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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    10 Medicina Magica ment to thofe who are but little perfpi- cacious or be but Infantulein natura re- rum, asi may fo term them. But now I an{wer, Anfw. Firft, chat ic is as abfurd, for ought that I have faid, to call thefe beames creatures, and-{o by confequence men, as ctocall the feet and hands men. Secondly, Every bare information doth hot make a man; forit is requifite that a reafonable foule doe informe an orga- nical body, and that by meanes of the forme it be made fir for organical ope- rations ; for if the foule informe any compound onely vegetable , or fone other inferiour thing by another way to us not known, it cannot therefore be cording to the merit of the matter, as the Platonifts hold: or. more clearly it informes. according to the portion of the vital f{pirits that is prefenc; for every portion of this is not fic for operation : 4nd hence ic appeareth, that though the foule doe, for {ome time inform a corps with a certain form {as we fee indead carcaffessthe vegetative faculty doth after death for a time exercife his power, which cannot be done wichour the foul) yet me ss et <i to <> = en Yay ee — -s €> os & [J Cc