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A54293	Mineralogia, or, An account of the preparation, manifold vertues and uses of a mineral salt, both in physick and chyrurgery which is so safe, pleasant and effectual in its operation, that it may be taken by those of all ages and constitutions with great benefit ... to which is added a short discourse of the nature and uses of the sulphurs of minerals and metals ... / by Chr. Packe ...	Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1693 (1693)	Wing P145; ESTC R32971	31,842	68

Mineralogia OR An Account of the Preparation manifold Vertues and Uses of a Mineral Salt both in Physick and Chyrurgery which is so safe pleasant and effectual in its Operation that it may be taken by those of all Ages and Constitutions with great Benefit and without Danger of the least Prejudice To which is added A short Discourse of the Nature and Uses of the Sulphurs of Minerals and Metals in curing the most Chronical and pertinacious Diseases By Chr. Packe Philo-Chymico-Medicus LONDON Printed and are to be sold by D. Newman at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry 1693. An Account of the Vertues and Vse of Sal Solutivum Prepared only by Chr. Packe at his Laboratory next Door to the Gun in Little-Moor-Fields near Moorgate AFTER many years Experience of the vertues and worth of this Medicine in helping and curing many Diseases to which the Body of man is subject which of late I have also much improved and exalted in its Vertues I have determined at length for a publick Benefit and to excuse my self from writing many Letters to publish the following Account of it I. It is a Salt prepared of Mineral Subjects by apt Mediums purify'd and reconciled to the Archeus or Aura vitalis of the Humane Body which is the adequate object of Medicine and thereby becomes a Salutiferous remedy enobled with Vertues sufficient for the curing of many Diseases This Definition ariseth from its Subject Object and End II. It is neither an Acid nor an Alcaly but a Salt of a middle Nature being able to pass the several Digestions unchanged and in its passage to resolve and absterge all Preternatural Coagulations for which Reason I call it Sal Solutivum III. It is endowed with those Four general Properties viz. Cathartick Diuretick Deobstruent and allaying of all Preternatural heat and Acrimony Besides which as I have now exalted and improved it with the noble Sulphur of Venus it is a general easer of Pain and Extinguisher of Venereal Venoms that are not grown to a confirm'd Pox as is manifest by what it effects now in alleviating the Pains of the Gout Rhumatism Tooth-ach Collick Griping of the Guts Virulent Ghonnorhaea's c. beyond what it could have done heretofore Having thus briefly premised its Nature and Qualifications in general for the satisfaction of such Physicians as may desire to make use of it I shall now Address my self more particularly to shew its Virtues and manner of using 1. Sal Solutivum purgeth the gross Excrements and most viscous Humours of the first passages without Nauseating the Stomach or the least griping Pains 2. It is singular in opening Obstructions of the Vessels and Vis●era 3. It purifies and invigorates the whole Mass of Blood and restores it to i●… natural State for being an amicable Salt it hath admittance into the Blood and reacheth as Helmont saith of fixed Alcalyes made Volatile usque ad limen quartae Digestionis But this is deny'd to all ordinary purging Medicines which if through any inadvertency of the Archeus they chance to slip into the lacteal Veins and so into the Blood they cause griping Convulsive pains Stiches Flux of Blood Faintings c. till Nature hath again discharged her self of them and so instead of purging the Blood too often both corrupt and exhaust it And these two Properties are well worth the observing being not to be met with even in the mildest of the common Catharticks For this cause it is of great use in Fevers neither disturbing the Juices nor accending the Blood I have seen many Fevers proceeding from Surfeits both in eating and drinking quickly cured by it and even Hectick Fevers themselves in a longer time but such as I judged to proceed from a Scorbutick or venereal Cause As for those which are wont to accompany a Pthisis I have had no Experience of it in them yet I doubt not but even in those it would allay the Preternatural heat But that this Medicine may be given to the best advantage it is necessary in the Administring it to have regard to two special Intentions which Physicians are wont to observe in the curing Diseases viz. 1. The purging the first passages the Stomach and Intestines of gross Excrements and Filths 2. To open and dissolve all Stagnant and obstructing matter in the Viscera as the Pancreas Mesentery Liver Spleen Reins and Womb and to correct and purifie the Blood when it decllnes from its natural Crasis The ordinary Dose of this Salt to purge according to the first Intention which only is purging according to common Acceptation is from half an Ounce to six Drams dissolved in a Pint or a Pint and a half of warm Posset-drink new Whey or pure Water and drank in the Morning fasting Those that cannot take such a quantity of Liquor may dissolve their Dose in half a Pint which will presently dissolve it if it be warmed and drink another half Pint presently after it and a third half an hour after that and fast till Dinner-time except the Patient have a mind to take a Porrenger of Water Gruel or thin Broth neither will a draught of Ale or a Dish of Tea at all hinder but promote the working of it Those who like neither Posset-drink Whey or Water or want the Conveniency of getting them may take it in Ale and it will do well enough although in some few Persons I have known it cause a Drowsiness when taken in spirituous Liquors the Reason of which is its partaking of the Anodyne Narcotick Sulphurs of Mars and Venus which readily associate themselves with the vegetable Sulphurous Spirit by which they are quickly carried to the Brain yet the use which may be made of this in some Cases is not inconsiderable as is well known to Physicians This Medicine doth not only gently dissolve and expurge the Excrements of the Stomach and Guts but it also corrects the violence of all Preternatural Purges if you put but two Drams of it in their infusion or drink the same quantity in a draught of warm Posset-drink after Pills which gripe and operate Churlishly It hath also a power of stopping the working of Vomits some of which greatly incommode the Stomach by Vellicating its Membranes and impressing them with a Nauceating Character to prevent which let two or three Drams of the Sal Solutivum be dissolved in half a Pint of cold water and drank about half an hour before the Vomit is taken Or in case a Vomit be taken which worketh too violently or too long that is when the Stomach is wholly emptied and yet the Patient continueth to reach let a Dram and a half or two Drams of the Salt be dissolved in a large Glass of warm Posset-drink or rather warm Water because Posset-drink may at that time be disgustful and be drank off Do the same when a Vomit hath done working and yet the Patient finds a swimming or Giddiness in the Head or a Nauseousness or disposition to Vomit for the Salt

upon every light occasion I order an Ounce of the salt to be dissolved in a Pint of warm water and the Mouth to be well washed with some of that water warm two or three times a day In the Jaundies I give it in Summer in Water or Whey in Winter in warm Posset-drink every other day five or six Drams or two days together according as it works then intermit a day and give it again and on the intermitting days half the Dose continuing the use of it till the Yellowness and Faintness cease In the Dropsie I give it in the same manner as in the Jaundies only in a less quantity of the Vehicle I have cured both the Ascites and the Anasarca with it but thwether it will do ought in a Tympany I know not having never given it that I remember in that Disease for in that I am wont to use my Arcanum Universale Species Universalis and Tinctura Regalis But in an Ascites whether it proceed from an Obstruction of the Liver Kidneys or Ureters or from a Rupture of the Vasa Lymphatica from their two great Repletion from which last I perswade my self more Dropsies do arise than from any other cause this Medicine answers all the Intentions of cure because it not only opens all Obstructions and pleasantly reduceth the water but also by its strengthning and Balsamick Virtue Conglutinates the breaches of those Vessels and Remedies the too great laxity of the Viscera having all the Vertues of a compleat vulnerary Medicine as I shall have occasion to shew by and by when I come to speak of its external use In Hysterical Suffocations commonly called Fits of the Mother and Melancholy Vapours I give two or three Drams dissolved in a Pint and a half or a Quart of pure water upon the approach of the Fit or if that cannot be as soon as the Fit is off and in the time of the Fit when greater quantities cannot be got down I order the Dissolution of the Salt in water to be given by Spoonfulls The next day I purge with the whole Dose dissolved in a Quart of water And for as much as those suffocating Fumes are caused by Obstructions and Fuliginous matter remaining in the small Vessels where they ferment from time to time causing a puffing up and Sense of fulness especially sometime after eating it is necessary to take the Salt daily for sometime to open and carry off the Obstructions as in the second general Direction by this means their frequent Returns may be prevented by extirpating the Evil which frequently in those dismal oppressions to the poor female Sex is but only palliated In the Green-sickness in Maids it is necessary to dissolve an Ounce of the Salt in a Quart of pure water and to take half a Pint of the water at night going to Bed and the same quantity early the next Morning continuing this Course daily for three four or five Weeks if need be not omitting to purge the Patient first with a full Dose or two at the beginning as in the second general Direction as also two or three days before the full of the Moon that Nature may be the more effectually helped in this way of operating Where the Menses are only stopt it is to be taken as in the second general Direction for Obstructions besides which the Patient is to be purged once or twice with the full Dose two or three days before her monthly time of Expectancy This Medicine is also of singular use for those Women whose Months are about to leave them in preventing many disorders which are occasioned thereby in which case it is to be taken once or twice to the quantity of half an Ounce or five or six Drams for three or sour Months successively about the time when they ought to flow I have known some Women of Fifty years of Age who have by the use of this Medicine seemed again in that respect to grow young I have also easily and effectually with this Salt delivered some Women of false Great Bellies About two Months since I gave three quarters of an Ounce of Sal Solutivum to a Maid about twenty one years of Age who had a very ill habit of Body and a pale sickly Complexion having never had the Course of Nature in due order or quantity and for some Months past totally suppressed She was now seized with a grievous pain in her Right side emulating an illegitimate Plurisie which as she told me had frequently assaulted her for some Months past for the removing which Pain I gave her the Salt which gave her seven or eight Stools before Noon without any Sickness or Griping by which time her Pain was quite gone out of her side She eat some Dinner and about two hours afterwards discharged her Stomach by Vomit of a great quantity of filthy green Matter after which she had two or three Stools more with which her Menses came down plentifully which with her often going to the Vault occasioned her catching of Cold and a sore Throat I ordered she should have somewhat warm and comfortable and go to Bed and keep very warm the next day which she did the Night following she still complaining of her Throat and a Soreness all over her Bones as she phras'd it I ordered her ten Grains of my Pilula Balsamica which sweat her very plentifully during her sweating her natural Purgations were but little but as soon as that was over they returned again continuing for a due time since which she hath remained well It is a singular Remedy for the Worms of all sorts killing them and resolving them into Slime and purging their putrid Matter out of the Body To Children from three years of Age to seven I give from a Dram and a half to three Drams from seven to fourteen half an Ounce from fourteen to twenty or more from half an Ounce to three quarters of an Ounce or six Drams dissolved in fair Water Whey or Posset-drink and continued every day for a Week together Where it is difficult to get Children to take it a little Sugar may be added to the Dissolution to make it the pleasanter My Volatile Spirit of Salt also effecteth the same in a longer time in those Children which cannot be perswaded to take the Salt which they may take in all their drink and not discern it The Salt and this Spirit used together are still more effectual In the Piles I give a quarter of an Ounce of the Salt dissolved in half a Pint of water in Summer time or warm Posset-drink in Winter which just keeps the Belly soluble and by dulcifying the Acrimony of the protruded Blood takes away the Pain and Inflammation besides which if the Piles be outward I order them to be often embrocated with my Aqua Phagadenica and fine Rags to be laid upon them wet in the same water but if they be within the Anus then I order the same water to be warmed and

that of Antimony and that of the Electrum Minerale immaturum hath a Power and Vertue more eminent than any of the rest For as the Almighty God in the beginning created all the Stars of one Matter and Substance i. e. of a subtile Fiery light and yet made one more glorious powerful and splendid than another even so hath he done with the Metallick and mineral Sulphurs which he hath also created of one Substance viz. of a gross and earthy thick Fiery light but yet withal hath framed the one more glorious and more vertuous than the other attributing to each its particular Glory which it cannot exceed though prepared and perfected as much as is possible by Art insomuch that no Sulphur can take more Vertue than the Creator hath endowed it with in its first Formation and as you see that one Star exceedeth another in Beauty and Splendour so likewise one Sulphur surpasseth another in its Vertue and Energy of healing Now as you see that among the Stars the most glorious is the Sun which greatly surpasseth all the rest in Light Vertue and Splendour being the Root Source and heart of the Stars whence they all did flow and is as their Father in regard of their Original and their King in respect of its great Pre-eminence in Splendour even so the Metals and Minerals also have their King and Father which surpasseth them all and therefore is by Paracelsus and Helmont called Electrum Minerale immaturum Metallus Primus Metallus Masculus which signifieth the first or the Father of the Metals and so of right may be called the King of the mineral Kingdom in regard that this proceedeth from it even as a Tree springeth from its Root for which reason Helmont sets down this heavenly Tincture in the Front of his Catalogue of the Arcanums of Paracelsus calling it Essentia Membrorum because that nothing doth so compleatly strengthen all the Members as this Royal Tincture when brought unto its perfection From what hath been said we may Collect 1. That Mineral Sulphurs are Subjects endowed by the Almighty with great Vertue in the curing of Diseases 2. That this Vertue is environed and kept from us by a Malignant virulency so that none of them can be of Medicinal use to us without a due Preparation their inward Light and Vertue being guarded by a virulent Poyson like the paradisical Tree of Life by a flaming Sword 3. That this Exotick virulency being removed and the Sulphurs perfected they cure Disseases ad Modum Radii without being diminished either in Substance or Weight but pass through the several Digestions of the Body unaltered in their quantity and unchanged in their Celestial Power and Vertue 4. That those great Powers and Vertues have their Rise from the invisible heavenly Substance of the Sulphurs having their Root nearer to the interior heavenly World than all other visible tangible and corruptible things and therefore nearer to the Divine Goodness as those words of Helmont intimate Adeoque testantur ejusmodi Arcana se infinitae bonitati propinqua c. Now as those prepared Sulphurs act efficiently ad Modum Luminis in Archeum striking at the very Ideas of Diseases so they induce and enable the Archeus or Vital Spirit to perform its own Acts and do Instrumentally warm digest concoct resolve transpire dulcifie c. whence the material cause of Diseases or diseasy Matter in which the Idea acts is gradually altered and separated by the daily taking of these Sulphurs for a due time whence the Palsy Epilepsy Convulsion Consumption Asthma Dropsy Leprosy Gout and other grievous Diseases may be eradicated And to this purpose any of the mineral or metalline Sulphurs may be used provided they are duly prepared for we are not obliged to seek such a Sulphur in Gold nor is there a necessity of using that of the other hard Metals although they well recompence the Labour and Charge of extracting and preparing but our merciful Creator hath been very bountiful in giving us great Variety of Subjects from which this Sulphur may be gotten besides the Metals as Common Sulphur Vitriol Lapis H●matitis Lapis Calaminaris Antimony ●●…nk Native Cinabar Magnesia c. But with this difference that the one excells the other in its degree of Vertue as I have shewed above as also that some of them are Speci●●●dly potent in some Diseases as the Sulphur of Furiol in Epilepsies that of Antimony in Diseas●s of the Paps and Womb as Imposthumations Ulcers Cancers c. in those parts the Sulphur of Mars in the Dropsie and Green sickness the Sulphur of Jupiter in the Asthma and Consumption that of Venus in the Scrophula and Diabetes c. Now these Mineral Sulphurs shew forth their Vertues in healing more or less eminently according to the degree of their Preparation by which they more or less approach their ultimate perfection these Degrees of Preparation I consider under three several Ranks or Classes The first of these contains the Sulphurs separated from their Bodies opened and unlocked Volatile and Inflamable digested corrected and spoyled of their mineral Malignancy and made safe and effectual Remedies for the curing of Diseases whose Dose is small being for those of ripe years but from two to four Grains or six as the highest and pleasant in Operation working for the most part by gentle breathing Sweats or insensible Transpiration never by Vomit unless where Nature is predisposed to that Evacuation by some indigested or offensive Matter in the Ventricle but when Nature hath once made her intended Separation they then cause Vomiting no more In acute Diseases as Fevers Fluxes Plurisies Imposthumations c. they are to be taken a Grain or two every three or four hours in a spoonful of a suitable Vehicle so long till the Disease is overcome and signs of Recovery appear and then once or twice a day till perfect Restoration In Chronick Distempers two Grains in the Morning fasting and three or four Grains at Night going to Bed in a Glass of Canary or Sherry but that which is elicited from the Common Sulphur being less active than the rest may be taken from six to twelve Grains This appearance of the Sulphurs is in the form of a subtile tinging Powder and thus prepared I constantly keep by me the Sulphur of Venus Mars and Antimony and purpose to do the like by those of Vitriol Zink and native Cinabar having at divers times heretofore prepared them all by the help of the same Alcahestick Menstruum I call the Menstruum Alcahestick because in many things it agrees with the Alcahest of Paracelsus and Helmont but not in all the Properties which are attributed to that wherefore I do not believe it to be the same but in separating the Sulphurs from Minerals and Metals and correcting their virulency it is equal to that and to me much better who am a Possessor of this but pretend not to that This I thought necessary to mention in this place to save

my self and others the trouble of curious Questions The second Rank or Order of these Sulphurs is the Preparation of the first Order Philosophically dissolved and brought over the Helm in the form of an highly tinged red Oyl or Tincture which is dissolvable in Wine and other Liquors but may be most commodiously taken upon the point of a Knife mixed with a little fine Sugar The Dose is from 10 to 20 Drops In this form it is more penetrant and its light much more diffusive than in the former and therefore much more prevalent in the Cure of Chronick and fixt Diseases as the Epilepsy Palsy Asthma Ptisick Dropsie Gout Rhumatism and other pertinacious Diseases of the Genus-Nervosum and Viscera N. B. That when the Sulphurs are brought to this form Basilius calls them Animae Metallorum and Helmont their Elementum Ignis And thus far my Experience hath reached in the Preparation of these Sulphurs and in this form also I intend God willing to prepare them and keep them by me for the Assistance of such Physicians as are minded to use them And here I cannot pass by somewhat worthy of Note which I have lately observed of the red Oyl or Anima of Venus which is that a little of it mixed with some other convenient matter and rubbed upon Rhumatick and other pains hath given present ease and in two or three days hath quite removed them and I am in great hopes that it will give ease in the dolorous Gout to such a Degree that the Patient may constantly persist in the use of such inward Remedies as may remove the cause of which sort are the Sulphurs of which I am Discoursing But of this I have not yet had an opportunity to be made certain by Tryal The third Order or Degree is when the red Oyl or Anima of the second Degree is brought to a State of Incombustibility and Fixity and then it is and not till then that they have attained those Superlative Vertues in healing which Helmont attributes to them yet the lowest of those Orders is not without its eminent Vertues compared with ordinary Medicines in curing Diseases But the bringing the Sulphurs or any of them to this fixed and permanent State which is their ultimate perfection I do not pretend to have done for it requires more time and perhaps more Art than I am furnished with to handle them neither do I profess to prepare the Sulphur Electri Mineralis immaturi sive Metalli Masculi concerning which Subject Men that have ventured to name it I find have greatly differed But among my Preparations of mineral Sulphurs I content my self by way of Eminency or Preference with my Astrum Minerale whose Dose is from three to six Grains in the first form above-mentioned and from ten to twenty Drops in the second form But as that is the most eminent in Vertue of the Sulphurs which I prepare so it also is the dearest being to be made but in small quantities with much labour and time but my Species Universalis having all the Properties of the mineral Sulphurs may serve Instar omnium where they cannot be had the difference being only in the Dose which is much larger than that of the Sulphurs and the Vertue somewhat less potent as being more extended Also my Tinctura Metallica being a Solution of the more subtile parts of Metallick Sulphurs in Spirit of Wine may be used in Diseases of the Nerves and all others arising from Congelation instead of the Animae Metallorum of the second form and is a very pleasant and efficacious Medicine the Vertues and Uses of which together with the Species Universalis are describ'd at large in the Appendix to my Catalogue of Medicines Printed Anno 1684 to which I refer the Reader which Directions may also indifferently serve for the use of the mineral Sulphurs either in the form of Powder or Drops by observing their Doses above set down and varying them in proportion with the Species and Tincture But if it shall please God to grant me Life and prosper my Labours and Studies I hope I may hereafter be able to give such an Account of some of the higher Arcana in Medicine as may be profitable to the Miseries of the Sick and afford some satisfaction to well-minded Physicians I think it here convenient to advertise that in Chronick Diseases where the mineral Sulphurs are to be used if the first passages of the Body be well cleansed by the Sal Solutivum and the Obstructions of the Viscera and Vessels opened the Sulphurs will much more readily display their Vertues and the time of the Cure will be shortened I have spent many years in the search of a safe pleasant and effectual Preparation of the vulgar Mercury that might like the Arcanum Corallinum or Mercurius Diaphoretcus of Paracelsus and Helmont cure the Pox Cancer Noli me tangere c. and although among the many Tryals I have made I have obtained somewhat which hath done things notable yet it hath not compleatly answered the End of my Enquiries But I have at length found out a mercurial Medicine which I hope will fully answer my longing Expectation It is sweet in Taste and fixed although not with a compleat Fixity so as to abide a very strong Fire for I have sometime pleased my self with such a fixed Mercury as would abide the Fire of a Coppel in form of a Powder but I could observe but little effect it had in Physick This of which I am now speaking operates very gently sometimes by Stools and sometimes by Sweats and according to the Tryals I have yet had of it doth neither Vomit nor Salivate as to its particular Vertues Dose and manner of administring if it shall after reiterated Experiments compleat my Desires I shall publish an Account thereof together with my Balsamum Veneris Anodynum above-mentioned which is also now under Probation And in order to this I make it my request to such ingenious Physicians as love the Propagation and Improvement of Medicine that they would give those two Medicines a fair Tryal and make such report thereof to me as they shall be found to merit by which means I shall be able to furnish the said Account much sooner and better than my own single Observations will enable me to do But I shall here say no more of them lest I fall under the same repfoof with him who Sold the Bears skin before he had killed the Bear My Arcanum Universale Pillula Balsamica Manna Mercurit c. being sometimes mentioned in this Book they who desire to be further informed of the Vertues and Uses of those and other of my Medicines may have recourse to a small Physical Treatise published by me some years since called Praxis Catholica where they may find satisfaction which Book is to be sold by Mr. J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry The price of Sal Solutivum is one Shilling the Ounce of the Sulphurs in form of Powder Five Shillings a Dram in form of Tincture Ten Shillings an Ounce The Species Universalis Six Shillings an Ounce The Tinctura Metallica Five Shillings the Ounce with an Allowance to Physicians who use them in quantities I am sorry I had not time to enlarge somewhat more concerning Mineral Sulphurs but my daily Avocations being many and the Press now staying I must here make THE END From my House next Door to Gun Ally in Little-Moore Fields 4th May. 1693. Advertisement ALL Glaubers Works in a large Folio containing Variety of Secrets in Physick and Chymistry sundry ways of trying Metallick Oars working in Mines separating Metals making Salt-Petre inriching barren Land and improving the Fruits of the Earth translated out of Latin and High Dutch by the Author of this Book are to be Sold by the said Author and by D. Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry