The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-01-17
1lggIBIE REMEDIES.
,oen ByDOCTORS IN THE SIX
THO'' TENT CENTURY,

ting uode INTO Medicine
R'' Lament GA curious , volume mhn mas
fras Tho ands of local physl-
fallen inlo w crohically describes tne
cia1 FDcn sHrery of several centuries
petho%ds S Ul it considered that a an%s+
AGO. Nnsn 1nnown in those ancient
thetcs WIN mods operandi of the sur
days tl5 me- six,enth century must ap.
ceoD Of Tue ,. 81, cruel in the light OF
the preSen,S is nat of Ambrose Parey'
The "J I519 bng then the mucn Ia
who in lo'" ,,ain,' of his day, publish
NOUS bulky IE volme which became s mes Su i+n
ed aasgtaablishedauthority ana ~ neiu i 10
an e.. sSt for 50 leg time that ~ years
place loL Il II US translated into Eng
allsl ond nublhed in London
lisn anu nls first Rs tok he considers the gen
IN n III. of the body in hea l't
eraI R 3isoose. ID in the chapter relat-
and u''t monuments and humors he
lns s,+os AN lmor is called by Physl Sd
ans what ting soeVer ID lidu-N
ean .sna in tbbody of living creatures
dO"Ins wit blood" Proceeding 10
incloS s.,,'onifc divisions of humors'
} pn sonarateaem into four parts, aus
ne ~ seP IN colo taste, effects and guam,
tinS 1n,amelplood, phlegm, choler ana
ueS-n nhn,v exact in his subdivisions
ul7la-. "Amen ought to think that
ns humorare wont to move at set
I Su,n If tbday as by certain pc
n no1ior motif or tide. Therefore, the
l1aod fowsom the ninth hour or the
nirbt to tlthird hour of the Day
nE9Ior to tlninth of the day. Then
snoIoncholyle blood flows from the
nintb hour the night is under the
dominion ohlegm."
Equally dous is the following on
sniri+s WIN he divides into AM
MALL" witt and "naturall;"
"The anil spirit hath taken his
ooo+ in the,ain. 1t is called animal
nocause it he life, but the chief and
7rime instnent thereof. Wherefore
II hath a )st subtle and aery sub
stance. Il animal spirit is made
and barbo in the windings and fold
tngs of tEeins and arteries of the
brain. brht thither sometimes Of
the pure ior sweet vapor drawn in
Inv the n, in breathing. The vital
shirt is L to it in dignity and ex-
,celency, oh hath its chief mansion
in the lefantricle of the heart. The
natural ST. if such there be any,
hath its son in the liver and veins"
Describ certain Juggling and de-
cetful W of healing Of cures by
such meas fear, surprise and even
by musior spider bite, the music
causing patient to dance so Justify
that he SEES all the poison out Of his
SYSTEM" sums up some of those
heroic rides thus; 81 would not
cast thetient headlong out of a
window,t would rather cast them
sodainlyld thinking of no such
thing, i'm great cistern filled with
cold watwith their heads foremost.
Neither I'D l take them out until
they harunk a good quantity of
water, by that sodain fall and
strong the matter causing the
frenzy ut be carried from above
d0WnWarom the noble parts to the
ignoble
A me0e upon which he diIates at
great lei is ''mummie," referred to
as the al remedy for Commissions.
and be ribes it as follows:
Mum is a liquor flowing from
the aro1ck embalmens of dead bod
les, whbecomes dry and hard" and
being end into medicine was lad
ministe either in whole or portion
TO slcS have fallen from high
places, first and last medicine of
almostou practitioners at this day
IN suchase."
lie agIyes some grewsome facts
cohnec with the preparation of
mum when he says: Certain of
our I'm apothecaries, men won
drous 4ciouS and covetOus to s+eal
by nlghe bodies of such as were
hanged embalming them with salt
ana 81 they dried them in an oven
so as I'll them thus adulterated in
stead 'ue mummie, whereupon we
are thompelled, both foolishly and
truell9 deYour the mangled and
puIrldlcleS of the carcasses of the
oasestple of Egypt, or of such as
are hn' as though there were no
other TO help or recover one bruis-
ed wifall from high place.
l not thought it fit in this
pace, says, 'to omit the industry
VI MIS- Picart, the Duke of Guise,
AIS sun, who, being called to a GER
tam tryman to set his shoulder.
Delhg OF joint, and finding none in
lne besides the patient and his
"iIe'o might assist him in this