the ordinary one make thus â„ž white Sugar Candid â„¥ 6 spirit of Salt well rectified half an ounce and as much pure water as will make the Sugar like thick a syrup then add to those half an ounce of purple Calx of Gold which hath been first solved in Aqua fortis then precipated with Tin or Spilter and well edulcorated and dryed lastly to all the former ingredients add also one ounce of pure Pearl in subtil powder and one dram of good Ambergreece so have you a far more excellent Confection than the common one wherein the Gold is used in its metalline form and so hath no effect in the medicine but here by reason of it subtil preparation it rendreth the medicine aboundantly more cordial more effectual CHAP. VI. Of the Lethargy THe Lethargy is a torpor or drowsiness and almost an unresistible necessity of sleeping according unto The Lethargy is almost an unresistible necessity to sleep Celsus lib. 2. cap. 10. 20. The Galenists say that the cause of this disease is a cold and slegmy humour which in great aboundance is effused into the substance and Ventricles of the brain The kinds of it are the Catophora the Coma and the Carus The Catophora is a profound and deep sleep The Coma Catoche or Catalepsis is a stupour while one wakes whereupon Physicians The Catalepsie is a prefernatural affect of the Head whereby man is deprived of all motion suddenly as if he were congealed call it a waking dream by which the affected both waketh and sleepeth together which sometimes rises from too much drinking of Wine as Galen affirmeth in his 3. book Chap. 5. de temperameutis The Carus is such a profound and deep sleep so that the sick doth neither feel the The Carus is a dead sleep out of which man is not easily wakened without often and loud calling upon and beating of his body pulling off the hairs nor beating nor pricking of the body Paracelsus in his 2. book de vita longa Chap. 2. de gutta saith that the lethargy is a kind of gutta that is of the Apoplexy for the Apoplexy is begot of ill-digested sublimated Mercury if that the genus of the Lethargy then the species though the sublimation be not so vehement in the lethargy and other kinds of the Apoplexy as in the Apoplexy it self â—n another place he saith that the Lethargy is generated from too much moisture of the brain which being dryed and abolished the effect is removed when it is to be dryed and exsiccated the 1. book of preparations teaches us tract 4. fol. 42. The Cure of the Lethargy It is to be removed and Nature is to be corroborated and strengthned Paracelsus in Parag. de Alchymia saith that the lethargy is not to be cured by ordinary decoctions for it is a Mineral disease and therefore it is to be cured by Minerals Paracelsus in his cures relates that a certain man after a Fever fell into a deep sleep so that he felt not if any prickt him neither would he open his eyes or speak any thing he had the lethargy and I cured it with the oil of Vitriol so also there was a woman waking which was affected with the lethargies sleep so that her eyes were still shut and hardly would open them if she were called upon neither could any understand what she spake neither did she rightly answer I restored her to her health by the oil of Vitriol alone The chief Medicine of all in Curing this Disease is Antimony for in this one all the wayes of curing are found for it takes away the cause altogether and strengthens Nature by a specifical vertue wherein it excels Some drops of the oil of Vitriol administred with Marjoram water availeth much In this part the spirit of Vitriol is much better and more excellent In the volability of Vitriol there is a secret of corroboration of the spirits of the brain and heart Bartholomeus cures the lethargy with Sulphur lib. 16. Chap. 94. so also lib. 7. Cap. 7. affirms that this is a most excellent Dosis in the Falling-sickness â„ž of Opium Theb. Ê’i of Cinnamom Ê’iij of Musk and Ambergrece ana 6 gr of the seeds of both the Poppies Ê’i of Mandragora ℈ i. of the juice of Henbane ℈ i. of Mastick Ê’iij let them be pulverized mix them and make a mass of them with the juice of Pomcitrons put them in the rine of the Pomcitron and shut it with the bark afterward put it in dough bake it as bread when the bread is back'd let them be taken forth and bruised and put in â„¥ i. of the secret of Vitriol Read Theophrastus Paracelsus de morbis Amentium tract 2. Cap. 1. A precious Medicine of Antimony in a Red Oil prepare thus â„ž pure Regulus of Antimony grind it to subtil powder put it in a Cucurbit and by degrees pour on good Aqua Regis prepared with Salt so dissolve the Antimony and when it will dissolve no more decant it and on the remaining part undissolved pour fresh Aqua Regis and so do till all the Antimony be dissolved then let it all stand unmoved and the Antimony will settle to the bottom of the glass in white powder from which decant all the water and with sweet water made hot edulcorate the white powder and dry it that being done put the white dry powder in an Iron box stop it well with a scrue that no air may enter and keep it five days in good heat then take it out and you shall find the white powder become red from which extract a red tincture with pure distilled Vinegar which abstract again then remaineth behind a pure tincture of Antimony upon which put pure Spirit of Wine digest together in Balneo then distil by retort so will you have a bloud-red Oil which may well be termed a great Arcanum in medicine which being most prevalent not only in the foresaid disease but in many others likewise CHAP. VII Of the Falling-sickness and his kinds THe Falling-sickness is a disease inherent in the body not corporally but an The Epilepsie or Falling-sickness is a preternatural affect of the Head by which the whole body for a certain time is convulst with the hurt of sense and reason astral disease It is an Elementary disease not a complexionate disease it is a spiritual disease not a natural disease The species or kinds of the Falling-sickness are all the kinds of the Epilepsie the suffocation of the matrix without his place the swounding with his kinds viz. the returning deliquium and the swounding not returning the Vertigo or turning of the The Vertigo is a preternatural affect of the Head whereby all things seem to turn about head The Vertigo rises from the obstruction of the principal bowels Paracelsus lib. 3. de caducis para 2. The Vertigo is a kind of the Falling-sickness The cure of the Vertigo is the same with the Falling-sickness The cause of
vehemently by sweat as diaphoretical Mercury diaphoretical Gold of life the flowrs of Antimony the spirits of Tartar with the addition of Paracelsus Terra sigillata given with a quantity of Mithridatum These diaphoreticks are not once to be given but twice or thrice or four times until the poison be expelled and the sick restored unto his strength Buzzing singing cracking and sounding are to be The cure of the singing cured by the internal medicaments mentioned in the rheum It is not altogether safe to put something in the A caution ears in the heavy hearing and deafness sometime this rises from vapours existing in the instruments of hearing sometime it rises from humours and obstruction If less convenient medicaments be administred the hurt is exasperated If the hurt rise from humours let there be given unto the patient three Pils of Hierapicra or bitter confection of Galen for they extract the humours from the instruments of hearing and free the head from them Artists have a Silver crooked pipe which they put in the ear and blow through it if the patient feel a cold wind then the deafness doth not rise from obstruction Crato the Physician takes Carduus Benectictus and sprinkled it with the water of a thistle and caused it to be distilled and being put into a linen cloath he putteth it into the ear of the half deaf whether they have pain or do not hear he confesseth that he found no medicine more available than this which he hath tried Some put a drop of the oil of Turpentine in the ears and they bring it back again and by this means they free many from deafness CHAP. XIII Of the Diseases of the Nostrils their Causes and Symptoms THe Nostrils are destinated for the purging of the The Ulcers of the Nostrile brain and these have their diseases The diseases of the Nostrils consist either in an Ulcer or growing forth of some flesh in the Nostrils as also in all the parts of the body Ulcers rise But these Ulcers do not rise from the excrements of the brain and their acrimony as the â—alenists fable after this manner falling down and so by their acrimony exulcerating the Nostrils But the cause of these Ulcers is contained in the bloud and veins of the nostrils as of all other Ulcers in all the parts the universal cause is Salt which is separated from the bloud and lurketh in all the veins and all the parts it is corrosive sharp sowr and bitter The destruction of Salt saith Paracelsus de origine curatione morbor t is the cause of Ulcers there is in this Salt Arsenicks putrefactive poison The Ulcers of the Nostrils for the most part are putrid from which there falls a filthy Scab and from which there runs a stinking excrement The Ozena of Theophrastus de ulceribus The Ozena Theophrast is an Imposthum The Ozena is a putrified and stinking Ulcer of the Nostrils caused from corruption of sharp humours flowing from the Brain to the Nostrils cap. 59. is called an imposthume therefore he that hath the imposthume smells ill both to himself and those which are nigh him as also he is molested with the contagion of the obscure spirits Oftentimes daily Ulcers spread abroad which exceed and putrifie the wings of the Nostril or the place within or the tender bones thereof as also the hole they eat the pallate oftentimes with great deformity and especially if they bear the form of Cardinoma or if they be produced from the filthy lues Venerea which is most frequent The fresh Ulcers being neglected oftentimes there Sarcoma grows forth a piece of flesh which is called Sarcoma of that length that it hangs forth in the Nostrils or else the flesh falls unto the jaws and then it is called Polypus for that flesh is like to the flesh of the fish Polypus is a fleshy loose and porous tumour begot in the Nostrils besides Nature which for his many feet they call Polypus Galen de compositionibus pharmacor lib. 3. cap. 3. so also de tumore praeternaturali c. 16. Aegineta lib. 6. cap. 25. The symptoms of smelling are the diminishing and The symptoms of smelling abolishing or deoriving of swelling for smelling perisheth or is diminished the passage of Nostrils or of the bone being stopped by which breath and smells are drawn and this is done either by the Sarcoma or Polypus or inflammation of bloud or heaviness If none of these signs appear the cause of hurt ought not to be referred either to the former Ventricles of the brain or unto their couples in which the sense of smelling is In these the aboundance of humours or corruption contaminates the sense and the spirits thereof sometime about those places imposthumes are caused with no Fever and less pain from which being burst sometime a pure filth is blown forth of the nose as also there flows forth filth out of ears full of filth and that by no discommodity of health The Gravedo is a flegmy distillation into The Gravedo of the Nostrils The Corysa or Gravedo is an obstruction of the holy bone in the superiour part of the nose the bone Aâ—thmoides and his membranes effused from the parts which are about the brain or the Ventricles thereof by it the head waxeth heavy and breathing is made more difficult neither can breathing be made except with a wide and gaping mouth The voice as before sounding hath some sound and is caused in the Nostrils in the beginning little after more gross â— furthermore bloud bursts forth of the nostrils the vein being burst opened or eaten which ends there The Hemorrhagy of the Nostrils is called The Hemorrhagy of the Nostrils The Hemorrhagy is a bloud bursting forth of the Vessels by the Nostrils of Physicians a violence the veins do not go from the inmost seats of the brain into the nostrils but from the mouth and palate they are sufficiently detected and large that they may be as it were an Emissary or Pipe for the superfluous bloud for the expelling the Ulcers of the Nostrils The Ozena or imposthume is cured by the herb Aristalogy Of the cure of the Impoâ—â— hum Pliny lib. 25. cap. 13. Therneâ—s lib. 5. cap. 40. cures it with Betony Fengreek Savory the stalk of Apples and Penniroyal Those which have these Ulcers The cutting of a vein are cured by the cutting of the head-vein in the chin or end of the nose Rulandus says that such Ulcers are best cured by the oil of Lead and the sweetness of Mercury by the water of Mercury by the oil of Antimony which Paracelsus describes in his Chirurgia vulner de corruptis Vulneribus so also by the balm of iron the oil of Auripigmentum and the oil of wax Paracelsus cured the Polypus which is a stink of the nostrils by the oil of Vitriol with wax The symptoms of sinelling if that they be not caused from manifest causes are
Letter or Syllable in pronouncing Stutting is when a man cannot joyn one Syllable with another of the body hath his diseases of which some are curable some incurable Those which are almost incurable are the Traplotis the Psellotis the stammering and the stutting but these are rather hurts than diseases In that part of the mouth which is soft and loose and â—nder the tongue and is as it were bound unto it with a bond there is collected the Rana which The Rana is a Blister or little piece of flesh under the root of the tongue caused preternaturally of crass and clammy humours sometimes is like to the phlegmon oftentimes to the oedema forth of which being opened runs a filth like to the white of an egg Children are wont to be troubled with this Ulcer for they get it from sucking It is like as also the Columella unto taurus Aetius in his 8. book Chap. 39. saith that the tumour is in those parts which are under the tongue but especially of the veins Aegineta writes lib. 3. that the Batrachus or Rana is a tumour like unto an inflammation bursting forth under the tongue Concerning these read Alexander Benedictus lib. 5. cap. 8 9 10 11 c. read also Theophrastus de ulceribus cap. 25. Oftentimes the Jaws swell being filled with a cold distillation The tumour of the jaws is when the substance of them is swollen by reason of some internal humour or vapour distending them and then under the jaw bone there is a tumour seen and felt within And this or some piece sticking in the jaws presses and hinders that the meat drink or spittle cannot be easily swallowed and that without thirst or burning But sometimes an inflammation troubles and pains the jaws which hath the name The inflammation of the jaws is a preternatural tumour of the kernel which hangeth forth at the end of the palate with the falling of it unto the tongue it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Uva of a part This is like unto a tumour and brings pain redness burning and thirst by reason the matter is so boiled and the little skin is easily disrupted the imposthume being caused filth flows forth into the mouth and jaws from hence rises a filthy Ulcer by which the breath is made stinking Such an Ulcer rises often without a phlegmon from Salt or sharp humour which eats the soft humours and hot jaws altogether Sometime from the spots of contagion it is The chance of an Uvula very frequent with lues Venerea Also the Columella hangs forth of the palate and is molestuous it is more looâ—e and long and comes to the jaws and head of the stomach it hath a troublesome tickling so that whosoever is troubled with it contends in vain to swallow for he fears lest that he should be strangled with the violence of it This hurt is generated when as it is profused and moistened with much or too much humour Also the The inflammation of the Throat-pipe Throat-pipe sometime is enflamed and swells with a redness and heat or burning and it falling into the jaws loosened with greater difficulty provokes the fear of suffocation when by inflammation the lowest part of it appeâ—rs crass but above thin and black then it is wont saith Hippocrates to be called Uva for it is like in figure colour and magnitude unto a Grapes-stone The Angina or Squinancy is an affection Squinancy Angina is an Aposthume begot in the jaws hindering breathing and swallowing of meat The symptoms of it stopping the highest parts of the throat and weazand through which the entrance is of meat and drink and breath In this breathing is very difficult as also swallowing and the drink runs back into the nostâ—ils and a bitter pain possesses the jaws for the Angina is so called ab argendo because it vexes and torments the throat and stops the passage of breath of the Greeks it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is an inflammation in the throat or jaws 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is from suffocating or strangling when blackness and adustion occupies and possesseth the tongue Fuschius saith that it is a kind of a most cruel pernicious disease whereby the jaws are troubled and strangled Read the institution lib. 3. cap. 1. The prunella of Paracels Paracelsus calls the Angina prunella in his 2. book de tartaro tract 2. cap. 5. and thus he defines the prunella The prunella is a principal passion existing with a proper The signs paroxism in the heat having his original from Vitriol salt oppugning his proper place and Nature it is one of the kinds of the Pleurisie and Plague with the Vitriol heat In the explication of this Chap. fol. 311. the signs are First there comes redness in the jaws and tongue after comes a black colour Thirdly as it were falling coals put upon the tongue and little wheals or blisters burst forth in the tongue two or three colours are the true signs of the prunella The rest of the signs are as in the Pleurisie and Plague Paracelsus de tartaro tractat 2. cap. 4. The prunella of the Plague rises from the salt of Arsenick but tartareous spirits predominate in the prunella and constitute and cause the prunella of the Brain Breast Ventricle Liver Weazand and all the parts The Galenists make the cause of the angina or prunella to be a cholerick or sanguine flux flowing forth of the throat veins into these members and it produces the Erysipelas or Phlegmon The Fever is an individual Companion or adjunct of the angina or Squincy and the prunella is a symptom of the aiery Plague The cure of the Rana or Batrachus is that iij. drops of The cure of the Rana the spirit or oil of Vitriol be infused into the 16. part of Fountain water and that they be well tempered dip a feather into this water and wash the Ulcer that is the Rana or let a gargarism be made Another take of the herb Penniroyal Otis anum Wildmint which is a kind of mint ana i part of the root of Pepperwort and Nettle ana Ê’ij of Flower de Luce FlorentineÊ’i of Raspatum and Lignum GuaicumÊ’ss let them be cut and confused together let them be boiled in water and let a Gargarism be made and anoint it thrice a day with diameron and robuncum and Honey Roses add a little Pepper or Salt and anoint it oftener Pains and dolours effect and cause the tumour being fallen into the jaws of the The cure of the tumour of the jaws weazand therefore the cause being taken away the effect is taken away but the cause is removed especially by the spirit and oil of Sulphur which exsiccates the distillations The cure of the Laxation of the Columell wonderfully The smoke of Amber cures the Laxation of the columel Penotus in his Treatise de salibus
agree and are linckt together by an Herculean knot and all things disagree with a deadly hatred from whence it comes to pass that like things are cured by like things and contraries are Remedies for contraries because things which agree do communicate their vertues and help so likewise contraries expel their contraries which things being so and the unity of stars in the World being celebrated it makes one cure of all diseases being divided into kinds Astral or Spiritual Material or Corporal Paracelsus in his book de morb ament saith that in Astral or Spiritual diseases Astral and Spiritual Remedies are required for whatsoever are required for a cure are contained in the power of the spirits The star of Transplantation produces Diseases The star of Generation cures them Every disease is twofold Spiritual and Corporal so the Physician ought to administer a material or spiritual Medicine In the impressions of the stars or astral diseases howsoever it must be administred we will refer the three Beings of diseases to the one star of Transplantation to whom we apply the star of Generation as a true and perfect cure CHAP. II. Of the Causes of the Pain of the Head and the true Cure of it HOw difficult and intricate the explication of diseases is the Family of Privations of the Aristotelians doth manifest and declare and the natural defects of the Platonicks granting and yielding diseases unto infiniteness as it were by the Quintessence Nature and Properties as if vain names were in the subjects for the hidden and occult seeds of diseases have obtained hidden and unknown Transplantations and Generations which are not subject to sense nor decrees of discourse Though it be so hard and difficult to explain the seeds and Generation and Transplantation of diseases nevertheless we being urged and pricked by the compulsions of vertue and verity as also by the magnanimous and couragious mind of Hippocrates and Paracelsus for we will insist in the paths of more sincere Philosophers and enter into the explication of diseases and that with better success because we have explained hitherto the great book of Nature God still helping us and we have seen more works of the Spagirical art by the Ministery or help of Fire therefore we will descend from the Head to the Foot and throughly view and search into the whole Microcosm according to his parts and places All the affections of the Head which use hath observed are partly symptoms partly diseases we divide these affections into three Orders in regard of the affected place or seat Some affections possesse the Membranes of the Head some the Substance of the Brain some the Passages some possesse the Pipes thereof The Membranes of the Head are the thin film enwrapping the Brain and the Pericrany in which pains are caused for that they have exquisite sense The dolours of the Head are twofold in respect of their efficient causes for the dolour or pain is either caused from external causes or internal causes The pain of the Head from external causes as too much labour or heat of the Sun or from the cold distemperature of the Heaven or from Gluttoning Venery grievous Smells and smiting of the Head The pain which rises from these causes is a weak and fainting pain without a fixt and vital impression The pain of the Head rising from internal causes or from fixt and vital impression proceeds either from bloud or resolution or obstruction Parcel in his 10. book Parag. de capitis adversitatibus internis The bloud produces the pain of the Head by accidental digestion that is by the bubling sorth of the spirits or wandring of the first three causes In this pain caused from bloud let the Head vein be cut and the pain ceaseth and a true cure is made thereof but if the condition of the sick cannot abide the cutting of the vein administer unto him Narcotical moistures of which kind are the liquor of Corals Rose the ever-living Root of the Nightshade Margarites and such like and they are given too within essentially or else applied outwardly in the manner of a Plaister The resolution of the vapours or Tartareous spirits beget the pain of the Head namely when the mouth of it is not shut by reason of the weakness of the Ventricle and then the vapours ascend or the spirits of the Tartareous Salt smite unto the Membranes and the Brain from hence is the pain as also the doloriferous fluxions and distillations In the cure of this disease the cause is first to be removed the Tartar being resolved in the Ventricle is reduced expelled and consumed by oil or spirit of Vitriol which is sweet like to a smell and hath a sweet sowreness also the sowr spirit of Sulphur The opilation or obstruction of the more principal bowels causes the Head-ach Paracelsus in his second book Tract 3. de Tartaro fol. 330. when there is not digestion made in the Reins and the attractive vertue hath not which it may attract then the Reins generate nutriment from the Liver but if the Liver be obstructed the Reins attract nutriment through the Back-bone from the Head and first pains are caused in the hinder part of the Head afterwards in the Hemicrany sometime it possesses the whole Head therefore in the Hemicrany and every pain of the Head the only cure is that the Reins be first cured and that the obstruction of the Liver be taken away that the Reins may have nutriment which is not only to be understood of the Reins but of other principal Members Here the sowr water of Mercury bears sway and the spirits of Vitriol and the spirits of Tartar In the pain from the Reins there is pain felt about the Reins if the pain be from the Liver there is a pain felt in the Liver if it be from the Ventricle there is a pain in the Ventricle if it be from the Matrix then the Matâ—ix feels a pain if from the Spleen the pain will be in the right side viz. in the place of the Spleen are begot the Cephalia the Hemicrania and the Cephalalgia from the Tartar of the Head lying hidden in the glew which It is then a 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 is known when as there is no obstruction of the bowels nor bubling forth of bloud nor resolution of the Venâ—â—icle hereupon is the usual pain of the Head very oâ—â—â—n affecting men for a light occasion for many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cephalia affects the whole Head or the greatest 〈◊〉 oâ— it The Hemicrania affects onely the one part and it begins by the beating of the Temples The Chephalalgie comprehends both the kinds as â—â—mp â—he Cephalalgy is a pain which man feeleth in the Membranes and sinewed parts of the Brain-pan also every disease whether it be from Fevers or the heat of the Sun or from Drunkenness or from some other evident cause In the curing of the pains of the Head there are to be administred medicines which put away pain by
grievousness of the Fever five grains of Laudanum and therewith the Fever was expelled and he sleeped six whole hours The grains of the oil of Pearls and the herb Sena administred in his proper liquor extinguishes the inflammation of the Brain The strengthning of the Brain is made by the green liquor of Silver the secret of Vitriol the oil of Bread the liquor of Saphire the liquor of Musk the balm of Sulphur the water of Silver The tincture of oriental Saffron being applied about the Nostrils or Temples will help the Frentick or Sottish men Bartholomeus extols and commends the essence of Topaze lib. 16. cap. 96. The Urine of the Frentick which is of a pale colour fore-shews and Prognosticates death green Urine with a green circle shews the most present danger of death The said green Liquor of Silver being an Excellent Medicine for all Infirmities of the Brain is thus prepared â„ž pure Silver dissolve it in Aqua fortis and precipitate it with Salt water then dulcifie the Calx with hot common water the more the better till it be fully free from the Salt tast which being done mix it well with flowrs of Sulphur then reveâ—berate it under a Muffel to a vrey subtil Calx upon which put a high rectified Spirit of Wine Tartarized and set them to digest in Balaneo moneth then distil off the Spirit of Wine and return it on again which work of Cohobation must be reiterated seven times and then have you your foresaid Calx in a Liquor which you must set in Balneo again to digest a moneth then will it become a pure green juice most prevalent in all affects of the Brain much conducing against the Stone in Reins and Bladder and very succesful in all hot Fevers CHAP. IV. Of Out-raging Madness WHen black Choler is begot by the adustion of melancholy or bloud or yellow choler then the Mania invadeth and possesseth which comes often unto the melancholy waxing hot This black humour as likewise melancholy is collected sometimes in the films of the heart sometime in the whole body sometime in the head alone when this humour is hot it causes horrible and Out-raging doting but if it puâ—rifie Of the Causes Differences and Cure of the Mania Cap. 1. Of the Treatise of Diseases of Mad-men The Mania is a great Sottishness without a Fever it bringeth a Fever but if it only boil vehemently then it causeth a solitary Out-raging madness without a Fever and also it adjoyneth the signs The Mania is of us called a furor or Out-raging madness which immitateth the doting of the melancholick neither in thought word or deed but yet with brawling chiding and shouting as likewise the man possest with it is of a terrible look Again the Mania doth impel and possesse the patients with a greater violence and trouble and perturbation of the mind so that they invade men immodestly and fiercely like wild beasts with their teeth nâ—ils and hands The signs and proper adjuncts of those which are Out-raging are demonstrated by experience The cause in which all the Galenists insist and agree of shall be manifested by Paracelsus whether it be true or false The Mania according unto Paracelsus is twofold The one which invadeth a sound man and it is a disease the other is a symptom of a disease as in the Plague and Fevers Paracelsus in his book de morbis amentum writes in the second Chap. that the Mania rises from three principles or beginnings and in the same Chap. he divides the Mania into two kinds The one is that which rises from pain when as a vapour remains in the Head the other riseth from sublimation and is coagulated in the Head In the Cure we must respect these two causes viz. that the vapours from pain be consumed and dissipated and that that be resolved and reduced which is coagulated of sublimation The Mania hath his original either from Bloud Veins Ventricle Intestines Reins Liver Spirit of Urine and the Lungs de morb amentium cap. 2. It cannot be sufficiently known where the mine and procreant cause of the Mania is for it is an astral disease The true cause of Mania is in what part of the body soever Mercury lyeth hid and is reverberated into slime and is dissolved in very strong water which being dissolved is mixt with the spirit of life and inflames it there is such a subtileness in this strong water that it will not bide in the bottom but rises up unto the top The extreme acrimony of that humour appears from sneesing which provoking quality rises from the greatest acretion which comes to pass if any receive in at his Nostrils the smell of the spirits of Aqua fortis Salt and Vitriol This reverberation of Mercury proceeds from too much heat as for example If the spirit of Salt be mixt with the spirit of life it is of such a subtilty and power that as soon as it comes to the Brain it causes the Mania and extreme madness The Cure of the Mania is twofold the one which refrigerates and coagulates the faulting matter The other which altogether disperses and consumes the matter of which it is generated The refrigeration and coagulation of the matter faulting is caused by the curing of the Falling-sickness Receive of the oil of Camphora Ê’ of the oil of Musk Ê’ mix them and administer them at every time This medicine is most excellent in the cure of the Mania for it doth wonderfully coagulace the matter of the Mania and it extinguisheth the heat of the body and the boiling of the bloud and it altereth the matter as cold changes Water into Air. This oil may be applyed outwardly about the Templâ—s and Fore-head Also these remove the Out-raging madness by a secret specifical vertue The quintessence of Silver the quintessence of Lead the quintessence of Iron the quintessence of Quicksilver the dissolving of Christal and Coral so also the appropriate extraction of Camphora the extraction of Gold The medicines which remove the hurtful matter of the Mania are these which may be applyed either outwardly or inwardly Chief sleeping medicines the quintessence of Mandragora of Opiates of the Poppy Henbane The chief Cure of the Mania consists in Laudanum prepared with Pearl lib. 2. cap. 4. he setteth down a secret of Salt Peter which so strengthneth the Brain that neither turning of the Head nor the Phrensie nor Mania can hurt it By that Salt Peter he understands in that place distilled Salt Peter with the Spirit of Wine alcosiated and rectified Again let it be circulated untill it be made spiritual volatile and essential which essence is to be administred with claâ—ied Wine Pythopaeus says that he cured some which were Out-raging mad with the spirit of Lead Read Theophrastus Tom. 7. fol. 186. he understands by Gilla Salt Peter The said Laudanum prepared with Pearl â„ž old Opium â„¥ 4. cut it in thin slices put them in a Pewter dish so that they touch not
one another then put that dish with the Opium into an Oven assoon as the bread is drawn out when it is so dry that you may crumble it between your fingers take it out then make it to powder and put upon it good distilled Vineger in a glass which keep in Balneo a fortnight then decant the clear from the thick and filter it through a brown paper that being done distill off the Vineger in gentle Balneo till the Opium remain thick as Honey â„ž of that thick extract â„¥ s. and add thereto Salt of Pearl and Salt of Coral ana Ê’i Tincturae Ambergrece 12. drops of Tincture of good Saffron made with spirit of Wine Ê’i and stir them all together with a stick then keep it in a Silver or Pewter box for your use make it so dry as you may make Pills of it Dose from gran 2. to 3. or 4. at most CHAP. V. Of Melancholy It is a Sowerness THe other kind of Sottishness without a Fever is melancholy He is melancholick in whom sowrness excels Melancholy is a great Sottishness accompanyed with Fear and Sorrow which is caused according to the Galenists of black and putrified humours and vapours occupying the seat of the mind That humor is generated when yellow choler or choler degenerates into black choler Sometime the humour consists in the milt sometime in the nigh parts sometime in the head alone sometime it is esfused into the veins and the whole body Hereupon melancholy is threesold that which is of the fore-â—art of the belly the primary and that which is caused by the hurt of the whole body The Hypocondriack melancholy is called also the slâ—tulent melancholy and it is caused when black choler cometh unto the seventh Traverse or Diaphragma from which a black and obscure vapour is conveyed into the seat of the mind The primary melancholy is when the Brain is primaâ—ily affected either with a peculiar hurt or by the hurt of the whole body from hence we may understand that melancholy wearies without affecting the Heart-roots which is caused by the hurt of the whole body They call this Melancholy Solitary Out-raging madness but yet falsly for melancholy is not the cause of Out-raging madness but the spirit of life infected with the poison of Mercury of which Paracelsus writes cap. 4 de morb Amentium tractat 1. cap. 5. that there are four kinds of melancholy men according unto the four complexions as they call them If these complexions beget Sottishness the cause is because they expell and drive away their spirit for their too much abundance But what are the spirits of the humours or complexions a snarp bitter or sowr or sweet taste But what is the taste that which hath a great power as Hippocrates Of the contracted Members Tract 1. c. 4. Melancholâ— hath his seat in the whole body sâ—eaks What is that that hath the great power Salt Sulphur and Mercury for in them all the powers as well of Health as Diseases are contained so the spirit or taste of every humour containing in it the three first powers as well of sanity as of diseases may produce melancholy in as much as such poison commixt with the spirit of life is more languid and faint In this disease the spirit of Salt predominates for it is a Chronical and fixt disease In the cited Chap. Paracelsus saith that melancholy and madness are oftentimes caused by Meat and Drink Cups hurt Men and also Women Melancholick men are oftentimes sorrowful and sad and fly the company and sight of men Others suppose that they must not be spoke unto but that they must live all their dayes in quietness and taciturnity The cure of melancholy the Galenists which say that melancholy is the cause of the disease of sadness when as it is only the name of a disease they endeavour to cure this disease by contraries Melancholy is say they cold and dry therefore it is to be removed with hot and moist things wherefore in that they endeavour to cure it they administer these hot medicines Diambra Mithridates Diamargarita the hot elect Plorisanoticon so also the conserve of Borage of Buglosse and of Sorrel so also Diaboriginatum Diabuglossatum and the confection and compounding of dulcis diamascus though these are not to be contemned for in some sort they refresh the vital spirits but yet they do not remove the disease but as much as in them lies and as far as they can exercise their vertues not yet reduced unto perfection they strengthen Nature The decree and opinion of Paracelsus will ever be firm and constant that melancholy or heaviness cannot be removed by the decoctions of Apothecaries In the curing of melancholy the specifical vertues of the secrets are to be considered The specifical vertue which expels melancholy is in the flowrs of Antimony for by the flowrs of Antimony those are freed wich have been bound in chains for some moneths The flowrs of Antimony are administred in a little quantity of Theriaca in the morning twice or thrice or four times by reason of the contumacy of the disease In the fifth Chapter of Paracelsus de morbis amentium The quintessence of Antimony is a perfect cure of madness so in the sixth Chapter The oil of Antimony preserves from all the kinds of madness The tincture or magistery of Saffron expels sadness desperation and melancholy for Saffron is the chief medicine for melancholy for when as any begins to despair it doth wonderfully refresh the prostrated spirits It is a general deoppilative or unobstruct of the vital spirit and it is the chief joy of the heart The Armenial stone and also the Jazal stone being prepared are more commodiously administred by much The Confection of Alchermes which is commended of all Physicians removes Madness and Melancholick Affections for it strengthneth the spirits and expels all poison The essence of Silver cures all melancholy affections The essence of Ellebor administred It is very expedient against all the affects of melancholy The Smaragdus not only drunk but if hanged about the neck it removes all melancholy affects The essence of Thime Epithime and Origanum take away melancholy Paracelsus tract 3. de generatione hominis Chap. 5. ascribes hereditary foolishness and madness to the unproportionable form of the Brain and bad conformation He setteth down the cause of it viz. The immature seed of undigested liquor of life for he which hath a vicious liquor cannot profuse good seed for the body of the seed is puâ—rid and such like are generated thereof thereof Foolishness and Madness do not rise from the seeds but in as much as some hurts are left from Generation from which many diseases of the figures and cavities descend He that would know more kinds of madness let him read Paracelsus de morbis acutis amentium these kinds which we have explained are more common but the other are more rare Confection of Alchermes much better than
dizziness is the spirit of Sulphur ascending from the inferiour Heaven unto the Firmament that is unto the Head in which it is resolved it being resolved produces the Vertigo the Pulse of the heart and the Night-mare Sublimed Mercuty causes the paroxisin of the Apoplectick and the Epileptick by his fame The paroxism dures untill the Mercury be consumed which is a sperm of some Salt begot from imagination besides Nature the ectasis Paracelsus lib. 3. Parag. de morbis caducis Parag. 30. Therefore we must know that the most of the Mercurial diseases are kinds of Mercury and as many kinds as there are of Mercury so many kinds there are of a disease for the Falling-sicknes is not caused from Complexions Qualities Thurneus saith that the cause of the disease is in the bloud or Humours as the vain Galenists have taught Fernelius the most Learned amongst the Galenists in his 2. book Chap. 22. de abditarum rerum causis writes that the Falling-sickness of what kind soever it be is generated from the being of poison so also in his book de Sev. p. 315. saith that the root of the Epilepsie is Mercurial Vitriol partium morbis he acknowledgeth that besides the aboundance of humour there must needs be a poisonful offensive and grievous quality in the substance of the brain which is the cause of the Epilepsie which as often as it is agitated and contends to enter into the brain it as it were â—miting and the brain resisting and oppugning by their oppugnance and fighting the Epilepsie is caused This man amongst all the Galenists of this age came the nighest to the knowledge of the cause of the Epilepsie In another place Paracelsus writes that the matter of the Falling-sickness is stupefactive and biting Sulphur existing in the Microcosm which like unto smoke by boyling caused from the stars hurts the brain Paracel de morbis amentium tract 1. cap. 1. The original of the Falling-sickness is fivefold in regard of their places forth of which it first proceeds and arises from the brain heart liver intestines or from the four external members Fernelius makes three differences of the Epilepsie one is assigned from the Brain another is of the Ventricle the 3. is that which is caused by the consent of every other part Galen brought in a twofold Epilepsie by it self and by consent But certainly it is one and the same disease proceeding from the same Beginning Root and Seed They cause the nources and conservants and the difference of the sick they alter the signatures of the symptoms by their vehemency celerity frequencie duration and such like for the Falling-sickness of the Intestines Diaphragma Teeth Hands Feet Testicles Marrow and Throat do differ much amongst themselves I say that the Falling-sickness of the glew and bloud differ much from that of the Ventricle and Diaphragma by reason of their places and matrices in which the cause of the disease consists and where it emulates the nature properties subtilty and power of the matrix Again according unto Paracelsus de caducis Parag. 3. fol. 339. 340. The Falling-sickness is fourfold according unto the four Elements for the differences of the fourfold Falling-sickness are taken from the diversity of the pains and fits We must here recur unto the beginnings of Philosophy As in the Macrocosm the Element of Fire is most forcible so in the Microcosm the fit of the Falling-sickness from the fiery star is most vehement for it consists of more forcible and potent seeds by whoseresolution it is wont to possess the vital Elements of the whole body in a moment like a thunderbolt The paroxism of the Falling sickness from the Air is most mild and gentle so also there are four degrees of the Falling-sickness in the Microcosm as in the Philosophy of the Macrocosm we have set down four degrees of the Elements The Falling-sickness from the star of the Earth obtains the first degree The Falling-sickness from the star of the Air obtains the second degree The Falling-sickness from the star of Water obtains the third degree The Falling sickness from the star of Fire obtains the fourth degree After this manner the specifical Remedies of the Falling-sickness are divided into four degrees as we will say in our cure and his kinds The Falling-sickness and such like diseases which are infamous and notable in destruction and difference of paroxisms or symptoms have twofold particular indications for some Remedies especially respect the paroxisms some respect the roots or grounds thereof the cooling of the boiling spirits girding pricking and binding c. especially respect the paroxisms but the resolution of the Epilepsies tincture that is the consumption and abolishing of the seed of the root respects the roots themselves c. These indications admit easie mixtions and may be absolved by the same remedy Therefore we have distributed the remedies or medicaments into two orders I he one respect the paroxism the other respect the roots or grounds thereof Lastly we adjoyn medicaments which do not only respect the paroxism of the Epilepsie but also the very roots The true opiate Laudanum of Paracelsus respects the paroxism and constringes mitigates releases and binds the boiling spirits of which iij or more grains are administred with the spirits of Vitriol and essence of Camphora The essence of Manna and mans bloud respects the root it self of which there is to be administred in the full moon unto the Epileptick every moneth for it mitigates it and expels it A perpetual remedy of it is the essence of mans scull with the water of the flowr of Linden in the paroxism and before the paroxism a spoonful of Selondines water for the first dosis The extract of Elaterium The Azure stone and the Armenian stone prepared with the water of Balmmint and Bugloss The essence of black Ellebor Theophrast saith in the beginning of this disease if any have 3. 4. 5. or 6. paroxisms and no more two drops of the oil of Vitriol two drops of the oil of Pearls administred in Aqua vitae do altogether remove and expel this disease Theophrast saith that he hath approved this by deed The Philosophers stone and the Mercury of Gold or Silver removes this disease Paracel in tinctura Physicorum saith that the oil of Silver of which there must be taken ij or iiij drops with the water of Betony and Sage and Balmmint dissolves consumes and removes the root of the Falling-sickness The Smaragdus not only drunk but if it be hanged about the neck it wars and expels the Falling-sickness as an enemy Read Theophrast lib. 3. Parag so also in his book de signis Zodiaci a little after his Preface he saith that in the centre of the Scull of a A German cured his Son with such a bone of the Falling-sickness strangled man there is a bone found of a triangular figure it is not found in all Sculs but in some This bone being pulverized and
an inflammation of The Ophthalmia is a dolorifâ—rous tumour of the outmost pannicle accompanyed for the most part with the redness of the eye and profusion of tears bloud infused from the corners of the eyes into the whole adherent membrane by this the small veins swel and those which were obscure in the white of the eye are made conspicuous and whatsoever was white begins to wax red Chief and greatest ardour and pain afflicts him which hath often the sharp flux of tears It is very much like unto the Epiphora but they are distant amongst themselves because in the Ophthalmia only the white of the eye waxeth red but in the Epiphora the eye-lids do only wax red There be two hurts of the Eltropion eye-lids the Scab and the Itching The Eltropion of the eye-lid is an incision whereby the interiour red part remains perchance it runneth forth it is caused either from some scar or abounding of flesh The Grando is a Grando hard push rising almost in the superiour eye-lid The Hordeolum Hordeolum is a hot botch almost come unto an Imposthume bursting forth of the eye-lid The cure of the flux of the eyes For the curing of the flux and pains of the eyes the medicines are to be administred which we have mentioned in the cure of the rheum The spirit of Vitriol is most deoppilative and unobstructing for it removeth all obstructions The spirit of Sulphur consumes all the humours and fluxes of the head so also the oil of Silver Medicines for the most part of Surgeons are applyed outwardly and the inward are rejected furthermore in the curing of the painful affects of the eyes it brings nothing to pass worthy of commendation If the ancient and common proverb have place to cure all diseases by one collirium then certainly it will have place here and this The vertue of Tutia may be very fitly said of Tutia or heavier soil of brass by which Paracelsus reports that he cured not only the tumors tears and pains of the eyes but the extreme pain of the eye-lids and where the growing forth of the flesh had almost taken the sight which were thought to be desperate diseases unto those Physicians which by their The preparation of Tutia profession were called Ophthalmists The common preparing of Tutia is that a hot iron be extinguished in hot white wine Theophrast doth thus apply it take prepared Tutia put it into a linen cloth after dip it in wine Application mixt with white marble and often wash his eyes with it From Sugar or Salt of Antimony a precious balm may be made for the Ophthalmia and inflammation of the eyes so that it be before dulcorated and prepared Lithargy Tutia the Oar of Copper and Spodium may be rightly prepared by the spirit of wine or distilled Vinegar and made so mild and gentle that they will remove and take away the spots and growing out of flesh of the eyes without any pain as likewise they mitigate the inflammations and most bitter pains thereof Crato spoke very familiarly to a certain Physician The Expement of Crato that this was an excellent remedy for the eyes if that one do bruise the Lapis calaminaris and beat it into small powder and mix it with the melted marrow of an Oxe after the form of a liniment with which the shut eyes are annointed but the flux is to be washed with a sharp lixivium that itching may thereby be caused He that would know more of the affections of the eyes let him read Ophthalmodulia of George Bartchius CHAP. XII Of the Diseases of the Ears their Symptoms and their Causes THe Parotis is an inflammation which The definition of Parotis The Plegmone is a hot red and hard tumor unto our feeling and also gilstering The Oedoma is a soft tumor and white not resisting our touch but yet leaveth a hole Sev. p. 285. 286. The cause of the Parotis The mechanical process in Generation The Parotis is an Imposthum in the root of the right or the left Ear. bursteth forth especially in those kernels which are behind the Ears and their roots This hath all the notes of the inflammation of bloud both the tumor redness heat and beating pain but that sometime it comes to pass that it participates of an oedema The Galenists ascribe this to the hot humours flowing together unto that place but we ascribe it to the spirits of Arsenick that such a pestilent inflammation could be caused in the place of the kernels behind the ears for we hold it impossible that the hot afflux of humours can cause such an inflammation these seeds being resolved they produce the first vapours invested with the signatures of Fevers so also there are signatures closely contained in the superficies of such sulphureal spirits which are permixt with the vital Elements of humane anatomy they beget coldness horrour and rigour resolutions and sulphureous vapours follow which are inflammable and similar corrupting polluting Sev. p. 252. the Elements with the same signatures from hence are the alterations of the pulse thirst disdain of meat loathing vomiting restlesness watching and such other incommodities The symptoms of hearing as buzzing sounding noise and every depraved hearing The causes of buzzing and singing of the ears rise from their motion and agitation of them Those which supply the place of inward causes as they be divers and diversly impelled so they produce and cause divers sounds The buzzing of the ears is The buzzing of the ears is a proternatural sound caused within the cavities of the rocky bone caused from a little wind falling down by little and little The singing of the ears rises from the interrupted course of it Sounding rises from more crass wind bursting forth more plenteously The cracking is that which rises from a valid and strong impulse Furthermore heavy hearing and deafness rises either in the brain or in the primary organ of hearing the windings of the ear being hurt and Quoâ—citatius de medicina prisc fol. 399 100. hindered The cause which either possesses the brain or primary organ of hearing is an inflammation or hurt of the humour Hippocrates said that deafness was caused Deafness is when a man can hear nothing at all from black bloud but there is a more common original of it from crass and plegmy humour altogether seated and resting This of all others is wont to make the senses and their functions sleepy Heavy hearing and deafness which is native doth not rise from these causes but from the hurt of conformation whereby either the instrument of hearing is wanting or it attaineth a bad figure The true cure of the Parotis is this first that the boiling The cure of Parotis and inflamed spirits be extinguished and natural rest be restored unto them and this is to be done by Laudanum opiatum of Paracel But rather medicaments are to be given which expel the poison
often troubled with the distillation and cough especially old men which have strait Lungs The beginning of the Asthma is counted to be Dysponia that is a certain difficulty of breathing the disease as yet increasing When the affected cannot breath without a tatling and noise then it is called the Asthma When breathing cannot be made except The Cough pining and Peripneumonia are Jovial diseases The Orthopnoia is a great difficulty of breathing with the neck strecht forth the neck be stretcht forth then it is called Orthopnoea Here it is to be observed that the Asthma is not only begot from distillations but from the proper tartar of the Lungs which remains in the Lungs separation and expulsion being frustrated as we have demonstrated in our general explication of diseases Fernelius doth here agree with Paracelsus for he saith that the clammy humour in the Generation of the Asthma doth coagulate into hail and after into stones with which we see sometime the Lungs filled when as they be cut The Peripneumonia is an inflammation of The Peripneumonia is a Pleurisie of the ancient c. Sev. p 250. Quercitanus de mediâ—ina prisc fol. 401. 402. 403. The Peripneumonia is a hot imposthume begot in the substance of the Lungs the Lungs whose root and cause are the spirits of Arsenick Sulphur and Auripigmentum which spirits do not alone in their resolved and liquid form but in their vaporous and spiritual form come unto the matrices therefore they having attained a confluence in the anatomy of the Lungs they introduce their tinctures and seat themselves and that more strongly and sooner if they have stars indued with more potent tinctures but if the tincture be more debile and weak they perfect their work by frequency and assiduity they absolve Transplantation and afterward they fetch aliments from the weaker parts as well the nigh as the remote untill they attain unto maturity from the nutriments daily attracted they constitute bodies both filthy excrementitious sanguine coagulated resolved ill-smelling red black yellow of divers colours bitter sharp and having such like signatures therefore the roots being set and the bodies constituted the continual nutrition and fermentation being digested Sev. p. 250. they expect the times of maturity and separation which being instant there bursts forth an ebullition of spirits â—ev f. 251. 252. these spirits flying forth they produce the first vapours of Fevers invested with their signatures which are permixt with the vital Elements of mans anatomy and cause coldness horrours and rigour After follows resolutions and sulphureous inflammable vapours inquinating and tincturing mans Elements with the same signatures from whence are the alterations of the pulse thirst disdain of meat restlesness watching dotings bloudy filthy and excrementitious coughing and from hence the difficulty of breathing ariseth The Galenists make a twofold Peripneumonia one which rises by it self the other which succeeds the Squincy or Pleurifie also humour is suddenly carryed from the jaws or sides into the Lungs which doth not succeed any other disease but hath his first original from it self it is caused from small and cholerick bloud coming from the right side of the heart through the arterial vein very vehemently and aboundantly into the lungs which doth not only fill the lungs veins and arteries but the whole body and cistends it above measure it is also coarctated and putrifies and causes the inflammation of the Liver not that which is collected after the manner of other inflammations but that which is effused in the whole bowel The Imposthume of the Lungs is a little Imposthume or a collection of filth in some part of the Lungs which the proper membrane doth as closely include as a chest so that scarcely any filthy matter can be breathed forth into the heart This Impostume which is named Vomica vomiteth much filth from whence it takes his name viz. Ã vomendo It is generated from the poyson of Arsenick The cause of the imposthume Iron and Sulphur or root of the Plague which is the cause of filth The Galenists say that the cause of it is a distillation of blood into some part of the Lungs following the opening bursting or eating of a vein and there it putrifies and by little it is changed into filth and at last dries and makes a receptacle for it self Surely The signs of an imposthume it is a lurking and hidden hurt for oftentimes it is neither known to the diseased nor to the Physician neither doth the diseased lose his functions nor thinks that he hath such a disease and he carries the cause of his death within his bosom Those which are thus affected are of somewhat a wan colour in their faces and their tongues are full of a certain clamminess especially when they have long abstained from meat Many die quickly in a quarter of an hour in which being anatomized there appears no other cause then the suddain disruption bursting of the Impostume in the Lungs from which filth peirces into the heart which is the enemy thereof and perchance extinguishes and overwhelms the inbred heat All those which are thus affected long before the Impostume burst have a bloudy avoyding out of the Liver and that with coughing the breath also is grievous and stinking there is a heaviness also of the body a light oppression of the brest and a difficulty of breathing but the pining doth seldome accompany them but these signs are common to other affections Paracel lib. 3. param de origine morbor ex tartaro tract 4. fol. 167. saith that from the tartar of the Lungs there is begot the Astma the Cough difficulty of breathing the Phthithis and the Hectical Feaver The Phthithis or pining is either a consumption of the whole body or of some part and it is either universal or particular The universal is The universal is without pain The particular is with pain and parox Pining is a preternatural extenuation of the body caused from the Hectick Fever The cause of the pining that which is effected with the Consumption of the whole body The particular is that which is a Consumption of one member alone The immediate cause of the universal is Phthithis is an hidden impression of the Sun of the Microcosm namely when the vital and animal spirits are as a destroyer of the Microcosm the inferiour heaven that is the native liquor and moisture preserving the body from corruption and destruction which heaven being destroyed the parts of the body melt away and pine The antecedent or remote universal cause of the Phthisis is the tartar which obstructs Thurnens in Neptuno l. 4. cap. 8. the members serving for nourishing The being of poison violates the harmony and consent of the parts and hinders the stars of the inferiour Globe whereby they are less able to produce their Roses Violets Balmmint Gold Silver Rubines Saphires Valerians Vines and Fruits from aliments So in the anatomy of health there
that terra sigillata administred in Paracel theriaca will cure this disease so also Sulphur and Salniter being prepared cures it The Empyema is cured by the Empyoma oil or spirit of Turpentine which disposes the faulting matter unto expulsion of the Empyema Paracels in his cures saith that a noble woman had the Empyema which is an avoiding of filth and I cured her with the oil of Sulphur in the water of the Herb Hogs or Sowbread Balmmint and Betony If any feel a pain or pricking of the side in the lest side about the place of the heart especially upon night and if so be the pain do somewhat lessen then the pain comes from crass winds let him take of the seed of Carduus Benedictus in a convenient liquor and of the burnt horn of a Hart untill the pain vanish The said Diaphoretick Mercury prepare thus â„ž well purged Quicksilver grind it well with Salt Peter calcined Vitriol and Alume calcined ana then sublime up the Mercury in a Cucurbite in the head will ascend white flowrs which are useless and therefore to be cast away by the sides of the body will stick yellow flowrs which separate apart and on the Caput mort will lie Mercury sublimed red as Cinaber which take off carefully then grind the said red Mercury and likewise the yellow that stickt on the sides of the body with fresh Salt Peter Vitriol and Alume subliming the Mercury as before so do also the third time This being done take in the third sublimation the red Mercury only which remained or lay upon the Caput mort gâ—ind it with ana of flowrs of Sulphur and Sal Armoniac sublimed from calcined Vitriol being all well ground together set them to sublime in a subliming Urinal and what sublimeth grind again with that which remained unsublimed and sublime as before which work of grinding and subliming reiterate five times then shall you find your Mercury in the bottom of the Glass of a very deep red colour which is a true Diaphoretick Mercury of very powerful effects in extirpating all obnoxious humours in the body Dose is from 6. grains to 12. according to the strength of the Patient CHAP. XVIII Of the Affections of the Heart THe heart is obnoxious to diseases which partly proceed from the obstruction of the spirit of life partly from putrifaction The diseases which proceed from obstruction of the spirit of life are palpitation and a most vicious dauncing thereof The palpitation The palpitation of the heart is a bad motion of the heart somewhat like unto dauncing of the heart is begot from tartar in the coffer or place of the heart namely when the mechanical spirit of the heart doth not rightly separate the tartar which is in all the aliments or else doth not rightly expel the matter separated for then the passages of pores of the case of the heart are obstructed and the passage of the spirit of life is stopt from hence is palpitation from hence is putrifaction from hence is destruction and lastly from hence is death The Lypothymy is properly a disease of the heart but the Syncope or swounding is of the The Syncope is a prostrating of the vital vertue and strength of the whole body The Lypothymy a is prosâ—raâ—ing of the vital strength of the whole body caused suddenly and at once with sweat and danger of death Ventricle being hurt with crude and slegmy humours Johannes Montanus an excellent Philosopher and Physician in his Treatise de terra sigillata writes that the Lypothymy rises from vapours elevated from the Ventricle or Liver and from putrifaction and poisonful obstructions which invading the heart cause Lypothymies palpitations or trembling The Eclipses of the Microcosm of the heart which stop the breath and brings debility to the members Hippocrates lib. 7. Apo. Barthol Anglus lib. 16. cap. 103. Alexander Benedictus lib. 10. cap. 10 11 12. Read the sign in Galenists The causes which the Gnlenists adduce in the Syncope of the heart are for the most part true some are false which any ingenious man may easily distinguish The cure In the curing of the palpitation of the heart there are to be administred deoppilatives and unobstructive medicines of the spirit of life of which sort are the liquor of Gold the oil of Margarites and Corals Michael in his Apolog. fol. 173. saith that Pearls or Margarites do especially help the affects of the heart So the vertues of Corals amongst the rest are commended because they bring hilarity and alacrity to the heart and because they purifie the bloud and restore a heavenly body unto a temperate habit and absolute mediocrity by a certain vertue and power The essence of Saffron is good for Saffron provokes Urine and amends the colour helps the concoction and it is good to the heart The liquor of Macis Celandine and Balmmint as also the water of theriaca and all Diaphoreticks and Alexipharmatical medicines The liquor that flows forth of the Cedar-trees hath excellent faculties removes the affects of the heart Musk confirme the cold and trembling heart and it helps all the affects of it Ambergreece being smelt adds strength to the brain and heart it helps old men and those which are cold by nature wonderfully The spirit of Vitriol being reduced unto sweetness and some pleasantness of a sweet sowrness is a comfortative secret of the palpitation of the heart and the spirits of the heart and brain Davus fol. 399. The same is effected by the oil of Amber Diamargaritae calidae the confection of sweet Diamoschus Diambra Diacameron and Elâ—ctâ—arium latitiae expel the palpitation of the heart Galen saith very new conserves of Roses Schordion and Theoriaca are profitable in the Syncope and Lypothymy of the heart There must be administred comfortative and strengthning medicines as Gold Smaragdus and Coral Theophrast de tribus principiis cap. 10. so also medicines made of Pearls Saffron Balmmint Macis Theophrast lib. 2. de viribus membror cap. 1. also Succory Hysop and Mint of which Fuschius Thurnens in Pisone lib. 1. cap. 3. saith that Penniroyal red Mint and stores trinitatis are profitable so in the 7. Chap. Fengreek Betony false Ditany Savory Withwind the gumm of a tree in Persia and Earthsmoke so also the herb prunell which is gathered in the beginning of the Spring also Aromatica Moschata Diaboriginata Diabuglossata Diambra and Dianthos laetitiae Take of Oleum Benedictum of Galen in wine with a fasting stomach Riffius bids take it in his Antidotary so also Theriaca water and of Andromachus the conserve of Borage Sorrel and Bugloss do cure the palpitation of the heart Manus Christi Diamargaritae frigidae Diacoralli and Saunders comfort the cold heart these cure the dejected strength and Fevers Thurnens c. Against the straitness and heart-ach take the essence and tincture of red Roses Violets and Sorrel with the salt of Crystal and tinctures of Corals Quercitanus in his answer ad Anbertum
Reyns viz. Theophrast lib. de tartaro â—ract 3. Cap. 3. fol. 233. The Inflammation the Obstruction the Impostume and the Ulcer The Inflammation of the Reyns according unto more sound philophy is begot from the being of poyson of Sulphur Antimony and Arsenick in other parts of the body so likewise in the Reyns Lithiasis is a general word signifying the Stone of the reyns and The stony passion is a preternatural straightness in the cavity and passage of the reyns caused from the obstructing stone of the bladder According unto the Galenists the stone is begot in five places of mans body in the lungs guts reyns bladder and the jawbone But experience witnesseth that they are generated in the brain mesenterium milt liver ventricle matrix joynts and many other places of the body and this is confirmed by the industry and diligence of anatomists Fernelius makes a more effective De part morb sympt lib. 6. Cap. 12. and frequent cause of the stone then the Gallenists he saith whosoever hath derived the inbred slimy and stony constitution from his parents will scarcely by any means escue the Stone because this disease is most hereditary So that the Stone is procreated in the reyns of many The Stone of the reyns according to Paracelsus is generated from the tartar of bloud and urine Read the book de morbis tartareis Cap. 13. fol. 304. And of the Mechanical process of the generation of the stone of the reyns and the bladder From hence the substance of the reyns is thrusted forth into an hollow and pulled out and divulsing a part of the reyn to which it cleaves without the sense of pain and as it were dilacerating or tearing it it produceth a filth which is avoided with the urine and makes it crass turbulent and somewhat black The stone of the bladder if it be little not long after it comes to the head of the Ureters from whence it proceeds into the bladder which great violence and most intollerable Nephritical pain If it be somewhat crasser rough and sharp it sticks longer in the passage and dilacerates the Ureter with a great torment it remains in the capacity by reason of the thickness of it and because the passage of the Ureter is not broad enough The Nephritical pain is a most cruel torment of the Reyns or else of the Ureter which certainly hath an excellent sense This pain is nothing but a paroxism of the Stone sticking in the reyns or ureter This pain is usual and frequent unto many The inflammation is cured by the expulsion of poyson The Cure by Diaphoreticks The obstruction of the reyns is cured by the subtilty and secret of Copper Amongst these secrets the essence of the Vitriol of copper bears the preeminence which by great vertue and power openeth the obstructions of the reyns and expells the enemy very strongly and effectually The Nephritical stone brought from nova Hispania is commended to be effective in the Nephritis or Stone of the reyns and pain of the Stomach by an occult and hidden faculty if so be it be hanged about the neck For this cause the Indians carry it which hath divers colours It is affirmed to have such vertue that if it be hang'd on the arm and carried about the patient will forthwith be lightned and the pain diminished and the most of the sand and stone expelled If any shall make a bracelet of that stone which he may carry about with him continually the patient shall be affected with no pain of the stone while he carries it so The same effect is seen in the Nephritical wood which hath most effective virtues in the affects of the reyns the difficulty of Urine in the obstruction of the Liver and Milt whether it be decocted or drunk in wine or any commotion of the humours which is wont almost to follow other medicines or any other more exquisite order of the dyet so that it be moderate that it do not strangle the admirable medicamental vertues of this wood Read Phrissus in speculo part 4. lib. 4. tract 4. cap. 2. Barthol Anglus lib. 7. cap. 54. Alexander Benedictus lib. 22. Let those which have the stone in the reyns drink ale seasoned with Betony berries of Laurel Peniroyal or Mugwort So also take the ashes of greater Beans and pour them forth into wine and drink every day of it This drink is very good for those which have the Dropsie by reason of the salt of beans it dissolves the tartar of the reyns Dialacca Lithou dribondia Calamenthum Diatrion Pepperwort and Diasulphur are effective 3 drops of the oyl of rectified Vitriol given every morning in the water of Petrosiline are likewise effective The spirit of Vitriol accomplisheth the same Quercit de mod spagir praeparat fol. 98. Many through all Germany and Italy use the spirit and oyl of Vitriol for the Epilepsie and the cure of the Stone and Asthma and that with great profit and utility for the stone of the reyns and bladder is nothing but a tartar or salt of tartar The spirits of Turpentine or Vitriol administred in the spirit of wine resolve and expel the stony matter Lapis rubeus bruiseth the stone This rubeus is found almost in all sowen sparages and it is very new because these sparages be very rare which want it Lapis Judaicus which is generated in Jurie and Lapis Lynacrius or the stone which is generated of the urine of the animal Linx or spotted Beast by the generation of Amber because as Amber at the touch attracts chaff so it attracts the stony matter Quercitanus in his answer to Anbertus fol. 13. c. saith that the stone of Sporage adusted glass moistned with goats blood the ashes of Cockles the calcinated stone of Jurie and the bone of Cuttlefish do wonderfully profit the stone of the reyns or tartar the reason is because salt resolves for salt resolves the stone and expels it by urine fol. 13. saith that amongst the rest of the medicaments which cure the stone reverberated crystal is to be numbred from which at length salt is extracted by whose resolution there is made a most excellent oyl in the moisture for to remove all the obstructions of the bowels de spagir med praeparat fol. 111. A specifical remedy and often proved by experience for the expelling of the stone of the reyns which is thus made take the little stones which are found in March in the ventricle of an Oxe with white wine so also in May there is found a little stone in the bladder of the gall of the Oxe which if it be put in wine it gets a Saffron colour the tast being a little changed let the patient drink of this being dayly affused or sprinkled with new wine untill the stone which is put in the wine be consumed by this means it is approved by experience that the stone will be bruised and diminished so also the black and red
inbred and Native heat It is also the first substance which they call the First-begotten moisture for it is the first and common to all living things in which the spirit perfused with heat primarily and by it self consists so that neither of them can endure long without the help and vertue of this humour for there is such an agreeable conspiring harmony and continual affinity amongst them so that they work mutually neither can any of them effect any thing being destitute and deprived of the help of the rest The Radical matter is as it were the Original and nourishment of the Heat for the heat is sustained by the benefit of it This Heat is as the principal efficient cause the Humidity is subjected to the heat in the place of the matter and suffereth more from which we may at the first behold as it were in a glass that the Native heat is the Radical moisture perfused every where with inbred spirits and heat And this is the whole substance of the sounder Galenists as they call them of the which we have sufficiently spoke Now it followeth that we handle of Nature CHAP. VI. Of Nature PLutarch a grave and learned man saith that the knowledge of truth is so amiable and delectable that our very being and act of living was given unto us for the knowledge of the truth Seeing therefore that it is elsewhere firm and stable but especially in Philosophy it is judged to be ratified firm constant and stable therefore I say it is to be weighed more deeply in our judgments lest that we be thought only to follow the shadow of Nature the image of light being left behind our backs and also lest that the inquisition of truth being posthibited we do fall into errours which cannot be avoided and so make our selves unwotthy of our life and office Certainly if we consider Aristotles Philosophy and the difference of the Nature of things and examine this well in a Philosophical ballance Aristotelians will seem unto us to be like Children which hold nuts in their hands but yet they are ever busie about the shells and never taste the kernel First we will bring the definition of Nature into light that it may throughly be understood of us Nature is the beginning of motion and of rest in that Aristotle in the second Book of Physical auscultations cap. 1. Josephus Michaelis in his Chemical apolygy p. 21. The Nature of every thing is nothing but the Commandement of God by which all things are that they are and do that they are commanded to do At his bâ—ck the Elements observe the prescribed Law and the Heaven and Earth do obev The substance and essence of Nature is inbred heat thing in which it is primarily and by it self and not by accident What doth he mean by this definition of Nature for it makes nothing for the knowledge of the very substance of Nature For though thou say unto me that Nature is the beginning of motion or that which moveth all things nevertheless it remaineth as yet unexplained and defined what the substance of Nature and what the essence of the Movent is from whence all actions proceed which are comprehended under Motion But these are the subtilties of the Peripateticks by which they bring counterfeits unto others but let us let them pass lest we be thought to contend with shades and ghosts and let us convert our speech to those which have searched forth the very essence of Nature and have contemplated the very truth thereof and have as it were handled it in their hands and seen it with their eyes with whom we profess that the substance and essence of Nature is Native and Inbred heat which before we have described It hath conformed and augmented Animals Vegetables and Minerals from the beginning and as it were nourish the cause of all natural effects Therefore Nature as likewise inbred heat comprehends three things namely Radical moisture Spirits and Heat All these ate generated of one seed and at one generation This is that Nature in which the seminary causes of things are secretly contained In which the Philosophy of the Platonicks triumphs Aristotle and Galen and their Sectators which writ the precepts of Natural Philosophy doubted not that there was a certain Nature with us and that well known and that which all conclude to be the vulgar principle of Philosophy which neither ought nor can be demonstrated which only we comprehend in mind and understanding Galen brings Hippocrates to confirm this in the ninth Book of the Opinions of Hippocrates and Plato Hippocrates durst not affirm what the substance of Nature is in the conforming and governing of us and that it was the workman and cause of us But Galen durst in his Book of Diet where he saith that Fire Hippocrates understands by the name of Fire Nature it self can move all things generally and that Water can nourish all things and that these two things are sufficient for all things and for themselves but neither of them separately is sufficient for it self or others in which words he manifestly declares the essence of Nature and the substance thereof in that he signified Nature by the name of Fire which moveth all things universally He calleth the essence and substance of Nature Water which nourisheth all things wholly for it is received from the more profound Philosophers that all natural bodies are nourished by this natural Balsam though not pure but mixed with diverse impurities so all nutriments are spiritual and humid after the similitude of seeds which in the beginnings of generations must be spiritual and humid But he expresseth his mind more plainly by much in these words These two are sufficient both for all others and for themselves but separately they are neither sufficient for themselves or others What meaneth he almost by this divine Oracle but that these two Fire and Water that is Nature and Essence to constitute all natural things from which they have their name But separately they are neither sufficient for themselves nor others that is neither Fire without Water nor Water without Fire or otherwise neither Nature without Essence nor Essence or substance without Nature can subsist And this is that which the Philosophers call the hot and humid temperament of all things Namely to continue in their state though perchance that one thing amongst the rest do prolong the life for many years So that many have supposed that it was not able to continue or consist seeing that continually without intermission of time the humour is consumed by the force of the Heat so that in a short time the Heat remaineth single in the place of the hot and moist temperament and at last it is brought to a hot and dry temperament Again the humour being consumed and wasted and the Heat being destitute of aliment by little and little it fadeth away and driness altogether succeeds and also the heat being dis-jected and cast forth of it and
Mercury is called the Renewer and Restorer of mans body So also the Antimony of all the Waters is the best Cordial in which so great power and vertue of Balm is occultly contained so that it is able to cure all desperate and deplored Diseases as well sharp Diseases as Chronical What shall I say of Vitriol which alone is able to cure the fourth part of all Diseases and to root out altogether all Tartareous Diseases I let passe Sulphur indued with infinite properties and Sal-niter which helpeth and cureth the greatest Diseases beyond our expectation so also I let passe Sol and Luna Margarits and Corals and other Individuals of this kind The Minerals demonstrate their Vital qualities with such a vertue of their actions and they demonstrate the differences of the Vital qualities that is of the first qualities from which all actions proceed from them Paracelsus fetches seeds which are Vigent and bear sway in the Treasures of the Elements for to administer the Worlds province and that they might come forth into aspect they do unite with the Spirits but yet with such Spirits as of which bodies may be constituted and compounded And this Wedlock or Union is the connexion of the seeds and principles Afterward when as they have found forth fit Matrices and Receptacles for every Element bringeth forth the Fruits not in his own proper place but in a strange or unusual place they admit rather the company of visible bodies than of compound and mixt bodies Then the Elements constitute not the common bodies but the bodies proper unto the Minerals In like manner the principles of bodies that is Mineral Sulphur Mineral Salt and Mineral Mercury do constitute Mineral Fire and Mineral Air Earth and Water and this is the union or connexion of the Elements and Principles These being absolved and perfected they produce all Congelations Colours Signatures which are Vegetive in the seeds stars or Vital principles thereof and they demonstrate Metals or Minerals very nigh unto Metals In our Astral Philosophy it it said that there is a corporeal Second part cap. 2. life in all things which lie hidden in the Centre of the Elements which life is subject to the wills of workmen by wonderful Providence and Wisdom of God For the mechanical Spirits or Soul hath made a firm and constant union or connexion with the body but yet not with the external Crasse and last bodies which are altogether unvalid and unfirm but with the internal aed sâ—irituâ—l bodies which are destinated unto properties Furthermore those which have their Roots fixt in the Centre of the Elements live obscurely be cause they are not distracted with the offices and varieties of actions neither serve they for sense and motion But those which live obscurely have a common Hermophrodites seed agreeing with many Spirits that is the Nature of all things living obscurely and lying hidden in the Centre of the Elements is so framed that they participate something of all kinds of their kind and for the Harmony Society and Constellation of their Nature they most easily conspire These things are illustrated and made more plain by examples Alexander a Suchlen in a certain Querâ—itanui against Anon p. â—4 Treatise of Antimony writes that he found in one Root of Antimony not only three united principles the Roots of Minerals but also Gold Silver Mars Jupiter Saturn except Venus So from Venus and Mars Vitriol is drawn by art from Metal Mineral is drawn and contraiwise This is that which Severinus Davus pag. 124 saith by the great power of Nature we have wondred and admired in the seed of the Minerals not only the unexpressed variety of the Sex but also the united principles of the Individuals and Spirits in one and the same seed These are the mysteries and secrets and wonderful things of God placed in the Majesty of Nature Let these suffice concerning the Generation of the Element of Water Now we proceed to the Generation of the Element of Earth and we will intreat of Vegetables All Vegetables are those which have Roots fixt and fastened into the Earth and are sustained by a Vegetive Soul Furthermore Plato called the Plants Animated or Vegetables There are especial differences of Generations in regard of the Elements and of the seeds The seeds and stars are ever the same in Nature Virtue and Essence but the Elements differ much amongst themselves in subtileness and moveableness as the Element of Water is more subtile and moveable than the Earth so the fruits and things generated from it are more subtile moveable valid or firm and more excellent than the fruits or things begot from the Earth From hence it is that the seeds of Vegetables have a clammy soft crass body in respect of the Minerals and Animals whose seeds are more spiritual and subtile bodies Concerning the manner of Generation of Vegetables those which proceed of their own accord without mans industry have almost the same manner of their Generation with the Minerals for the seeds of Vegetables rise forth of the Matrix of the Earth and at first unite with the Spirits and so constitute their principles Vegetable Salt Vegetable Sulphur begot Vegetable Mercury Vegetable Water and Vegetable Fire Earth and Air. But this is to be observed which is most worthy to be noted that the fruits or effects of every Element retain and reserve the properties nature and conditions of the Matrix in which they lie hidden from the beginning and they never depose them So Paracelsus in his third book 2 Chap. of degrees brought this difference he made the fruits or the effects of the Earth to be of the first degree the fruits of the Air to be of the second the fruits of the Water to be of the third to the fruits of the Fire he ascribeth the fourth degree where he adjoyneth these words he laboureth in vain whosoever he be which would get the quintessence out of Earthly things which is like to that which is got forth of Air. In like manner that quintessence which is from the Air cannot be compared to that which is brought forth of the Water upon this Sentence so it is to be judged of the fourth Element Concerning the extracting of the quintessence forth of the herb Chelondine it is not that thou labour to attain the quintessence of Gold by the quintessence of Chelondine though there be more secret in Balmemint Chelondine and Valerian than in the rest only so far proceeds the degree that the secret may excel in many parts so that in every degree one Element exists higher than another wherefore it is to be observed in things made of Earth whether the Chelondine excel the Balmmint and whether the Balmmint excel the Valerian so likewise it is to be judged of the three other Elements The spontaney or free Generation of the Vegetables cometh nighest unto Nature and is almost like the Generation of Minerals excepting that the seed of the Minerals according to their
constipating Alumish and astringent faculty After that the stomach hath received eaten and ingested meats it separates the pure from the impure The pure nutriment is if that the Ventricle be strong the pure aliment passes to the members for nutriment the impure is evacuated by stool If the Ventricle be weak it sends the impure unto the Liver and there separation is made if that the Liver be strong it separates well and sends the excrementitious matter together with the Urine if there be a good separation it is well if not the excrementitious and stony matter remains and is coagulated into a sand which is called a Tartar The original and Fountain of this evil must be diligently observed from whence many diseases of the great inferiour Globe do rise The original and Fountain of them is the stomach which hath the properties of three beginnings flowing together with the spirits of the foresaid Alumish constipating and sowr Tartareous filth and excrements Therefore the other Causes concurring by which the actions or lythargy of the faculties of mans body are commonly hindered as things taken done and outwardly happening that is which chance outwardly and are able to hurt the spirits as Baths Falling Confusion Venus Separations and Expulsions in a preposterous use of the Tartareous dregs being in the Ventricle and Intestines and the stinking Sulphur or mans dung being consumed and separately evacuâ—ted the excrementitious impurity gets opportunity and seats it self in the Ventricle and Intestines which * Sev. calls those the Spirits of nature roots being set the spirits which bear sway and have vigour in the natural * These he calls the Spirits of the thing anatomy of the Intestines and seat themselves in the filthy excrements produce and cause the obstruction and constipating of the belly and endeavour the continuity and retention of the excrements These roots being first laid in the continual nourishing they will receive excrements though that so manifest errour do not chance afterward in the diet untill that at the accomplished time they shew Paroxisms the Companions of Generations so the mechanical spirits of the stomach being corrupt and stained by Alumish and stiptick tinctures they are made unfit for all natural motions alterations separations and digestions and resolutions so that they absolve and perfect the Functions of concoctions very slowly and hence it is that crudeness belching inflammations heaviness sloth drowsiness after meat and the intollerance of hunger Sev. p. 342. saith that this evil and such like arise because of the vitiated lithargy and likewise the other reservacles that is emunctory or avoiding instruments serving for nourishing being vitiated and corrupted separations and digestions are corrupted by little and little and transplanted as Paracelsus speaks in his Treatise de ente Veneni CHAP. XV. What the Tartar is which are the kinds and which are Excrements IT is said that the being of Poison of the inferiour Amongst the rest read the most excellent Treatise of Paracelsus de Morbis ex Tataro Tom 4. operis concerning these Tartareal Diseases and the Causes and Cures Globe is a Tartar it comprehends under it 4. kinds The stone the sand the lump and the glew or slime This Tartar is an excrement of natural things coagulated by his spirits in man Excrements are twofold first the excrement of man secondly of natural things The excrement of man is an impure and stinking Sulphur which is avoided by the belly and it is named the dregs of the belly The excrement of natural things is an excrementitious Severinus in hiâ— Bcâ—k de tribus Principiis cap. 2. and tartareous matter of Paracelsus it is called the Salt of the thing which is not expelled unless it be admixt with impure and stinking Sulphur it is coagulated into the stone sand lump or slime The faculty of the Ventricle is not able to separate this excrement of natural things seeing it doth stick more deeply in the aliments but is conveyed to the more subtile mechanical spirits namely of the Mesaraical Veins Liver Reins Bladder and Intestines If the mechanical spirits of the members shall strongly separate that excrement of natural things then the lithargy of the body shall every where be sound but seeing errours happen in the separation and that it is not exquisite a vaporous substance is distributed through the whole body together with the aliment and finds place not only in the bloud and flesh but also in the marrow and other places where it makes his abode CHAP. XVII Of the Excrements of the first three IT is often said that all aliments are seeds but yet permixt with impurities These seeds are contained in three Beginnings which have their excrements for in Sulphur there is a fat and smoaky excrement in Salt a foul Earth in Mercury there is phlegm Hereupon divers diseases are begot in mans body for the diversity of places if they be not rightly separated by the mechanical spirits of the bowels serving for nourishment nor be expelled by the emunctory or avoiding and accustomed places Seeing therefore such like impurities of the three principles flow in the body because they have not a conspiration in the body but expel the vital Sulphurs from their Globes unless they be stronger and overcome the in-bred spirits so the in-bred spirits do yield and give place to the strange tinctures and impurities being destitute of the favour and cherishing of their places they err because they are unknown guests and sind not place in their Inn. These are the properties of the Elements or Sulphurs that is of the nature of the mechanical spirits of the superiour Firmament of the spirits of the Heart and Brain that they cannot suffer or abide any strange or disagreeable thing in their places but expel all by their united forces and vertue But if so be the tinctures of impurity find a firm Union with the mechanical spirits of the Ventricle and the mixtion cease in a fruitful Transplantation and the governing of the in bred Balm cease and the proper Functions be neglected they bring forth and cause continually the diseased fruits of Transplantation neither can such affections be expelled by any industry either of Nature or in-bred Balm unless by the means and Ministery of art external Balm helps the internal for the spirits of Transplantations are more strong workers than the in-bred CHAP. XVIII Of the twofold Tartar namely of Meat and Drink and what the difference of it is and how much it differs in the Cure IN the 1. place is to be observed that there be two kinds of Tartar one from Meat the other rises from Drink That Tartar which rises from Meat is The Tartars of Meat and Drink are distinguished in places for the Tartar of Meat for the most part is begot in the anatomy and place of the Ventricle and Intestines the Tartar of Drink is begot where the separation of the Alimont is from the Urine that is in the Mesentery and
the passages of the Urine in subtileness because it is transmutated from volatility and spirituality into a Corporeal substance The office of the Lungs was to attract Air and Spirit and to make convenient spirit for the arteries and to communicate it unto them for nourishment when as the Tartar sticks in the pipes the Lungs are hindered whereby they are less able to undergo their Functions as they should from hence many Diseases are generated as the Asthma the Cough the impediment of Breathing or difficulty of Breathing the Hectick Fever and the Phthisis and other Diseases from which Tartar all the Diseases of the Lungs are generated The Brain hath a proper Ventricle in which the mechanical spirits are which are the Authors of Attractionâ— Retentions Separations Coagulations Digestions Diâ—tributions and Expulsions As the Ventricle properâ—y so called is the Corrupter and Destroyer of all Diseases in that it doth not rightly execute his Functions so the imbecility of the Ventricles is the cause of many most grievous Diseases of which ancient Writeâ—s never make mention Furthermore it is a great thing to know the spirit from whence all the actions of the Ventricles proceed If the spirit be infirm the members also being infirm corrupt and perish When the nutriment is conveyed to the Ventricle of the Brain the mechanical spirits of the Brain separate the pure from the impure and give the pure to the Brain for nourishment but expell the impure through the emunctory places as the nostrils so without the Brain in the place of the Ventricle Tartar is begot from whence rises the Phrensie Out-raging Madness and other kinds of Madness which Diseases the old Writers have ascribed to bloud and other humours The Generation of the Stone and the Sand in the Reins is the same The Heart attracteth his own nutriment and separates the impure from the pure the excrement is that in which the Tartar lies hidden The Heart lies hidden in his case from which it expells excrement The nutriment of the Heart is the most subtile the excrement is like to a drop of clear water Now then the Tartar being coagulated by the spirit of Salt in the case of the Heart forthwith the Tartar is begot from which Generation of Tartar many Diseases are begot as the Cardialgiâ— the trembling of the Heart and other Diseases which the Galenists do badly ascribe to the humours of melancholy and choler In the Gall also as in other excrements the Tartar of humours is found as likewise the matter of Stones if it be seâ—arated and not expelled the Tartar is begot in the Gaâ—l from the which Compressions Vomitings Cholick Passions and Suffusions of the Gall are caused In the cure of these Diseases it is to be respected especially unto the Tartar and little Stones that by dissolution they be reduced into their First Matter and be consumed not unto yellow or câ—lfish choler for all the Diseases of the Gall almost are generated from Tartar The Tartar or little Stones in the Gall expell the choler and cast it forth into the Ventricle or Intestines sometime into the Liver from whence arise the kinds of the Jaundies for every Jaundies which is not removed by medicaments appropriated and convenient got and made from Vegetables hath a familiarity and similitude with the Tartar and unless the Tartar be dissolved and reduced to his matter all health is dispersed The paroxism of the Stone causes Contractures Putrefactions Cholick Passions so also the paroxism of the Tartar or Stone in the Bladder brings with it the Jaundies of the Gall Cholick Passions Contractures Compressions the Vomitings of the Heart-strings and weakness and imbecility of the Ventricle So in the Spleen or place of the Ventricle there is begot a Tartar which begets Opilations or Obsâ—uctions and the Quartan for this reason the Galenists say that the Quartan is incurable because they know not the Tartar but they say that the cause of it is melancholy or adust choler and they endeavour in vain to expell it through the Belly the Tartar remaining CHAP. XXI Of the Tartar of the Bloud Flesh and Marrow THere are Ventricles in the Bloud Flesh and Marrow and all the parts of the body which are nourished where there is a Ventricle there is a fire of digestion and a separation of pure from impure where there is a separation of impureness from the pure substance there is also excrement and where there is excrement there is also Tartar either alone or else commixt with other excrements for through the whole anatomy of the body and in all the parts of it excrement is two wayes considered it is either Sulphur or it is Salt for in every aliment three things are be considered Mercury which is nutriment Sulphur which is avoided and expelled through the Belly and Salt which is expelled by Urine As those excrements first in the Ventricle are coporal so the excrements of the other parts are volatile and spiritual for after the separation of the Ventricle sâ—iritual and volatile excrements coagulate in all the parts of the body It is an established and confirmed sentence of all Philosophers that the nature of bodies and spirits is reciprocal that bodies are resolved into spirits and spirits are transmutated into bodies furthermore Flesh Bloud and Marrow have their Ventricle and Digestion Separation Excrement and Tartar Nature expells the excrement of bloud by sweat it expells the excrements of the Flesh by Urine from whence the Urine of Bloud is as Paracelsus The driness of the bones consumes the excrement of Marrow whatsoever remaineth comes and is conveyed unto the ligaments and concavities of the bones The nutriments of Bloud Flesh and Marrow are altogether spiritual and invisible but the excrements are visible and yet they are the most subtile of all the parts in the body In the attraction of nutriment of Bloud the excrement and Tartar was also spiritual and invisible as in the distilled and circulated spirit of Wine but yet it separates both the volatile and spiritual excrement in that they are excrements whether Sulphur or Salt by a most exquisite digestion of the bloud therefore the Tartar of the bloud is subtile but it is coagulated by the spirit of Salt and is resolved and reduced by the same There is a twofold Tartar of the bloud flesh and marrow either coagulated or resolved The Tartar is begot of the Element of Water whether it be from meat and drink and therefore obnoxious to coagulation and resolution when the excrement of Tartar is not expelled forth of the veins it becometh like to a corn of sand or like to the grain Rice so also without the veins and pores such like grains of Tartar are begot though they encline more to resolution notwithstanding if they remain longer under the power of the spirit of Salt they increase into a corporeal coagulation The filth or flegm of bloud is the excrement of it if that filth be more crass and be not
been well purged by Antimony being dissolved pour therein as much oil of Vitriol then abstract the oil of Vitriol from it again then pour on as before and draw it off again thus cohobate it twelve times every time have a care that your Gold be not left dry but somewhat moist and therefore the surest way were to perform this work in a boiling Balneo Having then cohobated it twelve times the last time drawing off the oil of Vitriol and oil of Salt pour upon your Gold the best spirit of wine rectified to the highest and set it in a Cellar or some cool place where let it stand for some dayes and part of the Gold will crystalize take out those Crystals and distil off some of the water and set the rest to crystalize as before so do until all your Gold be in Crystals which dry upon clean brown paper in warm air Take the dry crystals make them into subtil powder and pour upon them good spirit of wine then put them for some dayes to digest in a gentle Balneo afterward abstract your spirit of wine by degrees very gently and the true Essence of Gold will remain behind like an oil CHAP. IX Of the Spasm THough the Spasm be properly a kind of the Falling-sickness and is referred of Paracel lib. 3. Paragraph parag 30. unto the cure of the Falling-sickness notwithstanding seeing it is an insolent The Spasm is a preteternatual motion whereby the body is pulled violently and continually into a preternatural place either wholly or in part with an impotency of bending and acute symptom and hurt of the sensitive and motive faculty which is able to kill man we will handle briefly of it in this Chapter De tartarolib 2. tract 2. cap. 1. The spasm is not a disease but a fore-runner of adisease Parag. lib. 3. Parag. 3. The cure of the spasm is referred unto the Falling-sickness De tartaro lib. 2. tract 1. cap. 5. 6. The Tetanus contracts the members the spasm extends them Read Thurnenseriusin Neptuna lib. 6. cap. 44. The convulsion is a torpor therefore The definition of the Spasm the spasm or convulsion is a perpetual voluntary contraction of the sinews and muscles unto their original The Galenists say that the cause of the spasm is contained in the beginning of the Back-bone and it somtime infests and annoys the whole body sometime some parts That which is of the whole body doth so straitly gird it that it cannot be bended when the body is crooked forward then it is Emprostothonos when it is crooked backward Emprostothonos Opistothonos Tetanus then it is Opistothonos when it is equally bent then it is Tetanus that is a distention a convulsion of the parts sometime it is in the eye in the skin of the fore-head in the root of the tongue the chin in the lips whereupon the girning laughter is caused sometime The girning laughtor it is in the arm in the hand and the thigh and in that sinew or muscle which is destinated for the motion of the member There are many causes of the Convulsion with the The cause of Convulsion Galenists all which Hippocrates reduceth unto two Into evacuation and repletion Convulsions are caused from evacuation which arise from a burning Fever or from the potion Ellebor or some other medicaments or from immoderate effusion of bloud or from immoderate watchings or from hunger or from immoderate labour But every Convulsion which rises from flegm or drunkenness surfetting or from the supprest accustomed evacuations or from the intermitted evitation is to be referred unto repletion They make the immediate cause of it to be flegm impinged fast in the sinew Besides these two kinds they bring another which they call a flatulent Convulsion The cause of it is a clammy and crass vapour implanted in the couples of the sinews and here they come at last unto Paracelsus and explain in some sort the cause of the Convulsion Paracelsus in his tract de Cholica writes that winds are generated and caused The cause according unto Paracelsus from too much meat or drink and crudities which penetrates through the whole body and are exasperated by anger The spirit of Salt is mixt with the wind and peirces through all the pores of the body and enters into the concavities joynts glew and spirits of it In those places in which it is conservant it causes a Convulsion or Spasm The paroxism dures until the wind and spirit of Salt be consumed De morbis amentium tract 1. cap. 1. de origine suffocationis intellectus he saith that the spasm is generated from cold that is from wind and acetosity that is the spirit of Salt until the wind and spirit of Salt do vanish the symptom is to be marked to what diseases the spasm chances The spasm concurs Unto what diseases the Spasm happons in the Apoplexy of the heart in the red Jaundies in the Plague in Wounds in the gutta in the suffocation of the understanding in the Falling-sickness in the Cholick and falling disease of the matrix The especial indication is to comfort and strengthen The intornal indication of curing the interiour members with internal medicaments Furthermore the cure of it is referred of Paracelsus unto the Falling-sickness to cherish and corroborate the external members and sinews with calefying medicaments you may read the internal cure and medicaments at the end of the Falling-sickness The external medicaments are Oils and Balms which are to be applied in the affected place as the oil of Euphorbium and the essence of Euphorbium corrected and inwardly applied and administred let the dosis be ℈ with a competent decoction It is very available against the Paralysis and Spasm and it evacuates the flegm though clammy crass and impinged or fastned in the sinews or joynts without perturbation The essence of Castorium Bevers stone extracted with the spirit of wine a drop of which being administred with the decoction of Rosemary flowrs Sage and Betony cures the trembling Convulsion and all the hurts of the sinews Outwardly there may be applied in the Convulsion Sage and Betony especially if it be be caused from evacuation or repletion and when those things ought to be evacuated which are contained in the sinews preternaturally The oil of Turpentine distilled and applied inwardly and outwardly cures the Convulsion and Spasm by it the Back-bone may be knit and the place of the Navel and also of the affected place The essence of temperatory administred cures all the kinds of the spasm Emprostothonos Opistothonos and Tetanus Carrecterius Inherberiosus de 4. gradu Canceri writes â—ol 2 6. of the Water-lilly which hath red and white flowrs it being dried in the Septentrional shade and being hanged upon the roof of the house or the walls he which hath the Spasm or Convulsion will be cured in a moment of time All simples do perform this which encrease in the waters
as the Fern having a very white root in the waters use and experience will teach us many remedies out of the assigned art Mandragora Woolf-bane and the inverted Grape perfect this cure for under the greatest poison there lies the most vertue which is to be noted well Thus prepare the foresaid Essence of Beaver stone â„ž the right Beaver stone for the counterfeit are often sold for true ones make it into subtil powder then dissolve it in a pure well rectified spirit of Salt then abstract the spirit of Salt from it again and upon it put the best and highest spirit of wine digest them together in Balneo then decant off the spirit of wine clear from the feces and in Balneo distil off all the spirit of wine and behind will remain the true essence of the Beaver stone CHAP. X. Of the Excrements of the Brain and of Plegm DIstillation with the Greeks Catharros The Catharr is a preternatural flowing of plegmatick humours from the Brain to the inferiour members a Rheum is a falling down of supervacaneous humours from the head unto the members This name is taken generally of the late writers but the old writers have only taken it for that rheum which falleth unto the jaws therefore the cause and matter of pain is the excrement of the head The descending distillation hath his name from the place whereupon it is said if the rheum flow unto the breast it is called a flegm if unto the jaws it is called branchus if unto the nostrils it is called corysa Galen in his 3. book cap. 4. De symptomatum causis Elsus book 4. Chap. 2. The procatarctical causes of the flux of the head are too much drinking sleep at mid-day night-watching unseasonable studies The procatarctical cause of the plegm especially after meat for vapours ascend unto the Brain and over charge it because the mouth of the Ventricle is not yet shut which vapours are resolved into humours whereupon the colours of the rheum are which are called A suffocative rheum suffocative rheums unto which those for the most part are obnoxious which watch much Those rheums oftentimes descend in great aboundance unto the jaws and lungs where they threaten death very often Fernelius The excrement of the head is twofold distinguishes the excrement of the head into the internal and external The internal is that of which we speak which descends unto the inferiour members and is collected in the Ventricles of the brain especially under the skin of the Crown of the head where the ends of the veins are which go through the Face and Temples unto the Head for as often as these veins do swell with much excrement and humour they effuse the relicks and superfluities of the aliment under the skin which can scarcely evaporate by reason of the thickness and crasseness of the skin This is the fountain and fosterer of all external pain from hence a distillation flows unto the external parts of the body as unto the Eyes Gumms Teeth Neck Shoulders Arms Sides and Loins c. But what needs many words here is the fountain of diseases of Galen and Fernelius He which remembers those things which we have said concerning the Generation of Tartar in the parts of the body Read the 2. Chap. of this tractate of the causes of the head-ach and above Chap. 23. of the Tartar of the marrow will laugh at the seutence and opinion of Galen and Fernelius and he will easily confute their opinions concerning the external flux The true cause of the rheum Paraâ—â—ss The cause of rheum is resolved Salt when the corrosive Salt is mixt there rises pains from it being resolved The cure Every indication of cure consists in this that The indication the head be strengthned and that the flux and superfluous humidities of the brain be exiccated In the mean time a regard must be had of the Ventricle that it perform his office These three herbs take away the rheum that is the essences of them namely Balmmint Lunary and Spurge do purge and take away all humidities and flux of the head Sarcocolla or Gumm of a tree in Persia the Eldertree Anaxardium or tree in India Garden Saffron Colloquintida Thime the wild-Vine Hermodactylus Pellitory Euphorbium Mullein the Salgemme Theophrastus Read the same 2. book de signis Zodiaci sub signo Arietis These following purge the flux of the head and melancholy and indurated bloud of the head namely Polypody Ellebor Fleawort Cataputia or Spurge Tithimalus or Sea Lettice Centory and Agarick If the flux of the head descend unto the breast let him use Diacodium Diapapaver Phrisius in his speculum lib. 2. cap. 14. saith that the composition or electuary and the aurea Alexandrina expels and consumes the flux of the head which possesseth the Eyes Ears and Gumms Phrisius in his speculum the cited book and Chap. Pliny lib. 25. cap. 8. writes that these following be very expedient for the rheumatick namely usual Plantain compound Hierapicra with Agarick given at morning and at night for a dosis Ê’ purges the head from the flux likewise Ê’ of the root of Mechoacum administred purges the bloud and flux of the head Against the flux of the head and obstructions of the Ventricle take of Eyebright and Silexis Montanus and Saffron ana Ê’ of the seeds of Filipendula or Dropwort Fennel-seed Ê’ij of Marjo am Sorpillus of Pepper of the grains of Paradice ana Ê’ of Sugar Ê’ij let them be pulverized and mixt and taken in a draught of Wine or Ale The herb Bugloss is threefold the greater the less and the mean The mean Bugloss hath blew flowrs the less hath red flowrs and it is a manly kind if any carry this in his hat or on his head it is made very moist for it attracts the humours very strongly out of the head These crude medicaments do somewhat effect but yet there are far stronger vertues against the fluxes The spirit of Vitriol the spirit of Sulphur the spirit of Turpentine Terra Sigillata which by their specifical properties consume and dissipate all the matter of fluxes and distillations There must be administred three or four drops of the spirit of Vitriol in a covenient liquor in the morning or at night with Ê’ of Terra Sigillata for a dosis Preservatives as A preservative against theum in all other diseases do much avail The chief preservative is the flowrs of Sulphur which like fire consume all the superfluous matter left of Nature and stir up the natural heat that it may work strongly in the expulsion of the excrements But in the preserving much care is to be had of the Ventricle by comforting medicaments and such as stir up the native heat lest that crudities be left from the heat in the Ventricle which are the causes of most grievous diseases This can be done by no medicament as by the antidotum of Mithridatum which must be taken twice
or thrice every week of the quantity of a pease or two in the morning with a fasting stomach This medicament consumes the rheum impinged and seated in the tunicles of the Ventricle and that which is left or remaineth from the crudities and it strengthneth the native heat of the Ventricle wonderfully This is also effected by the confection of Ginger CHAP. XI Of the Diseases and Symptoms of the Eyes and their Causes THe rheum is the mother of all diseases Of the pains of the Eyes and their cure Read Paracelsus lib. 13. 14. Parag. The causes of the affections of the Eyes The affections of the Eyes are twofold The internal affections and it procreates an ill off-spring for all the affections of the eyes have their original from the flux unless they be produced from some manifest cause The affections of the eyes are twofold interiour and exteriour The interiour I call which are caused within the fleshy membrane and have their original from the inmost seats of the brain I call the external those which exist within or without the fleshy membrane Furthermore of the internal affections which hurt this bowel some exist in the discerning spirits some in the brain some in the optick spirits some in the crystaline humour The spirits that they may see quickly and distinctly ought to be many and Ethereal for if there be many spirits but yet crass they fee things far off and near but not distinctly This is almost the disease of old men Blindness obscurity and every imbecility of the sight whose cause is not conspicuous Blindness is a privation of sight caused by reason of the corruption of the optick spirits in the eye rises from the hurt of the optick sinew or crystaline humour The hurt of the optick sinew is obstruction which is from the influx of more crass humour or it is a disruption caused from the external or internal sharp and corrosive humours The peculiar hurt of the Crystaline humour is a removing of it out of his proper place either by falling or smiting by which the eye is vehemently smitten and hurt The Glaucoma is a mutation of the crystaline or Glaucoma vitreous humour into a gray or brown colour They being hindered by this hurt suppose themselves to see through a smoke or mist The suffusion is a collection of humour The suffusion is an obscurity of the horn-like tunicle caused from the commixtion of crass humour in the superficies of it nigh the apple besides nature either in the pupil or betwixt the third skin of the eye and the crystaline humour it falleth from the brain through the optick sinews and that by little and little so that it can scarcely be perceived in the beginning though sometime the crass and consummated suffusion be collected in one day for if the crass humour fall suddenly into the optick sinew it suddenly blindeth him The hurts of the pupil appear manifestly unto the The hurts of the pupil sense and these are Dilatation Imminution Divulsion and Ruption Dilatation whether it be caused at first or rise afterward from some disease hurts the sight so that it causes the spirits to be diffused and dilated and dissipated abroad The native imminution because it girdeth constringeth and incrasseth the spirits makes the sight most quick but yet it is diseased because it hath a preternatural cause which makes it worse The divulsion and ruption neither occaecates nor hurts the sight greatly furthermore the humour causes a dilatation in the Grape like tunicle which also being included and abounding it distends and amplifies the little hole which is the pupil But wherefore doth the dilatation of the pupil follow the hanging forth of the eye and the chirrus and Plegm one and Imposthume of the eye But the Spupil is diminished made straiter in the Pâ—hisis Atrophie of the eye and as often as the vitreous humour is consumed for any cause Also the fourth Grape-like tunicle being contracted and compressed straiâ—neth and girdeth in the pupil for the same causes and also by violence and hurt of external causes the divulsion and ruption of the tunicle is caused These are the inward affections of the eyes now we will handle the external The external affections which possesses the third pannicle or membrane The Caligo or mist is an obscure or dark The Nebula is an obscurity of the third tunicle caused from some subtil vapour or humour occupying part of it seeing caused from the more crass and dense tunicle of the third tunicle This defect is seldom from a disease but frequent from age whereby a certain membrane and nails are made crass The mist is a thin humour sticking in the third tunicle whereby one thinketh that he saw all things through a mist a vapour or smoke this humour waxing crass begets at length a white spot in the eye for the white is a crass and white humour in the third tunicle or else collected and condensed above it so that it darkneth and dulleth for the most part the quickness of seeing These two hurts do increase under the sense and often they are caused from the Opthalmia and Epiphora sometimes they are caused from a proper clammy humour which for the pupil is effused by little spaces which are betwixt the adherent membrane and third tunicle Hallucination or erring is because the Hallucination or pravity of sight is when man â—râ—eth in seeing and conceiveth things otherwise than they are in themselves third tunicle is infected with a strange colour whereby all things without seem to be tincted as in the Jaundies and red inflammation The Rhexis is a bursting or cutting or eating of the third tunicle from which the white humour floweth first and leaveth the eye less by much The Ragoides or third skin falls down and then the falling down of the eye is caused which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The confusion of the eye is divers from this in which the humours are mixt by smiting and are confused without any eruption And thus much of the affections of the third tunicle The affections of the adherent membrane are these The Vnguis a sinewed hard and white membrane rising from coagulation extending it self and covering the pupil of the eye it rises from an adherent membrane by little and little in a long time increasing and waxing hard if it be permitted Of all the Epiphora and Opthalmia infest and annoy the Epiphora Ophthalmia eyes most often from which most sharp dolours and many other diseases do expullulate and arise The Epiphora is a small humour caused by the manner The Epiphora is a proternatural flux of humour unto the Eye of tears in the eyes This humour is somewhere without pain heat or redness somewhere it is sharp and salt and molestful and hurtful by pain heat acrimony and redness from whence issues the exulceration of the eye-lids The Ophthalmia is
is a Transplantation into the causes producing barrenness and diseases so Gold is changed into Auripigmentum Balmmint into Hemlock the Valerian into Woolfsbane Wheat into Darnel This is that which Paracels saith in Labyrintho med fol. 222. The destroyer native heat of the Microcosm takes the Realgar of the Microcosm that is the Transplantation of fruits from tartar that is that the anatomy of health is transplanted into the anatomy of death and pronounceth death and destruction unto him So the pining is often caused from the tartar of the mesaraâ—cal veins because The signs of the pining of all the parts they are altogether obructed by tartar so that no nutriment or very little can come to the Liver Paracels lib. 3. param de origine morb ex tartaro tract 4. saith that the Phthisis is begot from the tartar of the Lungs so is also the Phthisis of the Brain Heart Liver Reins Milt Ventricle Flesh Bones Veins Sinews Joynts the Glew and Marrow The trembling shews the phthisis of the heart The cough and avoiding of filth is the sign Lib. 5. parag de marb f. 1. of the Phthisis in the Lungs the multitude of Urine shews the consumption of the liver reins though the cough concur in the Phthisis of the Reins and Liver So also inflammations prickings and pains of the sides and the burning of the gall are a sign of the Ventricle pain and compression of the Ventricle Hardness and Clifts in the skin contraction of the sinews exsiccation of the bloud pains of the glew of the body clifts of the skin especially about the knees are the signs of an incurable Phthisis It is to be marked that every principal member which is obstructed more densly and fully may bring the Consumption of the whole body for great Eclipses Conjunctions and Aspects happen unto mans Astronomy from the Transplantations of the times and prevarications of the confluences therefore the bonds of harmony being broken and viciated of the superiour and inferiour heaven in the Microcosm there ensues necessarily sterilities and pining The Galenists make the cause of the The cause of the Phthisis is twofold according to Galen Consumption to be twofold The one is the vicious and bad constitution of the Lungs the other is the humour which eateth and gnaweth the bad constitution of the Lungs he doth not call it the distemperature or distempered constitution but a soft tender substance of the Lungs prepared and obnoxious unto corruption from hence they gather that the most have this hurt of the Lungs from their Birth and from their Parents with which all at length do pine though no distillation or certainly very little is from the brain or happen otherwayes But we do not ascribe the cause of hereditary Consumption to the Lungs but to the tartar and we affirm that those which are bred from a tartareous and pining stock The cause of the hereditary phthisis do necessarily pine away as it were by hereditary right and Law We have seen this evil assail and infect all those which were of the same stock and Family The Asthma Strangling Rheum and consumption The cure arise from the obstruction of the Lungs The cause of obstruction is to be removed and the hurt part is to be corroborated The principal member in the body being obstructed for two or three moneths begins to putrifie from which putrifaction divers diseases arise and lastly death rushes upon the life of the body as Paracels speaks de vita longa The Obstructions of all the diseases of the whole body are to be taken away thus Administer the spirit of Vitriol for three or four days in the morning in the spirit of Wine The obstruction being taken away for three or four days administer in the morning the spirit of Turpentine in a convenient liquor for it corroborateth and strengthneth the weak corrupted and hurt members and restoreth them which began to putrifie These two spirits being rightly applyed effect very much in the cure of the Asthma There is nothing more profitable than Balm and the magistery or oil of Sulphur of which a few drops must be given in the spirit of wine or water of hysope Paracelsus lib. de viribus membror Cap. 14 c. saith that the oil of Ash is wonderful in the Asthma and difficulty of breathing if taken every morning Thurneserus in Piso lib. 15. cap. 24. saith that it is cured by the Barberry-tree the Laurel-tree and Diamosion So also by Diacatholicon Diacameron and Diamargarita Phrisius in speculo lib. 2. cap. 14. part 3. tract 1 6 7. So also by philonium majus taken in wine The Spirit of hysop is available in the Dysponoea The cure of the Asthma is twofold one which resolves the other which exsiccates The resolving cure is to be given in the coagulated tartar that which dryeth is to be given in the dry cough which exsiccates where too much filth is cast forth by spitting untill the matter be consumed For preservation from the Cough Asthma in all obstructions and putrifactions there is no more excellent medicament than the flowers of Sulphur sublimated seaven times every morning The flowers of Sulphur rightly prepared mixt with Sugar in the evening and morning cure the most vehement Cough This medicament expels all obstructions of the bowels it corroborates the weak venticle and softens the hardness of the Milt Take the root of Azon prepared and the root of Galingale and pimpernel dried and prepared and the calcinated eyes of Cancer Take of the seed of Cresses and Sugar and make a mixture of all these let the dosis be one spoonful in the morning Josephus Quercitanus in his answer to Anbertus p. 18. 19. saith that wormwood is an excellent medicine in all obstructions Paracelsus lib. 5. de viribus memb saith that from the obstruction of the spirit of life there arise Fevers Apostemes the Pleurisie Plague Jaundies Ulcers and all diseases which begin with a Fevers paroxism from obstruction putrefaction rises Galen in his medicinal definitions saith that the peripneumonia is an inflammation of the Lungs with a sharp Fever and difficulty of breathing Seeing that in inflammations and sharp Fevers the Indication greatest poison namely of Arsenick Mars and Auripigmentum c. that the very root of the Plague predominates In the first place labour must be taken to expel that poison by preservatives against poison convenient Diaphoreticks The spirit of tartar with the addition of Paracelsus namely the flowrs of Antimony by them the obstruction of the spirit of life is removed and nature The expulsion of filth corroborated for the expulsion of filth which remaineth in the Lungs the sulphureous spirits being dissipated and consumed there must be administred the spirit of Turpentine with the flowrs of Sulphur The Galenists for the Peripneumonia give Diapenidium cold Dragant Diacalamentha Diaireos Salomonis Philonium majus and Trochiskes of Camphora water of
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So there may be made medicines from Musk Civit oil made of Bevers stones and Unicorns horn Ivory the Horn and Bone of the Hart are effective against the heart-ach and other affects as are Lemmons Garden Cresses The dolours of the heart are cured by cutting the middle vein The water of the Carbuncle is a most excellent comfortative of the heart half a spoonful of it being taken So terra sigillata Stregonensis the Balsam of sulphur and the spirit of tartar Read Theophrastus tract 3. praeparationum and in the same place tract 5. lib. 1. de signis Zodiaci about the end An Excellent Balsam of Sulphur for the Heart and Lungs â„ž the best yellow Sulphur grind it small and sift it through a fine laune serce or rather which is better Take flowrs of Sulphur and put them in a glass and pour thereon oil of the Salt of tartar made by solution per deliquium a hand-breadth above it set it in gentle heat and in few dayes the Sulphur will dissolve red as bloud pour off the solution into a glass and upon it sprinkle good distilled Vinegar so much as will make all the Sulphur precipitate to the bottom of the glass which it will easily do and that with a profound stink let it well settle then decant off the oil of tartar and dulcifie the Sulphur well then dry it not in the Sun or heat but in a dry air Take the dry Sulphur put it again into a glass and pour upon it a Philosophical spirit of wine let them stand together in gentle heat three dayes in which time the spirit of wine will receive into it the purest part of the Sulphur the excellent tincture of Sulphur decant that extraction and distill it with strong heat in sand so will ascend with the spirit of wine a pleasant odoriferous oil then in very gentle Balneo separate the spirit of wine and the Balsam of Sulphur will remain behind in form of an oil Dose is 6 or 8. drops in a spoonful of wine CHAP. XIX Of the Diseases of the Ventricle THere is a nutritive vertue in the Ventricle because from thence nutriment is derived into the whole body and it disposes the meat and gives it a nutritive faculty The Ventricle is subject and obnoxious to divers diseases which are begot by reason the separation and expulsion are frustrate of which kind are the pains of the Ventricle Etosions Burning Wind Inflammations Fluxes Pinings of which Alexander Benedictus lib. 11. in his Proem and in the Chapters following and in the 12. book through the whole book doth intreat wherefore that the Ventricle be sound great regard is to be had Tobias Hess The seeds of diseases in the anatomy of the Ventricle are rooted for the most part in the superficial sulphureous fetide and excrementitious impurities which for the debility of the in-bred Balm and mechanical spirits by whose ministery the impurities should be expelled and resolved by the accustomed wayes they find convenient and fit Receptacles The seeds of diseases which are planted and rooted in the Ventricle consist in sulphureous and excrementitious Of the seeds of diseases of the Ventricle impurities in which two excrements are mixt namely of Sulphur and Salt which two are in all aliments and are separated from all nature being perfect in vertue and strength These two excrements unless they be mixt and expelled together do interpel and interrupt daily the administration of natural actions because the strength and vertue of nature is diminished Therefore when as they have introduced their roots into the anatomy of the Ventricle they generate diseases If Sulphur be commixt with a tartareous stiptick and alumish excrement The Fever of the Ventricle and filth then Fevers are generated in the Ventricle Of Paracels they are called mitrosulphureous diseases when as Mucilaginous Salt or Tartar alone remains in the Ventricle by continual nutrition at length it produces divers symptoms noted by divers names but altogether rustical and phantastical The rustical are Imbecility Bradypepsia vitiated concoction Bradypepsia is a weakness of digestion when as the Ventricle doth difficulty and slowly concoct and turn aliment into chyle and crudity The phantasie hath begot the distemperature These symptoms have their names from the properties of their roots or causes from which they rise but more rightly they are called mucilaginous and sulphureous diseases from the alumish Vitriol and cacochymical spirits or from biruminous and sandy colours from the properties of the spirits and such like the causes of all symptoms ought to be explained which are superadded to the foresaid diseases of the Ventricle The mechanical spirits being corrupted and the tartareous alumish and stiptical tinctures of the Ventricle being inquinated and depraved they cannot absolve as they ought the separation of the pure from the impure The cause of slow conâ—octions and they perfect very slow concoctions but if those tartareous spirits the authors of Transplantation shall be hotter and do overcome the in-bred spirits by enmity and malice then they produce perfect crudities and keep the mechanical spirit of the Ventricle bound and captive and from hence are begot crudities inflations belching heaviness sloth drowsiness Belching is a violent and sounding expulsion of wind existing in the stomach by the superiour part Nausea or loathing is a frustrate endeavour to vomit The cause of cruditees inflations and belching Vomiting is a violent expulsion of crass and palpable matter which molests the stomach by the superiour parts Sev. p. 278. Orexia Launcing Cardialgia is a pain of the superiour part of the Ventricle when as the supreme Orifice of the Ventricle is molested and offended Bulimus â—anina fames The Bulimia or Dog-like â—â—petite is an insatiable desire to eat â—he inflammation of the â—entricle by which disease â—uther died loathing vomiting and infinite more torments and pains of this kind When the tartareous spirits possess the superiour part of the Ventricle namely the mouth then there arise the Orexia the burning the launcing and most cruel dolours by reason of the exquisite sense of the mouth of the Ventricle from whence rises the Cardialgia for the mouth of the Ventricle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stomach viz. for the consent of the heart and the mouth of the Ventricle elsewhere is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or biting of the heart The mouth of the Ventricle hath a most exquisite sense for the many sinews collected there The Vitriol spirits oftentimes cause the Bulimia or Wolfish and Dog-like appetite There are not only excrementitious mucilaginous and tartareous impurities implanted in the Ventricle but Arsenical Auripigmental Antimonial and Inflammatory impurities find confluence there which little or not at all differs from the pleurisie A most burning Fever a great tossing of the body and restlesness unquenchable thirst a continual vomiting a frequent exolution of water watching and doting for the most part ensue this Inflammation As the Phthisis The
Phthisis of the Ventricle or Consumption is begot in all other parts of the body so likewise in the Ventricle the cause of it is above-mentioned That all things may be made more manifest and clear the Generation in the Ventricle is this when the sides or plaits in the Ventricle are obducted and covered with tartar and the passages and pores of it be obstructed there follows an oppilation of the spirits of life and from the oppilation there insues corruption and putrifaction of the whole member from hence is the Consumption of the Ventricle of which the whole body hath a compassion and feeling and deplores the destruction most vehemently it being destitute of aliment The Convulsive Hicket is a motion of the Hicket is a Convulsive and sounding motion of the Ventricle for to expel the offensive matter contained in it Ventricle which Hippocrates affirmed to be caused either from repletion or emptiness like as the Convulsion of the members from evacuation as from the immoderate flux of bloud and from immoderate purgation from repletion as in Children and those which are addicted to surfetting These are the causes of the Hicket which are wont to be adduced besides which others more grievous do exist for oftentimes spirits or malignant and poisonful vapours cause a worse Hicket of which kind we have seen in malignant and pestilent Fevers and in the inflammation of the Liver and especially when the figure of it is straitned and the heart is overwhelmed with the vehemency and malignity of the disease There is no better remedy for the preservation of the The cure Ventricle in these diseases than the vertue and power of the Vitriol of Copper so that afterward there be made a liquor and spirit from it and this is the hungry acetocity or sowrness of it which excels in so many vertues that it will consume all things which are contained in the Ventricle whether they be tartareous or sulphureous impurities as also it will comfort and corroborate the stomach that it may be able to concoct all things as the Estrich concocts and digests iron Concerning this acetosity of Copper Paracels writ in his book de morb tartareis Chap. 16. where he distinguishes sowr things into natural things and artificial The natural sowr things are hot baths and sowrness The artificial are extracted from metalls minerals and ill juices and it is the salt of them The same is effected almost as well in the preservation as the cure by the spirit of Vitriolum Vngaricum Romanum of which Paracels writes in his book de mineralibus that it is able to cure all tartareous diseases But yet not too much of it must be taken for nimiety or too much of any thing is hurtful and an enemy unto Nature therefore it must be taken with discretion that the mouth of the Ventricle may be shut Take the root of corrected Azon powder of Betony and the sweet Cane burnt into Salt let them be powdered and mixt of which powder let him take after dinner and supper the quantity of two pease but let him drink no more The confection of Anise which is for to shut the mouth of the Ventricle is made with distilled Vinegar put into it by macerating and then exsiccating the Anise for the space of 24. hours and afterward again by macerating and exsiccating it in Vinegar and so it must be done thrice for the dosis there must be given pugillum 1. after dinner and supper for the evacuating of the Ventricle there must be given iiij grains of the slowrs of Antimony in an Electurary In the resolving and consuming of the tartareous and sulphureous matter in the Ventricle Antimony is available which purges by Vomit the Belly of the confection of Urine In the griefs of the stomach the preparation of Mastick is good Take of Mastick of the Alcool of wine of Galingal distil them through an Alembick the dosis must be smal to comfort the stomach The confection of Ginger made of the Quince-apple Diacinnamon Diatrion Pepperwort oil of Wormwood oil of Mastick Balsam of Sulphur the oil of Lawrel-Berries rectified 10. or 12. drops taken in broth looses destroyes the pain and mixeth with the peccant matter c. The Cardiaca or Cardialgia is cured by the oil and magistery of Pearls Barth Anglus lib. 16. cap. 72. so doth the Saphire stone in the same book Chap. 87. waters made of Antimony cure and mitigate this disease so also waters made of Salt Peter Thurnens in Pisone lib. 5. cap. 25. Of Musk Civet Beavers stone Unicorns horn Ivory the horn and bone of the Hart there is made an excellent medicine for the Heart-aches and such other affects Josephus Quercitanus in his answer unto Anbertus pag. 21. saith that there is the same cure of the inflammation of the Ventricle and of the Squincy or Prunella or Pleurisie c. The oil of Anise 5. drops administred in wine or other decoction and the navel being anointed with it expels the hicket Read Phrisius in speculo lib. 2. part 4. tract 2. cap. 11. Barth Anglus lib. 7. cap. 45. Alexander Benedictus lib. 12. cap. 19 20 21 22 23. The magistery of Pearls made with Origanum help the concoction so the waters or subtilties of common Salt Salgemmae and Salmaris Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. The preparation of Salt Gemm that it may strengthen the digestion in the stomach and preserve from putrifaction Take of Salt Peter and common salt which are fusible and of Salgemmae ana of Gallingal let a powder be made of them and the dâ—sis four grains in the morning with a fasting stomach Read Theophrast lib. 1. de praeparatiombus tract 4. Gilliflowrs corroborate the Ventricle and head and provoke and stir up the Appetite they also help the Liver so the water of Mint with the spirit of Vitriol CHAP. XX. Of the Hurts Causes and Signs of the Liver OBstruction is very usual unto the Liver and no The obstruction of the Liver bowel is equally unto it troubled with this disease because vena porta which is dispersed through the substance of the Liver into little branches is obstructed as also other branches not less small come from vena cava unto it by which all aliment should be transported and conveyed The obstruction is caused from tartar which obstructs the veins and hinders the course of the bloud it hath these marks heaviness and distension happeneth to the right Hypochondrium with an obtuse pain and then especially when one goes to exercise presently after meat The obstruction of the Lungs is twofold one is of the veins from whence the Dropsie is the other is of the substance from whence the phthisis and inflammation are The Galenists have left this difference unexplained and have used one for the other Theophrast lib. 1. de tartaro tract 2. cap. 3. fol. 226. when the obstruction is in the Liver then man is discoriated and his colour is changed in a dayes
place of the Liver and afterward it is strained for a crass and incocted matter could not do this The Salt of Alume causes a blew colour The Dropsie in the Liver is caused from the Apostem viz. if pricking be felt in the right side not that the air undergoes the Apostem but because the air and circumjacent mass effects the Apostem the Liver is not putrified in death but makes cuttings when it begins to be cut or to have clifts death follows those clifts Lib. 1. param de origine morbor ex tribus substantits and cap. 4. tract 3. cap. 6. The Dropsie is a passion in the Liver caused from an alumish tartar by resolution of the proper nature so also somewhat black and crass Urine in the Dropsie signifies the resolution of the principal members or bowels so that death is eminent or present Thurnens in herbario sol 49. c. First remove the obstruction of the Liver by resolving Cure and consuming the obstructing cause All the obstructions of the Liver are removed by the essence of the common Mercury and Antimony Paracels l. 2. de viribus membrorum cap. 6. So also the spirit of Salt and common Vitriol Besides the opening Remedies give viz. the fat of Yew applyed to the Liver hot in a linen cloth The essence of Time cures all diseases of the Liver Paracels de rebus naturalibus cap. 7. sub titulo sulphuris saith that the obstructions of the Liver are abolished by these Take of the syrup of the roots of cicha in the morning with a fasting stomach but do not take it at night for so the obstructions would be augmented or take the syrup of the roots according to Fernelius Ale with Betony tempered cureth the obstructed Liver The subtilty of Camphora and Sulphur opens the obstruction of the Liver Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. saith that baths open the obstructions Read Rulandus and Sheuriterus where you may see these hot confections remove the obstructions of the Liver and water betwixt the skin namely Dialacca Diacurcuma and Diacatholicum so also opening and apertive trochiskes viz. made of Rheubarb Liverwort The essence of Schordion is very good for the ill-affected Liver lib. 2. de viribus memb cap. 6. and Myrrh by long continuance the Liver begins to putrifie which putrifaction is cured by the water of the stone Eat-flesh Thurnens lib. 4. cap. 7. The stone cabrates cures the tumours of the Spleen and Liver Barth Anglus lib. 6. cap. 18. Read Galen de arte curativa lib. 2. cap. 6. Phrisius in speculo part 4. lib. 2. tractat 3. cap. 3. There must be a preparation of Silver administred to the debilitated and weakned Liver which Paracelsus delivers tract 5. praeparationum lib. 1. fol 50. Paracels lib. 1. param de curatione hydropis cap. 4. de origine morbor ex tribus principiis teaches that resolved Salt expels and corroborates nature namely that it may separate the pure from the impure as also that the resolved Salt in the body consumes by the vertue of Mercury In the cure of the Dropsie the oil or essence of Iron is very effective for it exsiccates the superfluites of the body and openeth the obstructions and corroborates the bowels Paracels cured the Dropsie by the Diaphoretick or Precipitated Gold of life The oil of common salt is a secret in the Dropsie a few drops being taken of it every morning Black Hellebor otherwise dangerous and to be feared is made very profitable and for good use by the spirit of wine and oil of Anise and may be given safely â—o Children for the Dropsie and all melancholick affâ—cts The Salt of Antimony given in wine is the great secret of the Dropsie so also Mercury being prepared to loosen the essence of Sulphur the Suphur of Gold that is the spirit of Gold the tincture of Corals the liquor of the Cedar the oil of Wormwood Read Theophrastus in his book de tempore The Philosophers stone cures all the kinds of the Dropsie Theophrast de tinctur a physic cap. 6. The oil of Vitriol in the water of Garden Endive the spirit or quintessence of Vitriol from Copper in Aqua vitae are effective The Ascites is cured by water out of the stone called Asâ—ites Eat-flesh so by the water of Vitriol Thurnens in pisone lib. 7. cap. 7. 9. Theophrast Paracelsus lib. 4. parag sub titulo de undimia tractat 5. lib. 1. praeparationum under the title of de Jove seustanno saith take of purged tinn â„¥ and of Antimony â„¥ ij let them be reverberated for the space of 24. hours extract from this matter a tincture and let the dosis be half a spoonful The Tympanites is cured by waters drawn forth of Tympanites Sulphur Pitch and Musk so also by the Barberry-tree the Bay-tree and Diamasonium the field Mint and thamarantha Thurnens in pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. lib. 5. cap. 24. 25. The Anasarca is cured by the essence of Sulphur Anasarca Theophrast as also by the essence of Corals and oil of Antimony let the drink of him that hath the Dropsie be well-water mixt with the spirit of Vitriol this water exsiccates much the water of him that hath the Dropsie The secret of Mercury of life cures all the kinds of the Dropsie being rectified and compounded in Aqua vitae and being administred it expels the peccant matter by sweat Read Alexander Benedict lib. 141. through the whole book So Barthol Anglus lib. 7. cap. 51. where he writes de sublimatione cheiri seu antimonii ex nigredine in albedineâ—â— saith that the sublimation of Antimony taken in wine of life cures all the affects of the Liver by freeing it from putrifaction and corruption so that it Paracels de virilus membror lib. â— cap. 6. may separate the pure from the impure and transmutate the impure chyle and make good bloud from which no disease rises and it renovates and restores the pure bloud by regenerating and transplanting the whole body and by removing all filthiness and Leprie The liquor of Kali or Mercury is a great secret of the Liver and Dropsie lib. 2. de viribus membror cap. 6. Paracelsus Secret Mercurius vitae aforesaid is thus prepared â„ž well purged Quicksilver sublime it from Salt Peter calcind Vitriol and Alume calcind take of what sublimeth only that which lyeth on the Caput mort which will be red as Cinaber sublime that red again by it self then dissolve it in an Aqua Regis made with Vitriol Tartar and Salarmoniac being dissolved distill off the Aqua Regis from it and the Mercury remaining sublime again so will it be white and crystaline and is Mercury Essencificate Take of that Mercury Essencificate and good Mineral Antimony ana grind them well together and distill the fat oil or Butter of Anâ—imony Take all that distilleth put it in a small glass Cucurbite and in Balneo abstract its fleme till the remaining
and it will dissolve and expel the stone very strongly Take of Saxifrage Fennil Parsley Pepper Smallage Millet Gold and Sperage in one spoonful of hot water and it will bruise the stone within two days So also of Lethontrib as Taberna Montanus in his book of Physick part 2. cap. 17. Some take Ivie and mix it with water of Parsley and give this mixture evening and morning If any cannot make water for the stone let him drink Juniper water Read the Archidox of Theophrast de baccis Juniperi This is a most approved medicine against the stone and all the affects of urine viz. Disuria Stranguria and Ischuria Take of Salnitrum lib. 1. â—let it be burnt in a melting pot otherwise the best matter will go out then put some particles of Saltpeter by little and little into the red melting pot so the fierceness of Saltpeter doth not fly away which otherwise is wont to happen in common preparations In the hot earthen pot Saltpeter is changed into common salt let it be dissolved in the spirit of wine and administred in the bath So Saltpeter resolves the salt of tartar and expels it by urine The sweet Diaphoretick Mercury cures all ulcerations of the superiour ureter bladder and yard The Gonorrhaea is cured by the sweet balsame of tartar The essence of Pearls cures the impotence of Venery in as much as it rises from the solution of strength or obstruction of the bowels The tincture essence and solution of Corals effect the same The Inflammation of the bladder is extinguished by Alexipharmical and Diaphoretick medicines Theophrast in his book de veneno saith that the Stranguria and Disuria are cured by the expelling of poyson in the stomack this is the reason because the root Mine or cause of the Stranguria and Disuria lye hidden in the ventricle the root being expell'd the flower or fruit is removed which it hath produced in the stomack and transmitted to the bladder Penotus tract de Salibus fol. 226. Those which cannot retain their urine let them burn the Bladders of Goats and pulverise them and put unto them of the Salt of Saint Johns wort which is to be drunk with wine The Salt of Antimony is a secret in the Strangury and Disuria The urine of the spotted beast congeals into a stone which is called Lincurius and it cures the dropping of urine as also if it be drunk it expels the stone of the bladder A Potion against the Stranguria Take of benedictum laxativum of the water of Fennel and Parsley mix them and let them be given to drink betimes in the morning with a fasting stomach and it expels the Strangurie You may read more in Alexander Benedict lib. 23. cap. 26. c. and pag. 542. the title is adurinae stillicidia Phrisius in speculo part 4. lib. 2. tract 7. cap. 5. Theophrast lib. 1. de morbo dissoluto Cardan lib. 1. cap. 1. de rebus mirabilibus saith that Hippocrates administred the juice of the Beetle for the Strangurie Ale made with Mallow takes away the obstruction of the passages of urine The spirits Vitriol and almost all salts even the subtilties of Saltpeter common Salt sal maris and sal gemmae cure the affects of the bladder Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. fol. 118. 119. CHAP. XXIX Of the diseases of the Cods their Causes and Signs THe Cods and the Testicles which are contained in them are both tabefacted and diseased with the Inflammation and hard Schirrous tumour and with all the kinds of the The Inflammatory Sulphureous and Arsnick Spirits beginning to bud in the Cods and Testicles bring forth their flowers agreeable to the root and then the Cods are distended with a tumour there also accompany this tumour hardness redness heat and a launcing pain which is sharpened by a light touch The Fever for the most accompanies it and the ill cured Inflammation oftentimes it leaves a tumour the proper heat being extinguished redness heat and pain are removed only hardness persists and continues something of which for the most part remains incurable The Inflammation of the Cods and Testicles is poysonful The Cure and therefore it is to be expell'd by Alexipharmical and Diaphoretick medicines as also their concomitating symptoms The juice of the notable herb Hernaria being affused with wine stays the descent or falling down of the guts in the space of nine days as also the disease is so cured thereby that it will not invade again The juice of Enula Campana with the juice of Rue doth very much avail with those which have the bursting or falling down of guts especially if the rupture or bursting be from wind so also the subtilties of common Salt Sal maris and Sal gemmae are very effective The wild Cumin boiled in wine and gum put to it and applied after the manner of a plaister doth most excellently cure it The herb Flixwort is a chief secret in the Rupture Inwardly in the Rupture of the Navel take the herb Panax apply or lay it on a Dogs skin and put it upon the Navel and it will hinder the egress of the guts Read Rulandus de thermis pag. 161. In the tumour of the one seâ—â—icle and the pains of the veyns about the Croines administer two or three drops of Vitriol in the spirit of wine the next day in the spirit of Turpentine after the same manner CHAP. XXX Of the affects of the Womb their Causes and Signs THe Inflammation of the Womb as of the other parts proceeds from the being of poyson whose generation depends of the superiour causes Paracels in Chirurg tract 4. lib. 3. places the Cancer The Cancer is a hard malignant rough and pale tumour possessing and exulcerating some member of the body amongst the affects which is not only generated in the breast or Paps of Women and Shoulders of Men but in the ribs ventricle arm feet matrix or in the neck of womens privity and it is as well begot in men as women from the Realger of blood and it is a Mercurical salt of transplantation The Schirrhus of the womb is caused from tartar effused through the substance of the womb there congealed Paracels de origine morborum invisibilium saith that the Mass is generated from the Image and similitude of the copulation and that it is a monster of the imagination The cure the root Fosterer and Mine of Inflammation is the same in all the parts though the vehemency of the symptoms differ The same cure The Ulcer is more easily cured by internal and specifical medicaments than external and that by sweet Diaphoretical Mercury the essence of the liquor of the Cedar and by certain specifical medicaments as Selandine Câ—ntory Pâ—iola Silvatica and Horsetongue The Cancer in womens womb or neck of her privity is begot from menstrual poyson viz. when as the menstruum is supprest Wherefore in the cure of the Cancer those are to be removed which hinder the purgation
for there is in Nature Earthly Fire Air and Water again there is Heavenly Earth Air and Water The natural Being is the Firmament of the Microcosm it becomes the Being of a Disease as far as there chance errours in the Firmament of the Microcosm the Planets and all the Stars as well fixt as erratical are contained in man Some things chance often in the Astronomy of the greater VVorld as Conjunctions Eclipses Oppositions which Prognosticate great Evils so also great Eclipses Conjunctions and Aspects chance in the Astronomy of the Microcosm or little VVorld and in the Transplantations of times and Prevarications of the confluences by reason that the Laws of Harmony and Conspiration are corrupted in the Firmament of the Microcosm so that there necessarily follows Barrenness want of natural Moisture Pining and many other hurts and evils CHAP. XI How much the Firmament of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm diffâ—rs A Man is a Microcosm and the most perfect creatuâ—e of all creatures he hath the East in his Mouth the VVest in his Fundament the South in his Navel the North in his Back And as there are four Cardinal winds in the greater World so there are four Cardinal winds in the less World in these parts The Bladder in the Microcosm is the VVestern Sea into which all slouds flow and in which they are consumed and in which the superfluous Salt is resolved The hollow Vein in the Back-bone is a Mediterrane Sea in the Microcosm Though it go invisibly through the whole Body yet it is grounded in the Vital or Animal Heat and Spirit namely of winds The Concordance and Division of the Elements mixtly is perspicuous in the Microcosm The Element of Fire appears in his eyes The air is in the whole body which air is the spirit of the Arteries The Element of VVater appears in the Conduits that is in the Veins of the whole body The Element of Earth is flesh with the bones which is every way compassed with watery Rivers But wherefore hath it seemed good to premit or put before the Elements and agreeable beginnings of mans Nature and those which were unknown but that the way might more easily ly open to the unknown things for in these Elements the seeds and Celestial stars Aiery Earthly and VVatery are cherished and nourished which at decreed and appointed times bâ—ing forth fruits either Messengers of Health or Diseases In these also all the Planets work namely the Sun Moon Mars Saturn Mercury Jupiter and likewise the Saturnine Jovial Martial Venereal Mercuria Solar and Lunar stars not bodily but spiritually The spirits absolve and perfect all the course in mans Astronomy and not bodies from these arise new Changes Exaltations Conjunctions Oppositions Eclipses and the Affections of mans Astronomy In the Macrocosm some stars beget Thunder Lightnings Hail Rain Heat Cold and Driness Those in the Microcosm generate spiritually Fevers Epilepsies Dropsies Rheums Paralysis Apoplexies so the Heart and Sun the Moon and the Brain Mercury and the Lungs Jupiter and the Liver Saturn and the Spleen Mars and the Gall are compared amongst themselves not according to their bodies but according to their spirits not according to the Elements but according to the Stars Therefore what actions soever are abâ—olved and perfected in the Macrocosm by bodies those are perfected in the Firmament of the Microcosm by spirits and vital powers CHAP. XII How Errours do chance to mans Astronomy and how from the Being of Nature may be produced the Being of Diseases or Being of Poison PAracelsus in his Paragr sub titulo Astronomiae fol. 50. saith that there is one Heaven one course of Stars and one Man and that Heaven is Man and Man is Heaven all Men one Heaven and Heaven only one Man according to the Cabalistical science all men are one man all anatomies one anatomy all the diseases of all men are the diseases only of one man these are true in all parts of the World in Arabia Europe Italy and Germany for we have laid the firm and solid grounds of our art not upon the sand but upon the living stone Whosoever would have the title of a Physician and challenges the title of Physick he ought to get the accurate and exquisite knowledge of this Heaven But what is the knowledge of this Heaven but the knowledge of this Star therefore who so hath obtained the knowledge of Heaven and the Star he hath deserved the true triumph of his name that is of a Physician Heaven is internal and external the Physician considers the internal the Astronomer and the Astrologer the external The internal heaven is one in essence but divers in kind for the Spirit of God which hâ—th separated the Light from the Darkness and he which hâ—th created Heaven and Earth with his Almighty word hath made in man as well the superiour as the infeâ—iour Firmament yet the analogy of them both was resâ—rved The inferiour Heaven or Firmament is corporal which produces the fruits of the Water in the bosom of the Earth Another is the Liquor of life conserving the body from corruâ—tion and deâ—â—ruction The superiour Heaven worketh in the Microcosm not by substance not by the body but by spirit vertue and vital power as it is said in the 11. Chap. Nevertheless the superiour Heaven is nourished and conserved by the infeâ—iour for the great Heaven or vital mechanical spirits consume this Firmament or the inferiour Heaven continually therefore there is need of restitution mixtion and composition It is most truly said of Hippocrates that conservation is continued by nutrition for they are called the greater after a Philosophical manner which excel in more forcible impressions and tinctures and they are called the less or weaker which yield in the mixtion and conspiration of the beams and grant the separations alterations and transmutations of their parts to the disposing and wills of the more potent and strong The fecundity and fruitfulness of whole Nature is Established and Confirmed by the mutual conspiration of both the Firmaments or Heavens and by their familiarity and nutrition by the reciprocal course of the impressions the knot or bond of health is conserved the Laws of these being corrupted barrenness defects and most grievous diseases do follow in mans Nature Some things were see in the VVorlds Astronomy as the rising of Stars at certain seasons defend and conserve the wholsomeness of the year for the seasonable resolutions of fruits forthwith the stars of Rain bringing more commodiously resolution are required Sometimes the stars of winds sometimes of serenity and clearness sometimes of heat sometime the stars of cold snow frost dew sometime of the VVest winds and the stars of the genital deflux are desired And in the Terrestrial Astronomy sometimes Roses sometimes Violets sometimes Daffodiles do spring and flourish somtime Pulse sometime Vines Trees and all Plants observe their Periods unless the causes of sterility and diseases preveâ—t So in mans Astronomy the stars of the
superiour Globe the vital spirits of the Heart and Brain are moistened kindly of the seeds with showres serenity heat and by the fruitful falling of dew and VVestwinds and by such like fruits of the inferiour Elements which being absent and wanting defect of Radical humour pining and barrenness doth happen Both of these stars do endeavour by the aboundâ—nce of aliments to restore the melting and decayed parts and to recover the sick hastening unto rottenness Again the inferiour stars bring forth Roses Violets Balmmint Valerian Vines Fruits Gold Silver Rubines Saâ— hires continually from aliments unless the cause of sterility shall prevent not that they demonstrate the external signatures in man for they have lost their outmost Vestures by Transplantation but because they produce like properties in the spiritual bodies of mans anatomy from which the superiour stars receive nutriments and all of them are made fit for their offices and actions for transplanted Generation as abovesaid becomes worse and not better and it is hindered whereby the Roots of Generation may less be able to explain their gifts and native sciences for the spirits of Transplantations are more strong and vigorous than of the inbred But how shall the inferiour stars bring forth fruits of soundness and health out of the aliments if that the temperature of the bad properties excel and if the bowels of nourishing be faint and weak whereby they may he less able to separate the pure from the impure and the unfirm from the firm Certainly if the inferiour Heaven be destroyed and coâ—ruâ—ted of necessity the superiour Heaven must be corrupted for how will it give that which it takes not or how will it give that which it hath not From hence it is that the superiour Heaven endeavours dissolution seeing that the strength is consumed and it is destitute of nutriment for we have said that the Transplantations of times what shall I say of times but the prevarications of fruits and the confluences may bring such evils and infinite calamities yea lastly Death it self into mans Commonweal so from the Being of Nature proceeds the Being of Poison and Diseases CHAP. XIII Of Curing of Astral Diseases of the Greater and Lesser World Which rise â—rom the â—irmament of the Maâ—rocosm which rise from the Firmament of the Microcosm THere is required for the preservation of Astral Diseases first an evacuation of impurities by convenient Remedies for there lie divers seeds oftentimes of Diseases in the filthy impurities and if such impressions be contained in the body the astral are more easily admitted when as the bloud shall be impure that impurity is not to be removed by the cutting of the Vein but it is to be expelled by Diaphoretical Veins fetcht from Physical anatomy not that one exhibition or giving will suffice for preservation but every week one Dosis of Diaphoreticks is to be taken by reason of the time In the Curing of the Epidemical Diseases first it is to be respected unto the being of Poison and labour must be taken especially that the Poison be abolished and taken away speedily without deliberation by convenient Remedies No better and more excellent method of curing astral Diâ—eases can be invented of expelling the being of Poison than that which is made by swear In this Cure the chief Remedies are Diaphoretical or sudoriferous Medicines which expel the being of Poison by sweat luckily and take away and disperse the mists and poisoned spirits of the bloud especially diaphoretical or sweating Medicines are to be given which are fetcht from Astronomy and the signed art untill that all the Poison be abolished In the curing of these Diseases the Galenists are mad with reason which make purgations of the belly obstinately when as no body is present with the being of Poison but spirits for in astral Diseases astral and spiritual Concerning this look into the following Treatise cap. 16. at the end de Cura Phthisea Remedies are to be given In the Curing of the Diseases which have their beginnings and originals from the Firmament of the Microcosm first of all a Physician must know and understand Transplantation which in Philosophy is called Regeneration or begetting again for example if some be sick with the Hectick in Phthisis under the Empire or Dominion of Saturn In the Curing of this Disease we must labour with all diligence to transplant Saturn into Venus wherefore the most perfect Cure of Antimony is seen in the Hectick and Malignant are to be tempered with the Benign Phthisâ—s because it transplants Saturn into Venus These are the Mysteries of Cures the secrets of Remedies and the brevities of Manifestations So all the Stars in the Microcosm may be transplanted and made friendly unto mans Nature by the secrets of Remedies and Mysteries of Cures so all deplored and desperate diseases are abolished by this Philosophical Transplantation as the Leprosie the Leprie and all kinds of the Leprie There are the proceedings of many by which Transplantation or Regenerating is perfected is comprehended in the preparations of Antimony CHAP. XIV Of the Being of Poison THus far have we handled of the Astronomy of the greater and less World and of the stars of diseases of the Element of Heaven and the Air and also of the Cuâ—ing of astral diseases Now it is convenient that we descend to the Philosophy and diseases of the inferiour Globe namely of the Element of Earth and VVater All the fruits and effects of the Element of Earth and â—ram in Apolog. reâ—â—t fol. 10. Water have poison admixt not only medicamental and extreme hurtful and noxious but those which are called of Physicians alimental Wherefore seeing we take aliments for the preservation and nourishing of our bodies we also receive poison mixt with our aliment but if all be rightly administred in the frame of the Ventricle this poison by the admixtion of more benign and wholsome meats being tempered resolved and separated is thereby expelled or else this poison remains in the anatomy of the belly and is the cause of many most grievous diseases for the governour and faculty of the Ventricle if it have strength and power of working it separates the pure from the impure and changes the pure into a tincture and gives the tincture to the body for norishment for the conservation of life of the great Heaven in the little World but when this Spagyrian or Separatour doth not rightly execute his Functions and that the poison is separated from the aliment neither by natural nor artificial concoction of the Ventricle it comes to pass that the poison and the aliment conspire and after All the kinds of Poison are in the Tartar the conspiration follows putrefaction and digestion after digestion comes corruption which is the breeder of all diseases CHAP. XV. What the Being of Poison is THe being of Poison which is in all aliments is an excrementitious and Tartareous impurity which hath not an expulsive vertue but rather a