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of theEi,5c looks upon Helmont to be very faithfull where 
mrelligible , and to be imitated as far as poffible, fince 
hefuggefts the beft method of curing k priori s u^on this 
Theorie his whole work is founded, and confifts of an u- 
niverial praxis divided into three parts. The firft treat- 
iHg of the lofs of appetite, and its confequences and 
cure of them; the (eeond of nutrition vitiated, &c.The 
third, of the difeafes of Women, to which he adds his 
ChiYurgia me die & Collegium Confultatorium, 
To ail this is added an appendix confiftingof feveral 
TraSs, the firft is Valetudinarium infantile in which he 
gives an account of the nourifhment of Infants with milk 
and pap, asalfoof the difeafes incident to them while 
inthisftate, the general caufes of which he reduces to 
theffe two heads, vi:{, the retention of the Excernenda^ 
efpeciaily th'dit Mecomum y and irifenfibie tranfpirationi 
and fecondly the ill giving of bad nouriflhment, ovvitia 
laliis & errata pullis. Hence fprings that Acid juice, 
the different condition of which is the eaufe of that fuc- 
ceffion of diftempers, infancy is afflicted with ; to which 
he oppofes thofe general remedies which fhall deflrroy 
that Acid, incide, attenuate, and evacuate it, of which 
nature he gives particulars, in briefly handling each par- 
ticular diieafe. 
Thenext is his Treatife v.i diaphoretica Opii, which 
being already well knov/n I fliall give no farther ac- 
count of, but pais. on to the third which is Be Corallio- 
rum TinBura, in which firfl he treats of the nature of 
coraL and after arguments on all fides concludes it to be 
a ftony concretion in form of a Shrub, generated from a 
nitro-fajine mineral juice impregnated with a fulphu- 
reous cam^mynefs elevated by the lubterraneous heat, 
through the pores of the bottom of the where by the^ 
cold and faltnels of the Sea-maters ^ it is congealed. 
After this telling us that only h^, tvneTin^ure in which 
there is a portion of the proper fubfiance ©f the body from^ 
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