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Fludd’s earlier work, Medicina Catholica (1629) contained the Wrst recognition
in print of Harvey’s discovery of the circulation, though it has been questioned
whether he really understood the physiological basis of the discovery.
Nonetheless, Harvey himself, who was a close friend, commented on Fludd’s
anatomical knowledge and Fludd reports in the present work that he had
dissected the body of a hanged man privately in his own house in preparation
for his anatomical lectures at the College of Physicians (Pagel p. 114).
According to Manly Hall, Fludd here ‘extrapolates Mosaical truth. The
central principle is that of systole and diastole, rarefaction and condensation,
expansion and contraction. This is in essence the paradigm of microcosm and
macrocosm central in much of the Western tradition of occult writing. Fludd,
however, applies this idea directly to the occult truth of such phenomena as
snow, fountains, wind, and the loadstone. He also discusses sympathetic cures
in the Responsum.’ (Hoggart, p. 76.)
The second work is a reply to William Foster, Hoplocrisma-Spongus: or, a
sponge to wipe away the weapon salve (London, 1631), in which Foster accused
Fludd and others of witchcraft.
Walter Pagel, William Harvey’s Biological Ideas (1967), ‘Harvey and Robert Fludd’,
pp. 113–119; Manly P. Hall, ed. Ron. Charles Hogart, Alchemy. A Comprehensive
Bibliography of the Manly P. Hall Collection (1986).
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FOREEST, Pieter van (1522–1597); James HART (d. 1639)
The arraignment of urines wherein are set downe the manifold
errors and abuses of ignorant urine­mongring empirickes, cozening
quacksalvers, women­physitians, and the like stuVe... Collected and
gathered as well out of the most ancient, as the moderne and late
physitians of our time: and written Wrst in the Latine tongue, and
divided into three bookes by Peter Forrest D. in Physicke, and native
of the towne of Alcmare in Holland. And for the beneWt of our British
nations newly epitomized, and translated into our English tongue by
James Hart Dr. of the foresaid faculty, and residing in the towne of
Northampton.
London: Printed by G. Eld for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at his
shop at the great south doore of Pauls, 1623.
4to: 4
* (–* 1, blank) A4 a4 B–Q4 , 71 of 72 leaves, pp. [22] 122 (i.e. 120,
113–4 omitted). Typographic headpieces, woodcut initials.
165 x 125mm. Cropped at head and foot with loss of most of imprint
and many headlines, catchwords and signatures partially or wholly lost.
Binding: Eighteenth­century half sheep over marbled boards, marbled
endleaves. Worn, upper board detached.
First edition, an abridged translation of Foreest, De incerto, fallaci,
urinarum judicio (1589). Entered in the Stationer’s Register 7 January
1623. STC 11180; ESTC S102442; Manchester 868.
This was the Wrst work published by James Hart, abridged from Foreest’s