The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker].

  • Ambroise Paré
Date:
1634
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Credit: The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5<J 0/ Lhmg Creatures, and JL i b. know how toprcferve their prefent welfare, and to depell the contrary, being in this theitowne CQunfcllorSjand not tutored by man. Yea man is beholden to them for the knowledge of many wholefome things. The confidcration of which bred fo great a doubt amongft the ancient Philofophers^ that it was a queftion amongft them whether beads had ufe of reafon, or no? Therefore alfo the wife Salomon fends us for examples of parfitnonie and diligence unto the Ant or Pifroire 5 and ’Efaiaa in expro- bration of the people of Ifracl for their ingratitude and rebellion againft God, fends them to the Oxc and AfTcj for they doe not onely know, but reverence their Maiders* But from whence is the knowledge of thefe medicines, wherewith the Art ot Phyficke is fo richly adorned, but from brute beads, as P/lny affirmeth. The infalli¬ ble vertue of the herbe Bi^amnus^ in: drawing darts out of the flcfli, was taught usby the Hart, who wounded with the Huntfmans darts orarrowes, by meancs hereof drawes out the weapons which remaincs dicking in her. Which is likewife pradH fed by the Goates of Candie,as Arijlosle writeth.The wonderfull effca which Celan-i dinehdXh upon the fight,waslearntby thcpraaifeofSwallowcs, whohavebin obfer- ved with it to haveberraeared,and fo drengthened the eyes of their young. Serpents rubbe their eyelids with fenncll, and are thought by that meancs to quicken and re- dorethe decaying fight oftheir eyes. The Tortois doth defend & ftrengthen her felfe againd the biting of Vipers, by eating of favorie. Bearesby eating of Pifmires, ex* pell that poifon that they have contra^ed by their ufe of Mandrakes. And for cor¬ rection of that drowzinefle and doth which growes upon them by their long flcepc lefferfBeires t^eir dens, they eatc the herbe (i; Cuckopint. But the Art they ufe in the ^ * entifing and catching of Pifmires is very pretty^ They goc foftly to the holes or hides of the Pifinires, and there lay themfelves all their length upon the ground, as if they were dead, hanging out their tongue wet with their foame, which they draw not a- gainc into their mouth, before they feele them full of Pifmires, which are intifedby the fwcetnefle of the foame •* And having taken this as a purging medicine, they expcll by the guts, thofe ill humors wherewith they were efipended. Weefeetbat Dogges give themfelves a vomit, by eating of a kinde ofgraffe, which is from thence called Dogge-graOc, Swine, when they finde themfelves ficke, will hunt after ftnalt or river lobders. Stockdoves, Blackbirds, and Partridges, purge themfelves by bay leaves. Pigeons, Turtels,and all fort of Pullen, disburden themfelves of grofe bu- Thebirdibis KJors, by taking of Pellicory of the wall. The bird Ibis (beingnot much unlike the Storke) taughtustheufeofClidcrs.Forwhenhe finds himfelfe opprefled with a ofciyfters. bufden of hurtfull humors, he fills his bill with faltwacer, and fb purgeth himfe/fe by Theinvention that part, by which the belly isbeddifebarged. The invention of the way off emo« o^®°ving vingthe CataraCl of the eye, wee mud yeeld unto the Goate, who by driiingby a Cataraft. ^hance againd the thorny bullies,pulls offthc Catarad which hinders the fiSt, and Theinvention covets thc ball of the eye, and fb recovers his fight. The benefit of Phlebot^nic, wc of Phieboto- ovve unto the Hippotamus or River-horfe, being a kinde of Horfe, and tte inhabi¬ tant of the river Nilus *, who being a great devourer, when bee finds hi^elfe fur- charged with a great deale ofbloud, doth by rubbing his thigh againfkhefliarpe fands onthebankefidejopenaveine, whereby the fuperduous bioud isiifcharged, which he doppeth likewife when it is fit, by rowling himfelfe inthethfke mudde. Thc Tortois having chanced to cate any of thefiefhof a Serpent, dou make and marjerom her Antidote. The ancients found hclpe from bruiTbeads, even ^ againd the drcadfull and none-fparing force of lightning; for they v^re of opinion agamft thuBs diucke with lightning, and tlyrefore they put about their heads little wreathes of thefe feathers. They were pomaded the fame thing of the Scale, or Sca-calfe, and therefore were wont to enco^afle their bodies with his skinncjas a mod certaine fafegard againft Iightning.It we71 thing too long, and laborious,to fpeakc of all thofe other muniments of life aod hetlthCobferved here and there by Arlfiotle and Plinie) which we have learnt of bruto^eafts. I will there¬ fore end this Chapter, after that I have fir ft added this; That/e arc beholding to bcafts not onely for the skill of curing difeafes, and of preferv^on of health, but for cur foode,our rairaent,and the OKnameflt and beautifying the/odies. /■ Of