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A30806	Horæ subsecivæ, or, Some long-vacation hours redeem'd for the discovery of the true sal volatile oleosum of the ancient philosophers now happily regain'd to the materia medica : and distinguish'd from all other preparations, partly by the senses, but more effectually by its medicinal performances, totally extirpating the saline stem of acids (the root of most diseases) and inferring the volatile oleose temper, the standard of health in humane bodies / by T. Byfield ...	Byfield, T. (Timothy); Byfield, Thomas.	1695 (1695)	Wing B6397; ESTC R36317	13,427	33

will hang about his Salts he then pronounces ore rotundo that 't is the right Sal Volatile Oleosum of Silvius de le Boe or of some other cry'd-up Doctor whose Reputation can support it not regarding Science or the Medicinal Virtues so long as 't will pass for a Commodity in Trade I must confess 't is very difficult and a great piece of Art to prepare this Medicine so as to answer learned Tests and Physical Intentions For the Salts as well as the Sulphurs are deeply conceal'd in Nature and their Union is a great mystery as nice as the Subtile mixtions in Life not to be received into one another by the Philosophers adjoining altho' he must have a hand in the business till his Design is wrought about by Art The Sulphurs must be spiritualiz'd that mix with Volatile Salts and be united by the mean of an Aetherial Spirit and held to view illuminated and perfectly united As in sine fermented Ale the Water Malt and Hop are so entirely one that Art can never more shew the Ingredients apart all three make up one thing call'd Ale I have well consider'd the Vegetable nature and in the Mineral Kingdom have much pleas'd my self with fine Sulphurs difficultly enough obtain'd from Antimony but yet am disappointed in both Animals methinks shou'd seem to yield the best Sulphureous Volatile as nearest of kin to our Natures but so subtile are the Spiritual Elements that they wing away with Life in one quintessential form to the Aereal Mansions and leave you only their corruptible Natures to work upon I cannot imagine where to apply my self in Nature for a very wholsom Salino-Sulphureous Volatile unless it be from the Atmospherical Air where Nature forms the Universal Sperm of the World by her heavenly fire on the gentle and soft Sublimations of the purer Elements and incorporates 'em to your hand beyond the profoundest skill of the most inquisitive Philosopher altho' he have laminated the greatest part of Nature on Vulcan's Anvil For amidst all the Variety of Salts and Sulphurs in the World which are as many as there be Species of things none can be more agreeable than what 's drawn from this general Bank of Nature whence I borrow not only my Matter but therewith some portion of the Universal Form and that 's a lively Touch indeed And since I can find here what I want why need I look any farther I have rov'd and search't as well as others but reckon I have anchor'd well at last considering I had no Pilot. And he will prove a luckey man that hits my Knack or rather discovers such a Terra incognita in Philosophy altho ' I give him here that aim which I never receiv'd But shou'd he find my Bait yet one half of the Skill does not lie in catching my starry Volatiles for I do assure him he must well understand and have long labour'd in Experimental Philosophy before he shall be Master of this Rarity in Nature Dii omnia laboribus vendunt However 't is curious to know the Operation of Nature and how she produceth things by her Workings which requires subtilness and quickness of Mind for she is not perceived by vulgar eyes 'T is necessary to learn first with the Brain and Imagination if 't were but to save labour and charges in Fires and Glasses Besides there is no pleasure in the dull composition of things Give me vital Principles wreath'd together by a magnetic Virtue whence they become a sure food of Life and security from the hasty separation by Death which is nothing else but Life separating it self by its self from a Corruptible Body But if any petulant Sophister stiff in his Opinion shall oppose these Experiments let him know that what he assumes on Trust I make good by Tryal Now in describing more particularly the Virtues and Use of this Remedy I 'll begin from its first entrance into the Body In the Stomach these Sulphureo-Saline Volatiles do loosen and cleanse away all viscid clammy Humours and ill Digestions they correct the austere and acid Ferment which gives Heart-burn Sourness Pains in the Stomach Flatulencies Collicks Convulsions and ill Vapours offending the Head And they bring in that Oleose Volatile Temper which causes a good Digestion well govern'd Bowels and a right nutritious Chyle wherewith the Body is supply'd throughout with wholsome Juices The food precipitated and hardned by Acids sticks to the folds of the Stomach like Glue and being too long detain'd turns putrilaginous and austere becoming a Load on Nature to the great disturbance of the Spirit of Life and Temperies of the part from whence great Oppressions Strugglings Faintings Flushings of Heat Palpitations and sometimes very dangerous and sudden Mischiefs ensue● but if they do not arise to such hasty destruction yet these Acids will by degrees so debauch the true design of the Stomach and corrupt all your Aliment that instead of a well-digested wholsome Nourishment you must be supply'd with sharp corrosive Juices throughout the whole Body Till at length you 'll find the Blood and all things spoilt and all the Bowels and Organs griev'd And then supply your Bodies with the softest things in Nature and the greatest Art in Cookery all is presently spoil't in this vitiated Stomach But here you may again remedy these contrary Ferments and abounding Acids and vanquish the Root of 'em and not only so but in lieu thereof regain a well-condition'd Stomach oily Bowels a true natural Ferment and a Supply of Oleose Volatile Particles which mixing with the Chyle renders it not barely nutritious but medicinal and balsamic And this is not all for they give a lasting Vigor and Strength to all the nervous Texture causing a round Ability of the whole Body Besides pleasing Gas's ascend the Brain and recreate the Senses instead of cloudy noxious Fumes And because so many Diseases are to be remedied in the first Digestion from a well-govern'd Stomach And that it is the most sociable and entertaining Organ I must have one Bout at him more but first shew that the Glandules glutted with these Sulphureous Volatiles convey in chewing a very wholsome Saliva into the Stomach with your Food instead of a Scorbutic Vitriolic Flegm And that these subtile Particles enable the Stomach to such pleasant agreeable Actions that he plays the Wanton with all his Pabulum This Medicine keeps the Orifice of the Stomach clean and as tite as that of the Anus folds up all the expanded Wrinkles reimpregnates remaining Food and gives a thousand pretty pleasing Touches besides substantial Services to the whole Body It suffers no canine Appetite which ravenously devours what it can't concoct sometimes to disgorging but gives a well-bred Desire which will equip you for all the Dainties of a Luxurious Table and warrant the decent carrying off thr Largesses of Friendship The Lungs and all its Pipes are herewith cleans'd of tough foul Spittings thickned by a praeternatural Heat which causes Consumptive P●hisical

exalted with the Volatile Salts and beget a mild and easie Ferment in the happy Concentration of the Principles from whence the fix'd parts receive their vivid Impregnations and the insite Fire is fed with its proper Pabulum and kept from rebelling In all things near the Principle of Life is a smooth supple oily Substance in all Seeds we find it more or less therefore from so small Bodies as Seeds Oils are drawn The Substance of all animal Sperms that of Eggs and many other things will help to demonstrate that 't is an oleose Body that early covers the Principles of Life till they are cloathed with our Bodies as our Bodies are cover'd with Cloaths But when the inbred fire is harsh and inrag'd thro defect of this Balsom and Union and by the contrary abounding of Acids then the Spirits are inflam'd the Oil burns the Stamina Vitae shake At length the purer Flements fly the Texture the mixt Body dissolves and the Corruption of the frail Elements come to a loss The Aetherial Nature returns to its native home and there is nothing left in the Carcass but a perturbation and confusion of the corruptible Elements having lost their Governour Then reigns Corruption Death and Darkness in the deprived Matter until the virtue of Heaven does again slow down into it and summoning the wandring Elements re-inkindles the weak light of a new Form and reassumes the Elements into the methodical composure of a new mixture Life is an harmonious Copulation of Matter and Form constituting the perfect Being of an individual Nature the Health of that Life is a regular Assumption of the Principles into magnetick Love wherein our natural Fire retain'd by spiritual Sulphurs lies well beded in Oleity rightly season'd with Nitro-aereal Salts not lock'd up deprest or drawn out beyond its Centre And this I call the Salino-sulphureous Temperament which to preserve or restore is the Scope of Medicine the Design of Physick and Physicians I am warranted in this rational Conjecture from some experimental Observations which is as near as humane sight can penetrate 'T is true these things in their own nature are invisible and transacted in secret which makes em not understood by the gener●lity of Men who know not the occuls much less to make it manifest and are altogether unaccustom'd to such Contemplations and Experiments Nevertheless they are not to be look'd upon as Dreams and Fancies no more than the Spirit of Life which animates ' em For altho' Nature is not visible yet she acts visibly from a volatile sulphureous Spirit which executes her Office in Bodies 'T is generally granted that Life lies eminently in the Blood and so I say and that from its abounding with a pure Sulphur and a volatile Salt which are demonstrable Sulphur illuminates gives Tincture and Centrality What Red more beautiful and more vivid than in good Blood and what a sibrous Consistence has it That there is plenty of volatile Salts appears to an Artist who can extract em besides 't is evident to all by Sweat and Urine both which abound with volatile Salts But some may say the Ingesta of Meats and Drinks may supply those no it cannot be for these Discharges are larger than they amount to Be pleas'd to make the Experiment of living with Bread and Water for one Week and use hard Labour yet you 'll find your Sweat and Urine well impregnated with Salts very few of which proceeded from your Dyet The great Repairer of these is the ambient Air in which both are eminently and therefore plentifully convey'd in breathing thro the Lungs to the Blood helping it to sanguisie the new Access of Chyle in bestowing vital Ferment and a vivid Colour I 'll take it for grant that by this time we are agreed on the Point viz. That the healthful juvenile Temper of our Bodies consists in the Harmony of our spiritual Sulphurs and volatile Salts which magnetical ly join to the subjected Natures and gives 'em their proper seasoning These tun'd with vital Air rarisie and illuminate our Bodies still preserving a due Regimen of our inbred Fire and a healthful Government of the whole Oeconomy This Temperament presery'd is an Antidote against all Diseases and Decay 'T is true 't is very nice to hit and keep it because we deal so low in the corruptible World and depend so much on corporeal Supplies for our Subsistance and are liable to so many changes of Seasons Weather and Chance that 't is no wonder so few make up a competent number of Years Yet 't is good to know the Standard of Health that we may still be aiming at that Mark some near Approaches to which will preserve Life altho' it is not acted with that Satisfaction and Pleasure the compleatly healthy do enjoy But to lye under riveling Acids scorbutick Wildfires Stones in wrong places Tartar in Joints rambling and fixt Pains and forty more troublesome Distempers which make the Body such a Clog to the Soul that to a generous mind 't is the greatest Punishment in the World to attend upon it in blowing its Nose wiping its Breech dressing undressing washing combing cleaning and colouring it in order only to the eating of Water-gruel and drinking Small beer with him Who would not rather be at some Pains and Cost too to make him a little better Company for himself and his Friends by introducing that smooth oleose Temper I have already describ'd And where that does bear sway the Saline Stem of Acids cannot set up to play its Pranks The inbred Fire is kept so truly delighted and entertained with those Solar Guests that it can't turn sour or ill-natur'd For the Sharpness of all Salts arises from the insite Fire of Mixts And the more the fixt Fire is urg'd the greater the Sharpness from both the Blood 's corrupted and many Diseases are deriv'd throughout the whole Body which exercise the utmost Skill of Physicians and notwithstanding all their Cunning they are often buffled by ' em So great is the Energy of Acids that it preys upon all the Sulphureity in the Blood till it has devour'd its whole Tincture and left it sizy or turn'd it into Matter at least several Colours but robb'd it of its Life and transmuted the other Juices into a Vitriolick Tartness Such Acids will corrode Metals eat Holes in Iron and make the Sulphurs putrid and stink to the offending of your Nose But I 'll shew in particular Distempers some of the many Mischiefs that arise from this Root of Acids the grand Enemy of Man's Health Our natural Fire divested of its vital Allay grows burning and scorching and being fed with the Fires of mixt and disturb'd Elements at length puts on a raging Fit and sharpens all the Humours and when 't is more intense enkindles the Aetherial Spirit and becomes a strong Fever more difficult to cure than putrid ones and when it becomes mortiferous usually ends in Convulsions if it be not timely understood and