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A67915	Collectanea chymica a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal / written by Eir. Philaletha, Anonymous, Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont, Dr. Fr. Antonie ... [et al.].; Collectanea chymica.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus. Secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest. Latin and English.; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644. Praecipiolum.; Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623. Aurum-potabile.; Bernard, of Trevisan. De lapide philosophorum. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Bosome-book.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl.; Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611? Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine.; H. V. D. Tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5103; ESTC R5297	83,404	240

you shall find some few notes of mine upon the Abstract following in their several places Certain strange and extraordinary ways for the relieving of a Prisoner or other poor distressed Creatures when all hope of usual Victuals is taken from him THese as I dare not warrant so yet because I have received them either from good Authors or from the credible report of Men of worth I will deliver them as faithfully as I have received them 1. And first of all Paracelsus himself affirmeth that a fresh turf or clod of Earth applyed every day unto the Stomach of a Man will preserve him from famishing for some small number of days 2. I have heard many Travellours deliver of their own knowledge and experience that a Man may live 10. or 12. days by sucking of his own Blood 3. Bapt. Porta telleth us of a poor fellow upon whom a Ruinous House fell and the Man so hedged in with the Floors and Timber that fell upon him as that not being able to get out he was forced to relieve himself with his own Urine for 9. or 10. days making his hand his cup to drink in 4. But the strangest and most incredible of all the rest is that story which Parson Bateman sometime Parson of Newington had by relation of that reverend father D. Grindal then Archbishop of Canterbury from the mouth of two English Captives that were imprisoned in Turky and for their offence condemned to be famished to death and escaped by this means The keeper affecting his Prisoners for those good parts which he found in them having received an Oath of their secrecy delivereth unto each of them a small piece of Allom which he willed them five or six times aday to rowl up and down in their mouths Now at ten days end the great Turk sending to know if the Christians were dead or alive and being informed of their lives he commanded that upon pain of Death no man should dare to relieve them with any manner of food Now when 10. days more were expired and the like inquiry and return made as before Well qd the Turk if they can continue yet 10 days more without food I will say that the God of the Christians will have them preserved and they shall be enlarged The last 10. days expi●ing and the Prisoners lives certified unto the Turk they were forthwith delivered out of Prison and returned for their own Country and here discovered the Secret The reason and probability hereof I will leave for better Magitians then my self For though we might suppose that the salt of Nature might receive some strength or vigour from this Mineral Salt yet how the Guts should be filled with so small a proportion I cannot guess much less determine 5 ¶ A fifth food b●t receiving some help from Corn was commended by Mendozza himself wherewith he assured me upon his honour that he had relieved a Spanish Town in an extream Dearth and scarcity of victual and therewithal shewed me a Loaf of Composition which was of Wheat-straw chopt into short pieces and ground with some proportion of Wheat into Meal But since I have been farther informed that the same practise hath been usual in hard years in some parts of England and for mine own better satisfaction I caused some of the same flower to be kneaded into bread but it was very brown in Colour and very gretty in the mouth and therefore it should seem that our Stones be not so apt for the grinding of it and I have heard some affirm that the same cannot well be ground but in a Steel Mill or hand Mill. 6 And the East-Indians as I have read do use to make little Balls of the juce of the herb Tobacco and the Ashes of Cockle-shells wrought up together and dryed in the shadow and in their Travel they place one of these Balls between their nether Lip and their Teeth sucking the same continually and letting down the moysture and it keepeth them both from hunger and thirst for the space of three or four days 7 The seventh and last of this kind is that sweet Root called Lichoras which being chewed only if we may believe Pliny doth in small quantity satisfie both thirst and hunger and yet maintain sufficient strength in the Body How to make an excellent Bread of the Roots of Aaron called Cuckowpit or Starch Roots THe making thereof is set down by a late Writer in this manner First the roots that are large must be cleansed from all skin and filth and then cut into small and thin slices the thinner you make them the sooner they are prepared seeth them in boyling water so long as you find the water hot and biting and till the Roots begin to wax sweet Then cha●ge your water and pour fresh water unto them and so continue boyling until the water become sweet and that the roots have lost all their acrimony Then take them out and lay them abroad upon Canvas supported with frames and being dry grind them with hand-mills and they make a most white and pure meal which either of it self or by the mixture of one third of wheat meal with it maketh a most fair and savoury bread This carrieth some good sence and likelyhood of truth with it for we find by daily experience that it maketh as fair if not a fairer starch then our wheat And therefore it were to be wished that some good husbandry were used in the planting and multiplying of these Roots observing the na●ure of such soil and place wherein they most delight And though it should fail us in this kind yet we shall find our labour richly requi●ed if we convert them into starch only But here it is to be remembred that the root must be gathered when it is plump ●ull and in his pride which is about the latter end of March and all April For when it beginneth once to spire and that the sap is ●un up into the leaves then the root shrinketh and also loseth much of his vertue Here a just occasion is offered to practise the like upon the Turnep whereof there are both good ●iore and the price of them likewise very reaso●able Bread and other food made of Pompions THis fruit being both cheap and great doth also make a very savoury bread if a little meal be mixed therewith yielding food to a great number with a small charge And if you bestow sugar and other sauce upon it it may also pass for a delicate dish The manner of making the same is thus described by Porta Choose the greatest and ripest Pompions cut them into thin slices and take away the hard crust or coat and the inner marrow or softness seeth them in boyling water and bring them to a pulp or pap and then s●rein it adding thereto a third part of meal or flo●er and make it up into bread the fresher you eat the same the more pleasant and deli●●te you shall esteem it But with mine Authors favour I