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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10126	The antimoniall cup twice cast: or a treatise concerning the antimoniall cup, shewing the abuse thereof. First, written in Latine by Iames Primrose Dr. of physicke, in consideration of a small pamphlet set forth by the founder of the cup. Translated into English by Robert Wittie, Master of Arts, Philiatr; De calice ex antimonio sive stibio. English	Primerose, James, ca. 1598-1659.; Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1640 (1640)	STC 20383; ESTC S101194	9,547	38

is better then the regulus it self Then be brings in Paracelsus with the titles of Orientall starre of Naturall Spagiricall and Magneticall light and knowledge Now I am sure no learned and honest man will approve of such an illiterate man as Paracelsus was approving and practising Magicall arts which he calls the Syrups and electuaries of the Divell But let us heare what he sayes In his Booke De vitâ long â pag. 167. cited by this Writer not a word of the Cup but onely of the praises of Antimonie as Alchymists use to doe that is beyond the deserts thereof and that it cures the Leprosie which notwithstanding Paracelsus never performed therwithall but howsoever he never used the Regulus or the Cup but hath many better preparations of Antimonte then that Cup is as appeares by the next authority cited by him out of his 6. Booke Pag. 22. Where he attributes all these vertues unto the quintessence of Antimonie the Regulus being not the essence of it but amongst all preparations the coursest and unsafest and all the passages alledged out of Paracelsus doe in●imate no more but onely that Antimony is an excellent Medicine that cures saith he the Leprosie Cicatrices besides many other diseases but for these two I am sure it is false for neither by the Cup not by any other antimoniall Preparation can it be performed And I beleeve Paracelsus spake hee knew not what when he saith As that Antimony refined Gold so by the same reason it purifies the Body of man He must bee voyd of reason who will thinke this comparison true and right as if there were the same reason for Gold a Minerall having some convenience of Principles with another minerall and the Body of man with which it hath no convenience at all For the fame might be as well said of all Purging medicines that cleanse the body of man from all its imparities but howsoever the Cup is not the right preparation of it to give to cleanse Mans body Hee brings a second authority of Martinus Rulandus who calls his Aqua-benedicta the infusion of this Cup which is absolutely false and Quercetanus Libavius Sennertus and Hartmannus upon Crollius yea his owne Son Rulandus sayes otherwise namely that his Aqua-benedicta which he commends so much was made of Antimony indeed but not of the Cup but of the Crocus metallor otherwise called Hepar antimony the liver of antimony or some other better Preparation as if he did say that it was the infusiō of this Cup yet it is not to be used by every one except they have the same knowledge judgment that Rulandus hath neverth lesse he used other Medicines as bad as this which he doth commend as much as his Extractum Esulae which is absolutely preferred by him before all other medicines and antimony it selfe sh●wing that no Medicine is good for every body But Alchymists haue that property to extoll things to the skies but when they come to the tryall they are found false or else loose their vertues in other folks hands As for example that it cured the Frensie it is 〈◊〉 for in the dissences of the head vomiting is very hurtfull by the consent of all Physicians That it cured the F●lling sicknesse it were to be desired but it doth not prove so except that comes from the stomacke the head being onely affected by the Sympathy of the said stomacke That it healeth Impostumes in the Lungs and cured the Pleurisie it is most untrue For breaking the impostumes in the lungs if it be given when they are at maturity perhaps it will because of the great straining of the upper parts of the body but another vomite may doe the like if the man can beare it The truth is those that have impostumes in the Lungs are so short winded that they cannot beare the straining of a vomit but howsoever an Impostume to be broken and to be healed are two severall things a vomit may doe the former but not the latter Concerning the Pleurisie the Physitian that gives such a purging medicine that workes upward as well as downeward in such a disease is much to be blamed for working against the rules of Physicke Quercetanus is so bold in his Pharmacopoeâ as to speake of such a Cure but not in a right Pleurisie but because that booke is full of lyes I will say no more but this namely that neither he nor Rulandus ever used the Antimoniall cup or the regulus out of which it is made no● that Quercetanꝰ his Aqua benedicta was made of it for he himselfe sayes plainly the contrary 3dly He brings the book called Basilica antimonij cōmending Antimony but not the Cup And to shew how largely these Alchymists speake hee sayes it cures the French Pox Leprosie Gout and Falling sicknesse which never a one of them ever performed and yet the Basilica speaks of that preparation of antimony that provokes sweating as well as of others So I may say the like of ●rol●ius who commends the Antimonie but no● the Cup and so Mylius and ●●●net●us who commends the Antimonie but not a word of the cup. As for Mylius he is but a transcriber of other mens works hath compiled a mighty great volume without any judgement word by word out of Paracelsus Quercetan and others and hath indifferently put in true or false whatsoever he found written so I will not give a straw for his opinion when he commends the antimony against diseases which none of them did ever cure For Bornettus I know him well he wrote his booke being very yong and I do not thinke he beleeves that the French Pox and the Leprosie may be cured by those meanes Thus I have sisted all the authorities of this man in the behalfe of his Cup which prove onely that Antimony is an excellent medicine powerfull in operation and too powerfull in deed but that the Cup is the pure essence of it none of them say nor will any man that hath any skill in Chymistry ever affirme Besides he brings some Physitians living and some very well known to me but the greatest part I know not who is he saith have approved his Cup I will make a good interpreration of their judgement for without question the infusion of his Cup will worke and such bodies might be met withall in which it hath so powerfully wrought that being able to beare it they have received much good by it but that they have said that his Cup was better and safer then other preparations of Antimonie or then other purging Medicines and that a woman having bought it hath also gained knowledge when and in what Diseases to apply it I will not wrong their judgement so much as to beleeve it Of the vertues of the Cup. NOw to come to the vertues of the Cup he makes a great list of all the Diseases for which it is good naming almost all Diseases that have need of purging from Head to foot without distinction of