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A88936	Riddles mervels and rarities: or, A new way of health, from an old man's experience, &c. Being his kind legacy, to his fellow creatures: or, the physician, and no physician, prescribing physick, and no physick; shewing plain, easie, and cheap ways, how every man may become his own physician, his own apothecary, and his own chyrurgeon, with little or no trouble, but far less cost. Whereby sickness may certainly be prevented to the well; health, as certainly procur'd to the sick; and man's life comfortably preserv'd, to a good old age.... Divided into 2 parts, by two universal medicines; the one physical, the other natural; the first the worst, the second the best. Also a short discourse concerning the phylosopher's stone, ... With several other choice observations of profitable use, as may be seen in the table here annext.	Mace, Thomas, d. 1709?	1698 (1698)	Wing M121A; ESTC R229881	30,352	40

Art which they give And when I had done I began to Examine the Figure by Those Rules in each particular The first Thing I did was to see whether the Child was likely to Live or no. But to be short all the Rules for Life were absolutely against the Child yea very Dismally Sad insomuch That if their Rules were True the Child could not Live long Whereupon I was very much Amus'd because of the Relation my She Friend gave me of the Hopefulness of the Contrary c. So that I began to Suspect my own Vnskillfulness in the setting of the Figure being it was my First attempt in That Kind So I went into my Study and Examin'd my Figure Over and Over again to try where the Fault lay for I thought it lay in my Figure I set but when I had wearied my self sufficiently in so doing and could find no Fault in setting the Figure I was Confirm'd that That Child could not live long And so I came forth and shew'd my two Loving Friends what I had done c. and gave my Judgment accordingly but They Smil'd at it in an ordinary Slighting way c. and so it rested a while Then after Dinner I went and set the Figure of the Mother of That Child because I had a great mind upon such certain Radical Terms as then I had concerning the Punctuallity of the Time c. to see what was likely to become of the Mother as well as of the Child and in short I found the Mother as Desperately in Danger of Death as the Child according to the Rules the Learned in That Science have left upon Record Whereupon I came forth again to my two Antagonists and told them what I had found concerning the Mother as aforesaid but they Laught on as before c. so then we were to wait to see the Issue what would follow hereupon which in short was Thus viz. That within a Week or ten Days Both Child and Mother were Dead The Issue of the whole story whereupon my two Friends were forc'd to put on another kind of Countenance I told them I was no Witch but a meer Young Novice in That Art and what I had Predicted was not my Own but what I found Recorded from known Experience and from the Rules of Art which are That if Such and Such Positions of The Stars and Planets were So and So in any Nativity at the Hour or Moment of Birth Such and Such Consequences would undoubtedly Follow either for Good or for Bad c. the which most exactly came to pass with This Mother and Her Child This is as true a Story as ever was Told and was so convincing to me at that Time as also by divers Trials since Then as that I have been Confirm'd of the Verity of That Wonderful Admired Art and if all the Pretended Artists were as Knowing and as Innocently Honest and True as the Art it self is Real and Infallible it would have more Fidelians by Multitudes than at present it has But enough of this Some Plain and Easie Rules to instruct all such who would either Give or take Physick so as that they may know from the Rules of That Art how to chuse a Fit and Proper Season so that the Physick may Work more Effectually and Kindly with the Patient than otherwise it would do If given at an Unseasonable Time THE first thing to be known is The Seven Planets and their Order which is Thus viz. The First Planet and the Highest is Saturn Markt thus ♄ The Second Is Jupiter ♃ The Third Is Mars ♂ The Forth Is Sol or the Sun ☉ The Fifth Is Venus ♀ The Sixth Is Mercury ☿ The Seventh and Lowest is Luna ☽ The Second Thing to be known is THat these seven Planets Refer to the seven Days of the Week viz. Thus Saturn Refers to Saturday Jupiter to Thursday Mars to Tuesday Sol to Sunday Venus to Fryday Mercury to Wednesday and Luna to Monday These two Rules must be got readily by Heart The Third Thing to be known is THat every Planet Rules the first Hour of his own Day viz. The first Hour after Sun Rise The next Planet in Order after him Rules the next Hour after that viz. The second Hour after Sun Rises And so every Planet takes his Hour Orderly the One after the Other till the first seven Hours are run out and then the first Planet again takes the Eight Hour the second Planet the Ninth Hour the third Planet the Tenth Hour the forth Planet the Eleventh Hour and the fifth Planet the Twelfth Hour viz. to Sun-set And thus are the Twelve Hours of the Day provided with different and Proper Planets to Rule Them And now for the Hours of the Night THey keep the same Order only you are to Remember where you last left off and let the next Planet to That rule the first Hour from Sun-set and so carry them in the same Order through the 12 Hours of the Night till Sun-rise again and by That Rule you 'l find the Proper Planet for the next day will come in to take his proper Hour at Sun-rise One thorough Example will make all very Plain A plain Example for Saturday therefore I 'll set down one for the 24 Hours of Saturday till Sun-rise on Sunday as follows Saturn Rules the first Hour from Sun-rise on Saturday viz. Note Well from 6 till 7 a-Clock that is if the Sun do not Rise before or after 6 which is about the 10th of March or September Then from 7 to 8 a Clock Jupiter Rules from 8 to 9 Mars from 9 to 10 Sol ●●●es from 10 to 11 Venus Rules from 11 to 12 Mercury Rules and from 12 to One a Clock Luna Rules Now Note From One to Two Saturn comes in again and Rules which is the 8th Hour from Sun-rise Then from 2 to 3 a-Clock Jupiter Rules from 2 to 4 Mars Rules from 4 to 5 Sol Rules and then from 5 to Sun-set Venus Rules thus the 12 Hours of the Day are run out Now for the Night from 6 a-Clock to 7 Mercury Rules from 7 to 8 Luna Rules from 8 to 9 Saturn from 9 to 10 Jupiter from 10 to 11 Mars from 11 to 12 Sol from 12 to 1 Venus from 1 to 2 Mercury from 2 to 3 Luna from 3 to 4 Saturn from 4 to 5 Jupiter from 5 to 6 Mars now from 6 to 7 Sol and here you see Sol Rules the first Hour on Sunday as Saturn did on Saturday Practice thus your self with all the other Days and you 'l find it very Easie A Rule to know the length of a Planetary Hour every 10 Days for every Month in the Year THe first 10 Days in January 40 Minutes the second 10 Days 43 Minutes the last 10 Days 46 Minutes The first 10 Days in February 48 Minutes the second 10 Days 51 Minutes the last 54 Minutes The first 10 Days in March 58 Minutes the second 10

Days 60 Minutes or an Hour the last 1 Hour 5 Minutes The first 10 Days in April 1 Hour 10 Minutes the second 10 Days 1 Hour 13 Minutes the last 1 Hour 16 Minutes The first 10 Days in May 1 Hour 19 Minutes the second 10 Days 1 Hour 22 Minutes the last 1 Hour 23 Minutes The first 10 Days in June 1 Hour 24 Minutes the second 10 Days 1 Hour 24 Minutes the last 1 Hour 23 Minutes And now as the Days begin to shorten Now begin to shorten them Backwards to January so you must shorten the Hours proportionably Backwards by Minutes as you lengthned them by Minutes and by this Rule you may assure your self of the just length of a Planetary Hour for any day in the Year I need say no more as to This. This following Easie and Short Way I drew out at the Request of a Friend who was not willing to take the Pains of Observing all the Exactnesses of Those former Rules and it may serve Tollerably well with much more Ease than the Former THere are six Hours every day in the Year which may be good to take Physick in viz. Three in the Morning and Three in the Afterhoon And when the Days and Nights are at an Equal Length Then Thus First On Sunday The first 3 Hours begin from an Hour after Sun Rise the second 3 from about 2 a Clock Afternoon Secondly On Monday The first 3 Hours begin from 2 Hours before Sun Rise the second 3 from about 11 till 2 Afternoon Thirdly On Tuesday The first 3 begin from 2 Hours after Sun Rise till about 11 a-Clock the second 3 from about 3 till 6. Forthly On Wednesday The first 3 from the Hour before Sun Rise till 2 Hours after the third 3 from about 12 till 3. Fifthly On Thursday The first 3 from about 9 in the Morning till about 12 and from about 4 Afternoon till about 7. Sixthly On Fryday The first 3 from Sun Rise till about 9 a-Clock and from 1 Afternoon till about 4. Seventhly On Saturday The first 3 from about 10 in the Morning till 1 and from about 5 Afternoon till about 8. This Rule will hold Exactly True when the Days and Nights are of an Equal Length as in March and September But as the Days Lengthen or Shorten so must your Planitary Hours Lengthen or Shorten Therefore to be very Exact you must always Divide the Time betwixt Sun-Rise and Sun-Setting into 12 Equal Parts and every Part is a Planitary Hour be it more or less But if That be too Troublesome for you let it suffice that you Observe only the abovesaid Rule and because you have three Hours Good ever coming together you cannot miss of a Tollerable Good Time but to be sure you will Miss the Evil Time and That is a Great Benefit I could have been more at Large but because you do not desire to Trouble your Self in such Curiousness This may be of Good Vse unto You From Your Loving Friend T. M. The Use of a Planetary Hour in Physick c. THe Right use is To chuse such an Hour to take a Vomit or a Purge in so as that the Physick may Work kindly with the Patient and Effectually c. And it has been Observ'd by the Learn'd That if Physick be given in the Hour of Saturn or Mars it will work very Roughly and Painfully with the Patient those two Planets being counted In-Fortunes and in Physick their Hours always to be Refus'd Now there are 2 Planets of a different Nature to Saturn and Mars which generally are esteem'd Good viz. Venus and Luna whose Hours are to be chosen they being Active Cool Gentle and Moist Planets and do cause the Humours in the Body to be more Flued and Active so that they come away more Freely and with less Violence Therefore when you take Physick always observe to take it in one of the Hours of Venus or Luna Mercury may do well sometimes either of which will afford you its Hour once in seven either in Morning or in Afternoon as you may perceive by Those former Rules Therefore be careful to Understand them well and then you will find both a Great Benefit and Content in so doing and as well in other matters as in Physick as occasion may fall out The Wise Man tells us Ecclesiastes 3. v. 1 2 3 4 5. c. There is a Time for All Things under the Sun An Advertisement for the Satisfaction of those who may think this is Odd or Strange that Musick is here join'd with Physick in this Work READER I Am not Ignorant How That through Ignorance or Worse viz. Envy c. This Work of Mine Especially This Latter Part or Conclusion by Musick lies liable to the Rash Censures of several sorts of Short-sighted People which may Meet it And methinks I See and Hear some of them Frumpingly Laugh and say What! Conclude a Serious Physical Book with a Song This is a Piece of Strange Impertinency c. Or Nothing to the Purpose as to Matter in Hand c. Therefore to Rectifie the mistake of all such I will here inform them of such their Gross Ignorance in That Particular and let them Plainly See the Great Affinity and Likeness that is betwixt Physick and Musick they both being Properly and Suitably alike as to the Health and Well-being of the Man both in Body and Mind both which make the Compleat Man for as the Body without the Mind is No Man but a Dead Lump only so the Mind without the Body is No Man but a living Spirit only So that as Physick is Properly Adapted for the Groser and Lower part of Man the Body so likewise is Musick as properly design'd for the Purer and more sublime Part of Man the Mind therefore it may be Properly said that Physick is Musick and Musick is Physick The which may run in a Handsome Proverb Thus viz. As Physick is Musick to the Body me find So Musick is Physick to a Sick Temper'd Mind The Proof of This will be clearly Manifest both from Scripture and from History I 'll here Instance in Two Uncontroublable Great Examples The One from Scripture viz. David's Curing Saul's Distemper'd Sick-Mind by Musick Only The Other from Unquestionable History viz. Concerning The Strange Disease of The Terrantula which all Learn'd Physicians know is a Poison of a certain little Creature coming from its Teeth or Sting like That of a Wasp c. so that whosoever receives That Poison soon after falls into a Violent Fit of Distracted Madness no Cure could ever be found out for it But Musick only and That Perfectly Cures them Now these being such Realities and Uncontroulable Truths What will my Inconsiderate Frumper say or do for himself for Laughing c. at he knows not What I 'll tell Him what he shall do and by Doing it It may possibly chance to Do him Good My Advice therefore is This viz. Let Him go Learn to Construe

as Long as you Live putting still a New supply of the same Liquor when at any time you draw off any from the Powder the Powder still remaining in the Bottle And here 't is well worth your Notice Viz That tho' the Liquor will be sufficiently Tynctur'd fit for use in 24 Hours ☞ Yet if ou let it lie upon the Powder 24 Days Months or Years or I believe never so long it will be but always fit for use For no Liquor can Receive more Tyrcture than its Body or Capacity is able to contain And which more is the Powder it self will Never wast in its Substance nor its Virtues although it lye never so Lo●g in Liquors to Feed them with Virtues These are Great and High Things and not Easie to be Believ'd however you 'll find all True for Experience has Confirm'd them And when You find them thus as I my self with Many worthy Persons in this Nation have done let them not only be the cause of your Wonder and Admiration but also to Magnify and Adore The Infinite Vnconceivable God The Good the Vnsearchable cause of Causes whose works are all Mysterie and full of Wonder But This one Thing which I here discourse of and thus kindly Publish for a General Good is One of the most admired Wonders in its kind that can be produc'd The Load-Stone is a Great Mystery in its Magnetick Property but This may be said to be more Great in that it has so General a Physical Excelling Property as well as Magneticall For its Virtues are Perpetual by being Magneticall And if you do or can believe the strange Virtues or Property of the Load-Stone It will be a means to help you the more Easily to the Belief of what I Here declare concerning these seeming strange and incredible things The last of which I shall now dispatch in few words That is if it be remember'd what I have already said concerning the four former Particulars Fifth with less C●st it is already made out For if it have Virtue to doe all those Things which I have affirmed it can and will do and These Perpetually as it will most certainly do what Thing is there that can be nam'd of Greater Value or ought to be more Highly Esteem'd of than This Thing So that let it cost what it will 't is the Cheapest thing upon Earth For when you have but Once Purchast it The reason why it is the Cheapest thing upon Earth you need never be at a Penny-worth of Physical cost more so long as you live yea you may when you Dye leave it as a Precious Legacy to your best Friend And He again may do the like and so from Generation to Generation c. And now I think the whole Title Page is made Plain even to the weakest Capacity However yet further to Highten your Admiration and wonder you are to know That 't is found by continual Experience that this Powder is Magneticall continually drawing Inn the Influentiall Virtues of the Heav'ns so fast as it gives forth Load-Stone like as I said by which Faculty it becomes a Perpetual Medicine How it comes to be a Perpetuall Medicice by never wanting Virtue And if this you find to be True as sure enough you will if you ever be so Happy as to make Tryal of it you then will surely say with me 'T is the only Thing in its Kind not only of the Greatest Value but of the least cost of any Thing known in the whole World The Author's Intention by this WORK IS This Viz to Accommodate the Meaner sort of Men The Authors Intention by this Work but more especially the Poorest of all who stand most in Need of Help and Comfort in their Sicknesses seeing no Great and Skillfull-Physicians will so much as look after Them or scarce think of their Miseries so that many Thousands live in Misery Languish and Dye for want of That which every ordinary House keeper might Easily Purchase and not only have the Benefit of it for himself and his whole Family during his Life in all common Sicknesses and Diseases but might also be assisting to all his Poor Sick Neighbours round Him And not give away the Value of a Quarter of a Farthing at any One Time to any Poor body towards the Removing of an Ague Fever Small-Pox c. Yea the High High French Pox Leprosie or even the Plague it self all which I my self can manifest that This Rare Cheap Thing has Cur'd as shall be made out in the following Discourse And this is the first of my two Vniversal Medicines mentioned in the Title Page where I say the first the Worst The meaning of which saying is that 't is worse to procure Health by Physicall-Means than by Naturall Means if possibly it may be so gain'd Note when Physick should be taken and when not For Physick is a meer Sickness in it self and should never be taken but upon Absolute Necessity and very Cautiously then too for there is no Physick Vomitive Purgative or Applicative but has Poyson in it which is the only cause of its Opperative Qualities therefore due regard ought to be had what sort of Physick People put into their Bodies But This Physick which I Here Publish has no Body but a pure Tincture This Physick has no Body which although it has the Opperative Power to stir and bring away the Poysonous Humors in Mens Bodies yet it having no Body can leave no Malignity or Danger behind it as too often is known from the common ordinary Potions which are given to Sick People and which oftentimes provs more Dangerous than their Diseases Now I would have you take Good Notice that what I have said thus far is chiefly in Reference to those who are Passively Sick To whom only it is to be given and labour under Pains and Grief c. And unto such I intend only the Benefit and commend the Excellency of This High Excelling Vertue But for all such as be actually Well and in good Health I do commend my Second Universal Medicine to be The Best mention'd in the Title-Page Viz The Best because 't is Naturall Yet they Both may well be call'd the Best according as they may and must be us'd by all who Truly regard their Health which is Their Richest Earthly Treasure I will now give you a little short Discourse concerning the Phylosophers-Stone and then tell you a few Remarkable Stories concerning the Excellency of This First Universal Medicine in certain Eminent Cures which it hath done even to Wonder and Admiration Concerning The Phylosophers-Stone Which has been long said to Turn all Things into Gold and what may probably be the Real Meaning Thereof for we can see No such Thing MVch Talk has been of The Philosophers-Stone From Ages past That by its livge alone 'T would turn Inferiour Metals into Gold A Glorious Worder sure if True but Hold Where is' t Who has 't we

she had us'd all the helps as she thought convenient at London but nothing did her Good until she had made trial of this prevailing Medicine which I here speak of She took it but five times and she began first with three spoonfuls and every other day increas'd a spoonful till she had taken seven spoonfuls and Then she was perfectly Cur'd of all being clearly free'd from the Yellow Jaundice and from all her other Grievances as also restor'd to her Monthly Visits The want of which proceeding from her foul Stomach was the cause of all her Ills. This Story is easie enough to be prov'd or disprov'd Run or Ride that will Of a Girl brought to Life after she was laid out to be Stript THIS Gentleman having been one of my Old Acquaintance in Cambridge This Forth Story was sent me in a Letter from Mr. Samuel Taylor Chaplain to Sir Roger Langley of Cherry-Hutton 7 or 8 Miles beyond York and Minister of the same Town also who likewise was a Physician to his Neighbourbood c. meeting me at York and hearing that I had This Great Rarity prevail'd with me for some of it But he having entred into a former formal way of Practice laid this of mine aside for some Years not at all making use of it till once upon a very Dangerous Case when he had given a Girl about Ten Years of Age some certain Physicks which did not work at all but lay in the Body of the Girl to her great Oppression and his great Fear so that he knew not what to do further till at last he bethought himself of My Powder And according to such Direction● as I had given him he venter'd to give the Girl a Dose of it which after some little time the Child began to be extream Sick and Died away and continued so long till the Women thought convenient to stript it and to That purpose laid it forth upon a Table and began to turn it over and over in the way of Stripping But in That Action the Girl began to make some Motion and soon after to Boaken upon which they taking Her up and assisting what they could the Child began to Vomit and so continued till she had brought up all her former Load of Physich and her Disease along with it and from That time she Amended and Recovered her perfect Health and grew found again This Story I have still under the Ministers own Hand Writing which was in the Year 1670. Now what is chiefly worth Noteing in this Story is That Nature 〈◊〉 so extreamly over loaden by the Disease and the former Physick that the 〈◊〉 was not able to bear up against it and fell into Languishment But then 〈◊〉 this Powerful Vertue was added to the Former it must needs either 〈◊〉 dainly Destroy Life or set it at Liberty the First of which as you have heard Happened And if this be not an Eminent and a most Remarkable Story I would fain hear one by any that are thus Imploid I have told it with Particulars enough and Circumstances more than sufficient insomuch That it may easily be Prov'd or Disprov'd if any be so minded I am no Mountebank nor will I otherwise Trouble my self to make People Believe their Vnbelief will be their own Loss and not Mine Of a deep Consumption by twice taking this Vertue was Cured THere was a Person in the City of Norwich The Fifth Story a meer stranger to me nor do I remember that ever I heard his Name he was a Master Work-man of Stuffs and kept many Men at work in that Trade he was a Friend of a near Kinsmans of mine there who desir'd me to walk down and see him so we went to his House The Man was Bed-rid and wasted to Skin and Bone with a deep Consumption and so very weak grown that all about him thought he could not live I asked his Wife if he could sit up She answered No my reply was That then he must Die yet I told her That Life was sweet And if they could raise him up by strength of Arms and set him in a Great Chair which I saw there standing by and Boulster him up with Pillows and hold him so for an Hour or two it might be worth your Labour and I would send him two or three spoonfuls of something to take which was this Liquor All this was done and he took the Liquor and it wrought so effectually upon Him and his Disease that he grew finely Cheerful after it had done working That Day and sat up two or three Hours after it The next day but one he took it again in a greater Quantity which wrought so Effectually bringing off from his Stomach such a boundance of Foul Humours which were the only Cause that no Meats or Drinks could nourish him that from That second Taking he was so Reviv'd and Refresh'd that he ran about the House among his Work-folks as if he had not been Sick at all only he look'd like a Starveling as Lean as a Rake as the Proverb goes So that he perfectly recovered out of his Consumption from That very time I would fain have perswaded him to have taken it once or twice more to have confirm'd him in his Health but could not He telling me he was Very well Very well c. This is as true a Story as was the former and very Notable sure Of a soar Breast IN the same City of Norwich The Sixth Story there was a Servant Maid unto Mr. Cook one of the Sheriffs of the City living in Cunsford street There were two Brothers at That time of the same Name both Sheriffs of That City this Mr. Cook was the younger Brother but the Senior Sheriff and as I am inform'd was Mayor there the last Year or the Year before This Maid had been long afflicted with a Soar Breast and often heal'd by Chyrurgeons but still broak out again which continu'd thus many Years It was my Chance to be there and seeing it I did advise Her to make use of This Thing the which I left with her with Directions how to use it and not long after I received a Letter that this Malds Breast was perfectly Cur'd and stood Sound Her Mistress Mrs. Cook sent me a very civil piece of Thankfulness for it afterwards This is a true Story and may easily be Prov'd c. Of Madness Cur'd very Remarkable THis Story shall be of a Mad-Woman The Seventh Story at a place call'd Wath in Yorkshire four or five Miles from Rotherham who threw her self into a Deep Well of Water and very heardly was got out Alive I being by chance at that Town hearing of it went down the Town to see this sad Sight and found the Woman fastned to her Bed-Post with a great Horse-Chaine and her Husband with others sorrowfully standing by The Woman looking Frightfully and Sullenly upon us all So after a little Discourse upon the occasion I ask'd her Husband if