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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54293	Mineralogia, or, An account of the preparation, manifold vertues and uses of a mineral salt, both in physick and chyrurgery which is so safe, pleasant and effectual in its operation, that it may be taken by those of all ages and constitutions with great benefit ... to which is added a short discourse of the nature and uses of the sulphurs of minerals and metals ... / by Chr. Packe ...	Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1693 (1693)	Wing P145; ESTC R32971	31,842	68

Mineralogia OR An Account of the Preparation manifold Vertues and Uses of a Mineral Salt both in Physick and Chyrurgery which is so safe pleasant and effectual in its Operation that it may be taken by those of all Ages and Constitutions with great Benefit and without Danger of the least Prejudice To which is added A short Discourse of the Nature and Uses of the Sulphurs of Minerals and Metals in curing the most Chronical and pertinacious Diseases By Chr. Packe Philo-Chymico-Medicus LONDON Printed and are to be sold by D. Newman at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry 1693. An Account of the Vertues and Vse of Sal Solutivum Prepared only by Chr. Packe at his Laboratory next Door to the Gun in Little-Moor-Fields near Moorgate AFTER many years Experience of the vertues and worth of this Medicine in helping and curing many Diseases to which the Body of man is subject which of late I have also much improved and exalted in its Vertues I have determined at length for a publick Benefit and to excuse my self from writing many Letters to publish the following Account of it I. It is a Salt prepared of Mineral Subjects by apt Mediums purify'd and reconciled to the Archeus or Aura vitalis of the Humane Body which is the adequate object of Medicine and thereby becomes a Salutiferous remedy enobled with Vertues sufficient for the curing of many Diseases This Definition ariseth from its Subject Object and End II. It is neither an Acid nor an Alcaly but a Salt of a middle Nature being able to pass the several Digestions unchanged and in its passage to resolve and absterge all Preternatural Coagulations for which Reason I call it Sal Solutivum III. It is endowed with those Four general Properties viz. Cathartick Diuretick Deobstruent and allaying of all Preternatural heat and Acrimony Besides which as I have now exalted and improved it with the noble Sulphur of Venus it is a general easer of Pain and Extinguisher of Venereal Venoms that are not grown to a confirm'd Pox as is manifest by what it effects now in alleviating the Pains of the Gout Rhumatism Tooth-ach Collick Griping of the Guts Virulent Ghonnorhaea's c. beyond what it could have done heretofore Having thus briefly premised its Nature and Qualifications in general for the satisfaction of such Physicians as may desire to make use of it I shall now Address my self more particularly to shew its Virtues and manner of using 1. Sal Solutivum purgeth the gross Excrements and most viscous Humours of the first passages without Nauseating the Stomach or the least griping Pains 2. It is singular in opening Obstructions of the Vessels and Vis●era 3. It purifies and invigorates the whole Mass of Blood and restores it to i●… natural State for being an amicable Salt it hath admittance into the Blood and reacheth as Helmont saith of fixed Alcalyes made Volatile usque ad limen quartae Digestionis But this is deny'd to all ordinary purging Medicines which if through any inadvertency of the Archeus they chance to slip into the lacteal Veins and so into the Blood they cause griping Convulsive pains Stiches Flux of Blood Faintings c. till Nature hath again discharged her self of them and so instead of purging the Blood too often both corrupt and exhaust it And these two Properties are well worth the observing being not to be met with even in the mildest of the common Catharticks For this cause it is of great use in Fevers neither disturbing the Juices nor accending the Blood I have seen many Fevers proceeding from Surfeits both in eating and drinking quickly cured by it and even Hectick Fevers themselves in a longer time but such as I judged to proceed from a Scorbutick or venereal Cause As for those which are wont to accompany a Pthisis I have had no Experience of it in them yet I doubt not but even in those it would allay the Preternatural heat But that this Medicine may be given to the best advantage it is necessary in the Administring it to have regard to two special Intentions which Physicians are wont to observe in the curing Diseases viz. 1. The purging the first passages the Stomach and Intestines of gross Excrements and Filths 2. To open and dissolve all Stagnant and obstructing matter in the Viscera as the Pancreas Mesentery Liver Spleen Reins and Womb and to correct and purifie the Blood when it decllnes from its natural Crasis The ordinary Dose of this Salt to purge according to the first Intention which only is purging according to common Acceptation is from half an Ounce to six Drams dissolved in a Pint or a Pint and a half of warm Posset-drink new Whey or pure Water and drank in the Morning fasting Those that cannot take such a quantity of Liquor may dissolve their Dose in half a Pint which will presently dissolve it if it be warmed and drink another half Pint presently after it and a third half an hour after that and fast till Dinner-time except the Patient have a mind to take a Porrenger of Water Gruel or thin Broth neither will a draught of Ale or a Dish of Tea at all hinder but promote the working of it Those who like neither Posset-drink Whey or Water or want the Conveniency of getting them may take it in Ale and it will do well enough although in some few Persons I have known it cause a Drowsiness when taken in spirituous Liquors the Reason of which is its partaking of the Anodyne Narcotick Sulphurs of Mars and Venus which readily associate themselves with the vegetable Sulphurous Spirit by which they are quickly carried to the Brain yet the use which may be made of this in some Cases is not inconsiderable as is well known to Physicians This Medicine doth not only gently dissolve and expurge the Excrements of the Stomach and Guts but it also corrects the violence of all Preternatural Purges if you put but two Drams of it in their infusion or drink the same quantity in a draught of warm Posset-drink after Pills which gripe and operate Churlishly It hath also a power of stopping the working of Vomits some of which greatly incommode the Stomach by Vellicating its Membranes and impressing them with a Nauceating Character to prevent which let two or three Drams of the Sal Solutivum be dissolved in half a Pint of cold water and drank about half an hour before the Vomit is taken Or in case a Vomit be taken which worketh too violently or too long that is when the Stomach is wholly emptied and yet the Patient continueth to reach let a Dram and a half or two Drams of the Salt be dissolved in a large Glass of warm Posset-drink or rather warm Water because Posset-drink may at that time be disgustful and be drank off Do the same when a Vomit hath done working and yet the Patient finds a swimming or Giddiness in the Head or a Nauseousness or disposition to Vomit for the Salt