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A20900	A breefe aunswere of Iosephus Quercetanus Armeniacus, Doctor of Phisick, to the exposition of Iacobus Aubertus Vindonis, concerning the original, and causes of mettalles Set foorth against chimists. Another exquisite and plaine treatise of the same Iosephus, concerning the spagericall preparations, and vse of minerall, animall, and vegitable medicines. Whereunto is added diuers rare secretes, not heeretofore knowne of many. By Iohn Hester, practicioner in the spagericall arte.; Ad Jacobi Auberti De ortu et causis metallorum contra chymicos explicationem brevis responsio. English	Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609.; Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609. De exquisita mineralium, animalium et vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione et usu. English. aut; Hester, John, d. 1593.	1591 (1591)	STC 7275; ESTC S109966	94,663	138

they call sulphur is not the common sulphur which burneth with combustion of blacknes and adustiō is burned whereas their proper sulphur doth whiten rubify coagulat and finally make perfect that Chimicall quickesiluer which is commonly vnknowen into the substance of golde according to nature or of the philosophers stone and gold according to art And this is the true secret sulphur and the onely tincture and shadow of the sonne and the proper congeler of his quicksiluer which the Philosophers haue shadowed with diuers names their dark speeches and enigmaes whereby it appeareth Aubertus to haue farre erred and by all meanes to bee refused because he speaketh of a sulphur which he knoweth not and that the Chimick Philosophers are not to be blamed because they say quicksiluer and sulphur to be the matter of mettalls which do not vnderstand it of the common quicksiluer sulphur For they know that these things whereof they speake are not founde in the mettal mines in their verie nature but o● those two they say there is made a third mixture hauing the natures properties vertues of them that of it may be engendred any mettall according to the diuersitie of the composition digestion and place These shall suffice touching the next matter of mettalles which Aubertus would haue to be water wrought vpon by the other elements but he hath kept silēt the cause why he thinketh so being contented to say that it is set forth by others or that he hath found it in other mens writings which is the saying of a man that will proue his opinion by an other mans credit and not by reason as the true Philosophers doe But now the efficient causes call vs which the Philosophers make double and so many passiōs for heat and cold are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they haue power to moue moist and drie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for because they rather suffer any thing then worke and are said to be wrought vpon of the first qualities as of the most noble and higher in nature by whose worke forme is ingendred in thinges for the matter is not knowen by it selfe but by the chaunge which cannot be without suffering as neither that without touching the which by coniunction and cogelation and by introduction of act and forme is abolished But it is to be obserued that by the mixture of drie and moist the bodies are first called congealed then harde or soft of which congealed bodies there is a triple difference for it is either a watrie humor that is congealed or some dry earthly thing or a mixture of them both Also these some of them are molten some dried some moistened and some made soft But those thinges which are drye and fierie as hony and must will neuer be congealed and they which are moist airie predominant as all oily thinges Wherefore these also are not elements neither the matter of these sufferinges But of bodies which doe congeale and are hardened according to Aristotle some are affected by heate and some by cold by heate drying vp the humor by cold driuing out the heate Therefore those thinges that are congealed by heat by want of moisture are dissolued of cold which maketh the moisture to enter in againe as salt And those thinges which for lacke of heate are congealed are dissolued againe by heate entring in againe as mettals for whatsoeuer is dissolued melting is molten either by fire or water Whatsoeuer melteth by water must needes be congealed by hot drie that is fiery heate and those which fier melteth or whose congelacion in any part it doth dissolue as horne are congealed by colde for of contrarie effectes the causes be contrarie and because that mettalles do melt by heat it is of necessitie that first they were congealed by cold as the efficient cause whereof none of the Chimist philosophers doth doubt although as Aristotle some time saith experience sheweth vs the contrary for salt is congealed by heate and may bee dissolued and molten by fier as I haue often tried and it is called fusible salt Neither Albertus Magnus that great Philosopher ought to be reprehended of our Aubertus because he referreth the power of making mettalles vnto heate when as Albertus doth not meane it of only heat as he thinketh Therefore it is to be knowen as Aristotle witnesseth thinges by meanes of colde to suffer rather then to worke because that cold is proper to the patient elements that is water and earth which both by nature are cold For they do not receiue cold from any other thing as they do heate but by taking away the heat they coole of their owne nature neither are they cooled by any externall cause as the aier and fier Wherfore albeit cold in mixed thinges hath an efficient force yet it preuaileth rather to corruption then to generation Therefore the Chimists are not to be reprooued although they say that nature needeth a heat vnder the earth for the procreatiō of mettals as a more effectuall efficient cause which may mingle alter dispose digest and concoct their matter at last with long tract of time frame it into gold as into his last end Neither are they to be reproued in this that they refer some force to the influēce of the heauenly bodies for Aristotle ●onfirmeth their opinion in his booke de coelo mundo and his booke of the causes of the properties of elements in these wordes For saith he the first beginnings mouing to generation and inducing forme in euery thing are the starrie and heauenlie bodies by their mouing and light For they are the first that moue moued of the intelligences to performe the nature of generation or corruption for the preseruation of kindes and of them is giuen forme and perfection and as hee said in an other place the sonne and man engendreth man nether doth Aubertus rightly conclude vppon this reason the art of Alchemy to be vaine if mettalles bee ingendred by force of the starres when as the Chimiste s can not haue the fruition of this heauenly power for they beleeue with the Philosopher that if formes bee put on vppon inferiour thinges by the motion and light of the heauenly bodies by their site and aspect the same by consequent to come to passe in mettalles but that is done as it were by a generall cause and farre off but they haue a neerer efficient cause as we said that is heate by force whereof mettalles congealed in the bowels of the earth are disposed digested made perfect These thinges thus declared we must see to what end Aubertus tendeth and what is his vttermost scope hee would haue the labour of the Chimistes which they take vpon them in making perfect of mettalles to be vtterly vaine and lost and he denyeth that copper tinne Iron or leade which of them are called vnperfect mettalles can by any art be made perfect and be turned into gold and siluer And first saith hee it is euident

there is very great difference betweene the Astachum whereof you vndiscreetlie speake and the riuer or sea crabbe But you will say there is no great regard to be geuen vnto words and that these kindes of shell fish for the most parte are confounded among them selues Let it be so this I would also speake by the way because I see you doe lacke them and that our disputation might be both more euident you thinke it two waies absurd that the eies of crabbes calcined should be prescribed in a quartane because that by their drith and sharpenes they increase the discase O subtile argument and worthie of such a Phisicion We are not ignorant my Aubertus that the continent cause or matter of the quartane ague is the very iuice of melancholie which by his proper causes being gathered much together that it cannot be ruled by the naturall heate at length putrifieng it inflameth this feuer This melancholie humor the Phisicians make double the one naturall which is as the fex and slime of bloud the other adust which is as it were the congeled tartar or ashes of certaine burnt h●mors and that commeth speciallie of yellowe coller and melancholie adust although sometime it come of burnt flegme if we credite the Arabians Therefore seeing that the melancholicke humor which is colde and drie is the matter of these feuers we will confesse with you the couse of them to be partly cold and drie but that it is increase● by the vse of all drie and sharp things we denie as false For whereas this humor by nature is gro●se sh●●e and tough and that abounding speciallie in the spleene Mesenterium and vseth to be gathered about the Hipochondria or sides and by successe of time to be indurate truel●e there is no learned Physician that doubteth but that it is to be mollified digested rarefied made thinne and cutte but those thinges which for this purpose are of least force are mollifying which the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and those which are o● a greater force whotte and thinne to the seconde o● thirde degree are called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Latinists rarifying which with their heate and meane drith doe dissolue and disperse mollifie and digest all the hardnes of the spleene and greeued bowels The timelie vse of which medicines chieflie is both requisite and greatlie commended in quartanes So the barke of the Ashe and of Cappars the roote of Brionia the wilde Cowcumber Walwort and Ireos all whotte and drie some euen in the third degree being taken they mollifie and driue away all hardnes or being applied outwarde doe dissolue and consume the harde spleene So may I fay of Amoniacum bdellium opoponax galbanum which although they be all whotte and drie euen Barbers know that they haue a great force to mollifie and digest Seeing then mollifying and rarefying things are conuenient to cure the quartane as all men confesse being taken in season thinke it not so absurde or ridiculous my Iacobus if ani● doe also vse the ashes of the eyes or sometimes of the heads of Crabbes or for lacke of them Creuisses For the ashes of those shell fishes speciallie of the eyes haue great force to extenuate and dissolue that fex of the melancholie humor which those whom you call Paracelsians doe name tartar congealed But if you doe so much abhorre these calcinations which we often vse and doe aske why we doe it learne this Auberius out of Galen in the eleuenth booke de simpl medic faculs whereas speaking of salt he vseth these words Salt burned digesteth more stronglie then vnburned by how much the bodie is made more subtile rcceiuing his qualities of the fire Also he writeth in the same book those medicines which consist of thinne partes haue more force then they of grosse partes although they had like qualitie because they pearce better for which cause onely wee vse calcined Crabbes to loose those feces and tartarous humors For by calcination the salt of things is drawen out and salt must be dissolued with salt onely if you doe well vnderstand it and so you shall learne that diseases are not to be cured with cōtraries but like with like although as yet you perceiue not the reason Otherwise how could you say that the stones of spunges burnt glasse Goates bloud dried the ashes of Cocles Lapis Iudaicus calcined or the bone of a cuttle with so great force coulde helpe the stone or grauell of the reines I know you will flie to the Asses sacred anchore namelie of secrete qualities which notwithstanding reason it selfe teacheth to be done with the salt which doeth dissolue them and expel them by vrine what will you then say of the hedge sparrow that laudable medicine of auncient Physicians for the same disease whereof Paul Aeginet lib. 3. cap. 45. where he leaueth it thus written This saith hee pouthered whole with salt and often eaten rawe driueth out the stones that are alreadie growen by vrine and letteth thē not to growe againe afterward but if it be burned whole with his feathers all his ashes by it selfe or with a little pepper dronk with old wine hony it worketh the same effect Thus you see how the ancient Physiciās did vse the ashes which you call absurd and in what diseases euen in curing the stone of the reines whose matter is also such a grosse humor that with heat it groweth to a stone How much more Crabbes calcined preuaile against that disease is noted of Hollerius Mathiolus and a thousand times hath beene proued by certain experience Neither will I passe ouer among other medicines which are vsed for this disease Christall which is the chiefe Christall I say calcined in a reuerberatorie out of which after is drawen his salt of whose dissolution in a moist place is made a most excellent oile very profitable to put away all obstructions of the bowels Wherefore you may not thinke it so ridiculous that a medicine should be taken out of the calcined eyes of Crabbes neither so to spue out your bitter poison against it This will I also adde out of Galene and the opinion of all the auncientest that the Crabs them selues calcined euen by the propertie of their whole substance are marueilous effectuall against the biting of mad dogges And Galens wordes which he reporteth of his master Pelope doe shewe that madnes to be a most drie infection It is not without cause saith hee that the Crabbe being a waterie creature should helpe them that are bitten of a mad dog in whom it is to be feared least they should fall into a most drie disease that is madnesse Nowe there remaineth that I should speak of the sharpnes which you finde in the calcination of Crabbes which as you say doeth increase the quartane But I feare least by those wordes the learned may thinke you vtterly ignorant what a sharpe tast is For it is easie for vs to shewe that the ashes of Crabs

by sweates and finallie are not a little profitable by their whole substance as many learned men daily with great successe doe practice but of these thinges more then enough Therefore now we will goe forward to those thinges which you write touching mettalles A briefe answeare of Iosephus Quercitanus Armeniacus doctor of Phisicke to the exposition of Iacobus Aubertus Vyndon concerning the originall and causes of mettalles against the Chimistes MANY write that mettell is a bodie to be digged vp by nature either liquid as quick-siluer or hard which may be molté with the heate of the fier as gold siluer copper leade and tinne or softened as Iron Other call all things that are digged out of the bowels of the earth by the proper name of mettalles So Onesicritus writeth that in Carmania there is a mettall of a red chalke Herodotus affirmeth that in Lybia about Atlantus is a mettall of salt and this doth Plinie testify in his 33. booke of his naturall historie Others say that is proper mettall which being molten is brought againe to his former forme and that may be beaten out with hammer is hard and apt to take impression for that cause they deuide it into six that is golde siluer copper tinne leade and Iron whereunto some haue added mercurie not that it is a mettall indeede but it may be The Chimistes vse to call them by the names of the planets not to referre their substance to the planets as Aubertus foolishly thinketh but partly moued with a certaine likenes of the greatest and principall starres for which cause they named the two most perfect mettalles the Sunne and Moone and Iron for his hardnes Mars whom the Poets faine to be the God of armes and battell and quicksiluer for the great and vncertaine motion they called Mercurie and partly after the Pythagoreans that they might hide their secrets vnder darke speeches But I see no reason why Antimony should be properly receiued among mettalles wherefore by Agricola his leaue whose aucthoritie Aubertus leaneth vnto it is to be excepted out of their kinde for that it is alltogether repugnāt to their definition for all mettalles molten doe returne to their proper forme and such as are easie to be driuen be hard and apt to receiue impression by which reason they differ from many liquable stones in which the humiditie is not strongly mixed with the dry earthines as also from infinite kindes of marcasites and halfe metalles But Antymony molten doth vtterly loose his first forme as practisioners doe daily trie neither is it easye to be driuen and practise sheweth it will take no print and therefore properly it cannot be called mettall But it pleased Aubertus which is so learned in mettalles to affirme this that yet he dreameth that tynne glasse which is that Bisemutum and that sinder or ashie kinde of leade whereof Agricola speaketh much in the 8. booke de natura fossil to be Stibium molten and the Chimists basiliske which is most absurd For that tinne-glasse which is commonly called bisemutum is not stibium any way prepared neither the Chimistes basiliske extract with tartar niter may be called bisemutum which I leaue to the iudgement of al that be of vpright mindes but this is small to the purpose when many thinges are called by the name of mettall and yet not properly But let vs pardon Aubertus in this which neuer saw any mines that he might iudge rightly of thē neither vnderstandeth the minde of Agricola In the meane time hee complaineth that Chimistes deuide the metalles into perfect and vnperfect and that he thinketh ridiculous for many causes First because of a certaine diffinition giuen by Geber which agreeth no lesse to one mettall then an other whereas the perfecte might be discried from the imperfect one diffinition were to be giuen to the one an other to the other As though the diffinition of a man were not agreeable to a child although he be not yet come to a mans age or in other accidentes seeme to differ from him as mettals do differ among themselues So the diffinitions of white and red coralles should be sundrie and diuers that by reason of absolute and perfect concoctiō the white haue not attained the vttermost degree whose definition notwithstanding is all one But Aubertus to proue his opinion the better writeth that all thinges which haue essentiall forme as it is certaine mettalles haue must of necessitie be perfect And that nature the godly parent of all thinges in doing of her office doth not cease or rest except it be letted vntill she hath attained her purposed end and scope He addeth that the matter whereof any naturall thing is made and whereabout nature is occupied doth moue so long vntill it hath attained the essentiall forme He concludeth that mettall cannot rightly be deuided into perfect and vnperfect neither that gold ought by any meanes to be called more excellent and perfect although it be more bewtifull and temperat then other mettalles all which wee must confute as sriuolous and vaine And to prosecute all thinges in due order we must shew that golde it selfe of the true Philosophers is worthily called more perfect excellent and pure then other mettals that hereuppon wee may conclude mettalles not without reason to be deuided of the Chimistes into perfect and vnperfect Therefore that I may also stay vpon the aucthoritie of Agricola out of whom Aubertus hath specially taken those his wordes he writeth in lib. 5. de ortu causis subterraneorum that mettalles do differ among themselues not onely in shining but also in colour sauour sent weight and power And specially speaking of shining which you Aubertus confesse to be in golde and siluer he saith But by how much the humor is more subtile thicke and pure by so much the mettall is more cleere and shining for which cause in this behalfe gold excelleth the other The excellencie of which gold Agricola himselfe seeketh in the difference of sent sauour and waight For the vnperfect mettalles when they come in any liquor are perceiued to be sower of taste as copper and Iron for the adust earth is cause of their sowernes whereof those mettalles do participat as Agricola himselfe witnesseth But the other because of their pure earth and more abundant water do not giue the liquors so sensible a sauor bur rather a sweetish tast as gold and siluer Also for as much as in gold the earth is most pure and verie wel tempered with his water it giueth verie litle or scarse sensible smoke when it is burned and rather sweete then stinking And Agricola addeth more that gold when it is purged in the fier hath in a maner no excremente because of his puritie in others there is more but so much more in one then an other as it is more vnpure Also the excellency of golde is to bee sought for in his force and strength because that besides it and siluer all other mettalles do vanish away in smoke

dossis obserued The cause of the purging quallitie of all these simples is this that a certaine thinne portion of it stirred vp by naturall heate creepeth in by the open conditts or passages into the lesser vaines and from thence floweth into the greater from the which by the liuer it is turned into the intestinalls and into the reynes it selfe and then followeth euacuation of humores by the belly which sometimes are discerned by the vrine in which as well the coloure as the sauor of the medicine receaued is manifestly seene which any man may trie in Rhabarbe senuae Seing therfore the vapor of these medicines which we call the essence being stirred vp by naturall heate from the earthy partes doth attenuate the resting humor and moueth the nature of the parte with a contrarie quallitie and prouoketh it to cast out their earthly substance or feces remaining in the stomake and the inward partes who then is so doltish that wil not commend the spagiricall preparation of these medicines wherewith wee doe drawe forth the essence which is the true purger and take away the maligne quallitie Or at the least we suppresse it with his owne menstrua which agreeth with his properties and haue an vnitie with them We seperate the feces or yearth as deadly and hurtfull which doth much offend for his thicknes cleauing vnto the tunicle of the stomake which Galen affirmeth out of Hipocrates in these wordes For saith he the purging medicine how smal soeuer it be it must needes goe to the bottom of the stomacke and in going do wne the stomake and what soeuer is found about it is infected not onely by the quallitie of the medicine but also by the cleauing of the substance in the swallowing it is greatly hurte and againe those that are of more thinner essences more readily executed their proper accions then the grosse as Galen witnesseth in many places Also where as he saith in the first booke of simples that those things which haue but a smal bodyly substance doe worke more then they that haue great Our extractions of essēces is to be commēded in which al these things are performed the proper purgatiue quallitie of the humor notwithstanding reserued in the medicine as also it is made so much the stronger in that his vnprofitable earth and fex is seperated from it and by his proper menstrua ioined vnto it all the maligne quallitie is taken awaye which Galen writeth is to bee done where he saith those seedes are to be mingled with medicines which mittygate their mallignitie and hinder not their worke which haue force to extenuate to cut that they may cutt asunder grosse humors and open the wayes by which they must be auoyded All which thinges all learned men may iudge to be done in our preparations But some will saye the extraction of essences is not so necessarie when as Actuarius commaundeth vnto whose opynion Paulus agreeth that to such as are of a weake stomacke 15. or 20. graines of Lathiris are to be swallowed whole he saith that though they be not brused minimeque in Corpus permeent yet they purge verie much Which place is not against our saying but doth rather affirme it because alitle after he willeth that those who must bee more effectually purged must eate them by which it is manifest enough that there is a greater vertue by bringing the medicine into a fine substance then in the whole mase and in the essence it selfe a greater force then in the residence of it which may be perceaued in Rhabarbe it selfe the infusion thereof doth purge more mightely then the whole substance doth for which cause I doubt not but that the same graines of Lathyris are prescribed rather whole then brused by any meanes to a weake stomake because the force and strength of the Lathiris as Galen saith is much like in force to Esullae and these medicines are so sharpe and vehement that they purge both vpward and doneward with great vexation and by that meanes the more violent they be the more they hurt the stomak but the slender body as Galen writeth is easier altered and chaunged of that whereunto it is applyed but that which is grosser is not chaunged but in a great time and scarce at length feeleth any sensible alteration for we trye by experience that we are so much the soner heated with pepper as by how much the smaller it is beaten and euen so must we iudge of the purging medicines therefore in steade of those Infutions and decoctions after the cōmon sorte we vse their essences and that healthfully without hurting of the stomak or any of the other partes But those vehement medicines otherwise to be feared haue beene so rightly prepared of the true spagiricks that their malitious quallities and sharpnes haue bin altogether bridled with their proper corrections and so haue serued in steade of gentler medicines for the cure of diuerse diseases So our Essence of Elcborus Niger being well prepared is ministred at this day in many places and is safly giuen to children to losen the belly without any labor In the meane season there bee a great number which ignorantly condemne these essences and speake against the vse of them and spew out the poyson of their gaule against them at whose rayling I cease to meruaile because the Poet saith that to those men that think nothing right but what them selues doe nothing can be founde more vniust or wicked then that they doe not But there bee other which being ouercome with reason will at last commend these our extractions of essences out of all thinges but yet they feare this one thing that is their fierie nature in them by a certeine quallitie receaued of the outwarde fire and therefore they refuse the vse of them chiefly in agues and for curing of hott effectes by which they shew themselues to be vnskillful in the Spagirick Arte and to giue rashly iudgment of thinges vnknowen For almost all Essences are drawen forth with the temperate heate of balneo or horsdonge with proper meanes belonging thereto which we call Menstrues because the skillfull spagirickes by it with their art and labor do drawe forth al the strength and vertue of any thing seperating that which is pure from the earth and stinking feces reseruing onely the quickning escence whose power rising vp as it were breaking his bondes doth drawe it selfe higher and sheweth much greater force then it did before and more effectuall for helping of the bodie And if they will saye that all the menstrues be hot they are verie much deceaued for the iuce of Lemonds prepared after our order is the mēstrue for pearles because it dissolueth them and chaungeth thē into a thinner essence and yet the iuce is not hot nor the essence of the pearles hot which remayneth When the menstrua is separated awaye And as Galen writeth wee must not call whatsoeuer is subtill hot also for water it selfe

it will suffer no venome to remaine within the body Being taken in the aforesaid order it helpeth those that haue surfeted by any meanes Being anointed on the stomacke morning euening it causeth an apetite and consumeth cold humors also if you drinke thereof euery morning ʒ i. fasting it will purge the head and stomacke of all superfluous moisture and sharpeneth the sight if ye drop now and then one drop into the eie Being drunke as is aforesaid it helpeth those that are troubled with the Rume Catarre cough and stitch in the side caused of winde Being put into the eare it comforteth the sight and hearing meruellously and all impediments in the head and consumeth all euill humors by his proper qualitie and nature so that if ye vse it ye shall wonder at the operation It helpeth all manner of woundes in what place of the bodie soeuer they bee if yee wash them therewith and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same twise a day If yee wash the Sciatica therewith and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same it taketh away the paine in very short time It prouoketh vrine and expelleth grauell in the raines being drunk with parslie water or some conuenient licour it is good against the Feuer Quartane if ye drinke thereof 10 or 12. daies together euerie morning ʒ 1. or ʒ 2. after that the stomacke hath bene euacuated It resolueth all aches and swellinges comming of cold if ye bathe the place therwith It helpeth the tooth ach if ye hold it in your mouth so long as ye may suffer it It helpeth those that are troubled with the Cramp or that haue their mouthes drawen awrie by that meanes if they drinke a smal quantity and hold the same in their mouth annoint the partes therewith morning and euening Aromatico L F. THis Armatico is good against most contagious diseases as the falling sicknes Melancolie the Gout Elephantiasy Resolutions and such like kinde of diseases as the quartane the tertain and quotidian It is most profitable for those that are strooke with the pestilence or that haue dronke poison for those that are continually pained in the head also it is very profitable against the dropsie and water betweene the skinne and the flesh and those that cannot fetch their breath and against obstruction of Menstrua maligne vlcers the Pox and such like diseases it is either to bee eaten or drunke in wine or a litle warme broth itpurgeth both the stomacke and bodie of all noysome humors Fodicationum Emplastri THe vertues of this plaster are innumerable as well against old vlcers as new and also woundes It drieth mundifyeth and increaseth good flesh and healeth more in a weeke then any other doth in a moneth It will not suffer the flesh to corrupt nor putrify nor euill flesh to grow Against sinewes being thrust through or bruised it is an excellent remedy It draweth forth Iron Lead Wood such like being layd vpon the woūd It cureth the biting or stinging of venemous beastes It bringeth an impostume to maturation being onely laid thereon It is excellent against the Canker ignem persicum and to mitigate all paines And it may be kept 30. yeares in force These are to bee solde by Iohn Hester dwelling at Pooles wharfe at the signe of the Stillitorie 1591. The Table of the first part of this Booke those marked with R. signifieth remedies AIry things that can not bee congeled fol 12. Alba spina philos 14 Anima lapid philosophorum 13 All mettals swimme aboue Quicksiluer except Gold fol 9 Arte imitature of nature 16 17 19. Augmentatione 14 Asshes of Cockell shels fol 4 Affects of the pestilence R 6 5 Ad tophos 6 Asshes of Crabbes thought rather bitter then to be sharpe 5 Acorus the roote 5 The naturall agent or doer 8 18. Agricola Aubertus did without cause reprehend Aristotle 10 Aubertus is cōtrary to himselfe 13 Aubertus perceiued not Agricola his meaning fol 8 Aubertus in boiling of egs boyled peeces of golde 16 A similitude drawne from the increasing or growing of the childe before it hath perfect shape 9 Aloes why it is washed 2. B Bitter things their vertues 5 Briony roote 4 Byting of a mad dog R 5 Barke of Capares 4 Barke of the Ashe 4 By the motion operation of the celestiall bodies formes and essences are brought vpon earthly and inferiour bodies 14 C Cōmendation of the chimicall Arte. 19 Cibacio Coagulacio fol 14 Calcinatione 4. Coniunctione 13. Collicke 2 Conulciones R 4 Corall 7 The Chimist subiect is not sought in animall things 19 Cadmia 11 Calcinatione was vsed of the Ancients 4 Crabs eyes calcined 5 Cordialles what they profite 2 6 8 Calchanthi et Colcotharis generatio arteficialis 19 Cōmon sulphur is not the matter of the Philosophers stone 16 Cuttell bone 4 Chimicall Arte may sometime be termed naturall and sometime arteficiall 16. Chimicall Arte is possible may be attained vnto is very naturall 19 Chimicall Arte teacheth the true preparations of medicines fol 6 19 Chimiste why they haue such euil report spread of them ●1 Crabs calex do not increase the quartayne 5 D Digesting I fol 4 E Elixer 17 Expelling of the stone and grauell fol 4 5 Egges is no matter requisite amonge the Chimists 16 Egges the chiefe ende whereto they serue 9 F Fermentatione fol 18 Fermentum fol 17 Forma essentials 10 Feminine qualities 11 G Grose vapours vnder the earth fol 11 The great worke 11. Gold 2 7 22 fire can not consume it 2. 8. 9 Golde containeth Siluer 15. Golde to be in copper Mines 15 H Heate is the next efficient cause of mettals 14 Heate his force vertue 10 13 How many kindes of congeled or cōcrete bodies there are 13 How mettals are made of the elements 13 I Irō turned to steele 14 Incoagubilia 18 L Leade 7 Lac philosoph 18 Laudanū a most laudable medicine what simples go to the making therof why his description is heere omitted 23 Lapis philosophic 16. Like is holpe with the like 4. M Meane minerals 7 Markasites idem Many and those verie erronious opinions concerning the matter of the Philosophers stone 16 17 Masculine qualities 11 Molifying the cough 2 N Naturalis formae duplicis 19 Naturall agent or doer 8 19 O Opium not corrected is very perilous 2 Opium killed the Father of Licinius 2 Out of what thinges the Paraselsians medicines are taken 6 P Paraselsus praise worthy 1 Proiectione 18 Puluis philosop 18 Putrifaction 17 Philosophers stone is not to be sought in vegetals 16 Perfectio rei 9 16 Paraselsians imitate most anciēt phisick 2 Q Quicksiluer is not vnknown to the Chimists 13 the Common Mercury is not the matter of the philosophers stone 16 Quicksiluer is not mettall indeede but may be brought vnto mettall 7 42 that it may wexe hard run together 12 that it is of an airie nature that it is the next and nerest matter vnto mettals 12