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<HEAD><HI>To all Per&s;ons of Quality, Ladies, Gen|tlemen, Trade&s;men, and all others to whom the&s;e Epi&s;tolary Lines may come,</HI> I. P. <HI>wi&s;heth all Health and Happine&s;s, length of days, with in|crea&s;e of Riches.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Printed with Allowance,</HI> Octob. 5. 1671.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friendly Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IF Man will give him&s;elf the trouble but to turn his Eye upon him&s;elf, and con&s;ider how great things God hath done for him; but e&s;pecially to take a view of tho&s;e va&s;t Endowments with which he hath in&s;pired his rational Soul: I think he cannot chu&s;e but divert him&s;elf into a Divine Exta&s;ie, and cry with <HI>Job, Quid agerem tibi, O cu&s;tos hominum, Chap.</HI> 7. 20. For &s;o great is the &s;weet Influence of his mercy, in making man &s;o perfect in tho&s;e Theological Virtues of Knowledge, Wi&s;dom, and Learning (of which large Volumes have been written)
<PB N="2" REF="3"> that it would befool the be&s;t of Wits, that &s;hould be &s;o perem|ptory to undertake to give a full account of it to us; and if we were able to gild our Language with Angelical Oratory, we could not &s;peak its due prai&s;e.</P>
<P>But if we con&s;ider Learning as it is, and that as it is &s;ought with great diligence, &s;o its u&s;e proclaimes its Vertues, and tells us, that it is an Ornament to Nature, the Handmaid of Wi&s;dom, the right Hand of Phy&s;ick, and the greate&s;t perfe|ction of Humanity: For he that is once well acquainted with this, he climbs (like the Antiquary from year to year, till he arriveth at the Ancient of days) from one degree of Learning to another; as in Naturals, Vegetables, Animals, and &s;o in him&s;elf where he may read the mi&s;ery and frailty of man, and la&s;tly in the Elementary World; and &s;o from things created to the Creator, in which place he mu&s;t with admiration cea&s;e to inquire, and be proud of his ignorance, le&s;t his prying into tho&s;e things, makes him for ever accur&s;ed.</P>
<P>Now it hath been the care of Judicious men in all Ages, as well Heathens as Chri&s;tians, to pre&s;erve the learned producti|ons of their Labours, to in&s;truct and encourage tho&s;e that &s;hall inquire for the future. Neither is man made for a &s;elf|end, as the Learned <HI>Plato</HI> tells us, when he &s;aith, <HI>We are born not for our &s;elves alone; but partly for our Country, partly for our Parents, and partly for our Friends:</HI> and whatever was fir&s;t made, was created for mans u&s;e; and man created for the mutual a&s;&s;i&s;tance one of another, and all for the glory of God. Now there is nothing in the World that can give a more ample demon&s;tration that we follow the Rule of <HI>Plato,</HI> than by putting in practice the gifts be&s;towed upon us.</P>
<P>Nor do I think any thing can be more &s;weet and plea&s;ant to the Student, nor more honourable to God, than for one man to &s;tudy the Health and Welfare of another.</P>
<P>It was the &s;in of man that hath made him mi&s;erable; and Sickne&s;s and Di&s;ea&s;es is a great part of it in this World. And &s;eeing it is &s;o, and that God hath afforded him &s;uccour in the&s;e
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Calamities, why &s;hould any man be &s;o &s;tupidly &s;otti&s;h, as to refu&s;e to under&s;tand it, or when in nece&s;&s;ity to refu&s;e the fruition of it.</P>
<P>And now becau&s;e the Study of Phy&s;ick, and the Nature of mans Body belongs to my Practice and Profe&s;&s;ion, I think it highly convenient to &s;peak &s;omething in reference to them both; and al&s;o to acquit my &s;elf like a Phy&s;ician.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e I &s;poke in the Prai&s;e of Learning, take notice, that by the help of that we are a&s;&s;i&s;ted to con&s;ider, that the Omnipotent Creator by his Divine Will, out of a lumpi&s;h, ma&s;&s;ie, confu&s;ed nothing, created a decent Order, a comely Structure, Heaven and Earth, a World of every thing.</P>
<P>Separated the Darkne&s;s from the Light, the Waters from the Earth; gave limits and bounds to the &s;welling Waves, &s;unk the deep Channels of the Ocean, and drawed the Waters into their proper &s;tations, that &s;o Earth and Water might make one compleat Superficies, adorning the Earth with her vegetable Companions (of various Colours and Forms, as it were Arms and Scutcheon of the great Creator) indued the Earth with a fructifying quality; Beautified the Heavens with Stars of various Natures; made two great Lights to divide day and night, and to di&s;tingui&s;h the &s;ea&s;ons of the year.</P>
<P>The Air was furni&s;hed with Fowls, the Sea repleat with Fi&s;hes; and thus were all things put into a perfect order (which five days before were all di&s;order) fit to entertain a Governour to &s;way and controul the unruly Nature of bruti&s;h Bea&s;ts, and to manure and take the &s;weetne&s;s of things created.</P>
<P>Thus the Creator draws to a conclu&s;ion of his Work, and &s;eems to que&s;tion and take Coun&s;el with him&s;elf, and &s;ay, <HI>Faciamus hominem ad imaginem no&s;tram,</HI> thereby to make man more honourable than any other Creature: So he concludes to make him one part earthly, and two parts heavenly; he gave him a terrene Body, but an immortal Soul, a Divine &s;hape with his face erect towards Heaven, and his Under|&s;tanding
<PB N="4" REF="4"> partly Divine, and partly Natural.</P>
<P>Thus did God fini&s;h the Creation in making man, and did a&s;&s;ign him with his own Stamp, &s;o that we have Gods Hand and Seal for it.</P>
<P>Thus was man formed, called by the Greeks <GAP DESC="foreign">, in reference to his Manhood and Creation; but <GAP DESC="foreign">, in reference to his parts, he being an Epitome of the Macro|co&s;m or greater World.</P>
<P>Now let us inquire how Di&s;ea&s;es are bred in the Body of Man, and how he comes to be crazy and &s;ickly; therefore take notice, I told you there were Stars in the Heavens of &s;everal Natures; &s;o there are humours in the body of man that are governed by tho&s;e Stars, &s;o that according to their motion, Rays and A&s;pects are the natural humours of man either nouri&s;hed or debilitated, inflamed or congealed, cor|rupted or clean&s;ed, increa&s;ed or extingui&s;hed. For at &s;ome|times by their cruel Influence they do inflame the blood, con|&s;ume the Spirits, exhau&s;t the <HI>humidum radi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ale,</HI> and render Di&s;ea&s;es &s;o potent, they will not an&s;wer to Phy&s;ick, although ingeniou&s;ly applied; witne&s;s that raging Pe&s;tilence 1665. and that Pe&s;tilential Dy&s;enteria in 1670. with many o|thers.</P>
<P>When at &s;ome other time by their beneficial Rays, they proclaim the Voice of Joy and Health among us, and make that Bal&s;amick, which before was Ar&s;enical.</P>
<P>Therefore this is the <HI>primum mobile</HI> of all Effects, and the very <HI>Punctum</HI> from whence we mu&s;t derive all our Progno|&s;ticks, both in Sickne&s;s and in Health, and from whence we mu&s;t &s;eek an account of the Cour&s;e of Nature. Now ha|ving run over the Heads of the Cour&s;e of Nature, we may admire the greatne&s;s of God in the Worlds Creation, his Mercy in its pre&s;ervation, and his Wi&s;dom in its operation, and cry out with the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>Quam magna &s;unt facta tua, Jehova, vald&egrave; profundae &s;unt cogitationes tuae,</HI> P&s;al. 92. 5.</P>
<P>Now it will be convenient to &s;peak &s;omething concerning
<PB N="5" REF="4"> the Nature and Signs of certain Di&s;ea&s;es, which I think, if rightly con&s;idered by &s;ome, they would not go &s;o head-long to work as they do, mi&s;taking one thing for another, and &s;o prove the Nur&s;es of Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>The Scurvy is a Di&s;ea&s;e very common among us; and becau&s;e common, but little taken notice of; when indeed it is the very Mother of all Di&s;ea&s;es that proceed from Ob&s;tructi|ons; and we meet it daily in a &s;everal Gui&s;e and Habit, and appearing by &s;everal Symptoms. For &s;ometimes it is di&s;co|vered by Laxity, Co&s;tivene&s;s, or various coloured Urines, pu|trid Gums, loo&s;e Teeth, &s;tinking Breath, wandring Joynt|pains, Pu&s;tles, con&s;umptive Wa&s;tings, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, Suffocation, Stitches, Scurff, and other Eruptions of the Skin, with many more &s;uch like: So that it may well be called the <HI>Protean</HI> Di&s;ea&s;e, by rea&s;on of its various &s;hapes.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e there be many that have this di&s;ea&s;e, and yet are unwilling to make u&s;e of a Phy&s;ician, I &s;hall for their be|nefit pre&s;cribe a very &s;afe, ea&s;ie, and familiar way of Cure; and therefore take notice, the Cure con&s;i&s;teth in opening Ob|&s;tructions, in carrying of the filth by Purgation, and by corro|borating the Body; and fir&s;t begin with an opening Purge, thus:</P>
<P>Take <HI>Senna clean&s;ed one ounce, Rhubarb one dram; infu&s;e them twenty four hours in a pint of Ale or white Wine, then make it a little &s;harp with Oyl of Vitriol; and take half an or|dinary Beer-gla&s;s full in a morning once or twice a week,</HI> and it will open the Ob&s;tructions, and finely clean&s;e the body. And becau&s;e gentle Purgers are apt to &s;tir up wind, you may take in every Do&s;e as much Ginger as will lye on a &s;hilling or more. For a &s;trengthning Medicine,</P>
<P>Take <HI>Mithridate one dram, Antimony Diaphoretick &s;even grains, Salt of Scurvy-gra&s;s one &s;cruple: mix them, and take it at night going to bed, drink a little muld Sack after it, and &s;weat if you can.</HI> This continued, will do more good than mo&s;t of their Chymical Preparations &s;o much cryed up.</P>
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<P> The Drop&s;ie is a di&s;ea&s;e that generally takes its beginning from a cold Liver; which being not able to &s;anguifie, &s;endeth a wateri&s;h humour into the Cavity of the Belly, which by de|grees &s;welleth all the parts of the body: &s;o that after due Evacuations, good Diet-drinks, is the be&s;t Method of Cure.</P>
<P>The Con&s;umption is a di&s;ea&s;e u&s;ually coming from a de|fluxive Rheum, and is known at fir&s;t by a &s;mall Feaver, after|wards by a Cough, &s;pitting up mattry flegm, want of Appe|tite, loo&s;ene&s;s of the Belly, with other &s;uch Symptoms; yet let none de&s;pair of a Cure, if not too far &s;pent.</P>
<P>The French Pox is a di&s;ea&s;e not known always by a Flux of the Yard, but by Pains, Buboes, Nodes, putrid Ulcers, and &s;uch like &s;igns; therefore tho&s;e that have had &s;uch foul play in the Sport of <HI>Venus,</HI> let them not fear, but be a&s;&s;ured of a Cure without Fluxing, Salivation, Unction, or any &s;uch cur|&s;ed way invented rather to kill, than cure a Patient, to turn Beauty into a bea&s;tly Vi&s;age, a plea&s;ant Countenance into a Face like Hell-flames.</P>
<P>The Stone and Gravel is both painful and common, and is &s;o well known, that it needeth no di&s;tinct &s;igns to be laid down; yet take notice I have Remedies that few or none know be&s;ides my &s;elf, and hath or knows will certainly cure, if the di&s;ea&s;e be not &s;o rebellious to defie all Medicines. I might, if I had more room, have &s;poke of Agues, Feavers, Jaundice, Coughs, Itch, Womens Di&s;ea&s;es, pains in the &s;ides, Deafne&s;s, Worms both in old and young: And for Womens &s;ore Brea&s;ts after their Delivery; I have a mo&s;t &s;pecifick Bal|&s;om which cureth at twice dre&s;&s;ing, if there is no Tumor; as al&s;o all other &s;uch painful Sores. But I &s;hall conclude here, and &s;peak &s;omething to the &s;econd Branch of Study, and that is the mo&s;t commendable and ingenious Art of A&s;trology, by &s;o many abu&s;ed. Let us therefore &s;ee what things are pre|dicable by the Stars, nay let us &s;ee what things are not predi|cable, if &s;canned by an ingenious Arti&s;t. I wonder &s;ome think ill of this Art, I do ingage it is neither joyned with Ma|gick,
<PB N="7" REF="5"> knit to Witchcraft, nor &s;upported by Cheating; but harmle&s;s, legal, innocent, and profitable: and had not &s;ome of its Profe&s;&s;ors plaid the Knave by it, it had never been &s;o much abu&s;ed by the Ignorant; for it is one of the mo&s;t inge|nious of the Mathematicks, becau&s;e it di&s;cour&s;eth the life of man from the Cradle to the Grave; yet not offen&s;ive to the Almighties will. By this may the life of man be handled, with all his Di&s;ea&s;es, Crazine&s;s, Di&s;compo&s;ure of Body, occa|&s;ioned either by bad directions or bad revolutions, or other bad Po&s;itions of the malevolent Stars; by this we are inabled to di&s;cover what&s;oever depends upon the wealth of one born, whether it will be or not, or whether it will continue or not. I have &s;ometimes admired at the Sympathy of the Heavens with our Actions, when I have &s;een the truth experienced concerning Women conceiving with Child, their Delivery, together with the Sex of the Infant; &s;o that if Truth may &s;peak for the Art, why &s;hould Envy contradict it?</P>
<P>Thus I have given you a Synop&s;is of the Art of A&s;trology, a&s;&s;uring you that all that can be done by A&s;trology, is lawful; and what cannot be di&s;covered by it, may be judged to be the &s;ecret Coun&s;els of the Almighty: where we &s;hall conclude, and tell you that Phy&s;ick and A&s;trology in all its parts, whether Nativities or Que&s;tions, are faithfully &s;tudied and practi&s;ed by me.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Partridge.</SIGNED>
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<P>All tho&s;e that are de&s;irous to make u&s;e of my Judgment, either Phy&s;ically or A&s;trologically, let them repair to my Lodging, a little below the <HI>Pay-Office,</HI> on the other &s;ide of the way, next door to the <HI>Kings-Head</HI> in <HI>Broad-&s;treet,</HI> near <HI>Bi&s;hop&s;gate,</HI> where I &s;hall give Attendance till three of the Clock in the Afternoon, where they &s;hall be treated civilly, di&s;cour&s;ed mode&s;tly, and u&s;ed hone&s;tly.</P>
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