Long Life, Short Art

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inflammations, or fiery ardors tending toward a red and bloody color, with new blood upon them: for it makes old blood black. It also helps erysipelas that is not ulcerated, since it harms one that is ulcerated. Where the Divine Old Man referring to Hippocrates hints at the traces of circulation through new blood, which is renewed by passing from vessel to vessel, from arteries into veins, he left them behind.

§. V.

Perhaps this aphorism stimulated the mind of Harvey so that, having taken into account the two embolisms valves/chambers of the heart and the double kind of vessels (one of which is leaping, elastic, originating from the left heart, taking on a conical figure, ending from broad to narrow, lacking valves in its course, and at the extremity of the vessel being joined to another of a far different nature), he entered into that opinion: that from the left heart, endowed with elastic vessels, the mass of blood is urged by violent motion from the center to the periphery, but through the veins—equally conical, but from narrow to broad—it is urged toward the center. And from thence we understand the apparatus of secretions, which the Ancients attributed to ferments in specific secretory organs. Let the constant circulatory motion of the humors now flourish: the integrity of actions stands: life: health.

§. VI.

If this is damaged by internal or external causes, an apparatus is soon adorned from the pharmaceutical fountain according to the indications. But whence the aids? From the triple kingdom: vegetable, mineral, and animal. How great a forest of Materia Medica lies open! Into which the auditors are, as it were, led by the aforementioned Cranz. In the first three classes, he teaches cardiac nutrients: nervous: stimulants: in the fourth, emollients: in the fifth, astringents: in the sixth, attenuants, abstergents, resolvents: in the seventh, those evacuating through various emunctories, such as: sudorifics, diuretics, emmenagogues, apophlegmatics, errhines, and ptarmics, emetics, and purgatives. He adds anodynes, narcotics, and poisons from the triple kingdom with general antidotes. And Surgery does not lack its aids; for he adds a matter of repercussives, astringents, and narcotics.