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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11188	Diacatholicon aureum: or a generall power of gold purging all offensiue humours in mans bodie: good in generall for all diseases, where there needeth any purgation: as also for any sicknesse yearely incident, or which is feared to approach by the increase of any euill humor, distemperature of diet, or otherwise how so euer growing towards any disease, to preuent the same, and keepe the bodie in health. It may lately be taken of all maner of people, of what age so euer, sucking children, old men and women, in the quantitie of two, three, or foure graines, according to the age, strength, and disease of the partie. Whosoeuer stand in neede of this powder, may haue it at the signe of the Hand and Pistall, neere vnto Iuic Bridge, for two shillings sixe pence the graine.	Russel, Thomas, an empiric.	1602 (1602)	STC 21455; ESTC S101643	15,853	24

by the help of those things truely deliuered and set downe by those two pillars of Phisicke did by all labour indeuour to finde out more excellent things for the curing of diseases Yea which is more we are enforced lest open scandall and reproch should redound to the art to seeke out newe remedies for some diseases which were vnknowen both to Hippocrates and Galen as the French Pox the Measils and the English sweate and others of the like kind otherwise Phisicke would hardly be deemed an arte These two graue and reuerend fathers of Phisicke I haue therefore alledged though necessity and common good had bene a sufficient shielde for this mine enterprise that vnder the couerture of their wings tanquam sub Palladis aegide I might be shadowed from reproch blame and hauing two such strong Atlasses I might the better beare the burden of that prouince which I haue vndertaken namely to publish to the world and present to your Worships good considerations triall and equall censures an vniuersall purging powder made of golde siluer and minerall water by arte and sire to that perfection decocted whose operation and vertues I haue briefly set downe in the small Treatise following referring the particular vse of it to the iudgemēt of euery Phisician to specificate it at his own discretion with any other purging simple that it may worke the effect speedier and bee more properly directed to any humor afflicting or peculiar member afflicted and although in the publishing of a true secret I neither vse dialecticall arguments to enforce rhetoricall perswasions to allure Lawyers il-loquence to vrge Poets fictions to delight Painters colours to deceiue all which may make that seeme to bee which is not and that which is seeme not to be yet this I humbly intreate that as I nakedly delyuer an approoued trueth so it may curteously be censured as it shal be found by perfect triall for Trueths auncient Hierogliphicke is a virgine bare and naked and hauing no deformitie being from toppe to toe pure vnspotted and beautifull needeth no borrowed or counterfeit colours This powder I present vnto your Worships and make knowen vnto the world for the loue and increase of the desired perfection of Phisicke and the generall good of the diseased and withall for mine owne commoditie being therevnto animated by the graunted authoritie of Hippocrates and Galen and diuers other of our neotericke classicke Phisicians lest such a secret in Phisicke should bee buried in his owne ashes the publishing whereof I hope shal not giue any offence to the learned but wil rather bee allowed and gladly accepted which done I rest humbly at your Worships pleasures and command deuoting vnto you the fruits of all my hopes and studies Thomas Russel G. N. Gentleman LEt Antioch keepe their raging Scammonie And send that cancred bane to Barbarie Let deadly Colocinthis bitter gall On great Armenia's craggie mountaines fall Let Tithimal make Persian widdowes weepe And India still their harmeful Turbith keepe Since Englands happie Ile small stand's in need Of any such farre-set outlandish weed For here the Sunn 's faire beames doe shine so bright As lesser Starres are like to lose their light G. P. Philosophiae chimisticae Studiosus TIme lay's in dust the Monarkes of each age When al their pompe doth cease and princely grace Time made strong Milon weepe and Helen rage He for weake arm 's shee for her wrinckled face Time caus'd Pyramides in Memphis plaine Lowly to kisse their mother earth againe The Hart long'st-liu'd of euerie beast in field The oke the flint the steele by sturdie strength And each thing else vnder the Moone doth yeeld To dint of death and change of time at length Onely this glorious shining Sunne on earth At whose celestiall frame and wondrous birth Nature did equalize fire water ayre With purest yellow earth most duely mixed No time nor meanes can vtterly impaire But still remaineth vniforme and fixed Then since no time the subiect can deface How then can any time thy name outrace G. K. in Artibus magister EAch wit for wished health makes best inuention Some post a ship to fetch home Indian weed's Some heape a masse of drugges whose silly mixion May blindly hap to cure yet oft the griefe it feed's But all that loue to trie some certaine remedie Applie and taste this true much labour'd misterie Extracting health from Gold in whose center Of all foure element's ther 's perfect temper In Zoilum TO praise the Authors worth that craues his triall Were of his owne intent a flat deniall The Sophies of the world doe claime the Art The matters influence rules euerie hart Therefore to praise his skill or matter done Were but to light a candle in the Sunne And if some Momus be so mad to chide He hath his due to rest vnsatisfide So for aduantage and for trials fame I cease till he giue cause himselfe to shame And if by him in secret it be hist Who but a Cow doth shun the open list S. W. Medicus DIACATHOLICON AVREVM Or A generall powder of Gold purging all offensiue humours in mans BODIE Chap. I. Whereof the powder is made and of the Philosophicall preparation of it WHatsoeuer the Almightie disposer of vniuersall nature hath dispersiuely infused in the generalitie of naturall things either celestiall or terrestriall the same is collectiuely found in one particular of the same kind as for example what vertue qualitie or influence is dispersiuely placed in euerie Starre Orbe or bodie celestiall vnder the first mouer the same is found vnited in one Sunne What animall faculties are dispersed in all seuerall liuing creatures are gathered together in one man What hidden vertue soeuer is dispersiuely infused in minerals is collectiuely vnited in one metall which is Gold and this is the principall materiall whereof this powder consisteth But for abbreuiation of time and labor since it is hard to make a perfect calcination of Gold by it selfe I haue therfore following the opinion of Auicen and wonne with his reasons added a due proportion of the other perfect metall that thereby their agent might make a better subtiliation of them which agent in the composition is the third ingredient being a spiritualized metall in the forme of minerall water These thrée ingredients onely enter this powder and no more which I terme by the name of Diacatholicon Aureum because that the chiefest thing and most in quantitie in the composition is Gold being brought to that wondrous actiue qualitie by the true minerall fire which is the agent and long continuall decoction neither doe I vse either in my preparation or decoction any thing but those thrée ingredients that this is true I can make manifest to any man by demonstratiue practise before his eyes on which I wil engage goods life and credite that there neuer came either common Quicksiluer prepared or vnprepared Antimonie Stibium meane minerall vttriall salts powder strong water imperfect mettall or any other such like