Medicina magnetica: or, The rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy: laid open in aphorismes; proved in conclusions; and digested into an easy method drawn from both: wherein the connexion of the causes and effects of these strange operations, are more fully dicovered than heretofore. All cleared and confirmed, by pithy reasons, true experiments, and pleasant relations. / Preserved and published, as a master-piece in this skill. By C. de Iryngio, chirurgo-medcine [sic] in the Army.
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- Medicina magnetica: or, The rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy: laid open in aphorismes; proved in conclusions; and digested into an easy method drawn from both: wherein the connexion of the causes and effects of these strange operations, are more fully dicovered than heretofore. All cleared and confirmed, by pithy reasons, true experiments, and pleasant relations. / Preserved and published, as a master-piece in this skill. By C. de Iryngio, chirurgo-medcine [sic] in the Army.
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- Irvine, Christopher, fl. 1638-1685.
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- [Edinburgh :: C. Higgins],
- Printed in the year, 1656.
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"Medicina magnetica: or, The rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy: laid open in aphorismes; proved in conclusions; and digested into an easy method drawn from both: wherein the connexion of the causes and effects of these strange operations, are more fully dicovered than heretofore. All cleared and confirmed, by pithy reasons, true experiments, and pleasant relations. / Preserved and published, as a master-piece in this skill. By C. de Iryngio, chirurgo-medcine [sic] in the Army." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87213.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, GENERALL
GEORGE MONCK, Commander in Chief of all the Forces in SCOTLAND; And one of his Highnesse Council, for the Government of that Nation. - THE INDEX Of all the CHAPTERS, con∣tained in this BOOK.
- THE FIRST BOOK.
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The Second Book.
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CONCLUSION I.
The soul is not only in its proper visible body, but also with∣out it; neither is it circumscribed in an Organical body. -
CONCLUSION II.
The Soulworketh without, or beyond its proper body,com∣monly so called. -
CONCLUSION III.
From every bodyflow Corporall beams,by which the soulworketh by its presence, and giveth them energie and power of working, and these beamsare not onely Cor∣porall, but of diverse parts. -
CONCLUSION IV.
The beamssent out of the bodies of wights,have and injoy a vitall spirit,by which the operations of the soul are dispensed. -
CONCLUSION V.
That the Excrements of the bodiesof living Creatures, re∣tain a portion of vitall spirits:and therefore we must not deny them life;and the lifeis of the same speciesthat the lifeof the Wightis of, and propagated from the same. -
CONCLUSION VI.
Between the Bodyand the Excrementsproceeding from it, there is a certain Concatenation of Spiritsor beams,though they be never so far asunder: The like is also between the bloodand any other part of the body,se∣parated from the Bodyat any distance. -
CONCLUSION VII.
The vivallity or liveliness lasts, till the excrements, blood, or se∣parated parts be changed into another thing, of a diverse species. -
CONCLUSION VIII.
One partof the bodybeing affectedor ill disposed, by hurt∣ing the spirits,all the other parts do suffer with it. -
CONCLUSION IX.
If the vital spiritbe fortifiedin any one part, it is fortified by that occasion in the whole body. -
CONCLUSION X.
Where the spiritis most bare and naked, there it is soonest affected. -
CONCLUSION XI.
In the Excrements, Blood,and separated parts, the Spiritis not so deeply drowned, as in the Body; And therefore in them it is sooner infected. -
CONCLUSION XII.
The mixture of Spiritsmaketh Compassion,from that Compassion, Lovetakes its Original.
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CONCLUSION I.
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The Third BOOK. CONTAINING The Method of Curing by SYMPATHIE.
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CHAPTER I.
Of the things necessary for a Physician,before he under-take the Practice of Magicall Physick. -
CHAP. II.
Of Purges and Purging. -
CHAP. III. Of
PHLEBOTOMIE. -
CHAP. IV.
Of CAUTERIES. -
CHAP. V.
Of Comfortative Medicines. -
CHAP. VI.
Of those Medicines that are to be chosen in this Art. -
CHAP. VII.
Of the time as well of the gathering, as of the application of these medicines. -
CHAP. VIII.
Of the means whereby this Artapplyeth the Medicines,to bring health into the diseased body. -
CHAP. IX.
Of transplantation,and the diverse manners by which it is done. -
CHAP. X.
Of the means by which applicationis done. -
CHAP. XI.
Of the Magnetnecessary in this Art, and divers descriptions thereof, hitherto known but by very few. -
CHAP. XII.
Of the use of the Magnetin this Art. -
CHAP. XIII.
Of the meanswhereby curesmay be done in this Art, without a Magnet. -
CHAP. XIV.
Of the Excrementsof the Back-door. -
CHAP. XV.
Of ƲRINE. -
CHAP. XVI.
Of Sweatand insensible Transpiration. -
CHAP. XVII.
Of the Hairs. -
CHAP. XVIII.
Of the pairingsof the Nailsand the Teeth. -
CHAP. XIX.
Of the Spittleand Excrementsof the Nose. -
CHAP. XX.
Of Bloodand Matter.
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CHAPTER I.
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AN APPENDIX: CONTAINING Diverse PRACTICES and OBSERVATIONS, Necessary to be known in this ART.
- To the READER.
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THE MAGNETICK CURE OF DISEASES, BY TRANSPLANTATION; Done by the true
Mumia of PARACELS US. -
The WEAPON-SALVE;
According to the true Description of the Noble Chymist, OSWALD CROLLIUS.