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A49991	A discourse upon Sr Walter Rawleigh's great cordial by N. le Febure ... ; rendred into English by Peter Belon ...; Discours sur le grand cordial de Sr Walter Rawleigh. English	Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. Confectio Raleghana.; Belon, P. (Peter)	1664 (1664)	Wing L928; ESTC R8971	35,851	126

since that this change of a corrupted matter into a substance of a sweet favour and of great efficacy inwardly and outwardly teacheth Art to follow Nature's tracks for the bettering and correcting of things But we shall speak more fully of this when we shall reason of the beauty of the perfection of our Sovereign Remedy We shall here content our selves to relate in general the virtues of Musk which have oblig'd our Author to give it place in his Composition It heats gently it dries attenuates and dissipates what there is of gross and malignant in the body it is Cordial Alexitery and Cephalick it is specifick against all the Affections of the Heart and specially against the Palpitations it maintains recreates and restores the animal and vital Spirits it excites to Love and re-furnisheth the natural Heat it recreates the Senses and strengthens Memory which shews that it is most worthy of our Great Cordial The counsel and approbation of Sir Kenelm Digby and Sir Alexander Fraiser his Majesty's chief Physician hath made us adde to the number of the Ingredients of this Remedy the Flesh the Heart and the Liver of Vipers though the first prescription doth not mention them But this Reptil is replenished with so many rare virtues and possesses a volatil Salt so much an enemy to Poisons which attach the Heart and the Brains that it is with most just reason that it has been added The Viper is a kind of Serpent the most venomous of all which heats and irritates it self easily so that in a moment or the twinkling of an eye it drives from the Vesicle or Bladder of its gall to the gums a Poison so spirituous and so subtil by an almost imperceptible Chanel when it is angry which insinuates and communicates it self so suddenly to our Spirits and to the natural Heat that it as suddenly stupifies the part that has been bit which communicates it self immediately to the Heart and from thence to the Brain by the means of the Circulation But if this venom is astonishing and surprising the remedy which is had from the same Animal is as it were divine and miraculous which doth not onely combat its proper Poison but beats off and enervates the strength and efficacy of all the other venoms that both the Families of Vegetables and Minerals do furnish provided it be well prepared and administred in time and place We must give notice by the bye that Vipers glide and thrust themselves between stones and in holes of the Earth yearly in the end of Autumn whenas their pasture fails them there to abide till the beginning of the Spring and that then they are stupid and languishing by reason of the thickness and hardness of their skin but as soon as they have relished and digested the blades of Herbs and the Sun and Air have furnished them with heat and aliment they slide and rub themselves against rugged places to strip off their old skin which is no sooner off but that this Animal is presently possest with the pride thereof for it crawls nimbler then before and signifies by its gaiety by the quickness of its motions and by the beautious colours of its new skin that it is really renew'd and that the remedy which it yields may also produce in us Renewing Principles and Faculties The general and principal virtues which the Viper possesses are to combat strongly the Venoms and above all that of the Plague and of all the malignant and venomous diseases it is good against Leprosie and the Venereal disease against Consumptions and the Hectick Fever and finally against the Scurvy by reason that the volatil Salt of this Animal drives out powerfully the malignant Serosities which infect the mass of the Bloud and which are the cause and maintenance of this popular disease which makes such strange wastes in all the maritime Countries and especially in England so that it is lawfully placed in this Cordial We are now come to the Pearls which constitute another part of this Great Cordial and that augment really its rare qualities We shall mention in this place nothing but their origine their choice and their virtue to speak of them more exactly when we shall reason upon the Preparation Pearls are nothing else but the concretion into a Stone of the purest substance of the muscilaginous slime that the Oyster or Fish that inhabits two shells which he hath appropriated and formed for his abode and for his conservation ingenders Now this Animal draws to himself for his maintenance the purest part of the Sea-water which contains the embryonated Salt which is the balsam of Nature and as it were the principle of all generations which is found impregnated and replenish'd with the light of the Sun and of the Stars which is communicated to it by means of the Air. It seems also as if this poor Fish had drain'd himself of the purest portion of his life and natural balsam when he has ingendred several Pearls since that this precious Jewel is found but in the rugged and unequal Shells whose inward Fish is languishing and flabby by reason that he is deprived of that sweet sulphureous milk and of that volatil insipid and inodorous Salt which make together the coagulation of that beautiful object of Luxury and Curiosity but which is much more considerable for its fine Physical Properties which it incloses in it self Since that both the ancients and moderns acknowledge Pearls for one of the noblest Cordials which is capable of freeing the natural Balsam from oppression to re-establish the dissipated and abated strength to rejoyce the Spirits augment Courage resist Poisons the Plague and the corruption of the Humors and finally to wipe out and abolish the evil Characters both of the fix'd and running Gout by reason that they kill by the sweetness of their Milk and Sulphur the ill Impressions of the sharp Pontick and saline Serosities which prick and irritate the membranous and nervous parts that serve for sensibility and motion which they perform by the resolution of their bodies communicating then that virtue which sweetens and wipes out the acid sharpness that did cause those diseases which thing they also efficaciously produce in Rheumatisms and the Scurvy It is this defective and dead-seeming Power and Efficacy that Paracelsus speaks of in the sixth Book of his Archidoxes We have thought fit to put the Amber-griece next to the Pearls both because it comes from the Sea and that we can place it neither in the Classis of Animals nor in that of Vegetables no more then in that of Minerals because it seems as it were a roving Individual which cannot be lawfully comprised in either of these three Categories For Amber-griece is nothing else but the most precious of Bitumens that come from the bottom of the Sea where according to some it is liquid but hardens digests and concocts it self both by the coagulative facultie of the maritime Salt and by the action of the heat of the

which torments them very frequently In the fourth place the Excellency of this Remedy appears in that it is not onely proper and specifick to drive away the venom that causes the already-produced Diseases but also especially because it is sufficient to maintain that beautiful and admirable Harmony that causes Health since it is capable to correct and remedy all the faults of Indigestions and ill Fermentations which are made in the Stomach that are in us the Causes the Spring and the Beginning of the worst Diseases And we shall conclude this Discourse with the exposition of the Dose the time and method of using it with benefit For all the world knows that the Abuse and the Excess of the best things do commonly produce the most perillous and surprising Effects We have said heretofore that Sir Rawleigh's Great Cordial contain'd in it self the choice and Epitome of what is of greatest Excellencie amongst all the simple Cordials which the three Natural Families of Animals Vegetables and Minerals furnish us with of which we must make the deduction and the representation to the eyes of the Reader 's understanding to insinuate more and more into them that this admirable Genius could make a most worthy choice of the Matters which compose his Remedy which do possess every one in particular a great deal of Spirit and volatil sulphureous Salt in their Centre from whence do result all those rare Effects that it daily produces as much towards the healthful as towards the sick Now we shall begin the description of all these things by the Order of Nobleness and Excellency of those that have possess'd the Animal Life we shall continue by those that have had the Vegetable Life and we shall end by the last that have enjoyed but a more obscure and imperfect Life which is the Mineral Life The Hart's Horn enters into our Noble Cordial and that for many reasons for there are but few Animals that can equal the Hart for length of life since he lives whole Ages This Animal is most swift which betokens a fine Harmony and a good disposition of the inward and outward parts which furnish sufficient Vigour and by consequence Spirits to hold out to the length of the Course that serves for delight and divertisement to the greatest Monarchs But is there any thing that proves so well the abundance of Spirits and Salt which reside in this Beast as the shedding and re-production of its Horns which it lays down at the beginning of Winter by reason the Aliments of which it did live had no longer in them that Balsamie Spirit and Salt which serves for Oil to the Lamp of the Radical Moisture and that maintains the Natural Heat But as soon as the Spring furnishes the Hart with the first blade of the herbs and the buds of the trees he draws from the middle Life of those things a renewed being so efficacious and powerful that it re-produceth in him a most extraordinary heat and chearfulness which causeth him to lay down his useless arms to produce new ones which are all living and juicy and which at last digest and harden themselves to furnish us in its proper time a Horn replenish'd with a great abundance of volatil Salt The thing remarkable in the choice of this Horn for its excellency is that it must be taken from an Animal of a middle age and that has been chaced because the Course heats the Animal and makes it to drive all its vigour and spirits from the Centre to the Circumference which is remarked by the weight and closing of the parts The true time to take the Hart's Horn for Physical use is between the fifteenth of August and the twentieth of September The general virtues of the Hart's Horn are to resist the corruption and putrefaction of the Humours which constitute humane bodies and their malignancy to provoke Sweat to strengthen and augment the natural Balsam of life which gives us to understand that it is with a great deal of judgment that our Author hath given it place in his Great Cordial The second thing which comes from an Animal and makes one of the best parts of this Remedy is the Stone of the Oriental Bezoar an Animal that partakes of the Hart and the Goat The best is found in Persia and the East-Indies although that which comes from America is not to be slighted if the Dose be augmented It is a Stony Concretion which forms and engenders it self by the property of the volatil saline portion which is in the Plants of which these Animals live and which coagulates it self in their second Ventricle where it augments it self yearly bed upon bed and shell upon shell by the magnetick attraction that the first kernel makes of what is analogical to its substance in the half-digested aliment which is in the stomach of that Beast as is seen and proved by the straws and the remainder of chewed herbs which are found in the Centre of the true Oriental and Occidental Bezoar which without doubt hath been the first occasional cause of the Concretion of the Stone Now the Indians and Persians say that this Animal lives particularly of a Plant which hath of it self a great deal of virtue But as this Stone is a true natural Magistery which comes from the animal and vegetable substances which unite together by the digestion in the Animal's second Ventricle so must we believe that the Bezoar-stone contains more eminently the virtue from them produced The principal are to strengthen to provoke Sweat to combat Poisons the Plague and malignant Fevers it remedies the Faintness of the Heart and its Palpitation it kills the Worms 't is good against the Epilepsie against the Jaundise the Stone the Dysentery the retention of the Menstrua and finally it facilitates and accelerates Child-birth So that we conclude that it is one of the principal Pillars of our Incomparable Cordial Musk is the third thing that the Animal furnishes to our Cordial which digests and bakes it self in an abscess which forms it self and makes eruption about the navil of a Beast like unto a Goat which is found in many Kingdoms of the East-Indies and specially in those of Cathay and Pegu. It is to be observed that Nature doth not work about this precious Drug but when the Animal is in his heat and Rutting-time so that this eruption being made by an effect of natural Heat and by an Effervescency of the mass of Bloud and of the Spirits which are driven towards the Emunctories destinated to them their heat makes attraction and causes pain which causes this Animal to rub his belly against the Stones and against the bodies of Trees to open the Impostume and make the matter issue out which the Sun doth throughly concoct and digest that which in fine produces to us the Parent and Soul of all the most excellent and most agreeable Perfumes Which is a thing most worthy the speculation of a Naturalist and a Chymical Artist