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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62435	Loimologia A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest. By Geo. Thomson, Dr of physick.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. aut	1665 (1665)	Wing T1026; ESTC R220876	14,362	27

Norton Dr William Currer Mr Mar. Nedham Dr Thomas Troutbeck Mr Tho. Odowd Dr Ever Maynwaring Mr Tho. Williams Dr P. Massonet Mr Iere. Astel. Dr Spranger Mr Ed. Cooke Dr Horsington Mr Horsnel Dr Geo. Thomson Mr Febure   Mr Tho. Smart   Mr Kefler   Mr Tho. Tillison   Mr Wilson Elogium Sulphuris A brief Commendation of the admirable Vertues of SULPHUR SIth many of our unfavoury Galenists whom 't was high time to lay aside are become on a sudden Mercuries 't is strange by what art considering their Dulness and corpulent indisposition and have taken their flight from us certainly Timor addidit Alas we know not whither perhaps into the New world in the Moon Farewel Frost Better lost then found and we hope we shall never see them more However we are very glad they have left us Sulphur behinde truly no thanks to them for in promptu causa est the reason is plain it is too divine and pure a thing according to the Greek Etymon for such terrestrial foeculent Humorists to meddle with Yet perhaps they would have attempted to have deprived us of it if their departure had not been vel●cior Euro being hurried away in Post-haste and Needs must be go the devil drives Withal I call to minde they do not much care for fire and brimstone forasmuch as it is of too hot a temperament and puts them in minde of another world where the Causos or Burning Fever much reigns Thus far Comically To be serious We have great cause to magnifie the Pantocrator and wise Disposar of all things who hath bestowed upon poor unworthy Man so choice and rare a thing as the common Mineral Sulphur in so plentiful a measure It is deservedly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divine from its excellent endowments and eminent Medicinal properties There is reckoned two sorts of it One which is the best is called by Hippoc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it hath not gone thorow the torture or trial of the fire it is named in the Shops Sulphur vive Graec. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that it being set on fire burneth all away without leaving any considerable caput niort or dross behinde The other sort that is usually made up into Magdaleons of a Cylindrical figure is extracted out of Pyrytes the Copper-stone and other Marchasites This is justly counted the worser sort having something Arsenical in it a kinde of poisonous fume arising from the Pyrytes Now the Sulphur vive was that Hippocrates made use of inwardly and outwardly with which he provoked as Helment sets down large Sweats in the Plague impregnating or filling generous Wine with the Gas or Spiritus Sylvestris a most spirituous substance of Sulphur set on fire after this manner He took an indifferent large narrow-mouth'd Glass putting into it a Match made with Brimstone set on fire with which after he had sufficiently filled the Glass with fumes he stopped it close suffering it to stand till such time the foresaid fume fixed to the sides of the Vial and then poured so much wine into it that filled about a third part thereof and stopping the mouth of the Glass very close he shaked it notably so long till it had imbibed or taken up all the Gas or subtil fume of Brimstone and this Sulphurated wine did the good old man give often with a little Fluxed Salt for prevention of the Pest and promotion of the Cure Which preparation I cannot but highly commend to the world being ascertained of the excellent vertue thereof in resisting Contagion and Corruption having in it something Antidotal adaequately proportionable to such an Exquisite Poison being easily mixable with our Archaeus and thereby mortifying the invisible Atoms of the Pest it rectifies the pernicious odour thereof Needs must that which so powerfully preserves bodies from fermentation acidity and putrefaction be a prevalent Remedy against this contagious disease It is very remarkable that any liquor or juyce well satiated with this fume will keep fourty times longer then it would do otherwise as I have often tried in several various humid bodies Moreover I know not a better Antidote against the poyson of a putid Slut for her nastiness shall hardly offend a man if the utensils and what she prepares have a sufficient Tang from this purifying flame It kills most Insects especially Lice if the Linnen and Woollen Clothes be throughly and to a purpose sulphurated therewith that the fume may penetrate them Now this is not to be done carelesly and slightly as I generally observe it is ordered For as good never a whit as never the better He that desires to reap the benefit of this divine Concrete ought to put the quantity of a Walnut or more into an earthen pint-Poringer setting it over quick coales till it take fire placing it in the middle of a room or the foot of the stairs that every nook and corner may be delibuted and tinged with its odour doing thus four or five times a day For preventing or taking off any infection from Clothes set this porringer with the Sulphur kindled into a Paile or Firkin and lay upon the mouth of it your Garments turning them with discretion If any thing be well filled with this Sulphureous spirit the contagion will hardly take hold of it if infected it may easily be carried off by some repetitions of the ascending fume Take notice that there ought not to be added or mixed with Brimstone any thing extraneous as Pitch Tarr Rosin or the like for thereby you do but castrate or geld it of some part of its vertue as some Adulterators commonly do that they may the better cover over their imposture of selling it at an excessive rate thus suffitibus sua Apocrypha annexuit Satan Most divine things are polluted by humane Inventions but let it be sincere and pure without fraud What an excellent Treasury of rich endowment the great Creator hath infused into the Sulphurs of all Concretes acute Helmont hath plainly discovered for saith he In Sulphure sunt fermenta fracedines odores sapores specifici seminum ad quasvis transmutationes These are mysterious Stories to the Galenists every whit as strange to them as Regeneration was to Nicodemus Wherefore I shall leave them to their wilfully-desired ignorance without pitie or further instruction for I see they are best affected with a nihil scire so it be lucriferous in their profession and that 's to them amabilis Insania mentis gratissimus Error Yet what mundified Sulphurs can perform I shall in part satisfie the more ingenious by the benefit that may accrue to Mankinde from the use of the three fore-mentioned Remedies of the inferiour Tribe which principally consist of Vegetal and Mineral Sulphurs well purified To conclude my advice is that who desire to preserve themselves from this present Pest do drink every morning either Sulphurated Wine Strong Beer or what Liquor they please wherein hath been steeped a large quantity of Horse-Radish-root with five six seven eight nine or ten drops of good Spirit of Salt and no doubt they will finde a far better effect then from a Galenical Electuary of London-Treacle and Wood-Sorrel FINIS