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And as the fenfitive Soul is the feat and organ of the Rational, fo 

 the ill conftitntion of that (he obferves) proves oftentimes trie 

 diforde'r of the other : For the Animal faints being fpirituo-faiine, 

 if they are inflamed, they produce a Fhrenfie ; if acid, Melancholy, 

 if acrout, like Aquaftygia, Madnefs ; if z/a'/zW, Stupidity. In dif- 

 courfing of which diftempers, his /Etiologies of the various^m^ 

 poms? his methods of cure, and forms of prefcriptions, are found- 

 ed upon far more rational principles, than ever Greece taught us. 

 And how far Antiquity, and later Ages too, were miftaken in their 

 notions of divers other difeafes ; his evincing Hyfterical and #y/>o- 

 chondriacal 'affeclions ; the Co/ic, Gout, Scurvy, fome fort of Aflh- 

 ma's, the Tympanitis, with c^err ; either wholly, or in part to bt 

 Nervous, does plainly demonftrate. 



220, Nor has the Pathological part of Phyfick. been only hap- 

 py in his labors ; but the Pharmaceutical part likewife highly im- 

 proved in the Inventions of his Spiritus Sali* Armoniacifuccinatus, 

 Syrup of Sulphur, preparation of Steel without Acids, and from 

 thence of his artificial AciduU : In general, this part of Phyfick. 

 has been fo far advanced by him, that what was formerly Empiri- 

 cal, and but lucky hits, is now become moft rational, by his 

 making the operations of Chaihartic, Emetic, Diaphoretic, Cardiac, 

 and Opiat ^ed7a*tfe.y,intelligible by Mechanical Explications ; having 

 fubjoined to each moft neatand artificial Formula's, as well Chy- 

 tnicalzs others; a Province but meanly adorned by the Ancients, 

 though of infinite ufe. And where Nature is exorbitant in any 

 of thefe Evacuations^ he has likewife taughtus how to check and 

 reduce her ; adding for the better illuftration of the whole, a new 

 Anatomy of the Stomach, Inteftines, Qula^ Veins, and ArterleSi 



221. Which he has feconded with a further difco very and ra- 

 tional account of Thoracicznd Epatic Medicines, and of the Dif- 

 eafes belonging to thofeparts ; difcourfing alfo ofVenefecllon, flop- 

 ping of Hemorraghies, of Iffues and cutaneous Diftempers ; In all 

 which it may be obferved, what is almoft peculiar to him ; that 

 there is nothing trivial, moft new, and all moft ingenious. To 

 which add, that the organs of Refpiration, which have been the fub- 

 jefl of fo many Learned Pens of late, are beft underftood, from 

 his moft elegant defer iptions, and beautiful Cuts. But it is too 

 difficult a task to give a juft account how far Phyfick.-, Anatomy, Chy~ 

 miSlry^ and Philofophy, ftand indebted to him for their Improve- 



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