Volume 2

Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop.

  • Boulton, Samuel.
Date:
1656
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Credit: Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘Nnohp me how . putrefaction , which is a I iti ertain corruption, can caufe heat 5 and iitogphether this effec agreeth to all putre- andnsh€tion 2 They dare not tay fo for fenfe vithutlyould convince them 5 for ic agreeth thebosbnely co moift things when they putri- Iipreehe, and yet not by reafon of putrefacti- ly feb; neither is that the adequate caufe, beaidhut Fermentation caufeth heac : For look feb heh ow much it putrefiech,fo much the heat r whplecreafeth, as it 18 plainly feen in, all pure oift things putrifying 5 and the reafon ites, becaufe look how much corruption wratslorevaileth, by fo much fet mentation: is np bielexcinguifhed 2 Buc let us hear thefe mens rmddefinition of pucrefaction 5 ic is Gay rodienthey.) the corruption of proper and na- ‘Glikuray cheat in every moift thing by a ‘onbetrange heat, as of the ambient; or ac- nun cording to Galen , it is change of the ete wholefubftance of the body, putrifying i fpak|eo” corruption by external heat... The nation fr t Cuppofeth chac the proper heat of ipfich [Aching can be difipated by an external ‘ibelheat, : Bur then let them tell me how but heat, a$ heat, can work upon heat 5 what vation iE it’ doe nov firft difpate natural heat, un fit/pat confume radical moifture? For the ell