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A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus and Crollius ... called the elixir proprietatis known by all physicians to be the greatest cordial and onely medicine in the world for long and sound life ... / written by J.H., a lover of truth, and made publick for the good of all people.
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J. H., lover of truth.
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1667
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A TREATISE OF The GREAT ANTIDOTE of Van Helmont Paracelsus and Crollius By them called the Elixir Proprietatis Known by all Physicians to be the greatest Cordial and onely Medicine in the World for long and sound Life restoring Nature even at the point of Death and effectually taking away the Seeds of all DISEASES AND An Examination of AUTHORS concerning its true Preparation As also A ready way to Volatile Salt of Tartar by which this Elixir is truly prepared Written by J. H. a Lover of truth and made publick for the good of all people London Printed for the AUTHOR 1667. TO THE READER I Have here shewed thee several ways to make the Elixir Proprietatis by which thou mayest understand the difference betwixt a good and a bad and for that end I have set down Crollius his way of prepareing it with Oyl of Sulphur To joyn a Mineral with a Vegitable is an Abortive in Philosophy which is that middle way that Van Helmont saith being so made it is of no worth I have set down the sayings of Van Helmont concerning Volatising Salt of Tartar and its Virtues being Volatised which is the only Solvent by which this Medicine is truly made and for the virtues thereof I am of Paracelsus's mind that the Age of a Man is too little for the finding out of them I have exprest some few experiments but could have done more and more considerable as healing the Leprosey the Scroffulous humour commonly called the Evil two sorts of Gouts the bringing forth the Mercury of those that have been Salivated for the Venerial Disease and many others too tedious to mention If thou art Ingenious thou mayest profit thereby Farewell Since the Fire from my House inVpper Shadwell betwixt the New Church and Ratcliff at the Sign of John Baptista Van Helmont J. H. IOhn Baptista Van Helmont in the 457 pag. saith he will speak so far as the order of Charity will permit of the revealing of Arcanums or secrets in Medicines First of all Nature hath by the goodness of God produced singular remedies in the vegetable Monarchy whereby Diseases are singularly restored and cured which hitherto for want of diligent searching a covetous desire and envy of the Devil have remained hidden for so the Elixir Proprietatis of Paracelsus cureth the Asthmah the Falling Sickness Appoplexy Palsey * A Consumption for want of Nourishment Atrophia Tabes or Consumption of the Lungs And because this Elixir is not prepared but by a Skilful Phylosopher who not by thinking but by knowing is perfectly and doublely chosen thereunto and so hath obtained the Title of our Adeptist therefore out of Compassion I will unfold a middle way R. best Myrrh bright Alloes of the best Saffron of each one Ounce if thou take more thou shall find it done in vain let the two first be beaten and the Saffron role it into a round figure put them into a large glass with a long neck and seal it Hermetically and digest them in a gentle heat for fear of breaking the glass untill you see the whole lump grow to the bottom of the glass and a cleer oyl and water circulate in the sides of the glass then open the glass and poure on a pinte of Cinnamon water and distil it in moist sand until no more will ascend with thfs Medicine saith he I have as well dissolved Quartan-Agues as continual Feavers so that he who over night had taken the Holy Sacrament and received his Sacro Sanctum Viaticum and the extreme Unction of Oyl hath had me his guest by his Bed at dinner Paracelsus in his Archedoxes hath these words R. Myrrh Alloes Saffron of each a like quantity put them in a Pelican closed for two Months in a sand Furnace in a gentle heat after put the matter in a Limbeck and distill over the oyl without burning cicrulate this oyl for a month and after keep it for use He saith the virtues of all Balsams are contained in this Medicine and that it doth keep back old Age the most of any one Medicine and that the life of a Man is two short for the finding out its virtues Crollius in 250 page writes thus thus R. Myrrh Alloes Saffrou of each four Ounces powder them and pour on them so much Alcalizate Spirit of Wine as will reduce them into them form of paste then pour on so much Oyl of Sulphur made by a Bell still as will colour them black then pour on Spirit of Wine tartarized as will cover them four fingers over put them in a glass in digestion for two days seperate the tincture and pour on pure Spirit of Wine circulate it two months seperate the tincture and distill the fecis by a gentle heat What comes over add to the tinctures and it will be far better than the vulgar way distilled for the virtues he saith it removes all obstructions of the Lungs and Chest Pipes prevents popular Infection and Infectious Airs and Pestilential Feavers removes all pestifferous humours in the Stomach and Bowels and eases all pains there Takes away all obstructions of the Brain curing the Virtigo Megrim and dimness of sight comforts the memory prevents the Palsey and Gout quickens the Intelects and all the senses breaks the Stone in the Reins or Bladder comforts the Heart and exprells Melancholly eases the Illiaco Passio and dolour of the Ribs carries away Salt humours insensibly and all Surfeits from intemperance of Diet or Drinking cures the third day Ague and Hectick Feaver brings forth congealed blood and speedily heals all inward Ulcers and Wounds and saith he all diseases proceeding either from head or cold are by this Medicine healed now thus far he My way of preparing of it is this R. the best Myrrh bright Alloes of the best English Saffron of each four ounces beat the the Myrrh and Alloes but not the Saffron put them into a Bolt-head and pour on them a pint and a half of volatil Salt of Tartar volatized with Spirit of Wine disgest them in a gentle heat till the gummousness be fully gone and there remain no more bitterness then is contained in the Saffron then seperate the pure Spirit from the fecis and keep it for use This Elixir thus prepared will in colour resemble the pure Arterial Blood of a sound and healthy man and in tast will be fragrant in which the Myrrh and Saffron will plainly appear very strong in tast without any offensiveness or nauseousness but grateful to the Stomach Now that I may not tantalize the Reader in mentioning the virtues of volatile Salt of Tartar and not shewing the way to make it therefore I shall express it as far as it is lawful Take of * According to Ramund Lulley in his Testimenta Nova red Tartar qs calsine it till it be white then dissolve it in Spirit of Wine twice its weight such as will burn having Gunpowder in it till if fire the powder and continue feeding it
of Lillies and Oyl of March Mallows of each a like quantity and if they broke as some did then to apply only that Oyntment called Vnguentum Apostolorum and any Playster to keep the Lint that the Unguent was on to the Sore and to take daily this Medicine inwardly according as I shall afterward direct So doing they have been perfectly cured by Gods assistance and this Medicine and never troubled any Chyrurgeon though sometimes there hath come forth a large Core Neither is this Medicine only for this Disease as the Authors mention and my own experience have found for the greatest part of my Practice hath been this many years and it to this day in those Distempers which are by common Physitians accounted uncureable and I have wrought and still do no many other ingredients both Vegetables Minerals and Metals and yet in all of them I could never find neither so safe nor so speedily effectual a Medicine as this one which being of a Solar nature that is cordial that as the Sun by his Beams removes all Fogs and vapours from the earth so this Medicine expells all venomous all obnoctious humours from the principle parts of the body for it is so general a clenser of the blood that had I not seen the effects I should not have believed it for I have applyed it both to persons in Pleurisies and Quincies and in one hour the party hath been left perfectly at ease going to sleep and in their sleep have been in a small Sweat and have waked well not losing one drop of blood as the common custom is I have often cured a Feaver in two or three days the small Pox which is a rotted putrid Feaver I have cured in three days the venom being breathed forth in a small gentle sweat and the party perfectly well and not any of the Small Pox hath ever come to matter though they have been before much swell'd with them the Hectick Feaver which will not admit of bleeding without Death is by this Medicine suddenly cured The Convulsions I have frequently cured even where there hath been no hopes of life according to common reason and I do my self and advise all my friends to give of it to their Children first after they are born six drops in a Spoonful of Ale and I have had several that have given me thanks and I always find the Child the better for it for a long time and if the Mother of the Child take it so soon as she is delivered it will ease her of after pains and prevent the vapours of the Mother being taken for a few days night and morning in * Fear not the heat of the Sack for no Feaver will ever trouble you if you take this Medicine Sack fasting one hour after I have had many Patients of the vapours and been long in the curing of them though I used the best means I could devise but since I have made use of this Medicine for that sad unquiet restless Distemper I have found that a few dayes will cure it except the party be old and have had it many years and then some longer time must be allowed and by Gods blessing you will not miss your expected desire For the Palsey I have several times cured the worst sort of them that is the Palsey in both sides that in one side is but a trifle to the other for in one there is but part of the Brain obstructed in the other it is all obstructed The Swimming in the head which is a forerunner of Melancholly is presently by this Medicine cured Many are by reason of bruises troubled with Impostumations in the head which after having taken this Medicine do cast forth much corrupt matter by the Nose and after become well and sometimes the Hearing is obstructed and sometimes the Sight grows dull by reason of a foul humour in the Brain which I find is much helped by this Medicine And although I have Spirit of Eye-bright in the house and Essence of Sullandine yet I prefer this Medicine before both for the dimness of the Eyes which I by much working in the Fire and Mineral fumes cannot avoid the often receiving dammage both to the Eyes and Brain That Disease called the Tremor I have cured in Fourteen dayes when the shaking was so violent that if you held the hand still it would force the body to move and one thing I am to inform those that are Lovers of Children when a Child in the month is froward either by reason of some crudities it received from its Mothers overmuch eating of fruit or from hurt or bruise in the birth or by reason of wind then for some Diascordium saith the Nurse and that saith she is a harmless thing and will bring it to sleep and then the Mother presently consents though it proves the Childs ruine for though they do not give it so much as contains so much Opium as to cause it never to wake again yet that little cold poyson is the worst of poysons which will lodge in the body till it either brings the Convulsion fits or if the Child be so strong of nature to pass that danger then after succeeds either the Rickets or Weakness in the Limbs Which want of knowledge many after repent when it is too late I had rather any Child of mine took Mercury then half its weight in Opium for I can speak by experience of what I have seen in Children whom I have seen after they were born and what they are brought to by this errour There happens many times a windiness in the Pleura that is a skin within the Ribs near the Heart which by delayes proves dangerous alwayes coming with a difficulty of breathing which is by this Medicine removed presently and by taking of it three or four dayes together is fully cured the windiness of the Stomach is presently expelled by it The Scurvy a Disease seldom taken notice of by people till their Teeth drop out or a Dropsie followes them or the Jaundies and then what will they not do to be cured They that have any of the three or two of the or all the three let them take this Medicine and it will rid them of their grief but observe always the more the Disease is plycated the longer is required for to continue the taking thereof Always observe fixt Diseases require the longer for the removing and are for the most part in less danger of death The Spleen causing either a pain in the side of sometimes sending up vapours into the head causing unquiet sleep makes those that are troubled therewith to be peevish produces Melancholy it being the seat and receptacle of Melancholy He or she that takes this Medicine shall find a pain and tearing near the Spleen after an evacuation of much Wind downward the Spleen being so near the Hypocondriacks that seldom one is well and the other obstructed but commonly both together I had a patient near six years agoe