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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39816	A vindication of chymistry, and chymical medicines Courteous and candid reader, chymistry, is an art that doth both teach and inable us (for our exceeding good and benefit) to seperate purity from impurity; ...	Fletcher, R. (Richard), fl. 1676-1677.	1676 (1676)	Wing F1359A; ESTC R215438	7,956	18

A VINDICATION OF CHYMISTRY AND Chymical Medicines Courteous and Candid Reader CHYMISTRY is an ART that doth both teach and inable us for our exceeding good and benefit to seperate Purity from Impurity Exalt and advance what God and Nature hath given us to a farther and higher Perfection than we receive it indewed with For all Bodyes more or less partake of the Grossness and Terrestriety of their Matrixes But after their essential purities are seperated from that Terrestriety adhering which they drew from their Matrixes they make it plain enough by their powerful effects that it is to this state they ought to be reduced before they work with Efficacy and yet they still retain their Character and Internal Idea Now if we shall well and truly consider it what have we in this curious Nice Age either for Back or Belly Pleasure or Necessity that hath not in some kind or other been oblidged to Chymistry and its beneficial Operations for that perfection we receive it in What Calling may be said to have attained to the perfection and hight it now Glories in without its help in some one or other of its more sublime or trivial Operation Consider our Bread our Beer Wine Meat c. Or whatever can render our lives happy or satisfactory And you will find it in one degree or other to pass under the hand of Chymistry and its various Operations or Preparations And can we then be thus Insensibly led to admit its dayly help and assistance in things of smallest value and can we be so stupid dull ignorant and blind as to neglect its assistance in things of greater moment and concern And not only neglect its friendly advice but deny its profitable hand in those things which above all others we most need its help in Nay we do not only deny it makes us happy but we seek by all means possible to disgrace slander and make it and its Professors contemptible and odious to the whole world Doubtless these are great follies and we declare our selves either very ignorant or else very Malitious and self-ended Can we with ease and content admit and allow its favours and greedily seek after them to improve and maintain our Purses and Pleasure and cannot we admit and embrace its help for the preservation of our Health without which the other will be of little benefit and less pleasure Consider if Nature be weakned and oppressed that she cannot accept of her usual and accostomed Food so as she would and ought to dispose of it for the supply of her Spirits and maintaining of her Habitation and if she cannot in her ordinary course so play the Chymist as usual Doubtless she is less able to do it in that which the very name as well as the nature of it makes her utterly to abhor and reject and if she be not strong enough to seperate the Essenses of her dayly and accustomed Food how shall she Extract any thing from her Physick if given gross that may give her that rerelief which her present condition requires and calls for She viz. Nature hath a double work to perform First to Extract the Essential part and to make use of it and secondly to cast off the Gross as an enemy It would doubtless therefore in this ease be far better to save her the labour of seperation in this her weakned condition For although Nature her self when in health can digest her Food when Dressed and seperate the Alimental parts to her self and make use of it for Sustentation and cast off the Gross as useless Yet her Medicines must be Pure Digested and seperated and fited for her use for if she cannot Digest her Food then not Gross Medicines her Food when in health may be Gross because she can dispose of it to advantage but when Diseased her Physick must be pure seperated and fit for her use viz. To Joyn with the Spirit or Natural life in man And in this the Physician is rightly stiled Natures Handmaid but not for loading her with more Impurities but in assistng and helping her to cast off Impurities by that which is Pure For of Necessity either the Physician or Nature must officiate or act as Chymist before she can have or receive what she calls for and requires for her help and assistance Who therefore not drowned in Ignorance and Envy would so strongly oppose so great a Good as Chymistry is Author of For this is the only Art which by supplying us out of the light of Nature with Convenient means and particular Natures to seperate the pure from the impure will teach us First to heal all Diseases of the Macrocosmical substances and afterwards by examples and experiments deduced from those exteriour Cures will shew us the right and infallible Cure of Diseases in our own Bodies He that knows not how to purge and heal Metals how can he restore the decay'd or weakned Radical Balsom in Man and repair it by Comfortable and Concordant Medicines to perform perfectly all its appointed functions which must necessarily be put into action before any Disease can be expelled He that knew not what that is in ♁ which purges Gold how can be come by an effectual and Wholsome Medicine that will purge and cast out those Extrarious peccant causes that afflict and destroy the Body of Man He that knows not how to fix Arsenick or to take away the Corrosive nature of a Sublimate or to Coagulate Sulphureons Spirits and by a convenient Specifical Medium to break and dissolve Stones in the greater World will never in the body of man allay and tame the Arsenical Spirits of the Microcosmic Salt nor take away the Venimous indispositions of Sulphur nor dissolve the Stone in the Bladder and drive it out being dissolved Now as the Antient Phylosophers who knew Nature indeed obtained their noble Medicines by the strict and exact observation of Nature in her own path how that kind was multiplied by kind and without putrifaction there could be no Generation And as they found excellent Medicines by doing all things in the Metallick Kingdom according to the possibility of Nature So if you would have a Medicine indeed although inferiour to theirs whether of the Mineral Animal or vegetable kingdom you must proceed in the same method for as kind is multiplyed by kind and not without putrefaction so if you will exalt any concrete to make it a friendly Medicine it must be in Natures path Kind with kind and that by putrifaction For the absolute things requisite to one that would conscionably undertake the Sick are first to know how to unlock those Medicinal Bodies which the Almighty hath created and how to prepare them and when and to whom to apply them and also how to order and dispose the Patient so as that he may reap that good from them which by carefull administration of them is expected And thus will a little quantity of such a well prepared Medicine manifest it self in the