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pell the occafional matter of the Difeafe, and this I take to be 
the 1^ ho^fMv, or Spiritus impetum faciens of Hyppocrates Fan Hel- 
ment proves this by the example of a thorne run into the fin- 
ger, which though both adually and potentially cold, never- 
theleffe quickly raifes a burning, paine, and phlegmot in the 
part, inasmuch as the fenfitive Spirit being hurt by the thorns, 
provokes the Archeus to expuIfioUj in which endeavour, the 
Spirit is firft accended and then the part : Hence expert Phyfi . 
tiansdireft their cure of fevers and other acute DifeafeSj to 
the pacation of the Archeus, without purging or letting of 
blood ^ how contrary was the procedure oi thofe Phyficians 
who blooded this youth twenty times to affwage the heat of 
hisfeverj but to how little purpofe ihefc large profufions of 
blood are, may appear by the mifcrable death of ?r. Ferdinand 
Governer of Flanders, who in the year 4 1 fell fick of a fever,his 
Phyfitians (according to the method of ihefe) with reiterated 
Phlebotomies fo exhaufted theftockof his blood, that being 
dead , and his Heart, Lungs, Liver, Veines, and Arteries 
diflefted in the prefence oilman Helmont^thcrt was fcarce found 
a fpoonfull of blood left in his body, and yet the day before his 
death^hc had fufteined as violent a fittof his feaver as at firfli 
Ileaveit then to the Judgement of the indifferent Reader that 
hath not Subjugated his reafon to the Authority and vulgar 
practice ofothers to the contrary, to judge whether Bleeding 
be a proper Remedy for a fever, when the Exantlation ofall- 
moft the whole MafTe of blood, had not fo much as made any 
Diminutionof theParoxifme. Butto flrengthen this my opi- 
nion a little further, which feemes to be fir.gular . eafily to gain 
credit, take this familiar InftanceiLet a veflel of iiew Wine be- 
fore its clarification 5 be fuppofed to be agitated by a vehe- 
ment Fermentation, which motion in the Wine (as in our cafe 
of the fever) is ftird up by the natural force and aftivity of its 
Spirit , flrivingto attain the vertue of its perfection, which 
cannot be but by the fhaking off, and Separation of the Tarta- 
rous and other wild Heterogeniousand Immiflibte parts from 
the truly Vinous and Homogenial3 the fcope of Nature is the 
veryjame in the fit of a fever, vi:{. Separation^ now let any 
man 
