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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

taken away And therefore waving those two as not safe they doe familiarly use the Crocus or Hepar Antimonij Saffron or liver of Antimony Pulvis emeticus the vomiting powder and Mercurius vitae Mercury of the life Which preparations the Colledge of Physitians at London hath inserted in their dispensatory and there is almost no shop in which both the substance and infusion of them is not to be sold From whence they that doe so much extoll this Cup may gather that they use a pernitious and dangerous remedy whereas the same much better prepared is every where obvious and to be sold yet at a very easie rate Of the force of the Cup. AS touching the force of the Cup it doth not gently ●●t mightily provoke vomit stool●● ●ow every vomit although it bee ●●●●ed by the most gentle Medicines 〈◊〉 is neverthelesse alwaies more ha●h ●o Nature thē any Purgatiō by the inferior parts because the stomacke was not made for expulsion but for reception for it is one of the noble parts and of exquisite sence and hath a very great sympathy with the Braine and the heart in so much as when it is affected the people thinke and complaine that their heart akes It is therefore not good to straine such a noble part with such a violent medicine But besides a Vomit doth offer much violence to the strength of the whole Body straines the Head braine muscles of the belly the breast and all the intrailes which are contained in the lower belly and sometimes in grosse bodies breakes the veynes and le ts out the blood Wherefore if we must not use other purging Medicines but with a great deale of care and premeditation much lesse Vomitories for of all evacuations a Vomit is the most grievous and dangerous And therefore many things are to be regarded in the provoking of vomit First the nature of the patient and his aptnesse or difficulty for vomiting for in them that vomit hardly there is a great deale of danger although they be sicke of a disease which might be cured by vomit Such are they that are fat those that are strait brested many slender persons who have weake stomacks such are subject to a Cough or difficulty of breathing which have tumours or Vlcers in their brests they that have weake heads and eyes and such as are troubled with the inflamation or paine in the Midriffe Secondly the time of the yeare is to be considered for it is not convenient at every time of the yeare Thirdly the nature of Diseases for in some diseases it doth more hurt then good and in those wherein it may doe good it must not yet be alwayes used and therefore the founder of the Cup is mistaken when hee saith that the Cup is good for all the Diseases which stand in need of Purging as we shall manifest afterwards Fourthly the constitution of Diseases for it cannot be administred at all times of diseases with out danger to the patient The Physitian must consider in all Evacuations the beginning increasing state of the Disease much more in a Vomit Fifthly great care is to be had of preparing the body and the humours and many things are to be regarded both before the vomit and in the very act of vomiting which are not to be handled in this place So as there is no evacuation which requires so much consideration as that which is done by vomit Now seeing these things can be knowne onely by a Physitian and that not every one but by a very learned and sklfull man I cannot but wonder at the adventurous rashnesse of some men yea and women who being unread in the rules of Physicke grossely ignorant both of Diseases and their causes their times and not knowing the method of Curing dare neverthelesse vexe and torment such a noble subject as Mans body with variety of Medicines Secondly perswade vnto vomit the most dangerous and difficult evacuation of all other Thirdly provoke it with a Minerall whi●● is most contrary to Nature Fourthly to doe it with Antimonie th●n which no Minerall is more churlish and lastly to use that preparation of it which is the very worst of all Not that I doe altogether dislike the use of Antimonie for I have often used it with good successe but better prepared But especially the founder of the Cup is to be blamed for selling such a cheap medicine at so deare a rate the right use whereof he doth neither teach the people nor I thinke he himselfe knowes And there tore I have known many who by taking the infusion of it haue beene grievously tormented and some that have dyed who despising the counsell of Physitians have preposterously used it For Physicke although it be in its owne nature very good is the hand of God but like a sword in the hand of a mad-man as we have said in another place out of Herophilus in our Popular Errours Of the Founder of the Cup and the Authours cited by him AS for the Founder of the Cup he professes himselfe a Minister and Preacher of Gods Word that is a man that will scorne to deceive any body and will not meddle beyond his knowledge and therefore without question hee hath brought us a very Soveraigne medicine which he made conscience to conceale any further though before he was borne the thing was in use in another name as appeares by those Authours whom he doth cite for the patronizing of his gaines thought they are men of small note and hardly worth to be cited First he hath a great commendation of the Antimonie it selfe extolling it aboue all medicines in the world So doe they that commend aurum potabile o all the Alchymists till this Minister have preferred the Gold before it It is saith he a minerall according to Paracelsus consisting of Mercury Sulphur and salt So is my glove according to the said Paracelsus It was first discovered saith he by Geber King of Arabia and yet Dioscorides Galen Hippocrates and ancienter Authors b●●ore Geber doe speake of it And he called it Magnesia as if Geber spake Latine but Quercetanus calls it so indeed Secondly amongst all the medicines that are prepared out of this minerall he disclaimes from all except the Rugulus in which he shewes his weaknesse for the Regulus is the weak●st easiest and coursest preparation of all others therefore he adds and what may be conveniently prepared 〈◊〉 of the same and that I like well for our of the Regulus may be drawn● the dowers the glasse of Antimonie the Cro●us metallor and many other preparations and herein I adhere to the authority of Bornettus and Mylius cited by him who doe not say that it is to be used in Physicke but that it is the chiefest examination of Gold and the true matter of all Flowers and medicinali tinctures contained within Antimony which is true for the flowers other Antimoniall extractions must be properly drawne out of the regulus the worst of them

the severall causes of them the Cup is good for them because it purges and by the same reason all purging Medicines may doe the like and are good for the same diseases for Nature hath provided variety of remedies some strong some weaker of all sorts that the Physitian may chuse what he thinkes most fit for his patient for one same remedy in the same disease is not fit for every one When we reade the bookes of Alchymists they commend other remedies as much as Antimonie for the same diseases But let us a little consider some particular Diseases named in his Pamphlet which J doe except against It cures perfectly the French Pox the Kings evill the Falling sicknesse as he saith in the 9 10 and 13. th Mark which is false nay J say more it is a very grosse mistake and rash boldnesse in him or any man to prescribe the infusion of this cup in the Plague small Poxe spotted Fever and Purples for all violent medicines that draw the venimous humours of these diseases within the body which Nature doth expell to 〈◊〉 circumference doe worke against the rules of Art It is also false that any vomit is good for the Pleurisie and so I say the like of a Consumption If the founder of this Cup had well knowne the nature of these diseases he would never have said so Indeed where nature hath need of purging or vomiting this cup may serve observing all that is to be considered in the use of those evacuations for we doe not deny that it will worke but this we say that it being the worst and vnsafest preparation of all others it is better to use some other then it and all those diseases that he brings experience for leaving out those that have been killed by it might have been performed by other vomits made our of the antimony or other simples working the same effect Of the manner of vsing the Cup. NOw the manner of using the cup shewes the weakenesse of the man he bids to put the Cup into a pot and cover it with liquour to be above the cup an inch or two then to boyle it gently for two houres so to keepe it warme for twelve houres then to take a cup full of it or more the quantity of his liquor is a pinte of Wine for two yet it workes better sayes he if two or three cup-fuls be taken and hee is bold to say that it works without any violence gives counsell if it should worke three or 4. dayes together not to stop it in the end to beware of counter feit Cups Here are as many Errours as words First it is needlesse to shape the Regulus into a cup seeing the Wine is not to be infused in the cup but the Cup in the wine in an earthen pot Is not a little lumpe of the same Regulus without any particular shape as good as a Cup of it And if one doe steepe it will it not thinke you infuse its vertue into the liquour as well as the Cup best of all if it were in powder But thus the Regulus had beene bought too cheape but we must have it a cup or a Ring forsooth to make the people beleeve it is not an ordinary thing Secondly being thus prepared by boyling makes the drink look so distastfully and makes it to lose its vertue so as if a Child hath need of halfe a pint a strong man of two or three as he sayes Let the R●ader goe to an Apothecaries Shop in any part of the Kingdome there he m●y ●i●d a little Stibium which is Antimony in glasse of this let him take sixe graines weight let them steep closely in two or three spoonfuls of white wine and it will be every whit as pure as it was without any taste it will worke as well and more safely but if you feare the Stibium not without cause take as much of the Regulus out of which he makes his cup use it as I have said and it will worke in as little quantity Yea steepe the Cup in a quart of Wine close without any fire for a fourthnight give but two or three ounces of that Wine and it will work with a better effect Thirdly that it works without any violence it is not so for I know many that have taken it who have been grievously tormented with it and this is common to all vomits yea even when they are provoked by the strength of nature Fourthly it is a pernitious counsell to suffer a superpurgation and Physicke to worke so long if it happen well in some strong bodies it is not to be thought that it will doe so in every one The last to beware of counterfeit Cups is to keepe the people continually bound to him for saith he if it be broken bring it to him in weight and for Ten shillings he will give you a new one This is the best tricks of all his booke a pound of antimony unprepared is hardly worth above sixe-pence in the Druggisters Shop for twelve pence or eighteene-pence more of that pound one may have halfe a pound and more of this Regulus what the casting of it into a Cup is worth let any body judge in very deed three cups of 4 or 5. ounces a piece doe not stand the maker to above ten Shillings Besides when the cup is broken the vertues are not broken the pieces being steeped doe retaine the same vertue and will worke the same effect as when the Cup was whole The mettall then being so good cheape and the preparation of it so easie there is no great feare of counterfeit ones for a counterfeit one is like to cost more then a right one To conclude I say though this Cup should be so admirable yet it is beyond the capacity of any that is not a Physitian to adapte the right use of it to every person for all Diseases times and places as wee have said already nor doe I thinke the Founder himselfe hath the full knowledge of these things FINIS Jmprimatur T. WYKES April 24. 1640.