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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30934	Sudorificum regale, or, The royal sudoforick	Barker, Richard, Sir.	1676 (1676)	Wing B779A; ESTC R29065	14,525	39

choice Chymical-Preparations If the Works of Paracelsus and his Followers all of which may perhaps not unjustly deserve the name of Vexations which he gave to one of his Treatises have according to the true Proverb Vexatio dat intellectum made so great Innovations in the Art and Practice of Physick it self as well as in the Materia Medica and produced some flashes of Light like those that result from the Collision of Flint and Steel in the Contest betwixt Galenists and Paracelsians as they lov'd to mis-call them I mean our Chymists what might not be hoped from a true Chymiatry a friendly Association of Chymists in their true subserviency to Physicians This Book though it brings news of a very great Increment to the Chymical Dispensatory and hopes to furnish the Chymiater with another Pillar of his Practice nothing inferior to Antimony it self is contented for the present only briefly to declare the occasion and encouragements that have been given to its publication at this time and to point at its force and use reserving the further discovery of its Nature till publick Testimony of its worth may embolden it to put off its disguise and like that excellent Purgative Extract forementioned own its true Name and Author In the interim it is hoped that the Ingenuous and Candid will neither impute it to Insolence nor Presumption in the Publishers that they have appealed to his Majesties Candor and Experience and sought Protection against the Obloquy and Detraction of the Ignorant and Envious from his Soveraign Testimony And this is another Glory justly to be ascribed to Chymiatry and here seasonably to be remembred to the Honour of its Preparations That whereas Physicians of later times have withdrawn themselves from the happy and laudable practice of the Ancients in Preparing and Administring their own Medicines and laid not only the Charge and Trouble but which is worse the Care and Trust wholly upon their Servants or Apothecaries as a Work below and unbecoming their Profession Kings and Princes have not been ashamed to inspect but have also sometimes for their recreation put their hands to the Preparation of the more neat noble and precious Chymical Medicines and not disdained to give them their names and have thereby for the Honours done this Art in their own Times and Dominions propagated and perpetuated their Renown throughout the whole World and to all succeeding Ages Hermes supposed the first Author of this Art whence it hath been stiled the Hermetick was not only a King but by consent of all Ages hath been acknowledged for and advanced to the Title of Trismegistus which needs the favour of a candid interpretation to keep its signification below the pride of Blasphemy and hath left no higher for the peculiar stile of God then Optimus Maximus And now I have instanced in him I will not descend to any inferiour Names having more than sufficient cause to glory and congratulate with this ancient noble and excellent Art and its Favourers and worthy Professors that his Majesty hath so far owned them and it who as he hath been very bountiful to all Ingenious Artists hath no-where appeared more munificent than in the reward he hath given to those who have presented him with any worthy Chymiatrical Preparations and in the splendid Provision he hath made for the Entertainment of worthy Operators in this Art I shall not therefore need much Apology for my boldness in taking Sanctuary under the sacred Name of his Majesty and entitling him to our Sudorifick according to his gracious Concessions made in the behalf thereof And I am assured that unto all loyal and ingenuous Spirits his Majesties Pleasure in this particular to them declared which we have therefore caused to be printed and prefixed unto this Paper will be abundant Satisfaction as well as sufficient Authority for this our Practice And if it would not seem a derogation from His to seek Ornament or Protection from other names We might alleadge the Care of the wise Venetian not disdaining after this manner to provide for the true Preparation of some Chymiatrical-Medicines and that dangerous one in particular of Mercury sublimate as well as that excellent Antidote we call the Venice Treacle By which they provide Wealth to themselves with Health to their Subjects Nor doth the Grand Seignior think it below his care to make Provision of the Natural Balsam nor of his Government to prevent deceit in those that gather the Medicinal Earths in his Dominions to appropriate a stamp unto them which have thence the names of Terrae Sigillatae And it were to be wished that for the better obviating the frequent Mischiefs that arise from the use of pernicious dangerous or at best dubious Medicines daily published without Licence Direction or Approbation of the Learned by Ignorant and obscure persons that there were some Publick Test whereby the true Arcana of the Sons of Art might be tryed and upon proof of their worth might receive just Testimony and Encouragement and the Spurious Preparations and Sophistications of Impostors be decryed and damned as they deserve Nor are we without Presidents of this Care in the most Illustrious Persons Galen was appointed to prepare Treacle as he had been instructed by Demetrius the Physician by the Emperour Antoninus And to Tiberius Caesar after-ages were obliged for that excellent Composition called Hiera Pacchii which the Author composed with his own hands and kept secret all his life and bequeathed with a Book of Directions for its use by his last Will and Testament as a most precious Legacy to that mighty Emperour Propter crebros fuccessus in vitiis difficillimis as I find it commended in the words of Scrib Largus These Examples being above all Exception may help in some part as I hope to justify our Chymiater against that too well received Maxime Medici est praescribere non operari And if my Authority be not sufficient to bring this Axiom into Reputation That they who will not work in Physick ought not to live by it I will appeal to the uncontestable Reason and Authority of that Princely and Heroick Physician and Philosopher thus expressed by him Rerum ipsarum cognitio vera ê rebus ipsis est ex Libris solis discere periculosissimum And if I may have leave to interpose my Judgment in a thing wherein the Health and Lives of Men are so highly concerned as well as Credit of Physick nothing seems more necessary and conducible thereunto than for the Colledg of Physicians to imitate that practice on far less weighty grounds introduced into other Corporations to make none free of their Body but who have served seven years Apprentiship to some learned Physician and who have been well vers'd in Botanicks Drugs and all Medicinal Materials and Chirurgical and Chymical Operations Methinks it should not be remembred without blushing by some with what Confidence the young Druggist arm'd and provided with no other Ammunition than of the most common

Axiom of the ancient eloquent and learned Celsus must in all Ages stand and justifie●●he Learned Galenist or Chymist in the use of violent Remedies in desperate cases Nil refert an satis tutum praesidium sit quod unicum And here give me leave by the way candid Reader to assure thee that not only Sir Walter Rawleighs Diaphoretick of Mercury the Treasure of some private Closets but other Preparations of that Metalline Spirit may be made without any addition of Salts or other Corrosives for he is benign and good with the good as bad with the bad which will powerfully sweeten the Blood and cast off the impurities of the Body by Sweat and other Operations And of the truth of this if need were we might produce irrefragable Testimony and leave it to thy own judgment to estimate what excellent Effects may be hoped from so powerful a Medicine I need not tell thee what Paracelsus boasted of his Aquila nor what others have sought and hoped to effect by it in most desperate malignant Diseases The frequent use and too frequent abuses of the known and common Preparations of it shew how useful and grateful a Medicine it would be when made truly benign by the Preparation of a happy Operator who knows to bind this hitherto incorrigible and ungovernable Fugitive to the Laws of true Medicinal Operation If what we now bring thee be accepted we will not long detain thee from a fuller discovery of this and some other choice Jewels of our Chymiatrical Dispensatory which we have long sought and now hope if we meet with favourable acceptation in these our first Fruits to have occasion and encouragement to make publick for the common good and honour of Physick and Physicians But here the candid Reader will be pleased to observe with me that Chymiatry hath introduced many gentle and familiar Medicines by a right use whereof those Diseases have been and may be cured which have been vainly attempted with the more forcible Remedies And it is ignorance of the ancient Hippocratick Physick and Chymiatry is the cause that unto this day in some Diseases as the Pox c. not only violent but dangerous yea horrid Remedies are yet in use and poor Patients have recourse in Corners unto such Practitioners whose Medicines torment them more than their Diseases and yet delude their Expectations of perfect Cures with deceitful Palliations To the Hippocratick and not Galenick Elementary Principles of Hot Cold Dry Moist c. we are beholden for the Advancements our Age hath made in Cure of some Diseases to which the most violent and destructive Remedies have been formerly applied because how desperate soever they were then the only known Means supposed to be effectual He that desires an Infiance of this needs only call to mind what Disease it was for which crude Mercury hath been prescribed to be taken in great quantity by the Mouth and compare that desperate one and other violent Medicines prescribed in printed Books in that and such miserable cases with the late familiar easy and almost contemptible Remedies of our studious and ingenious Countryman Thô Envy hath depriv'd the World of many of these and is the cause that noble above-commended Chymiater hath not yet published his Viperine Antidote appropriated by him to the cure of Venerial and the like Diseases in the most choice and tender Bodies yet are there Instances enough of such powerful and yet benign Remedies as are sufficient Testimonies to vindicate Chymiatry from being guilty of the use of violent Remedies to desperate Diseases And we hope this Royal Sudorifick we now commend unto thee will when gotten into knowledg and esteem tend very much to the Reputation of this Art quite take away the use of dangerous Mercurial Preparations and equalize the best Antimonial the choice Treasures of some Chymiatrical Closets for which hope I have besides Experience good Reason and Authority of the most Learned Chymiaters To these desperate Remedies in many cases as of Gravel in the Reins in ancient Bodies c. the Mineral Waters may be accounted but none can with any great certainty prescribe them who are not able to judge of the Diseases and Waters appropriate to them by true Chymiatrical Principles and such know so well to prepare Mineral Waters at home that they shall not need to go so far or pay so dear for them who may properly expect relief from them of this we have many witnesses for whom we many years since prepared such as were not inferiour to the German Spaw And we are assured there are amongst our Worthy Chymiaters at Home who know to prepare and accomodate such Remedies to the Age Temperature and Distempers of their Patients that their Charge and Travel and other hazards of Life and Health weak and diseased Persons must needs incur in such Journeys being considered I hope I shall be excused for this reflection upon them as dangerous and in some sense desperate Remedies to which Patients are oft condemned for want of knowledge in Chymiatry I conclude this Discourse with that Passage which I find in a Learned and Indifferent Physitian treating of the Subject we have now in hand who casting the Errours made on both sides off from the Noble and Excellent Art on to the base and ignorant Intruders on both Parties as he justly adorneth the learned Practisers with that glorious Eulogie given them by the Ancients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so he excludes not the Chymist from the honour of being some finger in that hand of God but ingenuously acknowledges and almost unto sense demonstrates the necessity of Chymical Preparations saying the Chymist is that to Physick which the Cook is to food Neither would I be understood to reflect on the Learned Galenist or Chymist but hope it will be no blasphemy to say of those who trust to those Practisers ignorant in Chymiatry they had need to take heed that when God sends them Physick the Devil send them not an ignorant as well as unlicensed Physitian But for the sake of such to condemn and endeavour to exclude the Chymiater were as absurd as for the slovenliness of some ignorant Cooks to pretend a jealousie of all and turning them out of the Kitchen to reduce us to a necessity of eating raw Meats like Salvage Beasts or more Salvage Men. Thus far Courteous Reader I have thought fit and necessary to advise thee concerning the nature of Chymical Medicines in general and to prevent as much as I can all prejudicate Opinions that might deter thee from the use of our Royal Sudorifick on that accompt Now give me leave to inform thee of the Virtues and use of it in Physick and the manner of its Application and Operation I need not tell thee of what great force and esteem other Sudorificks are especially that of Antimony how that and some others have been prescribed as great Andidotes not only against simple Agues and Feavers but against Pestilential ones and the