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A39816	A vindication of chymistry, and chymical medicines Courteous and candid reader, chymistry, is an art that doth both teach and inable us (for our exceeding good and benefit) to seperate purity from impurity; ...	Fletcher, R. (Richard), fl. 1676-1677.	1676 (1676)	Wing F1359A; ESTC R215438	7,956	18

body already too much obstructed with such quantities which rather hinder then further her own operation and also to rob Nature of that praise due to her and the Author ofher when she hath overcome both the evil of the Disease and such Medicines Now having briefly and I hope to the satisfaction of every unbyased and candid Reader vindicated Chymistry and true Chymical Medicines I shall also with the like brevity give the Reader an account of some Excellent Useful Chymical Medicines prepared by me which may be of great benefit to all Honest Physicians Chyrurgions Apothecaries Midwives and others who design good and desire to be serviceable to their Generation A Catalogue of Chymical Medicines prepared by Richard Fletcher Living at the Sun in Gutter-lane near Cheap-side London Essence of Southernwood resists Poyson kills Worms provokes Urine strengthens the Stomack and Cures Surfets Essence of Wormwood doth the same Essence of Agrimony helps infirmities of the Liver Pissing of Blood and Inward Wounds Essence of M. Mallows easeth pains of the Store Essence of Marjoram Cures Diseases of the Brain Essence of Angelica resists Poyson cheers the Heart Essence of Dill and Fenel Breeds Milk stays Vomiting Essence of Magwort appropriated to Women as also is Essence of Arrach Germander and Peneroyal Essence of Betony Dissolves the Stone Essence of Briony Cures Dropsies and Falling-sickness so doth Dwarf Elder Essence of Centaury Cures the Yellow Jaundice the same doth Succory and Endive Essence of Comfry and Clery Strengthens Weak Backs Essence of Couslip-flowers Cures Palsies Essence of Arsmart is wonderful in the Stone Essence of of Hysop Cures Coughs and Soar-throats Essence of St. Johns Wort Cures all Cureable Wounds both Inward and Outward to Admiration Essence of Lavender Cures Falling-sickness and easeth all Pains in the Head Cures Deafness Essence of Laurel and Bay-Berries Cures Diseases of the Womb and Bladder Expels Wind Cures Plurisies Essence of Featherfew is a singular Womb Remedy Essence of Melilot a wonderful friendly Dissolver of the Stone and Cleanser of the Reins and Bladder Essence of Bame Mints and Rosemary are wonderful renovating Medicines Essence of Tobacco is excellent to Cure old Soars Essence of Rue and Savin Kills Worms Cures Pleurisies Expels Birth and After-birth Essence of Sage is an excellent Medicine for Women to help them to go out their full time Also Essence of Tansie is the same Essence of Colts-Foot Cures Coughs Shortness of Breath Essence of Scurvy-Grass Horse-Redish Water-Cresses and Broom Cures the Scurvy and Dropsie Essence of Chamomel Cures Pleurisies and Stone Essence of Saffron powerfully corrects and expels Poyson Cures Feavers Consumptions and drives out all offensive matter by Sweat and Urine and is excellent in the Small-pox Measles and all Pestilential Diseases and is a very great Cordial The same is Essence of Clove-Gilliflowers Essence of Elder-flowers Cures Dropsies the Stone and opens Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Womb. Essence of Walnuts kills Worms resists the Pestilence Cures Convulsions Essence of Nutmegs Cloves Mace and Cinamon Strengthens the Brain Essence of Barberries Quench Thirst. Essence of Corriander Gramwell Cardamom-seeds kills Worms expels Wind provokes Urine Essence of Benjamin and Stirax helps Coughs Hoarseness and want of Voice and clears the Skin Essence of Pearl Coral Amber and Amber-grees are wonderful Restoratives and Cures all Diseases incident in Women Antiscorbutick Powder and Essence Antivenerial Powder and Essence Stone Dissolving Powder and Essence A Powder which causes Speedy Delivery in VVomen a VVomb Essence These Excellent Specificks are all prepared by proper Dissolvents by which the Volatile and fixed parts are presverved with their Odour Tincture and Colour so that what Nature is best pleased with is here fitted for her reception that she may dispose of them for those great uses and ends they were designed c. Reader I have not given you a full relation of the uses and Vertues of those before mentioned Essences Therefore I add this Whatever is or may be attributed to any Vegetable the same and more may be attributed to the Essence of that Vegetable for by how much it is exalted in Purity by so much it ecceeds in Vertue and Excellency And as these noble Remedies are Purer then the other common Gross Mixtures which are usually given in great quantities so must their Dose viz. 5. 10. 15. or 20 Drops in VVine Beer Ale Sider Tee Coffee or Broth 3 or 4 times a day that the active penetrating subtile parts of the Medicine may expel the Evil Obnoxious Diseasy Matter and so restore decayed strength and bring Nature again into her true Path by which she may preserve the whole man in health Thus having hinted unto you the Excellencies of true prepared Vegetable Essences and their safety above others I shall also speak a little to Mineral Preparation and so conclude the first part Mineral Medicines have a more universal tendency then Vegetables they being higher graduated in Nature and more fixed and more locked up and harder to come at for prudent Nature hath put Bolts and Bars upon her best Jewels and hath made strong Fences about them lest strangers should espay them and steal them away and make an ill use of them and cry they are ours and Nature shall obey us she is our servant and we will do what we please with her Therefore she keeps the Keys of her Treasuries her self but she will vouchsafe to lend them to such of her Children as are willing to be instructed by her and will promise alwayes to walk in her path and perform whatever she commands I say such a one and no other will she fet into her Chambers of Beauty and Riches but he that hath her Keys which are friendly Adjuncts may open Mineral bodyes and extract that solar tincture which she hath planted in them for it is this solar Tincture which is so amicable to Nature and Cures the most Radicated Diseases by Enlightning and Enlivening the natural spirit by which Nature comes both to see her Errours and amend her Wayes being thus enabled not only to cast off all offending Matter formed in the body but also changing those Venoms the cause of such Matter● and wiping off the Character of the same And such a Medicine as this is my well known and often tryed Powder called the Eagle of Metals As also my little Powder viz. the Solar Dove with which Medicines I have Cured many Diseases accounted by the Proud Persecuting Colledge Incurable as hundreds can witness for me in this City that I have Cured for Nothing when they had Spent all they had to satisfie the unreasonable demands of those Physitians they then had made use of by whom they were rendered more miserable then before A further account of which I shall give you in my Bock of Cures which God willing will speedily be Printed Now having attained to the Knowledge and Preparation of such Medicines is it not good reason I should have the liberty to use them without Molestation for the good of the Poor and the Glory of God the giver of every good and perfect Guift to whom be Glory Amen VVhatever I administer to another I dare be oblidged to take the same Dose every day for a year to prove the safety of my Medicines and let every Physician do the like if he dare trust to the safety of his c. POSTSCRIPT To the READER Courteous Reader SUch is the Envy Ignorance and Clandestine Art and Subtile practice of many of the Professors of Physick Apothecaries Chyrurgions and others of their friends and fond lovers of the blind Galenical Tribe to instill into the minds of men a more then ordinary prejudice against Chymistry and the Professors thereof Exclaiming against the Art because they understand it not and branding the Artists with such marks of Infamy as if right took place they themselves ought to bear and only because they are Painfull Studious and Industrious men who labour in the field of Medicine with admirable Success Hence it is that they persecute us and consulting with Demetrius find cause thus to reason If this Sect prevail our Craft by which we get our VVealth will come to nothing here lyes the stress of the matter VVealth is that which they seek and the Health of the Sick is sought by Chymical Physicians Thus Friendly Reader have I in brief stated the difference between a Mercenary Doctor and a true Son of Art that people may no longer mistake Shadows for Substances and through that errour may no longer be rendered willing to be deceived I was willing to sustain this Labour and Charge not in the least doubting but that these Lines if read without prejudice may be of good effect to clear the understandings of most men So as henceforth they will be able better to judge of the common practice of Galenical Physicians and consequently for the future be less prejudiced against Chymical Practicioners then heretofore they have been c. I intend God willing hereafter to publish more small Peices of the same Subject From my house at the Sun in Gutter-lane near Cheap-side London Octob. 29. 1676. FINIS

A VINDICATION OF CHYMISTRY AND Chymical Medicines Courteous and Candid Reader CHYMISTRY is an ART that doth both teach and inable us for our exceeding good and benefit to seperate Purity from Impurity Exalt and advance what God and Nature hath given us to a farther and higher Perfection than we receive it indewed with For all Bodyes more or less partake of the Grossness and Terrestriety of their Matrixes But after their essential purities are seperated from that Terrestriety adhering which they drew from their Matrixes they make it plain enough by their powerful effects that it is to this state they ought to be reduced before they work with Efficacy and yet they still retain their Character and Internal Idea Now if we shall well and truly consider it what have we in this curious Nice Age either for Back or Belly Pleasure or Necessity that hath not in some kind or other been oblidged to Chymistry and its beneficial Operations for that perfection we receive it in What Calling may be said to have attained to the perfection and hight it now Glories in without its help in some one or other of its more sublime or trivial Operation Consider our Bread our Beer Wine Meat c. Or whatever can render our lives happy or satisfactory And you will find it in one degree or other to pass under the hand of Chymistry and its various Operations or Preparations And can we then be thus Insensibly led to admit its dayly help and assistance in things of smallest value and can we be so stupid dull ignorant and blind as to neglect its assistance in things of greater moment and concern And not only neglect its friendly advice but deny its profitable hand in those things which above all others we most need its help in Nay we do not only deny it makes us happy but we seek by all means possible to disgrace slander and make it and its Professors contemptible and odious to the whole world Doubtless these are great follies and we declare our selves either very ignorant or else very Malitious and self-ended Can we with ease and content admit and allow its favours and greedily seek after them to improve and maintain our Purses and Pleasure and cannot we admit and embrace its help for the preservation of our Health without which the other will be of little benefit and less pleasure Consider if Nature be weakned and oppressed that she cannot accept of her usual and accostomed Food so as she would and ought to dispose of it for the supply of her Spirits and maintaining of her Habitation and if she cannot in her ordinary course so play the Chymist as usual Doubtless she is less able to do it in that which the very name as well as the nature of it makes her utterly to abhor and reject and if she be not strong enough to seperate the Essenses of her dayly and accustomed Food how shall she Extract any thing from her Physick if given gross that may give her that rerelief which her present condition requires and calls for She viz. Nature hath a double work to perform First to Extract the Essential part and to make use of it and secondly to cast off the Gross as an enemy It would doubtless therefore in this ease be far better to save her the labour of seperation in this her weakned condition For although Nature her self when in health can digest her Food when Dressed and seperate the Alimental parts to her self and make use of it for Sustentation and cast off the Gross as useless Yet her Medicines must be Pure Digested and seperated and fited for her use for if she cannot Digest her Food then not Gross Medicines her Food when in health may be Gross because she can dispose of it to advantage but when Diseased her Physick must be pure seperated and fit for her use viz. To Joyn with the Spirit or Natural life in man And in this the Physician is rightly stiled Natures Handmaid but not for loading her with more Impurities but in assistng and helping her to cast off Impurities by that which is Pure For of Necessity either the Physician or Nature must officiate or act as Chymist before she can have or receive what she calls for and requires for her help and assistance Who therefore not drowned in Ignorance and Envy would so strongly oppose so great a Good as Chymistry is Author of For this is the only Art which by supplying us out of the light of Nature with Convenient means and particular Natures to seperate the pure from the impure will teach us First to heal all Diseases of the Macrocosmical substances and afterwards by examples and experiments deduced from those exteriour Cures will shew us the right and infallible Cure of Diseases in our own Bodies He that knows not how to purge and heal Metals how can he restore the decay'd or weakned Radical Balsom in Man and repair it by Comfortable and Concordant Medicines to perform perfectly all its appointed functions which must necessarily be put into action before any Disease can be expelled He that knew not what that is in ♁ which purges Gold how can be come by an effectual and Wholsome Medicine that will purge and cast out those Extrarious peccant causes that afflict and destroy the Body of Man He that knows not how to fix Arsenick or to take away the Corrosive nature of a Sublimate or to Coagulate Sulphureons Spirits and by a convenient Specifical Medium to break and dissolve Stones in the greater World will never in the body of man allay and tame the Arsenical Spirits of the Microcosmic Salt nor take away the Venimous indispositions of Sulphur nor dissolve the Stone in the Bladder and drive it out being dissolved Now as the Antient Phylosophers who knew Nature indeed obtained their noble Medicines by the strict and exact observation of Nature in her own path how that kind was multiplied by kind and without putrifaction there could be no Generation And as they found excellent Medicines by doing all things in the Metallick Kingdom according to the possibility of Nature So if you would have a Medicine indeed although inferiour to theirs whether of the Mineral Animal or vegetable kingdom you must proceed in the same method for as kind is multiplyed by kind and not without putrefaction so if you will exalt any concrete to make it a friendly Medicine it must be in Natures path Kind with kind and that by putrifaction For the absolute things requisite to one that would conscionably undertake the Sick are first to know how to unlock those Medicinal Bodies which the Almighty hath created and how to prepare them and when and to whom to apply them and also how to order and dispose the Patient so as that he may reap that good from them which by carefull administration of them is expected And thus will a little quantity of such a well prepared Medicine manifest it self in the