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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57364	The secrets of the famous Lazarus Riverius, councellor & physician to the French king, and professor of physick in the University of Montpelier newly translated from the Latin by E.P., M.D.; Selections. English. 1685	Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.; Prat, E.	1685 (1685)	Wing R1565; ESTC R12068	37,235	136

attain to the true and genuine manner and method of its operation So that in lieu of Salt of Jupiter or Tin they 'l extract the Salt of Saturn or Lead as plainly appears in most of our great boasting Professors at this day who are not able to produce any substance from Tin Now our Tincture is made after this manner following Take pure Tin without Lead and calcine it in the Fire in an Iron Vessel continually stiring it with an Iron Spa●hula till it be reduc'd to a Powder and it will wax white with the heat of the Furnace then put it into a Glass-house Furnace for a month with a very vehement Fire or into a Reverberatory Fire for seven days together afterwards digesting it with a gentle heat in distill'd Vinegar separate the green Tincture which will tinge and this being taken away put your Vinegar to the calcin'd Tin into a luted Retort distilling it seven times always adding new distill'd Vinegar Digest the distill'd part with the same Calx in a warm place for many days together then siltre and distil it to a dryness adding 〈◊〉 of Wine well rectified and alcooli●●ted to that which is sixt mat●●r 〈◊〉 shall dissolve the Tincture but take notice you shall put only so much of the Spirit as will dissolve the fixt matter Afterwards digest it for eight days for by that time the Spirit being separated the Tincture will remain in the bottom which indeed is marvelous Note You will not find any such clear and sincere Receipts as these for I lay down nothing but what I have illustrated by frequent Operations Vertues Vses and Doses THis Tincture is wonderfully beneficial for all kinds of Diseases for as Jupiter derives his Name à juvando from helping so that this Tincture helps all Diseases both inward and outward Inwardly it obtains the first place in Diseases of the Womb although incorrigible For it Comforts Strengthens and Mundifies it from impure and corrupt Seeds which produce so many various Diseases it also succors the Brain Heart Liver and Hypochondria's and given with Specifies it much profits Hectical and Pthysical persons Outwardly it bridles and checks any acrimonious humor in Wounds and sweetens it and brings them to their perfect integrity 'T is given with Liquors from a Scruple to half a Drachm for one dose CHAP. IV. His Tincture or Essence of MARS THere are already very many Remedies extant from the very many preparations of Mars or Iron though a Tincture of the nature of this of ours be in use but by very few and yet it is one of the most excellent though it be the most laborious of all others its process is as follows Take filings of Iron and being very well fir'd in a Crucible extinguish them with distill'd Vinegar and this do more then thirty times then make them boil in the said Vinegar And while 't is warm filtre them through a Paper dry your Filings and siring them again as before in Crucible quench them with distill'd Vi●negar as abovesaid Which rule after yo● have repeated thrice you shall then disti●● your siltrated Vinegars to a dryness an● then add thereto Spirit of Wine and a● for the rest of the process you shall observe the same order as in the Tinctur● of Jupiter Virtues Vses and Deses THis Tincture is a great Cordial strengthening the parts and opening obstructions For it is excellent above other remedies in all Fluxes as Dysenteries Diarra'heas and Iaenteries c. and all immoderate monthly and white Fluxes in Women Gonorhaeas spittings of Blood Fluxes of Blood either at Nose or Hemorrhoides in all sudden Fluxions in any part of the Body It suffers no Corruption in any manner of Wounds and heals them in a very short time it mundisies and heals Wounds and Ulcers it is given in specifi● cordials from a Scruple to half a Drachm Note After the same manner are made the Tinctures of Lapis Hamatitis Sanguis Draconis c. which are Remedies appropriate to the Blood CHAP. V. His ●ssen●● of MERCVRY SUblimate your Mercury thrice according to the common manner with Vitriol and Nitre and thence separate a most pure Chrystal which you shall afterwards sublimate again leven times with common white Salt very well decrepitated and being very well bruis'd put it into a Glass Vessel with Spirit of Salt very well rectisied which must be six fingers bredth above the Salt Being seal'd digest in Balneo forty days then separate the Spirit by decantation and powring new Spirit thereon digest again for forty days more Then separate as aboves●id and if all the sublimate be not dissolv'd infuse and digest anew until almost nothing remain in the bottom All the Spirits being digested put them into a Retort very well luted and with a Recipient distil them until white drops ascend then remove them and cohobate the Spirit four times always upon the Caput mortuum making towards the latter end a more vehement Fire till all becomes one what remains of the fixt matter in the bottom calcine so long until 〈◊〉 wax white and become a Salt after the usual manner Distil the Spirit and separate until the Tincture remain in the bottom which you shall join to its Salt by a gentle Fire that they may incorporate into one substance then dulcifie it with Spirit of Wine and digest it in the same and separate the Spirit doing thus five times that it may become dulcified Vertues Vses and Doses THis is a difficult Operation but in recompence it eradicates all almost incurable Diseases and may be given to all Bodies Sexes and Ages in all kinds of Diseases it mundifies all kinds of corrupt Diseases producing malignancy in any part of the Body It Operates without any trouble disturbance hurt or damage to the Body it preserves and cherishes the natural Balsam of Life it expells all impurities by insensible transpiration it dryes up and consumes Catarrhs proceeding from what cause soever It cures obstructed and cachectic Bodies caused from deprav'd and naughty humors of the Hypochondria's Womb or corrupt Blood It helps both hot and cold hysterical persons by corroborating the Liver and other viscera It drives out either new or old infections proceeding from the Lues Venerea It heals also Schyrrhus's King 's Evil or such pertinacious tumors 'T is administred in Broths or the yelks of Eggs or Wine from eight drops to ten in a morning fasting CHAP. VI. His Essence or Tincture of CORAL THERE are almost infinite Recipés which teach how to draw a Tincture from Coral and how to make its Salt But for the most part they are deceived And in lieu of a Tincture of the Coral there appears a Tincture of other lagredients from the Efficacy of the 〈◊〉 which use to be mixt therewith Ours is this which follows a very sincere one if it be artificially perform'd by an expert Operator Take Coral very smally pounded and infuse it in a Glass Vessel in Vinegar which hath before extra●●ed