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A60662	Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent.; Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English.	1692 (1692)	Wing S434; ESTC R183203	439,154	1,009

the water begins to whiten the whole Mass. XXVII A temperate heat working in moist Bodies brings forth blackness which having obtained there is nothing that you need fear for in the same way the Germination of our Stone does follow and forthwith to wit in the space of thirty or Forty days you have Gas or Adrop which is our Uzifer or Cinnabar and our Red Lead XXVIII Takeheed to defend your Glass from a Violent Heat and a sudden Cold make use of a moderate Fire and beware of Vitrification Beware how you bind up your matter mix it not with Salts Sulphurs nor the middle Minerals let Sophisters prate what they will Our Sulphur and our Mercury are found in Metals only XXIX 7. De Coagulatione Coagulation or Congelation is the induration or hardning of things in Calore Candido and the fixing of the Volatile Spirit The Elements are forthwith converted but the Congelation is no way impeded for those things which are Congealed in the Air melt or soften not in the Water for if so Our work would be destroyed and come to nothing XXX When the Compositum is brought to Whiteness then the Spirit is United and Congealed with the Body but it will be a good length of time before such a Congelation will appear in the likeness or Beauty of Pearls The cause of all these things is the most temperate heat continually working and moving the Matter Believe me also that your whole Labour is lost except you revivifie your Earth with the Water without that you shall never see a true Congelation XXXI This Water is a Secret drawn from the Life of all things existing in Nature for from Water all things in the World have their first beginning as you may easily perceive in many things The substance or Matter is nourished with its proper Menstruum which the Water and the Earth only produce whose proper Colour is Greenness XXXII Understand also that our fiery Water thus acuated is called the Menstrual Water in which Our Earth is dissolved and naturally Calcined by Conge lation when you have made seven Imbibitions then by a Circumvolution putrifie again all the Matter without addition beholding in the first place the blackness then the Whiteness of the Congealed Matters XXXIII Thus your Water is divided into two parts with the first part the Bodies are purified the second part is reserved for Imbibitions with which afterwards the Matter is made black and presently after with a gentle fire made White then reduce to Redness XXXIV 8. De Cibatione Cibation is the Feeding or Nourishing of our dry Matter with Milk and Meat being both administred moderately till it is reduced to the third Order you must never give so much as to cause a suffocation or that the Aqueous humour should exceed the Blood if it drinks too much the work will be hurt XXXV Three times must you turn about the Philosophick Wheel observing the Rule of the said Cibation and then in a little time it will feel the Fire so as to melt presently like Wax XXXVI 9. De Sublimatione Sublime not the matter to the top of the Vessel for without Violence you cannot bring it down to the bottom again by a temperate heat below in the space of 40 days it will become black and obscure When the Bodies are purified let them be sublimed by degrees more and more till they shall be all elevated or converted into Water XXXVII We use Sublimation for three Causes First that the Body may be made spiritual Secondly that the the Spirit may be made Corporeal aud fixed with it and become Consubstantial with it Thirdly that it may be purified from its Original Impurities and its Sulphurous Salt may be diminished with which it is infected subliming it to the Top as White as Snow XXXVIII 10. De Fermentatione Fermentations are made after divers manners by which our Medi cine is perpetuated Some dissolve Sol and Luna into a certain clear Water and with the Medicine of them they make the same to Coagulate or be Coagulated but such a Fermentation we propose not XXXIX This only is our Intention that first you must Break or Tear or Grind the matter to Atoms before you Ferment it Mix then presently your Water and Earth together and when the Medicine shall flow like Wax then see the above mentioned Amalgamation and put forth the same and when all that is mixed together above or on the top of the Glass being well closed make a Fire till the whole be Fluxed then make projection as you shall think fit because it is a Medicine wholly perfect Thus have you made the Ferment both for the Red and the White XL. The true Fermentation is the Incorporation of the Soul with the Body restoring to the same the Natural Odour Consistency and Colour by a Natural Inspissation of the separated things And as the Magnet draws Iron to it self so our Earth by Nature draws down its Soul to it self Elevated with Wind For without doubt the Earth is the Ferment of the Water and by Course or Turns the Water is the Ferment of the Earth XLI We make the Water most Odoriferous with which we reduce all the Bodies into Oyl with which Oyl we make our Medicine flow We call this Water a Quintessence or the Powers and it Heals or Cures all humane Diseases Make therefore this Oyl of Sol and Luna which is a Ferment most fragrant in smell XLII 11. De Exaltatione Exaltation differs a little from Sublimation if you understand aright the words of the Philosophers If therefore you would Exalt your Bodies sublime them first with Spiritus Vitae then let the Earth be subtiliated by a Natural rectification of all the Elements so shall it be more pretious than Gold because of the Quintessence or Powers which they contain XLIII When the Cold does overcome the Heat then the Air is converted into water so two contraries are made by the way till they kindly conjoyn and rest together after this manner you must work them that they may be Circulated that they one with another may speedily be Exalted together In one Glass well Sealed all this Operation is to be done and not with hands XLIV Convert the Water into Earth which will quickly be the Nest of the other Elements for the Earth is in the Fire which rests in the Air. Begin this Circulation in the West then continue it till past the Meridian so will they be exalted XLV 12. De Multiplicatione Multiplication is the thing which makes the augmentation of the Medicine in Color Smell Vertue and Quantity for it is a Fire which being Excited never dies but always dwells with you one spark of which is able to make more Fire by the Virtue of Multiplication XLVI He is rich which has but one Particle or Grain of this our Elixir because that Grain is possible to be augmented by one way to Infinity if you dissolve this our dry Pouder and make a

preventing Abortion and then use Forcers Loosners and Forcers lest any of the Membranes or after-Birth or any part of it or other foetid and putrid Matter should be left behind by which the Woman would certainly Perish But if the Child be not Dead nor expelled but only a Danger and the foetus retreats then you ought to use restingents and things above directed that Abortion may be prevented and the Child preserved Salmon XV. A Medicine after Miscarriage If part of the After-birth should remain and a continual Flux of Blood for some Months should accompany it the most Excellent Sylvius has restored the sick by three ounces of the following Decoction taken twice or thrice a day Take Bistort-root three Ounces Marjoram Pennyroyal ana a handful Water White-wine of each a sufficient quantity Strain and Sweetten with Syrup of Mugwort a Tenth part Cinnamon-water a Twentieth part By Virtue of this a piece of the After-birth as big as ones Fist was voided and the Flux of Blood stopped and cured CHAP. IX Want of Appetite I. IF want of Appetite proceeds from a cold Cause or cold Flegm afflicting the Ventricle or Stomach 't will be necessary to give a proper Vomit and then such things as may heat and corroborate it II. A Vomit evacuating Flegm and cold and watery Humours Take our Pulvis Argenteum 10. grains mix it with the Pulp of a rosted Apple and give it in the Morning fasting drinking warm Broth or Posset-drink after it The third day repeat the same Dose III. Then to warm comfort and restore the Stomach Take our Tinctura Stomachica from half a Spoonful to a Spoonful in a draught of Ale or Wine Morning Noon and Night a quarter of an Hour or more before eating it does Wonders and restores the Appetite tho lost for many Months I have proved it many Hundreds of times for these Twenty five or Twenty six Years together Salmon IV. Salt Meats are also good because they iritate and provoke the languid Faculties of the Stomach Salts also have an inciding and attenuating Virtue and next to these such things as have a volatile heat and sharpness as Mustard seed Onions Garlick Leeks Shellots c. V. When Flegm disaffects the Ventricle that is tough thick and viscous whereby the Appetite seems to be almost destroyed it will be necessary that you use Medicines of another Nature viz. such as are acid sharp and cutting for that these things not only separate the offending Matter from the Tunicles of the Stomach but also prevent Putrefaction and the Generation of the like for the future VI. For this purpose Spirit of Vitriol is most commended by some and 't is doubtless a good Medicine but ought to be cautiously used to dry Bodies lest it induces a Consumption VII But in fuller and moister Bodies it is not only safe but very profitable more especially if the Anorexia or want of Appetite proceeds from Choler Yellow or Green abounding in the Stomach VIII In this case I commend my Spiritus Aperiens and Syrupus Diasulphuriis see them in my Phylaxa Med. Lib. I. Cap. 14. Sect. I. and Lib. 2. Cap. 36. Sect. I. given the first to 30. 40. 50. or 60. or more Drops in a Glass of Ale the other in all the drink the Sick drinks to a Spoonful more or less as they can Affect it and to take it assidiously for ten Fifteen or Tweny days together they are Medecines that seldom fail of their effects and are beyond my Commendation Salmon IX I always adjust the Medicaments for cure according to the Causes where there is an exceeding Coldness of the Stomach my Tinctura Absinthij is beyond compare so also Elixir proprietatis sine Acido To these things add our Aqua Bezoartica and Tinctura Corallorum Composita given in Wine X. If the want of Appetite is restored by taking Acids it is a Sign that the Acid Humour in the Stomach is Languid debile and weak but if not or it rather is hurt by it it is a sign that it is too Rampant and Vigorous and therefore Alcalies as Tincture of Tartar Volatile Sal Armoniack or our Spirit Antiasthmaticus ought to be given and other like Volatile Salts Bezoar Mineral in our Syrup Volatilis is of good use in this case Salmon XI The loss of Appetite which arises from decay of Strength or old Age is seldom or never cured unless it proceed from a Cold cause in which case Volatile Sulphurs and Spirituous Things are proper but things that dry too much must be cautiously given The Stomach may be Anointed with Oyl of Mace or you may use this Take Balsam of Amber one Ounce common Oyl I dram mix them XII If there be neither Sickness nor weakness nor old Age present and yet the Person complains that he never comes to his Food with a Stomach or eats with an Appetite the only way to restore such an one is to let him fast till he is a hungry for long want of Victualsand emptiness insuch always breeds an Appetite XIII In Women especially such as have Gross Bodies want of Appetite is cured if not with Child by proper Emeticks and Catharticks For the first of these I commend our Cartharticum Argenteum given to a dram in a Glass of Ale For the latter either our Family Pills or our Family Powder both of which may be taken 2 or 3 or 4 times with due intervals Salmon XIV If it happens in a Woman with Child all or most of the Preceeding Courses must be avoided and other Courses taken The juices of Oranges and Lemons with white Sugar may be daily taken for some time so also Canary made acid with juice of Limons and if heat also abounds a Decoction of Tamerinds sweetned alone or mixt A Syrup or Infusion of Rheubarb is of good use XV. Want of Appetite in Consumptive People is of dangerous Consequence some commend as the best thing Elixir Proprietatis given in wine it may be good for a little Season but long it must not be taken left it also induce the Consumption The best thing which I have found by my large experience is Our Tinctura Stomachica given to a spoonsul 2. or 3. times a day in a large draught of new Milk And altho the ingredients thereof heat Violently yet by reason they are of thin Substance and parts their heat is quickly discussed and so do no harm Salmon XVI If Sickness at Stomach and want of Appetite proceed from worms as sometimes it does Our Tincturo Absinthij or Infusion of Worm-wood in Rhenish Wine or Canary is good Salmon XVII Galens Antidotus Thespesiana for want of Appetite Take Smallage-seed xij drams Myrrh Anniseed Opium ana vj. drams White-Pepper V. drams Parsly-seed Long-pepper Spicknard Cassia-Lignea ana iv drams Castor Saffron Flowers of Juncus Odoratus ana iij. drams Cinamon ij drams Honey 1 pound make an Electuary dose the quantity of a Hazle-Nut at Bed-time in a little Drink CHAP. X. Loss of the

be praised But if the Patient be Young or Weak you must proportionably lessen the Dose You may give it in the Morning Fasting and let the Sick beware of taking Cold. Salmon V. The Cholick with a vehement Catarrb and Cough Where the Griping of the Bowels is with Costiveness of Body which is for the most part accompanied with a great Cough and Catarrh there is no better Remedy upon Earth than our Spiritus Anticolicus of which the Sick may take half a Spoonful every Morning and Evening in a Glass of Ale or Wine and if it be vehement in all the Drink they take Salmon VI. The Cholick with a violent Flux of the Belly downwards and a vehement Catarrb upwards I have several times seen this preternatural Flux though it be not common Once I remember I had a Patient afflicted therewith and in a most deplorable Condition I Cured him by giving a Spoonful or Spoonful and half of my Tinctura ad Catarrhos Morning and Evening in a Glass of Ale and in a Weeks time he was perfectly well See it in my Phylaxa Med. Lib. 2. Cap. 9. Sect. 1. Salmon VII One Purge saith Rolfincius given with Judgment in the Cholick does that alone which ten Clysters will scarcely reach especially in the Cholick pain from Obstruction of the Excrements above the value It was observed when a Patient had thirty Clysters given him without any benefit that another Physician gave him an Ounce and half of Manna with two Ounces of Oyl of sweet Almonds in fat Chicken Broth and eased the Patient of his pain We in the West-India's in this case where the Constipation is great give a strong Decoction of the bitter Gourd or bitter Squash made in Water which effectually does the Cure at once if given in the beginning of the Disease Pulp of Colocynthis here will do the same In the West-India's where Peach-Trees are plentlful the Disease is Cured by taking three or four times Syrup of Peaches or by taking a very strong Decoction made of the bruised Leaves of the Peach-Tree Salmon VIII Sometimes when Clysters are given they come not away but almost suffocate by reason of their ascension be ing stopt by much Wind in this case if one two or more Clysters do not come away you must either put up a very sharp Supository or recall them with a small Clyster made of a strong Tincture or Decoction of Pulp of Colloquintida IX Where the Cholick proceeds from a kind of Glassy Phlegm weak Clysters may not be given made of Oyl Hiera and the like these though in a gentle Cholick may do some good yet in a violent one can do nothing rather mischief In this case nothing less than a strong Clyster made with our Tinctura Aurea see Phylaxa Lib. 2. Cap. 5. will do any good After the Clyster has been taken and is come away let the Patient be three or four times Purged with our Pilula Mirabiles see Phylaxa Lib. 2. Cap. 59. and he will be so perfectly Cured that the Disease will no more recur from that numerick Cause Salmon X. In a vehement Cholick with Obstruction of the Courses I gave the following things 1. I Purged the Sick well with my Pilulae Mirabiles thrice 2. I gave the following Powder Take Livers and Galls of Eeles dry them and make them into Powder Dose from one Drachm to two in white Wine Salmon XI A Venereal Cholick There is no better Medicine upon Earth then to give every day for a Week together if it has been of long continuance our Vinum Herculeanum a Sack Glass full at a time three or four times a day The way of making it see in Phylaxa Med. Lib. 1. Cap. 47. Sect. 15. It is much beyond all the the Spicy and Aromatick Things in the World Salmon XII A Clyster against the Cholick Take Decoction of Juniper Berries a Pint Spiritus Aureus one Ounce Aqua Benedicta four Ounces Oyl of Olive two Ounces mix them this works in a small time but which is admirable even before it works the pain ceases Salmon XIII Another Clyster for the same Take Decoction of Dates made in Mutton-Broth a Pint Vinum Emeticum five Ounces mix for a Clyster it gives ease almost in an Instant and brings away the morbifick Cause or Matter after a wonderful manner Salmon XIV Rondeletius saith that Castoreum and Euphorbium are of good use if the pain be constant and stir not from its place yea he estimates them not only as a present but as the ultimate Remedy If you take six eight or ten Grains of Castor in Wine and drink a little after it it will quickly Cure And five or six Gr. of Emphorbium may be Infused and taken the clear Infusion in the same quantity and manner XV. If the pain be in the upper part of the Belly above the Navel Clysters seldom do any good for they never reach the Morbifick or offending Matter yet sometimes even in these cases when the pain is very violent and the Humours crude Clysters may be given but they ought to be made of strong Attractives such as the afore-mentioned XVI This Clyster has done much good Take fat Broth a Pint Aloes dissolved two Drachms Turpentine one Ounce and a half or two Ounces Truly it is a Medicament not to be despised I remember once above all the rest of the times I used it I recovered a young Lady even from the Jaws of Death with it The Sick had been three daies and three Nights tortured with incessant Pain Clysters of most kinds had been given by an Apothecary by the Prescript of a Physitian moreover there had been given previous to those Aromatick Bolus's bitter Decoctions and lastly Opiates but all in vain nor could the Opiates do any good for that they constipated the Bowels much more which were before costive and so rendered the disease to all appearance uncurable so void of true Medical Sense or Knowledge were those Men of great names which had been before concern'd with her In short they neither gave her any Ease nor made her go to Stool so that what with the Anguish and Pain she was given over and lay for dead In this state and Condition a Gentlewoman then present moved that I might be sent for which was accordingly done when I came thither I viewed my Patient no appearance of Life could be discerned so that I had but small encouragement to act however being entreated by her grieved Parents I was perswaded even for their satisfaction The Apothecary was sent for and gave me an account of all that was done I could not forbear blaming the Physitians for acting so preposterously against the rules of Art as to prescribe Opiates in a Cholick with a strong constipation of the Bowels The Apothecary could no waies take their part but was of my Opinion But the business was now what was most fit to be done nothing could be given by the Mouth for her Teeth seemed to be set

I immediately bethought of the former Clyster which was presently given and in half an hour came away with many hardned Excrements after which the Sick was discerned to breath I caused the same Clyster to be administred again and all the Region of the Abdomen to be bathed very well with Powrs of Amber and a Flannel moistned with the same to be laid hot over the afflicted Parts The Clyster stayed Two Hours with the Sick and then came away with more hardned Excrements after which she opened her Eyes and seemed to move her self and in about six hours time speak The first Clyster was given about Ten in the Morning the second before Eleven About Eight at Night I prescribed this Take Mutton Broth three quarters of a pint Aqua Benedicta three Ounces Venice Turpentine two Ounces Oyl one Ounce mix and make a Clyster She confessed she had great Ease before this was exhibited but after she had received this last she confess'd she was in perfect Ease it came away from her in about an hour and quarters time After which I first gently purged her with a Dose of my Family Pills then with two Doses of my Pilulae Mirabiles but withal giving her respite to recover Strength after which she constantly took my Spiritus Anticolicus in all her Drink and became perfectly well Salmon XVII A Cholick proceeding from Gravel obstructed in the Reins It was plainly perceived to be an Obstruction of the Reins because the Sick could not make Water I prescribed the last of the afore-going Clysters which was repeated three times once every day and the Patient by this means alone was perfectly cured And this might possibly be performed by the Balsamick and Diuretick Particles of the Turpentine being received into the Lacteal Veins whereby it was mixed with the Lacteal Juice and so entred into the mass of Blood and was circulated with it whereby altering its Crasis it opened the Obstructions of the Passages and so provoked Urine for alwaies after the Clysters the Sick made a very large quantity of Urine This thing I have many times experienced Salmon XVIII In some Patients the best Clysters do little good and by I know not what hidden cause the Pain in a day or two or three returns again as bad as ever or worse these by the following suppositories have not only found present Ease but the Cure has succeeded as if it had been done by Inchantment Take Honey One Ounce boiled to a thickness that it may be wrought with ones Finger then add in Powder Sal Gem two Scruples Troches Alhaudal half an Ounce and with distilled Oyl of Wax ten drops make and form a Suppository which let be put up in the Paroxysm XIX Whether the Cholick comes from Choler or Vitreous Flegm sharp and emollent Clysters are of excellent Use And sometimes Clysters made only of Oyl on of Oyl three parts Turpentine one part have saved the Life of a Patient For since the Cholick is caused by the Colons being obstructed by plenty of Matters above Wind in the middle and a great quantity of hardned Excrements below whereby the Wind can neither get up nor down or get out It is necessary first of all to open the lower Passages and to help the dryness of the Bowels which may be done by Lenitive and Emolient Clysters and if the matter be tough and viscous by sharp inciding and attractive ones such as we have before described which must be so long continued till all the hardned Excrements are taken away Nor must Oyl be omitted because it mollifies and loosens much more than any Aqueous Body and leaves the Bowels in a better temper Salmon XX. Fienus advises to mix Narcoticks or Opiates with Purgers And this may be good where the Constipation is not Great for by this means the sick has present ease the tough flegm or matter is afterwards carried off and the wind descending into the Colon is discussed In this case take this Take Extract of fine Aloes one Scruple Scammony in fine Powder eight Grains of our Volatile Laudanum with Aloes five or six Grains Mix and make a Dose to be given at night Salmon XXI Bartholinus saith that Clysters of Tobacco-Smoak are excellent and a present help There is a Pipe made on purpose for this use but the Smoak may be blown up the Anus by a common Tobacco-pipe which for the most part effectually brings away the hardest Excrements discusses Wind and even cleanses the Intestines of cold glassie Phlegm XXII An Electuary to purge with in a Cholick Take of Dates pulp of Raisins of the Sun of each half an Ounce Scammony in fine Powder twelve Grains Bezoar mineral a Scruple Mix them for one Dose Salmon XXIII If the Excrements be very muchhardened Clysters of pure Oil ought first to be given then such as are more sharp For the Oil first dissolving the Excrements they are the more easily brought away by a sharp Clyster such as this Take Broth Oil Olive of each seven Ounces Elixir proprietatis sine Acido one Ounce and half mix them 'T is a thing beyond Commendation if seasonably used XXIV If the Cholick proceeds of billious humours whereby the Constipation of the 〈◊〉 vehement one of the 〈◊〉 of simple things is Syrup of Peach-blossoms three Ounces given at a time Or this Take Extract of fine Aloes Calomelanos in fine Powder ana one Scruple Scammony seven Grains mix and make Pills for one Dose it seldom fails Or Take pulp of Raisins half an Ounce Calomelanos a quarter of an Ounce mix for a Dose After which drink an Infusion of Sena and Rheubarb sweetned with Manna and Syrup of Roses After the Purge has done working give eight or ten Ounces of Oil of sweet Almonds and let the sick repose himself Salmon XXV Rondeletius tells us he has cured several with a Clyster made of Decoction of Hedge-mustard especially being made with Wine You may sweeten it with Honey XXVI Hercules Saxonia saith I mustingenuously confess I have cured several in one day with this Medicine Take Diaphoenicon half an Ounce 〈◊〉 Hiera three Drams or a Bolus XXVII in some cases especially where Convulsions attend a Cholick it is good to make Revulsions by vomit Some prescribe a Vomit by Leaves of Asarabacca and it is a good one But there is no better Emetick for this purpose than our Pulvis Emeticus or our Cartharticum Argenteum The first may be given from three Grains to six or eight in Broth or Posset drink the second to a Dram or a Dram and half in like manner They are easie and safe Salmon XXVIII Insome Constitutions troubled with a Cholick Wine and strong Liquors are very pernicious and always generate the matter causing those pains In those cases drinking of Water is the only remedy and Fountain-water in which Sal Prunella a Scruple to half a Pint is dissolved and well sweetned with Sugar and this is always certain in a bilious Cholick especially if

Work will be spoiled and you will not find that which you seek after nor shall you bring your Work to perfection XIV For where the cause of Generation is wanting or the root of the matter and heat it self your labour will be lost and the Work come to nothing The same also will happen if you mistake in the proportion or weight for if that be not right to wit the proportion of the parts compounding the matter compounded missing of its just temperature will be destroyed and so you shall reap no fruit the which I will shew you by an Example XV. See you not that in Soap with which Cloaths are washt clean and white that it has its virtue and property by reason of the just proportion of its Ingredients which spread themselves in length and breadth and because of which they agree to the same end by which it appears that the Compositum was truly made and the power and efficacy which before lay hid which is called Property is now brought to light which is the quality of washing and cleansing in a proper Laver XVI But should the Ingredients have been put together without proportion being either too little or too much the virtue and efficacy of the Soap would be destroyed nor would it any ways answer the end desired for that that end or effect ariseth from the just proportion and mixion of each Ingredient The same you must understand to happen in the Composition of Our Magistery CHAP. XXIII Of the four principal Operations Solution Congelation Albification and Rubification I. BEgining now to speak of the Great Work which they call Alchymie I shall open the matter without concealing ought or keeping back any thing save that which is not fit to be declared We say then that the great work contains four Operations viz. to Dissolve to Congeal to make White and to make Red. II. There are four quantities partakers together of which two are partakers between themselves so also have the other two a coherence between themselves And either of these double quantities has another quantity partaker with them which is greater than these two III. I understand by these quantities the quantity of the Natures and weight of the Medicines which are in order dissolved and congealed wherein neither addition nor diminution have any place But these two viz. Solution and Congelation are in one Operation and make but one Work and that before Composition but after Composition those Operations be divers IV. And this Solution and Congelation which we have spoken of are the solution of the Body and the congelation of the Spirit which two have indeed but one Operation for the Spirits are not congealed except the Bodies be dissolved as also the Bodies are not dissolved unless the Spirit be congealed And when the Soul and the Body are joyned together each of them works its Companion into its own likeness and pro perty V. As for Example When Water is put to Earth it strives to dissolve the Earth by its virtue property and moisture making it softer than it was before bringing it to be like it self for the Water was more thin than the Earth And thus does the Soul work in the Body and after the same manner is the Water thickened with the Earth and becomes like the Earth in thickness for the Earth was more thick than the Water VI. Know also that between the solution of the Body and the congelation of the Spirit there is no distance of time nor diversity of work as though the one should be without the other as there is no difference of time in the conjunction of the Earth and Water that the one might be distinguished from the other by its operation But they have both one instant and one fact and one and the same work performs both at once before Composition VII I say before Composition lest he that should read my Book and hear the terms of Solution and Congelation should suppose it to be the Composition which the Philosophers treat of which would be a grand Error both in Work and Judgment Because Composition in this Work is a Conjunction or Marriage of the congealed Spirit with the dissolved Body which Conjunction is made upon the fire VIII For heat is its nourishment and the Soul forsakes not the Body neither is it otherwise knit unto it than by the alteration of both from their own virtues and properties after the Conversion of their Natures and this is the solution and congelation which the Philosophers first speak of IX Which nevertheless they have absconded by their AEnigmatical Discourses with dark and obscure Words whereby they alienate and estrange the minds of their Followers from understanding the Truth whereof I will now give you the following Examples X Besmear the Leaf with Poyson so shall you obtain the beginning of the Stone and the Operation thereof Again Work upon the strong Bodies with one solution till either of them are reduced to subtilty Also Except you bring the Bodies to such a subtilty that they may be impalpable you shall not obtain that you seek after And If you have not ground them repeat the Work till they be sufficiently ground and made subtil so shall you have your desire With a thousand such other like unintelligable and not to be understood without a particular demonstration thereof XI And in like manner have they spoken of that Composition which is after solution and congelation Thus. Our Composition is not perfect without Conjunction and Putrefaction Again You must dissolve congeal separate conjoyn putrefie and compound because Composition is the beginning and very life of the thing These things who can understand without being taught XII But 't is true that unless there be a compounding the Stone can never be brought to light There must be a separation of the parts of the Compound which separation is in order also to a conjunction I tell you again that the Spirit will not dwell with the Body nor enter into it nor abide in it until the Body be made subtil and thin as the Spirit is XIII But when it is attenuated and made subtil and has caste off its thickness and grossness and put on that thinness has forsaken its Corporeity and become Spiritual then shall it be conjoyned with the subtil Spirits and imbibe them so that both shall become one and the same thing nor shall they for ever be severed but become like water mixt with water which no Man can separate CHAP. XXIV Of the latter two Operations viz. Albification and Rubification I. SUppose that of two like quantities which are in solution and congelation the larger is the Soul the lesser is the Body Add afterwards to the quantity which is the Soul that quantity which is in the Body and it shall participate with the first quantity in virtue only Then working them as we have wrought them you will have your desire and understand Euclid his Line or Proportion II. Then

Animal Vegetable and Mineral the like of which is not found in the World besides II. It has power both Active and Passive in it and has also in it a substance dead and living Spirit and Soul which among the ignorant the Philosophers call the most vile thing It contains in it self the four Elements which are found in its Skirts and may commonly be bought for a small price III. It ascends by it self it waxes black it descends and waxes white increases and decreases of it self It is a matter which the Earth brings forth and descends from Heaven grows pale and red is born dieth rises again and afterwards lives for ever IV. By many ways it is brought to its end but its proper decoction is upon a fire soft mean strong by various degrees augmented until you are certain it is quietly fixed with the Red in the fire This is the Philosophers Stone V. Read and Read again so will all things become more clear to you But if hereby you understand not the matter you are withheld by the Chains of Ignorance for you shall never otherwise know or learn this Art VI. Hermes saith The Dragon is not killed but by his Brother and his Sister not by one of them alone but by both together Note these things There are three Heads yet but one Body one Nature and one Mineral This is sufficient for you if you have a disposition to understand this Art VII The Dragon is not mortified nor made fixed but with Sol and Luna and by no other In the Mountains of Bodies in the Plains of Mercury look for it there this Water is created and by concourse of these two and is called by the Philosophers their permanent or fixed Water VIII Our Sublimation is to decoct the Bodies with Golden Water to dissolve to liquifie and to sublime them Our Calcination is to purifie and digest in four ways and not otherwise by which many have been deceived in Sublimation IX Know also that our Brass or Latten is the Philosophers Gold is the true Gold But you strive to expel the Greenness thinking that our Latten or Brass is a Leprous Body because of that Greenness but I tell you that that Greenness is all that is perfect therein and all that is perfect is in that Greenness only which is in our Latten or Brass X. For that Greenness by our Magistery is in a very little time transmuted into the most fine Gold And of this thing we have experience which you may try by the following Directions XI Take burnt or calcined Brass and perfectly rubified Grind it and decoct it with Water seaven times as much every time as it is able to drink in all the ways of Rubifying and Assating it again XII Then make it to discend and its green color will be made Red and as clear as a Hyacinth and so much redness will descend with it that it will be able to tinge Argent Vive in some measure with the very color of Gold all which we have done and perfected and is indeed a very great Work XIII Yet you cannot prepare the Stone by any means with any green and moist liquor which is found and brought forth in our Minerals this blessed might power or virtue which generates all things will not yet cause a vegetation springing budding forth or fruitfulness unless there be a Green color XIV Wherefore the Philosophers call it their Bud and their Water of Purification or Putrefaction and they say truth herein for with its water it is putrefied and purified and washed from its blackness and made White XV. And afterwards it is made the higheft Red whereby you may learn and understand that no true Tincture is made but with our Brass or Latten XVI Decoct it therefore with its Soul till the Spirit be joyned with its Body and be made one so shall you have your desire XVII The Philosophers have spoken of this under many Names but know certainly that it is but one matter which does cleave or joyn it self to Argent Vive and to Bodies which you shall have the true signs of Now you must know what Argent Vive will cleave or perfectly joyn and unite it self unto XVIII That the Argent Vive will cleave joyn or unite it self to Bodies is false And they err who think that they understand that place in Geber of Argent Vive where he saith When in searching among other things you shall not find by our Invention any matter to be more agreeable to Nature than Argent Vive of the Bodies XIX By Argent Vive in this place is understood Argent Vive Philosophical and it is that Argent Vive only which sticks to and is fixed in and with the Bodies The old Philosophers could find no other matter nor can the Philosophers now invent any other matter or thing which will abide with the Bodies but this Philosophick Argent Vive only XX. That common Argent Vive does not stick or cleave to the Bodies is evident by Experience for if common Argent Vive be joyned to the Bodies it abides in its proper nature or flys away not being able to transmute the Body into its own nature and substance and therefore does not cleave unto them XXI For this cause many are deceived in working with the vulgar Quicksilver For our Stone that is to say our Argent Vive accidental does exalt it self far above the most fine Gold and does overcome it and kill it and then make it alive again XXII And this Argent Vive is the Father of all the Wonderful things of this our Magistery and is congealed and is both Spirit and Body This is the Argent Vive which Geher speaks of the consideration of which is of moment for that it is the very matter which does make perfect XXIII It is a chosen pure substance of Argent Vive but out of what matter it is chiefly to be drawn is a thing to be enquired into To which we say That it can only be drawn out of that matter in which it is Consider therefore my Son and see from whence that Substance is taking that and nothing else By no other Principle can you obtain this Magistery XXIV Nor could the Philosophers ever find any other matter which would continually abide the fire but this only which is of an Unctuous substance perfect and incombustible XXV And this matter when it is prepared as it ought will transmute or change all Bodies of a Metallick substance which it is rightly projected upon into the most perfect Sol or the most pure fine Gold but most easily and above all other Bodies Luna XXVI Decoct first with Wind or Air and afterwards without Wind until you have drawn forth the Venom or Virtue which is called the Soul out of your matter this is that which you seek the everlasting Aqua vitae which cures all Diseases Now the whole Magistery is in the Vapour XXVII Let the Body be put into a

the Red Elixir and the true Body made spiritual II. Gold is a metalick body citrine ponderous mute fulgid equally digested in the Bowels of the Earth and very long washed with mineral water under the Hammer extensible fusible and sustaining the tryal of the Cupel and Cement III. From this definition you may conclude That nothing is true Gold unless it has all the Causes and Differences of the definition of Gold Yet whatever Metal is radically Citrine and brings to equality and cleanses it makes Gold of it from whence we discern that Copper may be transmuted into Gold by Artisice For we see in Copper Mines a certain water which flows out and carries with it thin scales of Copper which by a long continued course it washes and cleanses But after such water ceases to flow we find these thin scales with the dry Sand in 3 years time to be digested with the heat of the Sun and among those Scales the purest Gold is found Therefore we judge that those Scales were cleansed by the help of the water but equally digested by the heat of the Sun in the dryness of the Sand and so brought to perfection IV. Also Gold is of Metals the most pretious and it is the Tincture of Redness because it tinges and transforms every Body It is calcined and dissolved without profit and is a Medicine rejoycing and conserving the Body in Youthfulness It is most easily broken with Mercury and by the Odour of Lead There is not any Body that in Act more agrees with it in their substance than Luna and Jupiter but in weight deafness and putrescibility Saturn and in colour Venus But indeed Venus in Potency is nearer Luna than either Jupiter or Saturn then Saturn lastly Mars Spirits are also commixed with it viz. Sol and by it fixed but not without great ingenuity and industry which the sloathful Artist shall never attain to the knowledge of V. Of the Nature of Sol. It is created of the most subtil substance of Argent Vive and of most absolute fixedness and of a most small quantity of Sulphur clean and of pure redness fixed clear and changed from its own nature tinging that And because there happens a diversity in colours of that Sulphur the Citrinity or Yellowness of Gold must needs have a like Density VI. That Gold is of the most subtil substance of Argent Vive is most evident because Argent Vive easily retains it for Argent Vive retains not any thing which is not of its own Nature And that it has the clear and clean substance of that is manifest by its splendid and Radiant brightness manifesting it self not only in the Day but also in the Night And that it has a fixed substance void of all burning Sulphureity is evident by every Operation in the Fire for it is neither diminished nor inflamed VII And that it is tinging Sulphur is manifest for being mixt with Argent Vive it transforms the same into a Red color And being sublimed with strong Ignition from Bodies so that the substance of them ascends with them it creates a most Yellow color and that it is yellow is evident even to the sence it self VIII Therefore the most subtil substance of Argent Vive brought to Fixation and the purity of the same and the most subtil matter of Sulpur fixed and not burning is the whole Essential matter of Gold IX But in it is found a greater quantity of Argent Vive than of Sulphur Therefore Argent Vive has greater ingress into it For this cause whatsoever body you would alter alter them according to this Exemplar that you may deduce them to the equality thereof For Gold having a subtil and fixt part those parts would in its Creation be much condensed and this was the cause of its great weight Now by great decoction made by nature a leisurely and gradual resolution of it was made together with good inspissation and its ultimate mixtion that it might melt in the fire X. From what has been said it is evident that a large quantity of Argent Vive is the cause of perfection but much of Sulphur is the cause of Corruption And uniformity of substance which through the mixtion is made by a natural decoction is cause of perfection but diversity of substance is the cause of imperfection Also Induration and Inspissation which is made by a long and temperate decoction is a cause of perfection but the contrary of corruption and imperfection Therefore if Sulphur shall not duly fall upon Argent Vive divers Corruptions must necessarily be inferred according to the diversity of it as if it be all or part of it fixed or not fixed all or part of it adustible or not adustible all clean or half unclean or it be much or little in quantity exceeding or being diminished in proportion neither overcoming nor overcome White or Red or between both From all which Diversities divers Bodies were generated in Nature XI A Solar Medicine of the Third Order It is made by the Additament of Sulphur not burning by way of fixation and calcination prudently and perfectly administred and by manifold repetition of solution until it be rendered clean For by the perfect doing of these things its cleansing by sublimation will be compleated Thus. Reiterate the sublimation of the not fixed part of the Stone with this said Sulphur conjoyning them according to Art till they be first elevated together and then fixed so as to abide in the heat of the fire without ascension The oftner this Order of compleating the Exuberancy shall be repeated the more will the Exuberancy of this Medicine be multiplied and the more its goodness augmented and the augmentation of the perfection thereof highly multiplyed also XII The whole compleatment of the Magistery is thus By the way of sublimation the Stone and its Additament may most perfectly be cleansed and then by the Laws of Art the fugitive must be fixed in them And in this order is compleated the most pretious Arcanum which is above every secret of the Sciences of this World and a Treasure inestimable Dispose your self by exercise to it with great industry and labor and a continued Depth of Meditation for by these you will find it and not otherwise And indeed in the preparation of the Stone the reiteration of the Goodness of Administration upon this Medicine may with industrious wariness be so far a vailable as to enable it to change Argent Vive into an infinite true Solifick and Lunifick without the help of any thing more than its Multiplication XIII The most high God the maker of all things blessed and Glorious be praised who has revealed to us the series and order of all Medicines with the Experience of them which through his goodness and our incessant Labor we have searched out which we have seen with our Eyes and handled with our Hands even the whole compleatment of the Magistery But if we have concealed any thing ye

powder in the bottom of the vessel and the water which is called the black Ashes This is the Corruption of the Body which is called by Philosophers or Wise Men Saturnus AEs Plumbum Philosophorum Pulvis discontinuatus viz. Saturn Latten or Brass the lead of the Philosophers the disguised powder II. And in this putrefaction and resolution of the body three signs appear viz. a black color a discontinuity of parts and a stinking smell not much unlike to the smell of a Vault where dead Bodies are buried III. These Ashes then are those of which the Philosophers have spoken so much which remained in the lower part of the Vessel which we ought not to undervalue or despise IV. In them is the Royal Diadem and the black and unclean Argent Vive which ought to be cleansed from its blackness by a continual digestion in our water till it be elevated above in a white Colour which is called the Gander and the Bird of Hermes V. He therefore that maketh the red Earth black and then renders it white has obtained the Magistery so also he who kills the living and revives the dead VI. Therefore make the black white and the white black and you perfect the Work VII And when you see the true whiteness appear which shineth like a bright Sword or polished Silver know that in that whiteness there is redness hidden VIII But then beware that you take not that whiteness out of the Vessel but only digest it to the end that with heat and dryness it may assume a Citrine colour and a most beatiful redness IX Which when you see with great fear and trembling render Praises and Thanksgiving to the most great and good God who gives Wisdom and Riches to whom soever he pleases And according to the wickedness of a person takes them away and withdraws them for ever again depressing him even to the bottom of Hell To him I say the most Wise and Almighty God be Glory to the Ages of Ages Amen The End of Artephius Longaevus Nicholai Flammel Hieroglyphica The Hieroglyphicks of Nicholas Flammel newly Translated into English and Claused By William Salmon Professor of Physick CHAP. XXIII The beginning of Flammel's Book which is the Peroration of the Whole I. THe Lord God of my Life who exalts the humble in Spirit out of the most abject dust and makes the hearts of such as hope in him to rejoyce be Eternally praised II. Who of his own Grace reveals to the believing Soul the springs of his bounty and subjugates under their foot the Crowns of all Earthly Felicities and Glories III. In him I say let us always put our Confidence in his fear let us place Our happiness and in his mercy the hope and Glory of the restoration of our fallen state IV. And in our Supplications to him let us demonstrate or shew forth a faith unfeigned and stable an assurance that shall not for ever be shaken V. And thou O Lord God Almighty as thou out of thy infinite and most desirable Goodness hast condescended to open the Earth and unlock thy Treasures unto me thy poor and unworthy Servant and hast given into my possession the Fountains and Well-Springs of all the Treasures and Riches of this World VI. So O Lord God out of thine abundant kindness extend thy mercies unto me that when I shall cease to be any longer in the Land of the Living thou maist open unto me the Coelestial Riches the Divine Treasures and give me a part or portion in the Heavenly Inheritance for ever VII Where I may behold thy Divine Glory and the fulness of thy Heavenly Majesty a Pleasure so Ineffable and a Joy so Ravishing which no Mortal Man can express or conceive VIII This I entreat of thee O Lord for our Lord Jesus Christ thy well-beloved Son's sake who in the Unity of the Holy Spirit liveth with thee World without end Amen CHAP. XXIV The Explication of the Hieroglyphick Figures placed by me Nicholas Flammel Scrivener in the Church-yard of the Innocents in the fourth Arch entring by the Great Gate of Dennis-street on the right hand And of the Book of Abraham the Jew I. I Nicholas Flammel Scrivener living in Paris Anno 1399 in the Notarystreet near S. James of the Bouchery though I learned not much Latin because of the poorness and meanness of my Parents who notwithstanding were by them that envie me most accounted honest and good People II. Yet by the Blessing of God I have not wanted an understanding of the Books of the Philosophers but learned them and attained to a certain kind of knowledge even of their hidden Secrets III. For which cause sake there shall not any moment of my life pass wherein remembring this so vast a good I will not upon my bare Knees if the place will permit or otherwise in my heart with all the intireness of my Affections render thanks to this my most Good and Gracious God IV. Who never forsakes the Righteous Generation or suffers the Children of the Just to beg their Bread nor deceives their Expectations but supports them with Blessings who put their whole trust in him V. After the Decease of my Parents I Nicholas Flammel got my living by the Art of Writing Ingrossing Inventories making up Accounts keeping of Books and the like VI. In this course of living there fell by chance into my hands a Guilded Book very old and large which cost me only the Sum of two Florens which was about 6 s. 8 d. formerly now 10 s. English VII It was not made of Paper or Parchment as other Books be but of admirable Rindes as it seemed to me of young Trees The Cover of it was of Brass it was well bound and graven all over with strange kind of Letters which I take to be Greek Characters or some such like VIII This I know that I could not read them nor were they either Latin or French Letters or Words of which I understand something IX But as to the matter which was written within it was engraven as I suppose with an Iron Pencil or Graver upon the said Barke Leaves done admirably well and in fair and neat Latin Letters and curiously coloured X. It contained thrice seven Leaves for so they were numbred in the top of each Folio and every seventh leaf was without any writing but in place thereof there were several Ima ges or Figures painted XI Upon the first seventh Leaf was depicted 1. A Virgin 2. Serpents swallowing her up On the second seventh A Serpent Crucified And on the last seventh A Desart or Wilderness in midst whereof was seen many fair Fountains from whence issued out a number of Serpents here and there XII Upon the first of the Leaves was written in Capital Letters of Gold Abraham the Jew Prince Priest Levite Astrologer and Philosophor to the Nation of the Jews dispersed by the Wrath of God in France wisheth Health XIII After which words it was filled with many