The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

  • Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
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1649
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Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The hea r of tlie ^îun alone Hotlj n.eh wax an.I harden clay. Thed ivcts condition of the matter as lone, IS the caufe of V3- lieiy. The tffeft of Phlegm. Theeffefls of Choler. Theeffei‘]fi of Melancholy. What motions arc in ea^h guarrer of the body. The Melan¬ choly Humor doth nor caufe, but whet the appetite. A ferons or wlicyifh humor Anlntrodu&ioriy or have we this variety of Humors > From hencejfor that thofe mc.its by which we are nouri- (hed, enjoy the like condition that our bodies do/rom the four ElemcntSjand the four firft Qiialities : for it is certain, and we may often obferve, in what kind foever they be united or joined together, they retain a certain hot portion imitating the fre another cold, the water ; another dry, the earth 5 ^and laftly, another moift like to the air. Neither can you name any kind of nourifhment, how cold foever it be, not Lettuce it folf, in which there is not Lome fiery force of heat. Therefore it is no marvail, if one and the fame heat working upon the fame matter of Chyluf^ varying with fo great diffimilitude of fiibftances, do by its power produce fo unlike humors,as from the hot,Choler3fi-om the cold. Phlegm} and of the others, fuch as their affinity of temper will peiTnit. There is no caufe that any one ffiould think that variety of humors to be caufed in us, rather by the diverfity of the aftive heat, than wax and a Hint placed at the fame time, and in the fame fituation of climat and foil,this to melt by the heat of the Sun, and that fcarce to wax warm. Therefore that diverfity of effefts is not to be' attributed to the force of the efficient caufe, that is of heat, which is one, and of one kinde in all of us 5 but rather to the materiali caufe, feeing it is compofed of the conflux, or meeting together of various fubftances, gives the heat leave to work, as it were out of its flore, which may make and produce from the hotter part therof Choler,and of the colder and more rebellious Phlegm. Yet I will not deny, but that more Phlegm, or Choler may be bred in one and the fame body,according to the quickcr,or flower provocation of the heat}yct neverthelefs it is not confeqiient, that the originali of Choler (hould be from a more acide, and of Phlegm front a more dull heat in the fame man. Every one of us naturally have a limple heat, and of one kind, which is the worker of divers operations, not of it felf' feeing k is always the fame, and like it felf, but by the different fitnefs, pliablenefs, or rcfiflance of the matter on which it works. Wherefore Phlegm is generated in the fame moment of time, in the fire of the fame part, by the efficiency of the fame heat, with the reft of the blood, of the more cold liquid crude, and watery portion of the ChyZ/ef. Whereby it comes to pafs, thatitffiews an exprefs figure of a certain rude or unperfeft blood,for which occafion nature hath made it no peculiar receptacle, but would have it to run friendly with the blood in the fame paflages of the veins,that any neceffity hapning by fiuninj’or indigency,and in defeft of bet¬ ter nouriffiment, it may by a perfefter elaboration quickly afltime the fomi of blood. Cold and rude nourifhment make this humor to abound principally in winter, & in thole which incline to old-age,by reafon of the fimilitude which Phlegm hath with that flafon and age. It makes a man drowfie,dul,fat,and fwollen up,and haftneth gray-hairs.Choler is as itwere a certain heat and fury of humors, which generated in the Liver, together with the blood is carried by the veins and arteries through the whole body. That of it which abounds, is fent, partly into the guts, and partly into the bladder of the gall, or is confunied by tran- fpirationjor fweats} It is fomewhat probable that the Arteriali blood is made more thin, hot,quick, and pallid, than the blood of the Veins, by the commixture of this Alimentary Choler. This Humor is chiefly bred and expePd in youth, and aci’id and bitter meats give matter to it : but great labours of body and mind give the occafion. It maketh a man nitr.ble, quick, ready for all perfonnance, lean, and quick to anger, and alfo to concoft meats. The melancholick humor, or Melancholy, being the gro&r portion of the blood, is partly lent from the Liver to the Spleen to nouriffi it, and partly carried by the veflels into the reft of the bqdy,and fpent in the nourifliment of the parts endued with an earthly drinefs} it is made of meats of grofs juice, and by the perturbations of the mind,turned to fear and fadnefs. It is augmented in Autumn, and in the firft and crude Old-age} it makes men fad, harffi, conftant, froward, envious and fearfiill. AH men ought to think,that fuch Humors are wont to move at fet hours of the day, as by a certain peculiar motion or tide. Therefore the blood flows from the ninth hour of the night,to the third hour of the day; then Choler to the ninth of the day ; then Melancholy to the third of the night ; the reft of the night that remains, is under the dominion of Phlegm. Manifeft examples hereof appears in the French-Pox. From the elaborat and abfolute mafs of the blood, (as we laid before) two kinds of Humors, as excrements of the fécond concoftion,are commonly and naturally foparated, the one more grofs, the other more thin. This is called either abfo- lutely Choler,or with an adjun£i:,yellow Choler. That is called Melancholy,which drawn by the Spleen in a thinner portion, and elaborate by the heat of the Arteries,which in that part are both many and larp, becomes nourifhment to the part; the remnant thereof is carried by the veiny Veflcl into the orifice of the ventricle, whereby it may not caufe but whet the appetite, and by its aftriftion ftrengthen the aftions thereof But yellow Choler drawn into the bladder of the gall, remains'ihere fo long, till being troublefome, cither in quantity or quality, it is excluded into the guts, whereby it may c.ift forth the excre¬ ments refiding in them ; the expulfive faculty being provoked by its acrimony,and by its bitternefs kils the worms that are bred t here. This fame Humor is accuftomed to die the urine of a yellow colour. There is anotherforous Humor}which truly is not ft to nourifh but profitable for many other things, which is not an excrement of the fécond, but of the firft concoftion. Therefore nature would that mixed with the Ch>i«.e, it ffiould come to the