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A94253	Zoologia: or, The history of animals as they are useful in physick and chirurgery. Divided into four parts; the [brace] first treateth of the more perfect terrestrial creatures. Second third fourth of birds. fishes. insects. / By John Schroder, Dr. of physick.	Schröder, Johann, 1600-1664.	1659 (1659)	Wing S899; Thomason E1759_1; ESTC R209749	73,896	177

Alexipharmacal and very much resisteth rottenness it is also commended for the diseases of the breast the Asthma Consumption c. N. The remaining feces are very Anodyne 2. The Tincture or Elixir of Mumy Croll It is made of the Mumy of the more modern with the spirit of Wine or spirir of Elder N. Of this Crollius makes Treacle of Mumy which takes of the tincture of Mumy half a pound Treacle of Andromach 4 ounces oyl Olive mumiated 2 ounces salt of Corall and Pearl of each 2 drams sealed earth 2 ounces Musk one dram digest them a moneth The vertues It is commended against all poysons and infections it preserves from the Plague taken the quantity of a scruple and cures it taken the quantity of a dram or a dram and half N. In poysons it may be given with oyl of sweet Almonds to provoke vomit 3. The Tincture Alcolisated or Elixir of Mumy Take Mumy mans flesh dryed cut into thin slices powre upon it the spirit of Turpentine and set it in an Hermetical vessell close stopt for a moneth to putrefie Poure some spirit of Wine rectified upon the expression received in beasts bladders Put it in a blind Alembeck upon a gourd the joynts very well fenced so that the gourd being set into cold water the sand and coals about the Alembeck may do their office with a gentle heat by the benefit whereof the liquor or Quintessence in a very subtle manner with the spirit of Wine fals through the bladder The remaining matter is to be reverberated and by sublimation to be brought into salt and at length to be united with the Quintessence by the means of circulation after it be separated from the spririt of Wine by B. M. which being finished the Quintessence of the Mumy may further be digested with the treacle and the musk and so kept in the form of an Elixir The vertues It is a present Remedy both of the plague as also of other venomous medicines or things N. There is a report of a tincture of Mumy of its four elements separated from themselves by course and again joyned together which who desires to see may in Tetzel in Med. Diastat 4. Another tincture or secret of Mans flesh 1. The rectified spirit of Wine is powred upon Mans flesh for four dayes the spirit of Wine being decanted the same is again moistned 2. The spirit of Salt at severall times that it may drink up a great quantity thereof then dry it thou hast the flesh seasoned very profitable 3. From this extract the Tincture with Spirit of Wine brought by the force of digestion to the highest fragrancy Defecate it by circulation extract the Salt from the feces calcined and that being cleared mingle it with the tincture and extract it 5. Oyl Olive mumiated Take Mumy first prepared or hardned cut it into pieces and digest it with Oyl Olive in an Hermetical vessell close shut for a moneth Then powre it into a glasse gourd and let the Mercury exhale in B. M. untill no stench come forth and all the Mumy be dissolved Digest the solution 20 dayes with spirit of Wine afterward abstract the same and there remains a red and odoriferous oyl N. Quercetan takes fresh Mumy The vertues It hath all the vertues and properties of naturall Balsom it is good in venomous and pestilent affects 6. An Oyl exalted Oyl after the said manner prepared may be further exalted if it be digested with spirit of Wine and the spirit of Wine again abstracted and so repeated 3 or 4 times The vertues This tincture or exalted Oyl of Mumy is said to excell with such a reviving faculty that there is not a past which it pierceth not no Ulcer no corruption which it cures not if you give thereof dayly twise for some continuance of time 4 or 5 grains with a convenient decoction N. Libavius to the fresh flesh cut into pieces addes a little salt and spirit of Turpentine infuses it in a close vessell strains it and suffers the stink to exhale the vessell being open afterward he distils it by a Retort or a straight Alembick and adding musk and spirit of Wine he digesteth it 7. The divine water Take a whole carkasse with the bone flesh bowels of one kild by a violent death let it be cut into pieces very small and all the parts of the body so pounded that nothing remain unmixed then distill it two times The vertues Some extoll this divine Water for its Magnetick vertue As thus They mingle some drops of bloud 3 or 9 drawn from some patient with a part a dram of the said water and they set it to the fire if the bloud and water be mixed together they promise health within a short space 24 hours but if they shall remain unmixt they affirm death to follow shortly For want of the bloud they proceed in the same manner with the excrements urine ordure sweat corrupted matter or the like which yet they use in a greater Dose II. The skin is commended in hard labour and diseases Hystericall if the belly be bound therewith in the withering and contraction of the joynts if gloves be made thereof and worn III. The fat or grease corroborates discusses asswages pains removes shrinkings mitigates the hardnesse of skars fils the pits left after Smal-pox Preparat A Liniment mingle the grease with spirit of Vitrioll whence is left a certain clammy substance The vertues It is piercing and is used in Blastings IV. Mans bones do dry discusse binde stay all fluxes and are profitable in Catarrhes flowing of the Menstrues Dysentery Lientery Moreover they mitigate the aches of the joynts N. 1. It is usuall to mix them with purging medicines N. 2. The teeth pluckt out of the jaw of one dead are used and commended against diseases by Witchcraft in fume and to pull out worm-eaten teeth if they be often touched therewith Preparat 1. The powder or ashes made after the common manner by calcination in a Potters furnace 2. The bones prepared are made after the common manner by making them smooth with a convenient water 3. The Magistery may be made after the common manner 4. The Oyl is made by Distillation in a Retort The Vertues It discusses it is anodyne and therefore an excellent medicine against the Gowt V. The marrow of the bones is chiefly commended against the shrinking of members VI. The skull is found to prevail against the diseases of the head and namely the Epilepsie whence it is that it entreth many Antepilepticall compositions The triangular bone of the temples is very much commended as a specificall Remedy against the Epilepsie Preparat 1. The skull calcined is made after the common manner in Potters furnace 2. The skull prepared is made of the calcined with an Antepileptick water as of water of the Linden tree 3. The Magistery of the skull is made after the common manner dissolving it in some acid spirit as of Vitrioll and precipitating it The Dose a

forth a water of no great vertue unless that being more fully wrought it is used of some to extract the Salt let the rest be driven out b● a Retort in ashes the joynts well closed Let that which is distilled be poured again upon the feces and cohobation be made nine times that a red colour may follow N. In distilling observe that thou burn not the feces with too much fire and bring them to a coal and therefore thou must only distil them to drynesse The vertues It is accounted of very great force to refresh the sick 4. An Antipodagrical Balsome or Oyl of Mans bloud Alcasitated It is made after the same manner Take mans bloud while it is hot one measure putrefie it 9 days then distil it out of sand by degrees first with an easie fire then with a stronger by a Retort and there shall come forth a red Oyl and stinking the Volatile Salt sticking to the joynts of the neck Rectifie the Oyl by the Colcothar out of a Cucurbit with the heat of sand distilling it often from the fresh Colcothar at length dissolve the Salt in this corrected Oyl and keep it for use The vertues It is of wonderful force in the Gout anoynted twice or thrice a day for six days together It appeaseth the pain the tumor and rednesse vanishing away N. Of like vertue is the Balsom drawn from the bloud of Goats and Harts in which it is requisite to add the bowels viz. the lights heart and liver 5. An Antepileptick spirit Take the spirit of mans bloud dephlegmated and rectified three times two pounds Infusion of Lavender flowers in Wine two pounds mingle and distill t●em in B. M. to the half repeat it thrice then add Spirit of Wine rectified two ounces and keep it for use The vertu●s It cures the Apoplexy Palsie Asthma c. N. Beguïnus hath other preparations of Mans bloud which may be seen in the Author 6. An Alexiterian Mummy of life Is the bloud of a lusty and healthful man dryed with a gentle fire impregnated with the Spirit of Limons and Spirit of Vitriol and with a little myrrh made into Trochisces The vertues It is very efficacious in curing Carbuncles The Dose half a dram in water of Cinamon drunk in the morning fasting 7. The Arcanum of mans bloud see it in Faber his Myrothec the 8 chapter Bylnick of the nature of Spagyr n. 66. XIII The stone dissolves Tartar viz. the stone in all parts and causes it to be driven out and therefore it helps all obstructions The Dose of the powder one dram Preparat 1. A Crystalline salt Take the stone very well calcined that the hardnesse be softned boyl it in water and it will be dissolved into a certain coloured water Then the filtrature being evaporated there remains the salt in the bottom which calcine again if you please and dissolve it in boyling water coagulate it and set it to Crystallize N. The calcination may be ordered diversly some calcine it with Niter 6 hours some with Sulphur and Niter others with twise as much of beechen coals Sennertus calcines the stone powdered with a circular fire then reverberatory and at length with beechen coals in a potters furnace Instit lib. 5. p. 3 s 3. cap. 5. 2. Oyl or liquor It is made if the Salt be dissolved in the moist air The Dose from 6 grains to 10. N. Sennertus calcines it with Niter then extracts the Salt with Spirit of Wine and the Spirit of Wine being separated he sets the Salt to melt 3. The Essence or Elixir Take the Salt of the stone crystallized volatize it with Spirit of Wine then abstract with a gentle heat the Spirit of Wine and the Oyl remains The Dose from 5 grains to 10. XIV The Membrane which covers the head of some children is said to have very great vertue against the pain of the Colick Of a Carcasse or Dead Man I. The whole carkasse or flesh in shops comes under the name of Mumy This dissolves coagulated bloud two drams taken and it is said to be good for purging the head punction of the milt cough puffing up of the body the courses obstructed and other affects of the womb and the like Outwardly it is used in consolidating wounds N. Mumy commonly signifies four things 1. The Mumy of the Arabians which is a concrete liquor sweating in Sepulchres out of carkasses condited with myrrhe Aloes and Balsome 2. Of the Egyptians which is a liquor from carkasses condited with Pissalphaltum for with this the carkasses of the meaner rank being preserved are to be sold 3. Pissalphaltum counterfeit i. e. Bitumen mixt with Pitch which they sell for Mumy 4. A carkasse in the sand scorched with the heat of the Sun It happens that in the land of the Hammonians which is betwixt the land of Cyrene and Alexandria the heaps of sands heaved up by the whirlwind over-whelm the heedlesse travellers whence their carkasses are scorched with the burning heat of the Sun 5. To these may the Mumy of the more modern be added which is thus made Let there be chosen the carkasse of a red hair'd man because in such the bloud is accounted thinner and in that respect the flesh more excellent in t re new without blemish about 24 years of age killed by a violent death not a disease hang it in the beams of the Luminaries by day and night when the weather is clear Of this cut the musculous parts into little pieces and sprinkle them with the powder of Myrrh and a little Aloes afterward imbibe it by infusion in Spirit of Wine for some days then let it be hanged up 6 or 10 hours and be again imbibed with Spirit of Wine at length let the pieces dry being hanged in a dry air and shady place then is it like to flesh hardened with smoak without stench N. Of these kindes of Mumy now rehearsed although I derogate not from the former if they can be had from sound bodies especially the first which yet I scarse believe is brought to us notwithstanding I affirm the two latter are to be preferred before the other as in whom we are free from the fear which Renodeus intimates affirming the Mumy of the shops to be nothing but the juyce of a rotten carkasse pressed out and thickned and therefore sold to the great hurt of man-kinde Preparat The common medicines in which the Mumy of the shops is an ingredient do every where occur And they are The powder for a fall or bruise Athanasia the great the Balsom of Peter de Ebano the sympathetick oyntment the black Emplaister called of the Apostles The Cerot for those that are bursten Laudanum Opiat c. Besides the lesse common are 1. The tincture or extract of Mumy Quercet It is made of common Mumy extracting it with spirit of Wine and Turpentine of each a like quantity and again separating the menstruum to the consistence of honey The vertues It is