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
when these hurts are present the courage and strength fails and there is a crudity of the Ventricle and a slow dejection of the belly and much wind do make a noise The coarctation and straitness of the Intestines is somewhat like the obstruction and it is caused by the vertue of those which are ingested or carryed in whether they be meats or astringent glisters But this is frequent from the tumour of the mesenterium or bowels pressing the Intestines The inflammation also doth happen unto the Intestines when the seeds of Arsenick Sulphur and Auripigmentam are resolved in them Then a pain at first sharp and lancing is begot fixt in the same place The burning Fever and frustrate desire of sitting concomitates and accompanies this inflammation The imposthume being burst there comes forth at first a filthy and excrementitious filth afterward a white and concocted out of the fundament and it is either dreggish or somewhat before the dregs in which it is wont to be clensed and expelled and then the pain fever and other symptoms are mitigated and the belly the obstacle being removed doth freely avoid yet there is an Ulcer remaining from the Imposthume and Tenasm This pain is fixt of whose sense the Intestines are debilitated oftentimes they depose their load and belch forth sometime a bloudy sometime a purulent filthiness and that if it be hollow because it consists in the humid part and that which is easily passed through it remains long filthy and scarcely at last is obducted and covered with a scar unless heed be taken diligently it almost ends in a Fistula or Cancer He that will resolve the tartar and open the obstruction The cure Observation in the obstruction of the Intestines must not apply any glister unto the patient as they most use to do But apply unto him a hot cloth with the fat of Yew and put it upon the place of the belly afterwards give him inwardly the spirit of Turpentine which resolves the tartar that the excrements may descend unto the belly and that they be evacuated by the accustomed way The Ulcer which is wont to concur in the Intestines is cured by vulnerary simples in a vulnerary potion These are the simples hyrundinaria centaurea and pyrola boil them together with wine in a vessel well stopt untill the Consumption afterward in a vessel full of water CHAP. XXV Of the Symptoms of the Intestines and their Causes and Signs THe Cholick passion is as grievous as if The Cholick passion is a grievous and intollerable pain caused in the inferiour and crass Intestines with the constipation of the belly one have a stone imprest in the one Ureter or be boared through with a wimble in the affected place as Galen speaks of himself lib. 2. cap. 5. de locis affectis Concerning from whence the kinds of the Cholick read Sev. fol. 240. According to Theophrast lib. 1. de tribus principiis cap. 5. The Cholick is caused from Salt predominating in the Intestines and it produces divers kinds of the Cholick One kind when the Salt is resolved another when it is too much hardned So also â—ractat 4. de origine morbor ex tartaro he saith that the Cholick is begot from the effusion of choler which is thus to be understood when the tartar of the gall sends forth his flowrs it with the choler produces the Cholick so also de tartaro cap. 11. The Cholick and Iliacapassio is a grievous and intollerable pain caused in the superiour and small guts with the constipation of the belly the Iliack are begot from tartar and not from humours In the Cholick there are three potent properties of the principles the acute suddenly penetrates by his vaporous sowrness infecting the continuated parts They do not emit and send forth spirital resolutions indued with the same faculties at the first from which the contracture at length ariseth Concerning the cause of the contracture which ariseth from the Cholick read the book de membror contract tract 1. cap. 3. Oftentimes there happen contagious impressions of them which have the Cholick unto the Anatomy of the Ventricle which cause loathing vomiting and other symptoms of the Ventricle You may read a more full and perspicuous explication of the Generation of the Cholick in Davus fol. 238 239 240. Concerning the Iliack Lientery The Lientery is a flux of the belly wherewith the meat is forthwith avoided especially by stool either crude or somewhat digested or Caeliacal passion read the Galenists The cause of the cholick passion is not crudeness nor the weak concoction of the belly but the bad distribution of the chyle which is caused for the obstruction of the mensenterium Milt or Liver or the imbecillity of the attracting faculty or for the immoderate aboundance of aliments especially of unsetled and fugitive fruits and of drink All the superfluous humour being evacuated the flux ceaseth voluntarily sometime the same day it began sometime on the second or third day Hippocrates lib. de affectibus saith that in the Lientery the meats succeed not putrifacted and liquid there is no pain and the body is attenuated Concerning this disease read more at large in Galen in Aphoris Hippocrates Cem. 6. Sect. 1. Comment 4. Sectione 17. Barthol Anglus lib. 7. cap. 50. Phrisius in speculo part 4. Alexander Benedictus lib. 20. cap. 7. 8. Theophrast lib. 1. parag de morbo dissoluto Theophrastus makes the cause to be corrupted and resolved Salt he saith that every loose disease is ruled by Salt as the Dysentery The Diarrhea is a flux of the belly whereby humours especially excrementitious are avoided immoderately by the stool without exulceration of the guts The Dysentery is a flux of the belly whereby bloudy humour is avoided by the stool Diarrhaea and Lientery therefore the cure must be made by Salts and Sulphurs in lib. de tribus principiis cap. 5. Concerning the Diarrhaea read the Galenists The Colliquation or melting away of the Intestines may be referred to the Diarrhaea in which that which proceeds from within seems as it were perfused with fat or oil hence it comes to pass that the substance of fat or flesh or of solid parts being newly congealed may melt and flow away into the bâ—unch by the protracting disease This kind of flux is very usual unto those which have the pestilence fever and melting causes the Hectick and Phthisis sometime to those that have the atrophia and inflammations of the bowels The Dysentery is a difficulty of the belly Hippocrates seems to take it not for the Ulceration of the Intestines as most Physicians do but for the bloody flux of the Intestines Celsus makes the Dysentery simply to be wringings Hippocrates de affect saith this disease is begot when Choler and Flegm burthen the veins and belly The bloud corrupts and the corrupted departs The Intestine is diseased gnawed and exulcerated This disease becomes long laborious and mortal if the patient
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To which is prefixed a short discourse of the State and Government of the said Provinces The Method of Chymical Philosophy and Physick being a brief Introduction to the one and a true discovery of the other namely of Diseases their Qualities Causes Symptoms and certain Cures the like never before extant in English Several sorts of Playes Thracian Wonder Spanish Gipsie Gammer Gurtons Needle The merry Milk-maid The Wedding quarto by Mr. Shirley The humorous Lieutenant Beggars Bush Loves Mistris The scornful Lady Imperiale FINIS An Introduction to Chemick Philosophy and Physick HOw hard and high a point it is to handle what shall I say to unfold and shew naked to the sight the Living and Vital Philosophy it is hence manifest that as far as I know it hath not by any man been undertaken The ancient Philosophers and wise Old-men have involved and enwrapped the mysteries of Secrets and Vital Philosophy in shadowed Sentences and they delivered it over upon the same condition that they received it as we may see in the Epistle of Plato which he writ to Dionysius in which we read it thus written You say that Nature is not sufficiently demonstrated and explained unto you which is the chief thing therefore it is to be entreated upon but yet by aenigms and obscure sentences so that if any shall happen to the table by Sea or Land which shall read these but not understand them what shall they do but rest amazed the five years silence of Pythagoras What did Sphinx among the Egyptians but contend that Aenigms and Mysteries were to be taught and promulged in a mystical sense Concerning the more profound Philosophers and Physicians which have used a more divine original of their Art as also Physicians which have used a better proceeding in their Cures they also have handled the Principles and Grounds of the Art and left Commentaries full of riddles and obscurities Thus from the forenamed Philosophers and others it is evident that the way of approching unto the provinces of Vital Philosophy hath not been manifest For the Instructors and Masters gave precepts of Philosophy un to their Scholars which were obliged unto them by their faith and perpetual gratitude and such as were sworn unto them which preceps are as yet to be illustrated and expounded with much diligence Furthermore the Scholars gave their oaths that they would imitate the steps of the precepts of their fathers and that they would not prophane nor deflower the virginity of Nature by temerity or rashness which hath been kept from the beginning of the world For the excellency
evacuated by sweat the Tartar makes an union with it or the Sulphur and when this is come to pass the Tartar is no more generated but dung and excrement in which Tartar lieth hidden from hence mixt diseases are ingendred for the excrement of Nature namely Sulphur putrefies from whose putrefaction arises the continual rotten Fever and other inflammations This is to be noted that the excrement of bloud viz. Sulphur being commixt with Tartar is expelled by sweat but if for the weakness and debility of the spirits or Ventricle of bloud only the Sulphur be expelled but the Salt or Tartar which is the other kind of excrement remain whether resolved or coagulated and brings infinite diseases with it The bloud in the greater World is nothing else but Wood but there are infinite kinds of Wood therefore there are infinite kinds of bloud and as there are divers fruits of Trees so divers diseases of bloud exist as he speaks in Paragra de Philosophia pag. 27. In another place he saith that the bloud is the Element of Water in the Microcosm How many fruits of the Element of Water are found to be in the Macrocosm so many diseases are found to be in the bloud of the Microcosm CHAP. XXII Of the Tartar of the Flesh THe liquor of the flesh is the Ventricle of the flesh in which the excrements are separated from the liquor of the flesh and from the nourishment of it If the separation be exquisite the excrements are carried unto the veins and pores of the bladder and are expelled together with the Urine but when two excrements concur namely of the flesh or of his liquor and nutriment then the Stone is begot in the bladder and the reins it is called the Generation of the Stone from the Urine of bloud and such little stones are begot not only in the bladder and reins but also in other parts of the body from whence oftentimes arise obstructions and divers chronical diseases in the hips loins sides and other parts These are the most vehement kinds of Tartar or the Stone The Stones which rise from bloud are greater and harder and have more invasions of the fit than those which rise from Urine simply so called CHAP. XXIII Of the Tartar of the Marrow THe liquor of the Marrow is the Ventricle of the Marrow this liquor is fatness but the liquor of the flesh is a thin water the Ventricle of the Marrow hath a fire of digestion for the necessary use of life it can both digest and perfect for it self In other parts and in the Ventricles the excrement and Tartar is separated from the nutriment and so likewise in the Ventricle of the Marrow The Tartar of this Ventricle is not in a coagulated form but in a resolved form because the fatness hindereth as in the 18. Chap. for the same cause is said that butter hinders the Generation of the Tartar whereby it may not be so easily coagulated Though this Tartar be resolved nevertheless it produces The Symptoms whiâ—h follow the Paroxism of the Tartar Fat Ulcers from the Tartar of Marrow many and divers Tartareous diseases which they are wont to call doloriferous fluxes and every Arthetica and Sciatica which is not a perfect Gout rises from this Tartareous liquor which is seated in the joynts sinews and junctures or ligaments which bâ—ings with it the symptoms of the Stone He which can cure the Stone may cure this disease Parâ—â—â—l 3 Param de morb origina ex Tarâ—â—râ— Tract 5. but if not he can never attain unto the perfect curing of it The liquor of the Marrow of the sound is sound when the excrements are consumed by the driness of the bones and do not fall into strange places junctures flesh and ligaments but when they pass over the set limits of their place they produce divers diseases the Podagra the Chiragra the Genugra the Sciatica and the pains of the joynts There is a Ventricle and fire of digestion in the glewish matter of the joynts of â—ans body the fire separates the excrement and Tartar from the nutriment The glew is a most excellent member induced with a most exquisite sense which of all members can suffer the least The Tartareous excrement of it is twofold namely coagulated and dissolved In the beginning of separation before the spirit of Salt come it appears in the substance of the liquor but after the spirit of Salt comes it is coagulated into a solid substance from which the Podagra Chiragra and Genugra are begot The Medicine which reduces resolves and consumes the Tartar cures and removes the Podagra and his kinds and he which cannot reduce resolve and transmute the Tartar cannot remove the Podagra The Cholick â—ises from the Tartar of the Intestines Theophrast Tom. 5. prob 207. The Stone of Paracelsus is called a Tartar of the bladder so also the Urine is called a resolved Salt p. 208. Eodem loco CHAP. XXIV Of the Essence of Seed WE insisting in the steps of Paracelsus hitherto have explained the three Beings of Diseases the Being of Stars the Being of Nature and the Being of Poison though Paracelsus makes five Beings of Diseases yet seeing three only have natural causes and admit explication the other two namely 1. the magical being which is opposed directly against a Christian man 2. and the real being which is an unsearchable secret are left unexplained of us seeing that these three being explained suffice any Physician Perchance some may wonder wherefore we have not made mention in the general explication of Diseases of the three principles to the which Paracelsus ascribes all the causes of diseases I answer that Paracelsus in his book 1. and 2. Param writes that all diseases consist in three beginnings in Salt Sulphur and Mercury but it is not simply to be understood but in his 1. book de origine Morb. ex tribus substantiis in the end of the 2. Chap. he expresses his mind saying that every disease is to be conferred with man through all his parts he proceeds that this is the ground of the knowledge of diseases if a disease must be conferred with man according unto his accident or proper and essential adjuncts for so the four Elements the three Principles or three Substances the four Stars four Earths four Waters four Airs four Fires and all the conditions and properties of man are comprehended without which no disease can be In the greater World we see the sublimation of Mercury in which there are three beginnings essentially for an individual by it self is absolute In the less World such a digestion is wont to be made from too much Fire of digestion This sublimed Mercury is the greatest poison in the Microcosm begets the Epilepsie or Falling sickness But none will perswade himself that this Mercury alone is a beginning but an individual in which not one but three beginnings concur Paracelsus oftentimes calls it Mercurial Salt of Vitriol in which
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
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
cured by the medicines for rheum The pushing forth of bloud is diversly cured Take shepherds purse and the herb Polygon a like quantity let them be bruised and the juice extracted one or two drops of this being attracted or instilled stays the bloud Give in the too aboundant flux of the bloud four drops of the oil of iron in a draught of wine and it forthwith stays the bloud so the essence of Corals is exceeding good Thurnens in pisone lib. 4. cap. 4. cures the flux of bloud forth of the nostrils by the water of the stone Haematites and of Lapis Judaicus and Bergrota CHAP. XIV Of the hurts of the Mouth and Face and their Causes THe skin which covereth the Face because some of the flesh under it is more dry contracteth many Burning pushes hurts unusual unto the other parts of which kind are burning pushing or wheals which smell in the nose and other parts of the face with much unseemliness The Galenists affirm the cause to be a small and vicious bloud But Paracelsus de tribus primis substantiis cap. 5. saith The cause of them that all kinds of pushes are generated from Mercury and that the disease of pushes or blisters is caused from the essence of Mercury Lib. 6. Parag. cap. 3. he says that the Leprosie rises from blisters In the same book cap. 4. he saith that blisters are a sign of the red Leprosie lib. 2. param de origine morbor ex tribus substantiis cap. 5. he saith that Salt namely Mercurial Salt causes and generates the Alopecia the Pustula the Cicatrix the Condyloma or inflammation from bloud the Leprosie and the Morphaea In the same book cap. 4. he saith that the Blisters French Pox and the Leprosie have their beginning from Mercury The universal redness dispersed through the whole face without blisters is of this rank and order it is called of Physicians gutta rosacea Citron colour Pale White or any other bad colour is not to be ascribed to the distemperature of the Liver but to the radical moisture and Mercury of the Microcosm which causes like flowrs or colours as it is in the face for the colour of the face is nothing but the flowr of the Mercury of the Microcosm Paracel de ente Naturae at the end says that there is a great number of such deformities which because they hurt not the functions of the body are not amongst diseases but because they are altogether preternatural they are to be accounted symptoms The teeth are wont to be diversly affected sometime they are gag-teeth or hang forth sometime they are worn with eating or by violence of some external causes sometime they are made black and covered with silthy slime The teeth shake and are loose by the hurt of scraping them by the eating of hot and sweet things as also by breathing forth crudities and by smiting of an external cause and when the roots abound with moisture and their gumms are made looser then they are grievously pained and that almost for the pain which is in the membrane of the jawbone or in the sinew of the teeth or in the flesh of the teeth Thee phrastus lib. 12. parag fol. 16. saith that the pains of the teeth with their accidents are in the roots of the bone c. f. 417. The first cause of the ach of the teeth is from the sharpness of the Salt Sometime the gumms The swelling and growing forth of the Gumms Aphta are little pushes appearing in the superficies of the lips swell above measure that almost they cover the teeth especially in such as have soft and spongious gumms and such as live in moist and watery places as ship-men do The Aphta are Ulcers not very hollow insinuating it self into every part of the mouth palat gumms and into the sides of the tongue and into the root of it These are very common to children but in those come to age hot vapours cause them rising from the Liver sometime salt flegm doth cause them which flows from the head these are frequent in Fevers sometime they are without Fevers There are grievous ones observed of which kind are observed to be sometime when womens flowrs are supprest The cure Without controversie it is that these blisters are generated from impure bloud that is from Mercurial poison contained in the bloud seeing that like are cured with like and contraries with contraries all the kinds of blisters are altogether cured by the essence of Mercury This essence of Mercury is not so manifest and perspicuous in any metall as in Mercury and it is not so excellent and vertuous in any mineral as in Antimony there is none more effective in any wood than in Ivory Ash lignum sanctum and Juniper there is none more effective in herbs than in the herb Serpents Tongue Arsemart and Serpentine The same cures gutta rosacea but if it be inveterate it can be cured by no external medicaments The spots of the face and gutta rosacea are cured in the beginning with maids milk the description of which is thus Take of Lithargy of Silver â„¥ iij. pulverized of distilled Vinegar of best wine lb ss mix them strain it through a linen cloth mix this water with the water of Salt let this water be made of â„¥ of Salt well powdered Take also lbss of rain water mix them very well and you shall see that water white like milk which is called lac virginis wash gutta rosecea and the spots of the face with this milk Some boil Lithargy with distilled Vinegar some put to Ceruse which all are approved The cure of the bad colour in the face consists in the renovation and restauration of moisture Read of this cap. 16. de cura Phthisis The oil of Amber cures the intollerable pains of the teeth the rottenness of the mouth the Aphta and the corrupt gumms it also makes black teeth white Gumm from the wild Olive especially that which is biting helps the corroded and corrupt gumms Bartholomeus Anglu lib. 17. cap. 14. against the pains of the teeth saith anoint the affected part with the oil of St. Johnswort and lay a hot linen cloth to warm them If the pain come from distillations use three or four drops of the spirit of Vitriol in the spirit of wine and it consumes and disperses the flux Again pour another or two drops upon the affected tooth and forthwith the pain ceases A most present remedy against the pains of the teeth is take the seed of Mastick bruise it and put it into a linen cloth and put it to the teeth it hath a wonderful force and vertue of extracting clammy and slimy humors as also of taking away the pains Paracels lib. 12. Parag. 417. in cura dolorum dentium c. CHAP. XV. Of the Diseases Causes and Symptoms of the Tongue and Jaws THe tongue which is an excellent member The Psellotis is a preternatural affect when as man omitteth some
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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
of Centory Almond and Bitterwort are counted secrets c. The living Spider hanged about the neck in a Nutshel upon the fork of the breast untill the disease be expelled which is in five or six dayes space at the death of the Spider This specifical is to be applyed when the Jaundies is an Epidemical disease The Jaundies of the principal members is thus to be known namely when it cannot be cured by the help of purgations In brief all diseases which cannot be helped by the help of purgations consist of Jaundies unless certain and apparent significations of the tartar or the other disease be repugned from hence are many chronical diseases These are signs of all the members viz. The colour of the face from the Liver debilitation compression of the stomach heaviness of the shoulders pain of the back pain of the back-bone and principal members loathing disdain of meat defect of sleep and that at length they become to have the Paralysis the cure of this is made by Diaphoreticks of Mercury and Antimony If one which hath the tartar be put into a bath the pain is quickly expelled by Raperoots CHAP. XXII Of the Diseases of the Milt and the Causes and Signs of them THe more grievous diseases of the Milt The Apostem of the Milt is a tumour caused from crass and lent humour in the substance of the Milt besides Nature The Schirrus is when the humour thickneth and hardneth in the Milt by reason of the resolution of humid and small parts by heat The inflammation is when the humour boileth in the Milt and so distends the substance of it and makes a tumour preternaturally are the distending tumour the obstruction the Schirrhus and inflammation Read the Galenists and Symphorianus for the causes of these diseases c. The cure The liquor of tartar expels all the affects of the Milt Paracels lib. 2. de viribus memb cap. 8. so also the oil of Tamarisk and the tincture of Hearts-tongue cure all the affects of the Milt Those medicaments do also the same which resolve reduce and consume the tartar and which open obstructions The water of Sulphur and Pitch or Bitumen open obstructions so doth Ale made with Hearts-tongue Barthol Anglus lib. 16. cap. 45. Hot iron if it be extinguished ofen in wine or milk it makes the wine or milk to cure the diseases of the Milt and other diseases The general medicine of the Galenists against all the affects of the Milt is the root China Concerning the Liver and Spleen indurated read Galen de arte curativa lib. 2. cap. 5. Paracelsus de morb tartareis cap. 14. In the tartar all the kinds of poison are when the poison of tartar and the flowrs of tartar go forth and disperse they infect the vital Elements CHAP. XXIII Of the diseases of the middle of the bowels or Mesenterium of that part which is called Pancreas COncerning the tartar of the Mesaraical veins and the symptoms thereof read Paracels lib. 3. paramir de origine morbor ex tribus principiis parag lib. 1. de tartaro tractat 2. cap. 3. Tartar is begot in all the cavities passages and vessels of the whole body as also in the Mesentery and mesaraical veins which are conveyed from the Belly to the Liver Tartar being heapt and collected by daily nutrition and impression at length obstructs the veins whereby aliment may less be able to attract aliment from the Liver These veins being obstructed the Liver and parts of the body being destitute of aliment fall into pining and consumption But when that tartar sends forth his flowrs which are the poison of tartar for in the tartar all the kinds of poison are which are indued with malignant qualities then they infect the vital Elements from whence inflammations and other incommodities issue Fernelius a most Judicious man writes thus of the mesenterium and that which is called pancreas lib. 6. de partium morbis symptomatis cap. 7. I affirm saith he and profess that I have oftentimes marked the causes in these places of the choler melancholy Diarrhaea dysenteria cachexia atrophia languor of lingting and erring Fevers and lastly of occult diseases by whose expulsion and removal health is restored Obscurity hath been a cause to many of ignorance and why the affects of these parts are pretermitted and not celebrated in the writs of old writers The The cure tartar in the mesentery and mesaraical veins which is often the cause of the phthisis fever inflammation and most grievous diseases as well chronical as acute is resolved reduced and consumed by true precipitated Mercury so also the confections of Antimony which works by vomit and stool Little or nothing is effected by other medicaments in this case the inflammation being present Diaphoreticks and such as corroborate nature and the vital Elements are to be administred of which we have often spoken The said true precipitated Mercury prepare thus â„ž pure crude Mercury dissolve it in good Aquafortis made with two parts Vitriol and one part Salt Peter being all dissolved distill off all the Aquafortis at last with strong fire and then put fresh Aquafortis upon the remaining Mercury which also distill from it again and so do the third time with fresh Aquafortis so will the Mercury remain behind red as Cinaber upon which pour a well rectified oil of Vitriol and distill it off strongly again then pour it on again and distill it off as before thus cohobate with the same oil of Vitriol six times and after that with good spirit of wine ten times then with the distilled water of Bugloss and Borage dulcifie it Lastly neal it red hot in a crucible and so is the true precipitated Mercury finished CHAP. XXIV Of the diseases of the Intestines and their Causes and Signs THe more grievous diseases of the Intestines are the Obstruction Astriction Inflammation Imposthume and Ulcer The obstruction interpels and hinders either the descending of the aliment or the evacuation of excrements which are especially functions of the Intestines The Obstruction of the Intestines according to Paracelsus is caused from tartar which is generated in Lib. 1. de tartaro tract â—â— cap. 2. fol. 224. the Intestines when the salt of the thing and the salt of Nature are commixt and when the excrementâ— of the belly stay longer in the Intestines This commixtion if it be continual and increased by little and little by the efficacy of heat at last it doth so incrass that it obstructs the Intestines altogether and doth as it were kill them and becometh the cause of occult and difficult diseases Fernelius saith we testifie that these are true which notwithstanding are not thought probable unto Galen This tartareous and styptick matter being collected long in the cavities of Colon and the blind gut sometime congeals into stones which stop the way altogether for the excrements and hinders them whereby they may less be able to descend to the belly
and utility of this Philosophy it is so great that none can open and unlock the doors of Nature which are shut and lockt much less can he enter into the inmost closets of Nature which knoweth not and throughly seeth the nature of this undefiled Virgin What can Philosophers perform or what can Physicians or what can Chemists unless they kiss this Virgin with a sweet kiss This Virgin might have come forth into the conspect of her Lover more trim and deckt but she like unto a chaste Virgin which abhorreth frizling and painting had rather offer her self untrimmed at the first by so diligent negligence hoping that though she were seen bare and naked yet she might provoke wonderful love PART I. CHAP. I. The assigned Star of the Ancients IN that I am about to unfold and explain the sacred and ancient Philosophy which is collected forth of the Philosophy of the Academicks and Peripateticks I have thought it meet to set before your eyes the Opinions of the ancient Philosophers concerning the nature of things and that in brief to repeat that whereby it may appear now far Vital Philosophy hath excelled and surpassed the rude and corpulent Philosophy Which things being understood and throughly viewed it will be convenient to descend to the fountains of things All the precepts of ancient Philosophers which concerned the knowledge of Natural things have been hidden and concealed of them under feigned and dark shadows and fables for all those things which divine Plato and after him Aristotle have writ concerning the World and nature of things as also whatsoever Empedocles or Parmenides or Pythagoras have brought into the light all those precepts have been the precepts of those which writ ancient fables from whose precepts every one hath so much profited as he could attain unto by the faculty of his Wit Their precepts did signifie that the World was created of God and that it consists of one universal and common matter Wherefore they held there was but one World and not many and that Time was caused from the motion of the Heaven and that the Heavens while they were moved did effect a musical harmony by reason of the magnitude of their bodies and that the eternal Matter of the Heaven existed and that the Elements were obnoxious to corruption and transmutations according to their parts Whenas yet the whole substance is so created of him that it might be eternal All these are conserved from corruption by the Soul of the World or Divine power They alâ—o did express by fables that the Earth was unmoveable and that all other things were moved with perpetual motions and that the parts of the Elements mutually amongst themselves were generated and corrupted by the heat and cold of the Heaven and that there were made more frequent mutations of all these about the Earth They also did lay open by fables the generation of Hail Rain and Thunder and other Meteors which are caused by the Sun from Vapours elevated upwards And also they expressed how Living creatures and Plants were generated by the commixtion and corruption of the Elements of all which the Sun is the efficient cause by his moderate heat Again they affirmed that all the living bodies should die which were composed of many principles or beginnings because every compounded body is at length to be resolved into his principles Now at length we come to explain the nature of Plants and Fruits They in their fables declared that the seasons of Time were profitable to them when the Fruits and Plants are fit to gather strength and yield fruit Lastly the generation of all things whether it be by corruption of life or conjunction of Male and Female it is governed and holpen by the temperature of the Heaven both in procreating and conserving or bringing them up for from that temperature there arises an appetite and desire of procreating Again they have entreated of the Changes and Virtues of the Moon whose humour is expedient in the Full Moon to those that bring forth and for the increase of Plants and the conservation of living things which are bred And they said that the principal author of this power was the Sun which therefore the Physicians thought to be a skilful governour of Health and Diseases for seeing the mediocrity and temperature and the grievousness and magnitude of the Heat is caused by it this power is not undeservedly attributed to the Sun They judged the Sun to be the ministrant cause of God by which all things are made and generated seeing that he by this mixeth the Elements from whose commixtions all things are generated This was their Philosophy which is no other vise explained than in the sense of Fables CHAP. II. Of the Philosophy of Hermes and Hippocrates TRue Philosophy is the breathing of God and a Divine Illustration which is plaâ—e in the power and reason of no man but wholly depends on the good blessing of God Whereupon no man ought to wonder or admire that there be so few scarce one of a thousand which attains it seeing it is the gift of God yea and that a perfect gift descending from the Father of lights wisdom and truth Assuredly that the decree of God may stand firm and unviolated God hath not imparted this Philosophy to any man without labour watchings study for God still works mediately and by hands at all times unto all Nations Furthermore we must study and learn in Gods school very diligently Plato being allured by the wonderful study sweetness and desire of Philosophy went into Egypt that he might throughly learn Philosophy of the Priests that he might attain the true and sound knowledge thereof After this he coming into Brachmana and there he saw Jarcha the chief of the Philosophers of India sitting in a golden seat and he heard him reason concerning the motion of the Heaven and the Stars and the nature of sublunary things Not to trouble you with many the true Monarch of true Philosophy and Physick namely Paracelsus remained captive with the Egyptians certain years that he might be instructed by them from whom he received so many excellent Medicines Seeing there is but one onely true Philosophy and the unity thereof is from the unity of the subject therefore it is meet that one subject of the whole Philosophy should be determined The subject is the inward and essential form of everything The Subject of Philosophy existing in the superiour and inferiour Globe whose essence and properties constitute whole Philosophy namely Astronomy Physicks and Alchymy The Astronomers and Magicians have called it The invisible Sun Philosophers and Physicians called it The First Matter Physick-chemists called it The simple Radix or Root of Minerals as most learned Geberus witnesseth in the third book Rei Metallicae I am sure that many now-adays do love and esteem this sound Philosophy I am also sure that many do reject and despise it as vain and unprofitable but we must exclaim with Fabius
most grievous Diseases Whereupon with Paracelsus and other true Physicians this being of poison is celebrated to be almost the most noble amongst other beings of Diseases Of which being of poison and more common cause of Diseases we will more largely handle in the differences concerning the Generation of Diseases This general Transplantation contains in it a spiritual Transplantation in regard of the tinctures which bear sway in all the Elements The spiritual Transplantation is twofold The first is the Transplantation of Individuals The second is of the kinds The Transplantation of the Individuals is in which the utmost Signatures are only changed as Colours Smells Tastes Magnitude Figure c. yet this transplantation is not to be read so that it be not made with the superadded tinctures of the Elements but by Seeds Stars and Roots of the same kind as Vegetables with Vegetables Minerals with Minerals c. Seeing there be many seeds in Vegetables in which the Sciences and predestnated gifts of many Individuals are conjoyned which by the judgment of the sense do seem to differ in some sort in kind it is no marvel if that they pass into new Familes by a light moment Severinus p. 141. as if Watercresses be transplanted into Mint Rape into Radish the herb Imperatoria into Angelica This Transplantation is neither to be ascribed to the tinctures of the Elements nor being of Poison but to the Star Seed or Root of Mint Radish Angelica and to the Roots of Watercresses Rape and the herb Imperatoria by the perfect mixtion of the Individuals superadded In this Transplantation the power of the Root and his family or kind remaineth and sheweth certain signs though it be very much changed The Generation of Gemms is a Transplantation of this kind which are produced from the first and common Root of Metalls the Stars Seeds or Roots superadded and concurring So from the Roots of Lead the Adamant is transplanted from the Roots of Gold is the Saphirus transplanted from the Roots of Copper is the Smaragdus transplanted from the Roots of Iron is Berill transplanted c. Those which are spoke of the Stars Seeds and Roots of Transplantation namely those which manifest the anatomy of death and dissolution are not to be understood of the Transplantation of the Individuals but of the general Transplantation and of the kinds nevertheless the general Transplantation is also to be referred unto the Transplantation of Individuals for no natural body or which is produced of four Elements wants impurities or being of poison The Transplantation of perfect animals pertains also unto this Transplantation of Individuals for it is above said that a woman is a transplanted man for in the Generation of perfect animals if the Star Seed and tincture of the Menstruum concur and be indued with a strong power all the seed shall be adorned with properties and parts in the Menstruum If that the Star or Seed of the Male shall domineer it produces the Male and mans Members But here an Inquisition may be made how it comes to pass how Hermophradites are generated having both Male and Female members The answer is that if the Stars and Seeds of the Male as well as of the Menstruum shall be equal in vertue in the mechanical process of Generation Hermophradites are generated for that seed or star doth sometime predominate and hath the nature of the one forthwith it abounds with propension to beget man forthwith to beget woman That Transplantation which rises from the congress of animals of divers kinds is often barren neither can there be a natural Transplantation unless their seeds conspire with exceeding great Society and Consent for animals do difficultly admit Transplantation which are separated by the perfect distinction of the Sex Hither is referred the Generation of Minerals which hath as a Companion of Generation Transplantation adjoyned nigh the nature of an Hermophradite with Balm The Fruits of the superiour Globe are also obnoxious to this Transplantation and that if they be perfected at the same time and have conspired by the Society of the beams as Snow and Rain and there are made Transplantations of the bodies of the Fruits namely the qualities of the bodies being altered by violence frequency aboundance and diuturnity The Transplantation of the kind is where not only the external signatures but also the internal are changed and thereby the Root and First Matter This Transplantation proceeds from most valid and effective tinctures and only adheres to the Individuals of things that is to the beginnings of bodies Again it hath possest the very Root of the thing so that there is no further hope that these first Transplantations may be mended The tinctures of the Elements are proper unto this Transplantation and it differs in nothing from the general Transplantation of things but that the Transplantation of the kind may be caused by more valid and effective tinctures of the Elements but the general Transplantation is caused by more light tinctures The Transplantation of the kind and mutation of the Root appears in the Tare and in the Darnel in which Transplantation the Root of the Wheat is transplanted by the tinctures of the Elements into a calamitous chance Hither pertains Antimony and Anarchisite Sol and Luna It is to be observed that those tinctures of the Elements are not altogether disagreeable from the thing to whom they are superadded but in some sort they conspire with them though they endeavour for dissolution and make divers deceits against life for if they had not some affinity with the Roots Stars and First Matter of things they could not be mixed and so the Counsel and intent not only of Generation but also of Transplantation shall be anihilated and frustrate A true and Philosophical Explanation of all Diseases both Astral and Material Acute and Chronical CHAP. I. Of the Beginnings of Diseases GAlen and his imitators have made the grounds of Philosophy to be the Elements and Qualities adjoyned unto them and the Principles of the art of Physick to be the Humours These grounds and principles being laid of Philosophy and Physicks they make an easie compendious way unto the top of them without any labour and sweat But yet concerning the Spirits of Diseases both Galen and his Sectators are silent The power and force of which rise immediately The Reciprocal Nature of the Spirits is to be noted for the Material Diseases for Bodies are produced from Spirits and again Bodies are resolved into Spirits and the Beginnings of Material Diseases are spiritual that is vaporous which afterward end in Coagulation which in the curing is to be reduced into the First Matter that is into a vaporous substance from Spirits Winds and Vapours as Hippocrates testifieth in his book de flatibus where he professeth that all Diseases as well Astral as Material Acute as Chronical rise from Spirits Winds and Vapours Here we must have respect unto the Philosophy in which we have distinguished
the University of things into two Globes the Superiour and the Inferiour The superiour contains the Fire and the Air The inferiour contains the Water and the Earth The Properties of the Elements being considered we may more easily search forth the Nature and Properties of the Spirits for the Seeds and Stars of all the Elements do somewhat imitate the Nature and Poperties of their Matrix If first we consider the Fire we shall deprehend the most forcible impressions of the Element of Heaven as also most vehement impressions of the Element of Heaven as also most vehement impressions in regard of the power of operation unless they be tempered with the confluence of more benign and less violent Elements Water temperates the Element of Fire the next unto it â—â— Air and the Earth hath the lowest place CHAP. II. Of the Spirits and Stars of the Elements THe Elements are twofold Spiritual as Fire and Air and Corporal as Water and Earth Of these all natural things are compounded and are resolved into them again and from these they do not only receive life and being but also they receive nourishment from them for the conservation of life wherefore it is truly said of Hippocrates We are nourished by the same of which we are compounded though not actually yet potentially for all our aliment which we receive from the Elements is conveyed to the mechanical spirits of our bodies by which it is transmutated into the substance of our Balsam Nutriment is twofold by reason of the Elements Spiritual and Corporal The Fire and the Air do yield us spiritual nourishment The Water and the Earth yield us Corporal This nutriment whether it be spiritual or corporal contains in it three Principles and animal Balsam for the bodies of all the Elements consist of Salt Sulphur and Mercury Our first-begot spirit or in-bred heat or vital Balsam useth this spiritual aliment and it requires the resolutions and fruits of the Celestial and Aery seeds which are conjoyned by great necessity and this spirit doth not only receive alteration and refrigeration from this aliment but Substance Body and Nutriment yet such as is agreeable unto it In the Doctrine of Transplantation we have demonstrated that in all the Elements and first pure seeds of things there are permixt and implanted tinctures or roots or stars the Authors of Transplantations which induce and bring the anatomy of Diseases and Death into the Common-wealth of life whatsoever therefore receiveth and sucketh life and aliments from the Elements doth therewith receive Diseases for all aliments are seeds but yet permixt with impurities From these we collect that there are four stars or spirits of Health in the Elements so also stars or spirits of Diseases lurk and are closely contained in the Elements And these are in the Macrocosm In the Microcosin also there are four stars of Health and four of Diseases Paracelsus lib. 1. Param de origine Morb. cap. 369 ex tribus primis cap. 2. CHAP. III. Of the visible Stars of the Firmament COncerning that which the Astrologers say that the good and bad fortune of men doth depend on the fortunate or malignant aspect or position of the stars we will not stand on it neither do we reject or approve of their fictions and writings concerning Nativities or of the fore-deeming Astrology in this place Seeing we consider the nature aswell of fixt stars as of erring stars and by what means they cherish and conserve these inferiour bodies and how they bring and endeavour corruption and destruction to the resolved stars and spirits of the Diseases The stars of the Firmament which are the most perfect bodies and are represented by a visible form are contained in the other Elements in vertue and vital power for we see the Golden chain of Homer and the Society of the invisible nature with the visible and we deprehend it in the conspiration of the stars as well of Health as of Diseases In the superiour Globe we see the Fire of the Heathen Baths or Waters hot by Nature and we find the same poperties in the stars of the Heaven or Firmament and they are by so much more forcible by how much there is the greater difference of these Elements In the inferiour Globe we see Crystal and stones to be cold by Nature likewise we see some visible stars having the same property The Loadstone hath an attractive faculty the like attractive faculty is in many stars by influences These operations of the stars are not to be ascribed to the Heat or Cold of the stars but they are contained in the faculties and sciences of their principles of which they consist Concerning the offices of the visible stars they are created of God for signs and seasons that they may make day and night and that they may distinguish the times not that they confer any thing to the heat pulchritude nature and properties of Man or fruits of the Earth or Water as many Astrologers do trisle but that the Sun and the Stars should be as instruments of digestion even as our material Fire and our Vulcan for without the visible stars we cannot live seeing that the heat and cold and digestion and maturity of natural things which we use in our Meat and Drink are caused from them The more principle visible stars are seven Sol Luna Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury so likewise there are seven orders of the fixt stars of which every one is referred to a principal star so that some stars are Saturnine some Jovial some Martial some Mercurial some Solar some Venereal some Lunar which at the accomplished and decreed times do either produce many fruits of Soundness or of Diseases CHAP. IV. Of the Being of Stars A Being is a thing or substance which hath power to govern change and affect our bodies Paracelsus in param de entibus Morb. he reckoneth five kinds of these Beings 1. The Being of the Star 2. The Being of Poison 3. The Bâ—ing of Nature 4. The Being of Spirits that is of Enchanters 5. The Being of God These five Beings are five Originals or Causes of Diseases of which Causes every one hath full and perfect power of procreating all Diseases so that according to the Beings or Causes there are five kinds of the Plague five kinds of the Dropsie five of the Jaundies five kinds of Fevers and so of every Disease there are five kinds and not one kind of every Disease as Physicians have fasly perswaded themselves hitherto seeing that every Being is able to engender all the Diseases and as in the inferiour Globe of Water and Earth we see the fruits which generate the Stone the Tartar the Sand the Gout the Pining and the Dropsie so in the superiour Globe some stars have the same Properties and corrupting tinctures and seeds of Diseases and are able to produce all Diseases which thing Hermes Trismegistus the Father of the first sacred Philosophy testifies when as he saith It is true and no
lie it is certain and most true that that which is below is as that which is above and that which is above is as that which is below This saying of Hermes is not only to be understood of the Conspiration and Harmony or Conflux and Consent of the First and uncorrupted Matter or of the stars of Generation in both the Globes but also of the Conspiration of the superadded tinctures and stars of Transplantation The Holy Ghost confirms this Hermes his concord of the superiour and inferiour things and as well of the first perfect Nature as of the corruptible and superadded Nature by John in the Apocalyp where it is writ that Apoc. â— the star of Wormwood fell upon the Waters and made the Waters bitter for the Destruction of man Furthermore this star and other like in properties are The Transplantation of Water and Earth deprehended to be in the superiour sphere â—â—ars of the Firmament So also the properties of Arsenick Colocynthis Devils Milk and Scammony and all the properties of things and of superadded tinctures according to the sentence of Hermes and Doctrine of the holy Ghost are found to be in the superiour Globe and visible stars which properties are hidden in the bodies of the inferiour Globe We were ever happy Astronomers Philosophers and Physicians if we knew that concordance of Hermes then we could truly interpret that which God spake by Moses That they were for signs which thing we see with half shut eyes these Concordances being not known Certainly many Physicians do neither believe nor do grant that from the stars of the four Elements as from universal causes of all Diseases as well spiritual as material acute as chronical all Diseases do rise seeing that the stars are such clear beautiful and lucid bodies which do absolve and finish a certain Course From hence it appears that they only read the Writings of the Heathen and that they have lost the great book of Nature and the book of Philosophy and art of Physick and that they have not read the Bible from which as from a Fountain all Wisdom floweth for if they had read the Bible with judgment they would have found it in express words writ in Job that the stars before God are not pure but contaminated with impurities and tinctures superadded wherefore as the Earth for the fall and prevarication of the first man was Cursed and filled with thorns and briers even so the superior bodies the like spiritually which the inferiours receive corporally which Hermes and all real Astrologers confirmed by Experience do affirm CHAP. V. Of the Being of Poison in the Visible Stars SEeing that in the visible stars of the Firmament there are found not onely the form of the Wheat but of Darnel and not only the Nature and Properties of Gold and Silver Balmmint and Rose but of Arsenick Woofsbane and Poppy it follows necessarily that the Being of Poison is contained in the Being of the stars though it differ from the being of poison in the inferiour bodies because it is in the stars spiritually but in the inferiour bodies corporally for Paracelsus in his book de ente Astr cap. 9. writes that there do not more poisons exist in the Earth than do in the stars when as he says all the kinds of poisons which the fruits of the inferiour Globe of the Earth and Water do shew unto us are likewise contained the stars of the Firmament And furthermore he saith of those exalted stars poisoned with impurities and resolved seeds that they can produce all Diseases which these inferiour bodies by the being of their poison can produce for the original and cause of all Diseases is the being of poison and all Diseases are generated from poison Wherefore Physicians perswade themselves that all Diseases as well spiritual as corporal have their original and beginning from the spiritual or corporal being of poison The being of poison is rightly distinguished for the difference of the superiour and inferiour bodies into the spiritual in regard of the superiour and corporal in regard of the inferiour bodies We have said in our Philosophy that no Element doth bring forth fruits in his own proper place but in a strange place and that the fruits of the Firmament were absolved and perfected in the Air for as the fruits of Sanity flowing from the Firmament are absolved in the Air so also the stars of the Firmament do lay down the fruits of Diseases and Death in the bosom of the air that there they may attain the predestinated term and perfection But seeing that the necessity of the air is so great to all living creatures that they cannot want it for a moment It comes to pass that not only brute Animals do attract corrupt and infected air by breathing but also men for the aliment of the Microcosm as of the superiour Globe is altogether invisible and spiritual Hippocrates in his book de flatibus shews the unresistible necessity of this aliment The necessity of breathing is so great to all mortal creatures that though man abstain from all other things so that he neither eat nor drink yet he may live two or three days or moe but if any man have the passages stopped by which breath enters into the body he dies in less than a moment of an hour Again men may cease from other labours but there is no rest or ceasing from breathing granted to any Paracelsus in his book de ente Astror cap. 7. calls the Air a great Mystery but yet for some analogy or similitude for by the air he understands the stars of the air which give life unto all things And it is truly said of Paracelsus in the same Treatise cap. 7. that all bodies and Elements are preserved by the air but not by the air alone but by seeds and stars for all aliments and nutriments are seeds but mixt with impurities Neither is the air alone as far as it is an Element infected with poisonsome properties but that great Mystery from the resolution of the poisonful tinctures is Transplanted and transmutated which gives aliment to the vital Balm So that this aliment being received and the great Mystery being Transplanted and transmutated the animal and vital Balm is also infected whereupon follows the Transplantation of the body into a calamitous chance Although this aliment be invisible and want external signatures by which they make differences of the aliments of the inferiour Globe as Taste Solidness Crasness Tenuity Clamminess Heat Easie or Hard Digestion yet it is not destitute of the interiour signatures for the spirits and resolutions of fruits of the superiour Globe are neither sweet nor sowr bitter nor sharp white nor black and very often admit or receive stinking smells In this aliment four qualities as the qualities or faculties of some poisons exist and triumph which neither by taste nor smell or any manifest qualities shew and manifest their occult qualities But pernicious resolutions are
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
he comprehends all those which we have brought sometimes he calls it the Epilepsie which is from sublimed Mercury He speaks truly Philosophically not as of a beginning but as of an individual in which Mercury notwithstanding predominates So it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the disease of Mercury the disease of Sulphur and the disease of Salt But that we may proceed to the being of Seed we must call in mind that there are impurities and tinctures adjoyned to every kind and worldly root which endeavour death and dissolution and for this cause all things are obnoxious to death and corruption Again that there are impurities and tinctures superadded to the individuals and beginnings which are usual unto mankind for lust and intemperance of which we set down the being of Seed for in them oftentimes the roots of the principles are so polluted that by propagation the impressions of impurities are conserved unto the third or fourth Generation which impressions of impurities we call hereditary diseases in Generations for diseases are brought unto man after a threefold manner either 1. a And these Diseases are called accidentary and acquisitivâ— Diseases vâ—z by Ttansplantation from outward things by the hurt of the aliments 2. by the hurt of external impressions 3. b These are called proper Diseases because we have them from the first original being got of the viclous seed of the Parents by the hereditary seed of the Parents for the seeds of diseases which happen unto us by the hurt of the aliments or noxious resolutions of the elements may turn into hereditary diseases in as much as they yet exist in the First Matter But when the seeds of diseases have happned unto us either by the hurt of aliments or by the hurt of external impressions and are come to their last matter and have admitted a corporeal coagulation or transmutation there never chance hereditary because only the First Matters concur in mans composition and all the seeds of man are spiritual from hence it comes to pass that those which have not the Gout are begot of those which Sev. p. 221. have the Gout and those which have the Falling-sickness are begot of those which have it not from those which have the Stone are begot those which have not the Stone But when the seeds of the diseases do concur with the seeds of the Parents in the First Matter whatsoever it be they cause hereditary diseases and from hence it is that those which have the Gout are begot of those which have it not so those which have the Epilepsie or the Stone are begot of those which have not the Epilepsie or Stone unless the Mothers seed be altogether disagreeable and repugnant for the seed of the Male and Female commix and become one seed therefore when their seeds have conspired and conjoyned with the properties and seeds of the diseases they generate one polluted with hereditary diseases but if the seeds of the Male and Female be disagreeable in regard of the impurities and seeds of diseases the strange and unnatural principles of diseases are separated in the womb by the power and vertue of natural Balm for they do not agree with the First Matter but with the individuals and principles of mans nature and anatomy which is made manifest from hence because they come unto divers differences of ages as sometime the hereditary diseases happen to end at the fourth Off-spring sometime at the sixth sometime at the tenth The Roots therefore being spent and consumed those which have not the Gout are begot of those which have the Gout and those which have not the Epilepsie are begot of those which have it of Mad-men and Melancholick From Lepers Lepers are still begot The cause of it in Sev. p. 222. are begot those which are not Mad and Melancholick Concerning that we said that the diseases from the being of seed of the Parents contain in them the four courses of the Elements Planets Humours and Qualities these four courses are but one course for in every disease these four concur First all diseases are elementated and have their beginnings Secondly all diseases are from the Planets by reason of their places for all diseases whether they rise by the hurt of the aliments or hurt of the external impressions or being of the seed of the Parents either are Solar Lunar Saturnine Martial Venerial Mercurial or Jovial Three Salts concur in every disease for from three principles all diseases are generated and not from one four qualities are found to be in all diseases for the diseases are either hot or cold moist or dry PART III. CHAP. I. Of the unity of the Stars of Generation and Transplantation and of the Curing of Diseases THe Stars of Generation are fourfold in regard of the Elements for every Element hath his Star vital principle and agent form which produces divers effects which differ in exteriour form but are like and every way correspondent in the interiour form Though there are four of these Stars and some diversity of Generation yea the greatest difference of the fruits may be beholden in the Elements yet if we examine the matter more deeply we shall find the unity of the Stars and the golden Chain of Homer of the whole World for the inferiour bodies are as the superiour are and the superiour are as the inferiour are Hermes and the Holy Ghost bearing witness because the Heaven conspires with the Earth and the Earth with the Heaven in all things who will deny the unity of Nature and the Society of the invisible Nature with the visible wherefore we profess that all the Stars of the Elements are only one Star which have been united from the beginning in the fountain of unity concerning that they produce divers effects in divers places we do not ascribe it to the diversity of the stars but to their Sciences Gifts and interiour Signatures In the general explication of diseases we have mentioned three kinds of Beings of Diseases The Being of Stars the Being of Nature and the Being of Poison but wherefore are there these three Beings for there is but one only star of Transplantation and there is only one Nature which suffereth yet not Nature it self but the receptacle and container of it whether do more affect than are affected not so but as in the Macrocosm there is a great difference of the Generation and the Transplantation of fruits to be observed so also in the Microcosm the Generation and Transplantation of diseases is to be observed for there is the same reason concordance conspiration and unity of the stars of Transplantation and Generation And from hence rises the Off spring oâ— Issue of contrariety oppugnance and discordance from hence also rises Hatred and Love for there is nothing in the whole World which is not connext with very many things by a natural bond and also repugns and is contrary to many other for surely all things are conjoyned and
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
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
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
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
Vitriol and Coppres are profitable to those which have the peripneumonia Mercury is very available and profitable unto the Lungs for it cures all the diseases thereof Theophrast de rebus natural alibus cap. 7. saith that the subtilty of Amoer and Ambergreece effect the same cure and there he saith that the cure of the Imposthume is made by the oil of sulphur and the spirits of Vitriol The cure of the Consumption contains in it the cure of many diseases In the true cure of the Consumption as well the particular as the universal there is great regard to be had of all the principal members namely that their tartareous obstructions and that the oppilation of the spirit of life be removed and then that help be brought unto the consumed nature that is to the liquor of life or radical moisture or inferiour heaven so that the inferiour heaven may be restored and renewed The obstruction of the members and oppilation of the spirit of life is removed by the spirit of Vitriol as it is said in the beginning The heaven is restored and renewed by the mystery of Antimony and the magistery of Pearls These two indications viz. the ablation or removal of obstruction and renovation of the heaven are contained in one root of Antimony for the essence of Antimony or admirable flowr of nature consumes all the tartareous matter and openeth all the obstructions by a specifical vertue in the next place it begets a new heaven by consuming the contrary by a fiery force and by opening the obstructions it renews all nature Paracelsus calls this transmutation of nature which bears sway in the tincture of Antimony by the name of Transplantation or Philosophical Regeneration and that truly for it transmutates the bad constitution into the best temperature and as before in the Generation of the Phthisis there is made a Transplantation from good to evil so here in the cure the temperature of the bad properties is transmutated into the temperature of the best This cure viz. Transplantation and Regeneration is to be used of a Physician in all desperate and deplored diseases Namely in all chronical acute and desperate diseases Saturn bears the Scepter but Antimony holds Saturn captive and he gives the Scepter to Antimony Read the 13. Chap. in the former Treatise it is said Every disease is caused by Transplantation so every cure ought to be made by Transplantation and Regeneration c. Paracelsus puts the effect for the cause the Silver of Mercury that is the stars of the inferiour Globe which give the Silver of Mercury Paracel in lib. 5. in cura phthisis c. by the heaven understand the stars which give There is an especial vertue for the curing of the phthisis in the liquor of Margarites which renews the heaven of the Microcosm but in removing of obstructions it doth not altogether suffice Thurnens c. 2. lib. eodem cap. 9. commends the oil of Gold the magistery of Carduus Benedictus of the herb Scabious and Betony he commends the sweet water of lead which is not coloured nor is not corroding Read Paracels Tom. 4. fol. 226. when the patient by the spirits casts forth bloud set there be administred the spirits of Turpentine with the flowrs of Sulphur And this is the true cure of the phthisis and of acute and chronical diseases The said Silver of Mercury is thus prepared â„ž Quicksilver very well purged with Salt and Vinegar dissolve it in a well rectified Aqua fortis let it settle and the Quicksilver will fall to the bottom in Crystals which grind well with oil of the Salt of Tartar made per deliquium then wash away the oil and all sharpness from it then put thereon pure distilled Vinegar and let it stand in gentle heat until the Quicksilver swim on the top of the Vinegar like leaves of Silver which take off carefully by decanting the Vinegar with that which swimmeth on the top of it from what remains in the bottom filter the decanted Vinegar through a brown paper and the Silver leaves of Mercury will remain in the paper then put the siltred Vinegar upon the other part of the Quicksilver which remained in the bottom if there be not enough of the Vinegar add some more fresh to it and proceed as before so do till you have all or most of your Quicksilver in Silver leaves and so is your Silver Mercury prepared CHAP. XVII Of the diseases of the Breast ACcording unto the Galenists the Pleurisie is a plegmon of that membrane which is extended under the ribs But according unto Paracelsus and the true Physicians it is called a pleurisie when a sharp Fever suddenly invades with a cough and a pricking pain of the side with the difficulty of breathing The The Pleurisie is a hot and painful Imposthume of the membrane within towards the cavity of the Breast compassing the Ribs pleurisie is not begot from crass or small and vicious bloud but from the seeds of Arsenick Antimony Sulphur Vitriol Auripigmentum and Woolfsbane being exalted extreme and potent having got a confluence in the tunicle compassing the ribs The symptoms are almost those which are in the peripneumonia for they rise from one and the same cause These sometimes are begot from the influences of the astrals The stars of Mars Scorpio and Cancer inquinate and infect the air with griping and biting resolutions for such stars abound with the tinctures of Arsenick Sometime there are pleurisies of the bastard ribs not because they seat themselves in the Muscles and Flesh and Liver Milt Lungs and Tunicle compassing the ribs but because the spirits which are Authors of pleurisies are obliged by strange unions for the radical tinctures of all diseases conspire amongst themselves and easily admit mixtions the Authors of Transplantation The pricking of the sides is caused either from the obstruction of the Milt and Liver or from Wind. The Empyema or suppuration is a collection The Empyema is a preternatural and copious collection of bad especially excrementitious humour in the breast especially in the Lungs and Pipes thereof of filth in the Receptacle of the breast in whose deluge or flowing the Lungs are drowned it flows thither either because it happens by the Squincy or peripneumonia or because more frequently it happeneth from the pleurisie the rest you may read in the Galenists writings The true cure of the pleurisie is almost the The true cure of the pleurisie same with the true cure of the peripneumonia for they rise from one root and at the least they are distinguished in places Paracels cured the pleurisie by the extraction of bloud forth of the interiour vein of the elbow of the same side and also by administring the spirit of tartar in their drink with the water of Balmmint and by anointing the place of their pain outwardly with the oil of Field mice furthermore he affirms that he cured many with Diaphoretick Mercury Joannes Montanus saith
about the quantity of a pease If that the sucking babes have this disease let their nurses take this medicine as also let the children take it in their milk The Curative is extracted from these which follow viz. from a piece The description of the Curative of Armenian clay crocus Martis terrasigillata strigoum Corals Haematites Tormentill Shepheards purse Plantain Bittany the yellow Gallingale Mastick Frankinsense and red Saunders Because they have almost lost their strength and have sought the Physician too late they must take the Laudanum of Paracelsus to the younger sort five grains must be given to those which are come to age ten grains must be given This is the most notable medicament whereby most dangerous symptoms are cured Read Paracels lib. 1. de morbo dissoluto The spirit of Vitriol by his sowerness kills those The Cure of the Worms worms four drops of it in broth drink or meat and the flowers of Sulphur and Salt of Sulphur do profit wonderfully The citrine Stecados boyl'd in wine expels all worms out of the belly The same is wrought by the oyl of wormwood anointed upon the Navel The oyl of bitter Almonds expels worms by bitterness Take an oxes gall whole and put it upon the Navel of the child and all the worms will fly out of the body Take earth-worms dryed and pulverised in milk or other liquor and they will expell all worms through the belly Theophrast in lib. de vermibus Cap. 10. Read the preparation of Tinn Copper and Turpentine Theophrastus bids us take against the worms embaulmed ale and drink it with wormwood So also with bruised Juniper it kills the worms Centoryexpels and kills all the worms The flowers of Maudlin decocted in wine make the worms come forth The water of the flowers of Peach and the extract of the flowers of the Birch being mixt and administred or every one given by it self expels the worms The powder of Tormentel effects the same Thurnens lib. 2. Cap. 15. in Pisone CHAP. XXVI Of the diseases of the Fundament THese diseases doe happen unto the fundament viz. Inflammation Impostume Fistula Rhagades Scissura Condyloma and Haemorrhois The inflammation is The inflammation of the fundament often wont to be caused in the fundament when the blood sends forth the flowers of the seed of Arsenick and deposes the Sulphureous Arsenical seeds in the flesh The Impostume remains from the inflammation which oftner bursts forth in the cavity of the rectum intestinum then in the skin though very much filth sooner prepares a way in the softer parts The Impostume being burst the Ulcer remains purulent and filthy and that in a short time degenerates into the Fistula The Rhagades rise from the salt of the Haemorrhoides yet it is The Rhagades are Clifts or long Cuts of the lips of the Fundament an acute salt c. There are long ulcers of the Fundament by which the laps of the compassing muscle of the straight gut are cut like to those which dilacerate the under lip hands and feet The Condyloma is a tubercle or push begot The Condyloma or Ficus is a little red tubercle about tâ—e circle of the Fundament straight in the root yet broad in the top The Haemorrhoides are the Flux of blood forth of the Orifices of those veyns which are opened in the side of the Fundament like a Wart Grape or Mulberry The Haemorrhoides is the opening of the mouth of the veyn which is in the fundament from whence the bloud flows as we see at many times of the year It is derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the blood flows through it They call the Ficus Morsca or Morsica The Fundament falls down sometime of it self sometime by the violence of The falling of the Fundament is a hanging forth of the Gut of the Fundament without the Orifice of the Fundament avoiding and the compassing muscle of the straight gut is wholly inverted and turned The cause is the resolution or looseness of the muscle caused from the aboundant perfusion of humour by which reason it is observed that this disease is usual both to children and those which are come to years If any Inflammation happen it is to be cured by Diaphoreticks The Cure If an Ulcer remain from the Impostume when as it is not rightly cured by external medicaments it is to be cured by internal medicaments and potions The Rhagades and Condyloma are cured by the oyl of Turpentine and Cammomum and nointing of Eggs. So also by the Salt of Pellitory brought into liquor Paenotus tract de sale fol. 241. saith that the Haemorrhois and the blind and external Ficus or Marsea is cured by the water of Mercury Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. Cap. 7. So also by the water of Sulphur Pitch and Musk. So also by heâ—bs as Fengreek false Ditany Dodder and Lunary So in Pisone lib. 5. Cap. 2. anoint with the balsome of Sulphur of Rulandus Paracels de natura rerum lib. 9. not far from the end saith that this disease may be cured by the oyl of Turpentine Cammomum and eggs Let it be opened with corrosives as other ulcers but yet with such as do not hurt the straight gut as are white Vitriol Atramentum or black pitch The oyl of the Laurel and oleum Hispanicum are applied to stir up the internal Haemorrhoids The brayed Onion is good to stay the Flux of the Haemorrhoides Hogs Fennil applied after the manner of an emplaister and Rubifolia administred with the nointed fruit of Palm are good for the same Read Theophrastus lib. 1. praeparat tract 11. The oyl of Corals and the oyl of Iron have the preheminency in this cure and they are true medicaments from anatomy and signed art In the curing of the falling down of the fundament astringent Medicines are to be administred Take of the Armenian earth prepared of Mastick the blossome of the wild Pomegranat Capula Acorn and Sage mix them and make a powder sprinkle this powder upon a linnen cloth and put it in the fundament and thereby the ligaments of the Fundament are strengthened and the gut Colon which went forth The said Oyl of Iron is thus prepared â„ž good spirit of Salt and as much true spirit of Vitriol distill them over together and look well to your fire leâ—t the glass break in that double spirit dissolve clean filings of Needles filter the solution through brown paper then put it in a glass Cucurbite set thereon an Alembick lute a large receiver to it then give fire by degrees distilling first the fleam then with stronger fire the Spirits so long as any will come over then let it cool and in the Alembick you shall find flowers which set in a cool and moist air and they will dissolve into pure red Oyl which keep for you use CHAP. XXVII Of the Diseases of the Reins their causes and signs FEw diseases happen unto the
pease is effective because the decoction of red pease is very diuretick and wholsome to those which are troubled with the stone The black pease cures poisons and bruises the stone The seed of the herb Saxifrage and White-plant especially cures the stone of the reyns There are some gums which expel the stone as the gum of Cherry trees drunk with wine There are some stones as Lyncurias which heals the stillicidium or dropping of urine and being drunk expels the stone So also there are some herbs and roots as Sorrel Seaholm Betony Vervin Scordion Mugwort the root of Dogs tooth Sperage Penniroyal Five finger grass the rozen of the Fir tree water Nosemart the root of the lesser Pimpernel and the root of the Nettle got in a dry place so the bloud of the Goat breaks the Adamant as also the Stone so also the powder of a Hare a Hedge-sparrow burnt glass the Lark the stone in the bladder of a Bore the little bone taken forth of the hinder joynt of the Hare the bones of the Medlar Stonecrop the gum of plums Corals and little stones of the Lobster-fish and those stones which are found in the heads of some fishes the shells of eggs forth of which young ones are excluded CHAP. XXVIII Of the diseases of the Bladder Causes and Signs THe bladder is more often affected The strong passion of the bladder is nothing but a straightnesse caused in the neck of the bladder from an obstructing stone with the Stone but very seldom with the Inflammation and Impostume sometime with the Exulceration The stone of the bladder is twofold 1. is in uncoth parts that is that which depends of the excrement of meat and drink which is conveyed from the ventricle to the reyns and from thence to the bladder The 2. is a tartar which proceeds from the salt of urine of bloud and it proceeds from the excrement of tartar or flesh The stone of the bladder is generated from the salt of urine by the Element of fire of the Microcosm The Galenists affirm the cause of this to be crass and crude juice which flows through the veyns with the urine into the cavity of the bladder where it sticks as dregs and being dryed by the heat of the place it becomes a stone Fernelius leaving their opinion saith that he found that Lib. 6. de part morb Sympt Cap. 13. every stone contained in the bladder attracts some beginning from the reyns from which it falls with a Nephritical pain if it be greater it sticks a while in the bladder and for the most part it persists and stays there and is augmented there by the aboundance of excrements which stick there untill it become a perfect and confirmed stone Read the signs of the inflammation stone and exulceration in the Galenists Diabetes Diabetes is an immoderate avoiding of urine accompanied with great thirst that is a passing is a flux of urine it is so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is passing or flowing The Diabetes is caused from the tartar of the reyns when the reyns are alltogether obstructed with tartar that tartar or coagulated matter desires moisture which when it hath attracted it the mechanical spirits of things are inquinated and corrupted with tartareous and styptical tinctures so that they cannot separate pure things from impure things but they transmit crude matter unto the bladder and expel urine as an excrement The Ischuria is contrary to this because Ischuria is a preternatural and involuntary retention of urine with an impotency to piss the urine is alltogether supprest neither is any urine avoided One cause of this suppression is astriction or obstruction and Stranguria is a frequent and painful provocation to piss with the avoiding of urine by drops this proceeds from tartar The Stranguria is a droping of urine when as urine is made by drops it is sometime with much endeavour but with no pain sometime with a vehement pain but in vain That which is made by drops is called the Ischuria that which burns and pricks is called Dysuria The Dysuria is a difficulty of urine when Dysuria is a difficult avoiding of urine forth of the bladder as urine is avoided hardly and not without pain Theophrastus lib. 1. paragr writes that the Dysuria proceeds from the most sharp tartar of the stomack The Styptical and most sharp flowers of tartar being resolved in the stomack are permixt with the aliments and conveyed with them unto the bladder Michelus in his Chymical Apology fol. 209. saith you Galenists call the tartareous resolution of the blood sometime the Exulceration of the reyns sometime the Putrefaction of the bladder sometime the Apostem of the reyns sometime the Stone of the bladder because you see slimy things bloudy crass and stinking evacuated with the urine with great pain Theoph. in tract de tartare de morbis tartareis Cap. 21. saith that there is not a more excellent medicine for the consummated stone then crystal and these words he had added he is happy which can prepare it this is the preparation Take of Crystal of sal Armoniacum pulverize them and elevate them after the manner of the Spagirians and that seaven times extract Ascali from this elevated and sublimated crystal let the dosis with distilled water be in the water of Petrosiline c. The salt of tartar and the oyl of tartar which is of a golden colour will effect the same so also take a little March Hare and dip it in Rhenish wine untill she be suffocated and dye then burn the whole substance of it in a Pipkin give of this powder with a modicum of theriaca unto the patient before he go into the bath after he comes out of the bath let him make water before he eat or drink and then the patient shall find the stone resolved wonderfully he may also take this powder with the water of Parsley The Crabfish expels the sand and stone of the bladder and reyns very effectively he that useth it often need not fear the stone Theophrastus lib. de renib Cap. 15. burn the bloud A most certain experiment and the skin of a Hare in an incocted pipkin that they may be bruised to powder give a spoonful to the patient in hot water in the morning with a fasting stomack the stone being liquified and resolved is avoided with the urine We have seen this and therefore not to be doubted of he that doubteth let him make an experiment and let him put a most hard stone in hot water and a spoonful of his powder and the stone will presently resolve with an admirable virtue which is beheld in the powder So also take the stone cut out of mans bladder Theophrast tract 2. de morbis ex tartaro saith bruise it in a mortar extract the oyl by the Alembicum as the oyl of philosophers of which give in white wine for the space of 14. days every morning and evening
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
the space of three years and he was cured with this medicament For it was such a salt as did especially consist of the salt of Vitriol and not of all the kinds of Vitriol The Diaphoretick of Tartar much availeth in the Podagra in a convenient liquor The Podagra is cured by the liquor of the Cedar Theophrast in lib. de temperte tract 3. A most excellent remedy against the Podagra is Armoniacum sublimated seven times and made spiritual let it also be dissolved in wine and dip a linnen cloth in it and put it upon the affected place let it also be given inwardly with wine or ale and let the patient sweat Antimony or the mineral Unicorns horn being of a solid substance and of the nature of a confection easeth much and mitigates the pain of the Podagra by reducing and consuming the peccant matter which we have seen in those which have lacked the use of their hands by their taking this Medicine had use of their hands again In the pains of the Arthritis anoint the affected place with the oyl of Juniper and the patient will forthwith be eased The said Armoniacum how to sublime it seven times for the Gout â„ž the Scoria made with Antimony Tartar and Saltpeter when you make Regulus of Antimony per se make a lixivium of it which filter and boyl to the consistency of hony then by degrees of heat bring it to a fixt powder Take that powder and grind it well with pure salarmoniack which hath first been dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated and being well ground together put them to sublime first will come over a little spirit then will the Salarmoniac sublime in flowers and this you must do seven times every time with fresh fixt powder of the Scoria so have you the right Armoniack for the Gout and likewise the spirit some of which ascendeth in every sublimation which also is very effectual in the same disease CHAP. XXXIII Of the Plague and the Causes thereof THe Plague is a singular scourge affliction and contagion for the sins of man it is of an invisible spiritual and astral nature proceeding from no The Plague is a burning contagious feaver continually afflicting the patient and brâ—nging death unless it be restrained by nature and art internal humour or liquor of man but immediately from God It is either spiritual as that which comes immediately from God or natural when as God punishing men works by second causes and uses them as his instrument and rod For God when he punisheth men exercises uses anothers works and means The Supernatural plague is from God or else from Satan permissively The supernatural plague is a punishment and scourge sent of God Exod. 9. Levit. 26. Deut. 28. 1 Chronic. 22. The supernatural plague permissively from Satan is when God permits Sathan to punish men for sin This most tyrannous enemy both of God and man is sorry that he cannot overthrow God and man as Job witnesseth in his history Again the plague rises from conjurers Exod. 7 8. of which Christ speaks Acts. 8. Matth. 7. The natural plague is twofold one is generation from the impression of the Stars the other is from the imagination of the Microcosm The plague of impression proceeds from the firmament of Heaven God punishing men by second causes uses the conjunction of Mars and Saturn or the Ecclipses of malevolous Stars as the father which punisheth the son useth the rod. The beams of these stars being of the nature of Arsenick of Sulphur Mars Woolfs milk Woolf bane and Hemlock infect the spiritual and corporal nutriment This is the generation of the plague from the astral influence But men infected with the Haemorrhoids and Plague infect the sound onely with their look But much more many are infected from the look of women which are affected with the menstruum and Plague Again the Plague may come by breath heat sweat smells dwelling in some place and by the clothes of the infected The Plague may rise from Imagination Paracels de occulta Philosophia sets down preservatives in the time of the Plague It is not disconvenient to change the air This changing or mutation must be instituted according to the Astronomical Science otherwise any man endeavours to fly in vain For the preservation in the lague let him take pestilential drink of Paracels prepared truely Spagitically in his bed in the morning and let him sweat This medicine preserves six days from the Plague The second preservative is calcinated Sulphur taken with Mirth and Aloepaticum and Sugar preserves that day from all astrall impression The third preservative the Zenecthon of Paracels hang'd about the neck hinders the attractive virtue of the Microcosm The fourth the herb Celandine gathered in the full moon and carried about is a preservative against the poysonful look of women and men The fift preservative those which are busied about the infected let them hold Francincense in their mouths and let the infected hold the roots of Juniper The sixt the essence of the bloud of the Hart and stork are most excellent preservatives Seventh the most excellent of all is the Alexipharmacum spagiricum taken in the morning about the quantity of the lesser bean with sugar or any other convenient liquor A perfume for to fresh and better the air Take of Sulphur lbs of francincense â„¥ 2. of mirth â„¥ 1 s of laser medicum â„¥ s bruise them and mix them Add unto this powder twice as much of the barks of berries of Laurel half the part of Amber put upon the coals twice or thrice every day Ê’2 of this powder at every time this is the best means to refresh the air the same may be done by the wood and berries of the Juniper The Universal cure of the Plague is made by the spirit of Gold with Diaphoretical ☉ of life the essence of Gemms Hyacinth Smaragdus Saphires Tinctures Corals and of Antimony with Solificatum and Perlatum Laudanum These mysteries of nature if they be given in a convenient dosis they will expell the Plague alltogether The particular Cure As soon as the infected feels the poyson of the Plague let those which are come to years take a spoonful of the abovenamed pestiential potion of Paracels let the younger sort take two spoonful or more or less according unto the conditions of the patient and let him sweat well four or five hours when six hours are past let him take the third dosis especially if the pricking hath left him for by the third dosis God assisting all the poyson is expell'd by sweat let the patient take three days following every morning one dosis of the forenamed drink whereby he may be corroborated and comforted The same is effected by the Spagirical Alexipharmacum of which let those which are come to years take and that thrice in 24. hours let the younger sort take three days following let him every morning take a dosis in wine and
the second maturity have happened in the third circuit which have begun the third praedestinations and that continually unto the consumption of all resolutions defined in the resolution of the root Paracelss lib. de tartaro Cap. 1. All the kinds of the The Cure Fevers are comprehended in the cure of tartar So also in the same Chapter Every medicine which resolves the tartar or expell's it presently cures the Feaver wherefore in the cure of the Feaver there must be made forthwith a resolution consumption destruction and consumption of the nitrous sulphureous impurities and that by insensible sweat transpirations urine avoiding of the belly and vomits Lib. 2. de vita longa cap. 5. For the removal of the Feavers there must first be made a purgation of the Feaver then a specifical cure and causal diminution is to be made The best cure of the Feaver is that which Paracel calls Diaceltaâ—esson and it is Antimony It resolvs expells the sulphureous tinctures by vomit stool urine insensible sweat transpirations furthermore there must be administred the spirit of Vitriol in which the specifical cure consists The universal cure against all Feavers especially quartan is salarmoniacum seven times sublimated and made altogether spirital must be taken hot in a draught of wine or ale and make the patient sweat Let him use this medicament eight days with a fasting stomach in the morning it is sour and maketh hungry These following are available against all Feavers the quintessences of Opiates of Theophrast the sweet oil of Sulphur the red oyl of Vitriol made of Vitriolum Ungaricum and drunk out of the water of Barley the Philosophers stone the less Centory boyled in ale and mixt with Sugar by reason of the bitterness let him take a good draught in the morning the flowers of Antimony being fixt in hot wine and let the patient be well covered in his bed and let him sweat Let him take of the Salt of wormwood in wine and let him sweat The juice of Wormwood mixt with sugar is a very good remedy against the Feaver the oyl of Wormwood he better salt of the Succory and Carduus Benedictus So also the salt of Gold and tartar of Gold and the spirit of Vitriol are very good It is be observed in certain Feavers especially in the tertian and in all other Astral Epidemical Mercurial and Auripigmental diseases that a vein be not cut for it hath come to pass that It is to be observed that â— vein be not cut in astraâ— diseases many having these diseases after the cutting of a vein have dyed Yea surely this is known very well by experience The especial and immediate cause of the generation of worms is putrefaction though Paracels seem somewhat to go from this assertion The Cure killing and expelling of worms is deprehended to be in specificals of which kind are the essence of black Ellebor Saint Johns wort the extract of the leavs of the birch tree and the salt of Vitriol So also those which expel putrefaction and corruption of which kind are Diaphoreticks Diaphoretical Mercury fixt Mercury the Diaphoretical Gold of life These secrets especially in the more principal members kill resolve and expel worms The Pica hath a common root with Pica is a bad appetite of bad things which are disconvenient for the nourishment of man Woolfs hunger the powers and sciences of the root or star of transplantation cause the difference betwixt them The cure of it is contained in the resolution consumption and expulsion of the tartareous and pearlish tinctures The resolution and reduction may be effected by a sour and hungry medicament and by no help of another or specifical purgation or Mercurial administration The Contracture as we may see in the Cholick and Contracture other Contractures is generated from sour stiptical tartareous and pearlish spirits which by the sending forth of fruits of flourishing inquinate and corrupt the vital spirit which penetrates through all the members and body for all the more principal and interiour members by their vertues expel and drive away the enemy and strange guest from their globes and centres unto the less principal and weak parts and for the most part to the outwardest parts of the body which are farthest from the vital fountain where it seateth it self and produces the malice into act The Cure of the Contracture consists in resolution reduction and expelling of tartareous Vitriol and Stiptick spirits The Indications of the Contracture as the Paralysis and the Appoplexie are found and exist in fixt Diaphoretical Gold of life in Antimony and the essence of Gold the less principal or potent are the water of Tartar the spirits of Vitriol the tinctures of Pearls and Corals Concerning the cause and difference of the Contracture read the book of Paracels de membr contract tract 1. For the cure of the same read the 2. tract and his book de morbis tartareis cap. 11. fo 297. The trembling of the hands is caused from cold tinctures Trembling which fly unto the sinews by reason of conspiration The cure of it is the spirit of Turpentine taken inwardly and the oyl of it annointed outwardly So also the spirits of Vitriol doth cure it The Erysipelas is generated from the Erysipelas is a hot red little and deprest tumour caused from small and cholerick humour boyling under the skin and it is seated in the superficies of the skin roots of inflammation existing in the flesh as also in the more principal members which expel those inflammatory seeds with great force and vertue from their Globes and expel them from the Centre unto the superficies The true cure of it is made by Diaphoreticks and expulsion of the poyson It is manifest that if external medicaments be administred for the Erysipelas which are lesse convenient and wholsom and expel the poyson from the Superficies unto the Centre then the patient is in great danger of death and that he will scarcely escape The Measils and Flowers of the skin are begot from Measils are many great moist and somewhat white pusâ—les bursting forth in the superficies of the body with a Feaver impure blood especially the menstruum which hath Mercurial seeds which of themselves vanish away yet they are expell'd by stronger renovating and restoring medicaments and are safely cured by them as are the essence of Antimony Diaphoretical and fixt Mercury Diaphoretical Gold of life the water of Pease from the signature it expels the nature of the Measils unto the superficies and cures it by a Diaphoretical faculty wherein it excells The Cure of the Rheum flowing unto Rheum is a preternatural deflux of the phlegmatick humour from the brain to the inferiour members the members thighs and feet is Mercurial medicaments and Diaphoreticks as also the Tartar of Vitriol Ellebore the essence of Iron Corals Antimony Utricus Porta sayeth that it hath his original from the remaining excrements of the most pure blood of the mother wherewith the child is nourished in the matrix neither will he grant that the infant is nourished with menstruous blood Notwithstanding it is probable that the spirital aliment wherewith the child is nourished is somewhat infected with tinctures and spiritals of the menstruous blood which may be conjectured from the vaporous substance and spirituality of these blossoms FINIS Take notice there is extant an exquisite book Intituled The Doctors Dispensatory or The whole art of Physick restored to practice being very necessary for such as study Chemical Physick Also newly made publick the divine Services and Anthems usually sung in His Majesties Chapel and in all Cathredals and Collegiate Choirs in England and Ireland Both Sold by Nath. 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have a strong body he may be cured and there is hope of life but if the belly be melted and altogether ulcerated there is no hope of life The principal cause of the Dysentery is Gods punishment which is set down Levit. 26. and Deut. 28. God punishing man useth second causes as his instruments and infects the air with the properties of Saturn Arsenick Colocynth and Ellebor which men attracting by breathing do inquinate and corrupt the Balsam of life their body is transmutated by those corrosives purging tinctures so that the excrements may eject and cast forth the humid radical nutriment by the superiour The bloudy dejection of the belly and inferiour members The bloudy dejection of the belly is seldom caused of the imbecillity of the Liver often from the opened internal Haemorrhoides The Lumbrici or worms especially of all the parts The Lumbricy are great worms of the body do occupy and corrode the guts And these worms are of three kinds round broad and long small and short concerning which read Galen in Aphoris Hippocrat Comment 6. Sectione 26. Concerning the Causes and Signs thereof read the Galenists The Cholick and the Iliack differ 1. The Cholick is The difference of the Cholick and the Iliack in the gut which is called Colon but the Iliack is in the small gut which is called Ileon 2. The Iliack is above the Navel below the Ribs The Cholick is below the Navel 3. The pain of the Iliack is greater than the pain of the Cholick 4. The Iliack casts forth excrements and worms by Vomiting but so doth not the Cholick Theophrast saith that the Iliack passion of which we speak in the obstruction of the guts rises from tartar which sticks in the small guts Mix the fat of Yew with the oil of distilled Chammomum The Cure of the Iliack dip a linen cloth in it and put it upon the affected place and if the pain cease not give somewhat inwardly and this dissolves the tartar so also anoint the affected place with the oil of Juniper and Laurel-berries Barth Anglus lib. 7. cap. 8. It is cured also by the Salt and oil of common Salt or Sea-salt or Salgemmae Thurnens in pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. lib. 5. cap. 7. The Cholick is cured by the spirit of Vitriol three or The cure of the Cholick four drops of it being taken in water or by the Balm of Sulphur or oil of Turpentine The Cholick is begot from Salt therefore it is necessary that mans Salt and natural Salt of mans body be corrected by the Elemented Salts All kinds of stones which are found in the heads of Fishes being bruised and given in wine mitigate the cholical passion and bruise the stone which lyeth fixt in the Reins Theophrast saith that the constipation is to be removed and taken away by the quintessence of Corals and it cures the Cholick so also anoint the belly with the oil of Chammomum and put upon the round of the belly an hot ointment and a hot cloth The water of Quicksilver doth altogether expel the Cholick it hath a sowr taste whose process is thus Quicksilver is The preparation of the water 〈◊〉 Quicksilver first reduced into water then infuse other crude and purged Quicksilver into half of this water which turns into water and ascends the vessel Twelve or thirteen drops of the spirit of Turpentine administred in the appropriated or alone is a most present Remedy so is The cure of the Caeliaca Laudanum Opiatum The cure of the Caeliaca is that the obstruction of the Milt Mesenterium or Liver be taken away with medicaments which resolve the tartar and that the attractive vertue be strengthned For the curing of the Leintery let the tartar be expelled with the medicaments mentioned above in the obstruction Quercit de medic Spagir praeparat cap. 3. saith that the Spagirici extract a most subtil substance our of Iron especially out of steel which they make thinner than the water of the fornance And they prepare their crocus Martis forth of which they make an oil for the Diarrhaea Lienteria and Dysenteria and flux of the Liver and the corroboration of the Ventricle and all the Haemorrhaegies both internal and external it is a most excellent medicine and no biting medicine if the conserve of Roses be mixt with it Read the cited places There is a Caution to be annext that the flux of the belly must not be stayed too unseasonably and too suddenly with astringent medicines for that is wont to be done for the most part with the danger of life Such medicaments are to be given which strengthen Nature that it may expel contraries for it hath known best the mean and limit of staying or stopping neither are purgging medicines to be given which the Galenists counsel Terrasigillata with the common Lemnia put in the drink and let him still drink of it and sometime a piece of Lutum put to cures the Lyentery the Diarrhaea the Dysentery and divers fluxes of the belly Johannes Montanus saith that he cured very many with this medicament The Diarrhaea is cured by the water of the stone called Eat-flesh or by terra sigillata especially by the red terrasigillata or Lemnia Austriaca which is found and digged not far of from Neustadium Read Theophrast lib. 1. parag Titled de morbo dissoluto so also the first tract lib. 1. praeparationum lib. 1. tract 2. praepar tract 3. The general preservative method for the Dysentery is The preservative method reconciliation with God and in the next the air is to be altered with Laurel-berries and White-ash Let them take of Lingwort and Pimpernel ana ℥ ss of black and white Frankincense ℥ of Citrine and white Amber ℥ of Mastick Asedulcis and Camphora ana ℥ Let them be pulverized and commixt and insperst upon to coals Thirdly the body is to be purged from impurities and there must be a temperate diet Fourthly Alexipharmical and Diaphoretick medicines or pestilential potions are to be administred One day in the morning let him take of Alexipharmical Medicines about the quantity of two Pease The next day let him take three drops of Diaphoretick or Pestilential potion in a convenient drink This preserves from all infections and strengthens the balsame of nature As soon as any shall feel himself infected let him take The Curative method of Alexipharmicum the next day of the Pestilential potion or our Diaphoretick and this every other day he ought to continue some few days in taking of the Pestilential potion or Alexipharmicum untill the poison be alltogether expell'd All those have erred exceedingly which have endeavoured according to Galen to cure the Dysentery without antidotons expulsion of poison which experience testifies After the expulsion of the poyson let him use appropriated curatives prepared Spagirically about the magnitude of a bean until the Flux be stencht alltogether Let the younger sort take of it
vinegar of roses and appropriated water When the impostumes burst forth let there be a plaister laid to made of Figs and fruits of Alkeck equally of them being bruised together so forthwith they will burst forth for poyson attracts poyson when the impostums burst and the poyson peirces unto the heart they are not poyson but are made poyson by reason of the Antipathy even as all antipathetical things if they be conjoyned degenerate into poyson The external sign of it is beheld from a line drawn from the centre of the Apostem unto the Heart Let inverted grapes if they be green be bruised if dry then macerate them in wine or distilled Vinegar and let them be put in and taken forth twice or thrice these grapes extract poyson from men and women which are far gon in the Ague and recover them again This secret and specifical virtue of this simple may worthily make us admire in regard of the efficacy of it against the symptoms of the Plague let him use in the constipation of the belly the extract of Rhubarbarum or Lysimachium let the poorer sort drink of the leaves of Lysimachium Those which have a Disentery or diarrhaea joyned with the Plague let them take in the morning noon and night of Crocus Martis in the extract of yellow Galingale untill the perfect cure Those which are exceeding hot let them take a linnen cloth and dip it in the water of Roses Vitriol and juyce of Fengreek and put it to the pulses and as soon as it is dryed up let him dip it in again for it extinguisheth the most vehement heat Quercitanus in his answer to Anbertus fol. 21. there is made a most commendable medicament of the true preparation of the liquor of the Cedar for the affects of the Plague CHAP. XXXIV Of the Leprie and the causes of it PAracels lib. 2. paramir de origine morbor ex tribus substantiis Cap. 4. saith that the Lepry is begot from exalted and sublimated Mercury by vertue of the native heat So in the 5 chap. saith that the The Lepry is an affection of the skin that is a deep and scaly roughness together with Itching caused from melancholy lying under the skin Leprosie and the Lepry and all the kinds of it are caused and generated from Salt Lib. 3. paramir de origine morbor ex tartaro tract 5. saith that the Lepry hath a liquor permixt with tartar whereupon the Paroxisme happeneth Lib. 1. de tartaro tract 4. The Lepry is nothing but a putrefaction from putrefacted seed because they are not loosened though they should eat of Ellebore and this is a principal sign of the Lepry that they are not moved with laxatives and when the urine demonstrates putrefaction by a stink it is a sign of the Lepry But these seem contrary when they are considered more accurately there is no dissention or contrariety for they are derived from one and the same fountain The Lepry is generated from the sublimation of Mercury even as in sublimation Mercury penetrates through all the pores and most narrow clifts of the glass so the liqnor of Mercury or matter of the Lepry penetrates through the superiour and inferiour parts of the body and appears in the skin with scales and filthiness The Lepry is begot of salt viz. the destruction which nature expell's outwardly hath a tartareous liquor commixed for the exulceration of the skin is manifest in the Lepry The Lepry is generated from putrefacted Sperm that is from inbred corrupted balsame from whence there follows the corruption and putrefaction of the whole body There are four Species of the Lepry the Leonina the Elephantasia the Alopecia and the Morphea lib. 2. de vita longa he makes six Species viz. Leonina The Eâ—ephant asis or the Leonâ—â—asis is a filthy and contagious Cachexia corrupting the whole body especially Corroding and Deturpating the face Elephantia Alopecia Thyra Morphaea and the Vndimia lib. 6. paragr he makes four Species of the Lepry according unto the four Elements as also he makes seven Leprys of the seven principal members The divisions and species of the Lepry though they seem to differ somewhat amongst themselves yet they are all grounded and conspire in one root but they differ in signs lib. 6. paragr de cura Leprae he divideth the Lepry into two Species and in the cure of the Lepry he saith there are two species of the Lepry viz. râ—d and white The white Lepry is so called by reason of the white cure the red is so called by reason of the red cure These are the signs of the white Lepry the white colour of the skin the stinking breath of the mouth the hoarsnesse of the voice and the dregs of the excrements are correspondent to the stinking breath of the mouth These are the signs of the red Lepry the ulceration of the skin the Serpigo with an itching and he puâ—tula The cause of the Lepry whether white or red is the destruction of Salt or balsame in the Microcosm The destruction proceeds from the being of poyson from poyson also putrefaction proceeds from whence all the species of the Lepry are The old writers said that The Cure the Lepry was incurable because they knew not the tartar Paracels lib. 3. paramir tract 5. shews the process and means of curing the Lepry and it is twofold 1. is of the preserving from putrefaction the 2. is of the cure of the Lepry Those which pertain unto conservation are the extractions of Antimony the essence of blood which is extracted from the heart vein the liquor of Pearls and Corals the specifical of the grains of Juniper balmmint Succory and Valerian Part. 5. fol. 273. The flowers of Antimony preserve the leprous from putrefaction ℈ s of them being taken once a week Those which pertain unto the cure are the vertues of Gold Minerals and Manna Turpentine and Silver with his kind Lib. 2. de vita longa cap. 3. Every cure of the Lepry is to be made by the regeneration as the transmutation of metals The regeneration of the white Lepry is to be made by the tincture of Silver and the regeneration of the red Lepry is to be effected by Gold as the Spagirians speak In the same chap. we affirm that the red Lepry may be cured by the Mercury of Gold the white may be cured by the Mercury of Silver Lib. 6. Archidox We have seen this in Lead and Antimony which they call the mine of it that they will cure the Lepry Leprosie Alopecia so also all scabs and scars Leonina Elephantia Thyriasis The magistery of Lead doth not effect this Lib. 2. Archidox de renevatione The first being of Antimony effects the same in the regeneration and transmutation of imperfect bodies which the first essence of Gold doth effect Furthermore by pains and industry all desperate and chronical diseases are cured the Lepry and his kinds by philosophical transplantation which in our Philosophy is called
regeneration of which we have spoke in the sixth Chapter CHAP. XXXV Of Lues Venerea and the causes THe Lues Venerea is that which is got Lues Venerea is a poysonful and contagious cachexia of the body accompanied with a hot distemperature of the same of the Leprous which in the exaltation of Venery is polluted and infected with a Whore because she had the bubo and because her menstruum began to flow forth in the time of coition from which the French Pocks are begot and proceed which hath invaded all Europe especially Germany This disease is very well known to men and women Paracels lib. 2. de origine morbor ex tribus principiis cap. 4. saith that the French Pocks is generated from the sublimation of Mercury which is altogether poysonful and penetrates and exulcerates the skin by a corroding violence In another place he saith that it is generated from corrupt blood and that truly for the poyson of Lues Venerea presently causes putrefaction from putrefaction there proceeds the corrosive being of poyson or the sublimation of Mercury or the separation of salt Concerning the signs of it read more in Paracel in his book de morbo Gallico Read also Julius Palmarius in his seventh book de morbis contagiosis lib. 1. 3. de Lue Venerea The Cure Paracel lib. 2. de vita longa Cap. 8. And in the kinds of Morbus Gallicus you mâ—y observe a purgation a cure and an observation of which these few are to be noted First purge the infected with the Pocks with Xeniotenium that is with â—â—â—â—cury prepared for the French Pocks whereby the cause of the disease is expell'd together with the peccant matter The Dosis and the quantity of this medicament is to be observed in regard of the patient Furthermore if the Pocks stick on the skin outwardly or if the pain of the joynts be more grievous anoint the body with the oyl which is extracted from Realgar or fixed Arsnick and the patient will soon be well and restored The Mercury of Gold is a most excellent remedy against the French Pocks So also common Mercury Theophrastus in lib. de morb Gallico and in his book de principiis cap. 6. So also it is cured by Diaphoretical Gold three grains of it being given in Pills Laudanum Mercuriale doth cure it It is also cured by the liquor of the Cedar Theophr in lib. de temperatur a tract 3. It is also cured by the oyl of Mercury Theophrast de signis Zodiaci in his preface It may be cured also by the Philosophers stone de tinct phys cap. 6. The spirit or yellow oyl of Fuligo cures Morbus Gallicus though it were in the extreme degree The said Laudanum Mercuriale which radically cureth the French Pocks â„ž Quicksilver well purged sublime it from Vitriol and Salt Peter ana what sublimeth red and lyeth upon the Caput mort grind well with as much sublimed Alume then sublime the red Mercury from the Alume take it out and sublime it again by it self so will it be free from any ill tast Grind it small put it on a bolt-head and pour thereon a well prepared spirit of wine digest them 40 days so will it become an oyl separate the spirit of wine from it in gentle Balneo and the remaining Mercury distill in sand with strong fire there will ascend a white juice which with that that sticks on the side of the glass distill over by force of fire again then will it be a heavy oily substance sweet of cast a universal medicine in the Plague and total extirpation of Morbus Gallicus CHAP. XXXVI Of Feavers and their causes WE have demonstrated in the general A Feaver is a hot distemperature of mans body sensibly hurting the actions thereof explication of diseases how impurities at the first Sulphureous nitrosities are carried through the whole body by a vaporous substance for there are such sulphureous nitrosities to be found aboundantly in the aliments which the separation and expulsion being frustrate at the set time and the flowers of nitrosul phureous roots they beget Fevers hâ—rrours heat rigour thirst head-ach such roots are contained in the Anatomy of all the parts of the body as intestines ventricle veins of the mesenterium liver milt reins glew or balm blood flesh and wheresoever there is made separation and digestion or the ventricle which we have demonstrated to be in all these parts The seed will still emulate the subtilty of the places elements liquor of the Cedar and mechanical substances which is of a sulphureous tincture mixt with Niter The seeds of Auripigmentum Mars Woolfsbane produce the Fever Auripigmental seeds produce a perfect inflammation with a Fever The circuits of the paroxisms of Feavers consist not in kind but in degrees because some seeds are more mature and ripe then others and nigher to resolution for in the fermentation of the seeds or resolution of the roots the circuits are numbred and the constant and firm decrees of the time are consummated which are inscribed salts They take their ordained stations either first second thiro or fift which being instant the proportion and continuity of the progress being conserved they execute their functions and offices Therefore after the first off-spring or resolution the first officâ—rs being consumed and spent the superficies and tinctures likewise corrupted if the second be nigh the superficies continuated or the tinctures be destined unto the term of maturity in the space of 24 hours if they can make the elements and principles of bodies which they are united to fit unto resolution in such a space they demonstrate quotidian circuits tertian quartan quintan sextan and monthly circuits of the year by the same reason the proportions of the circuits shall be observed as what like the proportion of the first is unto the second such like shall be proportion of the second to the third and of the fourth to the fift and so forward Oftentimes the circuits of paroxisms are transplanted by external impressions and that is when the tinctures of the interiour and more potent stars have conspired which conspiring admit equivocal generations because the roots of Feavers emitting from thence are Hermophroditical So the tertian degenerate into the quartan and quotidian and the quartan into the quintan again the erratical degenerate into the quartan Feavera nd the intermitting into the continual contra The Seminal tinctures of the impurities of Feavers are Homogeneous and Heterogeneous the Homogeneous are equally mature and by continuation of time are conserved in the resolutions of the fruits as in the burning Feaver Hectick Feaver Pleurifie Prunella and Plague and such like diseases The Heterogeneneous are those which contain the tinctures which are to be effected by the flourishing of the fruits some of them are nigher to maturity some more remote from hence it comes to pass that the mature parts doe fiorish for to day to morrow or the third day in which the lots of