             out
             ?
             And
             frō
             this
             Nicotian
             fume
             grow
             now
             adaies
             ,
             doubtlesly
             ,
             many
             our
             frequent
             complaints
             ,
             and
             euerie
             day
             new
             descriptions
             of
             z
             paines
             ,
             according
             haply
             to
             the
             diuersitie
             and
             difference
             of
             the
             parts
             it
             chiefly
             affecteth
             ,
             or
             the
             more
             or
             lesse
             extreme
             vse
             thereof
             .
             And
             men
             haply
             led
             by
             some
             present
             bewitching
             feeling
             of
             ease
             ,
             or
             momentarie
             imagined
             release
             from
             paine
             at
             some
             time
             ,
             hereby
             vnaduisedly
             with
             such
             meanes
             of
             their
             ease
             ,
             drinke
             into
             some
             weake
             parts
             ,
             such
             seede
             of
             future
             poison
             ,
             as
             hauing
             giuen
             them
             for
             a
             time
             supposed
             pleasing
             ease
             ,
             doth
             for
             time
             to
             come
             secretly
             and
             vnfelt
             settle
             in
             their
             bones
             and
             solid
             parts
             ,
             a
             neuer
             dying
             disease
             (
             while
             they
             liue
             .
             )
             How
             many
             famous
             patrons
             and
             admirers
             of
             this
             simple
             ,
             haue
             senselesly
             died
             in
             the
             very
             time
             of
             the
             idle
             vse
             
             thereof
             ,
             while
             it
             yet
             smoked
             in
             their
             teeth
             ?
             and
             others
             liuing
             in
             the
             immoderate
             a
             burning
             loue
             therein
             ,
             haue
             with
             the
             fierie
             zealous
             gluttonie
             thereof
             (
             as
             the
             badge
             of
             his
             mastership
             in
             thē
             )
             sensibly
             stupefied
             &
             dried
             vp
             their
             euer
             after
             ,
             foolish
             and
             besotted
             braines
             ?
             I
             might
             giue
             other
             instance
             in
             these
             well
             knowne
             and
             vulgar
             remedies
             of
             the
             named
             French
             disease
             ,
             which
             by
             a
             present
             benumming
             of
             the
             sense
             ,
             cousining
             ,
             and
             easing
             of
             paine
             ,
             do
             withall
             ,
             for
             after
             time
             ,
             inure
             and
             leaue
             behinde
             them
             such
             a
             rottennes
             ,
             and
             weaknesse
             ofttimes
             of
             the
             bones
             and
             sinewes
             ,
             as
             suffereth
             few
             of
             our
             Mercurials
             to
             liue
             ,
             to
             know
             b
             their
             age
             in
             health
             ,
             especially
             who
             throughly
             knew
             the
             siluer-salue
             in
             their
             youth
             .
             Hence
             toward
             declining
             age
             (
             if
             not
             before
             )
             some
             fall
             into
             consumptions
             and
             marasmes
             ,
             some
             lose
             their
             teeth
             ,
             some
             haue
             the
             palate
             of
             the
             mouth
             rotted
             ,
             some
             the
             very
             bones
             of
             their
             head
             eaten
             ,
             some
             by
             conuulsions
             their
             mouthes
             and
             faces
             set
             awry
             .
             And
             it
             is
             ordinary
             with
             most
             of
             this
             sort
             ,
             long
             before
             haruest
             to
             leaue
             no
             grasse
             grow
             vpon
             their
             paued
             tops
             .
             I
             do
             not
             altogether
             condēne
             these
             smoakes
             ,
             but
             feare
             their
             fire
             ,
             and
             with
             the
             Ancients
             sparingly
             commend
             their
             kinde
             of
             remedies
             ,
             knowing
             their
             pernicious
             danger
             in
             their
             ignorant
             and
             rash
             ouervse
             ,
             with
             their
             singular
             seruice
             in
             some
             rare
             exigents
             ,
             God
             and
             nature
             haply
             leauing
             a
             sting
             and
             poyson
             in
             them
             ,
             for
             their
             too
             common
             vitious
             neede
             and
             custome
             .
             I
             might
             here
             yet
             farther
             insist
             in
             all
             other
             diseases
             ,
             how
             the
             vse
             of
             the
             most
             excellent
             ,
             proper
             ,
             and
             apt
             remedies
             being
             vnaptly
             applied
             ,
             either
             too
             little
             or
             too
             c
             much
             ,
             too
             soone
             or
             too
             late
             ,
             before
             their
             season
             or
             after
             ,
             in
             some
             cases
             at
             any
             time
             ,
             or
             in
             any
             maner
             ,
             bring
             in
             corrigible
             and
             helpeles
             harmes
             ,
             being
             in
             their
             owne
             nature
             d
             harmeles
             ,
             but
             in
             their
             vnskilfull
             vse
             pernicious
             and
             mortall
             .
             It
             is
             apparent
             in
             all
             mysteries
             and
             faculties
             whatsoeuer
             ,
             that
             the
             excellencie
             of
             the
             toole
             without
             the
             excellencie
             of
             the
             workeman
             ,
             doth
             not
             bring
             forth
             excellencie
             in
             the
             workmanship
             .
             Hence
             it
             must
             
             needes
             come
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             medicines
             though
             wholesome
             in
             themselues
             ,
             and
             of
             a
             sauing
             and
             soueraigne
             power
             ,
             without
             any
             touch
             of
             harmefull
             quality
             at
             all
             ,
             yet
             being
             ignorantly
             or
             indiscreetly
             out
             of
             time
             or
             place
             disposed
             or
             dispensed
             ,
             must
             likewise
             bring
             forth
             mischiefe
             ,
             in
             steade
             of
             expected
             good
             .
             And
             although
             many
             hardened
             by
             custome
             vnto
             a
             boldnes
             of
             trāsgressing
             in
             this
             kind
             ,
             prouoke
             oft
             reuenge
             of
             their
             follie
             ,
             (
             for
             a
             time
             without
             harme
             or
             punishment
             )
             yet
             do
             they
             not
             alwayes
             escape
             :
             for
             though
             happe
             oft
             passe
             by
             ,
             it
             lights
             at
             e
             last
             ,
             and
             not
             seldome
             heauily
             .
             Cassia
             is
             esteemed
             for
             a
             delicate
             ,
             wholesome
             and
             harmelesse
             lenitiue
             vnto
             old
             men
             ,
             children
             ,
             babes
             ,
             women
             with
             child
             ,
             and
             the
             weakest
             amongst
             the
             sicke
             ;
             yet
             the
             learned
             know
             it
             in
             some
             f
             cases
             not
             onely
             vnprofitable
             ,
             but
             of
             maine
             mischiefe
             .
             Rhabarb
             is
             said
             to
             be
             the
             life
             of
             the
             liuer
             ,
             yet
             in
             some
             conditions
             thereof
             it
             is
             an
             g
             enemie
             ;
             And
             for
             the
             generall
             remedies
             ,
             phlebotomy
             ,
             purging
             ,
             vomite
             ,
             sweating
             ,
             bathing
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             reason
             and
             experience
             daily
             giue
             demonstration
             ,
             that
             oft
             in
             the
             same
             body
             ,
             and
             the
             same
             disease
             ,
             they
             are
             variablie
             ,
             sometime
             necessary
             ,
             sometimes
             profitable
             not
             necessary
             ,
             sometimes
             neither
             profitable
             nor
             necessary
             ,
             but
             accursed
             .
             Sometimes
             bleeding
             doth
             ventilate
             and
             refresh
             the
             spirits
             aboue
             ,
             and
             beyond
             all
             other
             remedies
             ,
             and
             is
             the
             onely
             key
             vnto
             health
             ;
             sometimes
             againe
             it
             doth
             exhaust
             and
             spend
             their
             vigour
             ,
             sometime
             being
             both
             profitable
             and
             necessary
             ,
             yet
             vsed
             out
             of
             time
             or
             quantity
             doth
             no
             good
             ,
             or
             vsed
             vnseasonably
             doth
             much
             hurt
             .
             Purgatiōs
             in
             some
             estates
             with
             h
             preparatiues
             ,
             and
             in
             some
             without
             i
             preparatiues
             are
             harmefull
             :
             in
             some
             either
             k
             with
             preparatiues
             ,
             or
             without
             l
             preparatiues
             they
             are
             necessary
             and
             neuer
             to
             be
             omitted
             .
             And
             as
             there
             is
             infinite
             danger
             in
             errour
             and
             ignorant
             dispensation
             ,
             so
             is
             there
             vnspeakable
             good
             in
             the
             prudent
             prescription
             according
             to
             the
             nature
             ,
             quality
             and
             seate
             of
             each
             humor
             ;
             according
             to
             which
             it
             is
             wisdome
             sometimes
             to
             quicken
             ,
             sometimes
             to
             alay
             ,
             sometimes
             to
             hasten
             ,
             sometimes
             to
             moderate
             their
             effects
             ,
             discreete
             stayes
             oft
             making
             more
             speedy
             iourneys
             .
             m
             Vomits
             
             in
             some
             diseases
             are
             altogether
             banished
             and
             not
             admitted
             ,
             and
             in
             some
             contrariwise
             they
             haue
             onely
             priuiledge
             .
             The
             like
             may
             be
             said
             of
             outward
             remedies
             ,
             plaisters
             ,
             vnguents
             ,
             cereclothes
             ,
             fomentations
             ,
             and
             baths
             ,
             which
             also
             according
             to
             wise
             and
             discreete
             administration
             ,
             or
             a
             rash
             and
             heedlesse
             abuse
             ,
             are
             good
             or
             euill
             .
             And
             this
             is
             the
             reason
             ,
             that
             so
             many
             famous
             and
             renowned
             remedies
             now
             adaies
             bring
             forth
             effects
             vnworthy
             themselues
             ;
             for
             (
             being
             with
             such
             dissolute
             licenciousnesse
             euery
             where
             and
             in
             all
             places
             permitted
             to
             breake
             forth
             ,
             out
             of
             the
             prudent
             awe
             of
             vnderstandings
             guidance
             )
             how
             shall
             they
             choose
             but
             become
             wild
             and
             irregular
             in
             the
             hands
             of
             vnskilfull
             raines
             that
             want
             true
             art
             ,
             and
             the
             methode
             of
             their
             right
             dispensation
             ?
             There
             is
             no
             place
             nor
             person
             ignorant
             with
             what
             confusion
             of
             good
             order
             (
             either
             by
             abuse
             of
             immunities
             ,
             or
             impunitie
             ,
             ill
             prouision
             ,
             or
             ill
             execution
             of
             good
             lawes
             )
             through
             all
             parts
             of
             this
             kingdome
             ,
             all
             sorts
             of
             vile
             people
             and
             vnskilfull
             persons
             without
             restraint
             ,
             make
             gainefull
             traffique
             by
             botching
             in
             physicke
             ;
             and
             hereby
             (
             besides
             many
             wicked
             practises
             ,
             iuglings
             ,
             cousinages
             &
             impostures
             ,
             which
             maske
             vnespied
             vnder
             the
             colour
             and
             pretence
             of
             medicining
             )
             numbers
             of
             vnwotting
             innocents
             daily
             in
             thrall
             ,
             and
             betray
             themselues
             ,
             their
             liues
             and
             safetie
             ,
             to
             sustaine
             the
             riot
             ,
             lusts
             and
             lawlesse
             liuing
             of
             their
             enemies
             &
             common
             homicides
             .
             It
             is
             a
             world
             to
             see
             what
             swarmes
             abound
             in
             this
             kinde
             ,
             not
             onely
             of
             Taylors
             ,
             Shoemakers
             ,
             Weauers
             ,
             Midwiues
             ,
             Cookes
             ,
             and
             Priests
             ,
             but
             Witches
             ,
             Coniurers
             ,
             Iuglers
             ,
             and
             Fortune-tellers
             .
             It
             were
             a
             wrong
             to
             exempt
             any
             that
             want
             wit
             or
             honestie
             in
             a
             whole
             country
             ,
             yea
             and
             many
             that
             haue
             too
             much
             of
             either
             ,
             must
             be
             priuiledged
             by
             an
             old
             prouerbe
             ,
             to
             be
             Physitions
             ,
             because
             it
             is
             no
             manners
             to
             call
             them
             fooles
             .
             And
             hereby
             not
             onely
             the
             simple
             and
             vnlettered
             ,
             but
             oft
             times
             men
             of
             better
             sort
             and
             qualitie
             ,
             casting
             their
             eyes
             vpon
             some
             attempts
             of
             these
             barbarous
             medicine-mongers
             ,
             (
             good
             oft
             in
             their
             euent
             )
             and
             not
             considering
             the
             dangerousnesse
             of
             such
             habite
             and
             custome
             ,
             desirously
             oft
             times
             entertaine
             the
             messengers
             
             and
             ministers
             of
             vnrecouerable
             n
             miserie
             vnto
             their
             after
             life
             .
             For
             as
             in
             militarie
             designes
             ,
             oft
             times
             a
             bold
             and
             foole-hardy
             enterprise
             aboue
             and
             besides
             reason
             ,
             and
             beyond
             expectation
             ,
             produceth
             an
             excellent
             and
             admired
             good
             in
             the
             happie
             issue
             ,
             yet
             is
             it
             not
             commended
             ,
             or
             in
             any
             case
             permitted
             (
             as
             being
             verie
             dangerous
             )
             in
             ordinarie
             practise
             or
             custome
             of
             warfare
             :
             so
             likewise
             diuers
             euents
             of
             medicines
             proue
             good
             ,
             whose
             bold
             vse
             and
             rash
             prescription
             is
             dangerous
             and
             vnskilfull
             .
             I
             do
             not
             onely
             herein
             pittie
             the
             meane
             capacitie
             ,
             but
             wonder
             also
             at
             the
             madnesse
             of
             men
             in
             their
             wits
             ,
             who
             in
             other
             kinds
             of
             knowledge
             reuerend
             ,
             yet
             herein
             ,
             with
             desire
             of
             life
             ,
             seeme
             oft
             to
             haue
             so
             little
             care
             of
             their
             liues
             .
             It
             is
             strange
             to
             obserue
             how
             few
             in
             these
             dayes
             know
             ,
             and
             how
             none
             almost
             labour
             to
             know
             with
             election
             and
             according
             to
             reason
             ,
             or
             reasonable
             likelihood
             ,
             to
             bestow
             in
             cases
             of
             their
             liues
             the
             trust
             and
             care
             of
             their
             crased
             healths
             ,
             but
             for
             the
             most
             part
             wanting
             a
             right
             notice
             of
             a
             iudicious
             choice
             ,
             take
             counsel
             either
             of
             common
             report
             which
             is
             a
             common
             lier
             ,
             or
             of
             priuate
             commendations
             ,
             which
             are
             euer
             partiall
             .
             The
             vnmindfulnesse
             hereof
             ,
             and
             the
             more
             minde
             of
             mindlesse
             things
             ,
             do
             steale
             from
             men
             the
             minds
             of
             men
             .
             Hence
             euery
             where
             preposterous
             intrusion
             doth
             disorder
             the
             right
             and
             propriety
             of
             euery
             thing
             ,
             and
             the
             generall
             forgetfulnes
             of
             that
             which
             to
             euerie
             one
             is
             most
             pertinent
             ,
             doth
             beget
             an
             itching
             businesse
             in
             that
             which
             to
             euerie
             one
             is
             most
             impertinent
             ;
             and
             selfe
             conceited
             and
             presuming
             ignorance
             doth
             pricke
             forward
             rash
             spirits
             to
             become
             more
             bold
             &
             busie
             ,
             then
             modestie
             doth
             permit
             discreete
             mindes
             ,
             soberly
             limited
             within
             their
             owne
             bounds
             .
             This
             is
             the
             cause
             ,
             that
             vnwottingly
             to
             the
             poore
             patient
             ,
             vnwittingly
             to
             the
             vnskilfull
             workeman
             ,
             and
             generally
             for
             the
             most
             part
             vnobserued
             of
             all
             ,
             is
             the
             thread
             of
             many
             a
             mans
             life
             ordinarily
             ,
             by
             vnskilfull
             hands
             intangled
             in
             such
             inextricable
             knots
             of
             sicknesse
             ,
             paines
             and
             death
             ,
             as
             no
             time
             nor
             art
             are
             euer
             able
             to
             vnfold
             .
             Vnproper
             remedies
             are
             for
             the
             most
             part
             worse
             then
             diseases
             ,
             and
             vnlearned
             Physitions
             of
             all
             bad
             causes
             
             of
             diseases
             themselues
             the
             worst
             .
             That
             therefore
             men
             continue
             not
             in
             this
             generall
             confusion
             (
             through
             voluntarie
             ignorance
             ,
             euer
             ignorantly
             vnfortunate
             )
             it
             is
             not
             a
             needlesse
             learning
             ,
             more
             studiously
             to
             know
             and
             discerne
             o
             good
             from
             ill
             ,
             and
             ill
             from
             good
             ,
             beginning
             with
             the
             last
             first
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             II.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             Empericke
             .
          
           
             RIght
             a
             reason
             and
             true
             b
             experience
             are
             two
             the
             sole
             inseparable
             instruments
             of
             all
             humane
             knowledge
             :
             the
             Empericke
             trusting
             vnto
             experience
             alone
             without
             reason
             ,
             and
             the
             Methodian
             vnto
             the
             abuse
             of
             right
             reason
             ;
             the
             Ancients
             haue
             deuided
             all
             sorts
             of
             erronious
             Physitions
             into
             these
             two
             c
             .
             For
             ignorant
             experience
             and
             without
             reason
             ,
             is
             a
             false
             d
             sense
             ,
             and
             mistaking
             reason
             is
             deniall
             of
             reason
             .
             As
             therefore
             vnto
             these
             two
             ,
             other
             ages
             before
             ,
             so
             we
             now
             may
             reduce
             all
             the
             faultie
             practitioners
             of
             our
             time
             ,
             beginning
             with
             the
             Empericke
             .
             The
             Empericke
             is
             he
             who
             reiecteth
             e
             the
             disquisition
             of
             diseases
             and
             remedies
             ,
             their
             causes
             ,
             natures
             &
             qualities
             according
             to
             iudgement
             and
             vnderstanding
             ,
             and
             the
             carefull
             perpension
             and
             ballancing
             of
             his
             action
             and
             practise
             vnto
             a
             iust
             proportion
             with
             reason
             ;
             but
             onely
             informeth
             himselfe
             by
             such
             things
             as
             oft
             appeare
             euident
             &
             manifest
             vnto
             sense
             and
             experimentall
             proofe
             ,
             carrying
             his
             heart
             and
             vnderstanding
             (
             for
             the
             most
             part
             )
             in
             his
             hands
             and
             eyes
             ,
             taking
             nothing
             sure
             but
             what
             he
             sees
             or
             handles
             ;
             
             and
             from
             the
             differing
             maners
             of
             experience
             ,
             are
             numbred
             seuerall
             and
             diuers
             kinds
             f
             of
             experience
             .
             The
             defect
             in
             the
             Empericke
             hence
             appeareth
             to
             be
             want
             of
             true
             methode
             &
             the
             habite
             of
             right
             operation
             and
             practise
             according
             to
             reason
             ,
             (
             which
             is
             art
             )
             through
             which
             defect
             his
             actions
             must
             needs
             oft
             be
             reasonlesse
             ,
             g
             and
             by
             consequent
             as
             blind
             in
             their
             intention
             ,
             so
             likely
             to
             be
             foolish
             in
             their
             issue
             and
             execution
             .
             For
             there
             must
             needs
             be
             in
             all
             actions
             want
             of
             much
             more
             necessary
             knowledge
             then
             sense
             and
             experience
             canne
             aduance
             vnto
             :
             and
             experience
             must
             needes
             witnesse
             against
             it selfe
             ,
             that
             the
             longest
             age
             of
             experience
             doth
             nothing
             so
             fully
             furnish
             and
             instruct
             in
             many
             things
             ,
             as
             much
             more
             speedily
             doth
             prudent
             inuention
             ;
             which
             though
             occasioned
             and
             helped
             by
             bookes
             and
             reading
             ,
             which
             are
             both
             keyes
             vnto
             all
             knowledge
             ,
             and
             also
             rich
             storehouses
             of
             experiences
             ,
             not
             onely
             of
             one
             age
             and
             countrie
             ,
             but
             of
             all
             times
             &
             nations
             ;
             yet
             do
             they
             only
             glut
             the
             sense
             with
             stories
             of
             experiences
             past
             ,
             but
             reason
             and
             iudgement
             truly
             enrich
             the
             mind
             ,
             and
             giue
             daily
             new
             increase
             and
             light
             in
             before
             vntried
             &
             vnexperienced
             truths
             .
             Indeede
             particular
             experience
             ,
             if
             it
             be
             accompanied
             with
             vnderstanding
             h
             and
             right
             reason
             (
             which
             is
             the
             touchstone
             of
             truth
             and
             right
             in
             nature
             )
             establisheth
             and
             confirmeth
             knowledge
             ;
             but
             if
             experience
             be
             no
             more
             but
             experience
             ,
             it
             must
             needes
             proue
             in
             many
             cases
             a
             slow
             guide
             to
             lame
             instruction
             .
             For
             as
             it
             is
             with
             the
             souldier
             in
             the
             field
             ,
             let
             his
             owne
             speciall
             experience
             in
             armes
             be
             neuer
             so
             ancient
             ,
             so
             true
             ,
             so
             sound
             ,
             yet
             without
             a
             more
             generall
             i
             vnderstanding
             or
             theorie
             ,
             and
             a
             more
             enlarged
             knowledge
             then
             his
             particular
             and
             limited
             experience
             can
             bring
             forth
             ,
             he
             must
             be
             lamely
             fitted
             vnto
             many
             suddaine
             and
             oft
             before
             vnseene
             occurrents
             ,
             which
             the
             perpetuall
             mutabilitie
             and
             change
             of
             circumstances
             in
             warfare
             must
             needes
             produce
             .
             The
             field
             ,
             the
             enemie
             ,
             the
             time
             (
             not
             alwaies
             the
             same
             )
             require
             a
             diuers
             and
             oft
             a
             contrarie
             consultation
             ,
             designe
             and
             manner
             ,
             wherein
             one
             particular
             experience
             by
             it selfe
             cannot
             but
             be
             much
             wanting
             ,
             because
             the
             same
             
             thing
             or
             actiō
             seldome
             or
             neuer
             happens
             againe
             the
             same
             in
             all
             circumstances
             ;
             &
             one
             circumstance
             k
             alone
             cōmonly
             altereth
             the
             whole
             cōdition
             .
             As
             it
             is
             in
             military
             affaires
             ,
             so
             is
             it
             in
             the
             assaults
             of
             diseases
             ,
             where
             the
             fight
             &
             wrestling
             of
             nature
             is
             not
             alway
             in
             the
             same
             part
             ,
             nor
             in
             the
             same
             forme
             or
             maner
             ,
             nor
             with
             the
             same
             disease
             ,
             nor
             of
             the
             same
             period
             :
             all
             which
             circumstances
             in
             the
             same
             subiect
             cannot
             happen
             alwaies
             to
             anie
             sight
             or
             sense
             the
             same
             ,
             (
             which
             maketh
             experience
             )
             yet
             are
             euer
             present
             in
             the
             generall
             notions
             of
             the
             vnderstanding
             ,
             whereby
             the
             prudent
             and
             wise
             man
             doth
             make
             supplie
             though
             experience
             faile
             .
             Besides
             the
             differences
             which
             circumstances
             make
             ,
             many
             diseases
             in
             themselues
             and
             their
             owne
             kinde
             are
             such
             as
             are
             scarce
             seene
             in
             a
             mans
             l
             life
             ,
             some
             in
             many
             yeares
             ,
             some
             in
             an
             age
             ,
             some
             in
             many
             generations
             ;
             &
             therein
             how
             can
             experience
             giue
             prescription
             for
             those
             things
             whereof
             it
             hath
             not
             had
             experience
             ?
             for
             experience
             is
             of
             things
             m
             oft
             seene
             .
             If
             then
             the
             same
             things
             be
             in
             all
             circumstances
             seldome
             or
             neuer
             seene
             ,
             and
             some
             at
             sometime
             seene
             which
             a
             life
             or
             age
             shall
             not
             see
             againe
             ,
             and
             there
             can
             be
             no
             true
             experience
             where
             there
             is
             not
             sight
             and
             sense
             ,
             how
             blinde
             an
             helpe
             must
             oft
             experience
             be
             ?
             Doth
             not
             euerie
             day
             bring
             forth
             somewhat
             new
             or
             strange
             vnto
             the
             day
             ,
             and
             worthy
             denomination
             of
             the
             day
             ?
             The
             French
             ,
             Spanish
             ,
             Neapolitane
             ,
             Italian
             disease
             was
             a
             stranger
             sometime
             in
             old
             Albion
             ,
             which
             now
             is
             an
             English
             denison
             .
             The
             Scorbut
             not
             maine
             yeares
             since
             was
             vnnamed
             of
             writers
             ;
             now
             commonly
             knowne
             vnto
             a
             common
             eye
             .
             The
             English
             sweating
             n
             sicknesse
             very
             seldome
             (
             if
             more
             then
             once
             )
             here
             seene
             ,
             nor
             at
             all
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             not
             oft
             elsewhere
             .
             To
             wander
             yet
             farther
             into
             some
             more
             wonder
             ,
             Ruland
             with
             other
             reporteth
             a
             tooth
             of
             gold
             naturally
             o
             growing
             with
             the
             common
             ranke
             in
             the
             mouth
             of
             a
             child
             :
             Hollerius
             p
             witnesseth
             a
             child
             in
             the
             wombe
             to
             thrust
             forth
             the
             hand
             at
             the
             nauill
             of
             the
             mother
             ,
             and
             so
             continuing
             the
             space
             of
             fifteene
             daies
             ,
             in
             the
             end
             the
             child
             borne
             liuing
             ,
             and
             the
             mother
             saued
             .
             Brasauolus
             q
             mētioneth
             his
             cure
             of
             a
             soludier
             who
             liued
             after
             3
             yeares
             ,
             hauing
             
             almost
             halfe
             his
             head
             cut
             away
             with
             a
             portion
             of
             his
             braines
             ,
             onely
             thereby
             losing
             his
             sense
             and
             memory
             ,
             neuer
             eating
             nor
             hauing
             memorie
             to
             require
             at
             any
             time
             to
             eate
             ,
             but
             as
             it
             was
             put
             into
             him
             ;
             nor
             redeliuerage
             at
             the
             posternes
             ,
             but
             insensiblie
             .
             Albucasis
             knew
             in
             his
             time
             a
             womā
             carrying
             one
             dead
             child
             in
             her
             wombe
             ,
             notwithstanding
             to
             conceiue
             and
             quicken
             of
             another
             ,
             the
             dead
             child
             in
             the
             meane
             season
             rotting
             and
             falling
             away
             by
             parcels
             at
             seueral
             times
             .
             But
             to
             passe
             these
             and
             many
             the
             like
             infinite
             receiued
             vpon
             credite
             and
             report
             ,
             my selfe
             haue
             met
             some
             accidents
             in
             my
             owne
             practise
             ,
             &
             for
             the
             most
             part
             within
             the
             space
             of
             these
             eight
             last
             yeares
             ,
             worth
             their
             memorie
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             1608.
             an
             ancient
             gentleman
             r
             being
             neither
             sicke
             nor
             much
             pained
             ,
             and
             onely
             molested
             with
             a
             cough
             and
             shortnesse
             of
             wind
             (
             from
             which
             his
             health
             was
             neuer
             free
             )
             requested
             my
             aduice
             for
             the
             preuention
             of
             the
             increase
             of
             the
             former
             accidents
             (
             in
             which
             also
             he
             found
             ,
             vnto
             the
             generall
             seeming
             vnto
             his
             owne
             sense
             and
             some
             other
             learned
             counsaile
             ,
             very
             chearfull
             and
             comfortable
             amendement
             )
             my selfe
             onely
             suspecting
             and
             signifying
             vnto
             his
             friends
             my
             despaire
             .
             Betweene
             his
             pulses
             on
             the
             right
             side
             and
             the
             left
             in
             generall
             manifestly
             appeared
             a
             wondered
             ods
             ,
             so
             continuing
             the
             space
             of
             12.
             or
             14.
             daies
             together
             .
             On
             the
             left
             side
             no
             position
             ſ
             of
             touch
             ,
             no
             search
             could
             finde
             any
             pulse
             at
             all
             .
             On
             the
             right
             side
             the
             pulses
             were
             constantly
             &
             continually
             ,
             as
             in
             his
             best
             health
             ,
             manifest
             ,
             strong
             ,
             equall
             ,
             in
             good
             order
             ,
             with
             full
             distentiō
             vnto
             all
             the
             dimēsions
             .
             In
             the
             same
             parts
             where
             the
             pulses
             on
             the
             other
             side
             seemed
             dead
             ,
             all
             other
             faculties
             perfectly
             liued
             in
             naturall
             heate
             ,
             color
             ,
             vigour
             ,
             sense
             &
             motiō
             .
             This
             was
             thē
             witnessed
             by
             certaine
             honorable
             gentle
             women
             present
             ,
             whō
             well
             vnderstanding
             &
             more
             then
             sufficiēt
             for
             such
             a
             taske
             ,
             I
             therto
             intreated
             ,
             &
             it
             cold
             by
             no
             sense
             be
             denied
             .
             It
             was
             imagined
             by
             some
             learned
             dissenting
             frō
             my
             first
             howres
             dislike
             ,
             that
             it
             was
             no
             other
             but
             an
             imperceptibilitie
             t
             of
             his
             pulse
             ,
             and
             without
             danger
             ,
             as
             supposed
             vsuall
             vnto
             him
             in
             his
             health
             by
             reason
             of
             diuers
             deepe
             wounds
             tenne
             yeares
             before
             receiued
             
             vpon
             that
             side
             .
             My
             experience
             of
             the
             contrarie
             oft
             in
             his
             former
             health
             ,
             and
             also
             in
             diuers
             other
             his
             sicknesses
             ,
             confirmed
             by
             owne
             doubt
             ,
             &
             death
             which
             determineth
             all
             things
             ,
             sodainly
             and
             vnexspectedly
             determined
             this
             ,
             in
             so
             faire
             a
             visard
             so
             many
             dayes
             deceiuing
             many
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             1604.
             my
             paines
             was
             solicited
             vnto
             a
             vertuous
             Lady
             honorably
             both
             in
             her
             Knight
             ,
             and
             her selfe
             allied
             ,
             and
             no
             lesse
             eminent
             in
             their
             owne
             worth
             ,
             then
             lying
             neare
             Grafton
             in
             Northampton
             shire
             .
             I
             found
             her
             left
             by
             a
             former
             u
             Physition
             to
             verifie
             his
             prediction
             by
             her
             death
             .
             She
             was
             miserably
             perplexed
             with
             the
             doubtfull
             deliuery
             of
             a
             dangerously
             begunne
             abortion
             ,
             her
             owne
             strength
             failing
             ,
             and
             the
             ordinarie
             assistance
             of
             women
             in
             those
             cases
             shrinking
             from
             her
             ,
             and
             a
             deepe
             die
             of
             a
             mixt
             and
             diuers
             coloured
             iaundies
             ,
             with
             extreme
             paines
             of
             her
             stomacke
             (
             giuing
             no
             rest
             nor
             intermission
             )
             adding
             feare
             and
             sorrow
             ;
             the
             substance
             also
             of
             her
             vrine
             continually
             troubled
             ,
             confusedly
             thicke
             ,
             the
             colour
             altogether
             resembling
             the
             strained
             iuice
             of
             the
             grenest
             hearbe
             .
             In
             the
             terrour
             of
             her
             abortion
             my
             indeuour
             proued
             vnto
             her
             speedily
             happy
             and
             succesfull
             .
             Afterward
             according
             vnto
             the
             second
             indication
             from
             the
             iaundies
             (
             necessity
             vrging
             ,
             and
             her
             strength
             then
             fauouring
             the
             worke
             )
             I
             commanded
             her
             to
             bleede
             in
             the
             arme
             ;
             which
             done
             with
             good
             ease
             and
             felicitie
             ,
             nature
             ,
             in
             spite
             of
             all
             indeuour
             to
             the
             contrarie
             ,
             kept
             the
             orifice
             after
             still
             open
             ,
             running
             daily
             and
             continually
             the
             space
             of
             three
             weekes
             together
             ,
             and
             then
             healing
             and
             closing
             x
             it selfe
             with
             her
             perfect
             amendment
             .
             At
             the
             same
             time
             (
             a
             sodaine
             sharpe
             paine
             giuing
             a
             speciall
             distinct
             sense
             thereof
             )
             she
             disburthened
             of
             a
             round
             white
             hard
             stone
             full
             of
             little
             holes
             ,
             that
             part
             which
             giueth
             the
             name
             and
             seate
             vnto
             the
             Colike
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             1607.
             a
             young
             y
             woman
             of
             30
             yeares
             age
             ,
             with
             another
             graue
             gentlewoman
             accompanying
             her
             ,
             came
             vnto
             me
             requiring
             aduice
             in
             her
             wondered
             estate
             and
             condition
             .
             The
             skin
             or
             membrane
             of
             her
             belly
             (
             from
             the
             nauill
             downeward
             withered
             ,
             dead
             ,
             and
             gathered
             together
             ,
             in
             likenesse
             of
             a
             rotten
             bladder
             or
             a
             wet
             leather
             bag
             ,
             
             and
             in
             that
             forme
             falling
             flagge
             from
             the
             former
             close
             setting
             vnto
             the
             guts
             and
             bellie
             )
             lay
             continually
             loose
             vnto
             the
             one
             side
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             1601.
             a
             barbers
             z
             boy
             of
             Northhamptō
             auoided
             wormes
             ,
             besides
             other
             ordinary
             passages
             ,
             by
             a
             vrine
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             1600.
             a
             shoomaker
             of
             Northampton
             sometime
             a
             bayliffe
             of
             the
             towne
             ,
             falling
             dangerously
             sick
             ,
             called
             my
             counsell
             together
             with
             an
             Empericke
             .
             The
             other
             accused
             the
             hypochondriaca
             passio
             ,
             my selfe
             made
             knowne
             my
             suspition
             of
             an
             abscession
             in
             the
             bulke
             :
             vaine
             hope
             gaue
             credite
             to
             that
             it
             rather
             desired
             ,
             and
             the
             patient
             trusted
             himselfe
             with
             the
             other
             .
             Shortly
             after
             he
             was
             surprised
             with
             sodaine
             frequent
             swoundings
             &
             feare
             of
             imminent
             suffocation
             ,
             but
             by
             cough
             and
             spitting
             escaped
             ,
             and
             with
             wonder
             in
             short
             space
             filled
             diuers
             large
             b
             basins
             with
             foule
             purulent
             stuffe
             (
             one
             paroxysme
             at
             once
             ,
             sometime
             before
             intermission
             ,
             making
             vp
             the
             said
             measure
             .
             )
             In
             this
             feare
             and
             terrour
             vnto
             himselfe
             and
             the
             beholders
             ,
             he
             earnestly
             sued
             ,
             and
             againe
             obtained
             my
             aduice
             .
             He
             perfectly
             recouered
             (
             the
             purulent
             collection
             after
             the
             c
             40
             day
             exhaust
             )
             and
             he
             yet
             liueth
             free
             d
             from
             the
             sequeles
             of
             any
             other
             manifest
             disease
             or
             danger
             .
             In
             the
             yeare
             1607.
             a
             woman
             e
             vexed
             with
             a
             palpitation
             of
             her
             heart
             ,
             together
             with
             an
             oft
             intermission
             of
             her
             pulse
             ,
             by
             an
             inward
             presention
             mouing
             from
             a
             so
             daine
             troubled
             agitation
             of
             her
             minde
             ,
             would
             vsually
             vnto
             my selfe
             (
             with
             others
             present
             )
             foretell
             when
             her
             pulse
             should
             stand
             and
             intermit
             ,
             sometimes
             two
             ,
             sometimes
             three
             or
             foure
             pulsations
             ,
             before
             the
             intermission
             .
             The
             pulse
             in
             theiust
             knowne
             number
             and
             time
             did
             euer
             keepe
             time
             with
             her
             prediction
             ,
             herselfe
             nor
             then
             nor
             euer
             wotting
             how
             to
             feele
             a
             pulse
             by
             her
             hand
             or
             touching
             .
             She
             in
             this
             manner
             continued
             by
             vncertaine
             fits
             and
             times
             the
             space
             of
             2
             mon●ths
             or
             thereabouts
             ,
             while
             sometime
             myselfe
             resorted
             vnto
             her
             ,
             
             being
             for
             that
             and
             other
             accidents
             by
             her
             husband
             called
             &
             consulted
             .
             It
             is
             reported
             vnto
             me
             by
             diuers
             well
             knowing
             gentlewomen
             ,
             and
             others
             of
             good
             worth
             ,
             that
             a
             f
             woman
             dwelling
             within
             a
             mile
             of
             Northamptō
             was
             brought
             to
             bed
             first
             of
             one
             childe
             ,
             and
             within
             twenty
             weekes
             after
             of
             another
             ,
             quickening
             of
             the
             latter
             the
             same
             day
             shee
             was
             churched
             of
             the
             first
             .
             It
             is
             testified
             by
             many
             now
             inhabitants
             of
             Northampton
             ,
             that
             from
             within
             the
             wombe
             of
             a
             woman
             with
             child
             (
             then
             dwelling
             in
             the
             towne
             )
             her
             child
             was
             audibly
             heard
             to
             cry
             ,
             vnto
             her
             owne
             amazement
             ,
             and
             the
             wonder
             of
             diuers
             hearers
             of
             credite
             &
             vnderstanding
             .
             Anno
             1610
             a
             woman
             of
             Northampton
             g
             shire
             being
             with
             child
             and
             growing
             neare
             the
             time
             of
             her
             deliuery
             ,
             was
             extraordinarily
             diuers
             dayes
             pained
             in
             the
             bellie
             an
             inch
             distant
             from
             the
             nauill
             ,
             vntill
             at
             length
             diuers
             wormes
             ,
             each
             equalling
             in
             length
             a
             quarter
             of
             an
             ell
             ,
             sodainly
             at
             two
             distant
             places
             did
             eate
             themselues
             a
             passage
             through
             the
             skinne
             of
             her
             bellie
             ;
             and
             so
             came
             forth
             and
             gaue
             her
             ease
             .
             A
             gentlewoman
             my
             late
             patient
             ,
             and
             now
             dwelling
             in
             Northampton
             ,
             reporteth
             vnto
             me
             frō
             her
             owne
             sight
             with
             many
             other
             eye
             witnesses
             ;
             that
             among
             her
             owne
             children
             a
             male
             child
             ,
             being
             then
             fiue
             weekes
             of
             age
             ,
             a
             fortnight
             together
             had
             the
             breasts
             full
             of
             milke
             ,
             as
             readily
             &
             plentifully
             flowing
             and
             spouting
             out
             milke
             as
             the
             breasts
             of
             a
             suck-giuing
             nurse
             .
             These
             few
             instances
             are
             sufficient
             to
             proue
             the
             like
             contingence
             of
             other
             the
             like
             ,
             which
             other
             times
             in
             other
             manner
             ,
             may
             and
             do
             oft
             bring
             forth
             .
             Neither
             is
             euer
             nature
             so
             great
             a
             niggard
             (
             though
             not
             to
             euery
             eye
             alike
             bountifull
             )
             but
             euery
             day
             almost
             may
             pose
             bare
             and
             naked
             experience
             .
             He
             therefore
             that
             seeth
             not
             but
             with
             his
             eyes
             of
             his
             owne
             experience
             ;
             where
             he
             hath
             no
             experience
             ,
             hath
             no
             eyes
             h
             ,
             and
             therefore
             there
             is
             blind
             and
             cannot
             see
             .
             Since
             then
             many
             things
             fall
             out
             beyond
             the
             compasse
             of
             experience
             ,
             which
             by
             experience
             make
             experince
             blind
             ,
             how
             then
             where
             are
             no
             eyes
             shall
             an
             Empericke
             borrow
             eyes
             ?
             
             It
             is
             againe
             answered
             ,
             Though
             the
             Empericke
             haply
             haue
             not
             seene
             the
             same
             with
             that
             which
             seldome
             ,
             or
             once
             
             onely
             doth
             happe
             ,
             yet
             very
             seldome
             hath
             he
             ,
             not
             oft
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             sometime
             seene
             the
             *
             like
             ,
             and
             thence
             vnto
             the
             like
             he
             fits
             the
             like
             disposing
             .
             But
             with
             the
             wise
             the
             like
             is
             much
             vnlike
             the
             i
             same
             .
             Their
             confusion
             is
             onely
             proper
             vnto
             the
             foole
             ,
             and
             the
             dangerous
             issue
             his
             deserued
             punishment
             .
             It
             is
             a
             chiefe
             point
             in
             all
             learnings
             truly
             to
             discene
             k
             betweene
             differing
             similitudes
             and
             like
             differences
             .
             Many
             accidents
             commonly
             fall
             out
             seeming
             like
             ,
             yet
             haue
             no
             affinitie
             ;
             and
             againe
             in
             shew
             the
             same
             ,
             yet
             indeede
             contrarie
             .
             Contraries
             haue
             oft
             in
             many
             things
             likenesse
             ,
             and
             likenesse
             contrarieties
             easilie
             deceiuing
             the
             vnwotting
             and
             vnleamed
             .
             It
             is
             therefore
             of
             no
             small
             moment
             or
             consequence
             for
             a
             Physition
             truly
             by
             a
             discerning
             eye
             to
             put
             iust
             difference
             .
             This
             he
             that
             cannot
             do
             ,
             must
             either
             through
             the
             deceiuablenesse
             of
             likenesses
             confound
             repugnant
             remedies
             ,
             (
             which
             cannot
             be
             without
             great
             harme
             and
             hazard
             of
             life
             and
             health
             )
             or
             by
             mistaking
             parities
             for
             imparities
             disioyne
             helpes
             better
             vnited
             ,
             which
             cannot
             be
             without
             both
             hinderance
             and
             hurt
             vnto
             the
             sicke
             ,
             their
             safetie
             and
             securitie
             .
             Many
             diseases
             ofttimes
             so
             liuely
             mocke
             one
             the
             other
             ,
             that
             a
             good
             eye
             may
             easily
             deceiue
             it selfe
             .
             The
             vlcers
             of
             the
             baldder
             and
             the
             reynes
             ,
             a
             mole
             and
             a
             true
             conception
             ,
             a
             ruptu●e
             and
             a
             relaxation
             ,
             plurisies
             and
             some
             kindes
             of
             inflammations
             of
             the
             liuer
             ;
             the
             Colike
             and
             some
             other
             kinde
             of
             the
             same
             inflammations
             ,
             diuers
             kinds
             of
             l
             consumptions
             according
             to
             diuers
             m
             feauers
             with
             infinite
             more
             in
             their
             intricate
             ambiguities
             ,
             dissemble
             themselues
             and
             deceitfully
             resemble
             one
             the
             other
             ,
             much
             thereby
             oft
             times
             perplexing
             the
             best
             vnderstanding
             .
             Somtimes
             the
             most
             vnlike
             will
             put
             on
             likenesse
             ,
             and
             the
             most
             like
             weare
             contrarietie
             .
             What
             more
             vnlike
             then
             death
             and
             life
             ,
             death
             to
             life
             ,
             and
             life
             to
             death
             ?
             Yet
             sometimes
             life
             appeareth
             in
             the
             shape
             of
             death
             ,
             terrifying
             the
             beholders
             with
             frightfull
             shewes
             of
             inquietude
             &
             anxietie
             ,
             deliquation
             ,
             sodaine
             and
             violent
             euacuations
             and
             exagitations
             n
             of
             the
             whole
             body
             ,
             n
             when
             the
             healthfull
             crisis
             is
             at
             hand
             ,
             
             and
             the
             victorie
             of
             nature
             in
             the
             masterie
             of
             her
             enemie
             the
             disease
             .
             And
             sometimes
             death
             cometh
             smiling
             in
             a
             visar
             of
             life
             with
             cheerefulnesse
             and
             ouer-pleasing
             lightsomenesse
             ,
             when
             the
             last
             houre
             is
             now
             already
             runne
             ,
             n
             and
             the
             Sun
             for
             euer
             setting
             .
             Hence
             the
             vnconsiderate
             and
             vnlearned
             to
             distinguish
             ,
             are
             easily
             induced
             ,
             sometimes
             by
             vaine
             hope
             deceiued
             to
             physicke
             death
             ,
             sometime
             too
             fearefully
             despairing
             with
             exequious
             offices
             to
             comber
             life
             and
             the
             recouerie
             of
             death
             .
             
             Hence
             are
             oft
             sound
             parts
             vexed
             with
             needelesse
             remedïes
             ,
             and
             the
             comforts
             of
             life
             o
             imprisoned
             for
             an
             vntimely
             death
             .
             It
             is
             now
             the
             sixth
             yeare
             since
             I
             was
             solicited
             for
             a
             woman
             by
             the
             opinion
             of
             the
             dysenterie
             or
             abrasion
             of
             her
             guts
             ,
             miserably
             held
             for
             the
             space
             almost
             of
             a
             quarter
             of
             an
             yeare
             vnto
             the
             continuall
             vse
             of
             eueryday-glysters
             and
             other
             astringent
             medicines
             ,
             vntill
             it
             was
             my
             fortune
             coming
             vnto
             her
             ,
             by
             good
             reason
             to
             discouer
             the
             supposed
             membranous
             deiections
             to
             be
             nothing
             else
             but
             skinnes
             of
             wormes
             ,
             which
             first
             dead
             ,
             after
             putrified
             &
             dissolued
             into
             small
             parcels
             descended
             with
             some
             torment
             in
             the
             similitude
             of
             little
             skinnes
             .
             The
             skinnes
             being
             found
             it
             was
             an
             easie
             matter
             by
             a
             new
             warrant
             to
             fetch
             the
             skinners
             ,
             whose
             thereto
             appearance
             confessed
             the
             euidence
             ,
             &
             gaue
             the
             suspition
             of
             the
             dysentery
             for
             euer
             after
             free
             discharge
             and
             perfect
             deliuery
             .
             In
             this
             one
             instance
             he
             that
             is
             wise
             may
             conceiue
             many
             more
             without
             number
             ,
             which
             therfore
             as
             vnnecessary
             and
             troublesome
             I
             will
             not
             farther
             here
             trouble
             or
             awake
             now
             sleeping
             with
             time
             past
             .
             In
             these
             like
             cases
             ,
             sometimes
             the
             best
             perfection
             p
             ,
             the
             ripest
             vnderstanding
             doth
             and
             may
             mistake
             .
             And
             therefore
             the
             ignorant
             Empericke
             who
             professeth
             confusion
             and
             vseth
             no
             light
             ,
             or
             helpe
             of
             iudgment
             or
             reason
             at
             all
             ,
             but
             the
             onely
             q
             sense
             of
             his
             owne
             experience
             ,
             how
             shall
             he
             do
             otherwise
             ,
             but
             oft
             and
             continually
             mistake
             manifoldly
             much
             more
             ?
             And
             thus
             we
             haue
             briefly
             discouered
             the
             Empericke
             in
             matters
             requiring
             extraordinarie
             counsell
             ,
             ignorant
             ,
             in
             cases
             of
             his
             best
             experienced
             knowledge
             yet
             vnto
             some
             circumstances
             vnfurnished
             ,
             in
             many
             matters
             
             of
             substance
             altogether
             vnexpert
             ,
             in
             rare
             accidents
             and
             before
             vnseene
             at
             a
             maze
             ,
             in
             true
             &
             right
             discerning
             wanting
             the
             eye
             of
             right
             reason
             ,
             in
             confounding
             things
             differing
             ,
             &
             in
             separating
             things
             in
             their
             owne
             nature
             inseparable
             ,
             dāgerous
             .
             Now
             as
             we
             haue
             pointed
             out
             the
             Empericke
             himselfe
             ,
             so
             it
             remaineth
             that
             with
             him
             and
             in
             him
             ,
             we
             note
             all
             that
             by
             institution
             ,
             educatiō
             ,
             tradition
             ,
             instruction
             ,
             or
             stolne
             obseruatiō
             deriue
             their
             rule
             ,
             example
             &
             custome
             from
             him
             .
             In
             this
             number
             are
             all
             that
             vsually
             professe
             thēselues
             in
             confidence
             of
             their
             choyce
             secrets
             and
             excellent
             medicines
             ,
             commanders
             &
             maisters
             of
             all
             diseases
             .
             Such
             also
             are
             they
             who
             in
             all
             places
             proclaime
             open
             defiance
             against
             all
             maladies
             ,
             &
             with
             vehement
             remedies
             vpon
             euery
             light
             occasision
             needelesly
             ,
             &
             vnprouoked
             (
             if
             diseases
             presently
             cānot
             away
             )
             either
             fire
             them
             out
             or
             pull
             their
             hold
             about
             their
             eares
             ,
             with
             the
             fall
             of
             the
             disease
             needelesly
             hazarding
             the
             diseased
             .
             Oft
             times
             a
             good
             euent
             may
             authoritse
             it
             for
             skill
             ,
             &
             their
             friendly
             offer
             call
             it
             good
             will
             ;
             but
             their
             kinde
             care
             is
             too
             oft
             seene
             and
             proued
             a
             keene
             weapon
             to
             wound
             their
             friend
             ,
             and
             the
             sicke
             are
             nor
             seldome
             oppressed
             with
             being
             so
             loued
             .
             I
             would
             it
             were
             a
             slander
             in
             these
             dayes
             ,
             that
             good
             will
             and
             excellent
             medicines
             put
             to
             death
             more
             liues
             then
             open
             murther
             .
             For
             as
             the
             most
             complete
             armour
             ,
             engins
             ,
             and
             forts
             of
             warre
             ,
             the
             excellent
             munition
             and
             rich
             prouision
             vnto
             a
             man
             without
             knowledge
             to
             mannage
             them
             ,
             are
             but
             instruments
             without
             life
             ,
             vntill
             some
             better
             skill
             put
             life
             into
             them
             :
             so
             good
             medicines
             being
             the
             Physitions
             instruments
             and
             weapons
             ,
             either
             defensiue
             for
             nature
             ,
             or
             offensiue
             against
             the
             forces
             of
             diseases
             ,
             in
             other
             hands
             then
             his
             must
             needes
             proue
             as
             but
             dead
             in
             themselues
             ,
             so
             ofttimes
             deadly
             vnto
             others
             .
             To
             square
             and
             leuill
             their
             right
             vse
             requireth
             more
             vnderstanding
             then
             is
             to
             be
             found
             in
             reasonlesse
             medicines
             ,
             or
             yet
             their
             senselesse
             maisters
             .
             For
             as
             in
             all
             other
             affaires
             ,
             where
             knowledge
             ,
             prudence
             ,
             and
             discretion
             r
             haue
             prerogatiue
             ,
             the
             attempt
             is
             commendable
             ,
             and
             the
             issue
             likely
             to
             be
             happy
             ;
             so
             also
             in
             cases
             of
             health
             ,
             wherin
             wise
             &
             iudicious
             
             dispensation
             ,
             or
             in
             rash
             &
             erroneous
             ,
             the
             vertue
             and
             efficacy
             of
             medicines
             doth
             liue
             ,
             or
             die
             in
             vse
             and
             power
             .
             It
             is
             strange
             notwithstanding
             in
             these
             dayes
             to
             behold
             ,
             with
             what
             senselesse
             madnesse
             ,
             men
             are
             become
             worshippers
             of
             medicines
             :
             and
             so
             great
             ofttimes
             is
             their
             idolatrous
             folly
             herein
             ,
             that
             (
             as
             if
             they
             had
             gotten
             some
             rare
             good
             in
             a
             boxe
             ,
             I
             meane
             some
             rare
             secret
             )
             they
             presently
             inflamed
             with
             the
             furie
             and
             opinion
             thereof
             ,
             dare
             vpon
             the
             consused
             notice
             of
             a
             disease
             commend
             with
             as
             sacred
             secrecie
             and
             intolerable
             vsurped
             titles
             of
             infallible
             ,
             absolute
             ,
             and
             irresistable
             vertue
             &
             force
             ,
             as
             if
             any
             particular
             excellencie
             were
             able
             to
             coniure
             the
             generall
             casualty
             whereunto
             all
             earthly
             things
             must
             needes
             *
             be
             subiect
             .
             For
             God
             hath
             set
             downe
             a
             law
             of
             mutability
             and
             changeablenesse
             to
             all
             things
             ;
             
             created
             according
             to
             diuersitie
             of
             circumstances
             ,
             by
             which
             all
             things
             vnder
             heauen
             are
             continually
             altered
             ,
             changed
             ,
             and
             gouerned
             ſ
             .
             There
             is
             no
             creature
             ,
             medicine
             or
             t
             herbe
             that
             hath
             any
             such
             boundles
             or
             infinite
             power
             as
             to
             keepe
             the
             same
             inchangeable
             or
             infallibe
             ,
             but
             there
             shall
             be
             a
             diuers
             and
             manifold
             consideration
             and
             u
             coaptation
             of
             the
             same
             thing
             .
             There
             can
             be
             no
             endeauor
             ,
             meanes
             ,
             way
             ,
             or
             instrument
             of
             neuer
             so
             complete
             perfection
             or
             tried
             proofe
             directed
             to
             what
             effect
             ,
             issue
             or
             end
             soeuer
             ,
             that
             receiueth
             not
             ordinarily
             x
             impediment
             ,
             opposition
             ,
             and
             contradiction
             ,
             whereby
             those
             things
             which
             in
             themselues
             might
             haply
             seeme
             certaine
             and
             good
             by
             accident
             and
             circumstance
             ,
             are
             againe
             very
             vncertaine
             y
             and
             euill
             .
             All
             ignorants
             therefore
             whatsoeuer
             (
             such
             are
             whosoeuer
             are
             not
             Artists
             )
             had
             they
             for
             all
             diseases
             the
             most
             choyce
             and
             excellent
             medicines
             knowne
             euen
             vnto
             God
             and
             nature
             ,
             aboue
             and
             beyond
             all
             knowledge
             of
             men
             ,
             yet
             except
             therewith
             they
             know
             their
             due
             dispensation
             ,
             they
             cannot
             but
             peruert
             their
             right
             vse
             ,
             be
             they
             neuer
             so
             soueraigne
             .
             The
             generall
             z
             remedies
             against
             the
             common
             causes
             of
             diseases
             ordained
             ,
             except
             first
             rightly
             administred
             ,
             shall
             continually
             and
             necessarily
             forestall
             and
             hinder
             the
             good
             and
             benefite
             from
             any
             particular
             .
             There
             are
             no
             materiall
             diseases
             wherein
             
             the
             common
             remedies
             are
             not
             requisite
             .
             Such
             are
             phlebotomy
             ,
             purgation
             ,
             vomite
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             .
             And
             wheresoeuer
             these
             are
             requisite
             ,
             if
             they
             be
             not
             rightly
             administred
             ,
             all
             other
             medicines
             be
             they
             neuer
             so
             excellent
             and
             incomparable
             ,
             must
             needs
             lose
             their
             excellent
             and
             incomparable
             vse
             .
             And
             none
             can
             rightly
             dispence
             the
             generall
             remedies
             ,
             but
             those
             that
             are
             more
             generally
             learned
             then
             the
             best
             acquaintance
             and
             familiarity
             which
             particular
             medicines
             can
             afforde
             .
             From
             hence
             it
             cannot
             but
             be
             manifest
             ,
             how
             infinitely
             blinde
             good
             will
             and
             zeale
             do
             herein
             daily
             erre
             to
             the
             destruction
             of
             many
             .
             It
             were
             happy
             if
             at
             length
             the
             common
             inconuenience
             and
             publike
             scandall
             might
             beget
             a
             law
             ,
             and
             law
             bring
             forth
             restraint
             .
             For
             illustration
             of
             that
             which
             hath
             bin
             said
             ,
             it
             were
             indifferent
             to
             instance
             in
             any
             disease
             ,
             but
             I
             will
             make
             choyce
             of
             some
             few
             onely
             ,
             to
             satisfie
             for
             all
             .
             It
             is
             an
             ordinarie
             custome
             in
             those
             daies
             with
             women
             to
             giue
             medicines
             for
             the
             greene
             sicknesse
             ;
             &
             other
             stoppages
             in
             young
             women
             .
             In
             which
             practise
             if
             it
             so
             happen
             that
             no
             inward
             impediment
             frustrate
             the
             indeuour
             ,
             they
             casually
             ofttimes
             do
             seeming
             present
             good
             ,
             and
             blaze
             the
             excellencie
             of
             their
             medicine
             :
             but
             if
             ofttimes
             (
             which
             they
             cannot
             distinguish
             or
             obserue
             )
             the
             generall
             cause
             of
             the
             obstruction
             be
             not
             first
             by
             the
             generall
             remedy
             remoued
             or
             diminished
             ,
             or
             the
             immediate
             cause
             setled
             within
             the
             stopped
             parts
             ,
             be
             not
             first
             fitted
             and
             prepared
             to
             yeeld
             ,
             all
             their
             medicines
             of
             neuer
             so
             great
             force
             ,
             yea
             though
             commonly
             as
             strong
             as
             steele
             or
             iron
             ,
             do
             not
             onely
             no
             good
             or
             small
             good
             ,
             but
             ofttimes
             incorrigible
             hurt
             and
             mischiefes
             neuer
             after
             able
             to
             be
             reformed
             ,
             or
             by
             the
             most
             learned
             counsell
             to
             be
             redressed
             ;
             while
             from
             the
             plenty
             or
             ill
             disposition
             of
             humors
             in
             the
             body
             these
             searching
             and
             piercing
             medicines
             carry
             with
             them
             into
             the
             stopped
             parts
             either
             more
             or
             worse
             matter
             then
             was
             before
             ,
             and
             thereby
             there
             leaue
             a
             disease
             which
             shall
             neuer
             after
             die
             except
             by
             exchange
             for
             a
             more
             pernicious
             .
             In
             the
             common
             knowne
             disease
             of
             the
             stone
             likewise
             many
             and
             famous
             medicines
             are
             at
             this
             day
             in
             many
             common
             hands
             ,
             and
             perhaps
             truly
             
             celebrated
             ;
             yet
             if
             sometimes
             bleeding
             a
             haue
             not
             a
             first
             place
             ,
             (
             namely
             where
             is
             present
             or
             imminent
             danger
             of
             inflamation
             of
             the
             reines
             )
             sometimes
             if
             vomit
             be
             omitted
             (
             namely
             where
             the
             stomacke
             is
             stopt
             and
             full
             ,
             &
             vnto
             euery
             thing
             impenitrable
             ,
             )
             sometimes
             if
             glysters
             or
             lenitiues
             be
             not
             premised
             ,
             (
             namely
             where
             the
             fulnesse
             of
             the
             belly
             doth
             presse
             the
             passages
             ,
             the
             bladder
             and
             the
             vreters
             )
             all
             other
             excellent
             medicines
             whatsoeuer
             for
             the
             stone
             do
             not
             onely
             in
             vaine
             exasperate
             the
             disease
             ,
             but
             hazard
             the
             party
             much
             more
             then
             the
             omission
             of
             meanes
             .
             Likewise
             in
             a
             continuall
             feauer
             ,
             if
             sometimes
             present
             and
             immediate
             opening
             of
             the
             b
             veine
             without
             delay
             or
             intermission
             haue
             not
             precedence
             ,
             all
             other
             meanes
             are
             not
             onely
             preposterous
             but
             pernicious
             .
             Likewise
             in
             the
             small
             pocks
             ,
             a
             disease
             so
             well
             knowne
             and
             common
             to
             children
             and
             other
             :
             whatsoeuer
             other
             fit
             and
             good
             medicines
             and
             Cordinals
             be
             administred
             ,
             sometimes
             if
             bloud-letting
             go
             not
             before
             c
             their
             breaking
             out
             ,
             sometimes
             if
             not
             vsed
             d
             after
             ,
             all
             other
             good
             meanes
             are
             frustrate
             .
             And
             at
             another
             time
             if
             there
             be
             any
             bleeding
             at
             all
             ,
             it
             is
             hazard
             ,
             danger
             ,
             and
             death
             it selfe
             .
             There
             are
             no
             medicines
             so
             commonly
             well
             knowne
             as
             such
             as
             are
             euery
             where
             in
             vse
             ,
             and
             at
             euery
             mans
             hand
             prouided
             for
             the
             paines
             and
             diseases
             of
             the
             stomacke
             ,
             and
             for
             that
             vse
             haply
             speciall
             good
             ;
             yet
             ofttimes
             we
             see
             how
             long
             and
             vainely
             those
             meanes
             without
             benefite
             are
             applied
             ,
             vntill
             the
             true
             cause
             by
             a
             generall
             remedy
             be
             haply
             remoued
             ,
             and
             that
             remedy
             perhaps
             the
             most
             vnlikely
             in
             a
             common
             iudgement
             ,
             and
             seldome
             in
             common
             practise
             ,
             prescript
             or
             custome
             vsed
             for
             that
             purpose
             .
             When
             all
             other
             trials
             are
             waste
             and
             lost
             in
             this
             case
             ,
             and
             paine
             doth
             nothing
             stoupe
             ,
             sometime
             the
             opening
             onely
             of
             a
             veine
             e
             in
             the
             arme
             ,
             e
             being
             reckoned
             amonst
             the
             most
             vnusuall
             and
             commonly
             harmefull
             for
             that
             vse
             ,
             doth
             prooue
             the
             sole
             helpfull
             refuge
             
             and
             author
             of
             case
             .
             And
             as
             in
             this
             case
             is
             sometime
             said
             of
             bleeding
             ,
             so
             at
             another
             time
             may
             be
             said
             of
             purging
             and
             vomite
             .
             In
             the
             apoplexie
             sometime
             bleeding
             f
             is
             present
             death
             ,
             sometime
             the
             onely
             g
             hope
             of
             life
             .
             In
             pestilent
             feauers
             and
             in
             the
             plague
             it selfe
             ,
             all
             the
             most
             choyce
             Cordials
             and
             Antidotes
             are
             made
             frustrate
             ,
             sometime
             by
             h
             bleeding
             ,
             sometime
             for
             i
             want
             of
             bleeding
             .
             And
             from
             hence
             growe
             our
             so
             great
             disputes
             &
             differences
             amongst
             Physitions
             themselues
             ,
             some
             chiefly
             and
             aboue
             all
             magnifying
             it
             ,
             some
             with
             execrations
             detesting
             it
             :
             which
             groweth
             in
             them
             for
             want
             of
             right
             distinction
             of
             the
             seuerall
             causes
             ,
             and
             differences
             of
             the
             pestilence
             .
             In
             the
             same
             disease
             the
             like
             may
             be
             said
             of
             vomite
             ,
             if
             at
             sometime
             k
             vsed
             at
             all
             ,
             at
             another
             time
             if
             l
             omitted
             .
             The
             common
             generall
             remedies
             vsed
             against
             the
             dropsie
             are
             purging
             ,
             vomiting
             ,
             sweating
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             ;
             yet
             sometime
             the
             most
             m
             vnusuall
             and
             seldomest
             safe
             ,
             is
             onely
             necessary
             and
             helpfull
             vnto
             it
             .
             Sometime
             if
             a
             woman
             with
             child
             be
             let
             bloud
             she
             suffereth
             n
             abortion
             ,
             saith
             Hippocrates
             .
             Sometime
             if
             she
             omit
             o
             letting
             bloud
             she
             cannot
             escape
             abortion
             ,
             o
             saith
             Fernelius
             .
             o
             Many
             and
             innumerable
             more
             might
             instances
             by
             ,
             but
             these
             may
             suffise
             for
             light
             and
             illustration
             to
             all
             the
             rest
             ,
             as
             also
             for
             sufficient
             caueat
             for
             putting
             any
             trust
             or
             confidence
             in
             the
             excèllencie
             of
             any
             particular
             remedies
             without
             aduice
             ,
             for
             right
             dispensation
             of
             the
             generall
             .
             And
             here
             by
             may
             be
             iudged
             and
             discouered
             the
             indiscreete
             thoughts
             of
             light
             braines
             and
             vnderstandings
             in
             these
             dayes
             ,
             of
             men
             ,
             that
             so
             preposterously
             diuulge
             in
             all
             places
             so
             many
             bookes
             and
             paper-Apothecary-shoppes
             of
             secrets
             and
             medicines
             ,
             better
             iudgment
             and
             learned
             soath
             teaching
             the
             wise
             and
             discreete
             ,
             that
             things
             without
             reason
             in
             themselues
             are
             by
             reason
             and
             wisedome
             to
             be
             guided
             and
             ordered
             ;
             
             lest
             in
             ignorant
             handling
             and
             vnwotting
             abuse
             their
             faire
             promising
             seemings
             proue
             gilded
             poysons
             .
             If
             any
             man
             want
             wit
             to
             see
             or
             know
             this
             or
             knowing
             will
             not
             consider
             ,
             let
             the
             danger
             proue
             it selfe
             vnto
             him
             ,
             and
             let
             such
             experience
             be
             euer
             the
             mother
             of
             fooles
             .
             And
             for
             those
             that
             herein
             make
             mercy
             and
             commiseration
             apologie
             for
             their
             rash
             violating
             the
             rules
             of
             wisedome
             ,
             sobrietie
             and
             safe
             discretion
             in
             ignorant
             intermedling
             ,
             I
             wish
             them
             consider
             how
             dangerous
             are
             the
             harmes
             and
             consequences
             of
             good
             intentions
             ,
             and
             charitable
             indeauors
             ,
             where
             they
             runne
             before
             knowledge
             and
             proprietie
             in
             the
             agent
             .
             Euery
             honest
             function
             is
             not
             euery
             honest
             mans
             ,
             but
             vnto
             euery
             man
             is
             distributed
             and
             allorted
             the
             action
             of
             his
             owne
             calling
             :
             which
             also
             must
             be
             made
             his
             and
             appropriate
             ,
             not
             onely
             by
             approued
             sufficiencie
             in
             himselfe
             ,
             but
             authorized
             approbation
             in
             others
             :
             whereby
             the
             action
             being
             good
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             lawfull
             in
             the
             doer
             ,
             fitting
             and
             accommodate
             vnto
             the
             circumstance
             ,
             it
             is
             blessed
             of
             God
             ,
             commended
             of
             men
             ,
             seasonable
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             harmelesly
             profitable
             ,
             and
             euery
             way
             without
             reproch
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             III.
             
          
           
             Women
             their
             custome
             and
             practise
             about
             the
             sicke
             ,
             common-uisiting
             counsellors
             ,
             and
             commenders
             of
             Medicines
             .
          
           
             OVR
             common
             offenders
             in
             the
             former
             kinds
             are
             generally
             all
             such
             ,
             
             as
             are
             knowne
             to
             want
             institution
             in
             arts
             and
             sciences
             ;
             are
             not
             educated
             in
             pertinent
             precepts
             ,
             not
             studied
             nor
             brought
             vp
             in
             places
             of
             good
             libertie
             :
             without
             which
             good
             a
             meanes
             ordinarily
             there
             cā
             accrew
             to
             mē
             no
             perfectiō
             in
             any
             faculty
             .
             
             For
             althogh
             it
             be
             possible
             that
             there
             may
             grow
             in
             some
             few
             an
             allowable
             mediocrity
             in
             some
             sort
             sufficient
             to
             informe
             themselues
             ,
             and
             profit
             others
             by
             a
             fitnesse
             in
             nature
             ioyned
             with
             industrie
             ,
             (
             though
             the
             ordinarie
             course
             of
             instruction
             
             by
             readers
             ,
             teachers
             and
             schooles
             ,
             be
             not
             so
             plentifully
             supplied
             )
             yet
             is
             it
             no
             safe
             discretion
             ordinarily
             to
             trust
             a
             sufficiency
             so
             very
             rarely
             found
             ,
             so
             hardly
             ,
             so
             seldome
             ,
             and
             in
             so
             few
             truly
             gained
             .
             Here
             therefore
             are
             men
             warned
             of
             aduising
             with
             women
             counsellours
             .
             We
             cannot
             but
             acknowledge
             and
             with
             honor
             mention
             the
             graces
             of
             womanhood
             ,
             wherein
             by
             their
             destined
             property
             ,
             they
             are
             right
             and
             true
             soueraignes
             of
             affection
             ;
             but
             yet
             ,
             seeing
             their
             authority
             in
             learned
             knowledge
             cannot
             be
             authenticall
             ,
             neither
             hath
             God
             and
             nature
             made
             them
             commissioners
             in
             the
             sessions
             of
             learned
             reason
             and
             vnderstanding
             (
             without
             which
             in
             cases
             of
             life
             and
             death
             ,
             there
             ought
             to
             be
             no
             daring
             or
             attempt
             at
             all
             ,
             )
             it
             is
             rash
             cruelty
             in
             them
             euen
             there
             to
             do
             well
             ,
             where
             ,
             vnto
             the
             not
             iudiciously
             foreseeing
             ,
             that
             well
             might
             haue
             proued
             ill
             ,
             and
             that
             ill
             is
             oft
             no
             lesse
             then
             death
             ,
             or
             else
             at
             least
             the
             way
             to
             death
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             hazard
             of
             health
             .
             Their
             counsels
             for
             this
             cause
             in
             matters
             of
             so
             great
             and
             dangerous
             consequent
             ,
             modestie
             ,
             nature
             ,
             law
             ,
             and
             their
             owne
             sexe
             b
             hath
             euer
             exempted
             .
             We
             may
             iustly
             here
             taxe
             their
             dangerous
             whisperings
             about
             the
             sicke
             ,
             wherein
             their
             preualence
             oft
             being
             too
             great
             ,
             they
             abuse
             the
             weake
             sense
             of
             the
             diseased
             ,
             while
             they
             are
             not
             themselues
             ;
             and
             make
             iust
             and
             wise
             proceedings
             suspected
             ,
             and
             with
             danger
             suspended
             .
             
             For
             it
             is
             not
             sufficient
             for
             the
             Physition
             to
             do
             his
             office
             ,
             except
             both
             the
             sicke
             c
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             also
             all
             that
             are
             about
             him
             ,
             be
             prudently
             and
             aduisedly
             carefull
             and
             obedient
             vnto
             good
             reason
             :
             without
             which
             ,
             loue
             it selfe
             may
             be
             dangerously
             officious
             ,
             the
             error
             of
             friendship
             a
             deed
             vnto
             death
             ,
             
             and
             a
             kind
             worke
             in
             intention
             the
             wound
             of
             an
             enemy
             in
             issue
             and
             execution
             .
             Among
             those
             that
             are
             wise
             ,
             a
             good
             conscience
             doth
             stay
             all
             rash
             commission
             :
             and
             confirmation
             of
             all
             necessary
             offices
             by
             such
             as
             are
             learned
             ,
             doth
             preuent
             the
             accusation
             of
             carelesse
             omission
             :
             and
             in
             this
             meane
             for
             the
             vnlearned
             to
             consist
             ,
             is
             onely
             harmelesse
             piety
             .
             Betweene
             the
             vnconsiderate
             hast
             of
             abundant
             affection
             ,
             and
             the
             lame
             and
             carelesse
             pace
             of
             want
             of
             loue
             and
             duty
             :
             betweene
             too
             busie
             medling
             ,
             and
             too
             curious
             forbearance
             ,
             
             
             
             
             
             are
             conspicuous
             the
             excellent
             vertues
             of
             prudence
             ,
             discretion
             and
             knowledge
             ,
             vpon
             which
             are
             safely
             founded
             wise
             moderation
             and
             temperate
             vse
             of
             meanes
             ,
             vnto
             which
             euer
             and
             onely
             God
             hath
             blessed
             all
             actions
             ,
             their
             ends
             and
             issues
             .
             In
             whom
             therefore
             these
             are
             not
             ,
             how
             vnwarranted
             are
             their
             actiōs
             vnto
             their
             owne
             hearts
             ,
             and
             how
             dangerous
             also
             must
             they
             be
             to
             others
             harmes
             ?
             If
             women
             then
             professe
             no
             arts
             ,
             nor
             as
             maisters
             of
             sciences
             can
             proue
             their
             rules
             ,
             let
             them
             with
             sobrietie
             gouerne
             the
             great
             rule
             of
             themselues
             ,
             and
             so
             shall
             they
             be
             most
             harmelesly
             happy
             in
             being
             freed
             from
             the
             vnhappinesse
             of
             hauing
             their
             hands
             so
             commonly
             in
             others
             mishaps
             ,
             vnto
             the
             dishonour
             of
             womanhood
             ,
             
             A
             gentlewoman
             lately
             falling
             grieuously
             sicke
             ,
             through
             the
             frights
             of
             bloud-letting
             (
             wherewith
             womens
             counsell
             by
             many
             ill
             reports
             thereof
             had
             confounded
             her
             )
             refused
             the
             only
             safe
             rescue
             of
             her
             life
             thereby
             .
             Whereupon
             very
             shortly
             after
             ,
             her
             bloud
             grew
             so
             furious
             ,
             that
             breaking
             the
             wonted
             bounds
             and
             limits
             of
             her
             veines
             ,
             with
             violence
             it
             gushed
             out
             not
             onely
             at
             her
             mouth
             and
             nose
             with
             diuerse
             other
             passages
             of
             her
             body
             besides
             ,
             but
             also
             made
             a
             diruption
             in
             the
             veines
             of
             one
             of
             her
             legs
             ,
             from
             whence
             issuing
             in
             great
             abundance
             it
             speedily
             dispatched
             her
             ,
             euen
             vnto
             the
             end
             and
             last
             breath
             still
             making
             her
             choyce
             ,
             that
             rather
             her
             bloud
             should
             thus
             kill
             her
             then
             she
             cōsent
             to
             part
             with
             any
             part
             thereof
             otherwise
             .
             Thus
             she
             miserably
             died
             .
             Cōtrariwise
             another
             gentlewoman
             d
             in
             the
             yeare
             1602.
             and
             of
             her
             age
             the
             74.
             (
             as
             shee
             her selfe
             numbred
             )
             vexed
             many
             yeares
             with
             a
             continuall
             issue
             of
             bloud
             ,
             after
             she
             had
             bene
             long
             left
             in
             hopeles
             care
             &
             despaire
             ,
             required
             and
             expected
             of
             me
             her
             last
             doome
             .
             I
             found
             (
             oft
             obseruing
             her
             pulse
             )
             a
             manifest
             ,
             equall
             and
             constant
             magnitude
             ,
             altitude
             ,
             and
             vehemence
             ,
             the
             habite
             of
             her
             body
             well
             liking
             ;
             and
             by
             these
             assured
             my selfe
             as
             of
             the
             cause
             of
             her
             disease
             ,
             so
             also
             of
             the
             strength
             of
             nature
             .
             Many
             other
             remedies
             before
             in
             vaine
             iterated
             and
             varied
             ,
             and
             none
             preuailing
             or
             profiting
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             iudgement
             of
             some
             former
             Physitions
             ,
             as
             also
             her
             owne
             
             liking
             in
             regard
             of
             her
             age
             and
             supposed
             weakenesse
             ,
             and
             contrary
             to
             the
             generall
             disclaime
             and
             wonderment
             of
             her
             friends
             ,
             her
             e
             strength
             in
             the
             former
             indication
             fauouring
             it
             ,
             necessity
             vrging
             ,
             and
             therefore
             her
             age
             dispensing
             ,
             I
             commanded
             her
             to
             be
             sparingly
             let
             bloud
             f
             in
             the
             arme
             ;
             whereupon
             without
             any
             farther
             other
             helpe
             she
             immediately
             recouered
             her
             strength
             ,
             and
             was
             freed
             the
             space
             of
             eight
             yeares
             together
             from
             the
             issue
             ,
             which
             had
             continually
             vexed
             her
             many
             yeares
             before
             .
             I
             deliuer
             these
             familiar
             examples
             of
             mine
             owne
             for
             better
             satisfaction
             ,
             whereby
             vnto
             the
             meanest
             eye
             and
             simple
             vnderstanding
             it
             is
             apparent
             ,
             that
             bloud-letting
             or
             not
             bloud-letting
             (
             as
             all
             other
             remedies
             )
             are
             either
             good
             or
             euill
             ,
             or
             neither
             good
             nor
             euill
             ,
             in
             seuerall
             seasons
             and
             circumstances
             ;
             whereby
             the
             perswasion
             or
             disswasion
             thereof
             by
             such
             as
             want
             iudgement
             ,
             f
             is
             euer
             casually
             also
             good
             or
             euill
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             but
             euer
             vniustifiable
             in
             the
             ignorant
             counsellor
             .
             The
             iust
             will
             not
             herein
             offend
             ,
             but
             the
             foole
             will
             be
             babling
             ,
             whereof
             to
             beware
             vnto
             many
             had
             bene
             sauing
             physicke
             ,
             that
             now
             are
             dead
             .
             Many
             times
             haue
             many
             by
             perswading
             without
             reason
             or
             iudgement
             drawne
             their
             friend
             vnto
             death
             ,
             contrarie
             to
             their
             better
             meaning
             ,
             troubling
             them
             with
             feare
             of
             death
             in
             the
             remedy
             ,
             while
             they
             run
             themselues
             to
             death
             for
             want
             of
             remedie
             .
             Ill
             counsell
             for
             the
             most
             part
             produceth
             ill
             euent
             .
             Ignorant
             counsell
             is
             neuer
             good
             counsell
             .
             And
             therefore
             it
             is
             honest
             for
             it selfe
             ,
             and
             safe
             for
             the
             sicke
             ,
             that
             ignorance
             be
             euer
             silent
             ,
             or
             neuer
             presumptuous
             .
             It
             is
             oft
             occasion
             of
             mirth
             to
             see
             ,
             how
             euen
             after
             sicke
             men
             are
             sometime
             perfectly
             recouered
             ,
             the
             very
             ill
             opinion
             of
             remedies
             past
             (
             laboured
             into
             the
             conceite
             by
             the
             wauing
             of
             idle
             tongues
             )
             holdeth
             them
             still
             needlesly
             sicke
             ,
             vntill
             their
             wiser
             thoughts
             draw
             their
             minds
             to
             forget
             their
             imagination
             ,
             or
             to
             remember
             themselues
             :
             and
             thus
             vnawares
             they
             sometime
             ease
             themselues
             of
             their
             owne
             imposition
             ,
             which
             was
             first
             the
             vaine
             supposition
             of
             a
             friend
             .
             Such
             friendship
             is
             oft
             simplicity
             ,
             and
             haply
             sometimes
             knauery
             ;
             but
             let
             the
             patient
             that
             desireth
             his
             owne
             good
             ,
             be
             impatient
             
             of
             such
             folly
             ,
             and
             not
             enlarge
             his
             kinde
             heart
             vnto
             so
             vnkinde
             hurt
             vnto
             himselfe
             ,
             remembring
             (
             though
             it
             be
             humanity
             to
             heare
             a
             friendly
             voice
             )
             that
             the
             attendant
             of
             wisedome
             is
             slow
             beliefe
             .
             Oft
             and
             much
             babling
             inculcation
             in
             the
             weake
             braines
             of
             the
             sicke
             may
             easily
             preuaile
             with
             them
             ,
             to
             forget
             both
             that
             which
             their
             owne
             good
             hath
             taught
             them
             ,
             and
             also
             by
             a
             borrowed
             opinion
             from
             others
             indiscreete
             words
             ,
             to
             corrupt
             their
             owne
             sense
             .
             It
             is
             the
             common
             custome
             of
             most
             common
             people
             thus
             ordinarily
             to
             molest
             and
             trouble
             the
             sicke
             .
             Their
             presence
             therfore
             is
             dangerous
             ,
             &
             carefully
             to
             be
             either
             prohibited
             ,
             or
             better
             gouerned
             .
             Common
             &
             vulgar
             mouthes
             easily
             incline
             scandalously
             to
             preiudice
             the
             things
             they
             know
             not
             .
             Hence
             it
             is
             in
             these
             daies
             a
             customary
             worke
             to
             disswade
             physicke
             ,
             while
             mē
             not
             making
             right
             choyce
             of
             their
             Physition
             ,
             or
             perue●ting
             good
             counsell
             by
             their
             owne
             peeuish
             frowardnes
             ,
             and
             thereby
             multiplying
             vnto
             thēselues
             continuall
             occasion
             of
             complaint
             ,
             vniustly
             therfore
             accuse
             art
             ,
             which
             they
             neuer
             duly
             sought
             ,
             nor
             found
             ,
             nor
             vsed
             ,
             &
             therfore
             neuer
             knew
             .
             The
             offences
             that
             men
             iustly
             take
             ,
             are
             the
             faults
             ,
             the
             blots
             ,
             the
             staines
             of
             vnperfect
             workemen
             ,
             not
             of
             art
             ;
             whereof
             art
             is
             as
             guiltlesse
             as
             they
             are
             void
             of
             art
             .
             Many
             because
             they
             may
             haply
             obserue
             some
             others
             by
             the
             too
             much
             &
             immoderate
             vse
             of
             physicke
             ,
             sometime
             too
             hardly
             to
             keepe
             vnder
             their
             owne
             strēgth
             ,
             sometime
             haply
             to
             tire
             nature
             ,
             or
             too
             cōtinually
             to
             interrupt
             &
             perturbe
             her
             quiet
             fruition
             of
             herselfe
             ,
             &
             the
             true
             sense
             of
             her
             owne
             power
             &
             strēght
             in
             her selfe
             ;
             therefore
             in
             the
             other
             extreme
             they
             also
             with
             a
             nice
             and
             foolish
             morosity
             altogether
             contemne
             and
             reiect
             the
             temperate
             and
             moderate
             d
             vse
             thereof
             ,
             denying
             vnto
             God
             &
             nature
             their
             care
             ,
             &
             duty
             to
             thēselues
             ,
             restraining
             nature
             from
             the
             priuiledge
             of
             remedies
             which
             God
             hath
             giuen
             vnto
             her
             ,
             and
             iniuriously
             suffering
             her
             to
             liue
             within
             them
             imprisoned
             ,
             oppressed
             ,
             and
             oft
             needlesly
             ruined
             .
             Physicke
             it selfe
             is
             honored
             by
             the
             mouth
             and
             mention
             of
             God
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             in
             it selfe
             hath
             demonstration
             of
             it selfe
             ,
             vnto
             them
             whose
             vnderstanding
             doth
             giue
             them
             
             eyes
             ;
             but
             the
             ignorant
             and
             the
             excessiue
             vse
             ,
             the
             abuse
             therof
             ,
             &
             no
             lesse
             the
             peruerse
             contempt
             &
             neglect
             thereof
             ,
             are
             the
             curse
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             sinne
             of
             men
             .
             They
             therefore
             that
             perswade
             the
             sicke
             that
             they
             haue
             no
             neede
             of
             the
             Physition
             ,
             call
             God
             a
             lyar
             ,
             who
             expresly
             saith
             h
             otherwise
             ;
             and
             make
             themselues
             wiser
             then
             their
             Creator
             ,
             who
             hath
             ordained
             i
             the
             Physition
             for
             the
             good
             of
             man.
             Let
             men
             therefore
             flie
             and
             take
             heede
             of
             such
             foolish
             calumnie
             ,
             and
             in
             their
             necessities
             let
             them
             remember
             their
             Maker
             ,
             and
             thankfully
             embrace
             his
             blessing
             and
             benefite
             of
             ease
             and
             health
             ,
             which
             thereby
             he
             hath
             commended
             and
             giuen
             vnto
             them
             ;
             lest
             vnthankfull
             to
             him
             ,
             and
             accessarie
             to
             their
             owne
             hurt
             ,
             
             they
             perish
             in
             a
             double
             sinne
             .
             Beside
             the
             ordinary
             &
             meane
             sort
             of
             visiting
             people
             ,
             i
             doing
             in
             the
             former
             kinds
             very
             scandalously
             and
             continually
             much
             hurt
             ,
             it
             is
             too
             ordinary
             vse
             and
             manner
             generally
             with
             all
             orders
             of
             men
             :
             for
             since
             most
             men
             are
             not
             capable
             ,
             worthy
             ,
             nor
             vnderstandingly
             able
             to
             discerne
             a
             true
             good
             ;
             it
             is
             no
             wonder
             that
             the
             fewest
             speake
             truly
             good
             of
             good
             .
             
             Some
             of
             these
             sorts
             do
             not
             simply
             or
             absolutely
             disswade
             physicke
             ,
             but
             (
             as
             an
             inducement
             vnto
             their
             owne
             practise
             and
             admittance
             )
             such
             physicke
             onely
             as
             cometh
             vnknowne
             vnto
             them
             ,
             out
             of
             Apothecaries
             shops
             ,
             or
             from
             Physitions
             hands
             and
             directions
             :
             thereby
             preferring
             their
             owne
             priuate
             ointments
             ,
             plaisters
             ,
             ceareclothes
             ,
             drinkes
             ,
             potions
             ,
             glysters
             ,
             and
             diets
             ,
             because
             by
             time
             and
             custome
             they
             are
             become
             familiarly
             knowne
             vnto
             them
             ,
             and
             now
             are
             of
             their
             owne
             domesticall
             preparation
             ,
             &
             therefore
             are
             by
             their
             knowledge
             ,
             acquaintance
             ,
             and
             auouching
             of
             them
             ,
             growne
             into
             some
             credite
             and
             reputation
             with
             them
             .
             With
             this
             insinuation
             &
             officious
             promise
             of
             their
             knowne
             ,
             gentle
             and
             pleasant
             medicines
             ,
             and
             of
             vndoubted
             good
             from
             this
             their
             owne
             protested
             proofe
             and
             experience
             ,
             many
             allure
             k
             the
             sicke
             miserably
             to
             beguile
             themselues
             ;
             to
             exchange
             reasonable
             likelihood
             ,
             for
             personall
             confidence
             ;
             the
             knowledge
             of
             the
             right
             and
             safe
             vse
             of
             medicines
             ,
             for
             the
             knowledge
             of
             the
             composition
             of
             their
             medicines
             ;
             
             the
             preciousnesse
             of
             
             time
             and
             oportunity
             of
             health
             .
             For
             the
             partiall
             expectation
             of
             vncertaine
             triall
             ,
             these
             knowne
             defects
             as
             the
             perpetuall
             consequences
             of
             this
             ignorance
             and
             want
             of
             knowledge
             ,
             as
             they
             are
             ordinarily
             admitted
             ,
             so
             are
             they
             continually
             manifestly
             obserued
             and
             noted
             by
             others
             harmes
             ,
             and
             ofttimes
             too
             late
             repentance
             :
             for
             since
             want
             of
             knowledge
             doth
             euer
             lamely
             giue
             supply
             to
             any
             want
             ,
             what
             safe
             expectation
             or
             probable
             hope
             can
             the
             diseased
             haue
             of
             ignorant
             persons
             in
             their
             distressed
             wants
             ?
             Old
             Eue
             will
             neuer
             be
             worne
             out
             of
             Adams
             children
             .
             Alas
             an
             apple
             can
             do
             no
             great
             hurt
             .
             It
             is
             faire
             and
             beautifull
             vnto
             the
             eye
             ,
             pleasant
             to
             taste
             ,
             and
             but
             a
             trifle
             ,
             a
             small
             matter
             ,
             a
             little
             quantity
             ,
             and
             of
             excellent
             quality
             ;
             Adam
             must
             needs
             taste
             .
             It
             is
             good
             for
             his
             eyes
             ,
             it
             will
             cleare
             his
             sight
             ,
             an
             excellent
             medicine
             to
             make
             him
             see
             .
             What
             is
             more
             faire
             ,
             more
             easie
             ,
             more
             gentle
             ,
             more
             harmelesse
             ,
             more
             cordiall
             ,
             more
             daintie
             then
             an
             apple
             ?
             Eue
             in
             good
             will
             offered
             it
             ,
             and
             so
             Adam
             tooke
             it
             .
             It
             made
             him
             also
             see
             ;
             but
             Adam
             had
             bene
             better
             still
             blind
             .
             A
             dangerous
             and
             incurable
             leprosie
             and
             infection
             thence
             seised
             vpon
             him
             ,
             which
             after
             none
             but
             the
             great
             Physition
             of
             heauen
             and
             earth
             could
             cure
             .
             Many
             medicines
             are
             small
             ,
             harmelesse
             ,
             gentle
             ,
             pleasant
             ,
             and
             in
             themselues
             do
             not
             hurt
             .
             But
             by
             accident
             ,
             by
             consequent
             ,
             by
             circumstance
             ,
             death
             oft
             followeth
             them
             at
             the
             heeles
             .
             Milke
             ,
             broth
             ,
             butter
             ,
             and
             many
             other
             wholesome
             meates
             ,
             iuices
             and
             fruits
             in
             themselues
             ,
             are
             of
             common
             harmelesse
             vse
             ,
             milde
             ,
             nourishing
             and
             comfortable
             ,
             some
             of
             them
             sometimes
             soueraigne
             antidotes
             against
             many
             poysons
             ,
             mitigators
             of
             diuers
             paines
             ;
             yet
             because
             sometimes
             against
             some
             circumstances
             a
             against
             art
             or
             reason
             vsed
             ,
             they
             proue
             a
             destruction
             vnto
             the
             vser
             :
             and
             as
             sometime
             a
             smaller
             dammage
             ,
             sometime
             a
             greater
             ,
             so
             therefore
             sometime
             more
             and
             sometime
             lesse
             ,
             obserued
             .
             Who
             almost
             suspecteth
             a
             messe
             of
             milke
             or
             a
             cup
             of
             beere
             ,
             b
             things
             so
             familiar
             and
             customary
             in
             daily
             vse
             and
             diet
             ?
             yet
             permitted
             in
             some
             c
             conditions
             ,
             in
             some
             manner
             with
             some
             error
             ,
             c
             c
             the
             messengers
             d
             of
             
             death
             attend
             them
             ,
             oft
             faintings
             ,
             swoundings
             ,
             sodaine
             extinction
             of
             the
             naturall
             heate
             ,
             anxietie
             and
             vexation
             ,
             with
             other
             accidents
             of
             easie
             corruption
             and
             putrifaction
             in
             the
             one
             ,
             as
             of
             stupefaction
             and
             mortification
             in
             the
             other
             .
             This
             did
             witnesse
             a
             late
             Sommers
             sodaine
             heates
             ,
             wherein
             the
             vnaduised
             hasty
             satisfying
             of
             thirst
             with
             cold
             drinke
             ,
             by
             heapes
             in
             diuers
             places
             in
             Northamptonshire
             sent
             labourers
             &
             haruest
             people
             into
             their
             graues
             .
             With
             these
             for
             farther
             illustration
             ,
             I
             might
             number
             without
             number
             many
             more
             ;
             but
             vnto
             the
             wise
             and
             worthy
             ,
             a
             word
             is
             sufficient
             intimation
             .
             And
             thought
             many
             ignorants
             may
             speake
             faire
             and
             pleasing
             ,
             and
             commend
             things
             that
             looke
             smooth
             ,
             and
             smiling
             vpon
             the
             liking
             of
             the
             sicke
             ;
             yet
             prouident
             necessitie
             will
             hence
             be
             warned
             to
             be
             wise
             for
             it selfe
             ,
             not
             rashly
             admiting
             so
             dangerous
             e
             flattery
             ,
             nor
             too
             swiftly
             trusting
             Syrens
             for
             their
             songs
             ,
             nor
             Crocodiles
             for
             their
             teares
             :
             but
             in
             matters
             so
             nearly
             concerning
             life
             and
             death
             ,
             duly
             and
             carefully
             inquiring
             ,
             and
             according
             to
             the
             verdict
             of
             vnderstanding
             and
             reason
             ,
             trying
             and
             examining
             ,
             and
             not
             forgeting
             beside
             the
             hazard
             in
             vnsafe
             error
             by
             vnsufficient
             Counsellors
             ,
             the
             losse
             of
             time
             and
             oportunitie
             for
             better
             helpe
             ,
             which
             ofttimes
             is
             neuer
             a
             regained
             .
             And
             for
             entertayning
             so
             meane
             counsell
             in
             the
             vse
             of
             such
             meanes
             as
             carry
             a
             manifest
             danger
             and
             malignity
             in
             their
             nature
             and
             vse
             ,
             I
             could
             thinke
             no
             man
             so
             voide
             of
             counsell
             ,
             as
             to
             neede
             therein
             counsell
             :
             yet
             because
             experience
             of
             some
             errors
             herein
             past
             is
             argument
             of
             other
             remaining
             possible
             to
             come
             ,
             I
             will
             onely
             by
             one
             example
             aduertise
             ,
             and
             from
             that
             example
             it
             will
             be
             easie
             for
             euery
             one
             to
             raise
             a
             rule
             and
             caution
             d
             to
             himselfe
             .
             It
             is
             ordinary
             with
             many
             vnskilfull
             busie-bodies
             vnder
             colour
             and
             pretext
             of
             gentle
             and
             safe
             dealing
             ,
             to
             make
             familiar
             and
             ordinary
             the
             vse
             of
             perillous
             medicines
             ,
             which
             haply
             also
             they
             do
             not
             so
             distinguish
             or
             repute
             ,
             and
             therefore
             cannot
             be
             said
             to
             lye
             ,
             (
             because
             they
             speake
             their
             thought
             ,
             )
             yet
             tell
             not
             truth
             ,
             because
             they
             thinke
             not
             right
             .
             
             I
             was
             sometime
             solicited
             by
             a
             carefull
             mother
             for
             her
             child
             ,
             whom
             I
             found
             by
             a
             sharpe
             
             and
             acute
             conuulsion
             violently
             distorted
             ,
             and
             before
             time
             allowed
             leasure
             for
             preparation
             of
             remedies
             ,
             swiftly
             strangled
             .
             In
             any
             propension
             thereto
             in
             the
             constitution
             or
             other
             disposition
             of
             the
             child
             ,
             was
             nothing
             which
             might
             apparently
             be
             accused
             ;
             and
             therefore
             making
             diligent
             inquirie
             after
             some
             outward
             cause
             ,
             I
             found
             that
             the
             suspition
             of
             wormes
             had
             occasioned
             the
             commendations
             and
             vse
             of
             of
             the
             hearbe
             Bearefoote
             ,
             which
             though
             ordinary
             and
             much
             accustomed
             for
             that
             end
             among
             women
             ,
             and
             oft
             by
             good
             hap
             without
             hurt
             ;
             yet
             we
             could
             not
             but
             with
             good
             reason
             hereof
             conuince
             ,
             conferring
             the
             present
             harme
             (
             which
             no
             presumption
             could
             vnto
             other
             thing
             impute
             )
             with
             the
             danger
             and
             maligne
             nature
             of
             that
             herbe
             in
             production
             of
             such
             like
             effects
             :
             (
             although
             many
             for
             the
             like
             vse
             haue
             in
             like
             manner
             giuen
             it
             vnto
             their
             children
             without
             blame
             .
             )
             Thus
             sometimes
             some
             men
             haue
             deuoured
             mortall
             poysons
             ,
             not
             onely
             without
             harme
             ,
             but
             with
             good
             and
             commodious
             effect
             .
             By
             these
             conueyances
             &
             through
             the
             like
             presumption
             ,
             many
             vnwotting
             bodies
             oft
             bury
             in
             themselues
             vnbewailed
             (
             because
             vnknowne
             )
             Ellebor
             ,
             Quicksiluer
             .
             Precipitate
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             coloured
             with
             better
             names
             ,
             and
             at
             the
             present
             vnperceiued
             .
             Desperate
             trials
             sometime
             bring
             forth
             strange
             deliuerances
             ,
             yet
             neither
             is
             the
             boldnesse
             warrant
             ,
             nor
             the
             escape
             encouragement
             .
             There
             happen
             oft
             in
             these
             daies
             many
             sodaine
             ,
             maruailed
             and
             strange
             accidents
             ,
             posing
             the
             best
             Physitions
             themselues
             ,
             without
             doubt
             oft
             raised
             from
             causes
             by
             these
             errors
             vnknowne
             ,
             secret
             ,
             concealed
             ,
             or
             haply
             by
             time
             before
             the
             effect
             appeare
             ,
             forgotten
             :
             (
             for
             secret
             mischiefs
             long
             time
             insensibly
             vndermine
             before
             the
             sensible
             euent
             appeare
             .
             )
             For
             proofe
             of
             dangerous
             customes
             in
             ignorant
             hands
             ,
             
             I
             will
             make
             one
             example
             a
             light
             vnto
             many
             .
             A
             woman
             sometime
             came
             to
             aduise
             concerning
             an
             extraordinary
             accident
             in
             her
             ordinary
             vse
             of
             spurge-comfits
             .
             She
             gaue
             (
             at
             the
             same
             time
             her selfe
             ,
             and
             some
             others
             in
             the
             same
             house
             taking
             thereof
             with
             answerable
             effect
             and
             euacuation
             )
             vnto
             a
             very
             aged
             man
             eight
             in
             number
             (
             being
             her
             
             vsuall
             dose
             .
             )
             The
             first
             day
             they
             had
             no
             effect
             with
             the
             old
             man
             ,
             and
             in
             all
             the
             rest
             performed
             their
             wont
             :
             she
             therefore
             gaue
             him
             as
             many
             the
             next
             day
             with
             the
             like
             effect
             ,
             and
             as
             many
             euery
             day
             vnto
             the
             10
             day
             ,
             with
             the
             like
             proofe
             .
             It
             was
             then
             her
             feare
             he
             had
             tasted
             his
             owne
             funerall
             feast
             before
             his
             death
             ,
             but
             he
             suruiued
             the
             feare
             without
             sense
             of
             change
             or
             danger
             .
             Is
             it
             safe
             from
             this
             good
             hap
             ,
             for
             other
             in
             hope
             still
             to
             hazard
             themselues
             in
             such
             vnsafe
             handling
             ?
             Is
             it
             not
             rather
             manifest
             how
             ignorantly
             and
             commonly
             these
             creatures
             ouerlooke
             the
             danger
             which
             iustly
             wisdome
             and
             reason
             suspend
             and
             feare
             ?
             Discreete
             feare
             awaketh
             vigilance
             and
             circumspection
             ,
             but
             ignorance
             of
             danger
             is
             void
             of
             feare
             ,
             and
             therefore
             of
             care
             .
             Carelesse
             attempts
             draw
             harmfull
             and
             repented
             issues
             :
             and
             though
             good
             haps
             sometimes
             flatter
             vaine
             security
             ,
             yet
             if
             seldome
             harmes
             be
             not
             wisely
             extended
             as
             a
             caution
             and
             example
             vnto
             many
             ,
             the
             custome
             of
             neglect
             will
             make
             the
             rare
             confusion
             quickly
             common
             .
             So
             large
             a
             feast
             of
             spurge-comfits
             hath
             seldome
             kept
             so
             many
             holy
             daies
             in
             one
             bellie
             ,
             or
             a
             banketting
             likenes
             so
             harmelesly
             priuiledged
             idlenesse
             in
             a
             working
             quality
             .
             The
             consequent
             hapned
             much
             fairer
             then
             could
             be
             foreseene
             or
             hoped
             .
             If
             for
             that
             cause
             any
             man
             will
             againe
             aduenture
             the
             like
             ,
             who
             will
             not
             imagine
             that
             in
             the
             thought
             he
             hath
             already
             lost
             his
             wits
             ,
             &
             in
             the
             proofe
             may
             lose
             himselfe
             ?
             If
             notwithstanding
             he
             escape
             ,
             any
             man
             will
             wonder
             ,
             but
             no
             man
             ,
             I
             suppose
             ,
             imitate
             .
             It
             may
             be
             haply
             deemed
             incredible
             ,
             that
             so
             common
             and
             meane
             sort
             of
             people
             can
             attaine
             acquaintance
             with
             so
             dangerous
             instruments
             ,
             as
             some
             before
             mentioned
             and
             other
             the
             like
             ;
             but
             due
             exploration
             oft
             by
             the
             harmes
             occasioned
             doth
             testifie
             it
             ,
             and
             the
             meanes
             of
             their
             acquaintance
             discouered
             doth
             proue
             it
             easie
             .
             Quacksaluers
             ,
             banckruptapothecaries
             ,
             and
             fugitiue
             Surgeons
             euery
             where
             ouer-trauelling
             the
             face
             of
             this
             kingdome
             ,
             hunted
             by
             want
             of
             riot
             from
             place
             to
             place
             ,
             are
             oft
             compelled
             to
             insinuate
             and
             creepe
             into
             the
             fauour
             of
             many
             meane
             people
             ;
             and
             in
             their
             necessity
             do
             sell
             for
             gaine
             and
             entertainement
             ,
             and
             in
             
             their
             prodigality
             for
             lust
             and
             loue
             ,
             these
             generose
             and
             noble
             secrets
             carrying
             on
             the
             outside
             the
             titles
             of
             famous
             medicines
             ,
             and
             being
             within
             infamous
             poysons
             .
             And
             by
             this
             meanes
             quicke
             and
             desperate
             experiments
             ,
             with
             such
             as
             thus
             like
             to
             gaine
             them
             ,
             grow
             vulgar
             medicaments
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             IIII.
             
          
           
             Fugitiues
             ,
             workers
             of
             iugling
             wonders
             ,
             Quacksaluers
             .
          
           
             NOW
             seeing
             we
             are
             cast
             vpon
             the
             mention
             of
             the
             former
             sort
             of
             men
             ,
             
             we
             will
             here
             for
             giuing
             better
             knowledge
             of
             them
             ,
             protract
             their
             short
             stay
             .
             
             Of
             this
             order
             are
             they
             who
             in
             townes
             and
             villages
             hang
             vp
             their
             banners
             and
             triumphant
             flags
             in
             fields
             ,
             of
             broken
             armes
             ,
             rotted
             legs
             ,
             and
             halfe
             faces
             ,
             and
             haply
             also
             timber
             for
             new
             ,
             displaying
             at
             large
             before
             the
             simple
             amazed
             multitude
             ,
             their
             prouision
             of
             shot
             and
             wildfire
             in
             quintessenses
             and
             spirits
             :
             scouring
             vp
             before
             them
             goodly
             store
             of
             harnesse
             wherewith
             men
             of
             all
             sorts
             may
             arme
             themselues
             against
             all
             diseases
             ;
             discoursing
             d
             with
             what
             agility
             they
             can
             soudre
             new
             gris●es
             for
             old
             noses
             ,
             and
             newly
             againe
             infranchise
             French
             limbes
             ,
             and
             finally
             making
             themselues
             admirable
             tinkers
             of
             all
             infirmities
             .
             Amongst
             these
             men
             credulous
             mindes
             may
             see
             things
             inuisible
             ;
             beggers
             are
             enabled
             to
             sell
             gold
             to
             drinke
             ,
             that
             want
             siluer
             to
             make
             them
             eate
             .
             Aurum
             potabile
             ,
             the
             natuturall
             Balsamum
             ,
             the
             Philosophers
             stone
             ,
             dissolued
             Pearle
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             inestimable
             glories
             and
             pride
             of
             Art
             and
             nature
             ,
             are
             their
             professed
             ordinary
             creatures
             and
             the
             workmanship
             of
             their
             hands
             ,
             in
             whose
             hands
             are
             nothing
             but
             idlenesse
             ,
             g
             theeft
             ,
             and
             beggerie
             .
             To
             ingage
             wonder
             aboue
             wonder
             with
             admiration
             vnto
             the
             beholders
             ,
             some
             of
             this
             sort
             will
             not
             seeme
             nice
             to
             cut
             their
             owne
             flesh
             ,
             that
             it
             may
             be
             glory
             within
             few
             howres
             to
             heale
             it
             vp
             againe
             ,
             the
             paine
             being
             pleasure
             which
             is
             inuited
             by
             consent
             ,
             and
             recompenced
             by
             gaine
             .
             It
             is
             strange
             to
             see
             how
             these
             men
             leauing
             their
             old
             occupations
             and
             mechanicall
             mysteries
             
             wherein
             they
             were
             educate
             ,
             sodainely
             finde
             themselues
             inspired
             with
             a
             spirit
             of
             reuelation
             of
             rare
             secrets
             ,
             and
             thereby
             promise
             vnto
             themselues
             and
             others
             miraculous
             wonders
             .
             And
             it
             is
             indeede
             true
             wonder
             to
             see
             with
             what
             agility
             they
             are
             able
             so
             grosly
             to
             deceiue
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             end
             like
             noble
             Chymists
             ,
             hauing
             extracted
             siluer
             out
             of
             the
             baser
             mettall
             of
             idle
             words
             ,
             in
             smoke
             they
             vanish
             ,
             leauing
             behinde
             them
             the
             shadow
             of
             death
             ,
             with
             those
             who
             leauing
             the
             day
             light
             of
             clearer
             vnderstanding
             neglected
             ,
             rashly
             run
             themselues
             into
             the
             mist
             of
             imposture
             and
             ignorance
             .
             Thus
             preualent
             is
             faire
             pollicitation
             and
             vaine
             wonderment
             .
             If
             men
             would
             consult
             with
             reason
             &
             iudiciously
             consider
             ;
             though
             their
             wonders
             were
             truly
             to
             be
             wondered
             ,
             and
             worthy
             to
             exercise
             the
             wise
             and
             learned
             in
             their
             extrication
             (
             as
             they
             are
             the
             vanities
             and
             inanities
             of
             argute
             and
             subtill
             cousinages
             ,
             )
             yet
             must
             it
             neuer
             be
             forgotten
             ,
             that
             wonders
             yea
             and
             miracles
             themselues
             are
             solie
             neuer
             arguments
             of
             truth
             or
             sufficiencie
             ,
             but
             for
             the
             most
             part
             fruites
             of
             vnprofitable
             curiosity
             ,
             deceiuing
             the
             simple
             ,
             amazing
             the
             multitude
             ,
             and
             giuing
             way
             and
             credite
             to
             vntruth
             ,
             cousinage
             and
             iugling
             .
             Therefore
             in
             this
             kind
             the
             diuell
             himselfe
             is
             excellent
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             most
             part
             it
             is
             one
             chiefe
             part
             ,
             a
             true
             marke
             and
             prerogatiue
             of
             his
             followers
             ,
             Coniuerers
             ,
             Sorcerers
             ,
             Witches
             ,
             and
             Iuglers
             ;
             who
             wanting
             true
             worthinesse
             in
             themselues
             ,
             make
             vnto
             themselues
             these
             glorious
             couers
             .
             God
             hath
             giuen
             nothing
             vnto
             man
             ,
             but
             for
             his
             trauail
             and
             paine
             .
             And
             according
             to
             his
             studious
             industrie
             ,
             care
             ,
             prudence
             ,
             prouidence
             ,
             assiduity
             and
             diligence
             ,
             he
             dispenseth
             vnto
             him
             euery
             good
             thing
             .
             He
             hath
             not
             ordained
             wonders
             and
             miracles
             to
             giue
             supply
             vnto
             our
             common
             needes
             ,
             nor
             to
             answer
             the
             ordinary
             occasions
             or
             vses
             of
             our
             life
             :
             but
             our
             owne
             needefull
             discreete
             indeauors
             euer
             depending
             vpon
             his
             prouidence
             .
             Truth
             and
             sufficiency
             receiue
             not
             their
             iust
             triall
             by
             rare
             workes
             or
             casuall
             euents
             ,
             but
             by
             an
             i
             habituall
             and
             continuall
             proofe
             and
             exercise
             in
             their
             daily
             ,
             ordinary
             ,
             and
             proper
             subiects
             and
             occurrents
             :
             whereunto
             
             truly
             and
             pertinently
             they
             apt
             and
             fit
             euery
             designe
             and
             action
             :
             whereunto
             their
             owne
             vpright
             iudgement
             is
             a
             trustie
             guide
             ,
             and
             others
             eyes
             vndeceiued
             witnesses
             .
             And
             thus
             if
             men
             will
             learne
             to
             guide
             themselues
             ,
             they
             shall
             not
             so
             commonly
             and
             easily
             lose
             their
             eyes
             in
             the
             gaze
             of
             wonders
             ,
             nor
             their
             reason
             in
             the
             maze
             of
             such
             inexplicable
             and
             intricate
             folly
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             V.
             
          
           
             Surgeons
             .
          
           
             THAT
             which
             hath
             bene
             formerly
             said
             suffiseth
             to
             point
             out
             the
             deceiuers
             last
             mentioned
             .
             Their
             affinitie
             giueth
             occasion
             to
             mention
             in
             the
             next
             place
             ,
             their
             next
             neighbours
             ,
             diuers
             our
             common
             vnlearned
             Surgeons
             ,
             hauing
             neither
             letters
             nor
             humanity
             ,
             nor
             euer
             acquainted
             with
             the
             dialect
             and
             language
             of
             the
             learned
             .
             These
             men
             for
             the
             most
             part
             esteeming
             themselues
             deseruing
             well
             for
             the
             operary
             c
             vses
             of
             a
             skilfull
             and
             well
             exercised
             hand
             in
             wounds
             ,
             incisions
             ,
             amputations
             of
             sphacelate
             parts
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             hence
             take
             vnto
             themselues
             an
             emerited
             priuiledge
             in
             physicke
             practise
             .
             Some
             also
             venture
             farther
             ,
             and
             for
             some
             rare
             exeperiences
             arrogate
             vnto
             themselues
             ability
             ,
             a
             power
             and
             authoritie
             to
             educate
             &
             institute
             Physitions
             ,
             as
             an
             vnder-growth
             vnto
             themselues
             ,
             by
             lying
             promises
             ,
             perswading
             many
             honest
             simple
             parents
             to
             commit
             their
             children
             ,
             otherwise
             perhaps
             more
             fortunate
             and
             ingenuous
             ,
             to
             be
             their
             apprentices
             .
             Hence
             it
             cometh
             to
             passe
             that
             many
             in
             these
             daies
             thus
             traded
             vp
             by
             their
             example
             vnto
             a
             nimblenesse
             of
             deceit
             ,
             and
             of
             aduenturing
             in
             all
             occurrents
             ,
             so
             ordinarily
             promise
             like
             gods
             ,
             dare
             aboue
             men
             ,
             and
             act
             like
             diuels
             crucifying
             the
             liues
             of
             poore
             men
             :
             while
             by
             the
             grace
             of
             one
             good
             d
             deede
             of
             good
             hap
             ,
             the
             oportunity
             of
             committing
             many
             tragedies
             vnspoken
             is
             gained
             .
             And
             thus
             is
             the
             world
             furnished
             with
             factors
             for
             the
             graue
             and
             the
             
             perdition
             of
             mankind
             .
             An
             example
             of
             double
             impudence
             let
             here
             witnesse
             .
             
             A
             gentleman
             of
             Northamptonshire
             vexed
             with
             an
             vlcer
             of
             the
             bladder
             required
             my
             aduice
             .
             Vnderstanding
             by
             the
             daily
             abundance
             of
             purulent
             matter
             in
             his
             vrine
             (
             for
             the
             space
             almost
             of
             halfe
             an
             yeare
             before
             continually
             obserued
             )
             together
             with
             some
             store
             of
             bloud
             ofttimes
             withall
             ,
             (
             neither
             of
             which
             the
             bladder
             it selfe
             and
             the
             exility
             of
             the
             veines
             thereof
             could
             so
             plentifully
             with
             so
             easie
             e
             accidents
             afford
             )
             as
             also
             by
             the
             more
             perfect
             permistion
             thereof
             with
             the
             substance
             of
             the
             vrine
             ,
             that
             it
             was
             not
             onely
             an
             affection
             of
             the
             bladder
             ,
             but
             a
             greater
             and
             more
             dangerous
             in
             the
             reines
             ,
             (
             about
             the
             region
             whereof
             was
             euer
             much
             paine
             and
             weaknesse
             )
             and
             coniecturing
             them
             past
             possibility
             of
             cure
             (
             their
             substance
             already
             so
             far
             spent
             )
             I
             refused
             to
             promise
             or
             meddle
             farther
             then
             by
             palliatiue
             cure
             ,
             wherein
             accordingly
             I
             insisted
             a
             long
             time
             with
             good
             ease
             and
             satisfaction
             vnto
             the
             patient
             .
             At
             length
             by
             some
             friends
             there
             was
             commended
             highly
             for
             a
             farther
             and
             better
             performance
             ,
             a
             Barber
             Surgeon
             ,
             who
             thereupon
             being
             required
             and
             conducted
             thither
             ,
             came
             vnto
             the
             gentleman
             ,
             and
             according
             to
             the
             commendatiōs
             premised
             promised
             to
             cure
             him
             in
             sixe
             f
             weekes
             space
             .
             Shortly
             after
             the
             patient
             complaining
             of
             want
             of
             sleepe
             ,
             he
             gaue
             vnto
             him
             a
             Ladanum
             pill
             of
             Paracelsus
             ,
             and
             after
             Mercuriall
             pilles
             for
             another
             supposed
             end
             ;
             by
             the
             vse
             whereof
             in
             his
             body
             ,
             then
             by
             the
             length
             of
             his
             disease
             exceedingly
             before
             weakened
             and
             extenuate
             ,
             he
             presently
             fell
             into
             an
             amazed
             staring
             sleepinesse
             ,
             or
             an
             astonishment
             betweene
             g
             waking
             and
             sleeping
             ,
             wherein
             after
             he
             had
             continued
             a
             naturall
             day
             ,
             in
             the
             morning
             following
             he
             was
             sodainely
             surptised
             with
             acute
             and
             epilepticall
             fits
             and
             a
             generall
             conuulsion
             ,
             with
             foming
             ,
             gnashing
             his
             teeth
             ,
             loud
             stertors
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             whereof
             after
             in
             one
             day
             he
             had
             passed
             8
             or
             9
             fits
             in
             my
             sight
             (
             being
             then
             vpon
             that
             new
             occasion
             newly
             required
             ,
             the
             Surgeon
             h
             fled
             )
             he
             was
             after
             my
             coming
             and
             meanes
             vsed
             partly
             by
             Theriacall
             glysters
             ,
             suppositars
             ,
             and
             antidotes
             fitting
             the
             present
             
             
             
             
             
             cause
             and
             accidents
             ,
             through
             the
             grace
             of
             God
             vnexpectedly
             deliuered
             ,
             after
             he
             had
             by
             stoole
             thus
             procured
             ,
             auoyded
             one
             whole
             pill
             vndissolued
             (
             seene
             by
             diuers
             well
             vnderstanding
             witnesses
             present
             ,
             )
             as
             also
             diuers
             small
             fractions
             of
             Quicksiluer
             fluctuating
             and
             floating
             like
             white
             pinnes
             heads
             ,
             as
             the
             women
             that
             saw
             reported
             vnto
             vs.
             To
             make
             the
             cause
             of
             these
             accidents
             yet
             more
             manifest
             ;
             it
             happened
             that
             two
             maid-seruants
             there
             attending
             vpon
             the
             gentleman
             ,
             by
             their
             continuall
             conuersing
             neare
             him
             and
             the
             infected
             sweate
             of
             his
             body
             ,
             fell
             strangely
             and
             sodainely
             into
             the
             same
             fits
             one
             after
             another
             by
             course
             ,
             and
             each
             hauing
             suffred
             sixe
             or
             seuen
             apart
             ,
             were
             carried
             forth
             ,
             and
             after
             that
             time
             neuer
             since
             (
             as
             I
             yet
             heare
             )
             nor
             euer
             before
             had
             the
             like
             ,
             as
             they
             both
             then
             said
             .
             One
             of
             these
             now
             liueth
             maried
             in
             Towcester
             in
             Northamptonshire
             ,
             the
             other
             was
             lately
             seruant
             vnto
             an
             honorable
             Lady
             .
             This
             history
             is
             knowne
             vnto
             many
             of
             note
             and
             worth
             beside
             .
             To
             conclude
             ,
             the
             gentleman
             thus
             escaped
             ,
             and
             grew
             by
             little
             and
             little
             vnto
             his
             former
             senses
             and
             strength
             as
             his
             first
             disease
             would
             permit
             .
             Within
             a
             quarter
             of
             an
             yeare
             after
             ,
             or
             thereabout
             ,
             another
             Surgeon
             againe
             put
             the
             gentlemā
             into
             a
             new
             hope
             of
             recouery
             :
             &
             although
             the
             report
             of
             my
             iudgement
             did
             somewhat
             (
             as
             I
             heard
             )
             shake
             his
             confidence
             ,
             yet
             not
             conceiuing
             my
             reason
             nor
             seeing
             the
             cause
             ,
             and
             supposing
             no
             other
             but
             the
             vlcer
             in
             the
             bladder
             ,
             he
             tooke
             him
             in
             hand
             ;
             and
             in
             his
             hand
             within
             few
             dayes
             he
             left
             his
             life
             ,
             according
             to
             my
             prediction
             vnto
             diuers
             his
             friends
             concerning
             this
             second
             attempt
             likewise
             solicited
             .
             By
             these
             examples
             it
             is
             manifest
             ,
             both
             how
             bold
             and
             confident
             ignorance
             will
             be
             ,
             as
             also
             how
             powerfully
             and
             bewitchingly
             it
             deceiueth
             the
             distressed
             minde
             ,
             easily
             prone
             d
             to
             beleeue
             that
             which
             it
             desirously
             would
             .
             From
             hence
             also
             may
             be
             coniectured
             how
             commonly
             such
             errors
             by
             these
             ignorant
             persons
             in
             likelihood
             befall
             ,
             yet
             for
             the
             most
             part
             either
             for
             want
             of
             knowledge
             vnespied
             ,
             or
             by
             the
             priuacy
             smothered
             .
             For
             if
             they
             kill
             ,
             a
             dead
             e
             man
             telleth
             no
             tales
             :
             or
             if
             by
             chance
             they
             saue
             one
             life
             ,
             that
             
             shall
             be
             a
             perpetuall
             g
             flag
             to
             call
             more
             fooles
             to
             the
             same
             aduenture
             .
             This
             is
             commonly
             seene
             in
             the
             vulgar
             custome
             of
             curing
             the
             French
             disease
             by
             Barbers
             and
             Surgeons
             ,
             who
             precipitate
             commonly
             euery
             one
             alike
             ,
             and
             confusedly
             without
             respect
             or
             order
             thrust
             all
             through
             the
             purgatorie
             of
             their
             sweatings
             ;
             bleeding
             ,
             vomiting
             ,
             vnctions
             ,
             plaisters
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             .
             Hereby
             many
             needlesly
             intangle
             themselues
             vpon
             meere
             supposall
             and
             feare
             ,
             and
             many
             take
             more
             then
             necessity
             vigeth
             ;
             and
             others
             for
             satisfying
             that
             necessity
             ,
             neglect
             a
             more
             materiall
             ,
             and
             flying
             too
             timorously
             and
             rashly
             a
             knowne
             inconuenience
             ,
             run
             headlong
             vnknowing
             into
             an
             after
             too
             well
             knowne
             vnrecouerable
             h
             mischiefe
             .
             For
             if
             they
             that
             fal
             into
             such
             rough
             handling
             be
             strong
             in
             themselues
             ,
             and
             no
             way
             liable
             to
             the
             harmes
             of
             such
             desperate
             remedies
             ,
             and
             be
             free
             from
             the
             implication
             of
             all
             other
             diseases
             besides
             ,
             (
             which
             entring
             by
             their
             breaches
             may
             interrupt
             their
             smooth
             passage
             ,
             and
             make
             pernicious
             their
             French
             medication
             )
             they
             may
             haply
             escaping
             the
             danger
             ,
             for
             the
             hazard
             attaine
             their
             desired
             deliuerie
             ,
             as
             is
             in
             some
             seene
             .
             But
             if
             nature
             haply
             be
             weake
             ,
             or
             the
             disposition
             of
             the
             sicke
             subiect
             to
             the
             perils
             of
             that
             cure
             (
             which
             these
             men
             seldome
             do
             or
             can
             consider
             )
             or
             any
             other
             disease
             lie
             in
             waight
             too
             prompt
             to
             trust
             with
             any
             aduantage
             ,
             (
             which
             these
             men
             want
             knowledge
             to
             foresee
             )
             the
             acquaintance
             with
             such
             remedies
             may
             easily
             proue
             a
             greater
             plague
             vnto
             the
             greatest
             poxe
             .
             How
             can
             he
             that
             considereth
             the
             disease
             and
             not
             the
             e
             person
             (
             as
             is
             vsuall
             with
             these
             men
             )
             because
             the
             contrary
             is
             not
             possible
             with
             ignorance
             )
             how
             can
             they
             I
             say
             in
             curing
             the
             one
             but
             indanger
             the
             other
             ?
             We
             see
             ordinarily
             ,
             the
             same
             medicine
             in
             the
             same
             force
             vnto
             one
             man
             is
             scarce
             sensible
             ,
             vnto
             another
             is
             a
             sting
             ;
             vnto
             one
             fauourable
             ,
             vnto
             another
             cruell
             ;
             in
             one
             wanting
             edge
             ,
             in
             another
             exceeding
             .
             It
             therefore
             requireth
             learned
             ability
             to
             discerne
             the
             hidden
             ods
             and
             differences
             ,
             thereby
             iustly
             to
             distribute
             vnto
             euery
             seuerall
             his
             proper
             and
             fit
             f
             proportion
             of
             the
             same
             thing
             .
             Neither
             is
             it
             safe
             to
             accommodate
             so
             harmefull
             helps
             as
             belong
             to
             
             so
             cautelous
             a
             cure
             without
             a
             iudicious
             view
             ,
             not
             onely
             of
             this
             strange
             disease
             it selfe
             ,
             but
             also
             of
             the
             mixture
             or
             g
             coniunction
             of
             any
             other
             maladies
             and
             respects
             therewith
             ,
             whose
             necessities
             may
             and
             do
             oft
             forbid
             and
             prohibite
             his
             remedies
             (
             that
             being
             a
             medicine
             to
             one
             disease
             which
             is
             a
             mischiefe
             to
             another
             ,
             and
             an
             ease
             to
             one
             which
             is
             a
             sorrow
             vnto
             another
             .
             )
             It
             is
             therefore
             no
             maruaile
             ,
             that
             while
             these
             men
             contemne
             order
             and
             method
             ,
             and
             the
             learned
             examination
             of
             these
             and
             such
             like
             circumstances
             ,
             and
             blindly
             prosecute
             issues
             vnknowne
             to
             foreseeing
             reason
             ,
             they
             therefore
             (
             though
             sometime
             they
             remoue
             a
             mischiefe
             )
             yet
             either
             equall
             it
             againe
             with
             the
             like
             ,
             or
             exceed
             it
             with
             a
             greater
             ,
             or
             else
             ofttimes
             not
             profiting
             nor
             satisfying
             the
             vtmost
             patience
             and
             painefull
             expectation
             with
             the
             smallest
             good
             ,
             effectually
             double
             the
             greatest
             euill
             .
             This
             for
             that
             all
             men
             see
             not
             ,
             few
             consider
             ,
             many
             forget
             ,
             &
             some
             ioyously
             escaping
             defend
             .
             The
             hurt
             is
             oft
             vnespied
             the
             harmes
             vnheeded
             ,
             the
             shamefull
             wrongers
             and
             homicides
             with
             the
             dead
             buried
             ,
             and
             the
             good
             haps
             by
             many
             foolish
             liuing
             idly
             admired
             ,
             vnto
             the
             increase
             and
             continuance
             of
             multiplied
             mischiefe
             .
             Hereof
             solie
             for
             the
             most
             part
             wofull
             experience
             is
             capable
             ,
             neither
             reason
             ,
             nor
             example
             ,
             nor
             any
             aduice
             warning
             or
             moderating
             ,
             g
             though
             the
             ordinary
             batteries
             from
             hence
             euery
             where
             almost
             leaue
             rotten
             and
             mangled
             monuments
             of
             remedilesse
             cures
             ,
             if
             not
             present
             with
             the
             cause
             ,
             yet
             neuer
             farre
             of
             ,
             and
             though
             sometime
             long
             ,
             yet
             euer
             certaine
             .
             For
             though
             where
             the
             body
             is
             strong
             ,
             ofttimes
             many
             grosse
             errors
             may
             be
             by
             the
             ignorant
             committed
             ,
             and
             yet
             not
             espied
             ,
             (
             because
             where
             is
             strength
             there
             is
             lesse
             sense
             and
             esteeme
             of
             harmes
             ,
             (
             weaknesse
             being
             only
             vnable
             to
             beare
             or
             endure
             without
             complaint
             )
             yet
             the
             insensible
             sting
             doth
             oft
             breede
             the
             most
             festered
             poyson
             ,
             in
             the
             latest
             sensible
             smart
             .
             The
             errors
             of
             the
             vnskilfull
             Pilote
             though
             great
             and
             many
             ,
             in
             the
             calme
             are
             not
             h
             considered
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             dangerous
             sea
             the
             
             least
             error
             offereth
             the
             ougly
             shape
             of
             his
             owne
             foulnesse
             .
             In
             bodies
             not
             easily
             harmed
             many
             rash
             harmes
             are
             hardly
             discouered
             ,
             but
             in
             dangerous
             cōditions
             the
             least
             lapses
             are
             heauie
             loades
             .
             Ignorance
             therefore
             is
             onely
             good
             when
             it
             doth
             no
             hurt
             ,
             whereunto
             it
             is
             neuer
             wanting
             in
             her
             propertie
             ,
             but
             onely
             sometimes
             in
             power
             .
             It
             is
             obiected
             ,
             that
             wise
             and
             learned
             men
             do
             oft
             mistake
             .
             It
             is
             true
             :
             where
             is
             the
             greatest
             wisedome
             the
             most
             incomparable
             ,
             yet
             there
             is
             ,
             and
             euer
             must
             be
             sometimes
             mistaking
             and
             infirmities
             .
             The
             reason
             is
             ,
             for
             that
             absolute
             perfection
             is
             aboue
             the
             nature
             of
             mortality
             .
             He
             therefore
             that
             in
             his
             art
             or
             faculty
             doth
             neuer
             erre
             ,
             is
             b
             more
             then
             a
             man.
             He
             that
             most
             seldome
             dd
             ,
             nor
             grosly
             ,
             nor
             easily
             erreth
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             most
             d
             part
             and
             commonly
             frameth
             all
             his
             iudgements
             and
             actions
             vnto
             right
             reason
             ,
             he
             is
             onely
             a
             right
             and
             e
             complete
             Artist
             .
             He
             that
             grosly
             or
             easily
             or
             commonly
             erreth
             and
             mistaketh
             ,
             iustly
             meriteth
             the
             name
             of
             an
             ignorant
             and
             idiot
             .
             This
             is
             the
             plaine
             and
             vncontrolled
             difference
             betweene
             the
             learned
             and
             vnlearned
             .
             It
             is
             yet
             farther
             obiected
             ,
             that
             oft
             as
             good
             happe
             smileth
             vpon
             these
             ignorants
             as
             vpon
             more
             learned
             .
             It
             is
             sometime
             true
             ,
             but
             it
             is
             wisedome
             to
             distinguish
             how
             .
             Al
             things
             that
             happen
             vnto
             the
             vnderstanding
             and
             notion
             of
             the
             mind
             (
             which
             is
             the
             guide
             of
             all
             actions
             )
             are
             either
             f
             in
             themselues
             certaine
             and
             demonstrate
             ,
             or
             necessary
             by
             consequent
             ,
             or
             probable
             and
             of
             likelihood
             ,
             or
             of
             contingence
             and
             good
             hap
             .
             In
             the
             first
             the
             truly
             learned
             cannot
             erre
             ;
             in
             the
             second
             not
             oft
             nor
             easily
             .
             But
             ,
             in
             both
             the
             vnlearned
             is
             euer
             subiect
             to
             error
             ,
             as
             vnable
             to
             distinguish
             plaine
             truth
             from
             seeming
             appearance
             .
             In
             the
             third
             the
             learned
             may
             be
             g
             deceiued
             ,
             but
             not
             so
             commonly
             and
             easily
             as
             the
             vnlearned
             .
             In
             the
             fourth
             good
             hap
             and
             blind
             fortune
             is
             indifferent
             vnto
             both
             ,
             and
             therein
             the
             foole
             hath
             
             oft
             as
             good
             hap
             as
             the
             wise
             man.
             But
             he
             that
             hath
             common
             sense
             may
             discerne
             great
             ods
             .
             The
             learned
             hath
             a
             prerogatiue
             in
             three
             parts
             vnto
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             an
             equall
             part
             with
             the
             vnlearned
             ,
             in
             the
             fourth
             .
             The
             learned
             hath
             for
             his
             light
             and
             guide
             either
             knowledge
             ,
             whereof
             is
             b
             demonstration
             ,
             and
             thereby
             are
             his
             actions
             more
             certaine
             ;
             or
             reason
             and
             iudgement
             ,
             and
             thereby
             are
             they
             more
             tried
             vnto
             right
             and
             truth
             ;
             or
             right
             probability
             and
             artificiall
             c
             coniecture
             ,
             and
             thereby
             are
             they
             more
             seldome
             found
             erring
             .
             The
             vnlearned
             wanteth
             all
             these
             helps
             ,
             h
             and
             is
             led
             onely
             by
             bold
             aduenture
             in
             hope
             of
             good
             hap
             ,
             which
             after
             long
             expectation
             is
             but
             seldome
             f
             seene
             ,
             and
             then
             soone
             gone
             .
             For
             the
             bounty
             of
             good
             hap
             is
             not
             euery
             day
             ,
             and
             when
             it
             sodainely
             like
             a
             wanton
             sheweth
             it selfe
             ,
             her
             smiles
             are
             obuious
             to
             any
             one
             ,
             and
             therein
             hath
             the
             learned
             with
             the
             vnlearned
             g
             equall
             interest
             .
             It
             breedeth
             yet
             farther
             doubt
             ,
             that
             is
             sometime
             seene
             .
             The
             Empericke
             and
             vnlearned
             Surgeon
             do
             sometimes
             cure
             where
             the
             learned
             hath
             long
             trauailled
             ,
             and
             at
             length
             hath
             giuen
             place
             vnto
             the
             disease
             .
             It
             cannot
             be
             denied
             ,
             in
             many
             desperate
             cases
             these
             men
             are
             the
             onely
             fit
             instruments
             .
             Where
             the
             learned
             foreseeing
             the
             slippery
             hope
             of
             meanes
             ,
             and
             the
             notation
             and
             staggering
             of
             nature
             ,
             doth
             make
             warie
             h
             proceeding
             (
             vnwilling
             where
             the
             caution
             is
             so
             nice
             that
             the
             action
             cannot
             be
             safe
             ,
             to
             vndertake
             so
             hard
             l
             an
             office
             )
             there
             these
             men
             (
             who
             thinke
             nothing
             hard
             though
             impossible
             )
             being
             euer
             ready
             to
             giue
             bold
             aduenture
             ,
             may
             hap
             luckily
             to
             ouersute
             the
             danger
             ,
             and
             thereby
             the
             cure
             must
             needs
             be
             a
             mighty
             d
             deliuerance
             .
             An
             ancient
             gentleman
             of
             Northamptonshire
             ,
             being
             then
             my
             patient
             ,
             related
             vnto
             me
             among
             our
             merriments
             his
             medicine
             for
             a
             continuall
             head-ach
             and
             giddinesse
             ,
             which
             in
             time
             past
             had
             long
             vexed
             him
             ,
             and
             solicited
             diuers
             good
             Physitions
             in
             vaine
             .
             By
             chance
             he
             met
             with
             an
             angry
             Surgeon
             ,
             who
             being
             by
             him
             in
             some
             words
             prouoked
             ,
             and
             finding
             the
             gentleman
             alone
             and
             far
             from
             companie
             or
             rescue
             ,
             with
             a
             staffe
             vnto
             
             the
             vtmost
             perill
             of
             life
             soundly
             brake
             his
             head
             ,
             and
             plentifully
             let
             him
             bloud
             in
             diuers
             places
             ;
             but
             life
             escaping
             ,
             he
             thereby
             deliuered
             f
             him
             of
             his
             diseases
             ,
             whereof
             more
             wise
             and
             deliberate
             counsell
             could
             neuer
             with
             much
             labour
             and
             long
             time
             free
             him
             .
             It
             was
             a
             great
             ouersight
             in
             his
             learned
             Physitions
             ,
             that
             they
             could
             not
             foresee
             ,
             nor
             would
             not
             prescribe
             so
             fortunate
             a
             remedy
             .
             Thus
             malice
             was
             as
             happy
             as
             an
             Empericks
             bold
             attempt
             ,
             yet
             herein
             was
             somewhat
             better
             ,
             that
             it
             was
             freely
             bestowed
             .
             *
             In
             like
             manner
             ,
             vnto
             another
             so
             far
             ingaged
             in
             the
             Neapolitan
             disease
             ,
             that
             discreete
             counsell
             durst
             not
             oppose
             equipollent
             remedies
             ,
             a
             woman
             (
             purposing
             to
             poyson
             him
             )
             gaue
             an
             vnknowne
             dose
             of
             rats-bane
             ;
             and
             thereby
             nature
             driuen
             vnto
             her
             vtmost
             and
             last
             shift
             ,
             setting
             open
             all
             the
             passages
             of
             his
             body
             ,
             at
             once
             with
             the
             poyson
             wholly
             expelled
             the
             former
             disease
             .
             Thus
             issueth
             wondered
             good
             out
             of
             diuellish
             and
             dangerous
             acts
             .
             I
             condemne
             not
             sharpe
             and
             extreme
             remedies
             ,
             when
             as
             extreme
             c
             neede
             requireth
             them
             ;
             neither
             do
             I
             commend
             a
             trembling
             and
             timorous
             iudgement
             in
             prescription
             and
             accommodation
             there
             of
             where
             is
             d
             needefull
             .
             But
             I
             admit
             not
             hard
             or
             sodaine
             e
             attempts
             ,
             but
             onely
             in
             extreme
             necessities
             ,
             where
             also
             the
             f
             strength
             of
             nature
             hath
             by
             the
             iudicious
             and
             learned
             bene
             carefully
             foreballanced
             betweene
             hope
             and
             hazard
             :
             without
             these
             respects
             the
             vse
             of
             hard
             and
             vehement
             remedies
             by
             the
             hands
             of
             vnlearned
             Practitioners
             are
             growne
             too
             common
             .
             It
             is
             therefore
             good
             for
             men
             to
             take
             heede
             ,
             how
             they
             too
             boldly
             walke
             in
             the
             common
             tract
             of
             Empericks
             and
             vnlearned
             ,
             whose
             waies
             oft
             troden
             grow
             slippery
             ,
             and
             therefore
             not
             varied
             proo●e
             dangerous
             .
             It
             is
             sometime
             nearest
             way
             to
             go
             out
             of
             the
             common
             way
             ,
             many
             times
             the
             fairest
             way
             ,
             and
             not
             seldome
             the
             safest
             way
             .
             For
             though
             diseases
             may
             be
             of
             easie
             note
             and
             well
             knowne
             ,
             and
             the
             vulgar
             medication
             no
             lesse
             otherwise
             apt
             vnto
             the
             necessitie
             ;
             
             yet
             may
             one
             small
             circumstance
             onely
             by
             it selfe
             making
             the
             disease
             different
             ,
             once
             escaping
             an
             vnskilfull
             and
             blind
             eye
             ,
             for
             euer
             after
             ouerrun
             the
             hopefull
             vse
             of
             any
             other
             meanes
             ,
             and
             frustrate
             the
             happinesse
             of
             after-health
             by
             better
             counsell
             .
             This
             is
             the
             reason
             that
             so
             many
             sodainely
             and
             vnexpectedly
             perish
             not
             without
             wonder
             in
             the
             vnskilfull
             practitioners
             hand
             ,
             who
             casting
             his
             eye
             vpon
             nothing
             but
             that
             which
             is
             common
             ,
             taketh
             for
             a
             great
             stranger
             what
             is
             otherwise
             ,
             and
             therefore
             not
             foreseeing
             ,
             his
             coming
             is
             not
             prepared
             to
             entertaine
             or
             intercept
             him
             with
             best
             aduantage
             ;
             nor
             giueth
             nor
             taketh
             warning
             of
             him
             ,
             and
             therefore
             is
             so
             sodainely
             oft
             surprised
             by
             him
             .
             
             I
             may
             hereof
             giue
             a
             rare
             instance
             in
             an
             esteemed
             friend
             sometimes
             a
             learned
             Diuine
             ,
             who
             by
             some
             rash
             aduice
             ,
             his
             estate
             at
             that
             time
             not
             duly
             considered
             ,
             required
             of
             an
             Apothecary
             a
             strong
             medicine
             against
             the
             stone
             (
             wherewith
             from
             his
             childhood
             he
             had
             bene
             euer
             hereditarily
             g
             molested
             .
             The
             one
             prepared
             it
             ,
             the
             other
             tooke
             it
             ,
             both
             expecting
             no
             other
             vse
             or
             consequent
             ,
             then
             that
             which
             was
             vsuall
             to
             such
             a
             medicine
             .
             But
             the
             same
             night
             that
             potion
             violently
             descending
             brake
             through
             his
             h
             bladder
             ,
             making
             therein
             two
             issues
             ,
             where
             by
             the
             vrine
             came
             from
             him
             immediately
             then
             ,
             and
             continually
             after
             by
             those
             two
             breaches
             ,
             before
             it
             could
             attaine
             the
             vsuall
             passage
             or
             conduit
             .
             Hereof
             was
             then
             witnesse
             a
             graue
             &
             learned
             gentleman
             an
             ancient
             Doctor
             of
             Physike
             vnto
             whom
             this
             patient
             did
             slie
             for
             his
             iudicious
             aduice
             in
             this
             sodaine
             mischiefe
             ,
             and
             with
             whom
             my selfe
             had
             serious
             conference
             about
             that
             accident
             ,
             both
             of
             vs
             lamenting
             his
             so
             vnhappy
             distresse
             and
             misery
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             VI.
             
          
           
             Apothecaries
             .
          
           
             HERE
             so
             faire
             occasion
             offering
             their
             memory
             ,
             we
             may
             not
             forget
             our
             Apothecaries
             .
             Among
             them
             also
             some
             to
             do
             a
             friend
             an
             vnlicenced
             friendship
             ,
             or
             to
             keepe
             their
             wares
             in
             motion
             for
             feare
             of
             corruption
             ,
             will
             haply
             sometimes
             offer
             a
             casuall
             good
             turne
             ,
             to
             any
             that
             like
             the
             venture
             .
             I
             must
             needs
             say
             for
             the
             priuiledge
             of
             Apothecaries
             ,
             that
             if
             any
             may
             haue
             prerogatiue
             to
             be
             Physitions
             ,
             by
             the
             excellence
             and
             rare
             choice
             of
             medicines
             ,
             it
             is
             most
             proper
             vnto
             them
             ;
             who
             haue
             with
             them
             registred
             and
             inrolled
             the
             priuie
             choice
             ,
             trust
             and
             command
             of
             all
             the
             best
             remedies
             ,
             and
             haue
             the
             best
             light
             to
             gesse
             at
             their
             best
             vse
             .
             Nay
             I
             may
             commend
             them
             farther
             ;
             that
             for
             the
             excellent
             preparation
             and
             knowledge
             of
             medicines
             they
             sometimes
             may
             excell
             some
             Physitions
             themselues
             :
             but
             aboue
             and
             beyond
             the
             preparation
             ,
             the
             right
             and
             iudicious
             dispensation
             is
             truly
             worthy
             ,
             commanding
             and
             directing
             their
             safe
             and
             prudent
             vse
             .
             This
             skill
             requireth
             an
             vnderstanding
             able
             to
             raise
             itselfe
             aboue
             both
             the
             medicine
             and
             the
             g
             maker
             ,
             vnto
             the
             great
             Maker
             of
             them
             both
             ,
             and
             from
             his
             generall
             h
             decree
             and
             counsell
             in
             the
             administration
             of
             all
             things
             in
             nature
             ,
             to
             leuie
             and
             limite
             circumstances
             ,
             i
             proportion
             ,
             time
             ,
             place
             ,
             quantity
             and
             quality
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             manifold
             seuerall
             purposes
             and
             infinite
             vses
             for
             the
             preseruation
             ,
             conseruation
             ,
             and
             continuance
             of
             health
             and
             life
             vnto
             mankind
             .
             And
             herein
             how
             far
             it
             behoueth
             the
             erected
             mind
             of
             higher
             contemplation
             ,
             to
             exalt
             it selfe
             in
             consultation
             aboue
             the
             elementary
             consideration
             and
             composition
             of
             a
             medicine
             and
             the
             vulgar
             and
             common
             sense
             ,
             the
             continuall
             exquisite
             vse
             and
             exercise
             of
             the
             most
             incomparable
             prudence
             and
             learning
             in
             the
             ordinary
             and
             daily
             difficulties
             that
             befall
             the
             health
             ,
             do
             plainely
             proue
             and
             demonstrate
             .
             It
             is
             not
             the
             medicine
             
             it selfe
             ,
             but
             the
             iudgement
             and
             knowledge
             of
             the
             learned
             ,
             and
             right
             accommodation
             annexed
             vnto
             the
             wholesome
             medicine
             ,
             that
             addeth
             vnto
             it
             a
             worth
             aboue
             it selfe
             ;
             whereby
             it
             doth
             far
             exceede
             it selfe
             in
             excellency
             ,
             in
             variety
             of
             greater
             good
             ,
             in
             distinction
             of
             more
             proper
             vse
             ,
             according
             to
             art
             and
             reason
             thereto
             conducting
             it
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             life
             of
             euery
             application
             and
             accommodation
             in
             all
             things
             .
             Hence
             euen
             the
             greatest
             clerkes
             with
             this
             sufficiency
             prouided
             ,
             haue
             not
             blushed
             to
             borrow
             or
             learne
             a
             good
             medicine
             at
             a
             simple
             and
             vulgar
             e
             hand
             ,
             yea
             from
             fooles
             and
             brute
             beasts
             ,
             in
             their
             owne
             more
             excellent
             adaptation
             as
             the
             soule
             vnto
             the
             body
             ,
             conferring
             the
             full
             and
             true
             perfection
             .
             The
             Ancients
             themselues
             haue
             not
             shamed
             so
             to
             do
             ,
             as
             Galen
             in
             diuers
             places
             professeth
             of
             himselfe
             .
             Vnto
             Apothecaries
             therefore
             that
             faithfully
             and
             truly
             apply
             themselues
             and
             their
             whole
             indeauor
             ,
             that
             haue
             tried
             and
             experienced
             skill
             ,
             and
             vse
             faithfull
             industrie
             in
             fitting
             wholesome
             and
             incorrupt
             remedies
             to
             attend
             each
             honest
             need
             and
             necessity
             without
             fucation
             ,
             adulteration
             or
             deceit
             ,
             and
             containe
             themselues
             within
             themselues
             ,
             no
             man
             can
             deny
             a
             worthy
             esteeme
             both
             in
             priuate
             thoughts
             and
             publike
             estimate
             ;
             but
             if
             the
             pride
             and
             maister-ship
             of
             the
             medicine
             stirre
             once
             in
             them
             the
             ambition
             of
             medication
             ,
             as
             in
             the
             former
             men
             commēd
             them
             ,
             so
             in
             the
             second
             they
             shall
             iustly
             condemne
             them
             :
             and
             as
             in
             the
             one
             safely
             vse
             them
             ,
             so
             in
             the
             other
             with
             safe
             discretion
             refuse
             them
             ,
             fearing
             lest
             with
             Salomons
             fly
             being
             taken
             in
             the
             Apothecaries
             boxe
             ,
             they
             also
             in
             like
             manner
             make
             a
             stinke
             of
             the
             medicine
             ,
             
             &
             an
             end
             of
             themselues
             .
             Valleriola
             mentioneth
             an
             Apothecary
             who
             with
             the
             imprudent
             vse
             of
             quicksiluer
             poysoned
             himselfe
             .
             I
             knew
             sometime
             an
             honest
             and
             approued
             good
             Apothecary
             in
             Warwickshire
             ,
             who
             imitating
             a
             prescription
             of
             precipitate
             against
             an
             inueterate
             disease
             which
             he
             supposed
             in
             himselfe
             ,
             exulcerated
             his
             guts
             ,
             and
             therefore
             died
             .
             These
             experiments
             in
             other
             then
             themselues
             had
             bene
             bloudy
             and
             vnhonest
             ,
             and
             in
             themselues
             rather
             then
             in
             other
             argue
             their
             strong
             confidence
             ,
             (
             which
             
             therefore
             might
             easily
             seduce
             them
             to
             be
             in
             time
             bold
             with
             others
             .
             )
             Example
             and
             imitation
             (
             which
             are
             the
             rules
             of
             an
             Apothecaries
             practise
             )
             are
             but
             patterns
             of
             anothers
             sufficiencie
             .
             Sufficience
             therfore
             being
             not
             their
             owne
             ,
             it
             is
             sufficient
             to
             put
             them
             in
             mind
             of
             their
             owne
             .
             It
             is
             good
             for
             euery
             one
             to
             be
             contented
             and
             contained
             within
             his
             owne
             lists
             ,
             and
             of
             his
             owne
             store
             with
             liberality
             to
             lend
             ,
             and
             of
             anothers
             with
             loue
             and
             licence
             to
             borrow
             .
             This
             vpholdeth
             societies
             and
             good
             orders
             in
             common
             weales
             ,
             maintaineth
             mutuall
             neighbourhood
             and
             humanity
             ,
             friendly
             and
             iust
             commerce
             with
             loue
             and
             loyall
             reciprocation
             ,
             and
             distribution
             of
             euery
             right
             to
             euery
             owner
             ,
             with
             good
             to
             the
             generall
             and
             common
             ,
             and
             without
             hurt
             to
             euery
             priuate
             and
             particular
             .
             I
             say
             nothing
             of
             banckrupt
             Apothecaries
             ,
             who
             hauing
             left
             their
             owne
             standing
             become
             walking
             merchants
             ,
             and
             with
             a
             few
             pedlarie
             wares
             remaining
             keepe
             shop
             in
             their
             owne
             hose
             ,
             or
             else
             in
             their
             guts
             ,
             who
             (
             wanting
             other
             vse
             )
             imagine
             them
             sufficiēt
             to
             make
             cleane
             the
             kitchin
             .
             Let
             thē
             that
             desire
             their
             meate
             in
             the
             stomacke
             should
             long
             finde
             good
             cookerie
             ,
             take
             heede
             who
             put
             herbs
             into
             the
             pot
             .
             It
             hath
             bene
             required
             and
             by
             some
             imposed
             ,
             that
             a
             Physition
             should
             be
             both
             Surgeon
             and
             Apothecary
             himselfe
             .
             It
             is
             easily
             decided
             .
             In
             iudgement
             ,
             skill
             ,
             knowledge
             ,
             and
             ability
             of
             direction
             ,
             it
             is
             very
             requisite
             and
             necessary
             ,
             and
             the
             contrary
             is
             not
             tollerable
             in
             a
             true
             architect
             :
             but
             euery
             particular
             execution
             e
             or
             manuall
             paines
             and
             trauell
             is
             neuer
             vniustly
             ,
             sometime
             necessarily
             ,
             and
             oft
             more
             conueniently
             distributed
             and
             deuided
             vnto
             others
             ,
             whose
             vicissitude
             ,
             assistance
             ,
             and
             oft
             more
             ready
             handling
             thereof
             ,
             is
             as
             sufficient
             ,
             nothing
             inferiour
             ,
             yea
             for
             operary
             proofe
             and
             cunning
             handworke
             far
             without
             enuy
             f
             superior
             ,
             because
             the
             maine
             and
             continuall
             exercise
             therein
             ,
             doth
             therein
             also
             make
             the
             meaner
             iudgement
             better
             apted
             and
             more
             prompt
             .
             Galen
             indeed
             himselfe
             in
             necessity
             ,
             &
             want
             of
             other
             (
             whose
             better
             and
             more
             speciall
             practise
             and
             exercise
             therein
             might
             make
             it
             their
             more
             proper
             performance
             )
             put
             his
             owne
             hand
             vnto
             g
             chirurgie
             :
             but
             when
             
             he
             found
             it
             another
             distinct
             office
             ,
             as
             an
             ease
             vnto
             himselfe
             and
             a
             commodious
             liberty
             &
             inlarged
             helpe
             to
             his
             other
             imploiments
             ,
             studies
             and
             care
             ,
             he
             thereunto
             referred
             hand-operation
             ,
             though
             euer
             haply
             conferred
             his
             mind
             &
             iudgement
             .
             In
             like
             maner
             Hippocrates
             refuseth
             by
             b
             oath
             to
             meddle
             in
             Chirurgerie
             ,
             &
             expresly
             in
             the
             extraction
             of
             the
             stone
             of
             the
             bladder
             ,
             and
             leaueth
             it
             vnto
             those
             that
             are
             therein
             exercised
             :
             The
             fewer
             offices
             the
             lesse
             distraction
             ,
             &
             where
             lesse
             distraction
             ,
             there
             is
             the
             better
             bent
             vnto
             the
             more
             maine
             and
             proper
             scope
             .
             Where
             therefore
             with
             as
             sufficient
             supply
             by
             others
             ,
             the
             suffection
             or
             deputation
             may
             ease
             of
             a
             burthen
             (
             as
             indifferently
             else
             were
             imposed
             )
             there
             (
             the
             businesse
             lesse
             ,
             and
             the
             diligence
             and
             incumbence
             equall
             )
             the
             remaining
             taske
             must
             needes
             be
             completely
             and
             absolutely
             attended
             &
             perfected
             .
             Concerning
             the
             Apothecarie
             included
             in
             the
             Physition
             :
             indeed
             the
             first
             Ancients
             were
             Apothecaries
             vnto
             themselues
             ,
             because
             in
             themselues
             onely
             was
             then
             newly
             sprouting
             in
             the
             infancie
             ,
             the
             inchoation
             of
             that
             skill
             ,
             and
             therefore
             as
             yet
             they
             could
             not
             c
             communicate
             perfection
             vnto
             others
             .
             But
             now
             time
             and
             age
             haue
             accomplished
             it
             ,
             the
             Physitions
             eye
             and
             skill
             hath
             vsed
             anothers
             hand
             both
             as
             a
             needfull
             and
             requisite
             d
             helpe
             in
             the
             mechanicall
             ministery
             ,
             and
             also
             as
             an
             aduantage
             and
             ease
             to
             the
             more
             necessary
             ,
             laborious
             ,
             and
             studious
             trauels
             of
             his
             mind
             .
             In
             ordinarie
             dispatches
             therfore
             it
             is
             vnauoidably
             necessary
             an
             Apothecarie
             be
             euer
             at
             hand
             ,
             as
             faithfull
             as
             his
             owne
             right
             hand
             ,
             and
             in
             extraordinarie
             the
             Physitions
             owne
             heart
             must
             onely
             trust
             his
             owne
             hand
             ,
             and
             his
             owne
             eye
             witnesse
             their
             consent
             .
             This
             equitie
             may
             satisfie
             curiositie
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             VII
             .
          
           
             Of
             Practisers
             by
             Spels
             .
          
           
             NOw
             to
             leaue
             both
             Surgeon
             and
             Apothecarie
             ,
             the
             opposition
             against
             the
             vse
             or
             need
             of
             either
             ,
             doth
             put
             in
             mind
             in
             the
             next
             place
             not
             to
             forget
             those
             ,
             who
             professe
             the
             performances
             ,
             vses
             ,
             and
             end
             both
             of
             Surgeon
             &
             Apothecary
             ,
             yea
             and
             Physition
             himselfe
             without
             their
             helpe
             or
             need
             :
             such
             are
             such
             as
             cure
             by
             spels
             and
             words
             .
             If
             men
             beleeue
             as
             reason
             would
             and
             as
             reasonable
             men
             should
             (
             for
             men
             are
             no
             c
             men
             if
             vnreasonable
             )
             of
             any
             effects
             from
             spels
             ,
             among
             the
             wise
             is
             no
             true
             reason
             or
             cause
             ,
             and
             without
             reason
             can
             be
             no
             right
             perswasion
             .
             Betweene
             a
             true
             cause
             and
             his
             d
             proper
             effect
             ,
             there
             is
             an
             immediate
             necessity
             ;
             betweene
             a
             cause
             by
             accident
             and
             his
             effect
             ,
             there
             is
             a
             e
             mediate
             consequution
             :
             but
             this
             cause
             being
             onely
             ni
             opinion
             ,
             can
             be
             no
             more
             then
             opinion
             ,
             and
             in
             opinion
             is
             no
             truth
             .
             Some
             finding
             spels
             to
             do
             no
             good
             ,
             obiect
             as
             a
             good
             ,
             they
             do
             no
             hurt
             .
             This
             hurt
             I
             am
             assured
             they
             do
             ;
             while
             men
             haue
             gaped
             after
             such
             shadowes
             ,
             they
             oft
             in
             the
             meane
             season
             haue
             lost
             the
             substance
             ,
             their
             life
             and
             health
             :
             which
             while
             due
             season
             offered
             vnto
             them
             that
             had
             learned
             to
             know
             oportunitie
             ,
             bad
             scholers
             were
             still
             at
             spelling
             schoole
             .
             To
             speak
             more
             seriously
             of
             such
             a
             toy
             :
             If
             the
             faithfull
             and
             deuout
             prayer
             of
             holy
             men
             (
             vnto
             which
             the
             promise
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             blessings
             of
             men
             are
             annexed
             )
             hath
             no
             such
             assurance
             or
             successe
             of
             necessarie
             consequent
             ,
             without
             laborious
             industry
             and
             the
             vse
             of
             good
             meanes
             ,
             how
             can
             religion
             g
             or
             reason
             suffer
             men
             that
             are
             not
             voyd
             of
             both
             ,
             to
             giue
             such
             impious
             credite
             vnto
             an
             vnsignificant
             and
             senslesse
             .
             h
             mumbling
             of
             idle
             words
             ,
             contrarie
             to
             reason
             ,
             without
             president
             of
             any
             truly
             wise
             i
             or
             learned
             ,
             and
             iustly
             suspected
             of
             all
             sensible
             men
             ?
             It
             shall
             be
             no
             error
             to
             insert
             a
             merrie
             historie
             of
             an
             approued
             famous
             spell
             for
             sore
             eyes
             .
             By
             many
             honest
             
             testimonies
             ,
             it
             was
             a
             long
             time
             worne
             as
             a
             iewell
             about
             many
             necks
             ,
             written
             in
             paper
             ,
             and
             inclosed
             in
             silke
             ,
             neuer
             failing
             to
             do
             soueraigne
             good
             when
             all
             other
             helps
             were
             helplesse
             .
             No
             sight
             might
             dare
             to
             reade
             or
             open
             .
             At
             length
             a
             curious
             mind
             while
             the
             patient
             slept
             ,
             by
             stealth
             ripped
             open
             the
             mystical
             couer
             ,
             and
             found
             the
             powerful
             characters
             Latin
             ,
             which
             Englished
             were
             these
             :
             The
             b
             diuell
             digge
             out
             thine
             eyes
             ,
             and
             fill
             vp
             their
             holes
             with
             his
             dung
             .
             Words
             without
             meaning
             are
             nothing
             ,
             and
             yet
             so
             here
             are
             best
             .
             Of
             nothing
             can
             come
             nothing
             (
             much
             lesse
             good
             :
             )
             yet
             so
             c
             it
             was
             ,
             and
             yet
             it
             was
             d
             not
             so
             )
             oathes
             and
             testimonies
             auouching
             the
             one
             religion
             ,
             &
             truth
             e
             denying
             the
             othes
             .
             Thus
             ofttimes
             things
             haply
             begun
             in
             sport
             and
             ieast
             ,
             with
             light
             minds
             ,
             by
             vaine
             opinion
             grow
             to
             sooth
             and
             earnest
             .
             It
             is
             strange
             in
             these
             daies
             to
             behold
             how
             this
             follie
             doth
             laugh
             euen
             wise
             men
             to
             scorne
             ,
             while
             their
             vnreasonable
             parts
             of
             imagination
             and
             fancie
             ,
             so
             iuggle
             with
             their
             iudgements
             and
             vnderstanding
             ,
             that
             they
             can
             scarce
             containe
             themselues
             from
             beleeuing
             and
             consulting
             with
             such
             ridiculous
             folly
             .
             Thus
             able
             is
             fancie
             ,
             not
             onely
             to
             deceiue
             sense
             ,
             but
             to
             obscure
             our
             reason
             .
             If
             there
             be
             any
             good
             or
             vse
             vnto
             the
             health
             by
             spels
             ,
             they
             haue
             that
             prerogatiue
             by
             accident
             ,
             and
             by
             the
             power
             and
             vertue
             of
             f
             fancie
             ;
             wherein
             is
             neither
             certaintie
             nor
             continuance
             .
             Fancie
             ,
             according
             vnto
             the
             nature
             thereof
             ,
             can
             seldome
             be
             long
             fixed
             vpon
             any
             thing
             ;
             because
             naturally
             being
             euer
             full
             of
             fiction
             ,
             it
             must
             needs
             easily
             and
             continually
             be
             g
             transported
             .
             Fancie
             therefore
             can
             be
             no
             ordinarie
             or
             common
             remedie
             ,
             being
             but
             rarely
             fixedly
             detained
             ;
             and
             where
             it
             is
             most
             earnestly
             bent
             ,
             yet
             hardly
             of
             long
             continuance
             .
             If
             fancie
             then
             be
             the
             foundation
             whereupon
             buildeth
             the
             good
             of
             spels
             ,
             spels
             must
             needs
             be
             as
             fancies
             are
             ,
             vncertaine
             and
             h
             vaine
             :
             so
             must
             also
             by
             consequent
             be
             their
             vse
             and
             helpe
             ,
             and
             no
             lesse
             all
             they
             that
             trust
             vnto
             them
             .
             I
             speake
             not
             of
             inchanted
             spels
             ,
             but
             of
             that
             superstitious
             babling
             ,
             by
             tradition
             of
             idle
             words
             and
             sentences
             ,
             which
             all
             that
             haue
             sense
             ,
             know
             to
             be
             voide
             of
             sense
             ,
             as
             the
             other
             
             diuellish
             .
             The
             one
             (
             if
             there
             be
             no
             remedie
             )
             we
             must
             permit
             vnto
             fooles
             ,
             in
             the
             other
             we
             cannot
             denie
             the
             diuell
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             VIII
             .
          
           
             The
             explication
             of
             the
             true
             discouerie
             of
             Witchcraft
             in
             the
             sicke
             ,
             together
             with
             many
             and
             wondered
             instances
             in
             that
             kind
             .
          
           
             MAny
             things
             of
             great
             power
             and
             wonder
             ,
             
             aboue
             reason
             and
             beyond
             the
             power
             of
             nature
             ,
             haue
             bene
             effected
             through
             the
             imprecation
             ,
             stimulation
             and
             ministerie
             of
             wicked
             men
             the
             associates
             of
             diuels
             ,
             whose
             commerce
             with
             spirits
             hath
             bene
             oft
             plaine
             and
             manifest
             .
             But
             it
             is
             good
             before
             we
             enter
             into
             the
             consideration
             thereof
             ,
             that
             we
             be
             warie
             and
             cautelously
             wise
             ,
             how
             we
             make
             a
             true
             difference
             betweene
             a
             true
             worke
             of
             the
             diuell
             ,
             and
             the
             strange
             likenesse
             which
             phantasmes
             (
             oft
             countenanced
             by
             casualties
             and
             euents
             )
             strongly
             worke
             in
             the
             opinion
             and
             conceit
             .
             For
             as
             the
             machinations
             of
             spirits
             are
             certainly
             oft
             inserted
             into
             the
             actions
             of
             men
             ;
             
             so
             by
             the
             iuglings
             of
             the
             imaginarie
             ,
             are
             so
             liuely
             framed
             resemblances
             and
             counterfets
             of
             them
             oft
             times
             ,
             that
             they
             can
             hardly
             be
             distinguished
             .
             That
             it
             may
             therefore
             the
             better
             first
             appeare
             what
             fancie
             and
             imagination
             are
             able
             to
             do
             ,
             I
             will
             not
             here
             omit
             an
             historie
             worth
             good
             eare
             :
             Anno
             1607.
             a
             Parsons
             wife
             of
             Northhamptonshire
             ,
             dwelling
             within
             three
             miles
             of
             the
             towne
             ,
             came
             vnto
             a
             Physition
             ,
             complaining
             of
             a
             tumor
             in
             one
             of
             her
             breasts
             .
             He
             demanded
             her
             among
             many
             other
             things
             concerning
             the
             Sciatica
             ,
             which
             he
             a
             coniectured
             to
             vexe
             her
             .
             She
             denied
             any
             acquaintance
             or
             notion
             thereof
             in
             all
             her
             former
             life
             .
             The
             same
             night
             (
             being
             returned
             home
             )
             sodainly
             about
             midnight
             the
             Sciatica
             seized
             painfully
             and
             grieuously
             vpon
             her
             .
             Some
             few
             daies
             after
             ,
             it
             happened
             another
             of
             her
             neighbours
             came
             also
             vnto
             the
             same
             Physition
             ,
             whom
             (
             beside
             the
             disease
             which
             she
             her selfe
             made
             
             knowne
             )
             he
             guessed
             to
             be
             troubled
             with
             the
             b
             crampe
             ,
             and
             cursorily
             questioned
             her
             thereof
             .
             She
             neuer
             before
             sensibly
             knowing
             any
             such
             paine
             ,
             after
             her
             returne
             also
             that
             night
             suffered
             thereby
             exceeding
             torment
             .
             These
             two
             accidents
             compared
             together
             by
             the
             first
             partie
             ,
             (
             the
             one
             in
             her selfe
             ,
             and
             the
             other
             in
             her
             neighbour
             )
             and
             the
             apprehension
             being
             whet
             by
             her
             exceeding
             paine
             continued
             ,
             caused
             in
             her
             a
             strong
             and
             resolute
             opinion
             of
             bewitching
             ,
             which
             she
             presently
             vnremoueably
             imputed
             vnto
             the
             Physition
             .
             Her
             outcries
             and
             impatience
             through
             her
             paine
             ,
             made
             such
             forcible
             impression
             in
             her
             husband
             ,
             that
             to
             satisfie
             his
             wiues
             vnreasonable
             importunacie
             ,
             he
             was
             contented
             to
             come
             vnto
             the
             Physition
             from
             her
             to
             expostulate
             .
             He
             ,
             before
             he
             could
             vtter
             his
             message
             ,
             blushing
             at
             the
             folly
             ,
             and
             yet
             desirous
             to
             satisfie
             his
             wiues
             iniunction
             ,
             because
             she
             would
             not
             otherwise
             giue
             him
             rest
             ,
             at
             length
             related
             vnto
             him
             the
             cause
             of
             his
             coming
             ,
             desiring
             him
             for
             his
             sake
             (
             being
             much
             ashamed
             thereof
             )
             to
             conceale
             the
             folly
             of
             his
             wife
             .
             This
             done
             ,
             he
             returned
             home
             ,
             and
             found
             his
             wife
             nothing
             better
             ,
             but
             assuring
             her selfe
             and
             him
             ,
             that
             if
             he
             would
             but
             once
             more
             come
             vnto
             the
             Physition
             ,
             and
             (
             as
             I
             coniecture
             )
             gaine
             him
             to
             forgiue
             her
             ,
             she
             should
             presently
             be
             well
             .
             Accordingly
             the
             next
             day
             he
             came
             vnto
             him
             ,
             and
             (
             then
             concealing
             the
             reason
             and
             cause
             of
             his
             coming
             )
             desired
             him
             to
             forgiue
             and
             pardon
             his
             wife
             .
             This
             easily
             granted
             (
             as
             such
             a
             toy
             )
             he
             presently
             demanded
             the
             houre
             of
             the
             day
             ,
             which
             instantly
             the
             clocke
             gaue
             two
             ,
             being
             afternoone
             .
             He
             hastened
             homeward
             ,
             and
             before
             he
             could
             speake
             vnto
             his
             wife
             ,
             she
             ioyously
             entertained
             him
             ,
             and
             with
             preuention
             told
             him
             that
             she
             was
             perfectly
             well
             ,
             and
             that
             iust
             at
             c
             two
             of
             the
             clock
             her
             paine
             left
             her
             ,
             which
             
             she
             (
             it
             seemed
             )
             imagined
             (
             as
             it
             also
             hapned
             )
             to
             haue
             bene
             the
             same
             time
             and
             moment
             that
             the
             Physition
             had
             giuen
             her
             desired
             pardon
             .
             The
             next
             morning
             her
             husband
             did
             write
             vnto
             him
             ,
             discouering
             with
             this
             newes
             the
             reason
             of
             his
             last
             coming
             vnto
             him
             the
             day
             before
             ,
             together
             with
             this
             strange
             euent
             following
             it
             .
             Within
             halfe
             a
             yeare
             after
             ,
             she
             fell
             sicke
             againe
             ,
             and
             d
             died
             .
             This
             strong
             imagination
             ,
             with
             this
             strange
             euent
             ,
             might
             haue
             intangled
             many
             a
             poore
             spinster
             in
             a
             thicker
             string
             then
             her
             cunning
             could
             vntwist
             ,
             to
             saue
             the
             cracking
             of
             her
             neck
             .
             But
             if
             mē
             wold
             more
             duly
             oft
             examine
             and
             weigh
             these
             cases
             ,
             they
             shall
             many
             times
             find
             the
             Witch
             in
             a
             foolish
             sconce
             ;
             and
             greater
             and
             more
             dangerous
             are
             the
             bewitchings
             of
             a
             mans
             owne
             folly
             ,
             and
             more
             effectuall
             oft
             times
             vnto
             his
             owne
             hurt
             and
             others
             ,
             then
             any
             witch
             ,
             yea
             or
             diuell
             whatsoeuer
             .
             Without
             doubt
             chance
             may
             flatter
             and
             countenance
             the
             imagination
             with
             vnwonted
             ,
             yea
             and
             iustly
             wondered
             euents
             ,
             and
             yet
             is
             that
             no
             demonstration
             of
             ought
             about
             nature
             or
             reason
             .
             Casualtie
             doth
             so
             apt
             oft
             times
             consequences
             vnto
             dreames
             ,
             as
             if
             there
             were
             some
             secret
             power
             or
             influence
             in
             them
             proceeding
             vnto
             such
             effects
             ,
             yet
             is
             it
             no
             proof
             of
             truth
             or
             trust
             in
             them
             .
             Women
             oft
             times
             out
             of
             their
             e
             sleepes
             haue
             foreseene
             and
             foretold
             many
             things
             ,
             which
             according
             to
             time
             and
             place
             haue
             iustly
             come
             to
             passe
             ,
             but
             this
             doth
             make
             their
             dreames
             no
             oracles
             .
             Many
             vain
             mē
             out
             of
             the
             presage
             of
             their
             owne
             minds
             ,
             haue
             confidently
             made
             prediction
             of
             such
             things
             as
             haue
             assuredly
             hapned
             ,
             yet
             is
             this
             no
             inducement
             to
             take
             them
             for
             prophets
             .
             In
             like
             maner
             some
             that
             
             haue
             possessed
             themselues
             with
             witchcraft
             ,
             and
             the
             opinion
             thereof
             ,
             haue
             seemed
             to
             know
             things
             aboue
             their
             knowledge
             ,
             and
             that
             knowledge
             aboue
             and
             beyond
             all
             reason
             hath
             bene
             true
             :
             yet
             neither
             is
             this
             any
             dispossession
             of
             themselues
             of
             this
             spirit
             of
             folly
             ,
             nor
             no
             iust
             proofe
             or
             accusation
             of
             any
             one
             to
             be
             a
             witch
             .
             I
             cannot
             therfore
             take
             it
             for
             an
             ingenuous
             course
             ,
             vpō
             such
             grounds
             to
             draw
             simple
             people
             vnto
             confusion
             .
             It
             is
             an
             easie
             matter
             for
             any
             impression
             to
             worke
             it selfe
             into
             the
             imagination
             of
             a
             vaine
             mind
             .
             And
             why
             may
             it
             not
             seeme
             as
             easie
             for
             the
             diuell
             who
             is
             the
             author
             of
             lying
             d
             wonders
             ,
             to
             credite
             it
             with
             wonderfull
             euents
             aboue
             the
             weake
             eye
             of
             our
             reason
             ?
             Therefore
             ineptly
             and
             iniuriously
             may
             the
             illusion
             of
             fancie
             ,
             and
             the
             practise
             of
             the
             diuell
             therewith
             ioyned
             ,
             be
             made
             snares
             for
             the
             innocent
             ,
             whose
             destruction
             is
             his
             intention
             who
             reioyceth
             in
             the
             perdition
             of
             mankind
             .
             Neither
             can
             I
             beleeue
             (
             I
             speake
             it
             with
             reuerence
             vnto
             grauer
             iudgements
             )
             that
             the
             forced
             f
             coming
             of
             men
             or
             women
             to
             the
             burning
             of
             bewitched
             cattell
             ,
             or
             to
             the
             burning
             of
             the
             dung
             or
             vrine
             of
             such
             as
             are
             bewitched
             ,
             or
             floating
             of
             bodies
             aboue
             the
             water
             ,
             or
             the
             like
             ,
             are
             any
             trial
             of
             a
             witch
             .
             I
             see
             no
             reason
             why
             I
             may
             not
             thinke
             ,
             that
             the
             diuell
             by
             the
             permission
             of
             God
             ,
             hath
             power
             indifferently
             to
             worke
             these
             effects
             vpon
             any
             man
             ,
             whether
             a
             witch
             or
             no.
             For
             if
             he
             had
             power
             for
             his
             owne
             malitious
             purpose
             vpon
             the
             bodie
             of
             our
             blessed
             Sauiour
             ,
             to
             transport
             it
             through
             the
             aire
             ,
             and
             to
             set
             it
             vpon
             a
             pinnacle
             of
             the
             temple
             ;
             and
             vpon
             the
             body
             of
             righteous
             Iob
             ,
             with
             hope
             and
             desire
             of
             his
             ouerthrow
             :
             by
             what
             prerogatiue
             dare
             any
             other
             man
             whatsoeuer
             presume
             to
             free
             himselfe
             from
             his
             power
             ,
             but
             by
             a
             speciall
             grace
             and
             mercie
             of
             God
             ?
             Or
             why
             is
             it
             any
             imputation
             vnto
             any
             man
             to
             be
             knowne
             to
             be
             subiect
             thereto
             ,
             since
             God
             doth
             permit
             it
             in
             diuers
             his
             deare
             g
             seruants
             ?
             If
             men
             shall
             grant
             the
             diuels
             exercising
             his
             power
             vpon
             any
             man
             a
             sufficient
             euidence
             to
             conuince
             him
             a
             witch
             ,
             g
             there
             shall
             thereby
             be
             allowed
             vnto
             the
             diuell
             a
             large
             h
             commission
             ,
             which
             his
             malice
             will
             easily
             extend
             beyond
             the
             latitude
             :
             
             as
             by
             right
             obseruation
             of
             many
             learned
             in
             their
             own
             experiences
             hath
             ben●
             and
             may
             be
             oft
             truly
             noted
             .
             I
             do
             not
             deny
             nor
             patronage
             witches
             or
             witchcraft
             ,
             but
             wish
             that
             the
             proofes
             and
             triall
             thereof
             may
             be
             more
             carefully
             and
             with
             better
             circumspection
             viewed
             and
             considered
             :
             that
             rash
             determination
             beguile
             not
             the
             wise
             ,
             nor
             condemne
             the
             innocent
             ,
             vpon
             whom
             the
             diuell
             can
             with
             more
             nimblenesse
             and
             agilitie
             transferre
             his
             owne
             euill
             workes
             ,
             then
             either
             they
             can
             auoide
             it
             ,
             or
             others
             easily
             espie
             it
             .
             Euerie
             thing
             whereof
             euerie
             man
             cannot
             giue
             a
             reason
             ,
             is
             not
             therefore
             a
             miracle
             .
             There
             are
             many
             things
             whereof
             few
             c
             men
             ,
             many
             whereof
             no
             man
             can
             attaine
             the
             reason
             ,
             yet
             euerie
             d
             man
             knoweth
             to
             haue
             a
             reason
             in
             nature
             .
             Behold
             a
             toy
             for
             an
             example
             .
             There
             is
             seene
             in
             the
             hand
             of
             a
             iugler
             a
             thing
             as
             it
             is
             indeed
             ;
             sodainly
             in
             a
             moment
             without
             perceptible
             motion
             ,
             it
             is
             againe
             seene
             e
             as
             it
             is
             not
             .
             That
             there
             is
             a
             cause
             of
             the
             change
             who
             knoweth
             not
             ?
             what
             it
             is
             ,
             who
             knoweth
             except
             to
             whom
             it
             hath
             bene
             made
             known
             ?
             With
             great
             wonder
             and
             f
             admiration
             haue
             diuers
             in
             this
             age
             shewed
             mercenarie
             spectacles
             ,
             incredible
             g
             euen
             vnto
             the
             beholding
             eye
             ,
             and
             yet
             in
             the
             actors
             by
             meane
             vnderstandings
             deprehended
             to
             be
             nothing
             but
             agilitie
             and
             nimble
             cunning
             ,
             by
             continuall
             practise
             and
             custome
             working
             desperatenesse
             into
             facilitie
             .
             Thus
             with
             common
             wonder
             haue
             some
             walked
             and
             danced
             voon
             cords
             .
             Some
             are
             written
             to
             haue
             leaped
             and
             danced
             vpon
             the
             edges
             of
             sharp
             swords
             without
             hurt
             vnto
             thēselues
             ,
             &
             with
             pleasure
             vnto
             the
             beholders
             .
             Some
             haue
             credibly
             bene
             supposed
             to
             deuoure
             daggers
             and
             other
             sharpe
             and
             dangerous
             weapons
             .
             That
             naturally
             the
             loadstone
             draweth
             iron
             the
             meanest
             know
             :
             the
             reasō
             or
             cause
             the
             wisest
             neuer
             knew
             .
             There
             are
             wonders
             in
             nature
             ,
             &
             wonders
             aboue
             nature
             ;
             these
             are
             subtilties
             ,
             the
             other
             miracles
             .
             That
             fire
             and
             aire
             ,
             contrary
             to
             their
             owne
             a
             particular
             nature
             of
             the
             owne
             accord
             descend
             ,
             
             and
             waters
             ascend
             :
             that
             the
             heauie
             mettals
             of
             iron
             and
             lead
             ,
             contrary
             to
             their
             owne
             naturall
             motion
             ,
             should
             with
             such
             admirable
             swiftnesse
             ,
             in
             so
             short
             a
             b
             moment
             passe
             so
             large
             a
             distance
             through
             the
             aire
             ,
             from
             a
             small
             flash
             of
             a
             little
             flame
             :
             these
             and
             such
             like
             are
             subtilties
             ,
             because
             the
             cause
             and
             reason
             thereof
             doth
             vnfold
             it selfe
             to
             few
             ,
             or
             not
             to
             all
             ,
             yet
             vnto
             the
             learned
             .
             That
             the
             Sunne
             should
             stand
             still
             in
             the
             firmament
             ,
             the
             Moone
             be
             ecclipsed
             in
             no
             interposition
             ,
             the
             bodies
             of
             men
             should
             flie
             in
             the
             aire
             ,
             or
             walke
             vpon
             the
             face
             of
             the
             water
             ;
             these
             and
             the
             like
             are
             miracles
             ,
             because
             hereof
             is
             neither
             power
             nor
             reason
             in
             nature
             .
             And
             as
             in
             the
             former
             to
             be
             easily
             drawne
             to
             admiration
             ,
             and
             to
             ascribe
             naturall
             effects
             to
             supernaturall
             causes
             ,
             is
             grosse
             ignorance
             ,
             so
             in
             the
             latter
             to
             enquire
             naturall
             causes
             in
             d
             supernaturall
             effects
             ,
             is
             profane
             curiositie
             .
             In
             both
             these
             extremes
             men
             too
             commonly
             erre
             ,
             the
             learned
             for
             the
             most
             part
             in
             the
             latter
             ,
             the
             vnlearned
             in
             the
             first
             ;
             the
             one
             too
             c
             wise
             ,
             the
             other
             starke
             fooles
             .
             None
             truly
             learned
             ,
             or
             that
             truly
             know
             the
             face
             of
             nature
             (
             whose
             scholers
             the
             learned
             euer
             professe
             themselues
             )
             can
             be
             vpon
             the
             vaine
             flashes
             of
             seeming
             wonders
             lightly
             moued
             to
             denie
             or
             call
             into
             question
             f
             the
             power
             and
             force
             of
             nature
             .
             With
             therfore
             the
             common
             amazed
             thoughts
             of
             vulgar
             people
             ,
             to
             be
             blasted
             by
             the
             stupiditie
             of
             euery
             idle
             feare
             ,
             to
             gape
             after
             witchcraft
             ,
             or
             to
             make
             nature
             a
             diuell
             or
             a
             bugbeare
             ,
             must
             needs
             be
             base
             procliuitie
             and
             vnlearned
             lightnesse
             .
             To
             admit
             also
             nothing
             aboue
             or
             beside
             nature
             ,
             no
             witchcraft
             ,
             no
             association
             with
             diuels
             at
             all
             ,
             is
             no
             lesse
             madnesse
             of
             the
             opposite
             and
             extreame
             .
             But
             those
             whom
             true
             learning
             and
             wisedome
             hath
             well
             instructed
             ,
             know
             how
             to
             stay
             themselues
             ,
             and
             to
             consist
             in
             a
             temperate
             mediocritie
             betweene
             both
             these
             .
             The
             actions
             of
             the
             diuell
             are
             discouered
             by
             the
             proper
             notes
             and
             difference
             .
             First
             they
             are
             euer
             c
             euill
             ,
             either
             in
             themselues
             or
             in
             their
             end
             .
             Secondly
             ,
             they
             are
             aboue
             d
             the
             power
             and
             course
             of
             nature
             and
             reason
             .
             This
             appeareth
             manifestly
             in
             his
             violent
             cariage
             of
             so
             many
             heards
             of
             swine
             headlong
             into
             the
             sea
             ,
             mentioned
             in
             
             the
             Gospell
             :
             in
             his
             bringing
             fire
             from
             aboue
             so
             sodainly
             to
             deuoure
             so
             many
             thousands
             of
             Iobs
             sheepe
             .
             These
             ,
             with
             other
             such
             like
             ,
             carry
             in
             their
             mischiefe
             and
             hurt
             the
             stamp
             of
             such
             an
             author
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             transcendent
             e
             and
             supernaturall
             power
             thereof
             ,
             the
             testimonie
             of
             a
             spirit
             .
             This
             is
             plaine
             ,
             and
             by
             these
             notes
             men
             may
             learne
             to
             distinguish
             between
             an
             imaginarie
             and
             a
             reall
             diuellish
             practise
             .
             Now
             the
             doubt
             remaineth
             ,
             how
             we
             may
             in
             these
             workes
             and
             practises
             of
             the
             diuell
             ,
             detect
             the
             conuersation
             and
             commerce
             of
             men
             .
             I
             do
             not
             conceiue
             how
             any
             markes
             in
             the
             flesh
             or
             bodie
             of
             any
             one
             ,
             may
             be
             any
             triall
             or
             manifest
             proofe
             :
             for
             besides
             the
             grant
             ,
             that
             g
             likenesse
             may
             deceiue
             ,
             who
             can
             assure
             me
             that
             the
             diuell
             may
             not
             as
             easily
             ,
             secretly
             and
             insensibly
             marke
             the
             flesh
             of
             men
             as
             their
             soules
             vnto
             destruction
             ?
             If
             the
             diuell
             may
             marke
             them
             without
             their
             knowledge
             and
             consent
             ,
             shall
             his
             malice
             be
             their
             offence
             ?
             or
             how
             shall
             I
             be
             assured
             he
             cannot
             so
             do
             ?
             He
             that
             can
             do
             the
             greater
             ,
             can
             do
             the
             lesse
             .
             He
             that
             could
             giue
             vnto
             the
             Son
             of
             God
             a
             view
             of
             all
             the
             kingdomes
             of
             the
             world
             in
             one
             instant
             (
             which
             was
             no
             doubt
             a
             speciall
             straine
             of
             his
             vtmost
             spirituall
             cunning
             ,
             considering
             he
             was
             then
             to
             deale
             with
             wisedome
             it selfe
             )
             can
             that
             cunning
             finde
             no
             meanes
             to
             make
             a
             small
             scarre
             ,
             impresse
             or
             tumor
             in
             flesh
             ?
             Who
             dare
             presume
             to
             say
             ,
             God
             will
             not
             suffer
             him
             ?
             Who
             euer
             so
             farre
             entred
             into
             the
             counsell
             of
             God
             ,
             or
             measured
             what
             therein
             he
             doth
             permit
             ?
             If
             no
             holy
             writ
             ,
             no
             reason
             manifest
             it
             ,
             proud
             and
             blasphemously
             daring
             is
             obseruation
             in
             so
             infinite
             and
             vnmeasurable
             a
             subiect
             .
             I
             denie
             not
             that
             the
             diuell
             by
             couenant
             may
             sucke
             the
             bodies
             and
             bloud
             of
             witches
             ,
             in
             witnesse
             of
             their
             homage
             vnto
             him
             ;
             but
             I
             denie
             any
             marke
             (
             of
             neuer
             so
             true
             likenesse
             or
             perfect
             similitude
             )
             sufficient
             condemnation
             vnto
             any
             man
             ;
             and
             beside
             and
             aboue
             
             all
             other
             notes
             or
             marks
             whatsoeuer
             ,
             iudge
             it
             chiefly
             and
             principally
             and
             first
             to
             be
             required
             ,
             that
             both
             the
             diuels
             d
             propertie
             therein
             ,
             &
             also
             the
             parties
             e
             consent
             thereto
             may
             be
             iustly
             and
             truly
             euicted
             ,
             which
             is
             oft
             too
             lightly
             weighed
             .
             It
             may
             be
             with
             good
             reason
             iudged
             ,
             that
             the
             diuell
             doth
             not
             blush
             to
             be
             both
             bold
             and
             cunning
             ,
             there
             to
             set
             his
             marke
             ,
             yea
             and
             make
             his
             claime
             where
             he
             hath
             no
             interest
             .
             But
             when
             the
             diuell
             doth
             appeare
             in
             workes
             and
             signes
             proper
             to
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             therewith
             shall
             be
             euident
             either
             directly
             or
             by
             good
             consequent
             the
             act
             of
             any
             man
             consenting
             or
             cooperating
             ,
             there
             law
             may
             iustly
             take
             hold
             to
             censure
             ;
             and
             there
             also
             the
             former
             presumptions
             and
             markes
             (
             denied
             sufficiencie
             while
             alone
             and
             single
             )
             may
             now
             concurring
             be
             admitted
             and
             allowed
             .
             I
             speake
             not
             this
             in
             contradiction
             of
             other
             learned
             iudgements
             ,
             but
             retaining
             the
             libertie
             of
             mine
             owne
             ,
             and
             leauing
             the
             like
             equanimitie
             to
             euery
             one
             .
             Nor
             do
             I
             denie
             or
             defend
             diuellish
             practises
             of
             men
             or
             women
             ,
             but
             desire
             onely
             to
             moderate
             the
             generall
             madnesse
             of
             this
             age
             ,
             which
             ascribeth
             vnto
             witchcraft
             whatsoeuer
             falleth
             out
             vnknowne
             or
             strange
             vnto
             a
             vulgar
             sense
             .
             Concerning
             diseases
             therefore
             ,
             it
             will
             not
             here
             also
             be
             impertinent
             or
             vnprofitable
             to
             deliuer
             many
             their
             strange
             seeming
             formes
             from
             the
             too
             ordinarie
             iniurious
             imputation
             in
             this
             kind
             .
             It
             is
             manifest
             and
             apparent
             ,
             that
             the
             mixture
             and
             implication
             of
             diuers
             and
             differing
             diseases
             in
             the
             same
             subiect
             ,
             may
             and
             do
             oft
             bring
             forth
             a
             wild
             and
             confused
             concourse
             of
             accidents
             seeming
             therfore
             
             of
             monstrous
             and
             wondered
             shapes
             ,
             and
             therefore
             in
             their
             deceiuing
             appearance
             coming
             very
             neare
             vnto
             the
             similitude
             of
             bewitching
             .
             But
             because
             euery
             eye
             is
             not
             able
             in
             so
             various
             a
             chaos
             to
             e
             analyse
             and
             reduce
             them
             vnto
             their
             seuerall
             heads
             ,
             and
             proper
             diseases
             ,
             (
             so
             intricately
             confounded
             one
             within
             another
             )
             it
             is
             not
             therefore
             sufficient
             for
             reputing
             them
             as
             things
             without
             causes
             in
             nature
             .
             Many
             diseases
             single
             ,
             alone
             and
             apart
             by
             themselues
             ,
             seeme
             strange
             and
             wondered
             ,
             which
             therefore
             in
             their
             strange
             formes
             vnited
             ,
             and
             in
             their
             mixture
             one
             with
             another
             ,
             must
             needs
             arise
             much
             more
             monstrous
             and
             Hydra-like
             .
             For
             example
             ,
             in
             one
             kind
             f
             of
             disease
             ,
             the
             whole
             body
             as
             it
             were
             in
             a
             minute
             is
             sodainly
             taken
             in
             the
             middest
             g
             of
             some
             ordinary
             gesture
             or
             action
             ,
             and
             therein
             is
             continued
             some
             space
             together
             as
             if
             frozen
             generally
             ,
             starke
             and
             stiffe
             in
             all
             parts
             ,
             without
             sense
             or
             motion
             ,
             yet
             with
             eyes
             wide
             open
             ,
             and
             h
             breathing
             freely
             ,
             as
             if
             it
             were
             a
             mouing
             image
             or
             a
             liuing
             carcasse
             .
             In
             another
             ,
             the
             sicke
             are
             also
             sodainly
             taken
             or
             surprised
             with
             a
             senslesse
             i
             trance
             and
             generall
             astonishment
             or
             sideration
             ,
             voide
             of
             all
             sense
             or
             mouing
             many
             houres
             together
             ,
             onely
             the
             breath
             sometimes
             striueth
             and
             laboureth
             `against
             the
             danger
             of
             suffocation
             ,
             and
             the
             pulse
             continueth
             .
             In
             another
             ,
             the
             sicke
             are
             swiftly
             surprised
             with
             so
             profound
             and
             deadly
             a
             sleepe
             ,
             c
             that
             no
             call
             ,
             no
             crie
             ,
             no
             noise
             ,
             no
             d
             stimulation
             can
             in
             many
             houres
             awake
             and
             raise
             them
             .
             In
             another
             ,
             the
             sicke
             are
             doubtfully
             held
             ,
             in
             some
             part
             e
             waking
             ,
             and
             in
             other
             part
             sleeping
             ,
             in
             some
             respects
             ,
             maners
             and
             parts
             expressing
             wakefull
             motions
             ,
             sense
             ,
             speech
             ,
             right
             apprehension
             ,
             memory
             and
             imagination
             ;
             in
             other
             respects
             ,
             parts
             and
             maners
             (
             as
             men
             sleeping
             )
             voide
             of
             the
             libertie
             or
             vse
             of
             sense
             ,
             motion
             ,
             or
             any
             the
             other
             faculties
             .
             The
             forme
             of
             this
             disease
             ,
             Hippocrates
             
             hath
             very
             fitly
             assimilated
             to
             the
             shape
             f
             and
             fashion
             of
             drunkennesse
             ,
             whose
             ordinarily
             knowne
             effects
             are
             in
             some
             things
             busie
             wakefulnesse
             ,
             in
             other
             some
             at
             the
             same
             time
             dull
             sleepinesse
             ;
             in
             some
             imaginations
             ,
             apprehensions
             ,
             senses
             and
             motions
             quicke
             and
             readie
             ,
             in
             some
             with
             as
             apparent
             vrgence
             ,
             yet
             senslesse
             and
             dead
             .
             Contrary
             to
             these
             formes
             ,
             in
             some
             other
             diseases
             there
             arise
             continuall
             stirrings
             and
             depraued
             motions
             through
             all
             the
             parts
             h
             of
             the
             bodie
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             will
             ,
             and
             beside
             the
             sense
             and
             power
             of
             the
             sicke
             .
             This
             is
             seene
             commonly
             in
             i
             falling
             sicknesses
             ,
             diuers
             kinds
             of
             conuulsions
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             .
             In
             these
             diseases
             ,
             g
             some
             bite
             their
             tongues
             and
             flesh
             ,
             some
             make
             fearfull
             and
             frightfull
             shrinkings
             and
             outcries
             ,
             some
             are
             violently
             tossed
             and
             tumbled
             from
             one
             place
             vnto
             another
             ,
             some
             spit
             ,
             some
             froth
             ,
             some
             guash
             their
             teeth
             ,
             some
             haue
             their
             faces
             continually
             deformed
             and
             drawne
             awrie
             ,
             some
             haue
             all
             parts
             wrested
             and
             writhed
             into
             k
             infinite
             vgly
             shapes
             .
             Some
             haue
             their
             heads
             violently
             wrested
             forward
             ,
             and
             their
             faces
             behind
             .
             Some
             haue
             their
             eyes
             with
             inordinate
             twincklings
             ,
             rauings
             ,
             and
             rollings
             a
             disfigured
             .
             Some
             haue
             their
             mouthes
             distorted
             into
             diuers
             formes
             ,
             grinning
             ,
             mowing
             ,
             b
             laughing
             ,
             sometimes
             gaping
             wide
             c
             open
             ,
             sometimes
             close
             shutting
             .
             Some
             haue
             their
             limbes
             and
             diuers
             members
             sodainly
             with
             violence
             snatched
             vp
             and
             caried
             aloft
             ,
             and
             after
             suffered
             by
             their
             owne
             weight
             to
             fall
             againe
             .
             Some
             haue
             an
             inordinate
             leaping
             d
             and
             hopping
             of
             the
             flesh
             ,
             through
             euery
             part
             of
             the
             body
             .
             In
             some
             diseases
             the
             mind
             is
             as
             strangely
             transported
             into
             admirable
             visions
             and
             miraculous
             apparitions
             ,
             as
             the
             body
             is
             metamorphosed
             into
             the
             former
             strange
             shapes
             .
             In
             many
             ordinary
             diseases
             ,
             in
             the
             oppressions
             of
             the
             braine
             ,
             in
             feauers
             ,
             
             the
             sicke
             vsually
             thinke
             themselues
             to
             see
             things
             f
             that
             are
             not
             ,
             but
             in
             their
             owne
             abused
             imaginarie
             and
             false
             conceit
             .
             Sometimes
             with
             their
             fingers
             they
             hunt
             for
             flockes
             and
             flies
             ,
             and
             with
             narrow
             eyes
             prie
             for
             puppets
             and
             toyes
             ,
             working
             in
             the
             consistory
             of
             their
             owne
             braines
             .
             Sometimes
             they
             complaine
             of
             their
             friends
             and
             others
             to
             lie
             vpon
             them
             ,
             to
             creepe
             or
             sit
             vpon
             them
             ,
             to
             stop
             their
             winds
             ,
             to
             endeuour
             to
             cut
             their
             throates
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             .
             Sometimes
             they
             complaine
             of
             g
             diuels
             or
             witches
             ,
             liuely
             describing
             their
             seeming
             shapes
             and
             gestures
             toward
             them
             .
             Some
             in
             sicknesses
             so
             farre
             forget
             themselues
             ,
             that
             they
             haue
             not
             so
             much
             memorie
             as
             of
             their
             owne
             k
             names
             ,
             or
             their
             most
             familiar
             friends
             .
             Some
             aboue
             all
             perswasion
             or
             reason
             to
             the
             contrary
             ,
             strongly
             imagine
             themselues
             vnreasonable
             h
             creatures
             .
             Some
             crie
             out
             and
             flie
             from
             i
             waters
             when
             none
             are
             neare
             :
             some
             from
             fire
             ,
             and
             likewise
             from
             many
             other
             supposed
             feares
             ,
             in
             their
             vanitie
             infinite
             ,
             as
             in
             their
             present
             and
             sodaine
             appearance
             vnto
             the
             beholder
             full
             of
             amazement
             .
             How
             can
             these
             like
             accidents
             ,
             or
             any
             of
             them
             euen
             single
             and
             alone
             in
             their
             seuerall
             peculiar
             shapes
             apart
             ,
             but
             seeme
             wondered
             ?
             Much
             more
             when
             diuers
             of
             them
             ,
             most
             or
             many
             of
             them
             ,
             as
             it
             sometimes
             falleth
             out
             ,
             are
             confusedly
             together
             so
             compounded
             ,
             that
             at
             once
             in
             the
             sicke
             ,
             a
             man
             may
             see
             a
             part
             of
             one
             and
             a
             part
             of
             another
             ,
             a
             shew
             of
             many
             ,
             and
             a
             perfect
             shape
             of
             none
             ;
             must
             they
             needes
             not
             onely
             affright
             a
             common
             beholder
             ,
             but
             sometimes
             also
             exercise
             the
             better
             iudgements
             .
             I
             saw
             hereof
             in
             the
             yeare
             1608.
             a
             rare
             example
             ,
             which
             both
             for
             illustration
             of
             that
             which
             hath
             bene
             said
             ,
             and
             the
             instruction
             of
             other
             that
             may
             hereafter
             hap
             to
             behold
             the
             like
             ,
             and
             especially
             for
             the
             contentment
             of
             many
             eye
             witnesses
             (
             both
             worthy
             and
             desirous
             therein
             to
             be
             satisfied
             )
             I
             may
             not
             omit
             .
             A
             gentleman
             of
             ancient
             name
             and
             seare
             in
             Warwickshire
             ,
             in
             the
             time
             of
             the
             late
             memorable
             long
             frost
             ,
             called
             me
             vnto
             his
             daughter
             afflicted
             in
             an
             vnknowne
             and
             strange
             sodaine
             manner
             ,
             both
             vnto
             her
             parents
             ,
             friends
             ,
             &
             neighbours
             ,
             and
             also
             some
             e
             Physitions
             therein
             consulted
             .
             
             A
             vehement
             shaking
             and
             violent
             casting
             forward
             of
             her
             head
             ,
             euery
             day
             in
             a
             much
             maruelled
             fashion
             surprised
             her
             about
             three
             or
             foure
             of
             the
             clocke
             each
             afternoone
             ,
             and
             so
             vsually
             continued
             vntill
             the
             twelfth
             houre
             of
             the
             night
             :
             euery
             such
             shaking
             or
             casting
             of
             her
             head
             ,
             ending
             with
             a
             loud
             and
             shrill
             inarticulate
             sound
             of
             these
             two
             sillables
             ,
             ipha
             ,
             ipha
             .
             After
             my
             first
             sight
             ,
             I
             discouered
             these
             before
             wondered
             motiues
             to
             be
             nothing
             else
             but
             sneesings
             and
             sternutations
             ,
             which
             in
             all
             men
             haue
             their
             different
             and
             a
             diuers
             noyses
             ,
             and
             in
             her
             were
             more
             then
             ordinarily
             violent
             .
             To
             confirme
             and
             settle
             this
             iudgement
             ,
             I
             gaue
             both
             by
             writing
             and
             speech
             prediction
             of
             a
             sequele
             ,
             either
             of
             the
             falling
             sicknesse
             c
             or
             some
             other
             spice
             or
             species
             of
             conuulsion
             ,
             so
             grounding
             vpon
             the
             continuall
             violence
             and
             vehemence
             of
             the
             sternutation
             ,
             and
             the
             great
             oppression
             of
             the
             braine
             ,
             together
             with
             some
             obscure
             contractions
             of
             some
             parts
             alreadie
             begunne
             ,
             though
             haply
             of
             others
             vnobserued
             .
             In
             the
             meane
             season
             before
             my
             departure
             at
             that
             time
             in
             few
             dayes
             the
             grieuousnesse
             ,
             length
             ,
             and
             frequence
             of
             the
             former
             fits
             was
             much
             mitigated
             and
             grew
             more
             easie
             ,
             and
             so
             continued
             the
             space
             of
             a
             fortnight
             after
             my
             returne
             from
             thence
             .
             This
             time
             last
             mentioned
             expired
             ,
             sodainly
             the
             parents
             againe
             sent
             for
             me
             :
             from
             them
             I
             learned
             that
             their
             daughter
             after
             diuers
             tortures
             of
             her
             mouth
             and
             face
             ,
             with
             staring
             and
             rolling
             of
             her
             eyes
             ,
             scrawling
             and
             tumbling
             vpon
             the
             ground
             ,
             grating
             and
             gnashing
             her
             teeth
             ,
             was
             now
             newly
             fallen
             into
             h
             a
             deadly
             trance
             ,
             wherein
             she
             had
             continued
             a
             whole
             day
             ,
             representing
             the
             verie
             shape
             and
             image
             of
             death
             ,
             without
             all
             sense
             or
             motion
             :
             her
             pulse
             or
             breathing
             onely
             witnessing
             a
             remainder
             of
             life
             .
             With
             these
             fits
             (
             oft
             in
             the
             meane
             season
             first
             frequenting
             )
             at
             length
             she
             againe
             i
             interchanged
             new
             ,
             and
             then
             awaking
             out
             of
             her
             astonished
             sleepe
             ,
             wistly
             casting
             her
             eyes
             as
             looking
             sometime
             behind
             her
             ,
             sometime
             to
             the
             one
             
             k
             side
             ,
             sometime
             to
             the
             other
             ;
             sometime
             ouer
             her
             head
             (
             as
             if
             she
             had
             fearefully
             or
             frightfully
             espied
             somewhat
             hagging
             about
             her
             )
             with
             her
             eyes
             staring
             open
             ,
             her
             mouth
             wide
             gaping
             ,
             and
             her
             hands
             and
             armes
             strongly
             distent
             &
             carried
             aloft
             aboue
             her
             head
             ,
             together
             with
             a
             generall
             starknesse
             &
             stifnesse
             of
             al
             these
             parts
             ,
             she
             spent
             many
             daies
             in
             this
             maner
             ,
             both
             day
             and
             night
             iterating
             these
             fits
             ,
             and
             each
             seuerall
             fit
             continuing
             the
             space
             sometimes
             of
             halfe
             an
             houre
             ,
             sometimes
             a
             quarter
             of
             an
             houre
             .
             While
             these
             fits
             at
             any
             time
             discontinued
             ,
             she
             either
             slept
             ,
             or
             (
             at
             least
             all
             her
             outward
             senses
             slumbring
             )
             her
             imagination
             still
             led
             her
             hands
             vnto
             many
             and
             diuers
             continuall
             actions
             and
             motiues
             ,
             which
             argued
             in
             their
             folly
             great
             fatuitie
             and
             d
             defect
             of
             reason
             and
             vnderstanding
             ,
             yet
             manifested
             the
             businesse
             and
             depraued
             motion
             of
             her
             oppressed
             imagination
             ,
             which
             therefore
             continually
             e
             imployed
             her
             fingers
             to
             imitate
             many
             vsuall
             exercises
             of
             her
             health
             (
             as
             dressing
             and
             attiring
             the
             heads
             of
             such
             women
             as
             came
             neare
             vnto
             her
             .
             In
             all
             these
             actions
             and
             motions
             she
             neither
             had
             nor
             vsed
             the
             helpe
             of
             any
             other
             sense
             but
             onely
             the
             feeling
             f
             with
             her
             hand
             ,
             whereof
             she
             seemed
             also
             altogether
             depriued
             in
             g
             all
             other
             things
             ,
             except
             onely
             those
             whereto
             her
             imagination
             (
             which
             is
             mistresse
             and
             great
             commander
             of
             all
             the
             senses
             )
             lead
             h
             her
             feeling
             .
             Hereof
             was
             oft
             made
             triall
             by
             pinching
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             whereof
             she
             tooke
             no
             care
             ,
             nor
             was
             therby
             moued
             ,
             except
             onely
             when
             thereby
             haply
             they
             intercepted
             or
             interposed
             her
             feeling
             and
             the
             imagined
             obiect
             ,
             whereof
             she
             was
             euer
             for
             the
             most
             part
             very
             sensible
             .
             After
             I
             had
             with
             much
             assiduitie
             and
             diligence
             by
             some
             quicke
             medicines
             solicited
             nature
             to
             a
             better
             remembrance
             of
             her selfe
             ,
             at
             length
             vpon
             a
             sharpe
             prouocation
             she
             immediatly
             answered
             our
             desired
             hope
             ,
             and
             we
             then
             first
             gained
             her
             sense
             of
             her selfe
             with
             some
             comfortable
             words
             ,
             and
             with
             a
             perfect
             returne
             i
             of
             her
             vnderstanding
             
             the
             distinct
             vtterance
             of
             diuers
             short
             ,
             but
             deuout
             inuocations
             of
             God
             ,
             vnto
             the
             singular
             comfort
             of
             her
             parents
             ,
             hauing
             before
             beheld
             her
             three
             weekes
             together
             both
             l
             speechlesse
             and
             senslesse
             .
             Her
             speech
             shortly
             againe
             (
             after
             the
             operation
             of
             the
             medicine
             had
             taken
             the
             vsuall
             effect
             )
             departed
             ,
             but
             her
             better
             sense
             and
             vnderstanding
             still
             remained
             ,
             which
             by
             her
             c
             pen
             she
             signified
             ,
             and
             therewithall
             an
             holy
             mind
             and
             thoughts
             rare
             in
             such
             an
             impe
             (
             being
             then
             vnder
             the
             thirteenth
             yeare
             of
             her
             age
             )
             with
             an
             inward
             feeling
             of
             her
             agony
             and
             affliction
             ,
             oft
             blessing
             God
             ,
             and
             therein
             honouring
             her
             vertuous
             and
             carefull
             education
             .
             Thus
             after
             much
             labour
             by
             the
             grace
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             good
             means
             (
             for
             so
             they
             proued
             thēselues
             euer
             by
             the
             immediate
             sequele
             of
             good
             vnto
             them
             )
             we
             at
             length
             obtained
             the
             continuance
             of
             all
             her
             senses
             .
             Her
             tong
             e
             remained
             still
             g
             vnperfect
             ,
             yet
             continually
             moued
             it selfe
             to
             force
             a
             certaine
             imitation
             of
             speech
             ,
             with
             a
             mumbling
             ,
             which
             (
             though
             no
             plaine
             articulate
             sound
             of
             words
             )
             yet
             vnto
             those
             that
             were
             thereto
             accustomed
             ,
             oft
             intelligible
             and
             well
             perceiued
             .
             Sometimes
             perfect
             speech
             f
             sodainly
             and
             vnexpectedly
             would
             come
             vnto
             her
             ,
             but
             staied
             not
             constant
             nor
             long
             .
             In
             this
             meane
             season
             I
             imparted
             vnto
             her
             parents
             my
             doubt
             of
             a
             hard
             condition
             ,
             namely
             a
             palsie
             or
             maime
             in
             some
             part
             likely
             to
             be
             annexed
             vnto
             her
             recouerie
             ,
             if
             she
             suruiued
             her
             conuulsiue
             fits
             which
             still
             remained
             as
             before
             mentioned
             .
             Betweene
             hope
             and
             this
             feare
             we
             continued
             endeuour
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             end
             by
             the
             infinite
             goodnes
             of
             God
             ,
             her
             fits
             before
             mentioned
             (
             namely
             of
             gaping
             and
             carying
             her
             armes
             distent
             aboue
             her
             head
             )
             with
             the
             rest
             decreased
             ,
             now
             discontinuing
             all
             day
             ,
             onely
             foure
             or
             fiue
             short
             fits
             euery
             night
             when
             she
             first
             lay
             downe
             in
             
             bed
             continued
             ,
             and
             with
             the
             decrease
             of
             the
             former
             vehemence
             and
             fearefull
             continuall
             frequence
             of
             the
             said
             fits
             ,
             succeeded
             (
             as
             was
             before
             feared
             )
             a
             palsie
             ,
             which
             possessed
             both
             her
             legs
             with
             a
             senslesse
             deadnesse
             ,
             and
             a
             generall
             stupiditie
             of
             one
             side
             of
             her
             bodie
             ,
             being
             the
             ordinarie
             terminations
             of
             an
             Apoplexie
             ,
             and
             therfore
             foredoubted
             .
             After
             she
             had
             continued
             in
             this
             hopefull
             forwardnesse
             the
             space
             of
             two
             moneths
             or
             thereabout
             ,
             she
             was
             then
             commended
             vnto
             the
             Bath
             ,
             with
             my
             report
             and
             description
             of
             her
             former
             passed
             accidents
             vnto
             her
             Physition
             there
             ,
             where
             after
             much
             and
             long
             feare
             and
             doubt
             ,
             she
             began
             at
             length
             to
             yeeld
             better
             hope
             ,
             finding
             by
             little
             and
             little
             the
             vse
             of
             her
             legs
             ,
             onely
             the
             former
             small
             fits
             did
             still
             hand
             fast
             ,
             and
             her
             speech
             as
             yet
             remained
             h
             vnperfected
             .
             Her
             legges
             being
             at
             Bath
             ,
             began
             there
             to
             recouer
             ;
             her
             speech
             shortly
             after
             i
             her
             returne
             home
             from
             thence
             also
             followed
             ,
             and
             all
             her
             former
             fits
             and
             complaints
             vanished
             before
             that
             k
             sommer
             passed
             .
             It
             hath
             bene
             and
             is
             still
             a
             great
             doubt
             and
             question
             ,
             not
             onely
             among
             the
             common
             and
             vulgar
             sort
             ,
             but
             diuers
             also
             learned
             ,
             whether
             this
             gentlewoman
             (
             in
             maner
             aforesaid
             afflicted
             )
             shall
             iustly
             be
             ranked
             among
             those
             vpon
             whom
             (
             by
             the
             permission
             of
             God
             )
             diuels
             and
             witches
             haue
             had
             a
             power
             ,
             or
             whom
             nature
             and
             the
             course
             of
             naturall
             diseases
             haue
             thus
             in
             maner
             aforesaid
             afflicted
             .
             My
             owne
             iudgement
             must
             needs
             incline
             vnto
             the
             latter
             ,
             for
             that
             I
             could
             behold
             in
             the
             gentlewoman
             nothing
             (
             most
             continually
             conuersing
             with
             her
             )
             which
             either
             my
             eies
             had
             not
             before
             shewed
             me
             in
             others
             ,
             or
             perfect
             notion
             from
             reading
             both
             ancient
             writings
             and
             later
             neotericall
             descriptions
             ,
             had
             not
             before
             made
             the
             same
             l
             vnto
             my
             vnderstanding
             ,
             which
             they
             then
             presented
             themselues
             vnto
             my
             sight
             .
             The
             first
             is
             in
             part
             testified
             in
             the
             margine
             of
             the
             page
             59.
             60.
             and
             64.
             
             The
             second
             ,
             any
             man
             may
             witnesse
             true
             who
             can
             compare
             the
             report
             of
             all
             the
             fits
             and
             accidents
             which
             befell
             this
             gentlewoman
             (
             which
             as
             truly
             and
             nearly
             as
             I
             could
             ,
             and
             I
             suppose
             fully
             ,
             by
             the
             testimony
             of
             any
             that
             saw
             her
             ,
             I
             haue
             related
             )
             with
             the
             seuerall
             shapes
             of
             some
             
             diseases
             before
             mentioned
             ,
             pages
             59.
             60.
             61.
             62.
             which
             are
             truly
             set
             downe
             according
             to
             the
             common
             consent
             of
             most
             writers
             .
             The
             mixture
             of
             diuers
             of
             them
             one
             with
             another
             ,
             must
             needs
             make
             some
             difference
             in
             them
             from
             themselues
             ,
             where
             they
             are
             each
             alone
             and
             seuerall
             :
             but
             he
             that
             with
             that
             iust
             allowance
             of
             that
             oddes
             onely
             ,
             can
             consider
             the
             particular
             accidents
             in
             the
             speciall
             example
             ,
             with
             the
             true
             notion
             of
             the
             diseases
             before
             it
             generally
             described
             ,
             must
             needs
             grant
             them
             to
             be
             the
             same
             in
             kind
             and
             nature
             .
             It
             may
             farther
             perswade
             ,
             that
             my selfe
             with
             reason
             from
             the
             knowne
             custome
             and
             nature
             of
             such
             diseases
             ,
             gaue
             both
             by
             speech
             and
             writing
             ,
             prediction
             of
             the
             conuulsion
             which
             after
             followed
             ,
             and
             also
             of
             the
             termination
             of
             her
             g
             Apoplecticke
             accessions
             in
             the
             lamenesse
             and
             palsie
             of
             some
             parts
             ,
             which
             also
             came
             to
             passe
             ,
             and
             cannot
             now
             be
             denied
             testimonie
             of
             many
             .
             It
             maketh
             yet
             farther
             against
             the
             opinion
             of
             witchcraft
             ,
             that
             such
             medicines
             as
             were
             ministred
             vnto
             her
             ,
             in
             reason
             good
             for
             her
             ,
             according
             to
             that
             reason
             and
             expectation
             for
             the
             most
             part
             euer
             profited
             ,
             sometimes
             immediately
             with
             their
             vse
             reducing
             her
             vnderstanding
             before
             lost
             ,
             sometime
             recouering
             her
             speech
             when
             she
             had
             diuers
             weekes
             together
             before
             continued
             speechlesse
             ,
             and
             by
             litle
             and
             litle
             euermore
             repairing
             continually
             some
             decayes
             ,
             notwithstanding
             many
             and
             diuers
             relapses
             ;
             which
             both
             her
             parents
             themselues
             ,
             and
             the
             seruants
             ,
             and
             all
             that
             ministred
             vnto
             her
             ,
             must
             needs
             vnto
             God
             and
             truth
             with
             thankes
             acknowledge
             .
             It
             farther
             confirmeth
             the
             negatiue
             of
             witchcraft
             ,
             and
             is
             not
             the
             least
             ,
             that
             while
             the
             opinion
             thereof
             most
             hotly
             possessed
             most
             hearers
             and
             beholders
             ,
             the
             parents
             of
             the
             gentlewoman
             at
             no
             time
             in
             the
             height
             of
             their
             daughters
             affliction
             ,
             or
             a
             good
             space
             after
             ,
             could
             resolue
             vpon
             whom
             with
             any
             iust
             shew
             of
             reason
             to
             cast
             the
             suspition
             of
             bewitching
             ,
             as
             they
             oft
             auouched
             vnto
             me
             both
             then
             and
             since
             .
             The
             most
             certaine
             and
             chiefe
             proofes
             h
             of
             witchcraft
             &
             diuellish
             practises
             vpon
             the
             sick
             ,
             among
             the
             learned
             esteemed
             are
             generally
             reputed
             three
             :
             
             First
             ,
             a
             true
             and
             iudicious
             manifestation
             in
             the
             sicke
             of
             some
             reall
             power
             ,
             act
             or
             deed
             ,
             in
             ,
             aboue
             and
             beyond
             reason
             and
             naturall
             cause
             .
             Secondly
             ,
             annihilation
             and
             frustration
             of
             wholesome
             and
             proper
             remedies
             ,
             with
             discretion
             and
             art
             administred
             ,
             without
             any
             iust
             reason
             or
             cause
             thereof
             .
             Thirdly
             ,
             ought
             either
             in
             the
             knowledge
             or
             speech
             of
             the
             diseased
             ,
             discouering
             a
             rauishment
             ,
             possession
             or
             obsession
             of
             their
             minds
             or
             spirits
             by
             any
             infernall
             inspiration
             .
             Hence
             the
             sicke
             oft
             speake
             strange
             languages
             f
             vnto
             themselues
             vnknowne
             ,
             and
             prophecie
             things
             to
             come
             ,
             aboue
             humane
             capacitie
             .
             To
             the
             first
             doth
             satisfie
             the
             former
             manifest
             reference
             of
             all
             accidents
             befalling
             the
             gentlewoman
             mentioned
             ,
             vnto
             the
             preualence
             and
             power
             of
             diseases
             before
             related
             .
             The
             second
             is
             negatiuely
             answered
             by
             plaine
             testimonies
             .
             Of
             the
             third
             and
             last
             was
             neuer
             mention
             ,
             nor
             question
             ,
             nor
             reason
             of
             either
             .
             There
             can
             nothing
             be
             required
             more
             vnto
             ample
             satisfaction
             :
             and
             as
             I
             therein
             rest
             and
             stay
             my selfe
             ,
             so
             I
             doubt
             not
             the
             consent
             and
             content
             of
             all
             that
             affect
             truth
             and
             embrace
             reason
             .
             I
             will
             notwithstanding
             for
             the
             better
             exercising
             and
             stirring
             vp
             of
             diligence
             ,
             circumspection
             and
             vigilance
             ,
             generally
             in
             this
             so
             hard
             and
             deceiuable
             point
             of
             witchcraft
             ,
             and
             also
             for
             their
             sakes
             ,
             whose
             weaknesse
             may
             as
             yet
             be
             vncapable
             of
             satisfaction
             in
             the
             former
             particular
             ,
             answer
             some
             obiections
             therein
             made
             .
             The
             forenamed
             conuulsiue
             fits
             ,
             of
             lifting
             vp
             her
             hands
             aboue
             her
             head
             ,
             
             which
             were
             the
             last
             remaining
             fits
             ,
             toward
             their
             decay
             and
             latter
             end
             ,
             neuer
             came
             vnto
             her
             but
             onely
             when
             prepared
             at
             the
             night
             for
             bed
             ,
             and
             vnclothed
             into
             her
             night-weeds
             ,
             she
             began
             to
             yeeld
             and
             decline
             her
             body
             to
             lie
             downe
             .
             In
             that
             instant
             ,
             each
             night
             without
             failing
             ,
             euer
             and
             neuer
             before
             began
             her
             fits
             .
             When
             she
             at
             any
             time
             lay
             her selfe
             downe
             to
             rest
             vpon
             her
             bed
             in
             her
             clothes
             (
             whether
             by
             day
             or
             night
             )
             her
             fits
             notwithstanding
             appeared
             not
             .
             Some
             haue
             imagined
             some
             coniuration
             or
             witchcraft
             vpon
             or
             in
             her
             nightcloths
             or
             sheets
             ;
             but
             to
             them
             that
             seek
             reason
             ,
             I
             suppose
             it
             found
             .
             The
             power
             of
             voluntary
             motion
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             animall
             facultie
             ,
             
             and
             the
             disease
             it selfe
             both
             possessing
             the
             same
             parts
             ,
             namely
             the
             sinewes
             and
             muscles
             ,
             while
             the
             disease
             was
             in
             his
             vigor
             and
             strength
             in
             the
             beginning
             ,
             it
             therfore
             mastered
             the
             facultie
             and
             mouing
             power
             ,
             and
             continually
             ruled
             ,
             so
             that
             the
             fits
             then
             neuer
             almost
             ceassed
             by
             day
             or
             night
             .
             Now
             in
             the
             declination
             and
             weaknesse
             of
             the
             dissease
             ,
             and
             toward
             the
             end
             ,
             the
             facultie
             grew
             strong
             ,
             restrained
             and
             commanded
             ouer
             the
             disease
             ,
             whereby
             all
             the
             day
             there
             appeared
             no
             fits
             at
             all
             .
             But
             when
             the
             mouing
             power
             or
             facultie
             composed
             it selfe
             to
             a
             true
             and
             generall
             cessation
             and
             rest
             ,
             then
             in
             that
             instant
             the
             disease
             tooke
             his
             aduantage
             and
             libertie
             to
             stirre
             .
             
             But
             why
             was
             it
             not
             thus
             also
             when
             she
             slept
             in
             her
             clothes
             ?
             The
             sense
             and
             incumbrance
             of
             the
             day-habite
             is
             euer
             an
             hinderance
             of
             perfect
             sleepes
             .
             Therefore
             to
             them
             that
             sleepe
             in
             their
             clothes
             ,
             or
             vpon
             their
             beds
             ,
             commonly
             there
             is
             not
             so
             true
             a
             ligation
             of
             their
             senses
             ,
             neither
             are
             their
             sleepes
             so
             sound
             ,
             nor
             of
             the
             like
             continuance
             .
             While
             therefore
             she
             lay
             or
             composed
             her selfe
             to
             rest
             in
             her
             clothes
             ,
             the
             sense
             thereof
             both
             interrupted
             the
             facultie
             from
             the
             true
             and
             sound
             disposing
             it selfe
             to
             rest
             ,
             and
             also
             thereby
             put
             it
             in
             mind
             of
             the
             disease
             which
             had
             so
             lately
             sharply
             visited
             it
             ,
             with
             tart
             remembrance
             ;
             and
             the
             disease
             being
             now
             too
             weake
             to
             resist
             or
             to
             prouoke
             the
             facultie
             ,
             could
             not
             vpon
             that
             vnperfect
             aduantage
             stirre
             ,
             vntill
             by
             a
             more
             sound
             and
             true
             dispose
             to
             rest
             and
             sleepe
             ,
             the
             spirits
             and
             naturall
             heate
             more
             truly
             retiring
             inward
             ,
             had
             more
             perfectly
             left
             the
             outward
             parts
             ,
             and
             thereby
             the
             disease
             there
             still
             remaining
             might
             haue
             more
             libertie
             and
             power
             to
             stirre
             ,
             which
             notwithstanding
             also
             soone
             after
             of
             the
             owne
             accord
             desisted
             ,
             because
             it
             wanted
             the
             former
             strength
             to
             maintain
             continuance
             .
             
             That
             which
             breedeth
             other
             doubts
             ,
             is
             that
             at
             such
             time
             when
             she
             wanted
             all
             her
             senses
             ,
             and
             altogether
             seemed
             senslesse
             of
             any
             obiect
             offered
             vnto
             her
             ,
             or
             of
             it selfe
             occurring
             ,
             yet
             had
             she
             a
             curious
             feeling
             of
             such
             things
             as
             her
             minde
             and
             liking
             sought
             or
             seemed
             to
             hunt
             after
             .
             This
             is
             no
             wonder
             to
             them
             that
             know
             where
             
             the
             imagination
             intently
             and
             earnestly
             worketh
             ,
             it
             there
             giueth
             sense
             to
             those
             d
             parts
             it
             exerciseth
             ,
             though
             all
             other
             parts
             be
             stupified
             or
             asleepe
             .
             This
             is
             oft
             seene
             in
             many
             who
             in
             their
             dreames
             walke
             ,
             talk
             ,
             and
             do
             seriously
             many
             works
             ,
             distinguishing
             and
             feeling
             those
             things
             whereabout
             the
             fancie
             occupieth
             them
             ,
             of
             other
             obiects
             ,
             though
             haply
             more
             neare
             hand
             and
             of
             quicker
             remembrance
             ,
             taking
             no
             notice
             at
             all
             .
             The
             disease
             or
             accident
             which
             most
             oft
             and
             frequently
             possessed
             this
             gentlewoman
             ,
             was
             a
             kinde
             of
             e
             heaue
             sleepe
             ,
             in
             degree
             onely
             exceeding
             the
             ordinarie
             resolution
             and
             ligation
             of
             the
             senses
             by
             sleepe
             ,
             and
             therefore
             the
             same
             reason
             may
             indifferently
             serue
             both
             .
             It
             is
             farther
             obiected
             ,
             that
             the
             gentlewoman
             oft
             pointed
             ,
             sometime
             this
             way
             ,
             sometime
             that
             ,
             as
             seeing
             the
             appearance
             of
             a
             woman
             of
             such
             and
             such
             forme
             and
             colours
             ,
             which
             also
             according
             vnto
             her
             maner
             of
             vnperfect
             speech
             ,
             she
             after
             described
             ,
             as
             some
             say
             .
             It
             is
             not
             vnusuall
             with
             the
             sicke
             oft
             to
             imagine
             indifferently
             ,
             as
             well
             things
             inconsiderate
             and
             f
             incomposed
             as
             truths
             ,
             and
             therefore
             are
             their
             imaginations
             of
             no
             g
             validitie
             without
             better
             proofe
             or
             reason
             ,
             which
             I
             thinke
             before
             sufficiently
             satisfied
             .
             And
             in
             this
             gentlewoman
             (
             hauing
             her
             head
             ,
             where
             her
             disease
             had
             so
             manifestly
             deeply
             seated
             it selfe
             ,
             therefore
             so
             mightily
             oppressed
             )
             it
             was
             more
             easie
             for
             any
             faculitie
             therein
             to
             mistake
             and
             erre
             ,
             then
             to
             conceiue
             aright
             .
             And
             therefore
             though
             it
             might
             haply
             manifestly
             appeare
             (
             which
             may
             be
             and
             is
             ordinarily
             rather
             the
             abusiue
             impression
             of
             some
             indiscreete
             h
             whispering
             about
             the
             sicke
             )
             that
             she
             of
             her selfe
             primarily
             and
             without
             suggestion
             conceiued
             the
             forme
             or
             shape
             of
             a
             witch
             ,
             yet
             is
             that
             no
             sound
             proofe
             or
             clearing
             of
             the
             question
             of
             witchcraft
             in
             generall
             ,
             nor
             any
             reasonable
             euidence
             against
             one
             particular
             ,
             since
             the
             trials
             of
             truth
             are
             not
             sterred
             by
             imaginations
             .
             It
             is
             lastly
             obiected
             ,
             that
             certaine
             witches
             lately
             dying
             for
             sorcerie
             ,
             haue
             confessed
             themselues
             to
             haue
             bewitched
             this
             gentlewoman
             .
             I
             grant
             the
             voluntary
             and
             vncompelled
             ,
             or
             duly
             and
             truly
             euicted
             confession
             of
             a
             witch
             ,
             to
             be
             sufficient
             condemnation
             of
             her
             
             selfe
             ,
             and
             therefore
             iustly
             hath
             the
             law
             laid
             their
             bloud
             vpon
             their
             owne
             heads
             ,
             but
             their
             confession
             I
             cannot
             conceiue
             sufficient
             euiction
             of
             the
             witchcraft
             it selfe
             .
             It
             is
             knowne
             euidently
             vnto
             men
             learned
             ,
             that
             the
             subtill
             serpent
             and
             deceiuer
             the
             diuell
             doth
             vsually
             beguile
             ,
             delude
             and
             deceiue
             those
             that
             trust
             in
             him
             by
             his
             iugling
             collusions
             ,
             perswading
             oft
             times
             those
             actions
             and
             euents
             to
             be
             his
             gratification
             of
             their
             malicious
             affections
             ,
             which
             are
             indeed
             the
             very
             workes
             of
             nature
             ,
             and
             oft
             times
             the
             rare
             effects
             onely
             of
             hidden
             causes
             in
             nature
             .
             A
             witches
             confession
             therefore
             being
             onely
             grounded
             vpon
             his
             credite
             ,
             information
             and
             suggestion
             ,
             whose
             nature
             ,
             custome
             and
             propertie
             is
             and
             euer
             hath
             bene
             to
             lie
             and
             deceiue
             ,
             is
             a
             meane
             ,
             poore
             and
             vncertaine
             proofe
             of
             witchcraft
             ,
             though
             a
             iust
             condemnation
             vnto
             the
             witch
             ,
             her selfe
             being
             proued
             an
             associate
             with
             the
             diuell
             in
             any
             sort
             .
             Her
             death
             therefore
             doth
             satisfie
             the
             law
             for
             her
             offence
             ,
             but
             is
             no
             sound
             information
             of
             the
             iudgement
             of
             the
             witchcraft
             .
             Thus
             according
             to
             that
             whereof
             my selfe
             could
             take
             notice
             in
             this
             gentlewoman
             (
             if
             more
             full
             information
             of
             others
             obseruations
             in
             those
             things
             that
             by
             my selfe
             were
             not
             seene
             or
             noted
             ,
             faile
             me
             not
             )
             I
             haue
             truly
             and
             fully
             described
             euery
             materiall
             accident
             and
             circumstance
             ;
             and
             to
             all
             the
             knowne
             or
             conceiued
             likely
             doubts
             and
             difficulties
             therein
             haue
             carefully
             and
             directly
             answered
             ,
             and
             therein
             also
             haue
             (
             I
             suppose
             )
             satisfied
             the
             ingenuous
             and
             reasonable
             with
             breuitie
             at
             full
             .
             Now
             to
             conclude
             the
             former
             explication
             of
             the
             question
             of
             witchcraft
             in
             generall
             ,
             I
             intreate
             the
             Reader
             to
             call
             vnto
             mind
             the
             formerly
             mentioned
             feares
             and
             doubts
             of
             witchcraft
             ,
             which
             vnknowne
             accidents
             and
             diseases
             easily
             impose
             vpon
             mindes
             herein
             vnacquainted
             and
             not
             discerning
             their
             cause
             and
             reason
             ,
             and
             in
             them
             farther
             for
             future
             good
             to
             consider
             the
             possible
             contingence
             of
             many
             more
             of
             like
             nature
             and
             sort
             in
             other
             the
             like
             cases
             elsewhere
             hapning
             ,
             and
             here
             vnmentioned
             .
             In
             both
             and
             with
             both
             let
             also
             be
             recalculate
             and
             cast
             the
             strange
             and
             slie
             suggestions
             of
             the
             fancie
             and
             
             imagination
             ,
             sometimes
             countenanced
             by
             admired
             casuall
             euents
             and
             chances
             ,
             sometimes
             applauded
             by
             ignorant
             credulitie
             ,
             and
             sometimes
             aduanced
             by
             superstition
             in
             all
             and
             euery
             of
             these
             still
             with
             the
             vulgar
             sort
             ,
             aduantaging
             the
             same
             error
             and
             opinion
             of
             witchcraft
             .
             I
             haue
             so
             much
             the
             rather
             thus
             farre
             laboured
             ,
             for
             that
             ordinarily
             herein
             I
             see
             truth
             and
             iudgement
             too
             much
             peruerted
             ,
             the
             diseased
             their
             health
             and
             life
             thereby
             neglected
             ,
             and
             many
             times
             simple
             ideots
             and
             fooles
             oppressed
             ,
             whose
             weaknes
             doth
             oft
             seeme
             guiltie
             ,
             because
             euer
             vnable
             to
             defend
             it selfe
             .
             Euery
             one
             in
             these
             cases
             is
             not
             fit
             or
             competent
             arbiter
             :
             it
             requireth
             the
             learned
             ,
             and
             not
             learned
             in
             word
             and
             superficiall
             seeming
             ,
             but
             indeed
             truly
             iudicious
             and
             wise
             ,
             whom
             euer
             to
             preconsult
             in
             these
             occasions
             is
             onely
             safe
             ,
             is
             right
             ,
             expedient
             ,
             and
             euer
             necessary
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             IX
             .
          
           
             Wisards
             .
          
           
             THe
             mentione
             of
             witchcraft
             doth
             now
             occasion
             the
             remembrance
             in
             the
             next
             place
             of
             a
             sort
             of
             practitioners
             ,
             
             whom
             our
             custome
             and
             country
             doth
             call
             wisemen
             and
             wise-women
             ,
             reputed
             a
             kind
             of
             good
             &
             honest
             harmles
             witches
             or
             wisards
             ,
             who
             by
             good
             words
             ,
             by
             hallowed
             herbes
             and
             salues
             ,
             and
             other
             superstitious
             ceremonies
             promise
             to
             allay
             and
             calme
             diuels
             ,
             practises
             of
             other
             witches
             ,
             and
             the
             forces
             of
             many
             diseases
             .
             But
             these
             being
             of
             the
             same
             nature
             with
             those
             before
             mentioned
             to
             vse
             spels
             ,
             and
             as
             they
             before
             ,
             so
             these
             now
             sometimes
             onely
             superstitiously
             vaine
             ,
             sometimes
             diuellishly
             assisted
             ,
             I
             will
             referre
             these
             vnto
             them
             ,
             and
             onely
             dismisse
             them
             both
             with
             a
             short
             historie
             .
             Anno
             1602.
             a
             poore
             boy
             of
             Pychley
             in
             Northamptonshire
             ,
             was
             sodainly
             surprised
             with
             a
             vehement
             conuulsion
             ,
             drawing
             his
             head
             and
             heeles
             violently
             h
             backward
             ,
             and
             in
             that
             sort
             carrying
             his
             whole
             body
             into
             a
             roundnesse
             ,
             tumbling
             vp
             and
             downe
             with
             
             much
             paine
             and
             inward
             groning
             .
             The
             parents
             of
             the
             child
             posed
             with
             the
             strangenesse
             ,
             presently
             accused
             i
             witchcraft
             ,
             sent
             for
             a
             wisewoman
             ,
             &
             her
             wisedome
             came
             vnto
             them
             .
             At
             the
             same
             time
             it
             fortuned
             my selfe
             to
             be
             in
             the
             towne
             with
             a
             patient
             of
             mine
             ,
             a
             worthy
             and
             vertuous
             Lady
             there
             inhabiting
             ,
             who
             moued
             me
             to
             see
             the
             bewitched
             child
             ,
             and
             vpon
             the
             motion
             together
             with
             her
             Preacher
             then
             liuing
             in
             her
             house
             ,
             I
             went
             vnto
             the
             place
             where
             the
             child
             lay
             .
             There
             among
             other
             standing
             silent
             and
             vnknowne
             ,
             I
             beheld
             the
             fits
             ,
             &
             heard
             also
             the
             wisewoman
             wisely
             discoursing
             ,
             and
             among
             other
             things
             of
             the
             like
             nature
             ,
             declaring
             vnto
             the
             cōpany
             ,
             that
             the
             lungs
             of
             the
             child
             were
             as
             white
             as
             c
             her
             kercher
             .
             With
             this
             and
             some
             other
             such
             like
             kercher
             learning
             ,
             I
             d
             silenty
             departed
             .
             When
             I
             was
             returned
             vnto
             my
             patient
             ,
             I
             there
             professed
             my
             opinion
             concerning
             the
             manner
             and
             nature
             of
             conuulsions
             with
             their
             seuerall
             causes
             ,
             amongst
             the
             rest
             not
             omitting
             the
             strange
             accidents
             which
             did
             oft
             fall
             out
             in
             such
             diseases
             by
             wormes
             .
             Not
             long
             after
             ,
             when
             the
             cunning
             of
             the
             wisard
             was
             now
             growne
             without
             profite
             ,
             stale
             and
             forsaken
             ,
             the
             child
             auoyded
             a
             great
             and
             long
             worme
             ,
             and
             immediatly
             after
             recouered
             without
             other
             helpe
             or
             meanes
             ,
             and
             so
             hath
             continued
             euer
             since
             .
             Thus
             the
             serpent
             beguiled
             the
             woman
             ,
             and
             the
             woman
             beguiled
             (
             though
             not
             Adam
             )
             many
             foolish
             sonnes
             of
             Adam
             .
             At
             length
             a
             poore
             worme
             gaue
             them
             demonstration
             of
             their
             ridiculous
             folly
             .
             Such
             teachers
             are
             fittest
             for
             such
             schollers
             ,
             whose
             grosse
             ignorance
             is
             euer
             so
             farre
             in
             loue
             with
             it
             owne
             preiudicate
             conceite
             ,
             that
             though
             they
             were
             brayed
             in
             a
             mortar
             ,
             yet
             cannot
             this
             loue
             be
             beaten
             out
             of
             them
             for
             any
             loue
             of
             truth
             or
             reason
             .
             I
             did
             not
             therefore
             trouble
             them
             with
             my
             patience
             to
             instruct
             them
             ,
             nor
             they
             molest
             me
             with
             their
             impatience
             to
             heare
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             X.
             
          
           
             Seruants
             of
             Physitions
             .
             Ministring
             helpers
             .
          
           
             NoW
             to
             fulfill
             our
             iust
             computation
             of
             Emperickes
             ,
             and
             therewith
             to
             conclude
             their
             mention
             and
             number
             :
             the
             last
             (
             but
             not
             the
             least
             )
             that
             offer
             themselues
             ordinarily
             in
             this
             kind
             and
             name
             ,
             are
             suchas
             either
             by
             oft
             seruing
             Physitions
             ,
             
             or
             by
             continuall
             conuersing
             with
             them
             and
             viewing
             their
             custome
             and
             practise
             ,
             or
             by
             their
             owne
             imployment
             a
             from
             their
             directions
             in
             applications
             and
             administrations
             vnto
             the
             sicke
             ,
             or
             by
             some
             speciall
             trust
             and
             attendance
             about
             the
             necessities
             of
             the
             diseased
             ,
             ingrosse
             vnto
             themselues
             supposed
             speciall
             obseruations
             ,
             and
             choice
             and
             select
             remedies
             ,
             and
             with
             such
             small
             wares
             thus
             taken
             vp
             vpon
             credite
             ,
             set
             b
             vp
             for
             themselues
             ,
             presuming
             it
             good
             rhetoricke
             (
             because
             an
             old
             figure
             )
             to
             take
             a
             part
             for
             the
             whole
             .
             Thus
             seeing
             too
             much
             honesty
             would
             not
             suffer
             them
             to
             rob
             their
             teachers
             of
             a
             more
             sufficient
             portion
             of
             generall
             methode
             and
             art
             ,
             they
             thinke
             it
             sufficient
             to
             be
             able
             to
             supply
             the
             same
             particular
             meanes
             with
             the
             like
             desire
             and
             goodwill
             .
             But
             apish
             imitation
             and
             resembling
             shew
             can
             neuer
             expresse
             the
             life
             of
             reason
             in
             her
             natiue
             vse
             .
             Although
             therefore
             sometimes
             some
             of
             this
             sort
             ,
             by
             subtiltie
             ,
             a
             good
             wit
             ,
             officious
             diligence
             ,
             and
             thereby
             pleasing
             fortunatenesse
             ,
             do
             angle
             a
             good
             report
             and
             estimation
             ,
             and
             thereby
             catch
             many
             simple
             c
             people
             (
             who
             hoodwinkt
             with
             good
             opinion
             discerne
             not
             the
             baite
             )
             yet
             doth
             their
             commonly
             obserued
             daring
             those
             things
             which
             they
             know
             they
             know
             not
             ,
             and
             their
             ordinary
             raising
             themselues
             by
             the
             ladder
             of
             boasting
             ,
             manifestly
             detect
             ,
             both
             their
             cloaked
             defect
             ,
             and
             their
             choaked
             guilt
             .
             For
             what
             expectation
             can
             be
             of
             them
             who
             for
             the
             most
             part
             build
             their
             whole
             worth
             vpon
             the
             meanest
             proofe
             of
             anothers
             sufficiencie
             ,
             and
             all
             the
             skill
             which
             they
             are
             able
             to
             expend
             ,
             is
             but
             that
             little
             which
             another
             without
             
             enuy
             or
             ielousie
             could
             spare
             ?
             Timely
             and
             well
             growne
             perfection
             is
             neuer
             to
             be
             attained
             either
             by
             seruice
             or
             bare
             obseruation
             .
             It
             is
             necessary
             that
             man
             be
             in
             himselfe
             a
             maister
             of
             knowledge
             and
             of
             sincere
             iudgement
             ,
             that
             shall
             be
             able
             truly
             to
             make
             right
             vse
             of
             anothers
             experience
             .
             Experiece
             therefore
             alone
             ,
             and
             the
             benefite
             of
             a
             Physitions
             seruice
             or
             admission
             vnto
             the
             view
             of
             practise
             ,
             without
             the
             benefite
             of
             sufficient
             generall
             theorie
             and
             learning
             going
             before
             ,
             can
             in
             it selfe
             be
             no
             true
             benefite
             .
             It
             is
             reason
             and
             knowledge
             that
             doth
             guide
             men
             wise
             vnto
             d
             all
             their
             particular
             actions
             and
             experiences
             ,
             and
             those
             actions
             succeeding
             in
             triall
             and
             proofe
             according
             to
             that
             reason
             commend
             and
             confirme
             that
             reason
             ,
             and
             made
             good
             that
             experience
             .
             For
             that
             which
             experience
             hath
             once
             or
             ofttimes
             knowne
             and
             found
             to
             do
             good
             ,
             must
             not
             therefore
             in
             necessitie
             still
             do
             e
             the
             same
             good
             ,
             except
             the
             same
             reason
             of
             the
             good
             do
             in
             each
             circumstance
             againe
             commend
             and
             command
             it
             ,
             which
             onely
             they
             can
             iudge
             and
             examine
             that
             are
             wise
             and
             learned
             .
             That
             experience
             therefore
             is
             onely
             certainly
             and
             truly
             allowed
             trust
             ,
             which
             prouing
             it selfe
             good
             doth
             therein
             also
             iustifie
             g
             the
             knoweldge
             and
             reason
             which
             directed
             it
             vnto
             that
             good
             .
             They
             therefore
             that
             without
             methode
             ,
             art
             ,
             reason
             and
             f
             knowledge
             ,
             take
             care
             to
             spend
             their
             time
             in
             gaping
             after
             others
             experiences
             ,
             do
             set
             the
             cart
             to
             draw
             the
             horses
             ,
             and
             euery
             one
             that
             goeth
             vnto
             plough
             ,
             knoweth
             they
             either
             neuer
             went
             to
             schoole
             ,
             or
             beginne
             their
             lesson
             at
             the
             wrong
             end
             .
             By
             this
             preposterous
             defect
             therefore
             ,
             and
             therein
             want
             of
             knowledge
             to
             foresce
             the
             likely
             issues
             of
             their
             actions
             ,
             since
             these
             Emperickes
             themselues
             know
             not
             ,
             not
             truly
             forsee
             what
             they
             indeauour
             or
             do
             ,
             how
             shall
             others
             that
             trust
             them
             know
             what
             thereby
             they
             shall
             suffer
             ?
             Prouident
             foresight
             is
             farre
             from
             blind
             ignorance
             ,
             and
             wise
             preuention
             from
             imprudent
             temeritie
             ,
             and
             the
             experiment
             made
             without
             ait
             or
             reason
             doth
             b
             more
             commonly
             reproue
             and
             chastise
             ,
             then
             instruct
             and
             establish
             .
             Neither
             can
             any
             man
             make
             a
             true
             rule
             or
             vse
             of
             his
             experience
             ,
             that
             truly
             knoweth
             not
             
             the
             particular
             nature
             and
             estate
             of
             those
             things
             whereof
             he
             hath
             experience
             ,
             together
             with
             all
             circumstances
             that
             may
             alter
             the
             considerations
             .
             They
             therefore
             that
             will
             learne
             more
             safely
             to
             informe
             themselues
             ,
             let
             them
             know
             assuredly
             ,
             that
             sufficiency
             is
             neuer
             found
             in
             the
             vtmost
             obseruation
             or
             Empericall
             tradition
             ,
             but
             in
             a
             setled
             and
             itselfe
             confirming
             knowledge
             and
             vnderstanding
             .
             Neither
             can
             this
             true
             knowledge
             be
             duly
             or
             competently
             attained
             ,
             but
             by
             early
             begunne
             ,
             and
             late
             continuing
             education
             thereto
             ,
             instituted
             in
             places
             fit
             and
             free
             for
             true
             grounds
             ,
             for
             the
             groweth
             and
             seed
             of
             pure
             and
             good
             knowledge
             ,
             instilled
             into
             the
             minde
             by
             little
             f
             and
             little
             ,
             by
             daily
             reading
             ,
             contemplation
             ,
             meditation
             ,
             and
             assiduitie
             in
             both
             ,
             watered
             with
             the
             dew
             and
             sweate
             of
             painfull
             studie
             ,
             hastened
             to
             maturitie
             by
             carefull
             and
             continuall
             good
             culture
             g
             of
             ancient
             counsell
             and
             direction
             ,
             and
             lastly
             confirmed
             and
             strengthned
             in
             the
             good
             and
             perfect
             groweth
             vnto
             a
             firme
             age
             and
             time
             there
             in
             by
             choyce
             example
             and
             experience
             ,
             withall
             these
             possessing
             an
             h
             aptnesse
             in
             nature
             as
             the
             ground
             of
             all
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             first
             Booke
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THE
           SECOND
           BOOKE
           .
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             I.
             
          
           
             The
             Methodian
             learned
             deceiuer
             or
             hereticke
             Physition
             .
          
           
             THus
             farre
             haue
             bene
             remembred
             the
             ignorant
             practitiones
             that
             infost
             this
             age
             .
             Now
             it
             followeth
             we
             come
             vnto
             another
             erronions
             kind
             of
             such
             as
             haue
             a
             name
             and
             portion
             among
             the
             learned
             :
             such
             are
             they
             that
             haue
             a
             taste
             of
             good
             arts
             and
             science
             ,
             but
             are
             not
             truly
             earned
             ,
             nor
             haue
             sincerely
             drawne
             the
             naturall
             and
             liuely
             sap
             of
             true
             science
             and
             vnderstanding
             .
             Of
             this
             kinde
             among
             the
             Ancients
             ,
             were
             reputed
             those
             they
             termed
             d
             Methodians
             ,
             either
             by
             an
             Ironie
             or
             Antiphrasis
             ,
             as
             hauing
             no
             true
             e
             method
             ,
             but
             a
             compēdium
             or
             a
             method
             of
             their
             own
             making
             ;
             or
             else
             because
             they
             arrogated
             this
             name
             vnto
             themselues
             in
             the
             best
             sence
             ,
             as
             onely
             in
             their
             owne
             supposall
             meriting
             the
             title
             of
             true
             Art
             and
             Method
             .
             These
             had
             their
             peculiar
             and
             proper
             errors
             in
             those
             times
             in
             which
             they
             liued
             ,
             then
             especially
             noted
             ;
             but
             we
             will
             make
             bold
             more
             generally
             vnder
             this
             name
             to
             comprehend
             all
             who
             carry
             a
             name
             and
             visar
             of
             learning
             ,
             but
             are
             not
             able
             to
             expresse
             the
             power
             thereof
             ,
             either
             by
             their
             distinct
             and
             truly
             digested
             vnderstanding
             ,
             or
             by
             right
             performance
             in
             action
             and
             practise
             according
             thereunto
             .
             These
             men
             ,
             any
             man
             may
             note
             to
             be
             of
             three
             sorts
             :
             First
             ,
             such
             as
             may
             commonly
             be
             obserued
             to
             beare
             naturall
             defects
             and
             impediments
             within
             themselues
             :
             
             secondly
             ,
             such
             as
             want
             time
             in
             nature
             or
             their
             studies
             :
             thirdly
             ,
             such
             as
             haue
             spent
             most
             part
             of
             their
             life
             otherwise
             distracted
             ,
             and
             haue
             not
             had
             entire
             emploiment
             in
             their
             callings
             .
             The
             first
             ranke
             nature
             her selfe
             doth
             note
             vnto
             euery
             one
             by
             their
             imperfect
             parts
             stamped
             and
             expressed
             in
             their
             daily
             conuersation
             .
             Such
             are
             they
             who
             argue
             in
             themselues
             want
             of
             wit
             ,
             of
             common
             capacitie
             ,
             of
             ordinarie
             gouernment
             :
             or
             are
             disposed
             to
             lunacies
             ,
             to
             inordinate
             affections
             and
             customes
             in
             the
             continuall
             course
             and
             practise
             of
             their
             life
             .
             The
             second
             are
             youths
             ,
             yong
             men
             ,
             and
             all
             wanting
             discreet
             yeares
             in
             their
             faces
             or
             g
             manners
             ,
             with
             all
             such
             as
             deriue
             their
             knowledge
             no
             further
             then
             grammar
             schooles
             ,
             or
             in
             Vniuersities
             haue
             made
             short
             stay
             and
             too
             sodaine
             departure
             .
             Both
             these
             are
             easily
             diseouered
             ,
             and
             therefore
             cannot
             so
             vsually
             deceiue
             ,
             or
             else
             can
             but
             deceiue
             such
             as
             deserue
             no
             better
             .
             The
             third
             ,
             are
             all
             such
             aside
             fraud
             their
             callings
             of
             their
             whose
             endeuour
             ,
             and
             deuide
             themselues
             between
             two
             professions
             .
             Their
             neutralitie
             in
             both
             doth
             proue
             their
             nullitie
             in
             either
             .
             Perfection
             in
             any
             facultie
             requireth
             more
             then
             a
             cc
             man
             ,
             cc
             and
             k
             competence
             a
             whole
             man
             nor
             euer
             was
             any
             in
             an
             excellent
             whom
             one
             calling
             could
             not
             〈◊〉
             deserue
             and
             employ
             .
             Within
             this
             compasse
             also
             stand
             such
             ,
             as
             hauing
             spent
             a
             good
             part
             ,
             or
             most
             part
             of
             their
             time
             in
             one
             art
             or
             science
             ,
             towards
             the
             end
             〈◊〉
             in
             them
             iddel
             course
             exchange
             .
             These
             from
             the
             〈◊〉
             flowing
             and
             wanting
             of
             their
             minds
             in
             a
             former
             streame
             ,
             〈◊〉
             arriuing
             in
             a
             new
             〈◊〉
             cannot
             sodainly
             lauch
             vnto
             any
             depth
             or
             profoundnesse
             of
             iudgement
             (
             which
             onely
             time
             by
             stealing
             steps
             by
             little
             and
             litle
             doth
             mature
             and
             ripeth
             as
             a
             timely
             fruite
             a
             )
             and
             therefore
             they
             may
             in
             hast
             and
             greatily
             swallow
             vpon
             hole
             sentences
             ,
             yea
             &
             volumes
             vnche
             wed
             ,
             yet
             can
             they
             neuer
             truly
             digest
             them
             but
             with
             b
             many
             dayes
             and
             much
             leisure
             .
             Euery
             Art
             
             is
             an
             habit
             :
             an
             habit
             is
             by
             small
             degrees
             and
             length
             of
             time
             and
             custome
             acquired
             ,
             and
             thence
             riseth
             by
             little
             and
             little
             to
             perfection
             and
             full
             growth
             .
             There
             is
             to
             euery
             facultie
             belonging
             ,
             first
             an
             habit
             of
             right
             iudging
             therein
             ,
             and
             distinct
             knowing
             :
             secondly
             an
             habite
             according
             to
             iudgement
             and
             knowledge
             of
             right
             action
             and
             c
             disposing
             .
             A
             double
             habite
             in
             euery
             facultie
             ,
             requireth
             a
             double
             time
             in
             euery
             facultie
             ,
             which
             therefore
             cannot
             but
             with
             long
             patience
             and
             carefull
             assiduitie
             therein
             be
             inuited
             .
             The
             too
             common
             want
             hereof
             in
             these
             dayes
             ,
             is
             the
             cause
             that
             many
             reputed
             great
             clearks
             &
             scholers
             ,
             haue
             in
             their
             mouthes
             and
             discourse
             ,
             the
             phrase
             ,
             the
             language
             and
             sentences
             of
             wisedom
             ,
             but
             want
             the
             d
             soule
             ,
             the
             substance
             and
             the
             sense
             .
             Hence
             it
             cometh
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             tongues
             ouerflow
             with
             aphorismes
             ,
             maximes
             ,
             and
             rules
             of
             ancient
             truth
             ,
             but
             for
             the
             most
             part
             confusedly
             ,
             not
             rightly
             distinguished
             ,
             mistaken
             or
             supposed
             .
             Neither
             cau
             excellence
             in
             one
             facultie
             giue
             prerogatiue
             in
             another
             .
             Therefore
             those
             that
             are
             perfect
             and
             absolued
             artists
             in
             their
             owne
             facultie
             ,
             and
             will
             impaire
             their
             dignitie
             by
             engaging
             it
             in
             another
             ,
             (
             where
             neither
             their
             time
             nor
             proofe
             can
             equall
             it
             )
             let
             wise
             men
             cuatelously
             and
             with
             suspition
             admit
             their
             counsell
             or
             trust
             their
             practise
             .
             I
             sometime
             knew
             a
             learned
             Diuine
             ,
             batchelar
             in
             that
             facultie
             ,
             
             a
             great
             clearke
             ,
             of
             much
             reading
             and
             studie
             therein
             ,
             whose
             busie
             and
             ambitious
             braine
             not
             contenting
             it selfe
             within
             so
             infinite
             an
             ocean
             of
             sufficient
             sacred
             and
             sweete
             imploiment
             ,
             would
             needs
             breake
             out
             into
             other
             bounds
             ,
             and
             from
             some
             borowed
             houres
             and
             time
             for
             studie
             in
             physicke
             ,
             grew
             to
             affect
             therein
             more
             then
             a
             common
             name
             and
             vnderstanding
             .
             In
             the
             end
             his
             pride
             and
             conceit
             of
             his
             knowledge
             transported
             him
             so
             farre
             ,
             that
             among
             other
             ridiculous
             paradoxes
             ,
             he
             both
             in
             schooles
             and
             common
             profession
             defended
             an
             indifferencie
             in
             the
             natures
             ,
             qualities
             and
             vse
             of
             Stibium
             and
             Ratsbane
             :
             to
             conclude
             ,
             his
             confidence
             herein
             so
             farre
             bewitched
             him
             that
             he
             made
             triall
             thereof
             in
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             as
             a
             iust
             execution
             vpon
             himselfe
             ,
             was
             the
             same
             day
             poisoned
             .
             Another
             
             of
             my
             knowledge
             and
             acquaintance
             ,
             a
             man
             in
             the
             Greeke
             ,
             Latine
             ,
             Hebrew
             ,
             Chaldey
             ,
             and
             other
             languages
             much
             studied
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             iudgement
             and
             theory
             of
             Diuinitie
             of
             approued
             worthinesse
             and
             vnderstanding
             ,
             hauing
             therein
             bestowed
             the
             best
             part
             of
             his
             time
             ,
             sodainly
             interchanged
             with
             an
             vnaduised
             course
             of
             practise
             in
             Physicke
             ;
             he
             spent
             some
             time
             in
             trauell
             beyond
             the
             sea
             ,
             and
             returned
             againe
             thence
             dignified
             ;
             but
             his
             former
             studies
             were
             so
             well
             and
             soundly
             foresetled
             ,
             that
             they
             admitted
             not
             so
             true
             and
             right
             after-setling
             of
             the
             second
             .
             Hence
             as
             his
             braine
             ouerflowed
             with
             vnconstant
             propositions
             ,
             and
             his
             tongue
             with
             paradoxes
             ,
             his
             actions
             also
             thereto
             suited
             .
             In
             the
             end
             he
             made
             vpon
             himselfe
             an
             experiment
             of
             the
             force
             of
             Opium
             in
             a
             more
             then
             ordinary
             dose
             ,
             and
             so
             composing
             himselfe
             vnto
             a
             desired
             sleepe
             ,
             neuer
             returned
             to
             view
             the
             issue
             of
             his
             experiment
             ,
             but
             descending
             into
             the
             graue
             ,
             left
             this
             memory
             behind
             him
             .
             If
             any
             man
             wonder
             at
             these
             grand
             lapses
             in
             men
             learned
             ,
             let
             him
             stay
             and
             satisfie
             his
             doubt
             with
             admiration
             of
             the
             multitude
             of
             sects
             in
             all
             ages
             ,
             swarming
             with
             grosse
             errors
             and
             opinions
             ,
             euen
             amongst
             the
             learned
             of
             all
             faculties
             and
             professions
             .
             This
             vndoubtedly
             groweth
             from
             no
             other
             ground
             but
             want
             of
             entire
             vnderstanding
             of
             those
             things
             men
             studie
             and
             reade
             ,
             through
             imperfect
             and
             distracted
             imploiment
             of
             their
             mindes
             ,
             seriously
             and
             wholy
             required
             vnto
             any
             measure
             of
             perfection
             .
             Therefore
             Galen
             in
             his
             learned
             treatise
             of
             the
             method
             of
             right
             cure
             (
             as
             also
             in
             other
             places
             )
             doth
             oft
             times
             witnes
             ,
             that
             where
             sects
             and
             sectaries
             abound
             ,
             there
             is
             infallibly
             mistaking
             and
             vnsound
             apprehension
             of
             truth
             ,
             and
             therefore
             lamely
             ,
             defectiuely
             ,
             and
             in
             part
             attained
             ,
             because
             h
             so
             onely
             sought
             .
             If
             any
             man
             require
             a
             more
             speciall
             proofe
             or
             triall
             hereof
             ,
             let
             him
             with
             me
             here
             cull
             and
             examine
             any
             few
             Aphorismes
             of
             Hippocrates
             ,
             and
             in
             them
             (
             though
             commonly
             and
             orderly
             read
             and
             auouched
             by
             euery
             mouth
             )
             ye
             shall
             he
             find
             how
             easie
             and
             ordinarie
             it
             is
             for
             any
             man
             in
             any
             one
             to
             be
             inconsiderately
             deceiued
             and
             mistaken
             ,
             if
             he
             do
             not
             with
             all
             possible
             diligence
             ,
             indistracted
             
             vigilance
             and
             circumspection
             ,
             continually
             ,
             wholy
             and
             indefatigably
             g
             exercise
             all
             his
             powers
             in
             seeking
             out
             their
             hidden
             truth
             ,
             which
             doth
             neuer
             freely
             reueale
             it selfe
             to
             those
             that
             carelesly
             or
             in
             part
             ,
             or
             for
             sinister
             &
             trifling
             i
             ends
             labour
             after
             it
             .
             For
             example
             ,
             in
             his
             sixt
             booke
             of
             aphorismes
             and
             52.
             aphorisme
             ,
             Hippocrates
             doth
             nominate
             a
             mortall
             signe
             in
             the
             diseased
             ,
             the
             appearance
             of
             the
             white
             of
             the
             eye
             in
             sleepe
             ,
             and
             sleeping
             with
             vnclosed
             eyes
             .
             In
             many
             diseased
             ,
             this
             oft
             is
             found
             vntrue
             ,
             but
             with
             Hippocrates
             vnderstanding
             it
             is
             neuer
             k
             false
             .
             He
             that
             simply
             and
             verbally
             onely
             vnderstandeth
             ,
             and
             without
             meditated
             differences
             and
             exceptions
             ,
             or
             maketh
             not
             more
             narrow
             search
             ,
             shall
             hardly
             truly
             find
             the
             certaine
             and
             true
             limitation
             of
             this
             truth
             .
             For
             if
             this
             maner
             of
             sleeping
             fall
             out
             from
             any
             outward
             cause
             ,
             or
             besides
             reason
             or
             cause
             thereof
             in
             the
             inward
             disposition
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             simply
             or
             altogether
             bad
             ,
             much
             lesse
             mortall
             .
             For
             where
             the
             sicke
             are
             thus
             accustomed
             to
             sleepe
             in
             health
             ,
             or
             so
             sleep
             by
             reason
             of
             fumes
             and
             vapors
             ascending
             vnto
             the
             head
             ,
             and
             thence
             distilling
             into
             the
             eye-lids
             ,
             and
             so
             hindering
             their
             right
             closure
             ,
             (
             as
             it
             is
             oft
             seene
             in
             great
             drinkers
             )
             or
             where
             it
             proceedeth
             onely
             from
             wormes
             in
             children
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             the
             incautelous
             and
             superficiall
             vnderstanding
             is
             readily
             deceiued
             .
             In
             like
             maner
             the
             51.
             aphorisme
             of
             the
             same
             booke
             doth
             promise
             by
             the
             coming
             of
             a
             feauer
             thereto
             ,
             the
             profligation
             of
             the
             apoplexie
             .
             But
             this
             is
             not
             true
             ,
             confusedly
             interpreted
             ,
             and
             therefore
             beyond
             the
             first
             view
             requireth
             further
             studious
             inquisition
             to
             find
             out
             the
             quantitie
             b
             of
             the
             feauer
             ,
             with
             the
             degree
             of
             the
             apoplexie
             .
             Great
             wounds
             and
             cuts
             of
             the
             head
             (
             saith
             the
             50.
             aphorisme
             of
             the
             same
             booke
             )
             procure
             and
             incurre
             feauers
             :
             but
             he
             that
             doth
             no
             further
             search
             to
             know
             the
             c
             times
             that
             feauers
             may
             differently
             in
             swiftnesse
             or
             slownesse
             of
             their
             coming
             take
             ,
             nor
             vnderstandeth
             the
             causes
             slackning
             or
             quickning
             the
             feauers
             speed
             ,
             may
             easily
             too
             hastily
             before
             iust
             time
             accuse
             the
             truth
             hereof
             .
             The
             3.
             aphorisme
             of
             the
             fift
             booke
             threatneth
             danger
             in
             conuulsions
             vpon
             great
             issues
             and
             losses
             
             of
             bloud
             ;
             but
             in
             what
             quantitie
             thou
             shalt
             esteeme
             them
             d
             great
             ,
             or
             with
             what
             conditions
             ,
             thou
             must
             vse
             diligence
             ,
             and
             elsewhere
             enquire
             .
             Many
             haue
             lost
             great
             measures
             of
             bloud
             at
             once
             ,
             and
             yet
             haue
             escaped
             both
             with
             and
             without
             conuulsions
             ,
             if
             8.
             9.
             10.
             or
             12.
             e
             pounds
             at
             once
             from
             the
             nose
             may
             be
             called
             much
             or
             great
             .
             The
             first
             aphorisme
             of
             the
             fift
             booke
             ,
             doth
             pronounce
             the
             conuulsion
             procured
             in
             assumption
             of
             Hellebore
             mortall
             .
             It
             is
             notwithstanding
             seene
             ,
             that
             conuulsions
             so
             raised
             ,
             ceasse
             againe
             without
             death
             or
             other
             danger
             .
             To
             vnderstand
             therfore
             aright
             ,
             we
             must
             know
             to
             distinguish
             the
             diuers
             wayes
             and
             f
             maners
             whereby
             Hellebore
             doth
             produce
             conuulsions
             .
             The
             31.
             aphorisme
             of
             the
             fift
             booke
             ,
             menaceth
             vnto
             a
             woman
             with
             child
             being
             let
             bloud
             ,
             abortion
             .
             But
             whether
             we
             shall
             vnderstand
             it
             simply
             necessarie
             ,
             or
             onely
             as
             an
             hazard
             or
             periclitation
             ,
             or
             with
             what
             conditions
             ,
             more
             certaine
             information
             doth
             aske
             further
             search
             .
             The
             40.
             aphorisme
             of
             the
             second
             booke
             ,
             threatneth
             vnto
             old
             men
             surprised
             with
             mur●hes
             and
             distillations
             ,
             the
             end
             of
             their
             disease
             with
             the
             end
             of
             their
             dayes
             .
             But
             vnto
             perfect
             conceiuing
             ,
             is
             further
             requisite
             the
             consideration
             of
             the
             degrees
             of
             old
             men
             ,
             in
             whom
             is
             apparent
             either
             age
             alone
             (
             which
             is
             onely
             the
             number
             of
             yeares
             )
             or
             oldnesse
             g
             with
             age
             ,
             which
             is
             a
             decay
             and
             wearing
             of
             nature
             together
             with
             yeares
             .
             Infinite
             might
             we
             be
             in
             these
             and
             the
             like
             ,
             euery
             triuiall
             and
             vulgarly
             receiued
             rule
             requiring
             a
             more
             circumspect
             and
             considerate
             vnderstanding
             ,
             then
             the
             first
             view
             or
             light
             reading
             doth
             offer
             or
             present
             .
             It
             is
             a
             common
             well
             known
             and
             commendable
             caution
             ,
             to
             suspect
             phlebotomy
             in
             children
             vnto
             the
             foureteenth
             yeare
             ,
             and
             in
             old
             men
             after
             fiftie
             or
             sixtie
             yeares
             .
             But
             with
             what
             restraints
             and
             limitations
             these
             rules
             are
             to
             be
             bounded
             ,
             fully
             and
             truly
             to
             conceiue
             ,
             besides
             their
             hearing
             or
             reading
             is
             required
             a
             view
             and
             reuiew
             of
             differing
             reason
             and
             expositiō
             ,
             diligent
             and
             carefull
             scrutiny
             ,
             oft
             comparing
             and
             conferring
             oddes
             and
             differences
             of
             circumstances
             .
             None
             truly
             learned
             will
             or
             can
             be
             so
             inconsiderate
             or
             rash
             to
             take
             bloud
             from
             age
             ,
             
             whose
             veines
             are
             exhaust
             or
             spent
             ,
             blood
             dried
             vp
             ,
             or
             from
             infancie
             crop
             the
             first
             hopefull
             sprouting
             or
             spring
             therof
             ;
             yet
             with
             deserued
             fame
             and
             honour
             to
             themselues
             ,
             and
             incomparable
             benefite
             vnto
             the
             sicke
             ,
             haue
             right
             learned
             worthy
             and
             excellent
             Physitians
             vsed
             and
             prescribed
             phlebotomy
             both
             vnder
             fiue
             d
             ,
             and
             after
             sixtie
             e
             yeares
             .
             Diligence
             will
             not
             rest
             vntill
             it
             haue
             found
             c
             out
             reconciliation
             to
             these
             doubts
             ,
             and
             confirmation
             to
             more
             perfect
             knowledge
             ,
             which
             serious
             labour
             must
             buy
             ,
             studie
             continually
             attend
             ,
             and
             thence
             time
             gaine
             ,
             free
             from
             other
             impertinent
             implication
             .
             The
             common
             want
             hereof
             suffereth
             so
             many
             vnprofitable
             questions
             amongst
             the
             the
             learned
             ,
             maintaineth
             contentions
             and
             pride
             of
             words
             ,
             multitude
             of
             sects
             and
             schismes
             from
             truth
             :
             and
             while
             men
             at
             other
             leisure
             ,
             for
             other
             shifts
             ,
             ends
             ,
             and
             supplies
             ,
             and
             not
             for
             the
             owne
             worthinesse
             ,
             or
             for
             it selfe
             seeke
             knowledge
             ,
             they
             cōmonly
             lose
             the
             true
             end
             ,
             and
             therfore
             true
             perfection
             .
             The
             innumerable
             dissentions
             amongst
             the
             learned
             concerning
             the
             Arabicke
             and
             Chymicke
             remedies
             at
             this
             day
             infinitely
             ,
             with
             opposite
             and
             contradictorie
             writings
             ,
             and
             inuectiues
             ,
             burthen
             the
             whole
             world
             .
             Some
             learned
             Phisitians
             and
             writers
             extoll
             and
             magnifie
             them
             as
             of
             incomparable
             vse
             and
             diuine
             efficacie
             .
             Some
             with
             execration
             accuse
             and
             curse
             them
             as
             damned
             and
             hellish
             poysons
             .
             Some
             because
             they
             find
             not
             these
             remedies
             in
             the
             common
             &
             vulgar
             readings
             of
             the
             Ancients
             (
             the
             famous
             and
             learned
             Grecians
             )
             with
             feare
             and
             horror
             endure
             their
             very
             mention
             ,
             farre
             therein
             vnlike
             and
             differing
             from
             that
             ingenuous
             spirit
             of
             the
             thrise
             worthy
             and
             renowmed
             Pergamene
             Claudius
             Galen
             ,
             who
             in
             brightnesse
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             sharpnesse
             of
             apprehension
             ,
             and
             inuention
             ouershining
             al
             the
             precedent
             wits
             that
             were
             before
             him
             ,
             yet
             did
             he
             with
             humble
             and
             daigning
             desire
             search
             &
             entertaine
             from
             any
             sort
             of
             f
             people
             ,
             yea
             from
             the
             most
             vnlearned
             Empericke
             himselfe
             ,
             any
             their
             particular
             remedies
             or
             medicines
             ,
             which
             after
             by
             his
             purer
             and
             more
             eminent
             iudgement
             ,
             and
             clearer
             light
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             refining
             ,
             he
             reduced
             to
             more
             proper
             worth
             ,
             
             and
             thereby
             gaue
             admired
             presidents
             of
             their
             wondered
             ods
             in
             his
             learned
             prescription
             and
             accommodation
             .
             Some
             contrarily
             contemning
             the
             learning
             and
             knowledge
             of
             the
             Grecian
             ,
             and
             with
             horrid
             superstition
             ,
             deifying
             an
             absolute
             sufficiencie
             in
             Chymicke
             remedies
             ,
             reiect
             the
             care
             or
             respect
             of
             discreet
             and
             prudent
             dispensation
             .
             A
             third
             and
             more
             commendable
             sort
             differeth
             from
             both
             these
             ,
             and
             leauing
             in
             the
             one
             his
             learned
             morositie
             and
             disdainfull
             impatience
             of
             different
             hearing
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             other
             his
             ignorant
             and
             peruerse
             Hermeticall
             monopoly
             ,
             with
             impartiall
             and
             ingenuous
             desire
             free
             from
             sectarie
             affectation
             ,
             doth
             from
             both
             draw
             whatsoeuer
             may
             in
             either
             seeme
             good
             or
             profitable
             vnto
             health
             or
             physicke
             vse
             :
             from
             the
             Grecian
             deriuing
             the
             sound
             &
             ancient
             truth
             ,
             &
             from
             both
             Greek
             ,
             Chymicke
             ,
             or
             Arabian
             ,
             borrowing
             with
             thankfull
             diligence
             any
             helpfull
             good
             to
             needfull
             vse
             .
             Antiquitie
             hath
             giuen
             vs
             our
             first
             e
             lights
             in
             all
             knowledges
             ,
             succeeding
             times
             haue
             added
             their
             seuerall
             lustres
             ,
             and
             our
             latest
             f
             posterity
             hath
             yeelded
             also
             many
             things
             not
             vnworthy
             their
             worthy
             praise
             .
             Chiefly
             to
             honour
             the
             ancient
             worthies
             ,
             yet
             to
             g
             contemne
             none
             ,
             and
             to
             view
             all
             ,
             is
             the
             rarest
             growth
             ,
             but
             truest
             perfection
             .
             And
             thus
             by
             the
             examples
             before
             for
             many
             innumerable
             more
             ,
             it
             is
             manifest
             that
             men
             learned
             ,
             knowing
             and
             reading
             much
             ,
             may
             notwithstanding
             either
             through
             distraction
             or
             negligence
             be
             esteemed
             and
             found
             in
             complete
             perfect
             and
             distinct
             knowing
             ,
             ignorant
             and
             vnwotting
             .
             And
             as
             their
             vnderstandings
             are
             hence
             corrupted
             and
             depraued
             ,
             so
             necessarily
             by
             consequent
             must
             their
             actions
             be
             answerable
             thereto
             ,
             since
             thence
             deriued
             ,
             bad
             principles
             euer
             producing
             bad
             practise
             .
             This
             is
             not
             obscure
             nor
             dainty
             in
             many
             common
             practisers
             of
             imperfect
             knowledge
             ,
             to
             be
             daily
             instanced
             almost
             euery
             where
             ,
             whereby
             that
             man
             whose
             owne
             iudgement
             cannot
             giue
             him
             dispensation
             to
             swarue
             and
             differ
             sometimes
             from
             the
             common
             vnderstanding
             ,
             vse
             ,
             and
             custome
             of
             vulgar
             practise
             ,
             
             shall
             oft
             times
             dangerously
             erre
             .
             In
             aboue
             40.
             yeares
             being
             ,
             I
             haue
             now
             twenty
             yeares
             bene
             an
             vnderstanding
             obseruer
             and
             partaker
             of
             diuers
             and
             different
             medicinall
             practise
             ,
             and
             therein
             haue
             oft
             noted
             how
             that
             which
             somtime
             hath
             opposed
             common
             receiued
             rule
             ,
             in
             the
             peculiar
             proofe
             of
             some
             other
             learned
             ,
             hath
             giuen
             good
             occasion
             of
             new
             disquisition
             of
             before
             vnconsidered
             reason
             or
             distinction
             in
             the
             rule
             .
             For
             a
             briefe
             taste
             of
             many
             ,
             I
             will
             particularize
             some
             few
             .
             I
             haue
             obserued
             in
             some
             kind
             of
             Palsies
             bloud
             taken
             frō
             the
             paralytike
             side
             ,
             when
             all
             other
             meanes
             haue
             proued
             vaine
             ,
             to
             haue
             bene
             the
             sole
             present
             succesful
             remedie
             ,
             yea
             beyond
             all
             hope
             hath
             oft
             rescued
             the
             latest
             hope
             out
             of
             the
             iawes
             of
             death
             .
             This
             much
             experience
             doth
             testifie
             ,
             yet
             is
             it
             contrary
             vnto
             receiued
             ancient
             edict
             .
             In
             like
             manner
             in
             some
             diseased
             plethoricall
             bodies
             ,
             I
             haue
             obserued
             and
             seene
             ,
             that
             their
             generall
             numnesse
             ,
             a
             torpor
             and
             stupidity
             raised
             in
             them
             from
             the
             distention
             ,
             compression
             and
             obstruction
             of
             their
             full
             vessels
             ,
             hath
             immediatly
             on
             the
             same
             side
             that
             was
             let
             bloud
             ,
             found
             present
             and
             sensible
             deliuery
             from
             those
             accidents
             with
             great
             lightsomnesse
             and
             alleuiation
             ,
             the
             opposite
             side
             still
             continuing
             in
             the
             former
             manner
             oppressed
             and
             greeued
             ,
             vntill
             the
             same
             remedy
             of
             phlebotomy
             hath
             bene
             thereto
             likewise
             applied
             .
             In
             cōmon
             stoppages
             of
             the
             wombe
             I
             haue
             oft
             seene
             when
             the
             vsuall
             bleeding
             in
             the
             foote
             hath
             nothing
             at
             all
             profited
             ,
             but
             in
             vaine
             wearied
             the
             parts
             thereby
             fruitlesly
             vexed
             ,
             that
             the
             incision
             of
             a
             veine
             in
             the
             arme
             hath
             immediatly
             opened
             the
             stoppage
             ,
             and
             the
             former
             current
             hath
             freely
             streamed
             .
             In
             some
             kind
             of
             dropsies
             ,
             cachexiaes
             ,
             or
             greene
             sicknesses
             .
             I
             haue
             obserued
             that
             letting
             bloud
             by
             excellent
             fruite
             and
             benefite
             ,
             hath
             proued
             the
             succesfull
             remedie
             ,
             aboue
             ,
             beyond
             ,
             and
             after
             all
             remedies
             .
             These
             things
             are
             witnessed
             by
             many
             worthy
             testimonies
             ,
             and
             yet
             are
             generally
             esteemed
             violations
             of
             rule
             .
             I
             will
             not
             here
             dispute
             the
             causes
             and
             reasons
             of
             these
             things
             ,
             nor
             disquire
             how
             iudgement
             did
             guide
             vnto
             these
             trials
             ,
             nor
             how
             necessarily
             or
             probably
             the
             effects
             and
             consequent
             followed
             ,
             
             or
             cohered
             with
             the
             iudgement
             .
             I
             will
             leaue
             it
             indifferent
             vnto
             euery
             one
             learned
             ,
             and
             vnto
             right
             perpension
             in
             iust
             occasion
             of
             due
             consideration
             hereof
             .
             I
             giue
             not
             these
             instances
             (
             as
             rash
             supposall
             may
             imagine
             )
             to
             encourage
             Empericall
             boldnesse
             ,
             vnto
             common
             imitation
             hereof
             ,
             nor
             do
             hereby
             allow
             (
             as
             some
             not
             distinguishing
             may
             imagine
             )
             bloud-thirstie
             phlebotomy
             to
             suck
             mens
             liues
             in
             rash
             trial
             hereof
             ▪
             but
             to
             proue
             and
             manifest
             how
             necessary
             it
             is
             for
             a
             iudicious
             and
             orthodox
             Physition
             ,
             diligently
             and
             prudently
             in
             his
             facultie
             exercised
             according
             to
             art
             ,
             to
             retaine
             and
             enioy
             a
             reserued
             power
             and
             warranted
             sufficiency
             within
             himselfe
             ,
             to
             varie
             and
             differ
             sometimes
             from
             too
             strict
             &
             superstitious
             imitation
             of
             a
             common
             rule
             and
             receiued
             custome
             .
             And
             from
             this
             worth
             and
             vertue
             hath
             it
             come
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             many
             learned
             &
             famous
             men
             ,
             in
             their
             seuerall
             ages
             haue
             left
             so
             many
             worthy
             additamēts
             vnto
             knowledg
             and
             the
             common
             good
             ,
             by
             their
             owne
             speciall
             proofes
             &
             trials
             of
             rules
             ,
             in
             their
             peculiar
             practise
             oft
             different
             from
             vulgar
             conceit
             ,
             vse
             and
             custome
             ;
             vnto
             whom
             may
             not
             be
             denied
             beyond
             the
             ordinary
             bounds
             ,
             a
             libertie
             and
             dispensation
             contained
             within
             the
             latitude
             of
             safe
             discretion
             and
             art
             .
             And
             thus
             briefly
             both
             by
             the
             vse
             of
             common
             distracted
             reading
             ,
             and
             thence
             indigested
             vnderstanding
             ,
             and
             also
             by
             the
             former
             particular
             proofes
             of
             easie
             deception
             in
             acception
             of
             common
             rules
             ,
             and
             lastly
             by
             examples
             of
             practise
             ,
             it
             is
             manifested
             that
             men
             otherwise
             ,
             and
             in
             other
             respects
             ,
             esteemed
             iustly
             learned
             ,
             may
             inconsiderately
             &
             easily
             erre
             ,
             whē
             distractedly
             &
             deuidedly
             they
             employ
             their
             thoughts
             and
             cogitations
             ,
             or
             want
             that
             sole
             or
             solide
             possession
             of
             their
             whole
             minds
             and
             meditations
             by
             their
             owne
             proper
             faculties
             and
             functions
             .
             This
             is
             the
             reason
             ,
             that
             though
             comparably
             to
             these
             times
             no
             age
             hath
             euer
             affoorded
             writings
             more
             prodigally
             obuious
             ,
             nor
             shew
             of
             knowledge
             with
             greater
             affluence
             ,
             yet
             in
             Authors
             neuer
             hath
             bene
             either
             lesse
             true
             meaning
             ,
             or
             lesse
             right
             vnderstanding
             .
             Hence
             as
             seeming
             vnderstanding
             did
             neuer
             more
             abound
             ,
             so
             neuer
             was
             it
             of
             worse
             report
             ,
             the
             goose
             a
             so
             liberally
             
             
             
             
             
             giuing
             wings
             and
             feathers
             vnto
             fantasticke
             thoughts
             ,
             but
             the
             eagle-eye
             of
             cleare
             &
             b
             sincere
             iudgement
             ,
             seldome
             vndazedly
             ,
             or
             without
             winking
             ,
             fixed
             vpon
             the
             perfect
             brightnesse
             and
             puritie
             of
             serene
             and
             clearly
             distinguisht
             truth
             .
             And
             thus
             much
             touching
             those
             that
             are
             of
             best
             proficience
             and
             most
             learned
             note
             in
             deuided
             studies
             and
             callings
             ,
             distraction
             necessarily
             leauing
             a
             remisnesse
             and
             neglect
             in
             many
             things
             both
             of
             minde
             and
             action
             .
             As
             for
             those
             that
             are
             of
             meane
             literature
             in
             their
             owne
             professions
             ,
             their
             intrusion
             in
             others
             ,
             and
             desperate
             esteeme
             and
             qualitie
             in
             their
             owne
             ,
             must
             needs
             preach
             their
             insufficiencie
             in
             the
             latter
             by
             their
             mediocritie
             in
             the
             first
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             II.
             
          
           
             Of
             beneficed
             Practisers
             .
          
           
             THE
             grand
             and
             most
             common
             offenders
             in
             those
             kinds
             before
             remembred
             ,
             and
             in
             these
             dayes
             ,
             are
             diuers
             Astrologers
             ,
             but
             especially
             Ecclesiasticall
             persons
             ,
             Vicars
             and
             Parsons
             ,
             who
             now
             ouerflow
             this
             kingdome
             with
             this
             alienation
             of
             their
             owne
             proper
             offices
             and
             duties
             ,
             and
             vsurpation
             of
             others
             ,
             making
             their
             holy
             calling
             a
             linsey
             wolsey
             ,
             too
             narrow
             for
             their
             minds
             ,
             and
             therefore
             making
             themselues
             roome
             in
             others
             affaires
             ,
             vnder
             pretence
             of
             loue
             and
             mercie
             .
             Besides
             ,
             their
             profane
             intrusion
             into
             inhibited
             lists
             ,
             their
             vnlimited
             breach
             of
             law
             ,
             and
             want
             of
             reuerence
             and
             respect
             of
             order
             and
             distinction
             of
             callings
             ,
             (
             which
             true
             Diuinitie
             doth
             teach
             holy
             men
             )
             reason
             and
             experience
             do
             dayly
             witnesse
             ,
             that
             by
             the
             necessarie
             coincidence
             oft
             times
             of
             both
             callings
             requiring
             them
             at
             the
             same
             moment
             in
             distant
             places
             ,
             without
             conscience
             they
             impose
             vpon
             themselues
             a
             necessary
             neglect
             of
             both
             by
             an
             vnnecessary
             a
             assumption
             of
             the
             one
             .
             This
             the
             poore
             patients
             necessitie
             and
             need
             must
             oft
             complaine
             ,
             though
             haply
             more
             seldome
             obserued
             :
             and
             therefore
             of
             few
             is
             that
             which
             herein
             is
             lamentable
             ,
             
             at
             all
             lamented
             .
             Many
             times
             many
             poore
             people
             (
             and
             sometimes
             men
             of
             better
             worth
             )
             in
             their
             necessities
             ,
             and
             oft
             last
             extremities
             ,
             through
             this
             voluntarie
             ouermeasure
             of
             emploiment
             in
             these
             enlarged
             spirits
             ,
             are
             not
             onely
             deferred
             ,
             procrastinated
             and
             neglected
             ,
             but
             oft
             times
             euen
             to
             death
             illuded
             .
             For
             from
             report
             and
             information
             by
             others
             vnto
             the
             Physition
             ,
             and
             from
             the
             indication
             by
             vrine
             (
             which
             are
             borrowed
             ,
             and
             therefore
             slipperie
             grounds
             )
             many
             diseases
             conceale
             themselues
             :
             oft
             for
             want
             of
             the
             presence
             of
             the
             Physitions
             owne
             view
             ,
             the
             chiefest
             opportunitie
             and
             hopefull
             houre
             steale
             away
             vnespied
             ,
             and
             death
             maketh
             many
             blind
             ,
             because
             they
             had
             not
             their
             Physitions
             eyes
             .
             In
             these
             difficulties
             therefore
             (
             wherein
             consist
             the
             greatest
             vses
             and
             benefites
             of
             a
             Physition
             )
             these
             men
             by
             their
             double
             and
             both-hand
             emploiment
             ,
             compell
             themselues
             commonly
             to
             a
             double
             crueltie
             ,
             either
             for
             the
             most
             part
             to
             denie
             their
             presence
             ,
             or
             else
             not
             to
             performe
             the
             promise
             of
             their
             presence
             ,
             being
             euer
             subiect
             to
             a
             countermaund
             ,
             by
             their
             voluntarie
             subiection
             to
             a
             double
             command
             .
             If
             therefore
             they
             would
             consider
             the
             shortnesse
             of
             their
             liues
             ,
             with
             the
             immensitie
             of
             their
             owne
             taske
             ,
             they
             would
             not
             allow
             so
             large
             a
             vacancie
             to
             succisiue
             houres
             and
             workes
             ,
             which
             now
             for
             the
             most
             part
             are
             most
             part
             of
             their
             time
             vnto
             the
             great
             hurt
             and
             iniurie
             of
             others
             ,
             and
             the
             increase
             of
             scandall
             vnto
             their
             d
             owne
             vocations
             .
             I
             know
             the
             learned
             and
             reuerend
             Diuine
             is
             herein
             for
             the
             most
             part
             free
             ,
             or
             if
             some
             few
             be
             iustly
             taxed
             ,
             their
             modest
             minds
             will
             easily
             moderate
             and
             reduce
             them
             ;
             and
             for
             the
             rest
             ,
             whose
             dispositions
             are
             shamelesse
             and
             incorrigible
             ,
             that
             may
             haply
             still
             become
             the
             foole
             ,
             which
             is
             a
             reproach
             vnto
             the
             wise
             ,
             and
             e
             befit
             the
             vnhonest
             that
             defames
             the
             iust
             .
             I
             do
             not
             dislike
             the
             deuout
             and
             charitable
             deeds
             of
             their
             holy
             minds
             ,
             nor
             reall
             compassion
             and
             contribution
             vnto
             the
             sicke
             and
             needie
             ,
             nor
             yet
             their
             medicinall
             aduice
             with
             incorrupt
             hands
             free
             from
             implication
             of
             priuate
             gaine
             ,
             and
             vnobserued
             and
             concealed
             merchandizing
             in
             charitable
             deeds
             ;
             but
             I
             abhorre
             and
             wish
             repented
             (
             which
             
             in
             many
             of
             them
             is
             abhominable
             and
             sacrilegious
             )
             their
             pecuniarie
             trafficke
             and
             trading
             by
             vsurped
             erecting
             in
             their
             houses
             Apothecarie
             shops
             by
             manumission
             of
             base
             wares
             that
             are
             not
             allowed
             ,
             nor
             haue
             obtained
             freedome
             elsewhere
             ,
             whereby
             vnlawfully
             they
             exenterate
             and
             eate
             out
             the
             bowels
             of
             poore
             mens
             purses
             .
             Neither
             is
             it
             any
             way
             to
             be
             iustified
             ,
             that
             they
             ordinarily
             trauel
             vp
             &
             downe
             to
             spoile
             the
             more
             worthy
             of
             his
             fee
             ,
             and
             the
             proper
             laborer
             of
             his
             hire
             :
             nor
             yet
             is
             it
             lesse
             shame
             ,
             that
             without
             shame
             or
             blushing
             their
             bils
             in
             many
             places
             inhabite
             ordinarily
             Apothecaries
             files
             and
             shoppes
             ,
             as
             if
             their
             owne
             vndoubted
             right
             .
             Their
             maister
             Saint
             Paul
             teacheth
             euery
             man
             to
             walk
             within
             his
             a
             owne
             calling
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             be
             busily
             b
             stragling
             in
             others
             :
             so
             shall
             they
             honour
             their
             calling
             ,
             and
             their
             callings
             honour
             them
             ,
             and
             both
             honour
             God
             that
             sent
             them
             .
             I
             know
             the
             gift
             of
             healing
             in
             the
             Apostles
             was
             the
             gift
             of
             God
             his
             grace
             and
             speciall
             fauor
             and
             allowance
             vnto
             them
             for
             those
             times
             ;
             but
             it
             was
             in
             them
             a
             miraculous
             and
             diuin●
             power
             conse●rated
             vnto
             an
             holy
             end
             :
             but
             in
             these
             times
             it
             is
             an
             acquired
             facultie
             ,
             and
             in
             these
             men
             vnto
             a
             mercenarie
             vse
             .
             It
             is
             indeed
             a
             deede
             of
             mercie
             to
             saue
             and
             helpe
             the
             sicke
             ,
             and
             a
             worke
             of
             charitie
             to
             aduise
             them
             for
             their
             health
             &
             ease
             :
             but
             the
             common
             good
             and
             publicke
             weale
             ,
             &
             the
             law
             for
             both
             doth
             inhibite
             the
             doing
             of
             euery
             good
             by
             euery
             man
             ,
             and
             doth
             limit
             and
             restraine
             it
             vnto
             some
             speciall
             and
             select
             sort
             of
             men
             ,
             for
             necessary
             causes
             ,
             and
             respects
             vnto
             good
             gouernment
             and
             policie
             ,
             and
             for
             auoiding
             confusion
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             ruine
             of
             publicke
             weales
             .
             Shal
             then
             Diuinitie
             teach
             and
             allow
             for
             priuate
             deedes
             ,
             ends
             and
             respects
             of
             charitie
             and
             mercie
             ,
             to
             breake
             g
             publicke
             edicts
             ,
             to
             transgresse
             lawes
             ,
             to
             contemne
             magistracie
             ,
             to
             confound
             and
             disturbe
             good
             order
             ?
             Good
             order
             forbiddeth
             ,
             that
             for
             pretence
             of
             any
             necessitie
             whatsoeuer
             ,
             cause
             or
             reason
             ,
             one
             man
             presume
             to
             breake
             into
             anothers
             bounds
             ,
             yea
             and
             Diuinitie
             teacheth
             the
             same
             .
             God
             himselfe
             tieth
             men
             in
             all
             things
             ,
             in
             all
             necessities
             ,
             vnto
             certaine
             and
             appointed
             ends
             .
             He
             ordained
             a
             select
             number
             of
             Apostles
             
             and
             Disciples
             ,
             and
             vnto
             them
             onely
             annexed
             the
             diuine
             worke
             and
             calling
             of
             nations
             and
             people
             vnto
             saluation
             ,
             commanding
             all
             men
             vpon
             paine
             of
             damnation
             to
             seeke
             out
             and
             follow
             that
             meanes
             wheresoeuer
             or
             howsoeuer
             distant
             ,
             and
             did
             not
             ordaine
             the
             meanes
             confusedly
             in
             euery
             person
             to
             waite
             vpon
             euery
             priuate
             necessitie
             .
             In
             like
             maner
             in
             a
             commonweale
             ,
             lawes
             and
             policie
             ordaine
             (
             preferring
             the
             common
             good
             before
             euery
             h
             priuate
             ease
             and
             benefite
             )
             that
             euery
             man
             haue
             his
             distinct
             calling
             ,
             vnto
             which
             all
             other
             mens
             necessitie
             therein
             may
             and
             ought
             to
             repaire
             .
             For
             if
             euery
             man
             might
             be
             of
             euery
             calling
             ,
             confusion
             of
             callings
             would
             in
             the
             end
             leaue
             no
             calling
             .
             Therfore
             euery
             mans
             need
             or
             necessitie
             is
             not
             sufficient
             to
             make
             euery
             one
             capable
             of
             giuing
             supply
             needfull
             thereto
             ,
             but
             God
             ,
             and
             nature
             ,
             and
             law
             haue
             tied
             and
             allotted
             men
             to
             seeke
             meanes
             ,
             and
             those
             meanes
             confirmed
             to
             certaine
             set
             bounds
             and
             limits
             ,
             that
             men
             may
             still
             in
             all
             things
             according
             to
             the
             law
             of
             mortalitie
             ,
             be
             euer
             in
             this
             life
             subiect
             vnto
             casualties
             ,
             oft
             for
             their
             triall
             ,
             sometime
             for
             their
             punishment
             ,
             or
             else
             for
             a
             further
             decree
             and
             secret
             purpose
             of
             the
             Diuine
             prouidence
             ,
             so
             and
             to
             such
             ends
             thus
             ordering
             .
             Thus
             by
             cleare
             truth
             ouershining
             the
             mists
             &
             clouds
             of
             false
             pretexts
             to
             the
             contrary
             ,
             it
             is
             manifest
             ,
             that
             this
             fluctuation
             of
             these
             men
             betweene
             two
             callings
             is
             offensiue
             to
             God
             ,
             scandalous
             vnto
             religion
             and
             good
             men
             ,
             and
             iniurious
             vnto
             commonweales
             ,
             and
             but
             presumption
             borrowing
             the
             face
             of
             Diuinitie
             .
             What
             encouragement
             their
             example
             hath
             giuen
             vnto
             drones
             and
             idle
             persons
             ,
             abounding
             by
             their
             example
             infinitely
             in
             the
             same
             wrong
             ,
             he
             hath
             no
             eies
             that
             doth
             not
             consider
             .
             Their
             many
             ,
             ordinarie
             ,
             rash
             ,
             ignorant
             and
             vnskilfull
             errors
             and
             commissions
             against
             the
             health
             and
             life
             of
             many
             ,
             besides
             their
             forenamed
             omissions
             ,
             intrusions
             ,
             procrastinations
             ,
             and
             neglects
             of
             one
             calling
             by
             another
             ,
             I
             could
             by
             many
             too
             true
             instances
             confirme
             ,
             but
             for
             reuerēce
             of
             the
             callings
             I
             spare
             the
             men
             .
             I
             wil
             onely
             giue
             two
             knowne
             instances
             ,
             wherein
             (
             as
             in
             a
             glasse
             )
             men
             may
             view
             the
             diuers
             faces
             of
             many
             more
             of
             the
             like
             
             sort
             .
             g
             A
             gentleman
             in
             Bedfordshire
             not
             long
             since
             was
             sodainly
             surprised
             by
             a
             continuall
             feauer
             ,
             accompanied
             with
             a
             generall
             lassitude
             and
             wearinesse
             of
             the
             whole
             bodie
             ,
             and
             together
             with
             heate
             and
             burning
             ,
             delirations
             and
             lightnes
             of
             braine
             .
             The
             habit
             of
             his
             bodie
             and
             his
             flesh
             were
             musculous
             and
             well
             liking
             ,
             the
             season
             warme
             ,
             his
             age
             firme
             ,
             and
             constitution
             sanguin●
             ,
             his
             pulse
             high
             ,
             full
             ,
             large
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             vehemence
             and
             strength
             of
             motion
             manifest
             euen
             vnto
             the
             beholders
             eye
             .
             A
             Parson
             or
             Vicar
             comming
             vnto
             him
             ,
             maketh
             many
             feares
             and
             seeming-graue
             discourses
             of
             the
             danger
             and
             imminence
             of
             a
             g
             Marasme
             ,
             and
             from
             this
             supposed
             grand
             perill
             stoutly
             withstandeth
             the
             needfull
             vse
             of
             due
             phlebotomie
             .
             The
             allies
             and
             friends
             of
             the
             patient
             obseruing
             the
             dayly
             decrease
             of
             hope
             and
             health
             ,
             diligently
             enquire
             after
             another
             Physition
             ,
             and
             by
             happe
             found
             me
             where
             then
             employed
             .
             When
             I
             came
             vnto
             the
             patient
             ,
             the
             Parson
             entertaineth
             vs
             with
             confident
             discourses
             and
             disputes
             concerning
             a
             Marasme
             ,
             whom
             when
             I
             found
             after
             long
             patience
             and
             calme
             conference
             in
             the
             presence
             and
             hearing
             of
             diuers
             worthy
             knights
             and
             gentlemen
             still
             endlesly
             and
             reasonalesly
             b
             vaine
             ,
             and
             yet
             possessed
             with
             an
             in●incible
             spirit
             of
             open
             and
             obstinate
             contradiction
             ,
             I
             in
             the
             end
             with
             their
             common
             consents
             contemned
             and
             reiected
             him
             .
             The
             patient
             I
             found
             free
             from
             any
             particular
             which
             might
             inhibite
             c
             phlebotomie
             ,
             and
             manifestly
             saw
             the
             danger
             of
             the
             delay
             thereof
             ,
             (
             both
             which
             may
             appeare
             by
             the
             description
             of
             his
             estate
             )
             and
             therefore
             seeing
             the
             indication
             so
             plaine
             ,
             and
             the
             necessitie
             so
             vrgent
             ,
             contrarie
             to
             the
             babling
             opposition
             and
             caus●esse
             predication
             of
             needlesse
             danger
             ,
             I
             caused
             him
             to
             bleed
             ;
             whereupon
             within
             few
             houres
             after
             ,
             besides
             immediate
             alleuiation
             ,
             nature
             d
             seconding
             the
             worke
             ,
             expelled
             at
             his
             nose
             diuers
             quantities
             
             of
             bloud
             at
             seuerall
             times
             ;
             and
             thus
             was
             e
             enabled
             to
             performe
             her
             Crisis
             ,
             being
             before
             detained
             by
             the
             oppression
             of
             the
             former
             quantitie
             of
             bloud
             ,
             whereunto
             her
             strength
             was
             not
             equall
             .
             The
             life
             of
             man
             vnto
             God
             and
             men
             is
             deare
             &
             pretious
             ,
             yet
             behold
             how
             presumptuously
             glorious
             ignorance
             ,
             and
             the
             lawlesse
             breach
             of
             the
             due
             lists
             of
             distinct
             and
             proper
             callings
             ,
             doth
             licentiously
             hazard
             the
             vtmost
             price
             and
             date
             thereof
             .
             And
             how
             likely
             may
             it
             seeme
             ,
             that
             the
             memorie
             of
             this
             wrong
             had
             bene
             in
             the
             same
             graue
             buried
             ,
             if
             it
             had
             not
             bene
             preuented
             ,
             and
             by
             the
             preuention
             solely
             obserued
             .
             I
             will
             now
             annexe
             another
             example
             of
             secret
             betwitching
             flatterie
             by
             close
             whispering
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             ordinarily
             practised
             by
             these
             kind
             of
             men
             ,
             vnto
             the
             vnobserued
             and
             stoln
             perdition
             of
             many
             .
             Anno
             1611.
             a
             gentleman
             in
             this
             maner
             falleth
             sicke
             .
             He
             was
             sodainly
             surprised
             by
             a
             continuall
             feauer
             ,
             with
             burning
             ,
             thirst
             ,
             troublesome
             heate
             in
             the
             soles
             of
             the
             feete
             ,
             and
             palmes
             of
             the
             hands
             ,
             frequent
             delirations
             and
             perturbations
             of
             the
             mind
             ,
             fulnesse
             of
             the
             stomacke
             ,
             loathing
             ,
             painfull
             distentions
             and
             ructuations
             ,
             drinesse
             and
             yeallownesse
             of
             the
             tongue
             ,
             bitternesse
             and
             heate
             of
             the
             mouth
             ,
             paines
             about
             the
             short
             ribs
             ,
             loynes
             ,
             backe
             and
             shoulders
             ,
             ill
             sleeps
             &
             confused
             dreams
             .
             There
             entertained
             these
             accidents
             the
             vsuall
             fulnesse
             of
             his
             body
             vnto
             the
             cōmon
             outward
             view
             ,
             &
             accōpanied
             a
             pulse
             swift
             ,
             vehement
             and
             large
             ,
             an
             vrine
             high
             coloured
             ,
             red
             ,
             and
             thicke
             :
             al
             which
             many
             witnesses
             of
             vnderstanding
             confirme
             .
             According
             vnto
             the
             former
             indication
             ,
             the
             patient
             was
             twise
             let
             h
             bloud
             ,
             the
             quantitie
             lost
             the
             first
             time
             ,
             coming
             short
             the
             second
             time
             ,
             not
             exceeding
             ten
             ounces
             ,
             as
             the
             Surgeon
             doth
             witnesse
             .
             He
             was
             once
             i
             vomited
             ,
             by
             due
             respites
             twice
             k
             purged
             with
             good
             effect
             and
             alleuiation
             ,
             oft
             by
             
             glisters
             l
             gently
             moued
             ,
             his
             diet
             prescribed
             ,
             cooling
             ,
             opening
             ,
             and
             altering
             the
             euill
             qualitie
             of
             humors
             .
             After
             these
             things
             done
             ,
             within
             few
             daies
             the
             vrine
             in
             colour
             ,
             substance
             and
             residence
             manifesteth
             a
             concoction
             ,
             and
             therewith
             follow
             some
             disquiets
             and
             anxieties
             ,
             not
             b
             vnhopeful
             forerunners
             of
             the
             approch
             of
             the
             expected
             Crisis
             of
             the
             disease
             ,
             by
             the
             vrine
             so
             c
             fairely
             promised
             .
             In
             this
             faire
             hope
             (
             though
             by
             vnbeleefe
             of
             sense
             denied
             )
             a
             Parson-Physition
             led
             by
             a
             secret
             ambition
             of
             stealing
             the
             praise
             of
             such
             a
             cure
             ,
             (
             if
             fortune
             might
             haply
             fauour
             the
             patient
             with
             ease
             ,
             and
             himselfe
             therein
             with
             the
             opinion
             of
             the
             merit
             (
             as
             was
             verie
             likely
             )
             in
             this
             hope
             taking
             opportunitie
             of
             the
             patients
             impatience
             ,
             he
             whispereth
             vnto
             him
             the
             excellencies
             of
             Aurum
             potabile
             ,
             farre
             beyond
             all
             other
             remedies
             .
             After
             the
             patient
             had
             from
             him
             receiued
             it
             ,
             within
             short
             time
             good
             hap
             gaue
             ease
             .
             Ease
             being
             gained
             ,
             begetteth
             in
             the
             patient
             an
             euer
             after
             incorrigible
             consultation
             with
             his
             owne
             sense
             ,
             and
             now
             measuring
             his
             good
             by
             his
             ease
             ,
             and
             setling
             in
             his
             thoughts
             an
             assurance
             of
             his
             recourie
             ,
             he
             studiously
             and
             continually
             defameth
             his
             Physition
             ,
             and
             with
             euill
             clamours
             filleth
             all
             corners
             of
             the
             countrey
             ,
             as
             farre
             as
             his
             agents
             ,
             his
             owne
             tongue
             or
             credite
             could
             extend
             .
             In
             this
             interim
             likewise
             he
             reiects
             the
             former
             begun
             methode
             of
             discreete
             euacuations
             and
             alterations
             of
             the
             offensiue
             humours
             of
             his
             body
             ,
             and
             in
             steed
             therof
             he
             cherisheth
             and
             cheareth
             vp
             himselfe
             with
             daily
             magnifying
             and
             worshipping
             Aurum
             potabile
             as
             the
             God
             and
             sole
             author
             of
             his
             supposed
             recouery
             .
             In
             this
             meane
             season
             and
             intermission
             of
             former
             courses
             ,
             the
             forward
             signes
             of
             faire
             concoction
             ,
             so
             hopefully
             before
             appearing
             diuers
             dayes
             together
             ,
             now
             retire
             and
             vanish
             ,
             and
             painfull
             swellings
             fall
             into
             e
             his
             legs
             and
             neather
             parts
             :
             and
             then
             compelled
             he
             sendeth
             for
             other
             learned
             Physitions
             ,
             but
             vseth
             them
             by
             
             vncertaine
             fits
             ,
             as
             his
             owne
             conceit
             induced
             ,
             and
             with
             a
             reseruation
             of
             his
             sole
             happinesse
             and
             best
             securitie
             in
             Aurum
             potabile
             .
             To
             conclude
             ,
             he
             escaped
             the
             present
             perils
             of
             the
             former
             sharpe
             accidents
             ,
             but
             a
             continued
             lingringly
             and
             languishingly
             sicke
             from
             about
             the
             middle
             of
             March
             ,
             vnto
             the
             the
             latter
             end
             of
             b
             August
             next
             following
             .
             About
             that
             time
             he
             first
             beganne
             to
             find
             some
             reasonable
             satisfaction
             in
             ease
             ,
             and
             the
             recouery
             of
             some
             better
             strength
             ,
             but
             a
             secret
             remainder
             or
             impression
             of
             the
             former
             delirations
             continued
             ,
             and
             some
             suspitious
             signes
             of
             a
             Scorbut
             seemed
             to
             increase
             ,
             which
             before
             likewise
             did
             obscurely
             show
             .
             Beside
             the
             shamefull
             wrong
             vnto
             Physitions
             and
             patients
             ,
             and
             the
             iniurie
             of
             Arts
             and
             truth
             it selfe
             ,
             in
             men
             that
             are
             professors
             of
             diuine
             and
             holy
             callings
             ,
             behold
             the
             vsuall
             insidiation
             of
             Death
             and
             Danger
             ,
             by
             the
             spirit
             of
             flattering
             intrusion
             and
             secret
             lenocination
             of
             false
             hopes
             and
             ease
             possessing
             the
             distraction
             of
             the
             distressed
             sicke
             .
             What
             man
             learned
             and
             iudicious
             cannot
             determine
             ,
             whether
             this
             dangerous
             long
             continuance
             of
             this
             Gentlemans
             disease
             may
             not
             iustly
             and
             in
             good
             reason
             be
             ascribed
             vnto
             the
             sodaine
             c
             discontinuance
             of
             his
             first
             meanes
             ,
             &
             to
             the
             neglect
             thereby
             of
             perfecting
             the
             hopefull
             Crisis
             so
             fairely
             d
             promised
             and
             intended
             ?
             Or
             vnto
             whō
             doth
             it
             not
             appeare
             palpably
             grosse
             ,
             that
             Aurum
             potabile
             can
             containe
             in
             it selfe
             any
             such
             golden
             sufficiency
             ,
             as
             soly
             to
             remoue
             or
             preuent
             all
             the
             former
             accidents
             in
             this
             gentleman
             described
             ,
             which
             God
             ,
             and
             nature
             ,
             and
             reason
             haue
             euer
             denied
             vnto
             any
             one
             particular
             or
             speciall
             medicine
             whatsoeuer
             ?
             Let
             al
             men
             then
             vnto
             whom
             God
             hath
             giuen
             eares
             or
             eyes
             ,
             aduisedly
             behold
             and
             consider
             how
             dangerous
             and
             iniurious
             these
             ordinary
             and
             ignorant
             intrusions
             in
             reason
             proue
             vnto
             poore
             patients
             ,
             who
             thus
             beguiled
             with
             opinion
             ,
             and
             blinded
             with
             deceitfull
             hope
             ,
             or
             ●ase
             ,
             or
             sense
             ,
             ioyously
             oft
             giue
             thankes
             for
             their
             owne
             hurt
             ,
             
             magnifie
             the
             authors
             ,
             and
             not
             seldome
             perish
             in
             the
             praise
             of
             their
             own
             harms
             .
             The
             vnlimited
             expatiation
             of
             so
             foule
             wrongs
             ,
             do
             challenge
             all
             men
             ,
             not
             onely
             the
             learned
             ,
             but
             all
             honest
             or
             ingenuous
             ,
             vnto
             the
             vendication
             of
             art
             and
             truth
             from
             oppression
             by
             so
             grosse
             and
             harmfull
             ignorance
             .
             These
             examples
             are
             sufficient
             to
             admonish
             the
             offenders
             of
             their
             impieti●
             ,
             and
             others
             of
             their
             owne
             perill
             in
             trusting
             vnto
             them
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             III.
             
          
           
             Of
             Astrologers
             ,
             Ephemerides-masters
             .
          
           
             NOw
             concerning
             Astrologers-practisers
             :
             
             There
             is
             a
             sort
             of
             men
             ,
             who
             beside
             and
             beyond
             that
             is
             sufficient
             and
             profitable
             vnto
             Physicke
             ,
             vse
             in
             Astronomicall
             science
             ,
             (
             hauing
             vnaduisedly
             ,
             prodigally
             or
             vnrecouerably
             spent
             too
             much
             paines
             and
             time
             in
             the
             too
             curious
             or
             superstitious
             ,
             or
             supposed
             excellence
             in
             the
             vanities
             of
             Astrologie
             ,
             or
             else
             finding
             by
             their
             other
             defects
             in
             themselues
             the
             want
             and
             insufficiencie
             of
             knowledge
             more
             proper
             and
             essentiall
             vnto
             a
             Physition
             )
             do
             therefore
             (
             which
             now
             is
             all
             the
             hopefull
             remainder
             of
             their
             time
             so
             farre
             spent
             )
             fish
             for
             a
             name
             and
             fame
             amongst
             the
             common
             and
             easie
             deceiued
             vulgars
             ,
             with
             the
             glorious
             baites
             of
             prodigious
             precepts
             .
             Thus
             they
             hook
             simple
             credulitie
             to
             worship
             and
             admire
             their
             lying
             reuelations
             ,
             prescribe
             fortunes
             and
             fates
             ,
             and
             limit
             the
             dayes
             and
             dates
             of
             mens
             liues
             and
             deaths
             vnto
             the
             darke
             points
             of
             their
             Kalēdars
             .
             Neither
             do
             they
             blush
             to
             promise
             and
             professe
             that
             they
             take
             counsel
             of
             heauen
             (
             when
             heauē
             b
             denieth
             them
             )
             thereby
             gaining
             to
             themselues
             glorie
             in
             the
             slander
             of
             heauen
             and
             the
             scandall
             of
             truth
             .
             Thus
             vsually
             they
             peruert
             the
             right
             vse
             of
             Astronomicall
             science
             vnto
             deceit
             ,
             imposture
             ,
             and
             iugling
             merchandizing
             for
             vniust
             and
             iniurious
             gaine
             ,
             and
             perswade
             the
             voluntarie
             motions
             and
             arbitrary
             actions
             of
             men
             ,
             their
             consequences
             and
             issues
             
             to
             be
             driuen
             by
             the
             heauens
             vnto
             ends
             and
             destinies
             there
             inrolled
             ,
             and
             themselues
             (
             as
             if
             the
             onely
             true
             sons
             of
             heauen
             forsooth
             )
             there
             onely
             admitted
             to
             reade
             and
             view
             .
             Indeed
             the
             will
             of
             man
             hath
             not
             power
             in
             it selfe
             to
             will
             or
             moue
             it selfe
             to
             any
             good
             pleasing
             vnto
             God
             ,
             or
             sauing
             to
             it selfe
             ,
             but
             by
             the
             speciall
             grace
             of
             God
             ,
             drawing
             ,
             guiding
             ,
             or
             mouing
             his
             will
             thereto
             ,
             yet
             doth
             the
             generall
             concordant
             consent
             of
             most
             Diuines
             grant
             as
             vncontrouersed
             ,
             a
             libertie
             and
             freedome
             of
             mans
             will
             vnto
             any
             d
             morall
             ,
             naturall
             ,
             ciuill
             or
             politicke
             good
             .
             And
             in
             these
             kinds
             all
             Diuines
             both
             ancient
             and
             neotericke
             ,
             haue
             both
             acknowledged
             and
             admired
             the
             worthy
             examples
             of
             vertue
             in
             Philosophers
             and
             heathen
             men
             ,
             whose
             infinite
             studious
             paines
             and
             voluntarie
             laborious
             industrie
             in
             atchieuing
             so
             many
             incomparable
             excellencies
             ,
             no
             ingratitude
             can
             denie
             ,
             or
             without
             honour
             mention
             .
             Vertue
             is
             not
             f
             forced
             ,
             but
             free
             in
             whom
             it
             is
             ,
             and
             therefore
             not
             to
             be
             ascribed
             vnto
             the
             heauens
             or
             any
             other
             outward
             g
             cause
             ,
             but
             vnto
             the
             free
             and
             voluntary
             agent
             of
             it selfe
             ,
             and
             by
             the
             owne
             inward
             power
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             mouing
             it selfe
             thereto
             ,
             from
             his
             owne
             h
             purpose
             therein
             .
             This
             all
             men
             ,
             Diuinitie
             ,
             Philosophie
             ,
             reason
             ,
             experience
             ,
             with
             an
             vnitie
             of
             consent
             confirme
             .
             If
             then
             a
             mans
             action
             be
             his
             owne
             ,
             if
             the
             end
             his
             owne
             ,
             the
             effectuall
             prosecution
             thereof
             vnto
             the
             end
             his
             owne
             ;
             if
             God
             himselfe
             haue
             granted
             this
             priuiledge
             vnto
             all
             men
             ,
             as
             indifferent
             and
             common
             vnto
             all
             whom
             he
             hath
             created
             vnder
             the
             condition
             of
             men
             ,
             what
             creature
             shall
             intercept
             the
             i
             endowment
             of
             the
             Creator
             ?
             what
             shall
             take
             the
             honour
             of
             this
             gift
             from
             him
             that
             gaue
             it
             ,
             or
             the
             right
             thereof
             from
             him
             that
             thence
             receiueth
             it
             ?
             The
             heauens
             cannot
             so
             blaspheme
             their
             Maker
             ,
             though
             men
             thus
             dare
             belie
             the
             heuens
             to
             iustifie
             their
             owne
             impietie
             .
             All
             things
             depend
             vpon
             the
             prouidence
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             from
             him
             and
             by
             him
             
             are
             ordained
             second
             causes
             ,
             which
             indeed
             in
             nature
             haue
             their
             necessitie
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             will
             of
             man
             haue
             a
             power
             onely
             to
             moue
             or
             incline
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             force
             .
             This
             is
             the
             reason
             ,
             that
             though
             man
             by
             his
             starres
             be
             borne
             to
             infinite
             miseries
             ,
             diuersly
             mouing
             and
             affecting
             him
             continually
             ,
             from
             the
             earth
             ,
             from
             the
             sea
             ,
             from
             the
             land
             ,
             from
             the
             aire
             ,
             from
             the
             fire
             ,
             from
             his
             owne
             affections
             ,
             infirmities
             ,
             diseases
             ,
             from
             diuers
             haps
             and
             casualties
             ;
             yet
             vnto
             him
             that
             knoweth
             the
             free
             gift
             of
             his
             Maker
             ,
             and
             the
             good
             that
             he
             hath
             done
             for
             him
             ,
             none
             of
             all
             these
             things
             by
             any
             necessitie
             in
             themselues
             therto
             ,
             can
             touch
             him
             or
             once
             g
             come
             neare
             him
             .
             For
             whether
             calamitie
             approch
             from
             aboue
             or
             below
             ,
             from
             maligne
             constellation
             ,
             or
             other
             inferior
             or
             terrestriall
             incumbrances
             ,
             man
             by
             his
             spirit
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             by
             prudence
             and
             circumspect
             prouidence
             ,
             hath
             a
             large
             immunitie
             ,
             whereby
             he
             may
             and
             oft
             doth
             auoide
             these
             violences
             ,
             and
             delude
             their
             forces
             .
             The
             wise
             man
             (
             saith
             Salomon
             )
             foreseeth
             the
             plague
             ,
             and
             hideth
             himselfe
             ,
             neither
             can
             any
             euill
             befall
             the
             wise
             ,
             which
             he
             may
             not
             and
             doth
             not
             ,
             either
             being
             to
             come
             by
             prouident
             foresight
             preuent
             ,
             or
             present
             by
             carefull
             industrie
             allay
             ,
             or
             past
             by
             diligence
             redeeme
             ,
             no
             influence
             or
             destinie
             being
             able
             to
             bring
             mans
             will
             and
             endeuour
             to
             an
             higher
             point
             then
             wisedome
             and
             goodnesse
             .
             This
             is
             the
             reason
             that
             common
             calamities
             befall
             not
             all
             men
             alike
             ,
             yea
             rather
             to
             euery
             one
             vnlike
             .
             This
             is
             also
             the
             reason
             that
             many
             borne
             vnder
             the
             same
             constellation
             ,
             haue
             different
             fortunes
             from
             each
             other
             ,
             and
             farre
             vnlike
             their
             like
             constellation
             :
             nay
             it
             is
             oft
             seene
             ,
             and
             cannot
             be
             denied
             ,
             that
             many
             men
             by
             their
             owne
             industrie
             haue
             contradicted
             their
             starres
             ,
             whereby
             vnfortunately
             marked
             in
             their
             natiuities
             ,
             they
             haue
             triumphed
             ouer
             the
             heauens
             in
             the
             felicitie
             of
             their
             owne
             wisedome
             and
             vertue
             .
             Of
             this
             sort
             haue
             bene
             not
             onely
             one
             Socrates
             and
             the
             great
             Philosophers
             ,
             but
             many
             common
             men
             Socratically
             h
             disposed
             and
             endeuouring
             .
             Contrariwise
             also
             diuers
             borne
             vnder
             good
             starres
             vnto
             good
             destinies
             ,
             in
             their
             growth
             haue
             either
             ouerunne
             ,
             or
             i
             come
             short
             of
             their
             destinie
             .
             For
             although
             
             the
             heauens
             doe
             worke
             by
             their
             hidden
             power
             and
             influence
             ,
             secret
             impressions
             ,
             procliuities
             and
             inclinations
             ,
             as
             in
             all
             things
             vnder
             heauen
             ,
             so
             in
             the
             constitutions
             and
             tempers
             of
             men
             in
             their
             generation
             ,
             conception
             and
             birth
             :
             yet
             are
             their
             effectuall
             productions
             thereof
             in
             men
             a
             themselues
             variously
             alterable
             according
             to
             education
             ,
             inclination
             ,
             occasion
             ,
             and
             circumstance
             ,
             and
             therefore
             as
             touching
             the
             absolute
             power
             of
             the
             heauens
             euer
             varying
             .
             There
             is
             no
             man
             that
             can
             so
             farre
             b
             deny
             himselfe
             a
             man
             ,
             as
             to
             make
             doubt
             of
             free
             arbitrarie
             choice
             in
             himselfe
             to
             do
             or
             not
             to
             do
             ,
             to
             like
             or
             dislike
             ,
             to
             do
             that
             he
             will
             ,
             to
             refuse
             that
             he
             nill
             .
             For
             if
             heauenly
             influences
             compell
             or
             force
             mens
             actions
             ,
             and
             their
             wils
             be
             led
             and
             not
             free
             ,
             vniustly
             any
             man
             shall
             be
             vniust
             ,
             neither
             can
             the
             lawes
             of
             God
             or
             men
             be
             iust
             ordained
             against
             wilfull
             d
             offenders
             :
             but
             God
             is
             iust
             ,
             and
             lawes
             are
             righteous
             ,
             and
             therfore
             mens
             actions
             are
             their
             owne
             ,
             moued
             from
             an
             inward
             power
             and
             essence
             peculiar
             vnto
             themselues
             ,
             and
             from
             an
             end
             and
             intention
             which
             is
             their
             owne
             .
             Touching
             those
             therefore
             that
             from
             the
             heauens
             promise
             to
             tell
             fortunes
             ,
             to
             cast
             figures
             ,
             to
             turne
             Ephemerides
             for
             natiuities
             ,
             for
             good
             haps
             ,
             for
             ill
             haps
             ,
             successes
             ,
             losses
             ,
             fortunate
             ,
             infortunate
             euents
             ,
             he
             that
             hath
             but
             common
             sense
             and
             reason
             ,
             and
             can
             thinke
             but
             worthily
             of
             himselfe
             ,
             may
             c
             easily
             discouer
             their
             falshood
             ,
             imposture
             ,
             deceit
             and
             cousenage
             ,
             howsoeuer
             sometimes
             euents
             may
             countenance
             ;
             for
             hoodwinked
             happe
             may
             sometimes
             light
             vpon
             truth
             ,
             and
             craft
             working
             vpon
             credulitie
             ,
             may
             make
             any
             truth
             of
             any
             falshood
             .
             Thus
             farre
             briefly
             concerning
             the
             powers
             of
             the
             heauens
             ouer
             the
             minds
             and
             willes
             of
             men
             ,
             their
             voluntary
             actions
             ,
             their
             consequences
             and
             issues
             .
             Now
             concerning
             their
             vertue
             ouer
             the
             bodies
             and
             humours
             of
             the
             sicke
             and
             diseased
             :
             No
             man
             can
             deny
             the
             heauens
             as
             generall
             g
             and
             superiour
             causes
             to
             haue
             power
             ouer
             all
             things
             created
             vnder
             heauen
             ,
             by
             whose
             influence
             and
             radiation
             all
             things
             increase
             ,
             grow
             ,
             liue
             ,
             and
             are
             conserued
             ,
             and
             by
             whose
             recesse
             all
             
             
             
             
             
             things
             mourne
             ,
             wither
             ,
             fall
             and
             droupe
             .
             This
             doth
             witnesse
             the
             sommer
             and
             the
             winter
             ,
             &
             all
             other
             seasons
             ,
             which
             the
             heauens
             by
             their
             motion
             varying
             ,
             bring
             vnto
             all
             things
             vicissitudes
             ,
             changes
             ,
             and
             alterations
             ,
             and
             by
             their
             secret
             influence
             imperceptibly
             distill
             different
             and
             contrary
             inclinations
             ,
             tempers
             ,
             and
             affections
             .
             Hence
             winter
             ,
             sommer
             ,
             spring
             ,
             and
             autumne
             ,
             breed
             their
             peculiar
             diseases
             .
             Euill
             and
             maligne
             constellations
             beget
             plagues
             ,
             pestilences
             ,
             and
             other
             epidemiall
             contagions
             ,
             which
             the
             aire
             as
             the
             great
             mother
             of
             all
             things
             breathing
             doth
             fruitfully
             conceiue
             ,
             and
             plentifully
             bring
             forth
             .
             Vnto
             what
             sight
             or
             sense
             hath
             euer
             bene
             vnknowne
             ,
             either
             the
             pride
             or
             splendor
             of
             the
             Sunne
             ,
             mounting
             in
             his
             glorious
             altitude
             ,
             or
             his
             eclipsed
             force
             and
             light
             somnesse
             opposed
             and
             abased
             ?
             Who
             is
             ignorant
             of
             the
             monethly
             metamorphosis
             of
             the
             Moone
             ?
             What
             thing
             is
             or
             can
             be
             insensible
             of
             the
             Cynosure
             ,
             and
             the
             nipping
             frosts
             ?
             Is
             not
             the
             glorie
             of
             the
             heauens
             ouer
             all
             ,
             and
             are
             not
             his
             forces
             in
             all
             ?
             Notwithstanding
             generall
             causes
             produce
             not
             particular
             effects
             ,
             and
             the
             heauens
             are
             but
             generall
             b
             causes
             ,
             second
             causes
             ,
             outward
             causes
             ,
             remote
             causes
             ,
             mediate
             causes
             ,
             vnto
             those
             things
             which
             immediatly
             fall
             out
             in
             the
             bodies
             of
             men
             from
             inward
             causes
             contained
             within
             themselues
             ,
             and
             therfore
             soly
             hauing
             by
             their
             inseparate
             nearenesse
             an
             ineuitable
             and
             vnauoided
             necessitie
             in
             themselues
             .
             The
             inward
             causes
             of
             diseases
             are
             the
             humors
             of
             the
             body
             ,
             which
             can
             neuer
             be
             separated
             from
             the
             body
             ,
             because
             in
             them
             consisteth
             the
             life
             and
             being
             of
             the
             body
             .
             Therefore
             when
             either
             they
             corrupted
             frō
             their
             kind
             ,
             or
             offending
             in
             qualitie
             or
             quantitie
             ,
             raise
             diseases
             in
             the
             body
             ,
             how
             or
             by
             what
             meanes
             can
             the
             body
             choose
             but
             be
             therewith
             affected
             ,
             except
             it
             could
             leaue
             it selfe
             ?
             From
             any
             outward
             cause
             which
             is
             without
             ,
             and
             of
             another
             deuided
             and
             separate
             nature
             ,
             separation
             doth
             free
             from
             immediate
             necessitie
             or
             consecution
             .
             Since
             then
             the
             heauens
             are
             outward
             causes
             ,
             and
             remoued
             causes
             ,
             &
             therefore
             neuer
             necessarily
             or
             simply
             of
             themselues
             affect
             ,
             and
             the
             inward
             causes
             of
             diseases
             sticke
             nearer
             ,
             and
             so
             closely
             
             touch
             in
             their
             effects
             ,
             that
             they
             suffer
             no
             interposition
             ,
             it
             is
             manifest
             ,
             that
             the
             heauens
             haue
             no
             certaine
             or
             absolute
             h
             power
             in
             the
             diseased
             ,
             e
             nor
             can
             match
             or
             equall
             the
             immediate
             force
             appropriate
             onely
             vnto
             the
             disease
             .
             The
             heauens
             indeed
             do
             oft
             and
             much
             also
             preuaile
             in
             raising
             ,
             allaying
             ,
             increasing
             ,
             diminishing
             ,
             enraging
             and
             calming
             the
             inward
             causes
             ,
             but
             euer
             by
             a
             proportion
             ,
             either
             with
             the
             temper
             and
             constitution
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             or
             the
             humours
             of
             their
             bodies
             ,
             whether
             originally
             bred
             ,
             or
             after
             by
             time
             acquired
             .
             Saturne
             is
             therefore
             said
             a
             great
             Lord
             ouer
             melancholy
             bodies
             ,
             in
             like
             manner
             the
             Moone
             ouer
             phlegmaticke
             ,
             Iupiter
             and
             the
             Sunne
             in
             sanguine
             ,
             Mars
             in
             cholericke
             ,
             (
             whether
             in
             their
             seuerall
             reuolutions
             apart
             ,
             or
             their
             coniunctions
             and
             combinations
             )
             and
             according
             to
             the
             greater
             or
             lesse
             proportion
             of
             their
             peculiar
             humors
             in
             the
             bodie
             ,
             and
             the
             dispositions
             of
             the
             particular
             parts
             of
             the
             body
             ,
             they
             more
             or
             lesse
             exercise
             their
             rule
             .
             Therefore
             also
             according
             as
             meanes
             more
             or
             lesse
             accrew
             to
             lessen
             or
             increase
             their
             proportion
             :
             so
             more
             or
             lesse
             manifestly
             are
             their
             effects
             and
             operations
             weakned
             or
             quickned
             .
             If
             the
             wise
             Physition
             foreseeing
             the
             euill
             approach
             of
             a
             maligne
             and
             Saturnine
             aspect
             ,
             by
             discreete
             preuention
             abate
             and
             withdraw
             the
             melancholy
             humor
             from
             the
             body
             ,
             Saturne
             shall
             thereby
             want
             a
             part
             of
             his
             b
             proportion
             ,
             and
             as
             the
             greater
             abundance
             thereof
             doth
             necessarily
             more
             aduance
             and
             promote
             his
             efficacie
             ,
             so
             the
             exiguitie
             there
             of
             must
             needs
             abridge
             and
             obscure
             it
             .
             The
             like
             may
             be
             said
             of
             all
             other
             aspects
             in
             their
             seuerall
             destined
             and
             appropriate
             humours
             .
             For
             the
             constellation
             of
             it selfe
             simply
             c
             cannot
             effect
             anything
             ,
             nor
             can
             build
             or
             ruine
             any
             being
             ,
             which
             first
             hath
             not
             the
             seminarie
             and
             prime
             foundation
             thereof
             in
             it self
             ,
             both
             as
             his
             subiect
             and
             his
             meanes
             .
             And
             this
             is
             the
             true
             cause
             ,
             that
             the
             body
             either
             by
             Physick
             reduced
             to
             iust
             temper
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             or
             to
             an
             equall
             contemper
             of
             all
             the
             humors
             ,
             or
             of
             it selfe
             strong
             and
             healthfull
             ,
             in
             the
             most
             different
             constellations
             doth
             commonly
             find
             indifference
             of
             alteration
             .
             And
             this
             is
             the
             reason
             that
             many
             in
             the
             most
             Saturnine
             
             and
             deadly
             constellations
             liue
             ,
             as
             the
             contrary
             also
             cause
             that
             many
             in
             the
             most
             faire
             and
             Iouiall
             die
             .
             From
             this
             vncontrouersed
             ground
             ,
             Astronomers
             generally
             themselues
             aduise
             and
             prescribe
             meanes
             ,
             both
             to
             preuent
             the
             harmes
             of
             influences
             to
             come
             ,
             and
             also
             to
             redresse
             them
             present
             ,
             and
             giue
             vnto
             the
             Physitions
             hand
             powers
             and
             remedies
             to
             command
             ,
             countermand
             ,
             delay
             ,
             allay
             ,
             and
             abolish
             .
             And
             from
             this
             reason
             P●olomy
             himselfe
             ,
             the
             Prince
             and
             father
             of
             Astrologie
             ,
             in
             vnfortunate
             aspects
             doth
             aduise
             to
             consult
             the
             prudent
             Physition
             ,
             and
             by
             his
             counsell
             and
             helpe
             to
             decline
             the
             maligne
             constellation
             .
             For
             right
             remedies
             rightly
             administred
             vnto
             the
             diseases
             and
             their
             inward
             causes
             ,
             by
             the
             decree
             of
             God
             and
             Nature
             necessarily
             oppugne
             ,
             allay
             ,
             preuent
             and
             expell
             diseases
             ,
             and
             therefore
             are
             not
             prescribed
             vnto
             outward
             l
             causes
             ,
             but
             onely
             vnto
             the
             inward
             .
             And
             although
             the
             outward
             cause
             haply
             first
             raised
             or
             impo●ed
             the
             disease
             ,
             yet
             in
             the
             cure
             is
             not
             that
             cause
             so
             much
             respected
             ,
             but
             his
             effect
             (
             which
             is
             the
             disease
             it selfe
             )
             or
             the
             inward
             causes
             by
             which
             ,
             and
             through
             which
             ,
             the
             outward
             had
             admission
             to
             their
             effects
             .
             If
             the
             inward
             causes
             (
             the
             antecedent
             and
             the
             immediate
             )
             be
             remoued
             ,
             it
             is
             a
             miracle
             ,
             and
             a
             thing
             supernaturall
             ,
             that
             there
             should
             remaine
             his
             a
             effect
             ,
             the
             disease
             ;
             but
             the
             outward
             cause
             may
             be
             remoued
             ,
             and
             yet
             his
             b
             effect
             therein
             not
             follow
             him
             .
             Thus
             corrupt
             and
             hote
             constitutions
             of
             the
             aire
             ,
             and
             constellations
             from
             the
             heauen
             ,
             breed
             pestilent
             and
             hote
             diseases
             in
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             the
             diseases
             still
             remain
             ▪
             when
             the
             constitutions
             or
             constellations
             are
             changed
             ;
             but
             when
             the
             pestilent
             &
             hote
             humors
             ,
             and
             dispositions
             within
             the
             body
             ,
             which
             are
             inward
             causes
             ,
             are
             throughly
             remoued
             ,
             there
             can
             no
             such
             effects
             continue
             ,
             be
             farther
             fed
             ,
             or
             maintained
             .
             The
             outward
             cause
             may
             also
             be
             continually
             present
             ,
             yet
             particular
             subiects
             or
             bodies
             ,
             feele
             or
             d
             participate
             no
             effect
             :
             but
             if
             the
             inward
             cause
             grow
             in
             quantity
             or
             quality
             vnto
             the
             excesse
             ,
             it
             is
             impossible
             it
             should
             not
             in
             the
             same
             moment
             produce
             the
             like
             sensible
             effect
             .
             For
             example
             ,
             in
             some
             heauenly
             coniunctions
             or
             combinations
             there
             may
             arise
             an
             hydropicall
             constellation
             ,
             though
             many
             
             particulars
             be
             nothing
             therwith
             affected
             ,
             or
             therto
             therby
             inclined
             ;
             but
             if
             hydropical
             humors
             or
             causes
             abound
             within
             the
             body
             ,
             it
             is
             impossible
             they
             should
             there
             be
             without
             not
             only
             the
             imminence
             ,
             but
             present
             cōsecutiō
             of
             the
             dropsy
             .
             By
             these
             examples
             it
             is
             not
             obscure
             ,
             that
             the
             heauens
             are
             a
             forreine
             inuasion
             ,
             and
             therefore
             more
             easily
             admit
             e
             interception
             ,
             and
             that
             diseases
             are
             euer
             to
             be
             suspected
             ,
             because
             euer
             present
             .
             Where
             there
             is
             an
             vnproportioned
             congruitie
             or
             susceptibilitie
             in
             the
             bodie
             and
             humors
             with
             the
             heauenly
             inclination
             ,
             there
             the
             heauens
             haue
             no
             edge
             .
             Where
             the
             disease
             hath
             once
             taken
             possession
             in
             the
             body
             ,
             the
             necessitie
             of
             his
             effect
             is
             absolute
             and
             f
             vnauoidable
             ,
             g
             howsoeuer
             the
             heauens
             or
             any
             outward
             causes
             are
             disposed
             .
             He
             therefore
             that
             finding
             the
             inward
             disposition
             ,
             shall
             for
             the
             superstitious
             feare
             of
             starres
             delay
             with
             speed
             to
             seeke
             present
             remedie
             ,
             or
             in
             hope
             of
             forrein
             supply
             from
             constellations
             ,
             neglect
             certaine
             rescue
             more
             neare
             hand
             ,
             is
             a
             foole
             ,
             a
             mad
             man
             ,
             or
             worse
             then
             either
             .
             The
             first
             is
             continually
             acted
             by
             common
             simple
             deluded
             people
             ,
             the
             other
             patronaged
             by
             obstinate
             defendants
             of
             vaine
             paradoxes
             ;
             and
             the
             third
             by
             our
             impudent
             Astrologers
             prostitute
             for
             gaine
             .
             I
             commend
             not
             senslesse
             morositie
             in
             the
             peruerse
             reiection
             of
             true
             Astronomie
             ,
             so
             farre
             as
             is
             commodious
             for
             Physicke
             vse
             (
             which
             reason
             it selfe
             ,
             experience
             and
             all
             the
             Ancients
             worthily
             extoll
             )
             but
             with
             reason
             and
             authoritie
             ,
             I
             dislike
             superstitious
             and
             needlesse
             a
             curositie
             in
             the
             ouer-religious
             esteeme
             thereof
             .
             He
             that
             obserueth
             the
             wind
             ,
             shall
             not
             sow
             :
             and
             he
             that
             regardeth
             the
             clouds
             ,
             shall
             not
             reape
             ,
             saith
             Salomon
             ,
             Ecclesiastes
             114.
             
             And
             I
             cannot
             but
             detest
             the
             shamelesse
             dayly
             cousenage
             and
             imposture
             ,
             heathenishly
             practised
             by
             many
             ,
             vnder
             the
             colour
             ,
             pretext
             and
             false
             b
             shadowes
             of
             true
             Astronomy
             .
             An
             example
             here
             of
             may
             not
             impertinently
             for
             better
             illustration
             be
             here
             proposed
             .
             A
             gentleman
             of
             Northampotonshire
             diseased
             by
             an
             immedicable
             vlcer
             of
             the
             reines
             ,
             was
             moued
             by
             his
             friends
             (
             after
             my
             despaire
             of
             his
             recouerie
             signified
             
             priuatly
             vnto
             them
             )
             to
             call
             the
             aduice
             of
             a
             famous
             Ephemerides-master
             ,
             who
             coming
             vnto
             him
             ,
             and
             not
             knowing
             (
             and
             therefore
             not
             considering
             his
             disease
             )
             from
             the
             counsel
             table
             of
             his
             Ephemerides
             pronounced
             ,
             that
             if
             the
             patient
             suruiued
             3.
             or
             4.
             daies
             (
             which
             we
             must
             suppose
             were
             of
             an
             il
             aspect
             )
             vntill
             the
             next
             ensuing
             Tuesday
             (
             which
             was
             ,
             it
             seemeth
             ,
             a
             fairer
             influence
             )
             he
             made
             no
             doubt
             of
             his
             recouerie
             and
             life
             .
             But
             he
             suruiued
             three
             moneths
             or
             thereabout
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             interim
             neither
             did
             the
             aforesaid
             ill
             disposed
             starres
             any
             apparent
             hurt
             ,
             nor
             the
             wel
             disposed
             any
             eminent
             good
             :
             but
             after
             the
             forenamed
             three
             moneths
             ,
             the
             starres
             brake
             promise
             ,
             the
             disease
             kept
             touch
             ,
             the
             gentleman
             d
             died
             .
             The
             reason
             in
             the
             disease
             was
             manifest
             :
             without
             a
             new
             creation
             or
             generation
             ,
             a
             part
             in
             it selfe
             radically
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             whole
             substance
             perished
             ,
             can
             neuer
             be
             restored
             .
             The
             disease
             therfore
             could
             not
             lie
             ,
             nor
             all
             the
             heauens
             could
             performe
             either
             a
             new
             generation
             (
             because
             the
             patient
             could
             not
             again
             enter
             into
             his
             mothers
             womb
             )
             nor
             a
             new
             creation
             (
             because
             the
             world
             could
             not
             againe
             returne
             into
             the
             old
             chaos
             .
             )
             How
             vainly
             then
             did
             here
             the
             Astrologer
             gape
             and
             gaze
             after
             vncertaine
             starres
             ,
             when
             the
             true
             knowledge
             of
             the
             disease
             ,
             the
             cause
             and
             nature
             thereof
             (
             wherein
             consisteth
             an
             infallible
             ground
             )
             manifested
             the
             certaine
             issue
             ?
             How
             foolishly
             and
             ignorantly
             (
             or
             shamelesly
             and
             impudently
             )
             did
             Astrologicall
             simple
             folly
             or
             intollerable
             imposture
             ,
             either
             cunningly
             and
             wittingly
             seeme
             to
             looke
             aloft
             for
             that
             which
             lay
             neare
             hand
             below
             ,
             or
             simply
             stumble
             ouer
             so
             plaine
             truth
             ,
             and
             tumble
             into
             so
             ridiculous
             and
             grosse
             error
             ?
             And
             thus
             it
             is
             apparent
             ,
             both
             how
             vncertaintly
             Astrologers
             a
             fable
             ,
             and
             how
             certainly
             diseases
             do
             not
             lie
             :
             and
             who
             comparing
             the
             one
             with
             the
             other
             ,
             cannot
             see
             ,
             in
             which
             truth
             hath
             more
             euidence
             ,
             and
             trust
             securitie
             ?
             There
             is
             a
             sober
             and
             b
             modest
             vse
             of
             Astronomie
             ,
             b
             either
             for
             generall
             
             prediction
             ,
             or
             particular
             accommodation
             vnto
             particular
             ends
             :
             both
             these
             (
             thereby
             putting
             a
             difference
             betweene
             the
             honest
             vse
             and
             false
             abuse
             thereof
             )
             Ptolomey
             himselfe
             hath
             bounded
             within
             that
             which
             is
             either
             manifestly
             naturall
             and
             according
             to
             d
             nature
             ,
             or
             in
             reason
             e
             possible
             or
             contingent
             .
             Wha●
             with
             these
             conditions
             Astronomie
             doth
             affoord
             vnto
             the
             benefite
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             is
             to
             be
             esteemed
             and
             guided
             by
             the
             prudent
             Physition
             ,
             according
             to
             particular
             necessities
             ,
             circumstances
             and
             considerations
             ,
             as
             either
             the
             heauenly
             inclinations
             shall
             seeme
             f
             proportioned
             vnto
             them
             ,
             or
             they
             liable
             to
             those
             generall
             and
             common
             causes
             .
             Whatsoeuer
             doth
             wander
             further
             ,
             or
             is
             extended
             vnto
             other
             vses
             then
             these
             ,
             is
             not
             ingenuous
             nor
             proper
             vnto
             a
             Physition
             ,
             but
             is
             abuse
             of
             time
             ,
             himselfe
             and
             others
             ,
             trifling
             vaine
             idlenesse
             ,
             foule
             &
             vnlearned
             falshood
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             IIII.
             
          
           
             Of
             Coniectors
             by
             vrine
             .
          
           
             AS
             the
             heauens
             themselues
             are
             not
             free
             from
             the
             insinuation
             of
             imposture
             and
             deceit
             (
             thus
             cunningly
             doth
             euill
             winde
             it selfe
             into
             the
             likenesse
             &
             shape
             of
             goodnes
             :
             
             )
             so
             is
             nothing
             almost
             vnder
             the
             heauen
             created
             ,
             which
             is
             not
             made
             an
             instrument
             ,
             a
             visar
             and
             ba●d
             vnto
             adulterate
             seeming
             ,
             lying
             and
             cousenage
             .
             The
             aire
             ,
             the
             fire
             ,
             the
             waters
             ,
             the
             fowle
             ,
             the
             fish
             ,
             and
             infinite
             other
             a
             creatures
             ,
             yea
             their
             definite
             and
             single
             b
             parts
             apart
             ,
             are
             all
             made
             prodigious
             inchantments
             ▪
             and
             snares
             of
             ignorant
             minds
             ,
             begetting
             faith
             vnto
             falshood
             ,
             and
             trust
             and
             credit
             vnto
             vntruth
             .
             As
             Art
             vpon
             true
             and
             proued
             grounds
             doth
             promise
             according
             to
             good
             reason
             faire
             likelihood
             ,
             so
             imposture
             vpon
             wondered
             and
             vnknowne
             conclusions
             professeth
             assurance
             in
             falshood
             ,
             and
             certaintie
             in
             impossibilitie
             ;
             which
             while
             wise
             men
             contemne
             ,
             credulous
             fooles
             admire
             and
             follow
             .
             Amongst
             many
             
             other
             ,
             the
             inspection
             of
             the
             vrine
             is
             in
             this
             kinde
             too
             commonly
             most
             palpably
             abused
             by
             many
             that
             carrie
             the
             name
             and
             badge
             of
             learning
             .
             It
             is
             a
             common
             practise
             in
             these
             dayes
             ,
             by
             a
             colourable
             deriuation
             of
             supposed
             cunning
             from
             the
             vrine
             ,
             to
             foretell
             casualties
             ,
             and
             the
             ordinarie
             euents
             of
             life
             ,
             conceptions
             of
             women
             with
             child
             ,
             and
             definite
             distinctions
             of
             the
             male
             and
             female
             in
             the
             wombe
             ;
             which
             while
             impudence
             doth
             gloriously
             set
             forth
             ,
             the
             common
             simplicitie
             doth
             worship
             and
             reuere
             .
             It
             is
             vnknowne
             to
             none
             learned
             ,
             that
             the
             vrine
             is
             truly
             of
             it selfe
             and
             properly
             e
             indication
             of
             no
             other
             immediate
             dispositions
             ,
             but
             such
             as
             are
             of
             the
             veines
             and
             liuer
             ,
             the
             bloud
             and
             humors
             ;
             the
             antecedent
             causes
             of
             diseases
             ,
             and
             the
             naturall
             facultie
             giuing
             onely
             f
             coniecture
             at
             the
             diseases
             of
             other
             parts
             by
             consequent
             ,
             by
             the
             knowledge
             of
             the
             g
             common
             and
             antecedent
             causes
             of
             all
             diseases
             .
             Erroneously
             therfore
             the
             common
             sort
             imagine
             ,
             that
             in
             the
             vrine
             is
             contained
             the
             ample
             vnderstanding
             of
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             informe
             a
             Physition
             ,
             and
             from
             thence
             common
             expectation
             doth
             generally
             deceiue
             it selfe
             in
             the
             proofe
             of
             a
             Physition
             by
             his
             iudgement
             of
             the
             vrine
             .
             Vnto
             the
             satisfaction
             of
             a
             Physitions
             knowledge
             ,
             are
             many
             wayes
             and
             helpes
             besides
             the
             vrine
             ,
             as
             materiall
             ,
             and
             in
             many
             cases
             of
             more
             speciall
             moment
             ,
             necessitie
             and
             vse
             .
             In
             the
             pulse
             are
             properly
             and
             soly
             apparent
             manifold
             medications
             ,
             which
             in
             the
             vrine
             Lynceus
             himselfe
             could
             neuer
             see
             .
             This
             is
             the
             cause
             that
             many
             euen
             vnto
             the
             last
             moment
             of
             a
             languishing
             life
             ,
             continue
             in
             their
             vrine
             not
             onely
             no
             shadow
             of
             danger
             ,
             but
             faire
             and
             flattering
             formes
             of
             lying
             safely
             ,
             the
             pulse
             i
             onely
             by
             it
             selfe-forewarning
             the
             mischiefe
             .
             The
             animall
             facultie
             ,
             the
             affections
             of
             the
             third
             region
             ,
             and
             habite
             of
             the
             bodie
             ,
             and
             many
             other
             particular
             parts
             haue
             their
             peculiar
             k
             excretions
             ,
             which
             onely
             keepe
             the
             propertie
             of
             their
             indication
             
             vnto
             themselues
             ,
             communicating
             no
             part
             l
             vnto
             the
             vrine
             :
             neither
             is
             the
             iudgement
             by
             the
             vrine
             euer
             infallible
             ,
             or
             m
             not
             deceiuable
             ,
             euen
             there
             where
             it
             is
             properly
             and
             soly
             allowed
             chiefe
             esteeme
             ,
             diuers
             impediments
             both
             positiuely
             and
             priuatiuely
             forestalling
             his
             right
             estimate
             :
             positiuely
             either
             by
             assumption
             of
             diuers
             meates
             ,
             n
             drinkes
             or
             o
             medicines
             ,
             or
             when
             diuers
             diseases
             p
             concurring
             in
             the
             bodie
             ,
             together
             send
             downe
             their
             seuerall
             or
             contrary
             recrements
             into
             the
             vrine
             ,
             and
             thereby
             confound
             the
             true
             iudgement
             of
             any
             of
             them
             therein
             ;
             or
             thereby
             priuatiuely
             ,
             when
             either
             by
             stoppages
             (
             which
             diuersly
             happen
             in
             the
             tortuous
             windings
             and
             turnings
             betweene
             the
             liuer
             and
             the
             veines
             ,
             and
             conduits
             thence
             descending
             vnto
             the
             reines
             and
             bladder
             )
             the
             substance
             ,
             colour
             and
             contents
             of
             the
             vrine
             are
             c
             intercepted
             ,
             and
             the
             thinne
             aquositie
             oft
             onely
             issueth
             by
             so
             straight
             a
             percolation
             ,
             as
             can
             carrie
             no
             signe
             ,
             no
             sight
             or
             shew
             of
             the
             naturall
             estate
             of
             the
             vrine
             in
             it selfe
             ;
             or
             else
             when
             the
             naturall
             heate
             withdraweth
             it selfe
             vnto
             some
             interior
             d
             intention
             of
             nature
             within
             .
             When
             therefore
             the
             vrine
             descendeth
             in
             his
             owne
             substance
             ,
             quantitie
             ,
             qualitie
             and
             contents
             ,
             without
             impediment
             or
             hinderance
             ,
             it
             is
             a
             certaine
             ,
             proper
             and
             true
             demonstration
             of
             the
             true
             affects
             of
             the
             liuer
             ,
             veines
             ,
             the
             second
             concoction
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             diseases
             of
             those
             parts
             which
             in
             his
             descent
             it
             washeth
             ,
             and
             giueth
             vnto
             the
             wise
             Physition
             an
             vninterrupted
             certaine
             iudgement
             of
             it selfe
             ,
             as
             when
             it
             descendeth
             in
             borrowed
             e
             liquor
             and
             colours
             ,
             it
             reporteth
             rather
             his
             rubs
             and
             interception
             by
             the
             way
             .
             Hence
             the
             learned
             Physition
             ,
             either
             by
             the
             first
             immediatly
             instructeth
             himselfe
             to
             a
             direct
             opposition
             vnto
             the
             discouered
             disease
             ;
             or
             by
             the
             other
             ,
             finding
             the
             impediment
             that
             hindered
             the
             
             right
             vnderstanding
             and
             discouerie
             ,
             he
             thereby
             informeth
             himselfe
             to
             remoue
             that
             impediment
             ,
             or
             else
             finding
             it
             thereby
             vndiscouerable
             ,
             searcheth
             it
             by
             another
             disquisition
             or
             inuestigation
             ,
             by
             another
             way
             or
             method
             ,
             vntill
             he
             haue
             attained
             the
             right
             end
             of
             a
             true
             Physition
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             prudent
             rescue
             of
             the
             distressed
             life
             and
             health
             ,
             and
             not
             the
             false
             trumpe
             of
             his
             owne
             vndeserued
             praise
             ,
             promoting
             vnworthinesse
             to
             gaine
             &
             lucre
             .
             Thus
             he
             neither
             deceiueth
             himselfe
             with
             vaine
             expectation
             ,
             nor
             others
             with
             lying
             profession
             ,
             but
             diuersly
             in
             both
             maketh
             a
             prudent
             and
             good
             vse
             of
             both
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             indication
             ,
             whether
             certaine
             and
             vndeceiuing
             ,
             or
             doubting
             &
             ambiguous
             .
             And
             as
             the
             ends
             are
             diuers
             ,
             of
             those
             that
             view
             the
             vrine
             to
             coniure
             vp
             wonders
             ,
             and
             those
             that
             esteeme
             the
             vrine
             to
             detect
             the
             disease
             for
             the
             good
             of
             the
             diseased
             :
             so
             are
             their
             vnderstandings
             differing
             ,
             the
             one
             truly
             a
             directed
             by
             reason
             and
             iudgement
             ,
             the
             other
             by
             nimblenesse
             of
             cousenage
             and
             circumuention
             of
             simplicity
             and
             ignorance
             ;
             whereof
             the
             chiefe
             vse
             is
             not
             the
             benefite
             of
             the
             sicke
             ,
             but
             the
             colour
             of
             fraud
             and
             comodity
             by
             deceit
             .
             Touching
             the
             oracles
             of
             Fortune
             pretended
             in
             the
             vrine
             ,
             and
             their
             floating
             fauours
             in
             so
             low
             an
             ebbe
             ,
             those
             that
             too
             commonly
             in
             their
             owne
             experience
             find
             good
             drinke
             to
             steale
             their
             wit
             out
             of
             their
             braine
             ,
             may
             haply
             imagine
             it
             thence
             descended
             into
             the
             vrine
             .
             I
             leaue
             them
             there
             to
             seeke
             it
             ,
             that
             want
             it
             so
             much
             ,
             and
             deserue
             it
             so
             litle
             .
             The
             mention
             is
             vnworthie
             mention
             .
             Concerning
             the
             looking
             of
             vnborne
             babes
             in
             an
             vrinarie
             glasse
             ,
             and
             the
             making
             of
             old
             fooles
             in
             loue
             with
             their
             owne
             reflexion
             :
             to
             vnmaske
             the
             common
             illusion
             in
             this
             kind
             ,
             I
             will
             briefly
             point
             vnto
             the
             discouerie
             of
             the
             folly
             ,
             whereinto
             entring
             their
             serious
             cogitation
             &
             due
             recognition
             ,
             they
             may
             more
             amply
             after
             exercise
             &
             satisfie
             themselues
             ,
             whom
             their
             owne
             fatall
             stupidity
             doth
             not
             detaine
             ,
             or
             resolute
             obstinacie
             preoccupate
             .
             The
             conceptions
             of
             women
             ,
             together
             with
             the
             accidents
             accompanying
             the
             same
             ,
             do
             necessarily
             bring
             forth
             generall
             alterations
             vnto
             the
             whole
             body
             ,
             partly
             by
             the
             consequent
             stoppages
             
             of
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             partly
             by
             distracting
             the
             naturall
             heate
             and
             spirits
             from
             other
             parts
             vnto
             that
             new
             intentiō
             ,
             whereby
             is
             added
             either
             quantitie
             or
             qualitie
             ,
             or
             both
             vnto
             the
             bloud
             and
             humors
             ,
             and
             from
             thence
             the
             vrine
             receiuing
             different
             tincture
             &
             substance
             doth
             manifestly
             report
             the
             ods
             .
             Yet
             for
             that
             this
             sodain
             productiō
             of
             change
             in
             the
             body
             issueth
             from
             conceptiō
             only
             by
             accident
             ,
             therof
             being
             truly
             and
             immediatly
             no
             cause
             it selfe
             ,
             but
             an
             occasion
             onely
             mouing
             other
             causes
             ,
             as
             commonly
             or
             more
             cōmonly
             moued
             ,
             both
             by
             diuerse
             kind
             of
             other
             obstructiōs
             beside
             ,
             &
             also
             by
             other
             distractions
             of
             the
             naturall
             heate
             &
             spirits
             ,
             by
             criticall
             intentions
             ,
             concoctions
             ,
             &
             maturations
             of
             diseases
             ;
             therfore
             is
             the
             confused
             alteration
             of
             the
             vrine
             found
             vpon
             conceptiō
             indefinite
             ,
             &
             can
             be
             no
             special
             note
             of
             cōception
             .
             This
             is
             also
             further
             manifested
             by
             the
             alterations
             and
             effects
             themselues
             following
             conception
             ,
             which
             not
             onely
             in
             differing
             bodies
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             verie
             same
             ,
             are
             seldome
             the
             same
             ,
             but
             cōmonly
             farre
             vnlike
             ,
             yea
             and
             oft
             contrary
             at
             one
             time
             from
             themselues
             at
             another
             .
             This
             women
             themselues
             in
             their
             owne
             experience
             must
             needs
             witnesse
             ,
             seldome
             obseruing
             the
             changes
             of
             bodies
             after
             cōception
             in
             all
             alike
             ,
             &
             oft
             each
             in
             themselues
             finding
             the
             particular
             manners
             of
             their
             owne
             alteration
             farre
             discrepant
             .
             This
             their
             oft
             deceit
             in
             themselues
             ,
             mistaking
             ,
             and
             vncertaintie
             in
             themselues
             commonly
             doth
             testifie
             ,
             sometimes
             suspecting
             thēselues
             with
             child
             when
             they
             proue
             diseased
             ,
             somtimes
             doubting
             diseases
             being
             only
             with
             child
             .
             Since
             then
             conception
             is
             neither
             in
             it selfe
             a
             sole
             ,
             nor
             a
             separate
             cause
             ,
             nor
             any
             true
             immediate
             cause
             of
             the
             alterations
             of
             the
             body
             following
             therupon
             ,
             but
             onely
             the
             occasion
             mouing
             other
             causes
             ,
             and
             those
             causes
             are
             as
             indifferently
             also
             moued
             by
             many
             other
             occasions
             besides
             vnto
             the
             same
             effects
             ,
             their
             generalitie
             doth
             discharge
             their
             proprietie
             in
             this
             particular
             ,
             and
             the
             common
             indication
             in
             the
             vrine
             any
             speciall
             signification
             proper
             vnto
             conception
             alone
             .
             This
             demonstratiuely
             proueth
             the
             vncertainty
             of
             the
             signs
             of
             conception
             that
             are
             common
             with
             other
             in
             the
             vrine
             .
             
             Now
             concerning
             the
             small
             certaintie
             of
             the
             signes
             that
             are
             therto
             supposed
             peculiar
             :
             the
             inward
             dispositions
             and
             affectiōs
             of
             inward
             parts
             ,
             which
             by
             the
             outward
             sense
             cānot
             be
             deprehended
             ,
             are
             by
             three
             f
             waies
             or
             meanes
             soly
             to
             be
             detected
             .
             The
             first
             is
             the
             action
             or
             function
             proper
             g
             and
             ininherent
             in
             the
             partie
             .
             The
             second
             is
             the
             proper
             h
             excretions
             proceeding
             fromht
             he
             partie
             .
             The
             third
             is
             a
             distinct
             feeling
             or
             i
             paine
             in
             the
             part
             .
             The
             proper
             functions
             of
             any
             part
             can
             neuer
             be
             disioyned
             from
             the
             part
             ,
             and
             therefore
             appeare
             not
             in
             the
             vrine
             .
             Paine
             or
             other
             sense
             &
             feeling
             are
             euer
             vnseparable
             companions
             with
             their
             patient
             parts
             ,
             whereof
             the
             vrine
             hauing
             no
             sense
             ,
             can
             haue
             no
             part
             ,
             and
             therefore
             therein
             also
             is
             vnsignificant
             .
             It
             onely
             then
             remaineth
             ,
             that
             the
             affection
             and
             conception
             of
             the
             wombe
             soly
             doth
             discouer
             it selfe
             by
             the
             determinate
             excretions
             therto
             peculiar
             .
             The
             peculiar
             excretiōs
             of
             any
             part
             do
             bring
             testimony
             vnto
             the
             truth
             of
             their
             indicatiō
             ,
             either
             by
             the
             a
             cōcomitance
             of
             part
             of
             the
             substance
             of
             the
             part
             ,
             or
             of
             part
             of
             some
             substance
             either
             naturally
             ,
             orby
             some
             il
             dispositiō
             adherent
             to
             the
             part
             ,
             or
             of
             the
             ordinary
             recrements
             of
             concoctions
             ,
             or
             other
             preparatiōs
             ,
             or
             operations
             of
             nature
             in
             the
             part
             .
             Whether
             excretions
             in
             al
             these
             kinds
             proceed
             frō
             the
             womb
             ,
             &
             how
             &
             with
             what
             differences
             &
             distinction
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             here
             necessary
             to
             determine
             .
             It
             is
             sufficiēt
             that
             the
             proper
             indicatiō
             of
             the
             dispositiōs
             of
             that
             part
             must
             necessarily
             be
             deriued
             from
             the
             excretions
             therto
             appropriate
             :
             which
             therfore
             proueth
             the
             vrine
             no
             right
             prognosticator
             of
             any
             affectiō
             therof
             issuing
             frō
             other
             &
             different
             vessels
             .
             It
             may
             be
             obiected
             ,
             that
             by
             the
             contiguity
             of
             the
             wombe
             &
             bladder
             ,
             and
             the
             neare
             termination
             of
             their
             extremities
             ,
             the
             expulsiue
             facultie
             of
             the
             seminarie
             vessels
             ,
             mouing
             sometimes
             with
             the
             vrinarie
             ,
             may
             thereby
             mixing
             their
             recrements
             connexe
             their
             indications
             .
             This
             is
             true
             ,
             yet
             not
             alwaies
             ,
             but
             rarely
             and
             seldome
             true
             ,
             and
             therfore
             vncertainly
             hapning
             doth
             doubtfully
             promise
             or
             signifie
             .
             The
             expulsiue
             motiōs
             and
             offices
             of
             the
             seminarie
             parts
             are
             not
             so
             ordinarie
             ,
             so
             frequent
             ,
             so
             common
             ,
             as
             the
             vrinarie
             ,
             neither
             doth
             their
             
             raritie
             in
             their
             motion
             alwaies
             then
             meete
             or
             consent
             with
             the
             vrine
             ,
             and
             sometimes
             also
             meeting
             therewith
             ,
             it
             giueth
             notwithstanding
             impertinent
             indication
             vnto
             the
             inquisition
             of
             conception
             ,
             other
             common
             d
             recrements
             after
             conception
             ,
             no
             lesse
             or
             rather
             more
             descending
             then
             those
             which
             are
             onely
             consequents
             of
             conception
             .
             And
             thus
             is
             made
             apparent
             the
             falshood
             and
             deceit
             of
             the
             ordinarie
             profession
             of
             the
             prediction
             of
             conception
             by
             the
             inspection
             of
             vrine
             ,
             which
             also
             the
             most
             e
             ingenuous
             and
             iudicious
             writers
             and
             authours
             from
             their
             owne
             long
             proofe
             &
             experiēce
             haue
             euer
             generally
             exploded
             as
             impious
             imposture
             .
             The
             true
             Artist
             doth
             promise
             nothing
             beyōd
             that
             which
             reason
             doth
             demōstrate
             ,
             &
             art
             habitually
             performe
             :
             the
             deceiuer
             by
             faire
             pollicitations
             bewitcheth
             simple
             credulitie
             ,
             ridiculously
             to
             delight
             in
             his
             owne
             wrong
             and
             grosse
             collusion
             .
             It
             is
             verie
             worthy
             note
             and
             memorie
             ,
             that
             a
             great
             and
             learned
             clearke
             Cornelius
             Agrippa
             ,
             retracting
             his
             former
             wont
             therein
             ,
             doth
             ingenuously
             confesse
             of
             his
             affectation
             and
             circumuention
             of
             common
             admiration
             by
             his
             supposed
             magicke
             and
             Astrologicall
             skill
             ,
             e
             and
             it
             doth
             well
             fit
             and
             settle
             instruction
             and
             satisfaction
             in
             this
             our
             particular
             also
             ,
             though
             of
             another
             kind
             I
             haue
             bene
             (
             c
             saith
             he
             )
             from
             my
             childhood
             by
             my
             parents
             carefully
             iustituted
             in
             Astrologie
             ,
             and
             in
             riper
             age
             and
             vnderstanding
             afterwards
             spent
             therein
             no
             small
             time
             .
             At
             length
             by
             long
             and
             certaine
             proofe
             I
             found
             it
             wholly
             compound
             and
             founded
             of
             meere
             fictions
             ,
             and
             toyes
             of
             vaine
             imaginations
             :
             wearied
             therefore
             and
             grieued
             with
             my
             time
             and
             study
             so
             long
             and
             so
             idlely
             spent
             ,
             I
             laboured
             to
             cast
             away
             the
             irkesome
             and
             vnpleasing
             memorie
             thereof
             out
             of
             my
             mind
             ,
             and
             neuer
             in
             my
             thoughts
             to
             entertaine
             it
             .
             e
             But
             the
             violent
             and
             forcible
             importunacie
             of
             great
             and
             mightie
             Potentates
             ,
             
             (
             who
             vsually
             preuaile
             to
             abuse
             great
             and
             worthie
             wits
             vnto
             base
             arts
             and
             offices
             )
             againe
             compelled
             me
             vpon
             the
             fame
             rocke
             ,
             and
             my
             owne
             priuate
             profite
             againe
             inticed
             me
             to
             thinke
             it
             dutie
             and
             honestie
             to
             make
             profitable
             vse
             of
             wilfull
             folly
             ,
             and
             with
             toyes
             to
             please
             these
             that
             so
             much
             desired
             toyes
             .
             The
             same
             Apologie
             for
             the
             exercise
             of
             vrinarie
             e
             diuination
             ,
             their
             owne
             consciences
             vnto
             themselues
             do
             make
             that
             vse
             it
             ,
             but
             they
             loath
             the
             example
             ,
             and
             truth
             is
             hatefull
             because
             incommodious
             .
             It
             was
             sometimes
             my
             happe
             to
             witnesse
             the
             free
             profession
             of
             a
             dying
             Physition
             vnto
             this
             point
             .
             He
             inhabited
             Northampton
             many
             yeares
             ,
             was
             in
             nation
             Irish
             ,
             in
             manners
             homely
             ,
             in
             learning
             of
             me
             diocrity
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             auguration
             by
             vrine
             of
             conceptiō
             was
             generally
             reputed
             excelling
             ,
             and
             in
             a
             fortunatenesse
             therein
             oft
             posing
             some
             better
             learned
             .
             Three
             or
             foure
             daies
             before
             his
             death
             (
             expected
             and
             knowne
             vnto
             himselfe
             )
             while
             by
             his
             owne
             earnest
             request
             then
             (
             as
             oft
             before
             )
             I
             was
             present
             ,
             motion
             was
             made
             vnto
             him
             that
             he
             would
             commend
             vnto
             posteritie
             that
             skill
             by
             which
             hee
             liued
             with
             many
             so
             much
             esteemed
             and
             admired
             .
             His
             answer
             was
             free
             and
             ingenuous
             ,
             to
             this
             effect
             :
             It
             is
             vnworthy
             posteritie
             ,
             vnworthy
             the
             name
             of
             Art.
             I
             haue
             long
             with
             the
             felicitie
             of
             a
             good
             opinion
             exercised
             it
             ,
             and
             with
             tried
             certaintie
             know
             it
             vncertaintie
             ,
             and
             certaine
             deceit
             .
             Simplicitie
             is
             euer
             ready
             vnwittingly
             to
             betray
             it self
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             easie
             to
             him
             (
             that
             is
             therein
             much
             and
             continually
             exercised
             )
             in
             common
             people
             palpably
             to
             see
             their
             simple
             hearts
             ,
             in
             their
             eyes
             ,
             in
             their
             gesture
             ,
             in
             their
             countenances
             ,
             and
             other
             circumstances
             ,
             of
             themselues
             vnobserued
             and
             vnconsidered
             .
             I
             haue
             sometime
             by
             good
             hap
             bene
             fortunate
             in
             my
             predictions
             by
             vrine
             ,
             of
             conceptions
             ,
             which
             because
             when
             it
             sometime
             happened
             ,
             it
             seemed
             a
             wonder
             ;
             it
             therefore
             was
             euer
             largely
             transported
             many
             waies
             ,
             and
             much
             busied
             and
             employed
             common
             talke
             .
             I
             haue
             proued
             therein
             an
             hundreth
             fold
             more
             often
             and
             more
             commonly
             in
             mine
             owne
             knowledge
             f
             false
             ,
             yet
             because
             to
             erre
             was
             no
             wonder
             ,
             (
             and
             therefore
             not
             so
             much
             worth
             
             either
             relating
             or
             obseruing
             )
             as
             also
             for
             that
             it
             was
             for
             the
             most
             part
             but
             priuatly
             to
             some
             sew
             knowne
             ,
             and
             oft
             times
             also
             the
             shame
             of
             illusion
             in
             the
             most
             put
             the
             report
             thereof
             vnto
             silence
             ,
             the
             contradictorie
             instances
             still
             died
             vnremembred
             ,
             but
             fame
             and
             opinion
             suruiued
             and
             prospered
             .
             It
             euer
             excused
             my
             deceitfull
             custome
             vnto
             my selfe
             ,
             that
             I
             deceiued
             none
             but
             such
             as
             either
             desired
             or
             deserued
             it
             ,
             who
             by
             their
             insidiation
             of
             the
             proofe
             of
             my
             skill
             either
             prouoked
             it
             ,
             or
             by
             their
             vnreasonable
             earnestnesse
             extorted
             it
             .
             In
             this
             and
             other
             the
             like
             ,
             some
             few
             dayes
             before
             his
             death
             ,
             he
             thus
             g
             died
             vnto
             his
             former
             life
             ,
             and
             liued
             vnto
             his
             soule
             and
             sauing
             health
             .
             And
             thus
             it
             is
             manifested
             ,
             both
             by
             reason
             and
             also
             by
             the
             last
             testimonie
             of
             dying
             experience
             ,
             how
             the
             vrinary
             diuining
             for
             prediction
             of
             conception
             ,
             forsaking
             the
             brighter
             streames
             and
             clearer
             fountaines
             of
             detecting
             truth
             ,
             doth
             hide
             it selfe
             in
             the
             puddle
             water
             ,
             there
             laying
             shining
             baites
             for
             dazeled
             fish
             .
             The
             more
             silence
             ,
             the
             better
             fishing
             ;
             lest
             therefore
             I
             may
             haply
             too
             much
             preiudice
             the
             pleasing
             spoile
             of
             willing
             fooles
             ,
             I
             will
             thinke
             that
             which
             hath
             bene
             alreadie
             said
             vnto
             any
             other
             ,
             sufficient
             intimation
             ,
             aduising
             honest
             minds
             from
             the
             iudicious
             Physition
             ,
             by
             the
             plainest
             information
             to
             draw
             the
             h
             directest
             counsell
             ,
             lest
             by
             the
             vaine
             proofe
             of
             a
             deceiuing
             worth
             ,
             seeking
             that
             is
             not
             ,
             they
             lose
             that
             might
             be
             more
             proper
             and
             pertinent
             vnto
             their
             health
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             V.
             
          
           
             Of
             Trauellers
             .
          
           
             AS
             from
             all
             parts
             of
             the
             world
             true
             knowledge
             doth
             fetch
             home
             his
             substantiall
             grounds
             to
             enrich
             it selfe
             ;
             so
             falshood
             and
             lying
             imitation
             doth
             likewise
             deriue
             deceiuable
             colours
             to
             beguile
             the
             imprudent
             .
             Hence
             vnder
             the
             name
             of
             Trauellers
             supposed
             much
             knowing
             ,
             by
             much
             seeing
             of
             things
             worthy
             to
             be
             knowne
             (
             the
             common
             expectation
             of
             wonder
             
             
             
             
             
             giuing
             glad
             entertainment
             ,
             and
             desire
             of
             noueltie
             ioyous
             welcome
             )
             insufficiencie
             clothed
             with
             this
             outward
             figure
             of
             sufficiencie
             ,
             doth
             oft
             enter
             into
             the
             rights
             of
             better
             desert
             ,
             and
             by
             casuall
             pofiting
             some
             few
             ,
             deceiueth
             most
             ,
             and
             ruineth
             many
             .
             Trauell
             is
             required
             in
             a
             Physition
             ,
             not
             as
             any
             part
             of
             his
             essence
             ,
             but
             as
             an
             ornament
             ,
             receiuing
             the
             essence
             and
             perfecting
             of
             it selfe
             from
             the
             essence
             and
             perfection
             of
             a
             foresetled
             and
             continuing
             vnderstanding
             .
             The
             generall
             theory
             and
             speculation
             of
             any
             knowledge
             or
             science
             whatsoeuer
             ,
             is
             in
             no
             soile
             or
             countrie
             a
             stranger
             to
             them
             that
             duly
             and
             truly
             seeke
             it
             ,
             nor
             doth
             vnderstanding
             meete
             ,
             or
             is
             taken
             vp
             in
             high
             waies
             ;
             but
             to
             the
             most
             secret
             retired
             thoughts
             reflecteth
             the
             brightnesse
             of
             his
             true
             worth
             ,
             and
             from
             the
             perfect
             fulnesse
             of
             time
             ,
             and
             thence
             accomplished
             brightnesse
             of
             his
             beames
             doth
             seasonably
             breake
             forth
             ,
             and
             soly
             giue
             the
             rectified
             perspectiue
             of
             particular
             obiects
             .
             In
             the
             occurrents
             of
             trauell
             ,
             it
             is
             indeed
             the
             sense
             that
             conducteth
             the
             obiect
             to
             the
             vnderstanding
             ,
             but
             it
             is
             a
             pre-existing
             power
             and
             abilitie
             in
             the
             d
             vnderstanding
             it selfe
             that
             rightly
             iudgeth
             and
             disposeth
             the
             e
             obiect
             .
             If
             therefore
             the
             vnderstanding
             be
             either
             in
             it selfe
             originally
             defectiue
             ,
             or
             by
             want
             of
             time
             vnsetled
             ,
             or
             by
             precept
             and
             doctrine
             not
             habitually
             formed
             ;
             the
             sense
             may
             truly
             ,
             rightly
             and
             continually
             present
             ,
             but
             the
             vnderstanding
             shall
             either
             falsly
             or
             not
             fully
             apprehend
             ,
             distinguish
             ,
             digest
             or
             dispose
             ,
             whereby
             disorder
             in
             want
             of
             right
             method
             ,
             doth
             rather
             multiply
             confusion
             then
             increase
             right
             vse
             .
             Hence
             many
             things
             worthy
             notice
             escape
             ignorance
             ,
             vniust
             reductions
             are
             commonly
             miscarried
             to
             improper
             subiects
             ,
             good
             vses
             are
             vnseasonably
             or
             vnreasonably
             wrested
             ,
             mistaking
             obuious
             ,
             right
             estimates
             either
             for
             the
             most
             part
             vnobseruedly
             ouerpassed
             ,
             or
             casually
             well
             hapning
             .
             For
             where
             wisedome
             doth
             not
             leade
             trauel
             forth
             ,
             knowledge
             guide
             it
             on
             ,
             prudence
             accompanie
             it
             ,
             good
             desire
             vphold
             it
             ,
             the
             true
             end
             perswade
             and
             call
             it
             forth
             ;
             folly
             easily
             seduceth
             ,
             and
             depraued
             ends
             peruert
             the
             right
             fruition
             .
             Hence
             we
             see
             commonly
             many
             trauell
             farre
             ,
             and
             bring
             
             home
             litle
             .
             Some
             make
             swift
             aduenture
             ,
             and
             slow
             returne
             ,
             with
             late
             repentance
             .
             Some
             bring
             home
             more
             then
             they
             would
             ,
             some
             more
             then
             they
             should
             ;
             and
             all
             that
             begin
             trauell
             with
             raw
             iudgement
             ,
             for
             the
             most
             part
             come
             home
             perpetually
             after
             drunken
             with
             opinion
             .
             Different
             countries
             ,
             aires
             ,
             people
             ,
             customes
             ,
             manners
             ,
             zones
             and
             climates
             ,
             do
             fruitfully
             expose
             commodious
             consideration
             vnto
             those
             whose
             iudicious
             view
             and
             exchange
             doth
             know
             rightly
             to
             entertaine
             them
             in
             the
             way
             ,
             and
             in
             many
             examples
             of
             many
             worthy
             Physitions
             ,
             the
             benefits
             thereby
             haue
             euer
             bene
             conspicuous
             .
             Amongst
             the
             rest
             ,
             Galens
             industrious
             commutation
             of
             distant
             regions
             ,
             by
             his
             owne
             writings
             are
             not
             obscure
             .
             But
             he
             that
             entreth
             into
             Galens
             trauels
             without
             Galens
             f
             mind
             ,
             may
             exceed
             him
             in
             the
             paines
             ,
             but
             shall
             neuer
             come
             neare
             vnto
             him
             in
             the
             fruite
             and
             worth
             .
             This
             is
             the
             reason
             that
             our
             common
             trauelling
             Physitions
             for
             the
             most
             part
             (
             the
             learned
             onely
             in
             all
             places
             and
             countries
             worthily
             purchasing
             vnto
             themselues
             due
             reuerence
             )
             do
             oft
             from
             beyond
             the
             sea
             bring
             home
             strange
             preparations
             and
             medicines
             ,
             but
             litle
             wit
             and
             discretion
             safely
             to
             vse
             them
             ;
             by
             the
             great
             opinion
             of
             farre
             fetched
             wondes
             distracting
             and
             cousening
             the
             needfull
             inquisition
             of
             a
             more
             inward
             worth
             in
             themselues
             to
             warrant
             their
             accommodation
             ,
             without
             which
             ,
             both
             heedlesse
             proofe
             and
             needlesse
             vse
             ,
             do
             oft
             find
             in
             the
             best
             excellence
             a
             harmfull
             goodnes
             :
             and
             howsoeuer
             haply
             commending
             it selfe
             in
             his
             owne
             propertie
             and
             vertue
             ,
             yet
             oft
             stinging
             vnto
             the
             heart
             busie
             ,
             vnnecessarie
             and
             vnaduised
             medling
             .
             It
             is
             growne
             so
             common
             in
             these
             daies
             to
             entertaine
             d
             fugitiues
             vnder
             the
             former
             pretexts
             ,
             that
             it
             shall
             ease
             my
             paines
             to
             report
             the
             mischiefes
             ,
             being
             growne
             too
             common
             to
             need
             any
             other
             notice
             then
             their
             owne
             vglinesse
             ,
             each
             post
             proclaiming
             their
             woodden
             worth
             ,
             and
             their
             painted
             clouts
             euery
             where
             hanging
             vp
             their
             ragged
             e
             executions
             .
             It
             is
             vsual
             with
             these
             men
             ,
             mouing
             their
             wandring
             and
             vncertaine
             steps
             from
             place
             to
             place
             and
             from
             towne
             to
             towne
             ,
             by
             faire
             deluding
             promises
             and
             pollicitations
             to
             draw
             the
             f
             liues
             of
             simple
             
             credulous
             men
             ,
             for
             their
             owne
             gaine
             ,
             into
             their
             owne
             hands
             ;
             and
             after
             they
             haue
             by
             their
             common
             desperate
             courses
             prouoked
             and
             drawne
             foorth
             vnwilling
             death
             (
             when
             they
             see
             him
             coming
             )
             to
             runne
             away
             ,
             and
             to
             leaue
             the
             miserable
             beguiled
             innocent
             in
             his
             angrie
             iawes
             ,
             to
             answer
             their
             rash
             and
             needlesse
             chalenge
             .
             The
             wiser
             sort
             haue
             better
             learned
             to
             know
             them
             ,
             but
             the
             simple
             are
             still
             g
             their
             prey
             .
             It
             necessarily
             now
             followeth
             vnto
             the
             generall
             conclusion
             of
             all
             that
             hath
             bene
             before
             said
             ,
             that
             both
             the
             trauels
             of
             the
             mind
             ,
             and
             contemplation
             in
             the
             former
             tractates
             mentioned
             ,
             and
             also
             the
             change
             of
             places
             and
             countries
             here
             specified
             ,
             with
             all
             other
             sense-informing
             meanes
             and
             inquisitions
             of
             knowledge
             and
             science
             ,
             without
             precedent
             right
             institution
             ,
             and
             setled
             incorrupt
             seeds
             of
             select
             vnderstanding
             ,
             shall
             all
             euer
             doubtfully
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             most
             part
             lamely
             succeed
             vnto
             timely
             growth
             or
             ripe
             perfection
             .
             For
             knowledge
             must
             euer
             go
             before
             industrie
             as
             a
             guide
             ,
             and
             particular
             practise
             follow
             generall
             rule
             ,
             which
             he
             that
             hath
             not
             first
             in
             mind
             fully
             and
             truly
             conceiued
             ,
             must
             needs
             want
             the
             idea
             that
             formeth
             an
             vnderstanding
             action
             .
             And
             thus
             hath
             it
             hitherto
             appeared
             negatiuely
             ,
             now
             it
             followeth
             affirmatiuely
             ,
             where
             true
             election
             may
             make
             right
             choice
             of
             a
             good
             Physition
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             second
             Booke
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THE
           THIRD
           BOOKE
           .
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             I.
             
          
           
             The
             true
             Artist
             his
             right
             description
             and
             election
             .
          
           
             THe
             corruptible
             condition
             of
             all
             things
             in
             a
             substance
             ,
             &
             perpetuall
             mutabilitie
             and
             alteration
             in
             a
             accidents
             ,
             doth
             euery
             moment
             beget
             such
             diuers
             oddes
             and
             differences
             in
             the
             same
             things
             ,
             that
             their
             former
             considerations
             and
             respects
             ,
             can
             neuer
             constantly
             ,
             truly
             ,
             and
             indeed
             long
             continue
             them
             to
             be
             the
             same
             .
             Hence
             by
             vicissitude
             it
             ordinarily
             cometh
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             of
             those
             things
             whereof
             lately
             seeemed
             certaintie
             ,
             thereof
             by
             continuall
             accesse
             of
             different
             accidents
             and
             circumstances
             ,
             is
             againe
             begotten
             e
             vncertainties
             .
             That
             which
             late
             seemed
             necessarie
             ,
             in
             an
             instant
             becometh
             casuall
             ;
             that
             which
             was
             true
             ,
             now
             false
             ;
             that
             which
             was
             good
             ,
             now
             euill
             ,
             and
             that
             which
             was
             possible
             ,
             oft
             impossible
             .
             Necessity
             &
             this
             vncertainty
             of
             all
             things
             ,
             doth
             driue
             men
             that
             desire
             with
             more
             likely
             certaintie
             ,
             through
             prudence
             to
             guide
             their
             actions
             vnto
             the
             schoole
             of
             contemplation
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             generall
             reuolution
             of
             all
             things
             therein
             ,
             (
             which
             is
             true
             Philosophy
             )
             that
             thence
             by
             long
             study
             and
             diligence
             obseruing
             to
             know
             and
             distinguish
             what
             is
             in
             nature
             ,
             and
             the
             ordinarie
             vicissitude
             of
             all
             things
             ,
             according
             to
             seuerall
             seasons
             ,
             circumstances
             and
             subiects
             ,
             meanes
             ,
             measures
             ,
             and
             manners
             variously
             ,
             now
             true
             ,
             then
             false
             ;
             now
             necessarie
             ,
             
             then
             casuall
             ,
             now
             absolute
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             now
             conditionall
             ,
             with
             supposition
             ,
             and
             by
             accident
             ,
             now
             possible
             ,
             now
             impossible
             ;
             they
             may
             informe
             themselues
             from
             tried
             and
             approued
             knowledge
             ,
             where
             with
             certaintie
             is
             safe
             to
             f
             resolue
             ,
             how
             in
             vncertaintie
             neither
             to
             g
             neglect
             the
             least
             hope
             ,
             nor
             to
             ouer-weene
             the
             best
             good
             happe
             :
             how
             to
             endeauour
             in
             that
             is
             possible
             ,
             how
             to
             obserue
             necessitie
             in
             that
             is
             impossible
             ,
             prouidently
             how
             in
             cases
             of
             vrgence
             and
             serious
             counsell
             ,
             to
             forecast
             and
             husband
             occasion
             and
             opportunitie
             ,
             that
             ill
             hapsharme
             not
             ,
             vaine
             hope
             deceiue
             not
             ,
             time
             beguile
             not
             ,
             aduantage
             escape
             not
             ,
             vncertaintie
             preiudice
             not
             ,
             occurrents
             preuent
             not
             that
             good
             which
             according
             to
             reason
             and
             the
             destined
             issue
             in
             nature
             ,
             diligent
             endeauout
             may
             otherwise
             effect
             .
             This
             is
             the
             summe
             of
             art
             and
             prudence
             .
             This
             is
             the
             vse
             and
             perfection
             of
             reason
             in
             man
             ,
             without
             which
             man
             must
             needs
             be
             as
             the
             brute
             beast
             ,
             voide
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             dwelling
             in
             perpetuall
             blindnesse
             ,
             darknesse
             and
             confusion
             ,
             without
             distinction
             of
             good
             and
             euill
             ,
             true
             and
             false
             ,
             without
             consultation
             or
             election
             of
             the
             one
             or
             other
             .
             Without
             the
             knowledge
             of
             nature
             our
             life
             is
             death
             ,
             our
             sight
             blind
             ,
             our
             light
             darkenesse
             ,
             and
             all
             our
             waies
             vncertaine
             .
             He
             that
             knoweth
             not
             the
             qualitie
             of
             the
             fire
             ,
             can
             neither
             seeke
             comfort
             by
             the
             warmth
             ,
             nor
             feare
             the
             scorching
             .
             He
             that
             hath
             not
             obserued
             nature
             in
             the
             water
             cold
             and
             moist
             ,
             shall
             neither
             needing
             their
             contemper
             thinke
             of
             their
             vse
             ,
             nor
             subiect
             to
             their
             danger
             decline
             their
             hurt
             .
             Who
             hath
             euer
             bene
             so
             blind
             ,
             that
             hath
             not
             claymed
             reason
             e
             for
             euerie
             action
             ,
             both
             as
             natures
             common
             light
             and
             rule
             in
             all
             things
             ,
             as
             also
             his
             owne
             eye
             and
             f
             hand
             to
             guide
             him
             vnto
             the
             vnderstanding
             thereof
             ?
             For
             there
             is
             *
             reason
             in
             nature
             ,
             and
             reason
             of
             vnderstanding
             .
             Reason
             in
             nature
             is
             the
             constant
             course
             and
             g
             order
             of
             nature
             according
             to
             which
             she
             gouerneth
             and
             ordereth
             all
             things
             .
             Reason
             of
             vnderstanding
             
             is
             that
             h
             light
             and
             eye
             of
             the
             mind
             ,
             whereby
             is
             discouered
             what
             is
             according
             to
             reason
             in
             nature
             ,
             good
             &
             euill
             ,
             true
             and
             false
             .
             Thus
             the
             reason
             of
             man
             hath
             his
             excellence
             and
             perfection
             ,
             consisting
             in
             finding
             out
             and
             vnderstanding
             the
             excellence
             and
             perfection
             of
             i
             reason
             in
             nature
             .
             This
             is
             the
             top
             and
             heigth
             of
             all
             humane
             wisedome
             ,
             knowledge
             and
             learning
             .
             Hereby
             is
             distinguished
             the
             subtile
             k
             and
             wise
             from
             the
             meane
             vnderstanding
             ,
             from
             the
             foole
             and
             idiote
             ;
             the
             counsell
             of
             the
             prudent
             ,
             from
             the
             rash
             and
             vnaduised
             ;
             the
             sharpnesse
             of
             wit
             and
             discerning
             vnderstanding
             ,
             frō
             sottish
             amazement
             &
             stupiditie
             .
             Hence
             are
             onely
             setled
             and
             cleared
             all
             doubts
             ,
             difficulties
             ,
             and
             ambiguities
             ,
             by
             which
             otherwise
             for
             euer
             men
             remaine
             voide
             of
             counsell
             and
             of
             truth
             .
             Hence
             it
             cometh
             to
             passe
             ,
             that
             as
             men
             more
             or
             lesse
             earnestly
             seeke
             the
             wisedome
             ,
             order
             ,
             and
             reason
             of
             nature
             in
             her
             dispensation
             of
             the
             whole
             world
             ,
             and
             therein
             more
             or
             lesse
             dispend
             their
             studious
             paines
             ,
             so
             they
             diuersly
             obtaine
             answerable
             measures
             and
             proportions
             therein
             ,
             growing
             in
             wisedome
             more
             or
             lesse
             according
             as
             they
             are
             more
             or
             lesse
             of
             generose
             desire
             and
             ingenuous
             d
             exercise
             therein
             .
             The
             order
             of
             nature
             in
             all
             her
             works
             is
             e
             constant
             ,
             full
             of
             wonder
             ,
             and
             vnchanged
             truth
             in
             the
             continuall
             g
             cohesion
             ,
             sequence
             and
             fatall
             necessitie
             of
             all
             things
             ,
             their
             causes
             and
             effects
             :
             wherein
             therefore
             how
             the
             Almightie
             Deitie
             hath
             commanded
             all
             things
             by
             an
             vnchangeable
             law
             to
             be
             ordered
             ,
             is
             both
             true
             and
             necessarie
             wisedome
             to
             vnderstand
             ,
             and
             the
             true
             f
             patterne
             ,
             rule
             ,
             and
             square
             of
             euerie
             discreete
             ,
             sober
             ,
             and
             wise
             designe
             and
             consultation
             .
             Hence
             vpon
             the
             principles
             of
             nature
             stand
             euerlastingly
             founded
             all
             arts
             &
             sciences
             .
             For
             science
             is
             the
             faithfull
             and
             truly
             studied
             apprehension
             of
             the
             mind
             ,
             of
             the
             neuer
             h
             deceiuing
             generall
             grounds
             in
             the
             generall
             dispensation
             in
             the
             nature
             of
             all
             things
             :
             and
             
             art
             is
             the
             learned
             and
             skilfull
             habite
             i
             of
             imitation
             thereof
             in
             humane
             action
             .
             And
             all
             true
             arts
             thus
             founded
             vpon
             the
             vndeceiuing
             grounds
             of
             nature
             ,
             in
             themselues
             are
             euer-certaine
             k
             and
             infallible
             ,
             whose
             rules
             although
             discretion
             according
             to
             circumstance
             may
             continually
             diuersly
             vary
             ,
             yet
             can
             no
             l
             time
             nor
             circūstance
             euer
             or
             at
             any
             time
             abrogate
             .
             Hence
             aboue
             all
             other
             arts
             &
             sciences
             the
             art
             of
             Physick
             must
             needs
             be
             most
             excellent
             and
             true
             ,
             because
             it
             most
             continually
             conuerseth
             with
             nature
             ,
             as
             her
             prime
             &
             proper
             subiect
             ,
             and
             beyond
             all
             other
             most
             immediatly
             dependeth
             vpon
             the
             perpetuall
             study
             ,
             view
             ,
             &
             obseruatiō
             of
             nature
             ,
             &
             the
             continual
             consultatiō
             with
             nature
             in
             euery
             actiō
             .
             For
             it
             is
             requisite
             in
             a
             cōpetent
             Physition
             ,
             that
             he
             be
             truly
             able
             &
             fully
             furnished
             to
             be
             vnto
             nature
             a
             gouernor
             &
             moderator
             to
             preserue
             her
             ,
             to
             conserue
             her
             ,
             behoofefully
             to
             dispose
             &
             d
             guide
             her
             in
             her
             best
             and
             rightest
             way
             ,
             not
             only
             of
             being
             ,
             but
             of
             being
             well
             ,
             &
             well
             continuing
             .
             It
             is
             also
             requisite
             he
             be
             able
             as
             a
             prudent
             minister
             with
             knowledge
             to
             prouide
             &
             reach
             vnto
             her
             e
             all
             needfull
             helps
             ,
             and
             to
             remoue
             from
             her
             all
             harmefull
             impediments
             .
             Lastly
             ,
             he
             must
             be
             a
             faithfull
             friend
             in
             her
             necessitie
             ,
             needfully
             assisting
             ,
             helping
             ,
             and
             comforting
             her
             .
             And
             how
             can
             he
             duly
             performe
             these
             things
             vnto
             nature
             ,
             that
             truly
             and
             perfectly
             knoweth
             i
             not
             nature
             ?
             Aboue
             therefore
             and
             beyond
             all
             other
             Artists
             the
             Physition
             immediatly
             hath
             need
             &
             vse
             of
             exquisite
             knowledge
             of
             nature
             .
             For
             since
             he
             is
             deputed
             to
             be
             helper
             and
             restorer
             of
             particular
             nature
             ,
             how
             can
             he
             for
             that
             end
             but
             become
             scholler
             and
             imitator
             of
             the
             generall
             ?
             For
             as
             all
             particulars
             do
             euer
             participate
             the
             nature
             and
             kind
             of
             the
             generall
             ,
             and
             are
             therein
             comprehended
             ,
             so
             besides
             that
             which
             vnto
             euerie
             indiuiduall
             nature
             is
             specially
             proper
             ,
             there
             is
             an
             essentiall
             l
             propertie
             in
             it
             belonging
             vnto
             the
             generall
             :
             without
             which
             as
             the
             particular
             cannot
             be
             at
             all
             ,
             so
             therefore
             is
             euer
             an
             eye
             ,
             a
             respect
             and
             reference
             to
             be
             had
             ,
             that
             those
             things
             which
             for
             the
             good
             of
             the
             particular
             are
             
             considered
             or
             consulted
             ,
             may
             neuer
             be
             disproportioned
             frō
             the
             generall
             :
             which
             he
             that
             knoweth
             not
             ,
             cannot
             consider
             .
             He
             therefore
             that
             shall
             rightly
             and
             prudently
             dispose
             for
             the
             good
             of
             any
             man
             ,
             ought
             as
             well
             to
             know
             and
             aduise
             what
             and
             how
             he
             participateth
             with
             the
             generall
             condition
             ,
             as
             not
             to
             be
             ignorant
             what
             is
             peculiar
             a
             vnto
             himselfe
             .
             For
             if
             he
             know
             not
             the
             b
             generall
             kinds
             and
             natures
             of
             things
             ,
             what
             powers
             ,
             faculties
             ,
             priuiledges
             ,
             prerogatiues
             ,
             properties
             ,
             indowments
             ,
             belong
             indifferently
             to
             all
             ,
             as
             well
             as
             differently
             to
             the
             speciall
             ,
             he
             shall
             oft
             omit
             and
             ouerslip
             a
             larger
             portion
             offered
             in
             the
             common
             good
             ,
             then
             any
             specialtie
             shall
             after
             recompence
             or
             counteruaile
             in
             it selfe
             .
             Contrariwise
             also
             ,
             if
             he
             onely
             know
             the
             general
             ,
             and
             vnderstand
             not
             to
             compare
             ,
             consider
             ,
             apt
             and
             fitly
             sute
             it
             vnto
             the
             d
             particular
             ,
             he
             shall
             neuer
             from
             the
             common
             deriue
             thereto
             ought
             pertinent
             or
             truly
             accommodate
             .
             It
             is
             necessarie
             therefore
             a
             Physition
             vnderstand
             both
             what
             nature
             hath
             allowed
             man
             in
             vniuersall
             ,
             with
             all
             other
             things
             ,
             and
             also
             no
             lesse
             what
             proper
             to
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             inclosed
             in
             his
             owne
             .
             For
             if
             he
             know
             not
             nature
             in
             her
             special
             kind
             ,
             e
             when
             her self
             is
             separate
             and
             free
             from
             other
             implications
             ,
             how
             shall
             he
             iudge
             or
             know
             her
             iust
             reduction
             thereto
             ,
             when
             he
             findeth
             her
             oppression
             requiring
             his
             assistance
             to
             bring
             her
             home
             vnto
             her selfe
             ?
             Neither
             must
             he
             here
             onely
             consist
             ,
             but
             must
             farther
             view
             and
             consider
             ,
             what
             God
             either
             in
             heauen
             or
             in
             earth
             ,
             in
             the
             whole
             world
             ,
             or
             the
             wide
             occan
             ,
             from
             all
             the
             elements
             or
             elementary
             things
             hath
             ordained
             for
             any
             good
             or
             vse
             of
             man.
             For
             as
             God
             hath
             created
             all
             things
             for
             the
             good
             of
             man
             ,
             so
             hath
             he
             appointed
             the
             Physition
             to
             fit
             and
             accommodate
             all
             things
             vnto
             the
             necessitie
             and
             need
             of
             man
             ,
             and
             hath
             farther
             also
             deputed
             him
             to
             supply
             vnto
             man
             euen
             those
             things
             which
             g
             nature
             her selfe
             oft
             times
             cannot
             .
             Nature
             
             cannot
             either
             open
             the
             necessarie
             veine
             ,
             or
             ventilate
             or
             euacuate
             the
             corrupt
             bloud
             from
             the
             bruised
             part
             ,
             or
             in
             the
             right
             and
             behouefull
             quantitie
             .
             Nature
             cannot
             with
             election
             or
             regularly
             purge
             the
             right
             and
             proper
             humor
             ,
             fitting
             the
             cause
             and
             necessitie
             .
             Nature
             cannot
             fetch
             home
             from
             the
             fields
             and
             mountaines
             her
             medicinall
             herbes
             ,
             fruit
             ,
             wood
             and
             plants
             vnto
             her
             owne
             necessitie
             ;
             but
             Art
             transporteth
             them
             vnto
             her
             at
             seuerall
             seasons
             ,
             and
             for
             seuerall
             needs
             .
             Nature
             cannot
             decoct
             ,
             infuse
             ,
             compound
             ,
             mixe
             or
             prepare
             her
             rootes
             ,
             mettals
             ,
             or
             other
             drugs
             and
             simples
             ,
             in
             number
             and
             nature
             infinite
             ;
             but
             Art
             is
             vnto
             her
             benefite
             and
             seruice
             therein
             accurate
             .
             As
             therefore
             the
             Physition
             must
             euer
             haue
             Nature
             for
             his
             chiefe
             d
             counsellor
             ,
             so
             must
             he
             euer
             againe
             be
             sufficient
             and
             able
             substitute
             and
             e
             helper
             vnto
             her
             .
             Not
             to
             speake
             of
             his
             excellent
             subiect
             (
             which
             is
             the
             life
             and
             health
             of
             mankind
             )
             his
             diuine
             direction
             in
             his
             calling
             (
             led
             by
             the
             vnchanged
             order
             and
             wisedome
             of
             God
             himselfe
             ,
             manifested
             and
             set
             forth
             vnto
             him
             in
             the
             structure
             and
             great
             frame
             of
             heauen
             and
             earth
             )
             doth
             exact
             and
             require
             in
             him
             all
             possible
             perfection
             to
             sound
             and
             fadome
             the
             depth
             and
             height
             thereof
             .
             For
             as
             it
             is
             manifoldly
             and
             vnmeasurably
             infolded
             and
             wrapped
             vp
             in
             the
             intricate
             wisedome
             of
             his
             vniuersall
             workmanship
             ,
             so
             must
             long
             dayes
             and
             time
             carefully
             spent
             ,
             indefatigable
             studie
             ,
             paines
             and
             meditation
             ,
             restlesse
             vigilance
             ,
             a
             cleare
             eye
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             and
             sincere
             affection
             worke
             and
             labour
             it
             out
             ,
             and
             thence
             must
             his
             prudent
             and
             wise
             action
             deriue
             the
             ground
             of
             all
             his
             counsels
             and
             consultations
             .
             And
             thus
             must
             the
             true
             Physition
             euer
             behold
             God
             as
             his
             guide
             ,
             and
             be
             gouerned
             and
             directed
             by
             his
             hand
             .
             For
             God
             is
             nature
             h
             aboue
             nature
             ,
             and
             nature
             is
             his
             hand
             i
             and
             subordinate
             power
             :
             i
             God
             being
             therefore
             the
             cause
             of
             causes
             in
             nature
             ,
             he
             is
             the
             giuer
             of
             health
             and
             life
             in
             nature
             ,
             and
             the
             Physition
             is
             his
             k
             seruant
             &
             minister
             therein
             .
             To
             learne
             of
             such
             a
             teacher
             ,
             to
             imitate
             so
             absolute
             a
             patterne
             ,
             what
             wisedome
             is
             sufficient
             ,
             what
             sufficiency
             worthy
             ?
             If
             any
             man
             thinke
             it
             a
             light
             labour
             to
             finde
             out
             the
             order
             and
             reason
             
             of
             so
             infinite
             a
             workman
             in
             the
             immense
             worke
             of
             all
             things
             ,
             or
             but
             an
             easie
             difficultie
             to
             imitate
             his
             example
             in
             infinite
             actions
             ,
             he
             knoweth
             not
             what
             is
             the
             height
             of
             humane
             wisedome
             ,
             which
             being
             to
             know
             most
             d
             among
             men
             ,
             (
             although
             what
             in
             that
             knowledge
             is
             nearest
             vnto
             God
             ,
             is
             the
             least
             shadow
             of
             himselfe
             )
             yet
             is
             it
             so
             much
             as
             is
             able
             to
             make
             men
             iustly
             admired
             ,
             and
             happie
             that
             obtaine
             it
             ;
             as
             all
             other
             that
             want
             it
             ,
             worthily
             as
             vnhappie
             and
             infortunate
             as
             ignorance
             can
             make
             man.
             Ignorance
             is
             euer
             blind
             ,
             blindnesse
             continually
             stumbleth
             and
             oft
             e
             infortunately
             falleth
             ;
             but
             knowledge
             giueth
             eyes
             ,
             and
             the
             happinesse
             of
             sight
             declineth
             the
             vnhappinesse
             of
             our
             liues
             perpetuall
             groping
             error
             ,
             and
             the
             miserable
             confusion
             of
             the
             darknes
             of
             mind
             .
             Since
             then
             knowledge
             is
             the
             eye
             and
             sight
             of
             the
             mind
             ,
             and
             all
             knowledge
             cometh
             either
             by
             the
             ordinarie
             light
             of
             nature
             ,
             or
             the
             extraordinarie
             illumination
             of
             the
             Creator
             of
             nature
             ,
             whence
             shall
             the
             ordinary
             dispensation
             of
             mens
             wayes
             and
             actions
             borrow
             counsell
             and
             light
             ,
             but
             from
             nature
             ?
             And
             then
             how
             necessarie
             is
             the
             knowledge
             ,
             learning
             and
             studie
             of
             nature
             ,
             not
             onely
             vnto
             the
             accomplishment
             and
             ornament
             of
             our
             better
             being
             ,
             but
             vnto
             the
             establishment
             of
             prudence
             and
             discretion
             ,
             and
             the
             happie
             consequences
             thereof
             in
             all
             our
             liues
             and
             actions
             ?
             If
             prudence
             and
             wisedome
             flow
             from
             hence
             ,
             and
             the
             miserable
             condition
             of
             man
             perpetually
             craue
             their
             supply
             ,
             and
             the
             neuer-ceasing
             mutable
             vncertaintie
             of
             circumstances
             continually
             multiply
             occasion
             of
             consultation
             from
             thence
             ,
             how
             can
             any
             action
             or
             purpose
             of
             man
             be
             rightly
             tried
             ,
             approued
             and
             assured
             vnto
             him
             ,
             but
             by
             the
             complement
             and
             perfection
             of
             this
             knowledge
             ?
             And
             if
             knowledge
             onely
             rectifie
             and
             make
             happie
             mens
             workes
             ,
             endeuours
             and
             actions
             in
             all
             things
             ,
             how
             is
             it
             much
             more
             chiefly
             and
             absolutely
             requisite
             and
             necessarie
             in
             a
             Physition
             ?
             His
             subiect
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             safeguard
             of
             life
             f
             and
             succour
             of
             nature
             ,
             exacteth
             the
             most
             exquisite
             wise
             and
             warie
             working
             .
             His
             rule
             in
             working
             (
             which
             is
             the
             prudent
             obseruation
             and
             imitation
             of
             his
             Creator
             in
             the
             created
             order
             and
             reason
             of
             all
             
             things
             )
             challengeth
             the
             helpe
             and
             assistance
             of
             all
             possible
             worthinesse
             and
             excellence
             ,
             the
             highest
             perfection
             of
             counsell
             ,
             and
             most
             incomparable
             sagacitie
             of
             vnderstanding
             .
             For
             what
             wisedome
             ,
             learning
             and
             knowledge
             ,
             can
             be
             more
             then
             needfull
             vnto
             his
             vse
             and
             helpe
             ,
             whose
             continuall
             emploiment
             and
             exercise
             consisteth
             in
             executing
             the
             perpetuall
             decrees
             and
             counsels
             of
             g
             creation
             ,
             in
             restoring
             the
             ruines
             and
             decayes
             of
             generation
             ,
             in
             rectifying
             ,
             reforming
             and
             moderating
             the
             errors
             of
             continuall
             mutation
             and
             alteration
             ,
             in
             opposing
             death
             ,
             and
             enlarging
             life
             ;
             lastly
             ,
             in
             arming
             the
             seuerall
             true
             trials
             and
             iust
             estimates
             of
             the
             natiue
             vses
             and
             properties
             of
             all
             things
             ,
             substances
             ,
             quantities
             ,
             qualities
             ,
             formes
             ,
             seasons
             ,
             and
             circumstances
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             command
             of
             the
             generall
             commander
             of
             heauen
             and
             earth
             ,
             and
             the
             edicts
             of
             nature
             ,
             for
             the
             good
             of
             man
             ?
             What
             humane
             science
             can
             affoord
             more
             ample
             matter
             and
             occasion
             of
             diuine
             cogitation
             ?
             what
             emploiments
             are
             more
             continuall
             workes
             of
             charitie
             ?
             what
             vertue
             commeth
             nearer
             vnto
             God
             in
             goodnesse
             and
             mercie
             ?
             God
             createth
             man
             ,
             the
             healthfull
             and
             helpfull
             hand
             of
             the
             Physition
             restoreth
             and
             repaireth
             his
             daily
             lapses
             .
             What
             wisedome
             more
             inwardly
             conuerseth
             with
             the
             hidden
             and
             secret
             workes
             of
             God
             and
             nature
             ?
             And
             though
             his
             better
             and
             more
             erected
             thoughts
             oft
             humble
             themselues
             vnto
             the
             necessities
             of
             miserable
             men
             ,
             (
             which
             proud
             and
             foolish
             minds
             contemne
             )
             yet
             hath
             the
             example
             of
             the
             sauing
             Deitie
             herein
             most
             exalted
             him
             whom
             vertue
             instructeth
             ,
             wisedome
             formeth
             ,
             prudence
             counselleth
             ,
             and
             Art
             firmly
             guideth
             ;
             without
             the
             competent
             concurrence
             of
             all
             which
             ,
             the
             necessitie
             of
             their
             hourely
             vse
             doth
             altogether
             denie
             sufficience
             in
             a
             Physition
             .
             How
             worthy
             reuerence
             in
             themselues
             ,
             and
             how
             happie
             for
             others
             were
             it
             ,
             if
             more
             wontedly
             and
             vsually
             our
             Physitions
             would
             first
             labour
             for
             this
             setled
             perfection
             and
             d
             generall
             idea
             of
             prudent
             deliberation
             ,
             before
             they
             so
             readily
             rush
             vnto
             particular
             practise
             and
             action
             ?
             For
             although
             it
             be
             experience
             that
             indeed
             giueth
             vnto
             reason
             the
             true
             reflexion
             of
             it selfe
             ,
             yet
             is
             it
             the
             rule
             
             of
             reason
             that
             first
             e
             guideth
             experience
             forth
             vnto
             likely
             proofe
             .
             But
             now
             in
             these
             dayes
             this
             excellent
             knowledge
             ,
             so
             worthy
             in
             it selfe
             ,
             how
             vnworthily
             is
             it
             esteemed
             by
             others
             ,
             because
             so
             slightly
             sought
             and
             found
             in
             Physitions
             themselues
             ,
             euery
             man
             hastening
             to
             run
             before
             his
             knowledge
             either
             of
             f
             himselfe
             or
             his
             action
             ,
             vnto
             particular
             trials
             of
             confused
             conceit
             and
             confidence
             in
             opinionate
             grounds
             ?
             Hence
             as
             mechanicall
             offices
             and
             administrations
             are
             rather
             more
             commonly
             conspicuous
             in
             our
             ordinarie
             practitioners
             ,
             then
             any
             weight
             of
             prudent
             perpension
             or
             liuely
             stampe
             of
             iudicious
             disposition
             or
             ordering
             ;
             so
             doth
             the
             generall
             slightnesse
             and
             lightnesse
             herein
             of
             most
             ,
             sprinkle
             a
             common
             disgrace
             and
             ignomie
             vpon
             all
             ,
             casting
             the
             excellent
             facultie
             it selfe
             inestimate
             almost
             behind
             the
             most
             inferiour
             science
             .
             To
             leaue
             therefore
             the
             proud
             and
             disdainfull
             contemners
             herein
             vnto
             the
             iust
             contempt
             of
             God
             and
             nature
             in
             his
             greatest
             need
             ,
             that
             others
             deserue
             not
             so
             ill
             ,
             and
             all
             may
             learne
             rather
             to
             chuse
             the
             good
             from
             the
             ill
             ,
             then
             to
             despise
             the
             better
             for
             the
             worse
             ,
             I
             will
             here
             point
             the
             inquisition
             of
             the
             best
             ,
             who
             though
             haply
             rarely
             found
             ,
             yet
             may
             the
             patterne
             commend
             the
             nearest
             thereto
             ,
             and
             draw
             the
             well
             deseruing
             vnto
             his
             safest
             choise
             .
             In
             all
             cases
             and
             subiects
             of
             election
             ,
             it
             is
             wisedome
             chiefly
             first
             to
             seeke
             that
             is
             most
             excellent
             ;
             next
             ,
             where
             excellence
             is
             not
             ,
             prudently
             to
             accept
             mediocritie
             ,
             but
             euer
             knowingly
             to
             auoide
             euill
             .
             The
             patterne
             of
             perfection
             doth
             shew
             the
             more
             and
             lesse
             perfect
             ,
             and
             manifesteth
             the
             more
             or
             lesse
             imperfect
             ,
             frō
             which
             the
             farthest
             distance
             is
             the
             greatest
             defect
             ,
             and
             the
             nearest
             affinitie
             the
             best
             excellence
             .
             Of
             mediocritie
             are
             many
             degrees
             .
             There
             is
             mediocritie
             ascending
             b
             from
             it selfe
             toward
             perfection
             or
             excellence
             ,
             and
             mediocritie
             descending
             c
             from
             it selfe
             vnto
             the
             lowest
             step
             of
             meanes
             .
             All
             that
             are
             contained
             within
             the
             latitude
             of
             mediocritie
             ,
             participate
             the
             same
             true
             rules
             and
             grounds
             with
             those
             that
             consist
             in
             the
             highest
             top
             of
             excellence
             ,
             onely
             herein
             differing
             ,
             that
             the
             latter
             with
             a
             more
             piercing
             eye
             searcheth
             the
             marrow
             of
             the
             same
             truth
             ,
             the
             other
             more
             
             
             
             
             
             shallowly
             soundeth
             the
             same
             prosunditie
             .
             This
             difference
             of
             mediocrities
             distinguisheth
             onely
             the
             seuerall
             measures
             of
             the
             same
             perfection
             ,
             whereby
             they
             differ
             ,
             not
             in
             kind
             but
             in
             degrees
             of
             comparison
             .
             Thus
             are
             men
             termed
             d
             good
             ,
             better
             ,
             and
             best
             of
             all
             ;
             all
             considered
             in
             the
             same
             qualitie
             ,
             euery
             one
             an
             Artist
             ,
             euery
             one
             rightly
             vnderstanding
             ,
             but
             some
             more
             clearly
             ,
             readily
             and
             fully
             ,
             other
             lesse
             ,
             and
             all
             truly
             .
             Vnto
             whom
             therefore
             either
             excellence
             doth
             giue
             true
             splendor
             and
             eminence
             ,
             or
             mediocritie
             maintaineth
             within
             different
             bounds
             of
             true
             Art
             and
             science
             ,
             he
             is
             either
             in
             the
             one
             worthy
             ,
             or
             in
             the
             other
             intollerable
             .
             He
             whom
             farther
             vnworthinesse
             hath
             exempted
             out
             of
             both
             these
             ,
             is
             in
             himselfe
             vnprofitable
             ,
             and
             in
             others
             vse
             e
             harmfull
             .
             The
             first
             and
             second
             ,
             and
             the
             second
             by
             the
             first
             thou
             mayst
             here
             view
             in
             the
             following
             description
             of
             this
             latter
             booke
             ,
             and
             the
             third
             and
             last
             in
             the
             first
             and
             second
             going
             before
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             II.
             
          
           
             AS
             all
             ages
             haue
             deriued
             and
             acknowledged
             the
             foundation
             of
             Arts
             from
             the
             principles
             of
             nature
             ,
             a
             reason
             ,
             prudence
             ,
             and
             knowledge
             or
             science
             ;
             and
             experience
             hath
             euer
             confirmed
             their
             profite
             and
             necessarie
             vse
             vnto
             constitution
             b
             of
             Arts
             by
             daily
             proofe
             :
             so
             vnto
             the
             complement
             and
             atchieuing
             first
             of
             knowledge
             ,
             and
             after
             of
             the
             right
             composing
             of
             Art
             ,
             from
             d
             thence
             all
             times
             and
             men
             haue
             with
             one
             generall
             decree
             and
             consent
             determined
             a
             necessitie
             of
             seuen
             euer
             presupposed
             conductiue
             helpes
             thereto
             ,
             without
             which
             neither
             knowledge
             nor
             science
             can
             preexist
             ,
             nor
             art
             from
             thence
             e
             exist
             or
             haue
             firme
             being
             .
             These
             seuen
             Hippocrates
             with
             consent
             of
             his
             owne
             time
             ,
             and
             assent
             of
             since
             succeeding
             
             times
             ,
             hath
             in
             this
             order
             numbred
             .
             f
             Nature
             ,
             g
             precept
             ,
             fit
             h
             place
             for
             studie
             ,
             i
             studie
             ,
             k
             institution
             ,
             l
             industry
             ,
             m
             time
             .
             Aristotle
             with
             some
             others
             haue
             named
             only
             three
             ,
             nature
             ,
             precept
             ,
             industrie
             ;
             but
             in
             these
             three
             by
             consequent
             hath
             included
             all
             the
             rest
             .
             For
             studie
             and
             contemplation
             must
             necessarily
             attend
             precept
             and
             industry
             both
             .
             Studie
             without
             fit
             place
             and
             some
             certaine
             seate
             ,
             can
             neuer
             deepely
             settle
             ,
             vncertaine
             motion
             distracting
             and
             interrupting
             serious
             cogitation
             and
             assiduitie
             ;
             and
             time
             is
             necessarie
             to
             be
             supposed
             in
             all
             .
             By
             nature
             we
             must
             not
             generally
             vnderstand
             the
             first
             mouing
             and
             being
             power
             which
             is
             in
             all
             a
             things
             in
             vniuersall
             ,
             but
             more
             specially
             for
             this
             subiect
             ,
             procliuity
             ,
             naturall
             aptnes
             or
             fitnesse
             ,
             peculiar
             b
             disposition
             in
             the
             helpes
             and
             gifts
             of
             nature
             ,
             ripenesse
             of
             wit
             ,
             capacitie
             ,
             reason
             and
             docilitie
             .
             By
             precept
             are
             vnderstood
             the
             maximes
             ,
             axiomes
             ,
             and
             c
             ancient
             golden
             rules
             of
             truth
             ,
             which
             many
             ages
             and
             aged
             obseruation
             from
             time
             to
             time
             for
             common
             good
             and
             case
             haue
             commended
             ,
             compiled
             and
             summed
             methodically
             into
             generall
             orders
             heads
             and
             numbers
             .
             By
             place
             fit
             for
             studie
             ,
             are
             not
             onely
             vnderstood
             the
             narrow
             inclosures
             of
             retired
             silence
             ,
             and
             abdication
             vnto
             priuate
             contemplation
             ,
             but
             also
             the
             places
             of
             the
             societies
             and
             common
             assemblies
             of
             the
             learned
             ,
             where
             both
             by
             priuate
             d
             conference
             ,
             and
             also
             by
             publike
             e
             hearing
             the
             daily
             readings
             ,
             teachings
             ,
             and
             exercises
             of
             logicall
             f
             disceptations
             of
             schooles
             allotted
             euerie
             facultie
             by
             it selfe
             ,
             f
             the
             mind
             may
             vsually
             receiue
             redoubled
             memorie
             of
             the
             maximes
             ,
             axiomes
             and
             rules
             of
             euery
             art
             and
             science
             ,
             whereby
             continuall
             g
             inculcation
             may
             both
             more
             firmely
             settle
             them
             ,
             and
             occasion
             their
             more
             frequent
             and
             better
             laboured
             examination
             and
             rumination
             .
             That
             in
             
             whose
             admission
             two
             senses
             beare
             testimonie
             ,
             and
             by
             two
             waies
             doth
             enter
             ,
             hath
             firmer
             possession
             .
             The
             weaknesse
             or
             wearinesse
             of
             the
             sight
             or
             eye
             in
             priuate
             reading
             sometimes
             mistaketh
             ,
             oft
             omitteth
             ,
             and
             not
             seldome
             ouerslippeth
             ;
             but
             the
             vnderstanding
             standeth
             readie
             at
             the
             h
             gates
             of
             the
             eares
             ,
             euer
             giuing
             easie
             entrance
             ,
             and
             with
             readie
             attention
             more
             due
             i
             perpension
             ,
             the
             most
             faithfull
             remembrance
             by
             the
             eare
             conducted
             vnto
             the
             inward
             seats
             and
             selles
             of
             the
             soule
             and
             contemplation
             .
             By
             studie
             is
             generally
             conceiued
             the
             continuall
             occupation
             and
             imployment
             of
             all
             a
             the
             faculties
             of
             the
             mind
             in
             serious
             disquisition
             ,
             prompt
             apprehension
             and
             reception
             of
             generall
             rules
             and
             precept
             ,
             and
             frequent
             oft
             after
             reuiew
             of
             their
             former
             seuerall
             notions
             ,
             reflecting
             the
             vnderstanding
             vpon
             it selfe
             in
             the
             recognition
             of
             his
             passed
             intellection
             ,
             and
             in
             due
             rumination
             vnto
             right
             digestion
             ;
             from
             whence
             by
             long
             exercise
             and
             vse
             therein
             gaining
             an
             habite
             and
             true
             methode
             thereof
             ,
             the
             firme
             knowledge
             and
             science
             of
             assured
             infallible
             rule
             and
             principle
             ,
             doth
             beget
             art
             ,
             and
             art
             bring
             forth
             the
             end
             and
             perfection
             of
             art
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             honour
             of
             the
             Artificer
             ,
             the
             euer-reasonable
             satisfaction
             of
             needfull
             vse
             and
             necessitie
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             e
             most
             part
             desired
             issue
             .
             By
             institution
             is
             conceiued
             education
             ,
             early
             beginning
             ,
             &
             inchoation
             from
             d
             young
             and
             tender
             yeares
             ,
             whereby
             the
             grounds
             and
             rules
             of
             knowledg
             growing
             vp
             with
             age
             ,
             become
             in
             shorter
             time
             more
             naturall
             ,
             permanent
             ,
             familiar
             ,
             easie
             ,
             more
             cleare
             and
             free
             of
             difficulties
             ,
             which
             vnto
             sodaine
             apprehension
             bring
             confusion
             and
             impediment
             .
             By
             industrie
             is
             vnderstood
             f
             continuall
             care
             ,
             exercise
             ,
             and
             paines
             to
             make
             euerie
             benefite
             and
             vtmost
             vse
             of
             natures
             bountie
             ,
             of
             precepts
             worthie
             of
             place
             and
             euerie
             other
             behoofefull
             circumstance
             ,
             to
             perfect
             institution
             ,
             to
             saue
             ,
             preuent
             ,
             and
             redeeme
             time
             and
             opportunitie
             ,
             with
             serious
             affection
             and
             desire
             to
             whet
             ,
             vphold
             ,
             and
             maintaine
             alacritie
             ,
             constancie
             ,
             and
             perseuerance
             through
             labour
             and
             diligence
             vnto
             perfection
             .
             By
             time
             is
             vnderstood
             the
             seuerall
             
             competence
             of
             yeares
             to
             euerie
             single
             vse
             ,
             and
             due
             in
             all
             .
             The
             necessitie
             of
             the
             helpefull
             concurrence
             of
             all
             these
             vnto
             any
             one
             perfection
             is
             easily
             manifest
             .
             The
             want
             of
             naturall
             helps
             of
             wit
             and
             other
             reasonable
             parts
             of
             man
             ,
             must
             needs
             be
             a
             vncapable
             of
             precept
             .
             Without
             precept
             (
             being
             the
             rich
             compiled
             treasure
             of
             the
             excellent
             knowledges
             of
             many
             ages
             and
             generations
             )
             how
             shall
             any
             single
             liues
             sufficiencie
             otherwise
             truly
             attaine
             the
             precious
             worth
             and
             benefite
             of
             due
             perfection
             in
             any
             art
             ?
             Without
             studie
             also
             precept
             is
             neuer
             daigned
             ,
             because
             not
             deserued
             ,
             God
             and
             nature
             perpetually
             blessing
             and
             proportioning
             seuerall
             measures
             of
             knowledge
             and
             vnderstanding
             ,
             to
             some
             equalitie
             of
             thoughtfull
             d
             search
             and
             assiduitie
             .
             Where
             is
             not
             place
             fitting
             studie
             ,
             and
             allowing
             the
             prompt
             concourse
             e
             of
             learned
             conference
             ,
             studie
             must
             needs
             want
             those
             readie
             helpes
             which
             mutuall
             speech
             ,
             f
             speciall
             example
             ,
             and
             many
             common
             reciprocall
             auxiliarie
             assistances
             in
             learned
             societie
             ,
             do
             manifestly
             ,
             profitably
             ,
             and
             continually
             supply
             .
             Where
             wanteth
             f
             timely
             institution
             ,
             either
             later
             springs
             bring
             slower
             growth
             ,
             or
             too
             sodaine
             sproutes
             soone
             wasted
             springs
             .
             Where
             industrious
             affection
             and
             exercise
             either
             fainting
             waneth
             ,
             or
             is
             not
             euer
             in
             the
             full
             ,
             eclipsed
             care
             must
             needs
             proue
             dull
             ,
             and
             paines
             slow
             ,
             and
             without
             pains
             shall
             euer
             succeed
             but
             meane
             profite
             .
             Lastly
             ,
             where
             full
             time
             is
             scant
             ,
             h
             defect
             is
             large
             ,
             and
             where
             season
             i
             short
             ,
             no
             good
             *
             proofe
             long
             .
             And
             thus
             it
             is
             apparent
             ,
             that
             none
             ,
             and
             no
             one
             of
             these
             may
             be
             wanting
             ,
             where
             is
             desired
             any
             reasonable
             perfection
             ;
             and
             this
             is
             the
             same
             infallible
             truth
             in
             all
             faculties
             and
             professions
             .
             For
             many
             instances
             ,
             behold
             but
             one
             ,
             and
             see
             by
             common
             consent
             of
             all
             learned
             ,
             by
             testimonie
             of
             reason
             and
             experience
             ,
             how
             progresse
             of
             knowledge
             doth
             in
             euery
             part
             answer
             the
             nature
             and
             custome
             of
             husbanding
             seed
             .
             Compare
             k
             the
             fecilitie
             
             of
             soyle
             with
             capacitie
             in
             nature
             ,
             the
             seed
             with
             wholesome
             precept
             ,
             the
             countrey
             neighbourhood
             of
             readinesse
             and
             plentie
             (
             whereby
             need
             with
             common
             benefite
             may
             mutually
             both
             lend
             and
             borrow
             )
             vnto
             the
             like
             helpes
             of
             learning
             in
             learned
             societie
             .
             Compare
             carefull
             gathering
             together
             and
             storing
             of
             good
             seed
             ,
             vnto
             daily
             study
             ;
             industrie
             and
             paines
             to
             toyle
             and
             labour
             ;
             vsuall
             early
             bringing
             vp
             ,
             and
             prudent
             timely
             countrie
             education
             ,
             to
             necessitie
             of
             institution
             ,
             and
             the
             yearely
             seasons
             to
             studious
             times
             .
             Are
             not
             all
             in
             both
             ,
             and
             both
             in
             all
             alike
             ?
             The
             seeds
             of
             vertue
             and
             knowledge
             are
             euer
             fitly
             sowed
             in
             childhood
             e
             the
             age
             of
             institution
             d
             ,
             in
             whose
             vniudging
             youth
             their
             hidden
             vertue
             stealeth
             roote
             ,
             in
             yeares
             f
             of
             discretion
             growth
             ,
             in
             g
             confirmed
             age
             gathereth
             ripenesse
             ,
             and
             in
             consisting
             h
             age
             bringeth
             forth
             ripe
             i
             frui●e
             in
             practise
             and
             proofe
             ,
             therein
             continuing
             euer
             vntill
             declining
             autumne
             ,
             the
             fall
             of
             age
             ,
             and
             the
             winter
             of
             this
             mortall
             life
             .
             And
             this
             is
             that
             span
             of
             mans
             life
             ,
             and
             ought
             be
             his
             reckoning
             of
             his
             dayes
             well
             dispent
             in
             any
             vertuous
             or
             noble
             facultie
             .
             These
             things
             are
             manifest
             vnto
             all
             ,
             and
             need
             not
             so
             much
             proofe
             as
             better
             consideration
             .
             And
             thus
             the
             necessary
             concurrence
             of
             the
             knowledge
             of
             nature
             vnto
             perfection
             in
             any
             worthie
             faculty
             ,
             hath
             briefly
             and
             sufficiently
             appeared
             ,
             and
             more
             specially
             the
             vse
             thereof
             vnto
             a
             Physition
             hath
             bene
             plainly
             instanced
             and
             manifest
             ,
             and
             his
             primacie
             in
             the
             counsell
             and
             consultation
             of
             nature
             ,
             the
             necessities
             of
             life
             haue
             amply
             proued
             .
             It
             hath
             bene
             likewise
             farther
             considered
             ,
             that
             as
             in
             all
             other
             arts
             and
             sciences
             ,
             so
             especially
             in
             Physicke
             ,
             no
             man
             euer
             attained
             the
             meanest
             satisfying
             worth
             ,
             without
             the
             assistance
             of
             a
             seuenfold
             furtherance
             ,
             without
             nature
             either
             a
             disposing
             or
             fauouring
             ,
             hath
             bene
             declared
             the
             vanitie
             of
             vtmost
             endeauour
             .
             Without
             b
             precept
             where
             
             hath
             euer
             bene
             any
             right
             subiect
             ,
             rule
             ,
             or
             measure
             vnto
             wandring
             confused
             thought
             and
             contemplation
             ?
             Without
             studie
             and
             c
             industrie
             was
             neuer
             gained
             worth
             ,
             nor
             without
             institution
             euer
             purchased
             assurance
             of
             any
             perpetuitie
             .
             In
             want
             of
             fit
             and
             setled
             place
             ,
             the
             most
             desirous
             indeauour
             doth
             find
             wearisome
             losse
             of
             so
             faire
             and
             helpefull
             opportunitie
             ,
             and
             there
             is
             no
             goodnesse
             by
             c
             time
             vnsetled
             hath
             euer
             bene
             after
             well
             f
             confirmed
             .
             From
             hence
             it
             must
             necessarily
             follow
             as
             a
             certaine
             conclusion
             ,
             that
             according
             as
             mē
             are
             more
             or
             lesse
             wanting
             in
             any
             of
             these
             ,
             so
             do
             the
             number
             of
             the
             wants
             truly
             measure
             the
             quantity
             of
             their
             defects
             .
             And
             since
             these
             are
             seuen
             so
             inseparable
             companions
             &
             guides
             vnto
             sufficiencie
             in
             those
             by
             whom
             it
             is
             truly
             acquired
             ,
             they
             must
             needs
             therefore
             by
             necessarie
             consequent
             be
             therein
             faire
             likelihoods
             and
             proofes
             of
             that
             sufficiencie
             vnto
             others
             also
             whom
             it
             shall
             concerne
             to
             know
             and
             enquire
             it
             for
             their
             owne
             direction
             and
             satisfaction
             .
             And
             as
             these
             are
             thus
             necessarie
             to
             be
             enquired
             ,
             so
             is
             it
             as
             easie
             for
             the
             meanest
             to
             trace
             and
             discouer
             them
             in
             any
             particular
             knowledge
             .
             f
             Nature
             doth
             expresse
             her selfe
             in
             her
             owne
             indowments
             open
             to
             euery
             eye
             in
             common
             conuersation
             .
             The
             hope
             and
             opinion
             of
             good
             precept
             ,
             doth
             vnto
             the
             most
             ignorant
             giue
             prudent
             guesse
             ,
             either
             by
             the
             particular
             knowledge
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             inquisition
             of
             precedent
             timely
             institution
             and
             likely
             institutors
             .
             Good
             and
             pertinent
             institution
             ,
             deriueth
             probabilitie
             of
             it selfe
             ,
             from
             the
             testimonie
             of
             conuenient
             time
             and
             fit
             place
             of
             institution
             .
             Industrie
             cannot
             be
             hid
             ,
             and
             studie
             by
             his
             a
             assiduitie
             doth
             euer
             proue
             it selfe
             ,
             and
             by
             continuall
             exercise
             of
             it selfe
             ,
             as
             it
             first
             giueth
             ,
             so
             it
             after
             perpetually
             b
             holdeth
             sufficiencie
             ,
             and
             manifesteth
             it selfe
             thereby
             ,
             both
             past
             and
             present
             ,
             vnto
             any
             one
             .
             And
             as
             education
             it selfe
             is
             of
             all
             learned
             esteemed
             and
             iudged
             absolutely
             beyond
             c
             exception
             or
             dispensation
             necessarie
             ,
             so
             are
             his
             places
             common
             ,
             and
             therefore
             not
             obscure
             .
             Lastly
             time
             well
             dispent
             doth
             point
             his
             proofe
             vnto
             examination
             of
             
             his
             seuerall
             degrees
             of
             groweth
             ,
             both
             how
             in
             d
             childhood
             and
             youth
             ,
             vnto
             the
             yeares
             of
             discretion
             ,
             disposed
             ,
             and
             how
             also
             after
             that
             time
             in
             manhood
             and
             confirmed
             age
             vnto
             consistence
             ,
             disposing
             himselfe
             .
             These
             are
             those
             easie
             notes
             ,
             whereby
             from
             the
             necessitie
             ,
             partly
             of
             their
             continuall
             presence
             ,
             and
             partly
             precedence
             in
             euerie
             facultie
             ,
             the
             meanest
             capacitie
             together
             with
             the
             best
             may
             confirme
             and
             better
             satisfie
             their
             prudent
             hope
             or
             feare
             in
             choyce
             .
             These
             markes
             though
             common
             and
             indifferent
             vnto
             all
             ,
             yet
             do
             they
             bring
             more
             or
             lesse
             different
             behooffull
             vse
             ,
             according
             to
             different
             iudgings
             and
             f
             vnderstandings
             .
             Such
             as
             are
             learned
             in
             the
             same
             facultie
             ,
             beside
             these
             outward
             and
             common
             informations
             are
             farther
             enabled
             to
             assure
             this
             inquisition
             by
             the
             presence
             and
             knowledge
             of
             the
             same
             sufficience
             in
             themselues
             ,
             when
             they
             find
             it
             represented
             vnto
             them
             in
             another
             ,
             Such
             as
             are
             learned
             in
             different
             faculties
             ,
             or
             are
             generall
             readers
             or
             schollers
             onely
             ,
             by
             the
             signes
             cōmon
             vnto
             all
             kinds
             of
             learning
             may
             better
             iudge
             of
             a
             common
             facultie
             in
             generall
             knowledge
             ,
             but
             vnproperly
             determine
             of
             a
             g
             speciall
             worth
             .
             The
             first
             haue
             therefore
             more
             certaine
             vnderstanding
             ,
             the
             second
             somewhat
             more
             aduantaged
             coniecture
             .
             He
             onely
             that
             is
             altogether
             vnlettered
             and
             vnlearned
             ,
             for
             that
             he
             cannot
             help
             his
             iudgement
             frō
             any
             of
             these
             two
             former
             inward
             lights
             ,
             or
             intelligence
             of
             his
             owne
             vnderstanding
             ,
             must
             therefore
             chiefly
             deriue
             his
             information
             frō
             without
             ,
             and
             from
             these
             outward
             signes
             ,
             from
             whence
             it
             is
             also
             better
             to
             raise
             b
             probable
             reason
             and
             coniecture
             to
             resolue
             himselfe
             ,
             then
             altogether
             to
             trust
             report
             and
             others
             faith
             .
             For
             that
             which
             is
             probable
             cometh
             c
             neare
             vnto
             truth
             ,
             and
             he
             that
             industriously
             exerciseth
             himselfe
             in
             discerning
             rightly
             true
             probabilitie
             ,
             shall
             alway
             more
             wisely
             walke
             ,
             and
             most
             seldome
             erre
             or
             be
             deceiued
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             III.
             
          
           
             ANd
             thus
             with
             a
             plaine
             sensiblenesse
             vnto
             vulgar
             capacitie
             ,
             I
             haue
             deliuered
             the
             sententious
             summe
             of
             those
             things
             which
             the
             learned
             in
             the
             largenesse
             of
             many
             volumes
             haue
             widely
             scattered
             and
             confounded
             :
             which
             as
             according
             to
             the
             first
             promise
             and
             purpose
             ,
             it
             giueth
             vnto
             the
             meanest
             a
             light
             vnto
             a
             larger
             field
             of
             prudent
             consideration
             ,
             so
             doth
             it
             also
             vnto
             the
             yonger
             student
             yeeld
             a
             profitable
             taste
             of
             that
             true
             way
             and
             method
             which
             prosperously
             guideth
             vnto
             perfection
             .
             And
             although
             sharpe
             witted
             folly
             in
             the
             ambition
             of
             proud
             conceit
             hath
             oft
             times
             deuised
             and
             imagined
             easier
             and
             shorter
             wayes
             and
             e
             cuts
             vnto
             an
             higher
             pitch
             ,
             yet
             after-time
             hath
             still
             otherwise
             proued
             it
             vnto
             erroneous
             men
             ,
             when
             for
             the
             most
             part
             their
             eyes
             and
             time
             are
             almost
             out
             ,
             and
             folly
             hath
             alreadie
             too
             sufficiently
             fatted
             it selfe
             to
             glut
             repentance
             .
             I
             will
             not
             spend
             time
             in
             blaming
             this
             our
             time
             herein
             ,
             dayly
             experience
             is
             iust
             reproofe
             .
             From
             that
             which
             hath
             formerly
             bene
             discoursed
             ,
             there
             seemeth
             yet
             remaining
             a
             doubt
             demanding
             answer
             :
             whether
             non
             but
             men
             ,
             as
             before
             ,
             knowne
             learned
             ,
             may
             proue
             of
             safe
             or
             commendable
             vse
             ?
             Where
             the
             causes
             and
             diseases
             are
             both
             common
             and
             vulgar
             ,
             and
             no
             circumstance
             requireth
             more
             then
             ordinarie
             consult
             ,
             there
             without
             doubt
             ordinary
             harmlesse
             remedies
             without
             deeper
             counsell
             or
             aduice
             ,
             may
             by
             themselues
             sufficiently
             c
             satisfie
             an
             vsuall
             need
             .
             For
             this
             cause
             the
             Emperick
             is
             iustly
             to
             be
             preferred
             before
             all
             other
             sects
             ,
             for
             that
             (
             for
             the
             most
             part
             )
             neuer
             changing
             his
             approued
             ordinary
             good
             remedies
             ,
             he
             thereby
             in
             ordinary
             cases
             doth
             more
             commonly
             benefite
             ;
             while
             other
             sectaries
             from
             the
             wilde
             d
             composition
             of
             their
             confused
             and
             deceiued
             minds
             (
             euer
             therefore
             vainly
             continually
             
             varying
             the
             mixture
             of
             their
             medicines
             )
             must
             needs
             thereby
             both
             peruert
             the
             ordinary
             benefite
             of
             vsuall
             and
             tried
             medicines
             in
             common
             diseases
             ,
             and
             in
             all
             other
             also
             by
             their
             misgouerned
             rules
             ,
             and
             mistaking
             reason
             ,
             euer
             either
             ouerrunne
             or
             come
             short
             of
             that
             happie
             and
             safe
             issue
             ,
             which
             more
             distinct
             ,
             iudicious
             and
             truly
             vnderstanding
             accommodation
             from
             more
             prudent
             right
             deliberation
             doth
             more
             certainly
             and
             assuredly
             bring
             forth
             .
             This
             is
             the
             reason
             that
             e
             Galen
             instituting
             and
             counselling
             a
             yong
             Physition
             ,
             doth
             chiefly
             instruct
             him
             first
             to
             bend
             all
             his
             whole
             labour
             and
             endeuour
             to
             aime
             at
             that
             vnstained
             puritie
             of
             sight
             and
             discerning
             sagacitie
             ,
             which
             is
             onely
             proper
             vnto
             the
             truly
             learned
             and
             soly
             orthodoxe
             Physition
             ,
             whereunto
             if
             his
             power
             and
             meanes
             wil
             not
             aduance
             him
             ,
             he
             then
             aduiseth
             him
             to
             make
             choise
             of
             the
             Empericke
             soly
             to
             d
             imitate
             before
             all
             other
             sects
             ;
             because
             his
             plaine
             constant
             course
             in
             ordinary
             diseases
             doth
             most
             oft
             good
             ,
             and
             in
             other
             most
             cōmonly
             least
             hurt
             ,
             though
             with
             the
             rest
             neuer
             sure
             ,
             and
             not
             euer
             safe
             .
             And
             thus
             farre
             (
             deseruing
             reader
             )
             I
             haue
             pointed
             thy
             better
             remembrance
             into
             the
             right
             way
             of
             the
             most
             likely
             inquisition
             .
             Vertue
             is
             likewise
             a
             needfull
             companion
             vnto
             sufficience
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             a
             grace
             and
             ornament
             vnto
             a
             Physition
             ,
             and
             in
             him
             a
             benefite
             and
             aduantage
             vnto
             the
             patient
             ;
             by
             the
             one
             well
             gained
             ,
             discreetly
             and
             iustly
             steering
             his
             sufficience
             ,
             by
             the
             other
             well
             knowne
             ,
             f
             assuring
             his
             confidence
             :
             but
             being
             euery
             mans
             common
             dutie
             to
             learne
             ,
             the
             Philosophers
             subiect
             ,
             and
             beside
             my
             promised
             performance
             ,
             I
             will
             commend
             it
             vnto
             easie
             obseruation
             in
             euery
             man
             his
             owne
             triall
             and
             proofe
             ,
             the
             ordinary
             iudgement
             more
             easily
             knowing
             vertue
             in
             the
             f
             outward
             shape
             of
             faire
             action
             ,
             then
             readily
             conceiuing
             or
             examining
             it
             by
             the
             generall
             g
             idea
             or
             large
             description
             .
             It
             onely
             now
             remaineth
             thou
             call
             once
             againe
             remembrance
             vnto
             remembrance
             ,
             by
             recouering
             in
             our
             passed
             discouery
             in
             few
             words
             the
             generall
             briefe
             summe
             for
             better
             impression
             and
             continuance
             .
             It
             hath
             bene
             manifested
             how
             senslesse
             common
             vse
             doth
             draw
             fond
             custome
             
             vnto
             mechanicall
             counsel
             .
             Reason
             and
             prudence
             haue
             also
             giuen
             thee
             a
             taste
             and
             better
             sense
             of
             the
             vnobserued
             mischiefe
             therein
             ,
             and
             hath
             taught
             thee
             a
             more
             wise
             feare
             .
             Nor
             hath
             it
             bene
             the
             least
             wisedome
             ,
             to
             know
             to
             hold
             suspected
             among
             those
             whom
             learning
             hath
             exempted
             out
             of
             the
             vnlearned
             multitude
             ,
             such
             as
             make
             profession
             of
             double
             perfection
             in
             two
             d
             faculties
             ,
             where
             one
             in
             true
             reason
             is
             neuer
             sufficiently
             or
             aboue
             needfull
             measure
             fulfilled
             in
             the
             most
             excellent
             ,
             beside
             the
             perfection
             and
             right
             habit
             of
             vnderstanding
             ,
             the
             attendance
             in
             care
             and
             circumspect
             action
             requiring
             neuer
             lesse
             then
             the
             whole
             and
             vtmost
             endeuour
             ;
             h
             which
             he
             that
             thinketh
             too
             much
             for
             his
             owne
             calling
             ,
             profession
             or
             facultie
             whatsoeuer
             ,
             is
             the
             least
             of
             all
             worthy
             of
             it
             ,
             or
             well
             deseruing
             in
             it
             .
             It
             hath
             bene
             likewise
             farther
             noted
             vnto
             prudent
             obseruation
             ,
             that
             among
             men
             honestly
             limited
             within
             one
             calling
             ,
             notwithstanding
             immoderate
             ,
             extrauagant
             and
             impertinent
             curiositie
             too
             prodigally
             dispent
             in
             things
             of
             least
             moment
             ,
             least
             pertinent
             or
             profitable
             vnto
             necessary
             vse
             ,
             doth
             vainely
             sometimes
             e
             diuert
             the
             more
             serious
             and
             chiefly
             fixed
             study
             and
             respect
             vpon
             the
             more
             maine
             ends
             and
             offices
             therein
             ,
             (
             as
             hath
             bene
             before
             noted
             of
             curious
             Astrologers
             and
             superstitious
             Ephemerides-masters
             )
             whereby
             that
             which
             is
             most
             necessary
             ,
             is
             dangerously
             oft
             neglected
             ,
             and
             that
             which
             is
             least
             needfull
             ,
             fondly
             more
             preferred
             and
             esteemed
             .
             Lastly
             hath
             bene
             pointed
             the
             man
             whom
             thou
             maist
             most
             discreetly
             and
             with
             most
             likely
             safetie
             chuse
             to
             trust
             with
             thy
             life
             and
             health
             .
             First
             thou
             art
             aduised
             to
             consider
             that
             he
             be
             a
             man
             free
             from
             the
             former
             imputations
             ;
             and
             secondly
             that
             he
             be
             commended
             vnto
             thee
             by
             the
             seuen
             forementioned
             testimonies
             :
             one
             whom
             nature
             a
             hath
             fitted
             and
             set
             foorth
             by
             common
             good
             parts
             expressed
             in
             open
             and
             apert
             ,
             iust
             and
             discreet
             word
             and
             action
             ,
             and
             also
             in
             speciall
             proofe
             and
             vse
             ,
             the
             same
             in
             all
             occasions
             ,
             capable
             ,
             sensible
             ,
             wise
             temperate
             ,
             and
             vnderstanding
             ;
             in
             his
             profession
             carrying
             credited
             assurance
             by
             his
             former
             times
             ,
             place
             ,
             institution
             ,
             study
             and
             industry
             well
             knowne
             ,
             commendably
             formerly
             ,
             and
             euer
             
             dispent
             .
             If
             thou
             make
             this
             carefull
             and
             likely
             good
             election
             of
             thy
             Physition
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             not
             so
             vsually
             find
             so
             many
             lucklesse
             euents
             of
             after-repented
             choices
             ,
             nor
             so
             cōmonly
             heedlesly
             draw
             vpon
             thy selfe
             so
             many
             miserable
             calamities
             as
             daily
             fall
             out
             in
             want
             of
             more
             reasonable
             fore
             considered
             care
             thereof
             .
             Happie
             is
             he
             who
             doth
             conuerse
             with
             the
             prudent
             ,
             g
             consulteth
             the
             wise
             ,
             trusteth
             the
             iust
             and
             honest
             ,
             and
             imploreth
             skilfull
             helpe
             .
             God
             hath
             promised
             his
             blessing
             vnto
             the
             prudent
             ,
             in
             his
             vnaltered
             decree
             destining
             vnto
             prouidence
             both
             more
             certaine
             preuention
             of
             euill
             ,
             and
             also
             more
             likely
             forestalling
             of
             otherwise
             more
             casuall
             good
             .
             In
             the
             wise
             (
             with
             caution
             and
             difficultie
             euer
             admitting
             any
             suspected
             or
             doubted
             trust
             )
             succeedeth
             euer
             for
             the
             sometimes
             h
             deceiued
             issue
             ,
             ordinarily
             redoubled
             recompence
             ,
             of
             fooles
             vngusted
             ,
             but
             vnto
             the
             i
             end
             deseruing
             it
             ,
             repaying
             the
             vnknowne
             inexplicable
             nectar
             of
             inf●●te
             acquiescence
             of
             mind
             ,
             and
             ample
             content
             of
             rich
             ioy
             of
             heart
             vnto
             it selfe
             .
             In
             the
             skilfull
             ,
             errour
             is
             barred
             frequence
             ,
             and
             folly
             common
             or
             ordinarie
             a
             admittance
             .
             These
             things
             common
             experience
             doth
             rarely
             know
             ,
             because
             seldome
             regarded
             :
             follie
             for
             euer
             possessing
             this
             world
             of
             fooles
             ,
             and
             a
             b
             mite
             of
             wisedome
             being
             euer
             more
             rare
             e
             then
             ten
             mines
             of
             gold
             .
             b
             Know
             thou
             therefore
             the
             best
             patterne
             ,
             aime
             euer
             to
             attaine
             his
             nearest
             affinitie
             ,
             with
             discreete
             coertion
             of
             that
             desire
             in
             want
             of
             so
             plentifull
             supply
             ,
             contentedly
             also
             accepting
             reasonable
             mediocritie
             ,
             but
             euer
             eschuing
             the
             hated
             name
             and
             inured
             note
             of
             knowne
             ignorance
             &
             adulterate
             d
             bigamie
             of
             two
             callings
             ,
             the
             one
             in
             common
             vse
             wholy
             insufficient
             ,
             the
             other
             for
             the
             most
             part
             ,
             but
             in
             partable
             to
             supply
             either
             outward
             presence
             or
             inward
             worth
             .
             Commit
             thy
             life
             into
             his
             hand
             that
             esteemeth
             it
             worth
             his
             whole
             studie
             and
             endeauor
             ,
             that
             vnderstandeth
             the
             causes
             in
             nature
             ,
             wherein
             consisteth
             life
             ,
             and
             is
             skilfully
             able
             to
             draw
             foorth
             thy
             destined
             line
             
             vnto
             the
             ●●most
             length
             and
             date
             in
             nature
             :
             that
             knoweth
             〈…〉
             and
             opportunity
             of
             life
             ,
             f
             that
             feareth
             God
             ,
             &
             lo●●
             〈◊〉
             man
             :
             vnto
             whom
             knowne
             danger
             giueth
             carefull
             caution
             ,
             safetie
             securitie
             ,
             iudgement
             resolution
             ,
             variable
             circumstance
             more
             warie
             circumspection
             ,
             and
             generall
             g
             knowledge
             vnscanted
             counsell
             in
             all
             occurrents
             .
             Thus
             shalt
             thou
             not
             betray
             thy
             life
             to
             follie
             ,
             nor
             by
             thy
             blame
             ●hall
             others
             h
             ignorance
             deseruedly
             punish
             and
             interrupt
             thy
             quiet
             ease
             .
             a
             Thus
             maist
             thou
             both
             liue
             in
             more
             free
             con●ent
             ,
             and
             oft
             more
             happie
             daies
             ,
             b
             and
             die
             in
             thy
             full
             time
             by
             a
             ripe
             and
             mature
             death
             ,
             in
             the
             blessing
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             ●ight
             of
             nature
             ,
             yeelding
             thy
             life
             vnto
             the
             common
             law
             ●wrod●
             of
             mortalitie
             ,
             not
             falling
             vnder
             the
             heauie
             burthen
             of
             thy
             owne
             guilt
             in
             rash
             exposall
             ,
             or
             carelesse
             neglect
             .
          
           
             FINIS
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Gentle
           Reader
           ,
           I
           pray
           thee
           to
           correct
           these
           faults
           ,
           escaped
           partly
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           difficultie
           of
           the
           copie
           ,
           and
           partly
           by
           absence
           of
           the
           Author
           .
        
         
           Epist
           .
           p.
           2.
           l.
           6.
           r.
           any
           long
           burthen
           .
           Epist
           .
           2.
           p.
           ●
           .
           r.
           this
           necessary
           plane
           talke
           .
           〈…〉
           compare
           r.
           compute
           .
           Pag.
           3.
           lin
           .
           20.
           for
           courses
           read
           chaunces
           .
           ibid
           ,
           l
           26.
           〈…〉
           known●
           certaine
           p.
           6.
           l.
           6.
           r.
           the
           as
           well
           .
           ibid.
           l.
           19.
           grow
           ,
           r.
           growing
           .
           〈…〉
           these
           .
           pag.
           10
           〈◊〉
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           iteretur
           .
           p.
           13.
           l.
           4.
           deliuerage
           ▪
           r.
           deliuering
           .
           〈…〉
           r.
           my
           .
           p.
           17.
           l.
           26.
           r.
           to
           diuers
           parts
           diuers
           feauers
           .
           ib.
           l.
           34
           delivation
           .
           r.
           〈…〉
           l.
           9.
           death
           .
           r.
           health
           p.
           19.
           l.
           14.
           cannot
           ,
           r
           ▪
           runnot
           p.
           21.
           l.
           8.
           which
           r.
           with
           ,
           ib.
           l.
           〈…〉
           r.
           these
           ,
           p.
           24.
           l
           30.
           libertie
           r.
           literature
           .
           p.
           25.
           in
           marg
           .
           r.
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           〈…〉
           sole
           .
           p.
           39.
           l.
           35.
           r.
           content
           .
           p.
           43.
           in
           marg
           .
           l.
           37.
           r.
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           p
           45.
           privie
           〈…〉
           4●
           .
           l.
           14.
           r.
           be
           more
           completely
           .
           p.
           56.
           l.
           29.
           r.
           the
           other
           opposite
           .
           p.
           62.
           l.
           8.
           〈…〉
           motiōs
           .
           p.
           63.
           l.
           13
           ,
           motiues
           ,
           r.
           motioōs
           .
           p.
           69.
           l.
           32.
           on
           ,
           r.
           any
           one
           .
           p.
           74.
           〈…〉
           p.
           79
           orderly
           ,
           r
           ordinarily
           .
           p.
           82.
           l.
           36.
           eminent
           ,
           r.
           emunct
           .
           p.
           85.
           marg
           .
           Scalig.
           〈…〉
           p.
           88.
           l.
           vlt.
           ends
           ,
           r.
           meanes
           .
           pag.
           94.
           l.
           21
           precepts
           ,
           r.
           pretexts
           .
           Ib.
           first
           note
           〈…〉
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           .
           p.
           97.
           last
           note
           in
           marg
           after
           ,
           ea
           quae
           fecit
           ,
           r
           ,
           per
           ea
           quae
           〈…〉
           103.
           the
           third
           note
           ,
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           .
           p.
           104.
           l.
           25.
           r.
           indications
           .
           Ib.
           l.
           29.
           〈…〉
           p.
           106.
           l.
           21.
           their
           ,
           r
           ,
           her
           p.
           111.
           l.
           3
           r.
           the
           illulion
           .
           ib.
           l.
           14.
           diuining
           ,
           r
           diuing
           〈…〉
           continuing
           ,
           r.
           confirmed
           .
           Ib
           l.
           4.
           pofiting
           ,
           r.
           profiting
           .
           p.
           113.
           l.
           21.
           wondes
           ,
           r.
           〈…〉
           pa.
           124
           ,
           l.
           10.
           different
           ,
           r
           ,
           indifferent
           .
           p
           127.
           l.
           24.
           meane
           ,
           r
           ,
           meagre
           .
           Ib.
           l.
           vlt.
           〈…〉
           fertilitie
           .
           pag
           130.
           himselfe
           ,
           read
           it selfe
           .
        
         
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A19403-e100
           
             a
             Sir
             William
             Tate
             .
          
           
             b
             Namque
             tacere
             Tutum
             semper
             erit
             .
             Scalig.
             Constare
             gratis
             quin
             silentium
             possit
             .
             Martial
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A19403-e170
           
             a
             Soles
             occidere
             &
             redire
             possunt
             :
             Nobis
             cum
             semel
             occidit
             breuis
             lux
             ,
             Nox
             est
             perpetua
             vna
             dormienda
             .
             Catull.
             
          
           
             b
             Non
             est
             viuere
             sed
             valere
             vita
             .
             Martial
             .
          
           
             c
             Cui
             malus
             est
             nemo
             ,
             quis
             bonus
             esse
             potest
             .
          
           
             d
             Citò
             dicta
             Percipiunt
             dociles
             animi
             ,
             retinentque
             fideles
             .
             Horat.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A19403-e540
           
             a
             Remedia
             si
             ab
             indoctis
             Medicis
             vsurpentur
             sunt
             venena
             ,
             si
             verò
             à
             doctis
             &
             exercitatis
             ,
             Deorum
             sunt
             auxiliares
             manus
             .
             Herophil
             .
          
           
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Aristot
             :
          
           
             c
             Homo
             inconsultus
             &
             temerarius
             futura
             non
             videt
             .
             Cicero
             .
          
           
             d
             Id
             solum
             bene
             fit
             quod
             fit
             opportunè
             .
             Plato
             .
          
           
             e
             in
             alijs
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             in
             alijs
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             f
             Omnes
             intellectus
             mentisue
             habitus
             ad
             vnius
             prudētiae
             complementum
             desiderantur
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Aristot
             .
          
           
             g
             Fronte
             capillata
             ,
             post
             est
             occasio
             calua
             .
          
           
             h
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Aristot
             .
          
           
             i
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             &c.
             Hippoc.
             Aph
             1.
             
          
           
             k
             Principium
             medendi
             cognitio
             morbi
             ,
             minimusue
             error
             in
             illius
             ignoratione
             commissus
             est
             maximus
             in
             fine
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Meth.
             med
             .
          
           
             l
             Accessu
             qualitatis
             pestiferae
             &
             deleteriae
             .
          
           
             m
             Hinc
             alia
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             in
             quibus
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             alia
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             n
             Symptoma
             crudeliter
             saeuiens
             à
             morbo
             auocat
             .
             Hinc
             curatio
             duplex
             habetur
             ,
             haec
             regularis
             ,
             illa
             coacta
             .
          
           
             o
             Haec
             est
             illa
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             acerrime
             coniectans
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             intuēs
             summa
             ingenij
             sagacia
             .
          
           
             p
             AEgritudines
             aliae
             manifestae
             ,
             aliae
             occultae
             ,
             aliae
             difficiles
             cognitu
             ,
             aliae
             faciles
             ,
             aliae
             incōprehensae
             nisi
             exquisita
             &
             subtili
             aestimatione
             .
             Auicenna
             tract
             .
             de
             horis
             AEgrit
             .
          
           
             q
             Summè
             haec
             spectanda
             in
             Medico
             vt
             tutè
             ,
             iucundè
             ,
             celeritèr
             salutem
             expediat
             .
          
           
             r
             Quemadmodum
             duae
             sunt
             primae
             &
             communissimae
             morborum
             causae
             ,
             Plethora
             &
             Cacochymia
             ,
             sic
             totidem
             oportet
             esse
             communissima
             remedia
             purgationem
             debitam
             ,
             &
             idoneam
             opportunamue
             sanguinis
             missionem
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             ſ
             Aegritudines
             in
             alias
             aliae
             facilè
             mutantur
             .
             Auicen
             .
             de
             dispos
             .
             Aegrit
             ,
          
           
             t
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Hippoc.
             Aphor.
             l.
             2.
             
          
           
             u
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Non
             est
             cuiusuis
             malum
             in
             initio
             exo●iens
             dignoscere
             .
             A●stot
             .
             in
             Polit.
             
          
           
             x
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Latet
             corruptio
             quia
             non
             tota
             simul
             fit
             ,
             decipiturque
             mens
             ab
             illa
             .
             Aristot
             .
             in
             Polit.
             
          
           
             y
             A
             vaporosae
             &
             aereae
             substātiae
             occulto
             subtiliue
             seminario
             imperceptibiliter
             nouos
             &
             inauditos
             ob●epe●e
             humano
             generi
             affectus
             ignotum
             nō
             est
             .
             Hinc
             Galenus
             lib.
             1.
             praedictionum
             interpretatur
             illud
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             Hippocratis
             ,
             ambientis
             aeris
             efficaciā
             ▪
             quod
             insensibili
             ratione
             ,
             ideoue
             miris
             modis
             corpora
             immutare
             soleat
             .
             Hoc
             non
             modo
             in
             aere
             pestilenti
             conspicuum
             ,
             sed
             &
             in
             pluribus
             exhalationum
             generibus
             per
             aerem
             diffusis
             clam
             ,
             &
             celeriter
             quasi
             syderantibus
             .
          
           
             z
             Hinc
             febres
             catarrhosae
             ,
             &
             ab
             his
             latentes
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             cachexiae
             etiam
             occult●
             obrepentes
             ,
             tota
             ●aepe
             sanguinis
             massa
             à
             catarrho
             contaminata
             dum
             in
             venas
             delabitur
             ,
             saepe
             diuersis
             corporis
             partibus
             imperceptibiliter
             lacessitis
             ,
             saepe
             manifesto
             maleficio
             oppressis
             ,
             prout
             per
             arterias
             ,
             musculos
             ,
             neruos
             ,
             aut
             occultos
             &
             latentes
             meatus
             praecipitata
             à
             capite
             fertur
             pituita
             .
          
           
             a
             I
             condemne
             not
             a
             plentifull
             and
             liberall
             vse
             thereof
             when
             any
             necessitie
             or
             neede
             with
             reason
             and
             iudgement
             conduct
             thereto
             ,
             but
             the
             ordinary
             ,
             fond
             and
             needelesse
             custome
             therof
             ,
             led
             by
             no
             perswasion
             of
             any
             foreseene
             good
             or
             benefite
             ,
             must
             needes
             fall
             into
             the
             cōmon
             errors
             and
             harmes
             of
             vseles
             and
             needelesse
             actions
             .
          
           
             b
             Rato
             antecedentem
             scelestū
             Deseruit
             pede
             poena
             claudo
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             c
             Quot
             sunt
             qui
             solo
             victu
             competenti
             citra
             vllum
             discrimen
             ab
             affectibus
             liberari
             possint
             ,
             qui
             praeter
             rem
             pharmacis
             contunduntur
             ?
             Brudus
             de
             vict
             .
             febricit
             .
          
           
             d
             Vidi
             quos
             in
             pemiciem
             traxerit
             solum
             simplex
             apozema
             ex
             numaria
             cum
             senae
             folijs
             temerè
             exhibitis
             :
             nam
             corpus
             totum
             in
             colliquantem
             fluxum
             traxit
             .
             Heurnius
             in
             Aphor.
             Hippocr
             .
          
           
             e
             Quem
             saepe
             transit
             casus
             ,
             aliquando
             inuenit
             ,
             Senec.
             
          
           
             f
             Graues
             affert
             mutationes
             &
             perniciosas
             saepe
             Cassia
             ,
             perturbat
             ,
             distendit
             ,
             distorquet
             cum
             molestis
             deliquijs
             in
             naturis
             &
             temperamētis
             biliosis
             .
             Quercit
             .
             de
             tot
             .
             capit
             .
             Affectib
             .
          
           
             g
             In
             lienteria
             ,
             in
             ventriculi
             imbecillitate
             in
             flatibus
             ,
             in
             renum
             vlceribus
             &
             vesicae
             notissima
             sunt
             mala
             .
          
           
             h
             Siccis
             corporibus
             non
             parum
             nocet
             .
          
           
             i
             In
             humoris
             turgescentia
             ,
             nimia
             tenuitate
             ▪
             ichore
             susque
             deque
             fluido
             .
          
           
             k
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Hippoc.
             Aphoris
             .
          
           
             l
             Haec
             sunt
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Communem
             materiem
             educentia
             .
          
           
             m
             Aph.
             18.
             lib.
             4.
             
             Aph.
             17.
             lib.
             4.
             
          
           
             n
             Perdere
             quos
             vult
             Iupiter
             ,
             hos
             dementat
             .
             Senec.
             
          
           
             o
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             Euripid.
             
          
           
             a
             Quae
             sub
             sensum
             non
             cadunt
             mentis
             vis
             &
             ratio
             percipit
             .
             Gal.
             
          
           
             b
             Mente
             perspecta
             &
             ratione
             generatim
             comprehensa
             ,
             sensuum
             fide
             cognoscimus
             magis
             &
             stabilimus
             .
             Gal●●
             .
             de
             sect
             .
          
           
             c
             Duplex
             ignorantium
             medicorum
             genus
             .
             Alterum
             eorum
             qui
             sola
             experientia
             nituntur
             ,
             aiuntue
             nullius
             rei
             naturam
             posse
             ratione
             inueniri
             .
             Alterum
             eorum
             qui
             sibi
             nomen
             sapientiae
             vindicant
             ,
             &
             licet
             parem
             habeant
             cum
             prioribus
             ignorantiam
             ,
             opinionem
             tamen
             scientiae
             sunt
             aucupati
             .
             Sed
             eorum
             inscitia
             inde
             habet
             initium
             quòd
             in
             rationalibus
             scientijs
             nequaquam
             sunt
             exercitati
             ,
             quae
             nos
             ritè
             distinguere
             &
             secernere
             docent
             ●as
             propositiones
             quae
             demonstrandi
             vim
             habent
             ,
             ab
             ijs
             quae
             probabilitatem
             quidem
             continent
             ,
             nihil
             autē
             veri
             possunt
             aut
             demonstrare
             aut
             inuenire
             .
             Gal.
             lib.
             1.
             de
             different
             .
             febr
             .
          
           
             d
             Ideo
             impositum
             est
             iudicium
             tanquam
             praetor
             quidam
             ad
             inuentorum
             &
             obiectorum
             perpensionem
             .
             Sensus
             enim
             apprehensio
             est
             simplex
             ,
             non
             iungit
             aut
             disiungit
             ,
             neque
             iudicat
             ,
             sed
             aliavis
             interna
             per
             sensum
             intellectum
             promouet
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Sbutil
             .
          
           
             e
             Empiricir
             ati●nem
             negant
             ,
             sensum
             recipiunt
             .
             Galen
             libr.
             de
             Sectis
             .
          
           
             f
             Hinc
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             g
             Ars
             vsus
             rerū
             incertos
             certis
             legibus
             coercet
             ,
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             h
             Omnibus
             in
             rebus
             prudenter
             agendis
             ratio
             pro
             suasore
             habenda
             ,
             vsus
             pro
             duce
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             i
             Prudentia
             est
             habitus
             qui
             deducit
             omnia
             sua
             facta
             è
             rationibus
             ad
             fines
             suos
             sine
             offensione
             .
             Dicimus
             enim
             prudenter
             factū
             ab
             Imperatore
             vbi
             rectè
             partes
             exercitus
             disposuerit
             ,
             tametsi
             similes
             ordines
             acierum
             nunquam
             antea
             notos
             habuerit
             .
             Scalig.
             in
             Poet.
             
          
           
             k
             Ad
             eundem
             modu●
             non
             potest
             quidquā
             saepe
             videri
             .
             As●lepiad
             .
          
           
             l
             Galenus
             morborum
             saepe
             meminit
             quos
             à
             se
             nunquam
             visos
             profitetur
             ,
             alios
             quos
             semel
             autbis
             .
          
           
             m
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Arist
             .
             in
             Eth.
             
          
           
             n
             Sudor
             Anglicus
             tam
             laethalis
             vt
             vix
             cētisimus
             quisque
             correptus
             euaderet
             .
             Qui
             euadebant
             in
             morbum
             bis
             terque
             relabebātur
             ,
             &
             tandem
             concidebant
             .
             Correpti
             intra
             24.
             horas
             animo
             deficiebant
             &
             moriebantur
             .
             Hollerius
             ex
             Polydoro
             Virgilio
             .
          
           
             o
             Rulandus
             de
             Dente
             aureo
             .
          
           
             p
             Hollerius
             in
             ratis
             obseruationibus
             .
          
           
             q
             Brasauol
             .
             in
             Aph.
             Hipp.
             18.
             s
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             r
             Of
             Thingede●
             in
             Northamptonshire
             .
          
           
             ſ
             Pulsibus
             manum
             applicand●
             tres
             modos
             tradit
             Galenus
             lib.
             de
             Pulsib
             .
             palpationem
             ,
             compression●●
             ,
             modum
             mediū
             .
          
           
             t
             Tale
             quiddam
             narrat
             Struthius
             in
             arte
             Sphygmica
             ,
             propter
             vulnus
             acceptū
             ,
             in
             brachij
             arteria
             pulsationem
             fieri
             posse
             imperceptibilem
             .
          
           
             u
             A
             Parson-Physition
             .
          
           
             x
             Hollerius
             inter
             raras
             obseruationes
             virum
             memorat
             cui
             è
             regione
             Hepatis
             vena
             per
             interualla
             dehiscebat
             ,
             quae
             sanguinem
             fundebat
             ,
             posteà
             sanguine
             sponte
             restitante
             vestigium
             nullum
             apparebat
             .
          
           
             y
             Of
             Hac●leton
             in
             Northampton
             shire
             .
          
           
             z
             Apprentis●
             vnto
             one
             Iohn
             Frende
             .
          
           
             a
             Simile
             quiddam
             inter
             raras
             obseruationes
             ●arrat
             Hollerius
             ,
             &
             Medicus
             Argentoratensis
             Didymus
             Obrechtus
             de
             se
             ipso
             idem
             refert
             .
          
           
             b
             Simile
             quiddam
             narrat
             Reolanus
             de
             aegro
             qui
             simili
             materia
             plures
             pelues
             impleuerit
             ,
             &
             expurgatus
             perfectè
             ,
             liberatus
             est
             .
             Addit
             praeterea
             huiusmodi
             abscessus
             primarios
             nō
             esse
             sed
             epigenematicos
             ,
             nec
             verum
             aut
             legitimum
             pus
             ,
             sed
             potius
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             dum
             pituita
             in
             thoraeis
             capacitatem
             destillatione
             lapsa
             morâ
             coquitur
             ,
             &
             fit
             puri
             simile
             .
          
           
             c
             A
             Principio
             saniei
             expurgetionis
             numerando
             ,
             non
             generationis
             .
          
           
             d
             Non
             praeclsè
             necessarium
             est
             intra
             40
             dies
             vel
             expurgari
             ,
             velin
             pthisin
             transire
             ,
             nam
             &
             post
             40
             diem
             &
             expurgari
             &
             liberari
             quis
             potest
             proculdubio
             ,
             modò
             40
             diem
             non
             multum
             excedat
             .
             Brasauol
             .
             in
             Aph.
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             e
             Wife
             vnto
             Maister
             Langham
             of
             Thornby
             in
             Northamptonshire
             .
          
           
             f
             Wife
             vnto
             one
             Tiplar
             of
             Harding
             stone
             in
             Northamptonshire
             .
          
           
             g
             Of
             Woolaston
             in
             Northamptonshire
             .
          
           
             h
             Per
             artis
             exercitationem
             cōperi
             eam
             remediorum
             inuentionem
             quae
             ex
             vera
             demonstratione
             procedit
             in
             his
             quae
             rarò
             accidunt
             longè
             praestare
             :
             vnde
             multos
             curaui
             morbos
             medicamentis
             ab
             experientia
             alienis
             .
          
           
             Galen●de
             Locis
             affect
             .
          
           
             *
             Hinc
             ille
             En●piricorum
             transitus
             ad
             simile
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             i
             Similitudo
             nō
             affert
             identitatē
             .
          
           
             k
             Vnum
             est
             ex
             Principijs
             humanae
             sapientiae
             rerum
             differentium
             similitudines
             &
             similium
             differentias
             ritè
             dignoscere
             .
             Aristot
             in
             Top.
             
          
           
             l
             Hinc
             Hectici
             pulmonarij
             &
             hectici
             à
             iecore
             retorrido
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             m
             Pauci
             febrem
             spuriam
             duplicem
             à
             quotidiana
             distinguunt
             ;
             nam
             licet
             facilè
             sit
             febrem
             cognoscere
             ,
             difficile
             est
             hanc
             ab
             illa
             distinguere
             Synochus
             putris
             &
             non
             putris
             facilè
             decipiūt
             ab
             eadem
             materia
             antecedente
             natae
             ,
             cum
             materiae
             similitudo
             similia
             producat
             accidentia
             vt
             &
             partium
             vicinitas
             ,
             continuitas
             ,
             situs
             .
          
           
             n
             Aegri
             febriunt
             ,
             vehementius
             vigilant
             ,
             grauiter
             se
             habent
             quando
             sunt
             propinqui
             crisi
             .
             Galen
             .
          
           
             n
             Semper
             grauia
             symptomata
             crisim
             antecedunt
             .
             Hippo.
             doctr
             .
             Aphor.
             
          
           
             n
             Vigor
             morbi
             est
             vehementissimum
             totius
             aegritudiois
             tēpus
             ,
             quod
             sequitur
             crisis
             .
          
           
             Gal.
             de
             Cris
             .
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             o
             Cogimur
             à
             gratis
             animum
             suspendere
             rebus
             ,
             atque
             vt
             viuamus
             ,
             viuere
             desinimus
             .
             Maximian
             .
             Historia
             .
          
           
             p
             Similitudines
             non
             modò
             vulgares
             sed
             etiam
             M●dicos
             eruditosa
             iquando
             decipiunt
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             Apho.
             2.
             lib.
             4.
             
             Hippo.
             
          
           
             q
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Sensuum
             nullum
             existimamus
             sapientiam
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Metaph.
             1.
             
          
           
             r
             Sapientis
             consilium
             vnum
             multorum
             manus
             superat
             .
             Gal.
             in
             Suasor
             .
             ad
             Artes.
             
          
           
             *
             Casus
             &
             tempus
             omnibus
             rebus
             accidunt
             .
             Ecclesias●e●
             9.
             11.
             
          
           
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             1.
             de
             Aliment
             .
             facult
             .
          
           
             ſ
             Consi●ium
             docto
             resque
             locus●ue
             dabunt
             .
             Ouid.
             
          
           
             t
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             &c.
             Affectuū
             cog
             nitio
             est
             materia
             remediorum
             ,
             non
             ipsorum
             remediorum
             cognitio
             .
          
           
             u
             Occasio
             est
             Domina
             rerum
             agendar
             .
          
           
             x
             Neque
             doctorum
             hominum
             sed
             Empiricorum
             sunt
             singulares
             illae
             quae
             circumferuntur
             ●egulae
             .
             Fetrerius
             de
             lue
             Vener
             .
          
           
             y
             Exhibenda
             remedia
             pro
             re
             nata
             &
             semper
             pro
             circunstantijs
             variare
             aliquid
             oportet
             .
             Galen
             de
             puero
             epilept
             .
          
           
             z
             Generalia
             remedia
             semper
             praemittonda
             particularibus
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Loc.
             affect
             .
             4.
             
          
           
             a
             Si
             metus
             sit
             inflammationis
             ,
             sanguis
             mittitur
             tum
             è
             basilica
             partis
             affectae
             ad
             minuendam
             plenitudinem
             ,
             tum
             de
             vena
             poplitis
             ratione
             partis
             &
             materie
             coniunctae
             .
          
           
             b
             Vbi
             in
             synocho
             ob
             ebullientis
             sanguinis
             copiam
             ,
             ex
             leui
             occasione
             irritatam
             adest
             suffocationis
             periculum
             .
          
           
             c
             Perpetuum
             nō
             est
             abstinere
             phlebotomia
             cū
             iam
             papulae
             in
             superficie
             corporis
             extitere
             .
             Etenim
             fit
             aliquando
             prae
             copia
             vitij
             vt
             plurimum
             reliquum
             sit
             in
             corpore
             ,
             vrgeat
             vehemēter
             difficultas
             spirandi
             ,
             grauis
             sit
             febris
             ,
             quo
             tempore
             vena
             secanda
             est
             .
             Hollerius
             de
             Morbillis
             .
          
           
             d
             Vbi
             iam
             malū
             in
             habitum
             corporis
             euasetit
             ,
             periculosa
             est
             plebotomia
             .
             Hollerius
             .
          
           
             e
             Mulier
             in
             vehementissimo
             dolore
             stomachi
             nullis
             ●●luta
             remedijs
             ducto
             tandem
             sanguine
             ex
             vtraque
             basilica
             seruata
             est
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
             Epidemion
             5.
             
          
           
             e
             In
             magno
             dolore
             ventris
             ,
             secanda
             interna
             vtriusque
             brachij
             ,
             &
             hoc
             magis
             si
             dolor
             grauis
             ,
             si
             repentinus
             ,
             si
             difficilis
             ructus
             &
             spiritus
             ,
             si
             febris
             est
             ,
             si
             dolor
             in
             dorsum
             &
             scapulas
             extenditur
             .
             Hollerius
             de
             compos
             .
             Medic.
             tractat
             .
             de
             stomachicis
             .
          
           
             f
             In
             Apoplexia
             pituitosa
             cerebrum
             magis
             magis●ue
             sangunis
             priuatione
             refrigescit
             .
          
           
             g
             In
             Apoplexia
             sanguinea
             vincū
             &
             singulare
             remedium
             à
             phlebotomia
             expectandum
             .
          
           
             h
             Si
             pestis
             cum
             ephemera
             aut
             hectica
             analogiam
             habeat
             .
          
           
             i
             Si
             pestis
             sit
             synocho
             putri
             similis
             ,
             &
             corpus
             plethoricum
             .
          
           
             k
             Vbi
             magnae
             cacoethiae
             ratione
             si
             conturbaueris
             naturam
             ,
             praecipitas
             .
          
           
             l
             Vbi
             humor
             qui
             venenum
             aut
             contagium
             conceperit
             in
             primis
             venis
             substiterit
             aut
             in
             ventriculo
             .
          
           
             m
             Si
             hydropis
             origo
             à
             mensium
             suppressione
             aut
             sanguinis
             multitudine
             calidum
             innatum
             suffocante
             manifestò
             ducatur
             ,
             à
             sanguine
             detracto
             curandi
             ratio
             necessariò
             est
             auspicanda
             .
          
           
             n
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
             Aph.
             lib.
             5.
             
          
           
             o
             Noui
             quam
             plurimas
             quarum
             aliae
             abortiunt
             ,
             aliae
             foetus
             edunt
             parum
             firmos
             aut
             vitales
             nisi
             intermedijs
             mensibus
             phlebotomia
             plenitudo
             minuatur
             Reolanus
             .
          
           
             o
             Multae
             nisi
             ▪
             4.
             mense
             releretur
             vena
             abortiunt
             .
             Foetus
             enim
             copia
             obtuitur
             .
             Ferne●ius
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             
          
           
             o
             Mulieri
             grauidae
             si
             menses
             fluxerint
             liberius
             sanguinem
             mittas
             .
             Hollerius
             .
          
           
             Women
             counsellours
             .
             Commonuisiting
             counsellour's
             and
             commenders
             of
             medicines
             .
          
           
             a
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Aristot
             .
          
           
             Bona
             institutio
             triū
             opus
             habet
             ,
             naturae
             ,
             doctrinae
             ,
             exercitatio●
             is
             .
          
           
             b
             Mulieribus
             nemo
             nunquam
             Lycaeum
             aedificauerit
             ,
             aut
             Senaculum
             statuerit
             .
          
           
             Scalig.
             de
             Subtil
             .
          
           
             c
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Sed
             &
             aegrotum
             ,
             &
             astantes
             .
          
           
             Hippoc.
             Aph.
             1.
             
          
           
             Historiae
             .
          
           
             d
             Wife
             vnto
             one
             Maister
             Mercer
             of
             Northampton
             an
             ancient
             Alderman
             .
          
           
             e
             Distinguendae
             vires
             grauatae
             &
             oppressae
             à
             languidis
             &
             attritis
             .
             Hae
             maiora
             remedia
             postulant
             ,
             illae
             nullo
             modo
             ferunt
             .
          
           
             f
             Firmus
             puer
             ,
             robustus
             senex
             tuto
             sanguinis
             missionem
             ferunt
             .
             Fernel
             .
          
           
             f
             In
             decrepita
             aetate
             sanguinē
             mittit
             Rhazes
             vrgente
             valde
             necessitate
             .
          
           
             d
             In
             vitium
             ducit
             culpae
             fuga
             si
             caret
             arte
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             h
             Non
             est
             opus
             valentibus
             Medico
             ,
             sed
             malè
             habentibus
             .
             Mathaei
             cap.
             9.
             
          
           
             i
             Est
             enim
             à
             Supremo
             medicus
             ,
             &
             à
             Rege
             stipendium
             accipiet
             .
          
           
             Ecclesiast
             .
             38.
             2.
             
          
           
             i
             Dominus
             è
             terra
             condidit
             medicamenta
             ,
             &
             prudens
             homo
             non
             contēnit
             ea
             .
          
           
             Ecclesiast
             .
             38.
             4.
             
          
           
             k
             Spes
             laqueo
             volucres
             ,
             spes
             captat
             arundine
             pisces
             ,
             Cum
             tenues
             hamos
             abdidit
             antè
             cibus
             .
          
           
             Tibull
             .
          
           
             a
             In
             horadoloris
             vehementis
             clou●
             quicunq●
             pe●oulo
             non
             caret
             .
             Gal.
             de
             victu
             Febricit
             .
          
           
             b
             Data
             tempora
             prosunt
             :
             Et
             data
             non
             apto
             tempore
             vina
             nocent
             .
             Ouid.
             
          
           
             c
             Ijs
             qui
             in
             morbi
             acumine
             euacuatione
             indigent
             ,
             si
             quis
             cibum
             dederit
             ,
             magnum
             operatur
             malum
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             vict
             .
             Febricit
             .
          
           
             c
             Si
             quis
             dolorem
             alui
             subductione
             vel
             insecta
             vena
             soluerit
             ,
             pro
             humoris
             exigentia
             ,
             &
             vel
             pauxillum
             ita
             affectis
             ptisanam
             dederit
             ,
             praecipites
             aget
             in
             mortem
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             vict
             .
             Febricit
             .
          
           
             c
             Si
             Phlegmone
             vel
             redundantia
             adsit
             ,
             cauenda
             ante
             accessionē
             cibatio
             seu
             res
             maximè
             noxia
             .
             Gal.
             de
             vict
             .
             Febricit
             .
          
           
             d
             Lenissimum
             saepe
             erratum
             in
             victus
             ratione
             irreparabilis
             damni
             causa
             .
             Galen
             de
             vict
             .
             Feb.
             
          
           
             e
             Impia
             sub
             dulci
             melle
             venena
             latent
             .
             Ouid.
             
          
           
             a
             Serò
             mediciā
             〈◊〉
             ,
             Cum
             mala
             per
             longas
             inualuêre
             moras
             .
             Ouid.
             
          
           
             d
             Foelix
             quicunque
             dolore
             Alterius
             disces
             posse
             carere
             .
             tuo
             .
             Tibull
             .
          
           
             Historia
             .
          
           
             Historia
             .
          
           
             Fugitiues
             ,
             Quacksaluers
             .
          
           
             Empirici
             ,
             Chymistae
             ,
          
           
             d
             Quod
             si
             dolosi
             spes
             refulsetit
             nummi
             ,
             Coruos
             poetas
             ,
             &
             poetridas
             picas
             cantare
             credas
             Pega●cium
             melos
             .
             Persius
             .
          
           
             g
             Clinicus
             Herodes
             trullam
             subduxerat
             aegro
             ,
             Deprensus
             dixit
             ,
             stulte
             quid
             ergo
             bibis
             ?
             Martial
             .
          
           
             i
             Scientia
             ,
             intellectus
             ,
             prudētia
             ,
             sunt
             habitus
             ,
             qui
             vigili
             studio
             ,
             labore
             ,
             diligentia
             &
             assuescendo
             acquiruntur
             .
          
           
             c
             Ac
             si
             interiores
             affectus
             sensu
             cognoscātur
             ,
             aut
             manus
             operâ
             curentur
             .
             Riolanus
             .
          
           
             d
             Quo
             fieri
             possit
             modo
             Seuere
             ,
             vt
             vir
             omnium
             pessimus
             Charinus
             ,
             vnam
             rem
             bene
             fecerit
             ,
             requiris
             ?
             Dicam
             ,
             sed
             citò
             :
             Quid
             Nerone
             peius
             ?
             quid
             thermis
             melius
             Neronianis
             ?
             Maritial
             .
          
           
             Historia
             .
          
           
             e
             A
             pure
             longè
             putidiore
             quod
             à
             vesica
             separatim
             exit
             ,
             grauiora
             solent
             inter
             meiendum
             asturgere
             accidentia
             .
             Pus
             quod
             è
             renibus
             defluit
             ,
             substantiae
             est
             magis
             subtilis
             &
             elaboratae
             ,
             ideoque
             cum
             minore
             difficultate
             permeat
             ,
             doloremque
             minorem
             creat
             Renes
             praeterea
             sunt
             partes
             indolentes
             magis
             quā
             vesica
             ,
             &
             partium
             aliarum
             consensum
             minus
             ducunt
             vbi
             magis
             computrueint
             .
          
           
             f
             Aut
             facere
             ingenui
             est
             ,
             aut
             non
             promisse
             pudici
             .
             Catull.
             
          
           
             g
             Coma
             vigilās
             dictum
             Galeno
             ,
             lib.
             4.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
          
           
             h
             Qui
             nondum
             stygias
             descēdere
             quaerit
             ad
             vndas
             ,
             Tonsorem
             fugiat
             ,
             si
             sapit
             ,
             Antiochum
             ▪
             Martial
             .
          
           
             d
             Quod
             nimis
             miseri
             volunt
             hoc
             facilè
             credunt
             .
             Senec.
             
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
          
           
             g
             Lepidè
             illud
             :
             Sol
             successus
             intuetur
             ;
             errores
             tellus
             operit
             .
          
           
             h
             Fumum
             fugientes
             in
             ignem
             incidunt
             .
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Non
             cōmunis
             homo
             curatur
             ,
             sed
             singulorum
             quisque
             .
             Galen
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             
          
           
             f
             Habenda
             enim
             ratio
             non
             manifestae
             modo
             qualitatis
             ,
             sed
             &
             occultae
             ,
             tum
             vniuscuiusque
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             g
             Morbi
             è
             duorum
             humorū
             putredine
             in
             eadem
             sede
             nonnunquam
             fiunt
             confusi
             ,
             nonnunquam
             in
             diuersa
             impliciti
             ,
             nonnunquam
             ab
             eadem
             materia
             in
             diuersis
             partibus
             ,
             diuersimodè
             dispositi
             .
             In
             omnibus
             secundum
             varias
             ,
             diuersas
             aut
             contrarias
             indicationes
             ,
             ab
             vrgentiore
             auspicatur
             prudens
             Medicus
             ,
             singulos
             perlustrat
             ,
             leuissimos
             versat
             .
          
           
             g
             Morbus
             coniunctus
             exigit
             curam
             coniunctam
             vt
             simplex
             simplicem
             ,
             in
             coniunctis
             verò
             quae
             potior
             potiorem
             exigit
             non
             neglecta
             altera
             .
             Galen
             in
             Aph.
             Hippoc.
             
          
           
             h
             Plurimi
             medici
             similes
             vi
             dentur
             nauium
             rectoribus
             .
             In
             tranquillo
             mari
             regendo
             si
             quid
             errent
             peccentve
             ,
             error
             non
             patet
             .
             In
             aduersa
             tempestate
             errore
             aut
             ignorantia
             facilè
             nauem
             perditam
             in
             omnibus
             liquidò
             constat
             .
             Brud
             .
             de
             vict
             .
             Feb.
             
          
           
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             dd
             Ideo
             theore
             .
             ma
             describit
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             de
             Finit
             .
             Med.
             cuius
             contrarium
             rarò
             euenit
             .
          
           
             d
             Vbi
             plura
             nitent
             non
             ego
             paucis
             offendar
             maculis
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             e
             Ars
             est
             eorū
             quae
             ordinariò
             &
             plerunque
             non
             aliter
             fiunt
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             f
             Rerum
             quae
             cognoscuntur
             species
             sunt
             4.
             
             Aut
             enim
             apparent
             sensui
             vel
             statim
             per
             se
             vt
             colores
             ,
             vel
             ex
             alijs
             seu
             signis
             ,
             vt
             ignīs
             ex
             fumo
             .
             Aut
             sensui
             quidem
             occultae
             sunt
             ,
             rationi
             verò
             manifestae
             ,
             eae●ue
             vel
             statim
             euidentes
             vt
             bis
             duo
             4.
             vel
             per
             demonstrationem
             discendae
             .
             Incipit
             autem
             demonstratio
             ex
             aliqua
             praecedentium
             ,
             id
             est
             ,
             ex
             apparentibus
             ,
             vel
             euidentibus
             aut
             certè
             ex
             demonstratis
             antea
             ;
             primam
             speciem
             sensus
             indicat
             ,
             secundam
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             tertiam
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             :
             quartam
             consensus
             ad
             confesta
             siue
             ea
             apparentia
             sint
             ,
             siue
             euidentia
             ,
             siue
             antea
             demonstrata
             .
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             de
             Opt.
             Sect.
             
          
           
             g
             Neque
             idem
             vnquam
             aequè
             est
             beatus
             .
             Neque
             est
             quisquam
             quem
             non
             aliquando
             videre
             Suffenum
             possis
             ,
             Catull.
             
          
           
             b
             Scientia
             est
             habitus
             demōstratiuus
             ,
             habet●ue
             principia
             nota
             &
             aeterna
             .
          
           
             c
             Artificialis
             cōiectura
             quàm
             propè
             accedit
             ad
             veritatem
             .
             Galen
             passim
             .
          
           
             h
             Insipiens
             mouetur
             falsa
             finis
             specie
             ,
             non
             fine
             .
          
           
             f
             Quod
             casu
             fit
             ,
             inexpectatò
             fit
             ,
             &
             tarò
             &
             incer●ta
             mora
             fit
             ;
             vt
             quod
             natura
             sit
             ,
             expectatò
             fit
             ,
             ferè
             semper
             fit
             ,
             vel
             vt
             plurimùm
             sit
             .
          
           
             g
             Quippe
             deest
             finis
             cuius
             gratia
             agatur
             ,
             vbi
             casu
             aliquid
             fit
             .
             Negatio
             finis
             ponit
             ca●um
             .
             Positio
             finis
             negat
             casum
             .
             Sapiens
             verò
             sine
             proposito
             fine
             nihil
             agit
             .
          
           
             h
             Tutus
             &
             intra
             spem
             veniae
             cautus
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             l
             Semper
             metuit
             quem
             saeua
             pudebunt
             .
             Lucan
             .
             Historia
             .
          
           
             d
             Hinc
             illa
             Empiricorum
             miranda
             gesta
             &
             vulgata
             miracula
             ,
             Riolanus
             .
          
           
             f
             Ab
             istiusir
             odi
             errore
             nascitur
             expe●●ent●a
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Sect.
             
          
           
             *
             Historia
             .
          
           
             c
             Saepe
             misera
             auxilia
             tolerabiliora
             faciunt
             mala
             miseriora
             .
             Leuin
             .
             Lemn
             .
          
           
             d
             Dabitur●ue
             licentia
             sumpta
             pudenter
             .
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             Plurimùm
             atq●
             repentè
             quouis
             modo
             corpus
             mouere
             periculosum
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
             lib
             2.
             
             Aph.
             
          
           
             f
             In
             extremis
             morbis
             extrema
             exquisitè
             remedia
             optima
             sunt
             ,
             vt
             Hippocrates
             .
             Sed
             agendi
             iudicatio
             semper
             sumenda
             à
             viribus
             ,
             nec
             deploratos
             attingat
             Medicus
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             in
             ascite
             vtilis
             ,
             sed
             plerunque
             lethalis
             .
             Ideo
             frustra
             tentatur
             fractis
             viribus
             aut
             vbi
             hydrops
             succedit
             s●hirrho
             aut
             febribus
             ardentibus
             .
             In
             extractione
             calculi
             vesicae
             cauendum
             etiam
             à
             longo
             dolore
             fractis
             viribus
             .
             In
             partim
             etiam
             principum
             vehementiore
             affectu
             diacrydiatis
             atendum
             cautè
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Historiae
             .
          
           
             g
             Qui
             calculi
             non
             diu
             concreeriut
             ij
             medicamentis
             aptis
             dissolui
             possunt
             ;
             qui
             verò
             diutiùs
             exiccati
             &
             indurati
             difficillim●
             aut
             nunquam
             enrā
             tur
             ,
             ideo●ue
             periculosè
             irritantur
             .
             Rondeletius
             de
             vrin
             .
          
           
             h
             Lapillis
             in
             ve
             sica
             subsistentibus
             crabrones
             irritant
             quicunque
             saxitragis
             deturbant
             temere
             .
             Reolan
             .
          
           
             g
             Quam
             enim
             proportionem
             Architectu●
             erga
             coementarios
             lignariosue
             fabros
             &
             alios
             quibus
             imperat
             gerit
             ,
             eandem
             Medicus
             erga
             ministros
             suos
             ,
             herbarios
             ,
             venam
             scindentes
             ,
             cucurbitulas
             admouentes
             &
             Clysteres
             immitentes
             .
             Galen
             in
             lib
             6.
             
             Hipp.
             de
             Morb.
             vulgar
             .
          
           
             h
             Naturae
             legibus
             Medicinae
             leges
             semper
             consentaneae
             .
             Fernel
             .
          
           
             i
             Vt
             medici
             cuiusque
             auxilij
             quantitatem
             ,
             occasionem
             &
             vtendi
             modum
             cognoscimus
             ,
             vt
             ministri
             verò
             venam
             secamus
             &
             reliqua
             manibus
             operamur
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             lib.
             6.
             
             Hipp.
             de
             Morb.
             vulgar
             .
          
           
             e
             Neque
             enim
             turpe
             est
             per
             vulgus
             &
             aniculas
             profecisse
             .
             Non
             enim
             puduit
             maiores
             nostros
             in
             multis
             remedijs
             brutorum
             discipulos
             se
             profiteri
             .
             Quin
             &
             acceptis
             à
             vulgo
             remedijs
             adhibenda
             ratio
             &
             rectus
             vsus
             ,
             in
             quo
             summa
             artis
             posita
             est
             .
             Holler
             .
             Instit
             .
             Chirurg
             .
          
           
             Historia
             .
          
           
             e
             Ei
             qui
             praesidet
             ,
             scire
             operari
             necessarium
             non
             est
             ,
             sed
             potius
             aliorum
             ministerio
             vti
             .
             Aristot
             .
             polit
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             f
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Nonnulli
             nescientes
             quàm
             aliqui
             scientes
             ad
             opera
             sunt
             magis
             ido
             nei
             .
             Aristot
             .
             eth
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             g
             Primi
             medicinae
             parentes
             &
             veteres
             Graeci
             Medici
             ferè
             omnes
             humanit●te
             ducti
             (
             vbi
             ita
             res
             postulauerit
             )
             suis
             manibus
             operabātur
             in
             ciuitatibus
             nondum
             populosis
             .
             At
             vbi
             hominum
             multitudo
             increuerit
             ,
             aliò
             res
             delegata
             est
             .
             Hinc
             etiam
             Principum
             edictis
             distincta
             extant
             Medicorū
             &
             Chirurgorū
             ministeria
             &
             officia
             .
          
           
             b
             Nec
             verò
             calculo
             laborantes
             secabo
             ,
             sed
             viris
             Chirurgiae
             operarijs
             eius
             rei
             faciendi
             locum
             dabo
             .
             Hippoc.
             iurc
             iurando
             .
          
           
             c
             Omnes
             artes
             rudiores
             primū
             ,
             tractu
             deinde
             temporis
             absoluuntur
             .
             Scal.
             Poet
             3.
             
          
           
             d
             Medico
             mulrae
             artes
             aptam
             materiam
             praeparant
             ,
             ipse
             naturae
             per
             ministros
             suppeditat
             Galen
             .
             in
             lib.
             6.
             
             Hippo.
             de
             morb
             vulgar
             .
          
           
             c
             Nec
             credere
             possis
             Hunc
             hominem
             ,
             humana
             qui
             ratione
             caret
             Maximiā
             .
             vel
             vt
             alij
             ,
             Cornel
             Gall.
             
          
           
             d
             Causa
             immediata
             protinus
             per
             se
             cohaeret
             cum
             effectu
             .
             Sca●ig
             .
             de
             subt
             .
          
           
             e
             Causam
             per
             accidens
             sequitur
             per
             accidens
             effectum
             .
          
           
             g
             Quod
             neque
             religio
             praecipit
             nec
             oritur
             ex
             causis
             naturalibus
             est
             superstitio
             .
             Melanth
             .
          
           
             h
             Scripta
             ,
             verba
             annuli
             ,
             characteres
             ,
             signa
             ,
             nihil
             valent
             ad
             profligandos
             morbos
             ,
             si
             nulla
             superior
             potestas
             diuina
             vel
             magica
             accesserit
             .
             Inania
             itaque
             sunt
             vereue
             anilia
             credētium
             animos
             superstitione
             occupante
             .
             Fernel
             .
             de
             Abd.
             rer
             .
             causis
             .
          
           
             i
             Vide
             Galenū
             lib.
             6.
             
             &
             10.
             de
             simpl
             .
             Med.
             facultat
             .
             Theophrast
             .
             in
             hist
             .
             plant
             .
             l.
             9.
             
             Aug.
             tract
             .
             7.
             in
             Euan.
             Ioānis
             .
          
           
             b
             Diabolus
             effodiat
             tibi
             oculos
             ,
             impleat
             foramina
             stercoribus
             .
             Wierus
             de
             praestig
             .
             cap.
             4.
             
          
           
             c
             In
             thought
             .
          
           
             d
             In
             deed
             .
          
           
             e
             Neque
             enim
             verum
             est
             hominem
             ab
             homine
             noceri
             posse
             verbis
             .
             Sed
             demon
             credulitate
             decipit
             hominem
             vt
             socium
             habeat
             ,
             tum
             impietatis
             ,
             tum
             aeterni
             exitij
             .
             Scal.
             de
             subt
             .
          
           
             f
             Phantasia
             imperium
             habet
             in
             spi●itus
             &
             humores
             ,
             qui
             sunt
             morborum
             parentes
             .
          
           
             g
             Sensus
             interioris
             motus
             perpetuus
             .
             Aristot
             .
             de
             insomn
             .
          
           
             h
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             6
             &
             10.
             de
             simp
             .
             med
             facultat
             .
             Confidere
             doctos
             &
             bonos
             Midicos
             medicamentorum
             substantiae
             praecipit
             ,
             non
             verbis
             aut
             carminibus
             .
          
           
             Witcheraft
             .
          
           
             Historia
             .
          
           
             a
             Narrata
             ab
             aegrotante
             praeter
             totius
             plethorā
             lassitudo
             partium
             omniū
             inferiorum
             cū
             mensium
             retentione
             ,
             coxarum
             grauitate
             in
             motu
             ,
             torpore
             dum
             quiesceret
             ,
             paratum
             affectū
             monstrabant
             .
             Ideo
             neque
             praedixisse
             difficile
             ,
             neque
             re
             ipsa
             affectum
             subsequi
             miraculi
             loco
             haberi
             debet
             .
          
           
             b
             Praeter
             plethoram
             tum
             infra
             tum
             supra
             diaphragma
             conspicuam
             ,
             tumor
             venarum
             molestus
             circa
             crura
             &
             in
             poplitibus
             ,
             de
             quo
             conquesta
             est
             aegra
             ,
             de
             spasmo
             &
             distentione
             illarum
             partium
             facilem
             inde
             dant
             coniecturam
             .
             Vbi
             igitur
             aegrae
             imprudentia
             praesatur
             causam
             ,
             facilis
             est
             prudentia
             probabilem
             pòst
             fari
             effectum
             .
          
           
             c
             She
             was
             assured
             late
             the
             night
             before
             of
             the
             Physitions
             being
             at
             home
             that
             same
             day
             ;
             she
             knew
             the
             length
             of
             the
             way
             ,
             her
             husbāds
             vsuali
             pace
             ,
             and
             n●w
             direct
             sp●ed
             .
             She
             might
             easily
             compare
             the
             time
             of
             his
             going
             forth
             ,
             with
             a
             competent
             time
             for
             his
             attaining
             the
             Physition
             ,
             and
             with
             all
             these
             might
             well
             hope
             of
             the
             Physitions
             facilitie
             by
             his
             friendly
             entertainment
             the
             day
             before
             .
             From
             hence
             her
             imagination
             satisfying
             itselfe
             with
             the
             confidence
             thereof
             ,
             she
             might
             thereby
             ,
             setling
             and
             quieting
             her
             spirits
             ,
             minde
             and
             humors
             ,
             for
             a
             time
             thus
             appease
             and
             mitigate
             her
             paines
             .
             As
             for
             her
             so
             true
             and
             iust
             coniecture
             at
             the
             time
             which
             was
             two
             of
             the
             clocke
             ,
             the
             circumstances
             before
             mentioned
             ,
             and
             likelihood
             it selfe
             did
             guide
             her
             to
             suppose
             it
             .
             If
             this
             reason
             satisfie
             not
             ,
             religion
             and
             reasons
             giue
             leaue
             farther
             to
             suspect
             ,
             that
             the
             diuell
             to
             aduance
             errour
             and
             illusion
             ,
             might
             conuey
             into
             her
             imagination
             an
             inward
             and
             secret
             sence
             of
             the
             time
             .
             The
             power
             that
             the
             diuell
             doth
             exercise
             in
             this
             kind
             ,
             might
             be
             made
             cleare
             by
             many
             examples
             .
          
           
             d
             After
             the
             penning
             of
             this
             history
             ,
             the
             cause
             and
             maner
             of
             her
             death
             by
             her
             neighbours
             of
             worth
             and
             credit
             ,
             was
             thus
             reported
             .
             Her
             husband
             ,
             at
             her
             earnest
             sute
             ,
             consulted
             with
             a
             wandring
             Surgeon
             ,
             whom
             fame
             ,
             it
             seemeth
             ,
             had
             magnified
             for
             charmed
             and
             potent
             cures
             of
             such
             as
             were
             bewitched
             .
             The
             Surgeon
             deliuered
             a
             medicine
             vnto
             the
             husband
             ,
             promising
             a
             miraculous
             cure
             thereby
             ,
             and
             charged
             him
             withall
             ,
             by
             no
             meanes
             to
             be
             feared
             ,
             though
             haply
             there
             might
             fall
             out
             some
             strange
             and
             fearfull
             operations
             vnto
             the
             seeming
             .
             The
             medicine
             with
             this
             stile
             coming
             vnto
             the
             patient
             ,
             was
             gladly
             receiued
             ;
             and
             after
             she
             had
             receiued
             it
             into
             her
             bodie
             ,
             she
             died
             .
             The
             glorious
             name
             of
             the
             medicine
             ,
             together
             with
             a
             confidence
             that
             this
             was
             onely
             the
             strange
             operation
             of
             the
             medicine
             foretold
             by
             the
             Surgeon
             ,
             caused
             the
             friends
             about
             her
             still
             to
             expect
             some
             admirable
             euent
             of
             recouerie
             ,
             and
             therefore
             they
             still
             gaped
             after
             her
             rprising
             :
             but
             in
             the
             end
             necessitie
             called
             for
             a
             graue
             :
             and
             thus
             their
             hope
             with
             her
             was
             buried
             .
          
           
             e
             Aelianus
             lib.
             4.
             scribit
             Aspasiam
             concubinam
             Cyri
             posterioris
             admonitam
             fuisse
             in
             somno
             de
             medicamento
             quo
             sanauit
             vitium
             oris
             ,
             quod
             venustatem
             priùs
             valdè
             deformauerat
             .
          
           
             d
             Hinc
             illa
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             diabolica
             .
          
           
             f
             Non
             absimilis
             vis
             compellendi
             motus
             tum
             animi
             tum
             corporis
             etiam
             philtris
             &
             carmini
             bus
             attribuitur
             .
             Philtra
             nocent
             animis
             vimue
             furoris
             habent
             .
             Ouid.
             Carmina
             de
             coelo
             possunt
             deducere
             lunam
             Virgil.
             
          
           
             g
             Data
             est
             Diabolo
             potestas
             non
             modò
             vt
             fallat
             malos
             ,
             sed
             vt
             exerceat
             bonos
             .
             Augussin
             .
          
           
             g
             Diabolus
             imperium
             exercet
             in
             impios
             .
             In
             pios
             etiā
             in
             multis
             casibus
             particularibus
             potestatem
             habet
             ,
             qua
             &
             vulnerantur
             &
             concidunt
             .
             Caluin
             .
             lib.
             instit
             .
          
           
             h
             Quid
             Angeli
             mali
             possunt
             ,
             quid
             nō
             possunt
             facere
             per
             naturae
             suae
             conditionem
             ,
             homini
             explorare
             difficile
             immo
             impossibile
             ,
             Augustin
             .
             de
             Trinit
             .
          
           
             c
             Soli
             viri
             ingeniosi
             &
             subtilis
             mentis
             acici
             difficilia
             cognitu
             facilè
             comprehendere
             valent
             .
             Aristot
             .
          
           
             d
             Multa
             sunt
             quorum
             cum
             veritas
             certa
             sit
             ,
             tamē
             causae
             nos
             latent
             .
             Plutarch
             .
             de
             Sympol
             .
          
           
             e
             Inter
             praestigiatoris
             manus
             quod
             est
             video
             .
             Mutatur
             species
             vel
             propter
             celeritatem
             vel
             propter
             aliud
             .
             Quare
             verò
             mutetur
             latet
             me
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             f
             In
             natura
             plurima
             fiunt
             miranda
             &
             singularia
             ,
             inquit
             Aristoles
             ,
             ideoque
             naturam
             ipsam
             appellat
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             g
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Camerarius
             de
             diuinat
             .
          
           
             a
             A
             forma
             vniuersali
             mouentur
             sponte
             ignis
             &
             aër
             deorsum
             ,
             ne
             eueniret
             vacuum
             .
             Forma
             particularis
             obedit
             vniuersali
             ad
             conseruationem
             totius
             entitatis
             &
             vnitatis
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             b
             Quia
             nequit
             tam
             citò
             ratefieri
             ad
             implendum
             vacuum
             ,
             quod
             reliquum
             potest
             facere
             facit
             ,
             atque
             tam
             citò
             abit
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             subt
             .
          
           
             d
             Frustra
             de
             metaphysicis
             quaeruntur
             physicae
             rationes
             .
          
           
             c
             Sapientia
             vera
             ,
             Nolle
             nimis
             sapere
             .
          
           
             f
             Hoc
             nomine
             Cardanum
             taxat
             Scaliger
             lib.
             de
             subtilit
             .
             Quae
             consultò
             natura
             in
             orbe
             molita
             est
             suo
             ,
             is
             praestigiae
             nomine
             denotandum
             putat
             .
          
           
             c
             Hoc
             à
             diuinitatis
             excellentia
             separat
             .
             omnis
             enim
             potestas
             supra
             naturam
             est
             vel
             diuina
             vel
             diabolica
             ,
             haec
             voique
             &
             semper
             bona
             ,
             illa
             nusquam
             non
             mala
             .
          
           
             d
             Quorum
             daemones
             authores
             sunt
             eorum
             ratio
             est
             trans
             naturam
             .
             Fernel
             .
             de
             abd
             .
             rer
             .
             caus
             .
          
           
             e
             Daemoniaci
             nonnulli
             obloquuntur
             summè
             ardua
             ,
             arcana
             reserant
             &
             occulta
             renunciant
             .
             Edunt
             verba
             &
             sententias
             graecas
             &
             latinas
             ,
             cum
             ipsi
             vtriusque
             linguae
             omnina
             ignari
             sunt
             .
             Fernel
             .
             de
             Abd.
             rer
             .
             caus
             .
          
           
             g
             Many
             and
             strange
             haue
             bene
             the
             formes
             of
             diuers
             excrescencies
             ,
             or
             growings
             in
             the
             flesh
             through
             all
             parts
             almost
             of
             the
             bodie
             ,
             whose
             nature
             ,
             forme
             and
             cause
             are
             well
             knowne
             vnto
             the
             Physition
             ,
             though
             to
             his
             eye
             oft
             times
             strange
             and
             wondered
             .
             Scaliger
             in
             his
             booke
             of
             Subtilties
             ,
             mentioneth
             a
             Waterman
             ,
             knowne
             vnto
             himselfe
             ,
             who
             had
             a
             horne
             growing
             vpon
             his
             backe
             .
             The
             like
             haue
             others
             since
             and
             before
             knowne
             and
             written
             .
             Some
             men
             haue
             bene
             borne
             with
             parts
             proper
             vnto
             the
             other
             sexe
             ,
             and
             women
             with
             parts
             or
             resemblances
             of
             parts
             naturally
             giuen
             to
             the
             malekind
             alone
             .
             The
             errors
             of
             nature
             in
             monstrous
             births
             ,
             are
             not
             obscure
             ,
             and
             feede
             varietie
             of
             wonder
             ;
             nor
             are
             nor
             can
             be
             tied
             from
             the
             counterfeit
             of
             any
             shape
             ,
             likenesse
             ,
             marke
             or
             figure
             ,
             sometimes
             superfluously
             cast
             vpon
             one
             part
             ,
             sometimes
             vpon
             another
             .
          
           
             d
             The
             diuels
             propertie
             is
             knowne
             by
             actions
             ,
             deeds
             or
             workes
             first
             found
             sustained
             by
             a
             supernaturall
             power
             ,
             and
             next
             bent
             vnto
             an
             euill
             end
             .
             Thus
             for
             diuellish
             ends
             haue
             Witches
             and
             sorcerers
             bene
             knowne
             to
             ride
             vpon
             the
             seas
             in
             vessels
             vncapable
             of
             such
             cariage
             ,
             or
             of
             any
             defence
             .
             Thus
             haue
             some
             haunted
             men
             and
             other
             creatures
             ,
             in
             maners
             ,
             meanes
             and
             circumstances
             more
             then
             any
             way
             reasonable
             or
             possible
             vnto
             humanitie
             or
             the
             nature
             of
             man
             alone
             .
             Thus
             haue
             some
             also
             declared
             the
             secret
             words
             and
             actions
             of
             men
             ,
             then
             absent
             in
             farre
             distant
             places
             ,
             and
             foretold
             particular
             things
             to
             come
             .
             These
             with
             their
             diuellish
             affection
             ,
             end
             ,
             and
             intention
             are
             certaine
             proofes
             of
             diabolicall
             power
             and
             witchraft
             .
          
           
             e
             Consent
             and
             cooperation
             may
             be
             manifested
             first
             by
             proofe
             of
             any
             incantation
             ,
             inuocation
             ,
             spels
             ,
             and
             other
             performances
             of
             other
             diabolicall
             rites
             and
             ceremonies
             :
             secondly
             by
             their
             vse
             of
             such
             instruments
             as
             are
             vsuall
             or
             proper
             vnto
             such
             diuellish
             workes
             Of
             this
             kind
             are
             pictures
             of
             waxe
             or
             other
             matter
             ,
             by
             which
             they
             secretly
             worke
             wasting
             and
             consuming
             paines
             vnto
             the
             liuing
             persons
             of
             those
             dead
             resemblances
             .
             Of
             this
             kind
             are
             also
             charmed
             kno●s
             ,
             characters
             and
             figures
             .
             Of
             this
             kinde
             also
             are
             diuers
             sorts
             of
             poisonsome
             matters
             ,
             by
             them
             knowne
             to
             be
             solemnly
             sought
             ,
             and
             carefully
             hidden
             or
             kept
             .
             These
             found
             or
             detected
             ,
             are
             certaine
             conuictions
             of
             witches
             and
             witchcraft
             ,
             ioyned
             with
             other
             due
             presumptions
             and
             circumstances
             ,
             and
             a
             manifest
             detection
             of
             the
             assistance
             of
             any
             tra●
             scendent
             force
             .
          
           
             e
             Quippe
             vbi
             nec
             causas
             nec
             apertos
             cernimus
             ictus
             ,
             Vnde
             ergo
             veniant
             tot
             mala
             ,
             caeca
             via
             est
             .
             Propert.
             
          
           
             f
             In
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             vel
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Gal.
             de
             loc
             aff
             .
          
           
             g
             In
             this
             maner
             Ann.
             1598.
             my selfe
             being
             present
             ,
             a
             child
             of
             one
             M.
             Barker
             of
             Couentry
             was
             afflicted
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             end
             these
             fits
             changing
             into
             conuulsions
             of
             his
             face
             ,
             mouth
             ,
             and
             eyes
             ,
             he
             therein
             died
             .
          
           
             h
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Gal.
             de
             loc
             .
             aff
             .
          
           
             i
             In
             Apoplexia
             vel
             morbo
             attonito
             .
             Gal.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
          
           
             c
             An.
             Dom.
             1602
             In
             this
             maner
             a
             former
             wife
             of
             one
             M.
             Roson
             of
             Northampton
             continued
             the
             space
             of
             two
             daies
             and
             nights
             ,
             being
             then
             my
             patient
             .
          
           
             d
             In
             Caro.
             Carum
             verò
             distinguit
             à
             Catalepsi
             .
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
             quòd
             in
             hac
             oculi
             aegrotorum
             clausi
             permanent
             ,
             in
             illa
             aperti
             .
          
           
             e
             Hoc
             genus
             coma
             vigilans
             Galeno
             dicitur
             tract
             .
             de
             comate
             ,
             quod
             &
             insomne
             vocat
             ,
             &
             Phreneticis
             attribuit
             .
             Iuxta
             hoc
             coma
             pigrum
             &
             somnolentum
             statuit
             quod
             è
             contra
             Lethargicis
             ascribit
             .
          
           
             f
             Hippocrates
             in
             Prorheticis
             ,
             &
             Epidemior
             .
             5.
             
          
           
             h
             Deprauati
             motus
             sunt
             plurimi
             tremuli
             ,
             conuulsiui
             ,
             palpitantes
             ,
             vibrantes
             ,
             qui
             prout
             in
             toto
             corpore
             vagantur
             ,
             diuersam
             appellatio
             nem
             sortiuntur
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             sympt
             differ
             .
          
           
             i
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             &c.
             Epi
             epsia
             vel
             morbus
             caducus
             vniuerso
             corpori
             motus
             affert
             deprauatos
             .
             Gal.
             de
             diff
             .
             sympt
             .
          
           
             g
             Conuulsio
             simulat
             omnem
             motus
             voluntarij
             speciem
             ,
             &
             hac
             sola
             ratione
             à
             motu
             naturali
             differt
             quod
             praetor
             voluntatem
             fit
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
          
           
             k
             Motiua
             actio
             laesa
             pro
             particularium
             instrumentorum
             ratione
             ita
             variantur
             ,
             vt
             varias
             habere
             species
             videantur
             ,
             cum
             illius
             motionis
             ratio
             fit
             vna
             .
             Galen
             de
             sympt
             .
             diff
             .
          
           
             a
             Conuulsis
             musculis
             ,
             oculos
             mouentibus
             .
          
           
             b
             Musculorum
             masticatoriorum
             &
             eorum
             qui
             peculiariter
             lati
             appellantur
             conuulsione
             ,
             contractione
             ,
             resolutione
             ,
             fit
             spasmus
             cynicus
             ,
             tortura
             oris
             ,
             risus
             Sardonius
             &c.
             
          
           
             c
             Conuulsis
             musculis
             temporalibus
             contrahuntur
             dentes
             ,
             &
             strident
             ,
             resolutis
             fit
             hiatus
             oris
             .
          
           
             d
             Generalis
             haec
             palpitatio
             dicitur
             ab
             Auicenna
             ,
             ab
             alijs
             membrorum
             subsultus
             &
             iactatio
             .
          
           
             f
             Historia
             Theophili
             ,
             Medici
             aegrotantis
             lectu
             dignissima
             est
             ,
             libr.
             Galeni
             de
             diff
             .
             sympt
             .
             sect
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             g
             Vide
             Hollerij
             historiam
             de
             Pharmacopoeo
             incubo
             correpto
             ,
             scholijs
             in
             tractat
             .
             de
             incubo
             .
             Auicen●am
             in
             Cant.
             de
             signis
             Melancholiae
             .
          
           
             k
             Thucydides
             de
             in
             peste
             seruatis
             scribit
             ,
             inde
             factos
             esse
             fatuis
             similes
             tantaue
             ignorantia
             &
             fatuitate
             imbutos
             vt
             se
             ipsos
             &
             familiares
             planè
             ignorarent
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             1
             Porrhet
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
          
           
             h
             In
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             Actuar
             .
             lib.
             1.
             
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             i
             In
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             Pror●et
             .
             Hipp.
             
               Historia
               pulcherrima
            
             .
          
           
             e
             Beneficed
             Physitions
             .
          
           
             a
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             Sonat
             sternutatio
             quia
             per
             angustum
             illi
             est
             ex
             itus
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
             Aph.
             7.
             l
             b.
             
          
           
             c
             Ingens
             sternutatio
             affinitatem
             habet
             cum
             epilepsia
             ,
             tū
             quod
             ab
             eadem
             causa
             nasci
             potest
             ,
             tum
             quod
             in
             eadem
             sede
             sita
             est
             .
             Ideo
             Hippocrates
             sternu
             tationem
             cum
             rheumate
             malū
             nuntiat
             ;
             quin
             &
             indesinens
             sternutatio
             animalem
             facultatem
             validè
             saepe
             fatigat
             ,
             nec
             non
             &
             sternutantes
             saepe
             mortui
             conciderunt
             .
          
           
             h
             Epilepsiam
             sequitur
             plerunque
             grauis
             sopor
             .
             Andernac
             .
             de
             med
             .
             ●et
             .
             &
             noua
             .
          
           
             i
             Compositus
             enim
             morbus
             videtur
             ,
             ex
             comate
             ,
             caro
             ,
             Apoplexia
             ,
             Epilepsia
             .
             In
             nonnullis
             enim
             accessionibus
             sopitis
             motu
             &
             sensu
             libera
             erat
             respiratio
             ,
             in
             alijs
             graui
             cum
             difficultate
             spirandi
             &
             stertore
             periclitabatur
             ,
             quae
             duo
             Apoplecticos
             à
             veternosis
             &
             catalepticis
             distinguunt
             authore
             Galerio
             lib.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
             Epileptici
             verò
             motus
             vix
             vnquam
             desiere
             .
          
           
             k
             Deprauato
             omni
             genere
             motus
             voluntarij
             tum
             capitis
             tum
             oculotum
             .
          
           
             d
             Epilensia
             est
             totius
             corporis
             conuulsio
             cum
             rectricis
             partis
             actionum
             cohibitione
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Symp.
             differentijs
             .
          
           
             e
             Singularium
             praeter
             sensum
             exteriorem
             est
             sensus
             internus
             .
             Aristot
             .
             eth
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             f
             Saepe
             morbo
             laeditur
             ratio
             salua
             imaginatione
             ,
             saepe
             deprauata
             imaginatio
             ne
             integra
             perstat
             ratio
             saepe
             deficit
             vtraque
             ,
             saepe
             deficiunt
             sensus
             exteriores
             seruatis
             internis
             ,
             &
             è
             contra
             .
             Gal.
             de
             Loc.
             Affect
             .
          
           
             g
             Coma
             est
             motus
             imaginatricis
             deficiens
             &
             imbecillus
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Sympt
             .
             differ
             ▪
             
          
           
             h
             Communis
             facultas
             &
             potentia
             à
             cerebro
             per
             neruos
             in
             singula
             sensoria
             penetrans
             alterationes
             omnes
             ipsorum
             persentit
             .
             Gal.
             lib.
             7.
             de
             Plat
             &
             Hippoc
             .
             dogmat
             .
          
           
             i
             In
             Caro
             &
             intelligere
             &
             excitari
             aegrotus
             potest
             .
             Auicennna
             de
             sign
             .
             spec
             .
             Subeth
             .
          
           
             l
             Laesa
             septima
             neruorum
             à
             cèrebro
             ortorum
             coniugatione
             loquela
             imminuitur
             ,
             deprauatur
             aut
             ad
             tempus
             tollitur
             necessariò
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             loc
             .
             Affect
             .
          
           
             c
             The
             words
             which
             by
             writing
             she
             expressed
             ,
             were
             these
             :
             God
             is
             a
             wonderfull
             God
             ,
             The
             Lord
             can
             doe
             maruellous
             things
             ;
             and
             when
             the
             skill
             of
             man
             hath
             done
             what
             it
             can
             ,
             God
             will
             shew
             himselfe
             a
             wonderfull
             God.
             
          
           
             e
             Quomodo
             lingua
             ,
             nunc
             motum
             nunc
             sensum
             amittat
             separatim
             aut
             coniunctim
             ,
             magis
             vel
             minus
             ,
             perue
             vicissitudines
             ratione
             cerebri
             laesi
             aut
             processus
             neruorum
             .
             vide
             Galen
             .
             de
             loc
             .
             aff
             .
          
           
             g
             Refert
             Guintherius
             Andernacus
             aliquos
             sibi
             natos
             ,
             qui
             ex
             ingenti
             refrigeratione
             ,
             &
             inde
             nata
             destillatione
             muti
             per
             aliquot
             dies
             perstitere
             ,
             liquore
             verò
             absumpto
             vocem
             recepere
             .
             Andernac
             .
             lib.
             de
             Med.
             vet
             .
             &
             noua
             .
          
           
             f
             The
             very
             same
             accident
             ,
             about
             the
             same
             time
             ,
             in
             the
             same
             maner
             ,
             befell
             a
             gentlewoman
             then
             lying
             at
             Cotesbrooke
             in
             Northamptonshire
             ,
             and
             sometimes
             daughter
             vnto
             M.
             Reade
             ,
             while
             he
             liued
             there
             dwelling
             .
             She
             oft
             diuers
             dayes
             together
             lost
             her
             speech
             ,
             and
             againe
             by
             fits
             sodainly
             recouered
             it
             ,
             being
             besides
             vexed
             with
             diuers
             maners
             of
             conuulsions
             .
          
           
             h
             Ex
             faciei
             partibus
             sola
             lingua
             saepenumerò
             afficitur
             .
             Gal.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
          
           
             i
             Saepe
             medicamentorū
             commoda
             non
             sunt
             cum
             vsu
             praesentia
             sed
             post
             emergentia
             .
          
           
             k
             Compensante
             procul
             dubio
             aestate
             ad
             tempus
             insigniter
             feruida
             incommoda
             praecedentis
             hyemis
             insigniter
             gelidae
             .
             Ab
             insigni
             verò
             refrigeratione
             ortum
             &
             originem
             mali
             factum
             esse
             ,
             apud
             me
             satis
             constat
             .
             Frigus
             verò
             cum
             humiditate
             intensum
             soporem
             ,
             stuporem
             ,
             omne
             conuulsionis
             genus
             ,
             Epilepsiam
             ,
             Apoplexiam
             constituere
             ,
             author
             est
             Galenus
             lib.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
             4.
             
          
           
             l
             Qui
             vniuersale
             cognoscit
             quoquo
             pacto
             cognoscit
             &
             particulare
             .
             Aristor
             .
          
           
             g
             Saepius
             enim
             deprehendebatur
             repentino
             lapsu
             aut
             depriuatione
             omnis
             sensus
             &
             motus
             ,
             comitante
             difficultate
             spiritus
             &
             stertote
             nec
             non
             rectricis
             facultatis
             functionibus
             omnino
             cohibitis
             .
             Hanc
             Apoplexiam
             veram
             distinguit
             Galenus
             praedictis
             notis
             ,
             lib.
             de
             loc
             .
             affect
             .
             quam
             etiam
             generalem
             paralysim
             aliàs
             appellat
             .
             Apoplexiam
             verò
             vel
             generalem
             paralysim
             terminari
             particulari
             ,
             nemo
             non
             norit
             ,
             grauem
             scilicet
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             plerunque
             ,
             leuem
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             vel
             vnius
             tantùm
             membri
             .
          
           
             h
             Vide
             Wierum
             de
             praestigijs
             daemonum
             .
             Consule
             Langium
             in
             epist
             .
             Medicin
             .
             tract
             .
             de
             Daemoniac
             .
             Ioann
             .
             Hucherū
             Bellouacum
             de
             Maleficijs
             .
             Ioan.
             Baptistam
             Codronchium
             de
             morbis
             veneficiatis
             .
          
           
             f
             Fernelius
             de
             Abditis
             rerum
             causis
             ,
             lib.
             2.
             
          
           
             Obiect
             .
          
           
             Obiect
             .
          
           
             Obiect
             .
          
           
             d
             Primum
             sensorium
             omniū
             sensuum
             commune
             est
             .
             Galen
             de
             sympt
             .
             differ
             .
          
           
             e
             Apoplexiam
             ,
             carū
             ,
             catalepsin
             altos
             sopores
             nominat
             omnes
             .
             Galen
             lib
             13
             de
             Meth.
             Med
             vt
             &
             aliis
             ,
             Lethargum
             etiā
             inter
             sopores
             recenset
             sed
             cum
             febre
             incidentē
             propter
             humoris
             putredinem
             .
             Obiect
             .
          
           
             f
             Sicut
             in
             somnis
             decipimur
             insomnijs
             ,
             ita
             vigilantes
             in
             aegritudinibus
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Arist
             .
             de
             insomnijs
             .
          
           
             g
             Egregiè
             hac
             in
             re
             satisfacit
             Theophili
             Medici
             aegrotantis
             historia
             ,
             memorata
             à
             Galeno
             lib.
             de
             sympt
             .
             different
             .
          
           
             h
             The
             mention
             of
             her
             supposed
             sight
             of
             the
             witch
             ,
             came
             after
             the
             returne
             of
             all
             her
             senses
             ,
             and
             when
             onely
             the
             conuulsions
             of
             her
             armes
             and
             face
             were
             remaining
             accidēts
             Obiect
             .
          
           
             Wisards
             .
          
           
             h
             Nam
             in
             auersam
             partem
             aegrotantis
             reclinationem
             opisthotonon
             vocamus
             ,
             neruis
             qui
             eò
             loci
             sunt
             malè
             affectis
             .
             Emprosthotonon
             autem
             si
             in
             priorem
             partem
             homo
             deflectitur
             ,
             neruis
             anteriùs
             positis
             laborantibus
             .
             Aret.
             lib.
             1.
             
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             i
             Hic
             hominum
             ineptorum
             mos
             est
             ,
             in
             malis
             sua
             ignorantia
             vel
             acquisitis
             vel
             cōmorantibus
             cum
             anu
             Aesopica
             semper
             daemonem
             accusare
             .
          
           
             c
             An
             possit
             oculos
             tantum
             contendere
             Lynceus
             ?
          
           
             d
             Dolebā
             meherculè
             quòd
             pugillares
             &
             stilum
             non
             haberem
             qui
             tam
             bellas
             fabellas
             pernotarem
             .
          
           
             Seruants
             of
             Physitians
             .
             Ministring
             helpers
             .
          
           
             a
             Ideo
             olim
             Clinici
             &
             lecticularij
             dicti
             &
             Diaetarij
             .
          
           
             b
             Hâc
             ab
             origine
             Experientia
             nata
             est
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             &
             imitatoria
             .
          
           
             c
             Parua
             leues
             capiunt
             animos
             
          
           
             d
             Quoniam
             ars
             circa
             particularia
             versatur
             quae
             insinita
             sunt
             ,
             qui
             non
             redigit
             ad
             vniuersalem
             methodum
             ,
             caeco
             &
             incerto
             modo
             agit
             &
             opera
             fortunae
             committit
             .
             Gal.
             de
             puero
             Epilept
             .
          
           
             e
             Medicina
             sexies
             vel
             septies
             probata
             non
             facit
             vniuersalem
             propositionem
             .
             Galen
             .
          
           
             g
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Aequè
             mutila
             ratio
             sine
             experientia
             ,
             &
             experientia
             sine
             ratione
             Nazianz.
             
          
           
             f
             Qui
             se
             artem
             acquisiuisse
             sine
             Methodo
             arbitratur
             sciat
             se
             vmbram
             habere
             non
             artem
             .
             Plato
             in
             Phileb
             .
          
           
             b
             Per
             se
             naturaue
             sua
             fallax
             est
             experientia
             &
             periculosa
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Hipp.
             Aph.
             1.
             
          
           
             f
             Habitus
             omnis
             intellectiuus
             ,
             actiuus
             ,
             factiuus
             sensim
             acquiruntur
             nec
             sine
             assiduitate
             ,
             tempore
             ,
             diligentia
             stabiliuntur
             vnquam
             .
          
           
             g
             Doctrina
             nam
             vim
             promouet
             insitam
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             h
             Naturae
             sequitur
             semina
             quisque
             su●
             Propert.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A19403-e4720
           
             d
             Quales
             Proclus
             ,
             Antipater
             ,
             Dionysius
             ,
             Thessalus
             ,
             Themison
             ,
             de
             quo
             nomine
             Iuuenalis
             sic
             habet
             :
             Quot
             Themison
             aegros
             autumno
             occidederit
             vno
             .
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             &
             omnium
             maximè
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             appellat
             Galenus
             .
          
           
             g
             Inconsideratio
             cognatum
             &
             perpetuum
             iuuentutis
             vitium
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             subt
             .
          
           
             cc
             Qui
             si
             quid
             homo
             sit
             seias
             facile
             te
             nihil
             esse
             intelligas
             .
             Ego
             vero
             nequaquam
             nos
             homines
             esse
             dicere
             consueui
             sed
             partes
             hominis
             .
             Ex
             omnibus
             enim
             aliquid
             fieri
             posse
             ,
             idque
             non
             maginum
             ,
             ex
             singulis
             pene
             minus
             quam
             nihil
             .
             Schilg
             .
             de
             subtil
             .
          
           
             cc
             Nemo
             nostrûm
             satis
             esse
             potest
             ad
             attem
             vel
             constituenda
             vel
             absolunda
             :
             sed
             sat
             superque
             videri
             debet
             si
             quae
             multorum
             annorum
             spacio
             priores
             inuenerint
             posteri
             accipiamus
             ,
             atque
             his
             addentes
             aliquid
             illa
             aliquando
             compleamus
             &
             perficiamus
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             Aph.
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             k
             Competit
             quod
             par
             est
             ,
             par
             est
             quod
             sufficit
             ,
             sufficit
             quod
             nullius
             indiget
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Arist
             .
             Eth.
             1.
             
          
           
             a
             Nam
             mora
             dat
             vires
             ,
             teneras
             mora
             percoquit
             vuas
             .
             Et
             validas
             segetes
             quae
             fuit
             herba
             facit
             .
             Ouid.
             
          
           
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Tempus
             inuentor
             &
             adiutor
             bonus
             ,
             vnde
             &
             artium
             sunt
             facta
             incrementa
             .
             Arist
             .
             Eth.
             1.
             
          
           
             c
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             &c.
             Omnes
             mentis
             habitus
             sunt
             extremorum
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Alia
             est
             enim
             dicacitas
             ,
             alia
             doctorum
             elegans
             &
             erudita
             ratio
             :
             haec
             consistit
             in
             verborū
             virtute
             ,
             illa
             in
             idearum
             quae
             rerum
             sunt
             species
             .
          
           
             Historiae
             .
          
           
             h
             Prim●
             &
             praecipua
             delictorū
             &
             errotū
             causa
             in
             aegrotantium
             curatione
             ,
             Diuisionum
             prauitas
             ,
             vt
             &
             in
             alijs
             haeresibus
             .
             Quidam
             in
             primis
             &
             supremis
             diuisionum
             generibus
             consistunt
             contenti
             illis
             indicationibus
             quae
             ab
             illis
             sumuntur
             .
             Quidā
             verò
             vsque
             ad
             aliquid
             diuidūt
             non
             tamē
             vsque
             ad
             finem
             perueniunt
             .
             Nonnulli
             verò
             vitiosis
             vtuntur
             diuisionibus
             .
             Qui
             verò
             omnia
             quae
             sunt
             secundùm
             naturam
             &
             praeter
             naturam
             recto
             diuisionis
             artificio
             complectitur
             ,
             atque
             ab
             omnibus
             sumit
             sufficientes
             indicationes
             ,
             hic
             solùm
             medendo
             non
             errabit
             ,
             quantum
             humanis
             conceditur
             viribus
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             ratione
             Meden
             .
             ad
             Glaucon
             .
          
           
             g
             Puta
             apprehensio
             simplex
             saepe
             caret
             ratione
             ,
             nondum
             excitata
             ratione
             ,
             aut
             suae
             cognitionis
             non
             inita
             ratione
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             subt
             .
          
           
             i
             Hinc
             paucissimi
             sapientissimā
             Hippocratis
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ritè
             sapiunt
             .
          
           
             k
             Vide
             Galenū
             in
             praedictum
             Aphoris
             .
             &
             Brasauolum
             in
             vtrosque
             .
          
           
             b
             Oportet
             febrem
             neque
             leuiorem
             esse
             quā
             quae
             morbi
             materiam
             discutiat
             ,
             neque
             grauiorem
             quàm
             aegri
             virtus
             ferat
             .
             Holler
             .
             tract
             .
             de
             Apoplex
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             dictū
             Aphoris
             .
          
           
             c
             Necesse
             est
             febrem
             superuenire
             sed
             non
             simul
             .
             Nam
             putredo
             cum
             vulnere
             accelerat
             febrem
             ,
             vulnus
             sine
             putredine
             tardigradam
             producit
             febrē
             .
             Brasauol
             .
             in
             praedict
             .
             aph
             .
          
           
             d
             Magnus
             ille
             est
             fluxus
             quicunque
             repente
             indesinenter
             &
             celeriter
             profluit
             .
             Gal.
             in
             dictum
             aph
             .
          
           
             e
             Ponderauit
             Brasauolus
             libras
             18.
             ex
             sinistra
             nare
             foeminae
             nobilis
             fusas
             simul
             &
             semel
             ,
             praeter
             4.
             libras
             aut
             plures
             per
             lintea
             &
             mappas
             sparsas
             ,
             nec
             aderat
             interea
             aliquod
             vitae
             discrimen
             ,
             sed
             conualuit
             .
             Brasauol
             .
             in
             aph
             .
          
           
             f
             Conuulsio
             quam
             affert
             Hellebori
             assumptio
             ex
             oris
             ventriculi
             vellicatione
             plerunque
             sine
             discrimine
             ,
             quam
             verò
             ex
             immodica
             euacuatione
             ,
             illa
             maximè
             lethalis
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             aph
             dictum
             .
          
           
             g
             Hinc
             senectus
             &
             senium
             ,
             senectus
             prima
             &
             vltima
             ,
             viridis
             &
             decrepita
             .
          
           
             d
             Auenzoar
             filio
             suo
             trimo
             venam
             secuit
             .
          
           
             e
             Rhases
             aetati
             decrepitae
             in
             pleuritide
             venam
             secuit
             .
          
           
             c
             Interest
             enim
             non
             quae
             aetas
             sit
             ,
             neque
             quid
             in
             corpore
             geratur
             intus
             ,
             sed
             quae
             vires
             sint
             .
             Firmus
             puer
             ,
             robustus
             senex
             ,
             &
             grauida
             mulier
             valentes
             sanguinis
             missione
             tutò
             curantur
             .
             ●ernel
             .
             de
             sang
             .
             miss
             
          
           
             f
             Versatus
             sū
             &
             i●notui
             celeberrimis
             in
             vna
             quaque
             secta
             praeceptionibus
             &
             pa●i
             studio
             omnibus
             dedi
             operam
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Loc.
             Affectis
             .
          
           
             e
             Maiores
             nostri
             ad
             veritatis
             indagationem
             &
             conuentionē
             cum
             magno
             animo
             atque
             excel●o
             per
             sa●ebras
             atque
             tenebras
             iter
             suum
             contulerint
             ,
             vt
             quo
             possint
             modo
             praelucerent
             nobis
             ,
             quare
             nō
             erunt
             illorum
             manes
             (
             prope
             dixerim
             )
             Deorum
             cultu
             celebrandi
             ?
             Scal.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             f
             Atque
             iniquū
             decreti
             genus
             est
             quod
             omnē
             laudis
             fructum
             &
             gloriae
             vni
             Graeciae
             detulit
             ,
             vt
             Arabum
             &
             posterita●is
             studia
             perpetuis
             tenebris
             obruantur
             .
             Quaedam
             posteritas
             addidit
             non
             iraudāda
             laude
             .
             Vixerunt
             Graeci
             in
             media
             luce
             literarū
             ,
             ex●iterunt
             Arabes
             ,
             &
             inde
             ductae
             familiae
             iam
             desertis
             &
             scpultis
             melioribus
             disciplinis
             digna
             tamen
             luce
             aeterna●ue
             memoria
             nobis
             reliquerunt
             .
             Hollerius
             instit
             .
             Chirurg
             .
          
           
             g
             Etiam
             hispidis
             ,
             etiam
             qui
             errarunt
             habendam
             esse
             gratiam
             censeo
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             a
             Torpor
             leuis
             quaedam
             Paralysis
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Sympt
             .
             causis
             .
          
           
             a
             Capit
             insanabile
             cunctos
             scribendi
             cacoethes
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             b
             Prepauci
             aliquid
             bene
             sciu●t
             Ad
             apicem
             plura
             aspirant
             magis
             ingenia
             quàm
             perueni●●t
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             a
             Elige
             quid
             velis
             ,
             qu●
             enim
             pudor
             omnia
             velle
             ?
             Martial
             .
          
           
             d
             Persona
             namque
             venustat
             studium
             dum
             suo
             insistit
             officio
             ,
             nec
             praeripit
             alienum
             .
          
           
             e
             Nam
             quod
             turpe
             bonis
             Seio
             Titioque
             decebit
             ,
             Crispinum
             .
          
           
             a
             1.
             
             Cor.
             7.
             vers
             .
             20.
             24.
             
          
           
             b
             Vnicū
             ab
             vno
             optimè
             perficitur
             opus
             .
             Arist
             .
             Polit.
             2.
             
          
           
             g
             Fuit
             haec
             sapientia
             quondā
             ,
             Publica
             priuatis
             praeponere
             ,
             sacra
             prophanis
             .
             Sic
             honor
             &
             nomen
             diuinis
             vatibus
             ,
             atque
             Carminibus
             venit
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             h
             Omne
             publicum
             cōmodum
             habet
             aliquid
             ex
             iniquo
             :
             quod
             in
             singulos
             peccatur
             ,
             vtilitate
             publica
             rependitur
             .
             Tacitus
             .
          
           
             g
             Historia
             .
          
           
             g
             In
             principio
             morbi
             ,
             firmis
             viribus
             ,
             habitu
             pulchro
             ,
             exinanitione
             nulla
             ,
             plenitudinis
             &
             suffocationis
             pericula
             non
             sine
             ratione
             saepe
             obuia
             fiunt
             ,
             quo
             tempore
             &
             modo
             si
             marasmus
             coutingeret
             ,
             prodigiosum
             planè
             foret
             .
             Spectatum
             admissi
             risum
             teneatis
             ?
          
           
             b
             Marasmum
             Trallianus
             li.
             12
             describit
             ,
             in
             quo
             humiditas
             substantialis
             in
             totū
             consumpta
             fuerit
             aut
             torrefacta
             ,
             vel
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ▪
             Quod
             in
             corpore
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             &
             succulento
             nunquam
             quisquam
             praeterea
             inuenerit
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             inquit
             Galenus
             de
             Bon●habit
             .
          
           
             c
             Vires
             ,
             habitus
             ,
             aetas
             intrepid●
             ferunt
             ,
             morbus
             ,
             calor
             sitis
             ,
             deliria
             ,
             plethora
             exigunt
             ,
             anni
             tempus
             ,
             constitutio
             aegri
             annunt
             .
          
           
             d
             Natura
             vel
             vis
             quae
             i●
             potentijs
             naturalibus
             aliena
             excernit
             ,
             vehementiùs
             operans
             magnum
             &
             violentum
             arteriarum
             efficit
             motum
             ,
             appetens
             illa
             quae
             molesta
             sunt
             expellere
             ,
             atque
             ita
             profluuium
             sanguinis
             facit
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             aph
             .
             21.
             lib.
             7.
             
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             e
             Leuata
             quae
             corpus
             nostrum
             regit
             natura
             exonerata●ue
             eo
             quo
             velut
             sarcina
             premitur
             ,
             haud
             aegrè
             quod
             reliquū
             est
             vincet
             &
             expellet
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Meth.
             Med
             lib.
             11.
             
          
           
             h
             Maxima
             remedia
             continuarum
             febrium
             haec
             duo
             sunt
             Detractio
             sanguinis
             &
             potio
             frigida
             ,
             Gal.
             lib.
             9.
             de
             Meth.
             Med
             h
             Saluberrimū
             autem
             est
             febribus
             venam
             incidere
             ,
             non
             continentibus
             modo
             sed
             etiam
             alijs
             omnibus
             quas
             purtrelcens
             humor
             concitanerit
             .
             Gal.
             lib.
             11.
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             Ideo
             missus
             est
             sanguis
             ex
             hepatica
             ad
             sanguinis
             hepatis●ue
             refrigerium
             &
             ventilationem
             ,
             è
             mediana
             etiā
             ad
             minuendam
             plenitudinem
             .
          
           
             i
             Si
             ad
             os
             ventriculi
             materia
             febrilis
             quae
             putruerit
             sua
             sponte
             impetum
             faciat
             ,
             per
             vomitum
             expellatur
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             lib
             11.
             
          
           
             k
             Bilis
             abundantia
             &
             turgescentia
             manifesta
             hoc
             exigebat
             ,
             secundum
             intentionem
             Hippocrat
             .
             Aphoris
             .
             22.
             lib.
             1.
             &
             aph
             .
             10.
             lib.
             4.
             
             Curandae
             autem
             non
             sunt
             omnes
             febres
             eodem
             tenore
             ,
             nec
             eae
             quae
             sunt
             sine
             accidentibus
             ac
             illae
             quae
             cum
             accidentibus
             tractandae
             sunt
             ,
             vt
             testatur
             Gal.
             de
             Arte
             curat
             .
             ad
             Gla●conem
             lib.
             1.
             
             In
             alijs
             igitur
             eadem
             remedia
             iteranda
             ,
             in
             alijs
             non
             omnino
             vsurpanda
             .
          
           
             l
             In
             febribus
             Galenus
             saepe
             injicit
             mulsam
             per
             clysterem
             fi
             aliuus
             sponte
             non
             ducitur
             ▪
             vide
             de
             Method
             .
             Med.
             lib.
             11.
             &
             lib.
             9.
             de
             arte
             curat
             .
             ad
             Glaucon
             .
          
           
             a
             Quippe
             misso
             in
             febribus
             in
             initio
             sanguine
             non
             solùm
             pauperibus
             sed
             diuitumetia
             seruis
             ,
             plurimis
             quidem
             quinto
             pòst
             ,
             aliquibus
             septimo
             Crisis
             contigit
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             lib.
             11.
             
          
           
             b
             Vigilant
             aegri
             magna
             ex
             parte
             grauiter
             se
             habent
             &
             febriunt
             vehementiùs
             ,
             quanto
             propius
             crisim
             accedūt
             .
             Gal.
             in
             aph
             .
             71.
             lib.
             4.
             
             Hippoc.
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Circa
             initia
             &
             ●ines
             omnia
             imbecilliora
             ,
             circa
             statum
             omnia
             fortiora
             .
             Hipp.
             aph
             .
             30.
             
             &
             29.
             lib.
             2.
             
          
           
             c
             Si
             velociter
             morbus
             moueatur
             ,
             etiam
             coloris
             &
             substantiae
             vrinae
             mutatio
             s●nt
             sufficientia
             signa
             futurae
             Crisis
             .
             Gal.
             in
             Aph.
             71.
             lib
             4.
             
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             e
             Sic
             lib.
             11.
             
             Galen
             .
             de
             Meth
             ▪
             Medendi
             ,
             Diuites
             qui
             propter
             delicias
             debita
             praetermisere
             remedia
             ,
             phlegmonas
             contrahunt
             vel
             in
             iecinore
             ,
             vel
             in
             ventriculo
             ,
             vel
             in
             aliquo
             alio
             viscere
             .
          
           
             a
             Qu●cunque
             morbi
             imperfectè
             iudicati
             sunt
             ,
             deinde
             seruantur
             in
             sequētium
             iudicatoriorum
             dierum
             aliquem
             vsque
             ad
             40.
             diem
             ,
             nō
             simpliciteracuti
             sed
             acuti
             ex
             transmutatione
             vel
             decidentia
             nominantur
             .
             Gal.
             in
             aph
             23.
             lib.
             2.
             
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             b
             Quadragesimus
             diesprimus
             est
             morborum
             diutinorū
             ,
             quicunque
             hunc
             transcendunt
             ad
             septenarij
             rationem
             habent
             Crisim
             ,
             non
             septenarij
             quoad
             dies
             ,
             sed
             quoad
             menses
             ,
             deinde
             annos
             .
             Gal.
             aph
             .
             28.
             l
             ▪
             3.
             
             Hip.
             
          
           
             c
             Si
             integrè
             ,
             si
             plenè
             ,
             si
             perfectè
             Natura
             iudicat
             ,
             nihil
             noui
             moliatur
             Medicus
             :
             si
             verò
             in
             quopiam
             deficia●
             Natura
             ,
             quod
             deficit
             debet
             Medicus
             adiungere
             .
             Gal.
             in
             Aph.
             20.
             lib.
             1.
             
             Hippoc.
             
          
           
             d
             Signum
             concoctionis
             nullum
             vnquam
             prauum
             fuit
             ,
             ●ed
             omnia
             optima
             semper
             ,
             &
             tanto
             citiùs
             aegrum
             conualiturum
             o●tendunt
             quanto
             citiùs
             apparu●●int
             .
             Gal.
             in
             aph
             .
             12.
             lib.
             1.
             
             Hippoc.
             
          
           
             Astrologi
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             b
             Vide
             Isai
             .
             cap.
             47.
             vers
             .
             13.
             
             Stent
             &
             saluent
             te
             Augures
             coeli
             qui
             contemplabantur
             sydera
             &
             supputabant
             menses
             ,
             vt
             ex
             ijs
             annuntiarent
             ventura
             tibi
             .
             Ecce
             facti
             sunt
             quasi
             stipula
             &
             ignis
             combussit
             eos
             ,
             Deuterō
             .
             cap.
             18
             Nec
             inueniatur
             in
             te
             qui
             ariolos
             sciscitetur
             ,
             aut
             obseruet
             somnia
             ,
             aut
             auguria
             ,
             aut
             pythones
             cōsulat
             .
             Omnia
             enim
             haec
             abominatur
             Dom.
             &
             propter
             istiusmodi
             scelera
             deleuit
             eos
             in
             introitu
             tuo
             .
          
           
             d
             Deus
             nos
             docet
             ,
             irradiat
             ,
             assistit
             ,
             etiam
             suo
             modo
             trahit
             vt
             Saulem
             .
             Quod
             autem
             in
             nobis
             sit
             nullum
             internum
             principium
             potestatis
             ,
             eorum
             est
             vociferari
             qui
             nihil
             intelligunt
             .
             Scalig
             .
             de
             subt
             .
          
           
             f
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Virtus
             morali●
             est
             habitus
             electiuus
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             6.
             
          
           
             g
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Arist
             .
             Eth.
             3.
             
          
           
             h
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Ea
             quae
             secundùm
             virtutem
             aguntur
             ,
             non
             iustè
             aguntur
             si
             sint
             iusta
             ,
             sed
             si
             agens
             ,
             sci●ns
             ,
             eligens●ue
             propter
             virtutem
             ipsam
             agat
             ,
             animo●ue
             stabili
             &
             firmo
             agat
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             2.
             
          
           
             i
             Post
             Adamae
             lapsum
             (
             inquit
             Caluinus
             )
             supernaturalia
             dona
             in
             homine
             extincta
             sunt
             nisi
             quatenus
             per
             regenerationem
             recuperentur
             ▪
             at
             intelligentia
             ,
             iudicium
             ,
             cum
             voluntate
             ,
             quia
             inseparabilia
             ab
             hominis
             natura
             ,
             omnino
             perire
             non
             potu●re
             ,
             Caluin
             .
             instit
             .
             lib.
             2.
             
          
           
             g
             Astrologorū
             decreta
             non
             sunt
             praetoria
             .
             Ptolomaeus
             .
          
           
             h
             Sapiens
             assuescit
             futuris
             malis
             &
             quae
             alij
             diupatiendo
             leuia
             faciunt
             ,
             hic
             leuia
             facit
             diu
             cogitando
             .
          
           
             i
             Si
             ingenia
             primitiùs
             vtiliter
             salubriter●ue
             ficta
             sint
             ,
             omnē
             illam
             vim
             quae
             de
             facto
             extrinsecùs
             ingruit
             inoffensiùs
             tractabilius●ue
             transmittunt
             .
             Sin
             cōtra
             ,
             licet
             paruo
             aut
             nullo
             fatalis
             incōmodi
             conflictu
             vrgeantur
             ,
             sua
             tamen
             leuitate
             &
             voluntario
             impetu
             in
             assidua
             delicta
             &
             errores
             facilè
             ruunt
             .
             Gellius
             .
          
           
             a
             Secundae
             causae
             in
             natura
             quidem
             necessariae
             ,
             in
             voluntate
             inclinantes
             ,
             non
             cogentes
             .
             Scal.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             b
             Si
             homines
             nil
             sponte
             ,
             nil
             motu
             arbitra●io
             faciunt
             ,
             non
             erunt
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             sed
             ludicra
             &
             ridenda
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Gellius
             .
             Noct.
             Att.
             
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             Non
             contingit
             quempiam
             ea
             velle
             quae
             impossibilia
             sunt
             aliter
             fieri
             .
             Arist
             Eth.
             6.
             
          
           
             c
             Calliditas
             neque
             comprensa
             neque
             percepta
             loquitur
             sed
             ambagiosa
             ,
             inter
             falsa
             atque
             vera
             pedetentim
             quasi
             per
             tenebras
             ingrediens
             &
             multa
             tentādo
             incidit
             aliquando
             repent●
             in
             veritatem
             .
             Gellius
             .
          
           
             g
             Sunt
             enim
             superiora
             formae
             conseruatrices
             inferiorum
             ,
             quia
             causa
             causarum
             tuetur
             ea
             quae
             fecit
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subtil
             .
          
           
             b
             Pendent
             nostratia
             haec
             à
             superioribus
             propter
             aequiuocam
             connexionem
             ,
             non
             propter
             vniuocam
             effection●m
             communionem
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             e
             Communes
             causae
             communes
             habent
             effectus
             ,
             nec
             vires
             aut
             actiones
             particularium
             flectunt
             simpliciter
             aut
             primariò
             .
             Causas
             verò
             immediatas
             necessariò
             sequuntur
             effectus
             .
          
           
             b
             Causae
             efficientis
             opus
             augetur
             eius
             aucta
             substantia
             .
             Gal.
             in
             aph
             .
             5.
             lib.
             6.
             
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             c
             Astra
             vim
             non
             necessitatem
             inferunt
             .
             Ptolomaeus
             .
          
           
             l
             Externis
             causis
             nihil
             praescribitur
             ,
             summa
             tamen
             diligentia
             perquirendae
             praecognoscendae●ue
             sunt
             vt
             deducant
             in
             interiorum
             cognitionem
             Gal.
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             
          
           
             a
             Cum
             efficientibus
             causis
             necesse
             est
             accidentia
             tolli
             Gal.
             in
             aph
             .
             22.
             lib.
             2.
             
          
           
             b
             Si
             in
             vna
             requalibet
             leui
             causae
             ratio
             claudicet
             ,
             simul
             in
             reliquis
             vbi
             videtur
             abundare
             meritò
             titubabit
             ,
             vbique
             ●nim
             sibi
             constare
             debet
             causa
             si
             quidē
             vera
             est
             .
             Gal.
             de
             dign
             .
             Pulsib
             .
          
           
             d
             Qui
             quidem
             ex
             Solis
             incendio
             feb●●citat
             ab
             agentis
             causae
             caliditate
             affici
             Natura
             aptus
             est
             .
             Gal
             de
             dis●
             .
             febr
             .
          
           
             e
             Causa
             nulla
             siue
             aetherea
             ,
             siue
             syderalis
             ,
             ●●ne
             patientis
             aptitudine
             agete
             potest
             .
             Galen
             de
             di●●
             .
             Febr.
             1.
             
          
           
             f
             Causas
             immediatas
             necessariò
             sequuntur
             effectus
             .
             Ideoque
             effectus
             immediatus
             est
             signum
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             suae
             causae
             .
          
           
             g
             Quoties
             vehementiores
             morbi
             premunt
             aut
             instabunt
             ,
             vt
             in
             suffocante
             pleuritide
             ,
             angina
             ,
             sanguinis
             immoderato
             fluore
             ,
             extrema
             vasorum
             plenitudine
             ,
             in
             alijs
             denique
             morbis
             qui
             nimiū
             praecipites
             sunt
             ,
             nullus
             astrorum
             delectus
             haben●dus
             aut
             cura
             .
             Fernel
             .
             de
             hora
             Phlebot
             .
          
           
             a
             Optimi
             quique
             astronomi
             iudiciariā
             astronomiam
             tanquam
             vnam
             &
             futilē
             &
             nullo
             fundamento
             subnixā
             postquā
             multū
             .
             diu●ue
             versarūt
             ,
             repudiarunt
             .
             Mornae
             .
             de
             verit
             .
             relig
             .
          
           
             b
             In
             praeclarissima
             arte
             Astronomica
             curiosa
             vanitate
             in
             obseruationes
             veras
             se
             implicāte
             ,
             superstitiosa
             &
             aliena
             inculcata
             reperiūtur
             .
             Camer
             .
             de
             diuin
             .
          
           
             d
             Astrologi
             dum
             coeli
             scrutantur
             plagas
             ,
             quod
             ante
             pedes
             est
             ,
             nemo
             eorum
             spectat
             .
             Cicero
             .
          
           
             a
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Leonid
             .
             Transtulit
             sic
             quidam
             :
             Vatum
             sidereos
             quisquis
             scrutare
             meatus
             Dispereas
             ,
             mendax
             non
             nisi
             vana
             sonas
             .
             Obstetrix
             tibi
             stultitia
             est
             ,
             audacia
             mater
             .
             O
             miser
             &
             proprij
             non
             benegnare
             probri
             .
          
           
             b
             Syderum
             occasus
             &
             ortus
             cognoscendi
             à
             Medico
             artis
             perito
             ,
             ratione
             morborū
             vulgariū
             &
             epidemiorum
             ,
             quia
             hi
             temporum
             mutationae
             ,
             tempestatum●ue
             vi
             suscitantur
             .
             Hippocr
             .
             lib
             de
             Loc.
             aere
             ,
             aqu
             .
             lib.
             Epid.
             lib.
             aph
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             b
             In
             vnaquaque
             regione
             vbi
             obire
             artem
             Medicam
             instituimus
             ,
             cuiusque
             syderis
             emersus
             occasus●ue
             perspexisse
             necessarium
             est
             ,
             quia
             tempora
             ab
             his
             anni
             circunscribuntur
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             lib.
             1.
             
             Hippocr
             .
             de
             Morb.
             vulg
             .
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             f
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Hippoc.
             
          
           
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             :
          
           
             a
             Hinc
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             b
             Hinc
             Extispicia
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             Magia
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             e
             Vrina
             primò
             &
             per
             se
             verè
             &
             propriè
             antecedentes
             morbo
             rum
             causas
             ,
             affectus
             partium
             naturalium
             secundaue
             regionis
             indicat
             ,
             tum
             venarum
             ,
             renum
             &
             vesicae
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             Prorrhet
             .
             Hipp.
             comment
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             f
             Coniunctas
             morborum
             causas
             extra
             venas
             ,
             affectus
             tertiae
             regionis
             ,
             pulmonis
             ,
             cerebri
             ex
             accidente
             &
             incertò
             vrina
             monstat
             :
             affectus
             hepatis
             ,
             venarum
             ,
             renum
             manifestè
             &
             sine
             dubio
             demonstrat
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             Prorrh
             .
             Hipp.
             
          
           
             g
             Plethorae
             scilicet
             &
             Cacochymiae
             à
             quibus
             omnes
             morbi
             primum
             fiunt
             ,
             deinde
             fouentur
             .
          
           
             i
             Prognostica
             quibus
             praeuidemus
             fitne
             moriturus
             aeger
             ,
             aut
             conualiturus
             ,
             certa
             sumuntur
             à
             pulsu
             ,
             qui
             vitalium
             &
             spiritualium
             partium
             affectus
             arteriae
             pulsatione
             monstrat
             euidenter
             .
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             de
             decret
             .
             Hipp.
             &
             Plat.
             
          
           
             k
             Omnes
             quae
             nutriuntur
             particulae
             excrementum
             aliquod
             creant
             ,
             vtique
             non
             negamus
             .
             Galen
             lib.
             1.
             de
             nat
             .
             facult
             .
          
           
             l
             Sic
             sudor
             succorum
             qui
             in
             toto
             corpore
             abundant
             nota
             est
             :
             vrina
             verò
             succorum
             qui
             in
             vasis
             .
             Gal.
             de
             sanit
             .
             tuend
             .
             lib.
             4.
             
          
           
             m
             Nos
             autem
             ingenu●
             fatemur
             ferè
             totam
             partem
             semeioticen
             in
             vrinis
             esse
             coniecturalem
             ,
             sed
             coniecturae
             in
             multis
             sunt
             artificiales
             ,
             quae
             proximè
             accedunt
             ad
             veritatem
             .
             Rondelet
             .
             de
             vrin
             .
          
           
             n
             Alteratur
             saepissimè
             vrina
             nouissimè
             sumptis
             Rhabarbaro
             ,
             Terebinthina
             ,
             Violis
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             o
             Vrina
             immoderato
             potu
             facilè
             diluitur
             ,
             &
             aliena
             permistione
             conspergitur
             .
             Fernel
             .
             de
             vrin
             .
          
           
             p
             In
             eodem
             corpore
             saepe
             plutes
             occurrunt
             morbi
             ,
             compositi
             ,
             impliciti
             ,
             connexi
             ,
             congeneres
             ,
             degeneres
             ,
             contrarij
             ,
             varij
             .
          
           
             c
             Hoc
             indicatur
             in
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             in
             valida
             renum
             obstructione
             à
             grumo
             ,
             calculo
             ,
             lenta
             &
             viscida
             pituita
             ,
             in
             generali
             etiam
             obstructione
             à
             crapula
             ,
             ebrietate
             ,
             plethora
             .
          
           
             d
             Hinc
             in
             apostematibus
             internis
             vrinae
             apparent
             saepe
             tenues
             &
             vix
             coloratae
             .
          
           
             e
             In
             aegris
             saepe
             transmittitur
             aliena
             materia
             ad
             vrinas
             tum
             criticè
             tum
             symptomaticè
             ,
             in
             sanis
             per
             proportionem
             correspondet
             bibitis
             &
             assumptis
             vrina
             .
             Actuar
             .
             lib.
             1.
             de
             iud
             .
             vrin
             .
          
           
             a
             Art●s
             improbae
             apparens
             bonum
             ,
             verae
             verum
             bonum
             comparant
             .
             Galen
             .
          
           
             f
             Partem
             intetiorem
             aff●ctā●●dicant
             Actio
             ●ae●a
             ,
             Dolor
             vel
             ametria
             in
             ex●●etis
             aut
             retenris
             .
          
           
             g
             Ea
             pars
             per
             se
             aut
             per
             consenlum
             laborat
             cu●us
             functio
             est
             laesa
             .
          
           
             h
             Exc●eta
             naturalis
             oeconomiae
             fideles
             nuntij
             .
          
           
             i
             Vbi
             dolor
             ibi
             morbus
             .
          
           
             a
             Quicquid
             è
             corpore
             excernitur
             vel
             est
             toto
             genere
             praeter
             naturam
             ,
             vel
             de
             substantia
             partis
             affectae
             ,
             vel
             parti
             adnatum
             ,
             vel
             coctionis
             excrementum
             .
          
           
             d
             Indican●
             mēses
             albi
             grauidarum
             qui
             saepe
             in
             bonis
             habentur
             ,
             rubri
             etiam
             qui
             saepissimè
             per
             anastomosin
             venarum
             exteriorum
             ceruicis
             vteri
             &
             crurales
             dicuntur
             fluidi
             sunt
             .
          
           
             e
             Veteres
             Graeci
             omnes
             omnino
             praetermiserunt
             mentionem
             signorum
             conceptus
             in
             vrina
             .
             Mongius
             &
             Costaeus
             in
             annot
             in
             tract
             .
             Auicen
             de
             vrinis
             .
          
           
             e
             Vrinarum
             inspectione
             abuti
             ad
             praesentiendum
             an
             mulier
             conceperit
             vel
             non
             ,
             impostorū
             est
             ,
             non
             medicorum
             ,
             licet
             permulti
             nugas
             inid
             genus
             cognitionis
             &
             cautiones
             scripserint
             .
             Ioannes
             ●ebon
             .
             de
             therap
             .
             puerp
             .
          
           
             c
             Ego
             quoque
             hanc
             ar●em
             à
             parentibus
             puer
             imbibi
             ,
             deinde
             non
             modicum
             temporis
             &
             laboris
             in
             ea
             amisi
             ,
             &c.
             
             Vide
             reliqua
             ex
             authore
             tractatu
             de
             Astrologia
             .
             Vide
             in
             marg
             .
             c.
             3.
             p.
             101.
             
          
           
             e
             Vrinam
             de
             impraegnatione
             nil
             certi
             significare
             omnes
             antiqui
             crediderunt
             ,
             ideo
             de
             hac
             re
             nullas
             notas
             reliquerunt
             .
             Nam
             cum
             foetus
             sit
             extra
             venas
             &
             de
             venoso
             genere
             tantùm
             indicet
             vrina
             ,
             non
             potest
             aliquid
             certò
             indicare
             ,
             nisi
             adiunctis
             alijs
             .
             Rondeletius
             de
             vrinis
             .
          
           
             e
             Praestigiaturae
             opinionem
             meritò
             referūt
             ,
             qui
             non
             ex
             speculatione
             medica
             ,
             sed
             ex
             diuinandi
             quapiam
             arte
             in
             morbis
             praedicunt
             .
             Gal.
             lib.
             10.
             de
             simp
             .
             Med.
             facultat
             .
             Historia
             .
          
           
             f
             Temerè
             ,
             callidè
             ,
             &
             astutè
             dicta
             aliquando
             incidunt
             in
             veritatem
             .
             sed
             quae
             vera
             dicunt
             prae
             caeteris
             quae
             mētiuntur
             non
             est
             pa●s
             millesima
             .
             Gellij
             dictum
             de
             Astrologis
             .
          
           
             g
             Vixit
             qua
             voluit
             viuere
             parte
             magis
             .
          
           
             h
             Incertam
             &
             plerunque
             dubiam
             mercedē
             referet
             qui
             periclitatione
             Medicos
             tanquam
             vates
             augurari
             coget
             .
             Consultor
             verò
             prudēs
             &
             fidelis
             sani
             consilij
             fructū
             percipiet
             .
             Fern.
             de
             vrin
             .
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Scientia
             est
             ,
             intellectus
             instrumentum
             .
             Aristot
             .
          
           
             e
             Res
             ipsae
             saepe
             aut
             praeposterae
             ,
             aut
             confusae
             ,
             aut
             falsa
             specie
             solēt
             sese
             offerre
             .
          
           
             f
             Coelum
             non
             animū
             mutant
             qui
             trans
             mare
             currunt
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             d
             Quia
             inopes
             sunt
             &
             indocti
             in
             patrijs
             suis
             viuere
             non
             possunt
             bene
             noti
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             sui
             temporis
             pseudomedicis
             ,
             lib.
             praedict
             .
          
           
             e
             Cyclopum
             crudele
             genus
             ,
             Visceribus
             miscrorum
             &
             sanguine
             vescitur
             atro
             .
          
           
             f
             Hoc
             solo
             à
             latronibus
             differentes
             quod
             in
             vrbe
             non
             montibus
             scelera
             perpetrant
             .
             Gal.
             lib.
             praedict
             .
          
           
             g
             Quod
             non
             cognoscantur
             ab
             omnibus
             ,
             hoc
             ipsum
             malitiam
             naturae
             ipsorum
             auget
             ,
             &
             vsque
             ijs
             insidiantur
             qui
             ea
             quae
             versutè
             semper
             perpetrant
             non
             norunt
             .
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             praedict
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A19403-e6670
           
             a
             Haec
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             illa
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             e
             Quin
             res
             ,
             aetas
             vsus
             ,
             semper
             aliquid
             apporret
             noui
             ,
             vt
             quae
             te
             scire
             credas
             nescias
             ,
             &
             quae
             putaris
             prima
             in
             experiundo
             repudies
             .
             Terent.
             
          
           
             f
             Bona
             consultatio
             è
             summa
             ●atione
             eruit
             consilia
             ,
             &
             haec
             est
             rectitudo
             consilij
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             6.
             
          
           
             g
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Qui
             consultat
             quaerit
             &
             rationem
             subducit
             .
             Aristot
             ,
             eth
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             e
             Ideo
             Plutarch
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             consundit
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             Rationem
             &
             Disciplinam
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             f
             Ratio
             manus
             intellectus
             .
             Scal.
             
          
           
             *
             Quae
             vi●tus
             mouet
             ●or
             ,
             quae
             mutat
             succum
             in
             cibos
             ,
             quae
             distribuit
             ,
             quis
             dicat
             id
             sine
             ratione
             agere
             ?
             Sine
             ratiocinatione
             quidem
             non
             sine
             ratione
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subtil
             .
          
           
             g
             Natura
             est
             ratio
             Vniuersi
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             h
             Ratio
             est
             vis
             animae
             quae
             mouet
             se
             ab
             effectibus
             ad
             causas
             inuestigandas
             &
             vicissim
             à
             causis
             ad
             ea
             quorum
             illae
             causae
             sunt
             .
             Scal.
             de
             Subtil
             .
          
           
             i
             Quid
             est
             Ratio
             nisi
             Naturae
             imitatio
             ?
             Senec.
             
          
           
             k
             Solertia
             est
             acerrima
             coniectatio
             ex
             iudicij
             summi
             adytis
             penitius
             eruta
             .
             Aristot
             .
             eth
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Qui
             rerum
             causas
             &
             Naturas
             maximè
             dijudicat
             &
             docet
             maximè
             sapientem
             iudicamus
             Aristot
             .
             metaph
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Nihil
             eorum
             quae
             Natura
             fiunt
             aliter
             assuescit
             .
             Aristot
             .
             eth
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             g
             Est
             enim
             naturalis
             ordo
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             omnium
             rerum
             ,
             ex
             aeterno
             alijs
             ad
             alia
             consequentibus
             incommutabili
             manente
             eiusmodi
             complicatione
             .
             Gellius
             .
             Noct.
             Attic.
             
          
           
             f
             Natura
             dux
             optima
             .
             Naturam
             ducem
             si
             sequamur
             ,
             nunquam
             aberrabimus
             .
             Cicero
             .
          
           
             h
             Scientia
             est
             conueniens
             ,
             firma
             ,
             &
             nunquam
             à
             ratione
             declinans
             cognitio
             .
             Galen
             .
             in
             Medico
             .
             opt
             .
          
           
             i
             Ars
             est
             habitus
             cum
             ratione
             factiuus
             .
             Eth.
             4.
             
          
           
             k
             Ars
             medica
             quoad
             naturam
             propriam
             theoremata
             &
             praecepta
             Artis
             indubitatae
             est
             fi
             dei
             vera
             ,
             firma
             ,
             stabilis
             ,
             Naturae
             principijs
             semper
             cōsentanea
             ,
             solùm
             quoad
             subiecta
             varia
             ,
             medentium
             operas
             ,
             &
             inde
             euentus
             instabiles
             coniecturalis
             .
             Galen
             de
             Sect.
             opt
             .
          
           
             l
             In
             medicina
             perpetuum
             est
             quod
             sequi
             debeat
             ,
             non
             semper
             perpetuum
             quod
             sequi
             conuenit
             .
             Celsus
             .
          
           
             d
             Haec
             est
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             sanitatis
             tuendae
             consilum
             ,
             &
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
          
           
             e
             Medicina
             est
             adiectio
             necessariorum
             ,
             detractio
             inutilium
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
          
           
             i
             Physiologiae
             necessitas
             perpetua
             medico
             non
             ad
             discendam
             modò
             sed
             ad
             exercendam
             quoque
             artem
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Med.
             opt
             .
          
           
             l
             Species
             generis
             ,
             indiuiduum
             vtriusque
             naturam
             participat
             ,
             vtrunque
             &
             indiuiduum
             &
             speciem
             genus
             &
             facit
             &
             comprehendit
             .
          
           
             a
             Huc
             spectat
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             specificae
             differentiae
             ,
             &
             proprietates
             rerum
             occultae
             .
          
           
             b
             Sed
             &
             Medicus
             &
             exercendorum
             corporum
             magister
             optimè
             singulorum
             curam
             rationemue
             habuerit
             ,
             si
             genus
             vniuersum
             cognouerit
             .
             Nā
             qui
             bonus
             artifex
             &
             ad
             res
             percipiendas
             &
             cōtemplandas
             idoneus
             effici
             velit
             ,
             ad
             genus
             vniuersum
             illi
             progrediendū
             est
             ,
             atque
             in
             illo
             cognoscendo
             elaborandum
             .
             In
             hoc
             enim
             scientias
             positas
             esse
             scimus
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             10.
             
          
           
             d
             Vniuersè
             enim
             ei
             qui
             febre
             afflictatur
             inedia
             &
             quies
             vtilis
             est
             ,
             alicui
             autem
             fortassis
             inutilis
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth
             10.
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             e
             Qui
             ignorat
             corporis
             affectum
             secundùm
             naturam
             à
             quo
             actio
             producitur
             ,
             prorsus
             cognoscere
             non
             potest
             affectum
             praeter
             naturam
             à
             quo
             actio
             laeditur
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             meth
             .
             med
             .
          
           
             g
             Natura
             non
             potest
             aratro
             boues
             iungere
             ,
             nec
             illorum
             opera
             terram
             scindere
             ,
             arte
             vtrunque
             fit
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             d
             Quo
             natura
             vergit
             tendendū
             medico
             naturae
             ministro
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Hippocrat
             .
          
           
             e
             Vt
             natura
             rectè
             operans
             imi
             tanda
             ,
             ita
             aberrans
             reducenda
             &
             adiuuanda
             .
             Natura
             enim
             aliàs
             agit
             satis
             ,
             aliàs
             parum
             ,
             aliàs
             nihil
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             venae
             sect
             .
             contra
             Erasistrat
             .
          
           
             h
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Est
             enim
             Deus
             omnium
             causarum
             causa
             &
             principium
             .
             Arist
             .
             metaph
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             i
             Natura
             est
             ordinaria
             Dei
             potestas
             .
             Scalig
             de
             subtil
             .
          
           
             i
             Natura
             quid
             aliud
             quàm
             Deus
             &
             diuina
             ratio
             toti
             mundo
             &
             partibus
             eius
             inserta
             ?
             Senec.
             lib.
             de
             benef
             .
          
           
             k
             Sanitas
             opus
             Dei
             ,
             opera
             verò
             nostra
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Qui
             maximè
             homini
             dissicilia
             cognitu
             potis
             est
             cognoscendo
             assequi
             ,
             ille
             sapiens
             .
             Aristot
             .
             metaph
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             e
             Animus
             lumine
             mentis
             &
             intelligentiae
             orbatus
             ,
             ignorantiaeue
             tenebris
             &
             caligine
             demersus
             ,
             sibi
             ipsi
             mentitur
             ,
             se
             ipsum
             perpetuo
             fallit
             ,
             &
             in
             capitales
             fraudes
             facilè
             impellit
             vndique
             .
             Osor
             .
             de
             reg
             .
             instit
             .
          
           
             f
             Morbus
             cum
             sit
             vitae
             humanae
             capitalis
             hostis
             ,
             Medicus
             vnicè
             natura
             duce
             est
             morbicida
             .
             Pulchrè
             Riolanus
             .
          
           
             g
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Morborum
             medici
             naturae
             ●unt
             ,
             naturae
             verò
             minister
             medicus
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
          
           
             d
             Operatio
             est
             finis
             syllogismi
             practici
             .
             Arist
             .
             Eth.
             6.
             
          
           
             e
             Prudentia
             rei
             futurae
             consultum
             curat
             ex
             disciplina
             non
             ex
             antegressis
             actionibus
             .
             Quare
             hic
             habitus
             omnibus
             artibus
             communis
             sit
             necesse
             est
             .
             Scalig.
             Poet
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             f
             Huiusmodi
             turbam
             vulgò
             videmus
             à
             primis
             literarum
             rudimentis
             continuo
             se
             ipsam
             Medici
             nomine
             iactitantem
             ,
             &
             venditantem
             ,
             inuidam
             ,
             maledicam
             ,
             obtrectatricem
             ,
             nouam
             speciem
             Cynicorum
             ,
             auaram
             ,
             supinam
             ignauam
             ,
             simul
             atque
             ignaram
             .
             Scal.
             Poet.
             3.
             
          
           
             c
             Mediocritas
             in
             confinio
             boni
             maliue
             posita
             est
             .
             Col.
             lib.
             4.
             
          
           
             d
             Alius
             alio
             sapientior
             ,
             alius
             alio
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ;
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Eurip.
             Malus
             nihil
             aliud
             praeterquam
             malus
             .
          
           
             a
             Artes
             omnes
             ratione
             &
             methodo
             acquituntur
             .
             Aristot
             .
             metaph
             .
             7.
             
          
           
             b
             Sine
             generali
             methodo
             nulla
             ars
             discitur
             ,
             neque
             disci
             potest
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             meth
             .
             Med.
             
          
           
             d
             Artes
             instituuntur
             &
             accipiunt
             principia
             ex
             scientijs
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             e
             Intellectus
             speculatiuus
             ,
             actiuus
             ,
             factiuus
             ,
             habent
             principia
             vniuersalia
             commun●●
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             f
             Naturam
             .
          
           
             g
             Praeceptionē
             .
          
           
             h
             Locum
             studijs
             aptum
             .
          
           
             i
             Studium
             .
          
           
             k
             Institutionem
             à
             puero
             .
          
           
             l
             Industriam
             .
          
           
             m
             Tempus
             .
          
           
             a
             Omnis
             substantia
             Natura
             dicitur
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Aristot
             .
             in
             Metaph.
             
          
           
             b
             Natura
             etiam
             pro
             peculiari
             indole
             ,
             ingenio
             ,
             more
             accipitur
             .
             Sic
             apud
             Virgilium
             .
             Nunc
             age
             ,
             naturas
             apibus
             quas
             Iuppiter
             ipse
             Addidit
             ,
             expediam
             .
          
           
             c
             Axiō
             .
             propositiones
             sunt
             per
             se
             fidem
             facientes
             ,
             omnibus
             doctis
             in
             confesso
             &
             perpetuae
             .
             Gal
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             
          
           
             d
             Grata
             colloquia
             &
             iucundi
             dialogi
             opulentiora
             quàm
             perpetui
             libri
             .
             Scal.
             
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Conuersatio
             artes
             peperit
             .
             Eurip
             
          
           
             f
             Etenim
             ficuti
             lapidum
             collisione
             ignis
             :
             ita
             ex
             disceptationibus
             elicitur
             veritas
             .
             Scalig.
             de
             Subt.
             
          
           
             f
             Optima
             illa
             est
             docendi
             ratio
             quae
             viua
             voce
             traditur
             .
             Neque
             enim
             quenquam
             ex
             libro
             nauclerum
             vel
             alterius
             artis
             artificem
             euadere
             licet
             .
             Libri
             enim
             sunt
             ijs
             qui
             antea
             eruditi
             fuerunt
             monimenta
             ,
             non
             rudium
             &
             indoctorum
             doctrina
             perfecta
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Alim
             .
             fac
             ▪
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             g
             Qui
             sapiens
             &
             doctus
             euadere
             cupit
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             oportet
             ,
             Plato
             .
             de
             Rep.
             
          
           
             h
             Animus
             habitat
             in
             auribus
             .
             Herod
             .
          
           
             i
             Vox
             scripturâ
             ad
             audiendum
             longe
             praestantior
             &
             disertior
             ,
             auriumque
             sensus
             potior
             magister
             .
             Plato
             .
          
           
             a
             Studium
             est
             vehemens
             animi
             applicatio
             ad
             aliquid
             .
             Perot
             .
             in
             Epigr.
             Martial
             .
          
           
             e
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Infirmos
             omnes
             sanos
             facere
             est
             impossibile
             .
             Hippocrat
             .
          
           
             d
             Educatio
             est
             nutritio
             &
             prouectio
             à
             tenerioribus
             annis
             .
             Sic
             Terent.
             Eduxi
             è
             paruulo
             ,
             &c.
             
             Et
             Virgil.
             Nascentes
             educat
             vuas
             .
             Nonius
             Marcellus
             de
             proprietat
             .
             Serm.
             sic
             habet
             :
             Alere
             est
             vitam
             victu
             temporali
             sustentare
             ,
             educare
             autem
             ad
             satietatem
             perpetuam
             educere
             .
          
           
             f
             Industrij
             homines
             ijdem
             qui
             laboriosi
             ,
             amantes
             laboris
             ,
             agendi
             pulchra
             studiosi
             .
             Cicer.
             Tusc
             .
             Quaest
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             a
             Quod
             natura
             negat
             reddere
             nemo
             potest
             .
          
           
             d
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Dij
             labore
             vendunt
             bona
             mortalibus
             .
          
           
             e
             Scholae
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Basil
             
          
           
             f
             Tantam
             enim
             vim
             habet
             puerilis
             institutio
             ,
             vt
             sine
             ill●
             nemo
             ad
             vllum
             decus
             eniti
             possit
             .
             Osorius
             .
          
           
             f
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Non
             parum
             igitur
             sed
             plurimum
             quin
             potius
             totum
             refert
             ,
             sic
             vel
             non
             sic
             homines
             ab
             adolescentia
             assuefactos
             esse
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             2.
             
          
           
             h
             Veritas
             filia
             temporis
             :
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             i
             Emuntur
             artes
             tempore
             &
             diligentia
             .
             Lac●t
             .
          
           
             *
             Non
             potest
             in
             eo
             succus
             esse
             diuturnus
             ,
             quod
             nimis
             celeriter
             est
             maturitatem
             assequutum
             Cicer.
             
          
           
             k
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Analogiam
             habet
             natura
             cum
             tellure
             ,
             agricola
             cum
             eo
             qui
             praeceptis
             instituit
             &
             instruit
             ,
             semen
             cum
             salubribus
             praeceptis
             ▪
             Plutarchus
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             e
             Pueritia
             ad
             14
             annum
             numeratur
             .
          
           
             d
             Venaticus
             ex
             quo
             Tempore
             ce●●inam
             pellem
             latrauit
             in
             aula
             ,
             Militat
             in
             syluis
             catulus
             .
             Nunc
             adbibe
             puro
             Pectore
             verba
             puer
             ,
             nunc
             te
             melioribus
             offer
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             f
             Adolescentia
             haec
             est
             ,
             ab
             annis
             pueritiae
             durans
             ad
             20.
             
             &
             25.
             annum
             ,
             huic
             succedit
             iuuentus
             &
             progreditur
             ad
             35.
             
          
           
             g
             Iuuenilis
             haec
             est
             aetas
             .
          
           
             h
             Consistit
             aetas
             à
             35.
             ad
             50.
             aut
             circiter
             ,
             &
             vel
             paulo
             magis
             vel
             minus
             pro
             temperaturarū
             differentijs
             .
          
           
             i
             Studia
             in
             Adolescentia
             sunt
             tanquam
             in
             herbis
             ,
             quae
             annis
             post
             maturioribus
             pulchrae
             fruges
             sunt
             futurae
             ,
             nam
             quae
             seminauerit
             in
             iuuentute
             metet
             cum
             senuerit
             .
             Plutarch
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             a
             Tu
             nihil
             inuita
             dices
             faciesue
             Minerua
             .
          
           
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Innatam
             virtutem
             ignauia
             &
             desidia
             destruit
             ,
             &
             corrumpit
             ,
             naturalem
             ineptitudinem
             rusticitatemuc
             corrigit
             &
             emendat
             doctrina
             .
             Plutarch●
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             c
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Quae
             facilia
             sunt
             cognitu
             fugiunt
             incuriam
             ,
             quae
             verò
             difficilima
             elegantia
             concinna
             capiuntur
             .
             Plutarc
             .
          
           
             c
             Annus
             in
             apricis
             maturat
             collibus
             vuas
             .
             Ouid.
             
          
           
             f
             Illud
             ingeniorum
             velut
             praecox
             genus
             ,
             non
             temerè
             vnquam
             peruenit
             ad
             frugem
             .
             Quintil.
             
          
           
             f
             Festinata
             maturitas
             occidit
             celeriùs
             .
             Idem
             .
          
           
             a
             In
             omni
             literarum
             profectu
             stylo
             ,
             libello
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             perpetuo
             est
             opus
             .
             Isocrat
             .
          
           
             b
             Literae
             marsupium
             non
             sequuntur
             :
             sudoris
             comites
             sunt
             &
             laboris
             ,
             sociae
             ieiuniorum
             ,
             non
             satietatis
             ,
             continentiae
             ,
             non
             luxuriae
             .
             Hieronym
             .
          
           
             c
             Recta
             institutio
             caput
             omnis
             virtutis
             .
             Plat.
             de
             Leg.
             
          
           
             d
             Eradenda
             cupidinis
             praui
             ●unt
             elementa
             ,
             &
             tene●ae
             nimis
             mentes
             asperio
             ribus
             formandae
             studijs
             .
             Horat.
             
          
           
             f
             Foelices
             essent
             artes
             si
             de
             ijs
             sol●●udicarent
             artifices
             .
             Aristot
             .
          
           
             g
             Artis
             cuiustibet
             iudicationes
             primae
             omnibus
             hominibus
             sunt
             notae
             ,
             sequentes
             soli
             arti●ici
             .
             Gal.
             lib.
             6.
             de
             Meth.
             Med.
             
          
           
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             Eurip.
             Bene
             qui
             conjiciet
             vatem
             hunc
             perhibebo
             optimum
             .
             Cicero
             de
             Diuin
             .
          
           
             c
             Artificialis
             coniectura
             è
             probabili
             eruitur
             ratione
             &
             proximè
             ●ēper
             accedit
             ad
             veritatem
             .
             Galen
             .
          
           
             e
             Huiusmodi
             ●uere
             illi
             Thessalij
             asini
             &
             ipse
             ipsorum
             parens
             Thessalus
             ,
             qui
             in
             sex
             mensium
             spacio
             totam
             medicinae
             artem
             non
             modo
             vorabant
             ipsi
             ,
             sed
             &
             alios
             docere
             profitebantur
             .
          
           
             c
             Sed
             &
             medicus
             optimè
             singulorum
             naturā
             rationemue
             habuerit
             qui
             genus
             vniuersum
             cognouerit
             .
             Verunta
             men
             nihil
             prohibet
             quo
             minus
             etiam
             is
             qui
             sit
             nescius
             vni
             alicui
             pulchrè
             consulat
             ,
             dummodo
             experiendo
             quae
             cuique
             accidunt
             accuratè
             prospexerit
             :
             quemadmodum
             multos
             sibi
             ipsis
             optimos
             medicos
             videmus
             ,
             cùm
             alteri
             subuenire
             atque
             opitulari
             non
             possint
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             10.
             
          
           
             d
             Methodici
             debitae
             pharmacorum
             compositionis
             ignari
             opera
             Artis
             inuertunt
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Sect.
             
          
           
             e
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             de
             sectis
             in
             Suasor
             .
             ad
             artes
             .
             lib
             Isagoges
             Med.
             
          
           
             d
             Eaedem
             in
             ●j●dem
             affectibus
             medelae
             ab
             ijs
             qui
             rationem
             profitentur
             &
             Empiricis
             medicis
             trahuntur
             .
             De
             ratione
             inueniendi
             eas
             inter
             eosdem
             dissentio
             est
             .
             Galen
             de
             Sect.
             
          
           
             f
             Natura
             siquidem
             vtraque
             haec
             largita
             est
             nobis
             ,
             &
             ipsa
             judicia
             &
             sidem
             .
             Naturalia
             iudicia
             sunt
             sensus
             &
             ratio
             .
             Ordiuntur
             haec
             à
             maximè
             facilimis
             vsu
             &
             cognitione
             .
             Fides
             &
             per
             ●uasio
             sine
             vlla
             ●isciplina
             natura
             d●●e
             i●d●cijs
             adhibentur
             .
             Galen
             ▪
             lib
             9
             de
             dog
             .
             Hipp.
             &
             Plat.
             
          
           
             f
             Natura
             siquidem
             vtraque
             haec
             largita
             est
             nobis
             ,
             &
             ipsa
             judicia
             &
             sidem
             .
             Naturalia
             iudicia
             sunt
             sensus
             &
             ratio
             .
             Ordiuntur
             haec
             à
             maximè
             facilimis
             vsu
             &
             cognitione
             .
             Fides
             &
             per
             ●uasio
             sine
             vlla
             ●isciplina
             natura
             d●●e
             i●d●cijs
             adhibentur
             .
             Galen
             ▪
             lib
             9
             de
             dog
             .
             Hipp.
             &
             Plat.
             
          
           
             g
             Non
             omnes
             ita
             sunt
             ●ole●●es
             vt
             ex
             solo
             vniuersali
             ipsi
             particularia
             inueniant
             .
             Galen
             .
             lib.
             5.
             de
             san
             .
             ●uend
             .
          
           
             d
             Sua
             ipsius
             propria
             agere
             &
             alienis
             negotijs
             non
             implicari
             ,
             est
             iustitia
             ,
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Plato
             de
             Rep.
             
          
           
             h
             Qui
             omnes
             in
             arte
             aliqua
             minutias
             &
             subtilitates
             persequitur
             ,
             exitum
             nullum
             inueniet
             :
             si
             vero
             in
             illis
             modum
             vtilitate
             terminauerit
             ,
             non
             mediocre
             fructum
             ex
             illis
             capiet
             .
             Non
             enim
             omnia
             ex
             singulis
             disciplinis
             ,
             sed
             necessaria
             ,
             &
             ad
             vsum
             magis
             accommodata
             sunt
             addiscenda
             .
             Osor
             .
             de
             Reg.
             instit
             .
          
           
             a
             Praeclara
             autē
             studia
             non
             omnibus
             ornamēto
             esse
             possunt
             ,
             sed
             ijs
             tantùm
             qui
             praeclaro
             ingenio
             &
             egregia
             virtutis
             indole
             praediti
             sunt
             .
             Osor
             .
             de
             Reg.
             instit
             .
          
           
             g
             Prudentia
             ad
             rationis
             normā
             quae
             cogitat
             quae
             que
             agit
             vniuersa
             dirigit
             ,
             &
             nihil
             praeter
             rectum
             &
             laudabile
             facit
             .
             Macrob.
             
          
           
             h
             A●tem
             in
             plerisque
             certam
             subuertere
             non
             debet
             paucorū
             vel
             in
             paucis
             error
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             Med.
             opt
             .
          
           
             i
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Omnia
             secuudùm
             rationem
             facienti
             licet
             nō
             succedat
             secundùm
             rationem
             non
             est
             ad
             aliud
             transeundum
             dum
             manet
             quod
             à
             principio
             visum
             est
             .
             Hipp.
             Aph.
             lib.
             2.
             
          
           
             b
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Solertia
             est
             dexteritas
             in
             verum
             scopum
             seu
             finem
             collimandi
             .
             Aristot
             .
             Eth.
             6.
             
          
           
             b
             Vir
             bonus
             &
             sapiens
             ,
             〈…〉
             repperit
             vnum
             Millibus
             è
             cunctis
             hominum
             consultus
             Apollo
             ,
             〈◊〉
             ipse
             sui
             ,
             &c.
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             d
             Tantum●e
             otij
             est
             à
             re
             tua
             tibi
             ,
             aliena
             vt
             cures
             quae
             nihil
             ad
             te
             pertinent
             .
             Tere●●
             
          
           
             f
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             &c.
             Medicū
             vti
             prouidentia
             vt
             mihi
             videtur
             optimum
             est
             .
             Hipp.
             lib.
             1.
             praenot
             .
          
           
             g
             In
             medico
             nulla
             potest
             esse
             perfectio
             sine
             illa
             encyclopedia
             quae
             homini
             viam
             munit
             ad
             foelicitatem
             .
             Scalig.
             
          
           
             h
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             ●st
             &
             hoc
             vile
             &
             miser●m
             cum
             stultis
             &
             fatuis
             insipere
             .
             Eurip.
             
          
           
             a
             Foelix
             qui
             potuit
             tran●uillam
             ducere
             vitam
             ,
             Et
             laetas
             stabili
             claudere
             fine
             dies
             .
             Maximian
             .
          
           
             b
             Quasi
             poma
             ex
             ●rboribus
             cruda
             si
             sint
             vi
             auelluntur
             ,
             si
             matura
             &
             cocta
             ,
             decidunt
             :
             sic
             vitam
             adolescentibus
             is
             aufert
             ,
             senibus
             maturitas
             .
             Cicero
             .
          
        
      
    
  

