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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91769	A discourse in the praise of antimonie and the vertues thereof. Written and published at the request of a person of quality. By Constantine Rhodocanacis.	Rhodokanakēs, Kōnstantinos, 1635-1689.	1664 (1664)	Wing R1335; ESTC R229938	6,707	11

but a Wiseman must extract the secret and supply himself with the knowledge of the Vertues thereof out of its Ashes for there they lie hid For this Mineral doth so strengthen and stirr up nature that she can free and discharge her self from Bilious humors which breed obstructions in the Gutts and stomach and from thence disperse themselves into other parts of the Body This Mineral stirreth up four several faculties in our Bodies whereby the Excrements are expelled and all peccant humors cast out for it purgeth by vomit by stoole it causeth us to sweat it strengthneth the principal parts and is a preservative against poysons These admirable vertues were the cause why Hippocrates concealed this Mineral under the name of his Tetragon and verily nature hath not produced any other Compound wherein there is such vertue and power to remove and resolve obstructions in the Gutts seeing nature hath not imparted this faculty to any other Body but hath conferr'd it upon Antimony alone Hence Basil Valentine confesseth this Mineral to be most conducing and agreeable to the principal parts of the Body as the very Balsam and Mumy of life and he affirmeth that there is not under heaven a more excellent medicine than what may be prepared out of Antimony for it expelleth poysons opens all obstructions driveth out the superfluities of the Blood by sweat and purgeth by stool and vomit most justly therefore did Hippocrates call Antimony his Tetragon because of its fourfold faculties and vertues for it vomits it purgeth it sweateth and it preserves and strengthens withal Galen calleth those shining filaments or streakes which appear in Antimony Plakas which discover and manifest unto us that Antimony is naturally full of Regulus in which Regulus there are excellent Vertues For by his Plakas Galen understood the purer and brighter parts of the Antimony in which parts those four medicinal faculties lodge which make up the Tetragon Amongst all Symptoms of Diseases the most vehement is an extream pain of the head which procedes from abundance of Bilious slimy humors heaped up and impacted in the Gutts where they cause Inflammations and such strong Obstructions that sometimes the natural passage downwards is stopped that the very Excrements are purged out at the mouth and in this cause Hippocrates requires that the patient should vomit every sixth day should drink wine and be purged with his Tetragon in which Text Galen hath rightly observed that by his Tetragon Hippocrates understood Antimony For this Mineral being well prepared roots out the Causes of this Symptom namely the Bilious humours impacted in the Gutts It is plain then that Hippocrates by his Tetragon meant Antimony for this disease will not yield to any other Remedies for purge the Patient with common Medicaments as Hellebore and the like and make him vomit never so often yet the pain in the Head shall still continue for those remedies cannot resolve and expell the Bilious excrements that cause it and therefore the Patient must be purged with the Tetragon for it is the property of this Mineral to resolve Obstructions and purge them out both upwards and downwards as also by sweating and to strengthen the natural parts which have been weakned by the peccant matter And seeing this Mineral is Diaphoretick withal it doth by a gentle transpiration disperse and expell those noxious vapours and fumes which ascend from the Stomack and the peccant matter up to the heart and the head and cause those troublesome symptoms and these excellent effects made a famous Philosopher call Antimony the Healing Mumie of life Others there were who called Antimony the Ramm and not without reason for as the Coelestial Sun begins to be exalted in the Sign of Aries even so the Terrestrial Sun namely Gold is exalted and purged in Antimony as we may understand by the Aenigmatical process of Basil Valentine formerly mention'd under the names of the Lyon and the Wolf And there are those who stick not to affirm that in Antimony is hid the secret of all secrets as being the Marcasite of Saturn But this moreover is worth our observation that there are two sorts of Antimony namely the Male and the Female The Male is more impure earthy and of less weight but the Female is purer more sparkling and bright much heavier than the other and hath more in her of a Mettalline nature whence we may conclude with Dioscorides that that Antimony is to be chosen for the best which hath in it certain shining filaments or streaks and which being broken the fragments will easily crumble between your fingers and which hath not much earth mingled therewith nor any extraneous foeculent superfluities Moreover there are made of Antimony several sorts of Medicines namely the Crocus or Mineral Saffron the Flowres the Glass of Antimony the Antimonial Cups the Butter the Mercurius vitae or vomiting powder the Regulus the Golden Sulphur the Salt and Oyl made thereof by Resolution in a cold place as also several kinds of Tinctures For our part we know how to make four different Tinctures of Antimony whereof the one excells the other in vertue according to the purity of the matter whereof they are prepared The same we say of our sweating powder and these our Medicines cause no vomits at all but work only by sweating and that kindly too and without any molestation or offence to the stomack And at Cambridge there are many persons who can attest this truth with me as also here at London We prepare also besides the Tinctures and the Diaphoretick another Medicament which is a ruddy powder and we call it the Theion of Hippocrates and our Panodon because it purgeth at all the Emunctories or passages of the Body by Vomit by Stool by Urine by Sweat and an insensible transpiration We prepare also the Salt of Antimony which hath the same effects with our Theion this only excepted that the Salt purgeth only downwards by Stool and Urine and in that respect is better than our ruddy powder for such Patients who cannot endure vomiting Medicines Of all and each of these we shall now discourse that such persons who desire to have them may know what they are good for and how they ought to be taken and in what quantity Of the use and Dose of our Antimonial Tincture This Tincture is a good and a safe Medicine and may be taken inwardly or applyed outwardly with much benefit for it cures the Leprosie the French Pox the Scurvy all Feavers the Falling-Sicknesse the Dropsie the Plague the Meazles the Itch and such other Diseases In Meagrims and pains of the head and the Hypocondriack melancholy it avails much It expells poisons cures those that are Asthmatical killeth Worms and helps in many other distempers which cannot be cured with Simples It cleanseth the Blood emptieth all vicious humours of the Stomack brings down the Courses and maketh Barren Women fruitful in the Gout also and the Stone it is a commendable Medicine The Dose thereof