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A49991	A discourse upon Sr Walter Rawleigh's great cordial by N. le Febure ... ; rendred into English by Peter Belon ...; Discours sur le grand cordial de Sr Walter Rawleigh. English	Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. Confectio Raleghana.; Belon, P. (Peter)	1664 (1664)	Wing L928; ESTC R8971	35,851	126

portion of Metalls which are the fruits of the Mineral predestination It is doubtless the most perfect of those Children of the Earth It is most solid yellow compact and close in it self and is compounded with principles that are digested in the most sovereign degree and which are by consequence fix'd and permanent as its Incorruptibility proves The Chymists give it the name of the Sun because that they believe it hath some correspondency and harmonical relation not onely with the Celestial Sun of the Great world but also by reason that it has a sympathetical affinity with the Sun of the Little world which is the Heart of Man They call it also the King of Metalls because it is their Prince as that which is the most pure and most fix as also that which possesses the most eminent and most necessary virtues since that it is wholly dedicated to the Heart which is the King of the noblest Functions of Life For Gold is held for the most sovereign Cordial because it re-establishes and augments the radical Moisture and the natural Heat which have their principal seat in the Heart which is the reason that it may be given with success in all diseases in which the Spirits are dissipated and the strength weakned It purifies also the mass of the Bloud since that it dissipates and drives out by sensible and insensible Inspiration that which there was of naught and corrupted in that which is called the Humours and which are to speak properly nothing else but those things which result from the diversity of the alterations of the Bloud that tends by this ill disposition to Corruption and Rottenness and by consequence to the destruction of the Subject which it nourishes and vivifies But this noble Metall must be so prepared and decorporated that it may doe the Emanation of the rays of the virtue of its Central Sulphur as we shall reason upon it when we shall discourse of the Preparation The last we are to treat of is the Unicornu Minerale otherwise called White Load-stone and some would have it to be the Unicorn's Horn. But we must speak but merely of its generation and virtues in no wise medling with that diversity of opinions that the most eminent Authors have had concerning this Subject For the most skilfull and best knowing have thought it fit that this Mineral production should be added to the Great Cordial though it was not inserted in the first Descriptions notwithstanding those wonderful properties it is endow'd with render it most worthy This wonderful Mineral Drug is nothing else but the Concretion or Petrifaction of a fluid milky substance which contains in it self the congealing and lapidifying ferment which slides and insinuates it self in the Cavities of the womb of the Earth where it invests it self with the figure odour colour and consistence according to the nature of the things that it finds there as it is proved by the Collections that the most curious observers of Nature have made of it as also by the experience of its rare virtues which are equal with those of the Oriental Bole and those of the Sealed Earth since the Grandees are agreed that it resists Poisons the Plague and malignant Fevers insomuch that a Physician of this Age did make the pouder of this mixt pass for a Specifick against all Fevers and got repute in the City of Paris by several rare effects We shall speak no more of it to prevent tedious repetitions and so pass from the description of all the Ingredients of our Remedy to what we have promised to say concerning its General and Particular Preparation If we have had hitherto just cause to praise Sir Walter Rawleigh for having caus'd so many good things and which possess so many virtues to enter into his Cordial we must nevertheless confess that we have far more reason to augment his Elogies by reason of the Science and Experience which he hath shewn in the Preparation and perfecting of this grand Remedy But considering that it is composed of things which are of different natures and that are more or less fix or volatil it has been necessary to work with a great deal of Art and with a most exact reflexion upon all that composes this Remedy to preserve that which ought to be of good in the most subtil and withall to extract the essential virtue which was concentred in the grossest Now we have said heretofore that there were three Classes in this Composition which contain the Animal the Vegetable and the Mineral We must also now make appear those reasons which have oblig'd our celebrated Author to prepare them in that manner to which we shall adde also the Meditations and Thoughts that we have had on this Subject for the better preserving the volatil and to open the most fix that the union of the virtue of the productions of these three Families should be made with all the exactness therein required according to his Majesty's Command and the Intentions of those Illustrious Persons which we have formerly named Whereas no intire Animals do enter into our Cordial therefore we shall not speak here but of the parts of those Animals which contribute to this brave and sovereign Composition We shall treat therefore of the preparation of Harts-horns of that of Vipers of that of Musk and Pearls and in fine of that of Amber-griece We shall not say any thing concerning the Bezoar-stone since we have already said that it is a Magisterium perfected in the Ventricle of that Animal which produces it and that besides this Stone has no need of any other preparation then to be reduced into an impalpable Pouder for this Operation Now whereas the Receipt of this Remedy requires Harts-Horn burn'd or calcin'd to whiteness we cannot wonder enough at this way of proceeding since that those of the least capacity know that the Calcination carrieth away the volatil Salt from the calcined body and that by consequence it strips it from all its cordial virtue which cannot be contain'd but in this Sulphureous and volatil Salt For the most skilful Naturalists and the most experienced of all Artists who have grown old in the meditation and in the labour to make the Anatomy of Natural things thereby to know the better the virtue say all with one voice That the Soul and Virtue of all these sublunary Mixts resides properly and perfectly in what they contain of volatil Salt and that it is particularly and chiefly in the Animals that this is found since the proof of it is clearly evident in their Distillations which furnish a great abundance of Spirit Oil and volatil Salt and which leave behind nothing in the bottom of the Retort after the last action of Fire but that which may be called legitimately a mere Caput mortuum or dead Earth since that this calcined body contains nothing that participates of the Saline nature which is the Foundation and the Centre of all the powers and virtues by reason

which torments them very frequently In the fourth place the Excellency of this Remedy appears in that it is not onely proper and specifick to drive away the venom that causes the already-produced Diseases but also especially because it is sufficient to maintain that beautiful and admirable Harmony that causes Health since it is capable to correct and remedy all the faults of Indigestions and ill Fermentations which are made in the Stomach that are in us the Causes the Spring and the Beginning of the worst Diseases And we shall conclude this Discourse with the exposition of the Dose the time and method of using it with benefit For all the world knows that the Abuse and the Excess of the best things do commonly produce the most perillous and surprising Effects We have said heretofore that Sir Rawleigh's Great Cordial contain'd in it self the choice and Epitome of what is of greatest Excellencie amongst all the simple Cordials which the three Natural Families of Animals Vegetables and Minerals furnish us with of which we must make the deduction and the representation to the eyes of the Reader 's understanding to insinuate more and more into them that this admirable Genius could make a most worthy choice of the Matters which compose his Remedy which do possess every one in particular a great deal of Spirit and volatil sulphureous Salt in their Centre from whence do result all those rare Effects that it daily produces as much towards the healthful as towards the sick Now we shall begin the description of all these things by the Order of Nobleness and Excellency of those that have possess'd the Animal Life we shall continue by those that have had the Vegetable Life and we shall end by the last that have enjoyed but a more obscure and imperfect Life which is the Mineral Life The Hart's Horn enters into our Noble Cordial and that for many reasons for there are but few Animals that can equal the Hart for length of life since he lives whole Ages This Animal is most swift which betokens a fine Harmony and a good disposition of the inward and outward parts which furnish sufficient Vigour and by consequence Spirits to hold out to the length of the Course that serves for delight and divertisement to the greatest Monarchs But is there any thing that proves so well the abundance of Spirits and Salt which reside in this Beast as the shedding and re-production of its Horns which it lays down at the beginning of Winter by reason the Aliments of which it did live had no longer in them that Balsamie Spirit and Salt which serves for Oil to the Lamp of the Radical Moisture and that maintains the Natural Heat But as soon as the Spring furnishes the Hart with the first blade of the herbs and the buds of the trees he draws from the middle Life of those things a renewed being so efficacious and powerful that it re-produceth in him a most extraordinary heat and chearfulness which causeth him to lay down his useless arms to produce new ones which are all living and juicy and which at last digest and harden themselves to furnish us in its proper time a Horn replenish'd with a great abundance of volatil Salt The thing remarkable in the choice of this Horn for its excellency is that it must be taken from an Animal of a middle age and that has been chaced because the Course heats the Animal and makes it to drive all its vigour and spirits from the Centre to the Circumference which is remarked by the weight and closing of the parts The true time to take the Hart's Horn for Physical use is between the fifteenth of August and the twentieth of September The general virtues of the Hart's Horn are to resist the corruption and putrefaction of the Humours which constitute humane bodies and their malignancy to provoke Sweat to strengthen and augment the natural Balsam of life which gives us to understand that it is with a great deal of judgment that our Author hath given it place in his Great Cordial The second thing which comes from an Animal and makes one of the best parts of this Remedy is the Stone of the Oriental Bezoar an Animal that partakes of the Hart and the Goat The best is found in Persia and the East-Indies although that which comes from America is not to be slighted if the Dose be augmented It is a Stony Concretion which forms and engenders it self by the property of the volatil saline portion which is in the Plants of which these Animals live and which coagulates it self in their second Ventricle where it augments it self yearly bed upon bed and shell upon shell by the magnetick attraction that the first kernel makes of what is analogical to its substance in the half-digested aliment which is in the stomach of that Beast as is seen and proved by the straws and the remainder of chewed herbs which are found in the Centre of the true Oriental and Occidental Bezoar which without doubt hath been the first occasional cause of the Concretion of the Stone Now the Indians and Persians say that this Animal lives particularly of a Plant which hath of it self a great deal of virtue But as this Stone is a true natural Magistery which comes from the animal and vegetable substances which unite together by the digestion in the Animal's second Ventricle so must we believe that the Bezoar-stone contains more eminently the virtue from them produced The principal are to strengthen to provoke Sweat to combat Poisons the Plague and malignant Fevers it remedies the Faintness of the Heart and its Palpitation it kills the Worms 't is good against the Epilepsie against the Jaundise the Stone the Dysentery the retention of the Menstrua and finally it facilitates and accelerates Child-birth So that we conclude that it is one of the principal Pillars of our Incomparable Cordial Musk is the third thing that the Animal furnishes to our Cordial which digests and bakes it self in an abscess which forms it self and makes eruption about the navil of a Beast like unto a Goat which is found in many Kingdoms of the East-Indies and specially in those of Cathay and Pegu. It is to be observed that Nature doth not work about this precious Drug but when the Animal is in his heat and Rutting-time so that this eruption being made by an effect of natural Heat and by an Effervescency of the mass of Bloud and of the Spirits which are driven towards the Emunctories destinated to them their heat makes attraction and causes pain which causes this Animal to rub his belly against the Stones and against the bodies of Trees to open the Impostume and make the matter issue out which the Sun doth throughly concoct and digest that which in fine produces to us the Parent and Soul of all the most excellent and most agreeable Perfumes Which is a thing most worthy the speculation of a Naturalist and a Chymical Artist