A Ternary of Paradoxes

N the eighth year of this age, there came to my hands an Oration declamatory, made at ALar-purge of the Carti, wherein Rodulphus Gocle- -zivs (to whom the publick profeffion of Philofophy was lately committed) paying his firft fruits to the Univerfity; endevours.to make good; that the cure of wounds, by the Sympathetick,, and Armarie Unguent; fft invented; by. Parace/f9, is meerly natural, Which Oration I wholly read, and fighed, .that the hiftory of. natural things.,had faln under the protection of fo weak à Patron. The Author, neverthelefs, highly pleafed himfelf with that argument of writing, and with a continued barrennefs of probation, in the year 1613. publifhed the fame work, with fome enlargement. Not long fince, Lalfo met with a fuccinGanatome of the fore-mentioned Book; compiled by 2 certain Divine, favoring more of a fine-witted Cez[zre, then afolid Difputation. :W.hereupon. my. judgment, what, ever it Were, was much delired; , at leaft, in that relation, that the thing invented by Parace/[u, neerly. concerned him, and my felf, his difciple. I fhalltherefore declare, vzhat I conceive of the Phyfician Geclenius, and what of the Divine, the Cezfor. The. Phy/iciax in the firft place, propofes, and with oftentation: promifes.to prove, the magnetical cure:of. woundsto be puxe« ly natural; but I found the undertaker infuificient, to per form fo weighty a task; in regard he no where, orat beft but very flenderly, makes good the title, or his own large promifes. Collecting, hence and thence from divers Authors, many rhapfodies or gleanings, by which he conceives he hath, to ample fatisfaction, proved, that inthe inventory of created natures, there are certain formal or effential vertues, which menterm Sympathy and Antipathy; and alfo that from the conceffion of thefe, the AMagnetical Cure js meerly natural, Many things, I fay, borrowed from the E Syptians, Chaldeans, Perfians, Conjurers, and Impoffors, he hath amafled together into this one difcourfe, that thereby he might evidence and confirm that A¢agperi/m, which notwithftanding himfelf. was wholly ignorant of, With defign, partly, that by a delightful entertainment-of thofe mindes that are eager in the queft of novelties, he might feduce them from a direct progreffion to the.mark; and partly to raife them to an admiration of the Author, who feemed to have read, and ranfacked not onely vulgar, butalfo allother more »4re and antique writers, er which confideration, the Phyjician does very abfurdly: confound Sympathy (which erroneoufly, and under various notions he very often introduces) with Magnetifm: and from that concludes this to be natural: For Ihave obferved this Vulnerary Unguent to cure, not onely men, but bores alfo; with which our Nature holds not fo neer an affinity” (unlefs we grant our felves to be Affes) that frem thence the Sympa- Phetick Unguent fhould deferve to be accounted common to horfes, as well as to-us.