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A67915	Collectanea chymica a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal / written by Eir. Philaletha, Anonymous, Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont, Dr. Fr. Antonie ... [et al.].; Collectanea chymica.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus. Secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest. Latin and English.; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644. Praecipiolum.; Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623. Aurum-potabile.; Bernard, of Trevisan. De lapide philosophorum. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Bosome-book.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl.; Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611? Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine.; H. V. D. Tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5103; ESTC R5297	83,404	240

drink one useth before each meal but also by gargling the Throat with it and so used it is excellent against swelled Throats Angina's Struma's Palates of the mouth inflamed or the Vvula of the Throat or the Almonds of the Ears which are usually said then to be fallen It is excellent also against the Head-ach and to divert Rheums from the Eyes to wash the Temples therewith likewise to take away Tetters Morphew Itch or Scabs this dropped in water is a pleasant safe and effectual remedy Besides which outward applications it is a Lord internally taken preventing corruption rooting out the seeds thereof though never so deeply concealed in the body and upon that score opening inveterate obstructions eradicating old pains and preventing otherwise usual relapses into Stranguretical Colical or Arthritical pains it is abstersive cleansing all Excrementitian setlings in the Mesaraick or Mesenterial Vessels and so cutting off the original sourse and taking away the cause of putrefactive corruption which is the productive beginner of very many diseases On this score it lengthens the life and fress the body from many Pains and Ailes to which otherwise it would be subject It is a pleasant remedy having only a little sharpness which to the Palate is most gratefull and yet this Acidity is contradistinct from that Acidity which is the forerunner of putrefaction which it kills and destroys as the Acidity of Spirit of Vitriol is destroyed by the fixed Acrim●ny of its own Caput mortuum or that of Vinegar by the touch of Cerusse or Minium Praeternatural heat and thirst in Fevers is no way allayed so speedily and easily as by this nor is there any thing that for a constant continuance may be more safely and profitably taken Spirit of Salt such as the noble Helmont speaks of alone may be joyned with this for its safety and continual use with profit especially in Nephritical distempers and the heat or sharpness of Urine Now as this is so noble a medicine so there is none in the World more basely adulterated and counterfeited our wise Doctors commending for it quid pro quo an adulterated mineral acidity of Vitriol distilled in a Retort form vulgar Sulphur which the Apostate Chemists prepare and sell for and the Knavish Apothecarries use and give to their Patients instead of this tru● Spirit which if sincere is clear as water ponderous and exquisitely acide made of Sulphur Vive only set on Fire without any other mixture and the sumes received in a broad Glass fitted ●or the purpose vulgarly called a Campana or Bell from its shape or likeness Most sottish is that Maxime of the Doctors that Spirit of Sulphur and Vitriol are of one nature when experience teacheth that the meer Acetosity of Vitriol which brings over nothing of its excellent vertue will dissolve Argent Vive which the strongest Spirit of Sulphur truly and not sophistically made will not touch nor will that recover Beer or Wines or preserve them as this will do one therefore is an unripe Esurine Acetosity of little vertue the other a Balsom of an Antidotary vertue a preservative against corruption and upon that score nothing can be used more effectually as a preservative against or a remedy in Contagious Fevers Small-Pox Measles or Pestilence than this nor more ridiculously than the other which being drawn from the vulgar Sulphur that hath an infection of malignity mixed with it which it took from the Arsenical nature of the Minerals from which it was melted adds nothing of vertue to the crude vitriolate Spirits but only ●hat which was before of little vertue to become a Medicine of more danger and hazard but not a jot more goodness than it was when first drawn from the Vitriol which being of it self clear and crude is for to deceive the ignorant by its Colour tincted with some Root or Bark Thus the credulous world is imposed on and cheated while instead of most noble remedies in name promised adulterated trifles are produced to the Disparagement of Art and the scandal and reproach of the prosessors Medicine To discover which abuses and vindicate true Art I have made my Praeludium concerning this Oyl or Spirit of Sulphur the vertues of which if truly and faithfully made are so eminently remarkable and almost incredibly efficatious that I thought it not unworthy my pains in a few lines to communicate to the studious Reader both what real benefit is to be expected from the true and what injury is done to deluded at least if not destroyed Patients by the Sophisticate Oyl of Sulphur Post-Script THat those who desire this so pleasant so efficacious and profitable a remedy may not be abused by the base counterfeit Oyl of Vitriol corruptly called Oyl of Sulphur because it hath been once distilled from common unwholsome Brimstone and tincted with some Bark or Root of which the Town is full and all Apothecaries Shops to the great abuse of Art but much greater of those who make use of it instead of the true when indeed it hath not one quality like thereto Let the Reader be informed that at George Starkey's House in St. Thomas Apostles next door to Black-Lyon-Court And at Richard Johnsons at the Globe in Mountague-Close in Southwark the true is to be had drawn from Sulphur Vive set on Fire without any addition but the Sulphur it self which is easily known by its clearness sharpness weight not working on Quick-silver turning bitter like to Gall on the filings of Silver preserving Wine and Beer from Corruption restoring them when decayed and in a word by its quenching feverish heat and thirst c. As before hath been rehearsed at large may by any one be distinguished from that which is false and Sophisticate However at those two places he may be confident of that which is real and true And likewise at Richard Johnsons House in Mountague-Close in Southwark aforesaid you may have any Chimical Salts Oyls and Spirits Besides which Oyl or Spirit of Sulp●ur several other rare and admirably effectual Medicinal Secrets for the certain safe and speedy cure of most if not all diseases as hath been proved by many hundr●d Patients adjudged rather incurable● or d●sperately dangerous by other Doctors are there to be had being the more than ordinary Se●rets and preparations of George Starkey who entitles himself a Philosopher by the Fire And in particular that Pill or Antidote injuriously challenged as the Invention of Mr. Richard Mathews who in truth had that Preparation for which he hath since been so famous from the said George Starkey the true Author thereof who had it from God by studious search without the help of Book or Master and which Preparation he hath since amended and advanced in its virtue beyond comparison of that which Mr. Mathews had from him as hath been and is daily confirmed by the Experience of able Men. Concerning which Antidote or Pill or rather Anodinous Elixir its vertues and advancement to almost a true Vniversality by four

was but the beginning and I never perceived it till I h●● studied the 55 Chapter of Reymonds Testament for I never could find in all the Authors tha● ever I did read or see the Preparation s● plainly declared Ye may read in the Book of Artephius called clavis sapientiae majoris where he writeth nihil occultaverunt praeter Praeparationem And this is the very and true way to the Stone of the Philosophers For all their wonderful writing is but one thing and of one thing and in one thing which I have shewed you here afore Notwithstanding with my Calce you may make right good Medicine both man and Venus But the Royal Stone must be prepared as I have shewed thee And after this Preparation done put the Man and the Woman in their Bed and keep them close and in the Egg shall be brought forth a Child and here is all that the Philosophers say that is but one thing one work one Vessel one Furnace though it change into many things after his natures as ye may see in the Testament about the 67 Chapter and there he ●heweth of the four good Elements and it is called in the Mastery the first solution after depuration and then reduction which cometh before Fixation But I assure and certifie you that I have seen with mine Eyes visible like as I have afore declared And I take to witness Reymond in the 67 Chapter where he maketh thereof an open certification to all his Friends that he and others have done and proved visible these Acts. Here I leave to write other general sayings of Philosophers for I intend but only to proceed in this peculiar thing which I know is possible to be done But it is the hardest Science in the World to an unknowing Man And it is lightest after it is understood and known as I have proved my self by Experience of my Calces divers ways sometime with Blood of common Vitriol and after I have decocted it in the Vegetable Mercury ten or twelve days and of that Powder I have had fine Silver after the quantity Also I have examined this Calce of Silver and O●●ogeneum in common Aquafortis and they have dryed and congealed therein marvellously bright shining like a Diamond which will melt in the Vegetable Mercury like Wax and the Secret of this I have not concluded nor many other Secrets of the Calce for divers Considerations that I fear by the Enemies of the World The second cause why I do not conclude is part for Poverty for this Science requireth three things special to conclude it One is great ingeny and a perfect reason in understanding and handling thereof The second is many Books to lead a man from one dark saying to another that giveth Light and the third is Wordly goods to maintain the Expences and Labour the Substance of the two Lights which the Mercury must have to work upon Sol and Luna for that Substance shall never be lost though the Work-man do err in his work but it shall be rather finer and better then it was at the beginning Nevertheless a man may labour against Nature and destroy and spoyl the good Bodyes Wherefore I advise every man not to meddle with this Science unless they be well learned and practised Many men do boldly meddle and clatter therein saying it is a thing cast in the Street and costeth nought and every man hath it as well the Poor as the Rich and every time and place it is in every Hill and in every Dale and the Value at the beginning costeth not past fifty pence All these things be true to them that truly understand them Also they say it is a Natural Mercury which cost no Money which is the privity and all the ground of our Wisdom And all this is no ●easing but although it cost nought yet it is not had of nought and of a little substance for ye cannot have as much Wheat of a handful as of a Bushel then mark well this reason If you will have much of this Natural Mercury or privy Corruption which is the Root and Foundation of all these wonderful things thou must have great quantity of their Materials I say to thee as a Friend If you put 20 pound weight of the Body that Aristotle declareth with ●●stro 〈◊〉 which Body is in Value 24 score pounds of currant Coyn it is not of the price of the secret Stone that we mean of and it cometh of the qualities of this one thing brought out by Art And I say to thee in Charity if thou hadst seen the privity thereof thou wouldest soon believe it and thou wouldest marvel thereof it is so light and easie a thing and ready at thy hand if thou have Grace to understand that Corruption But thou that labourest herein must understand of two manner of Corruptions after the definitions of the Philosophers One is Corruption alterative and the other is Corruption dissipative And if you be a very true Philosopher then shalt thou know these two Corruptions as well by the Theorick as by the Practick and I say to thee of a Truth that of this Corruption is a new Generation that bringeth forth this blessed Tincture but corruptio dissipativa shall never be brought to natural kind again and they that labour in this Corruption shall never lose but their time for lack of good understanding● for they may save their good Bodies evermore Now Corruptio alterativa is evermore in generation as the Philosopher doth make mention de Generatione Corruptione unde Corruptio unius est Generatio alterius c. And if they err in this Corruption yet shall they save all their Substance of the Bodies that shall never be the worse in Comparison in quantity but the better rather in quality as is aforesaid Therefore if thou be a wiseman thou shalt have thy Substance as surely as in thy Coffer for as he standeth in the humidity and Corruption so long is he growing in his own natural kind Therefore consider this Example and understand well these Corruptions For that I have seen I testifie to you of Truth I take God of Heaven to Witness and advise ye well e're you begin to make thy Mercury Vegetable and flying but first of all e're you begin I read ye know well thy Principles and take them of Aristotle and Hermes and of the fourth Book of Meteors of Aristotle and there you shall find this Principle where he sayeth Sciant Artifices Alchymiae spes variae transmutari non po●●unt nisi prius reducantur ad primam Materiam Now note well what I say I demand what is the first matter of Mankind Forsooth I tell ye Sperm of man Then I ask what is the first matter or substance of Sperm I say to thee Food as Meat and Drink Then it appeareth that Meat and Drink is the first Substance of Sperm and Sperm is the very true Substance and matter to bring forth man So likewise