Obstructed and so hinder rather than farther her Restauration However knowing sufficiently the dulness and inefficacy of their own Medicines they must still be nibling at ours and yet revile them when they have answered their desires and if at any time they are too Keen for their Skill and Knowledge they are then most Damnable and presently to be Cursed with Bell Book and Candle and not one of them to be left in their Galenical Antidotaries I would they would turn them quite out or else acknowledge them as indeed they are the best Flowers in their Garden Let them not use ours and we will faithfully promise them never to make use of theirs Ours decay not by length of time theirs putrifie and corrupt even in a Years time Ours safely pleasantly and quickly Cure theirs do rather hinder than farther Nature in her own Operation and can only when Nature hath Cured her self rob her of the praise and glory of a Cure which she her self hath performed But I hope the time is now coming when Ingenuity shall flourish seeing many of those that not long since opposed this so noble a Science do now at last begin to appear its real Friends Defenders and Propagators and when declaredly such I shall wish them their utmost due with a continued remembrance of their Names unto succeeding Generations as the worthy Promoters of so publick and great a Good A POSCRIPT To the Ingenious and Physically Studious READER I Intend also how soon I cannot yet say to present unto the Ingenious Industrious and Knowledge-Seeking-English whose sullen Fate slender and mean Education affords them only the benefit of what is published in their own Mother-tongue a small but very plain and Methodical Treatise in English as the smaller Radii glimmering Beams or Aurora to a greater approaching Light teaching a Spagirical or Chymical preparation of Animals Vegetables Minerals and Metals to a Physical use viz. the Separation of their Quintessential Medicinal Fix'd and Volatile parts the Purification Reunition or Conjunction and Coction of the said parts into most noble efficacious and powerful Medicines Arcanaes and Physical Elixirs and this in a higher or lower degree according to the Subtile Genius Industry and Prudence of the Artist Most useful and beneficial for the Preservation of the present and Restauration or Recovery of the decayed or lost Health of Man The improvement and farther consideration may haply prove a Gate to other Secrets Yet if any One in the mean time either diligently Studious of Physick or otherways curious in the search of the secrets of Nature and Art be desirous to be instructed in the Grounds of Chymistry or the Spagirick Art and shall in a reasonable and modest way request my instruction and assistance in it I do hereby promise him a faithful Manuduction and Introduction and that by plain Demonstration and Practice to the true and full grounds intent and scope of Chymistry and this either as to Physical preparations or other Nature-searching delightful and pleasant Operations Chymistry being the most noble and transcendent of Arts and by which only and not otherways and this in a more sublime or mean degree according to the Acute Ingeny Patience Prudence and Neatness of the Operator whether in Medicinal preparations or other choice Arcanaes may something of excellency be expected and produced and perhaps the wished perfection utmost aim and end of our desires at last be obtained My earnest desire of advancing improving and promoting more for a general Good than my own private Benefit this so noble a Science and opening a Gate for entrance into the infinite Treasures of Nature both for Health and other Happiness closely shut up and contained in the Creature is the chief inducement to this Additional proffer and the publick Notice of E. 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and would so silence our new Doctrine as they very Gravely are pleas'd to call it Let them consult Myreâ—sus in his Book of Collections of the choicest and most excellent compositions of their Hodg-podg Antidotes and these from the most select and able of Galenists and they shall there find few less if not somewhat more than an hundred of those Antidotes which have in them as their chief Ingredients Ground or Basis either Minerals Semi-minerals or Metals and those in a most crude and unprepared condition See now the great Obstinacy joyned with a no less Ignorance of many that pretend themselves the strict followers of those sedulous and most laborious Founders of Aesculapius his Temple And seeing nihil perfectione in principio gaudet certainly those Men Galen and Hippocrates to whom we cannot but acknowledge our selves extremely ingaged for delivering over unto us their then more than ordinary Light and Knowledge intended not their Labours so freely communicated for the good of Posterity as Herculean Pillars or a non plus ultra to the indeavours of those ingenious Spirits that should succeed them and by decree of Providence enter upon the Stage of the World after them and that for the manifestation of the Glory of Almighty God as the Men and means provided and designed by him for the discovery or manifestation of some larger part of those innumerable Treasures of Wonders and Knowledge which he is infinitely beyond the apprehension of all Mortals that ever were or shall be able to draw forth and bestow upon frail Man for his solace comfort and admiration to his Creator's glory And this will well and clearly appear by the Ingenious confession or rather admonition and excitation of Hippocrates to a farther discovery and improvement whose Concession let us take for the unanimous consent of all those most acute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or antient Founders of that Fabrick which we ought with all diligence and sincerity for a publique good to build up and adorn Medicina saith he non eam assecuta est adhuc perfectionem cui nihil addi possit sed in qua semper vel aliquid modo reprehendi modo corrigi modo addisci queat Hippocrates c. In this this great and knowing Physician tells us that Medicine or the Science of Physick had not then attained to so great Perfection that nothing could be added to it but that it yet stood in such a condition as might well admit of reprehension correction and farther inquisition and addition Words truly worthy so worthy a Person and such a one as were he now in being would I dare be confident not only allow of those rational and real amendments which Posterity hath added to their Labours but with greatest Alacrity and Cheerfulness imbrace the means and knowledge of adding yet a greater Perfection to so absolutely necessary and laudable a Science and not as some of their wilful and perverse Disciples and Successors malitiously stop both Eyes and Ears against what only would make them what they should be viz. Physicians in Knowledge and Deed and not only Putatitious solùm nomine togaetenus pretenders to the greatest of Contemplations and Nature's Secrets of which they yet know nothing but only by their Methodical Ignorance keep the generality of people in a Maze and servile adoration to their empty Noddles This only to those pretended Galenists who use the name of Galen and Hippocrates together with other most deserving Learned Men their followers only as stalking Horses to shadow and hide their Ignorance from the World's Eye and a Warrant at pleasure and large to rail at and cast ignominy and reproach on the Names and Repute of such most excellent Hermetick Philosophers and Physicians as themselves are no way worthy to mention and whose Works the only means and evidence left us to judge of Antiquity together with those of their pretended Patrons Galen and Hippocrates they have as little perused as they have studied the Turkish Alcoran much less concocted to make a right use of them to the benefit and assistance of their languishing deceived Patients c. I think not thus of all that are diligently Studious and most strict followers of those Fathers of Physick Galen and Hippocrates for I know many of them most learned judicious and discreet Persons and what they are not yet satisfied in or cannot yet well assent to they will not however presently with a rash Malice conclude and condemn as Erroneous Many of them also sometime strong Assertors of the Antient Dogmatical method of Physick as the only safe and most effectual way have at last thought it no shame to give place unto their better Considerations and allow of Purity as the only means to Perfection and accordingly owned and professed themselves Med. utriusque studiosos Persons allowing and Studious as well of the Chymical as Galenical way of Medicines Othersome of them have been so much farther from a daily clear Experience convinced of the excellency of Medicines purified and separated from their dirty and drossie Parts which are the only Obstructors of those admirable effects they would otherways produce that they think nothing fit for administration in a Physical way that hath not in some measure passed the Test of Chymical preparation and purification which in brief let the Sons of Art I mean such as have made some happy progress in their Labours and so apprehend in few words things of great moment accept of and receive from me as followeth As to the preparation of Medicines out of Vegetables or Animals thus If thou wouldst have an Arcanum of Vegetables first bring them viz. the Vegetables to a due putrefaction and fermentation then abstract the volatile Parts separate their Flegm and other Impurities by due preparation then after a due Incineration or Calcination of their Cap. Mortuum or Faeces extract and purifie the more fixed joyn the fixed and volatile in due order digest and fix the Arcanum by fitting degrees of Heat increase or multiply it both in virtue and quantity by a due Nourishment ex quo aliquod nascitur ex eodem nutritur do the like with Animals except in fermentation which in their preparation may be excused As to the preparation of Metals Bodies of all other the most compact and almost incorruptible much might be said not intended at this time to be divulged of Minerals I shall at present say nothing and only give a short and but a short account of the preparations of Metals for Physick and to a Medicinal use As to the making of most rich Perfumes we commonly assume the most pleasing and Odoriferous of Nature's products so doubtless the best of Animals and Vegetables must of necessity be the fittest Subjects to make and prepare into the best of such Medicines We will also as in reason we ought suppose the like of Metals and therefore for Metallick Medicines or our Metalline Arcanaes assume and take the best of Metals viz. Gold and Silver
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