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A08904	A hundred and fouretene experiments and cures of the famous physitian Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus; translated out of the Germane tongue into the Latin. Whereunto is added certaine excellent and profitable workes by B.G. a Portu Aquitano. Also certaine secrets of Isacke Hollandus concerning the vegetall and animall worke. Also the spagericke antidotarie for gunne-shot of Iosephus Quirsitanus. Collected by Iohn Hester; Centum quindecim curationes experimentaque è Germanico idiomate in Latinum versa. English	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Hester, John, d. 1593.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent. Opera mineralia et vegetabilia. English. Selections.; Penot, Bernard Georges.; Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609. Antidotarium spagiricum. English.	1596 (1596)	STC 19180; ESTC S120733	69,978	98

aire and earth are vnseperable My sonne knowe this that Mercurie is the first of all things for before time there was water and the spirit of the Lord rested vpon the water but what vvas that water the water of the cloudes or a moisture which might be powred out No but it was a drie dusty water God had ioyned his earth vnto it which is his sulphur and so the earth congealeth the water and thereof sprung the foure elements included in these two by the will of God Therefore Mercurie congealeth sulphure and sulphure Mercurie neither can one of these be without the other as also they cannot be without their salt which is the chiefest meane by whose help nature ingendreth and bringeth forth all vegetals minerals and animals Wherefore these three mercurie salt and sulphur can not be one without another for where the one is found there the other are found also neither is there any thing in nature wherein these three are not found and of these three whatsoeuer is in nature hath his originall and are so mingled with the foure elements that they make one body and the salt is drowned in the bottome of the elements for it is necessarie that the salt should keepe them vnited by his sharpenesse and d●inesse notwithstanding it is a flying spirit but because it sticketh in the botome of the mixture and is ouercome of the fatnes and combustible oile in which it is found as the yolke within the white of the egge and the combustible oile liueth of the earth with the ●alt and pheces and the salt is buried in the bottome of the pheces of the combustible oile and earth therefore it cannot flie away from the earth but by great force of fire These three spirites whereof we haue spoken are said first to be seperated from the mixture of the elements which is the soul of all things or their quintaessence which holdeth together the whole mixture of the elements for when the spirites are gone cut then the mixture is dissolued by it selfe and diuided neither is there neede of fire to expel the salt from the earth when the elements are separated from the pheces then is the salt also separated with it This salt is vnknowne to the ignoraunt Therefore salt is the meane betweene the grosse earthly partes and the three flying spirites resting in the naturall heat that is the taste moist smell and colour which three are the life soule and quintaessence of euery thing neither can these three spirits be one without the other as the Father the Sonne and the Holie-ghost are one yet three persons and one is not without the other The ignorant laugh neither vnderstand they these three spirits when as they are tied to the grosse earthly fixed partes and are made subtill and their salt is ioyned and mingled with them it must transforme them all together and fixe them into a cristalline bodie Diaphanes and red of colour whereof we wil speak hereafter he that knoweth not this salt shall neuer bring anie to passe in Art The philosophers call this salt a drie water and a liuely salt but the ignorant thought they meant mercurie but the Philosophers called the three spirites Mercurie and the earth Sulphur which the ignorant vnderstand not Either of them can not be without the other neither is there any thing in nature in which these three are not and they are so mixed with the foure elements that they make one body and mixture Whatsoeuer God hath created is in these three stones wherfore all may be reduced into a cristalline cleernesse by Art giuen by God vnto the Philosophers for in the latter days God wil seperate all the vncleane pheces and corruption that is in the elements and bring them to a cristalline cleerenesse and rednesse of a carbuncle Afterward there shall be no more corruption but they shall endure for euer Do you thinke that all thinges which God hath created in these lower partes should vtterly perish in the latter day No not the least haire of those things which God hath created no more then the incorruptible heauen but God by his will wil change all things and make them christalline and the foure elements shall be perfect simple and fixed in themselues and they shall be all a quintaessence Demonstration of these things may be made here on earth by Arte for whatsoeuer God hath created may be broght to a cristalline cleerenesse and the elements gathered together into a simple fixed substance which being doone no man can alter them neither the fire it selfe burne or change them but they shal continue perpetually as those things which haue attained eternitie The order to draw forth the Quint●essence of Sugar collected out of the vegitable and animall workes of Isacke Holander HEere will I shewe thee a great secret howe thou shalt drawe foorth the quintaessence of Sugar the which truely excelleth all vegitable workes by meane of his temperature like vnto the incorruptible heuen the which is neither hot colde nor dry but most temperate neuertheles compounded of the foure elements but they striue not one with another for if they are so ioyned together that they can neuer be separated one from an other but for euer remaine simple and fixt in vnitie But this heauen doth distribute and giue vnto the earth whatsoeuer is necessarie for it although that it selfe be neither hote nor colde moist nor dry the which like effects hath the quintaessence of sugar the which in it selfe hath the foure elements as gold hath as gold is pure so sugar is impure gold outwardly is hote and moist inwardly colde and drie and white sugar is the contrarie for it is outwardly colde and drie and inwardly hote and moist and red and fixed both outward and inward Neither is there any thing wanting but that the inward qualitie may be brought that his rednesse may appeere outwardly and that his pheses be seperated then is it prepared and shall not neede to be fixed for it is fixed alreadie and doth retaine with it selfe al outward and inward spirits and whatsoeuer is volatill it doth retaine Now what his kinde is I will tell thee and from whence he hath his originall that is euen out of the red but if thou wilt be further satisfied reade the three and thirty chapter of the generation of those things that grow in the seas and other waters where we write largely of the nature thereof Heere it shall be sufficient for vs to shewe the order how to prepare it and in what order it shoulde be vsed in medicine and also to other things where it may be applied His nature is to retaine or hold all flying spirites and to fixe them into a stone as shalbe shewed hereafter First ye shal vnderstand that ye cannot seperate the pheces except ye bring the inward parts outward that is to say that his inward darke golden colour do appeere the which when it is so di 〈…〉 d his rednesse is

in Balneo and doe as you did before let it bee cleared and put aside with the first water and put on again fresh water distilled and set it in Balneo as aforesaid and do this so often vntill the water be no more colored for then haue you the fire seperated from the earth but reserue the earth or Pheces vntill I tell you further what you shall do with it for there is yet a combustible oyle in it The fourth Chapter TAke the vessel wherin is the colored water and set it in Balneo with a Limbecke and receiuer well luted and distill al the water with a boyling Balneo let the matter be well dried and coole then take away the Alimbicke let the vessell remaine in Balneo and powre on the water againe vpon the matter and make a fire and set a dish vpon the mouth of the vessell and let it stande so in Balneo three daies euery day moouing it with a spattell of wood 3. or 4. times then let it coole and be taken out and strained Then take a cleane vessell and softly powre out that which is cleere into it and vpon the pheces straightwaies poure on fresh distilled water stirring it about with a woden ladle and let it stand to cleere one day the Pheces which remaine put vnto the first Pheces Then take a vessell and set it in a boyling Balneo vntil it be drie and reiterate this worke vntill there remaine no Pheces in the bottome of the vessell so shall you haue the pure Element of fire and the Element of the aire also must bee so often distilled vntill there remaine nothing in the bottome and in this sort you shall haue the pure Element Seperate then the water from the fire and let it drie so shall you haue a cleere shining matter like to Camphere keepe the fire well in a glasse and the aire with the water in another glass● well closed vntill you haue your earth prepared The fift Chapter TAke all the earth with the Pheces and drawe out the combustible oile by a discensorie that is with two vessels ioyned and luted together vntill the combustible oile do passe which is profitable for all colde diseases and other passions which were too long to rehearse if you desire not the combustible oile suffer it to flie away Then tak● your earth and calcine it in a furnace of reuerberation gently vntill it be al white as snow then take a great earthen or stone vessel and put your white calcined earth into it and powre out a good quantitie of common water distilled and stirre it with a woodden ladle and set it three dayes in a boyling bath and couer it with a dish and stirre it euerie day ten or twelue times Let it coole and the vessel take out and let it cleere one whole day then take an other cleane vessel and softly poure out that which is cleer and vpon the pheces powre againe fresh distilled water and set it in Bal●●● and doe as you did before Take it out againe and let it cleere one day and night and that which is vppermost cleere powre out to the first water Then put to fresh distilled water the third time vnto the pheces and set it in Balneo and doe as you did before and powre out the cleere the third time vnto the first water then cast away the pheces of the third water for they are of no valew Then take the vessell into which the water was put set it in Balneo with a lembecke and a receiuer and with a boyling Balneo drawe out the water vntill the matter bee made drie Let it coole take away the Limbecke and poure in the water againe vpon the earth or salt and set it one day in boyling Balneo Let it dissolue and cleere and take out that which is cleere And put in a little distilled water vpon the pheces and let it stand two or three houres in a warme bath take it out let it cleere by the space of one houre or two and powre out the vpper part to the first water and cast away the Pheces for there is nothing in them Let the vessel be set again in Balneo with the earth or salt and distill away the water vntill all be drie and do as afore reiterating the worke vntill that no pheces remaine in the bottome then draine away the water from the earth and you shal find a faire earthlike Cristall and so you shall haue pure elements The sixth Chapter TAke a great glasse that will beare the fire and put into it your earth and your fire and powre your aire vppon it and set it to distill in a furnace in potte or with sande or ashes with a Limbecke well luted hauing a hole in the vppermost knottie parte that a funnell may bee put in when there shall bee neede of infusion when as the humiditie that it hath receiued be halfe consumed then fortifie your fire by little and little increasing it vntil you see the water boyle and keepe the fire in that state still vntil it be consumed euen to a pinte Take away the fire let it coole take away your receauer and open the hole of the Limbeck and put in your glasse funnell and poure in all the distilled water in the recipient vppon the earth and stoppe the hole of the Limbeck and set the receauer vnto the necke thereof well luted and distill againe obserue the maner aforesaid of drawing and making infusion and doe thus tenne times The tenth distillation finished let all passe together for then the earth is made flying So the aire the water the fire and the earth will ascend together by the Limbeck and be brought into one substance which were in foure One together in nature and now simple as the incorruptible heauen yet are they not fixed but notwithstanding they are so coupled together betweene themselues that by no meanes they can bee seperated but will continue one simple bodie for euer euen as the christalline and vncorruptible heauen which notwithstanding is compounded of the foure elements What thinke you of this my sonne Can not this quintaessence helpe euerie disease that doth infect man through his most excellent temperature whether it be in heate cold moyst or drie for all are in it that he may distribute vnto euerie one that which is necessarie euen as the heauen when neede requireth giueth vnto the earth all things as coldnesse heate or moysture And yet is neither hote colde moist nor drie but of one simple essence and that indued with such a nature that is giueth vnto euerie thing that which is necessarie In like manner doth this quintaessence Therefore my sonne reioyce and giue the almightie God thankes which hath opened these things vnto the Philosophers The vii Chapter NOw my sonne if thou wilt bring this quintaessence yet to a greater perfection Take a great circulatory or Pellican that is a glasse that hath a great head like to

a Limbeck and in the top of the head a hole by the which the matter may be powred in by a funnell Let the hole be stopped out of the head cōmeth forth ij arms bending round vnto the bellie by the which that which doth ascend vp may fall downe againe by those armes of glasse into the bellie of the Pel●●cane This is the forme of the vessels that distill one into an other or Pellican Take then your quintaessence and put it in a Pellican in ashes but better in salt prepared and dried and make your fire like vnto the extreme heate in Sommer and the quintaessence wil rise lyke vnto a red oyle and fal downe againe by the armes of the Pellican and by often ascention the quintaessence wil waxe thicke that it wil tarie in the bottome and rise no more then fortifie the fire that it may ascend and descend againe Then keepe the fire in that heate vntill it ascend no more but rest in the bottom Then make your fire stronger that it may ascend descend againe and keepe the heate in the same degree vntill it rise no more Obserue this manner in augmenting your fire vntill the water be fixed and the glasse be red hotte foure and twentie houres together if the quintaessence doe not then ascend it is fixed and brought vnto his highest vertue take it out of the glasse being yet hotte for if it be cold it will waxe hard that you must breake the glasse For at the fire it doth waxe liquide and being set open in the ayre it doth congeale and pearceth euerie hard thing as oyle doth any drie leather and in colour is like vnto a rubine and through shining lyke a christal it giueth light in the darke sufficient to reade by What doest thou thinke of this my sonne are there not many strange bodies created of God Truely hee hath endued the Philosophers with no lesse giftes For they that can looke into the secrets of nature shall see it to be of an incredible operation for this is gathered by the Bees of the subtilest part of all plantes trees flowers and fruites and at that time when flowers breake out and trees budde It is worthily called the Philosophers stone for it is fixed and lyquable as waxe and as the minerall stone transmuteth the impure mettall so doth this alter diseases Heereby it doth appeare that this doth beare the bell amongst all vegetals Whereas it being yet in his grosenesse and vnpure it is but of smal value for any vse in Physick by what meane soeuer it be boyled or scummed but doeth alwayes retaine his nature For it consisteth of all the fruites of the earth plantes and trees Whereof one herbe is hotte another cold another drie another moist one astringent another laxatiue some corrosiue others venemous and so diuers herbes haue their diuers qualities Thirdly it commeth to passe if it helpe one disease by and by it hindreth an other For euerie thing worketh according to his propertie when as there is separation made in the body And of this separation it ingendreth bloud and other humors And they are lykened vnto gunnepouder which so long as it lyeth stil there commeth no hurt of it but if it be brought vnto the fire it straight vttereth his secret nature and is kindled with a venemous fire which cannot be quenched with water For the colde and drie hote and moist do striue amongst themselues a wind is stirred vp that breaketh al things that is neere vnto it The like happeneth vnto honie that when it commeth to the region of the liuer that it should be there seperated then it sheweth his nature to passe vp and swell with winde that it is no maruel if that through contention the veines of the liuer be broken as oftetimes it happeneth whereupon Apostomes are caused in diuers places and bringeth foorth such inflammations that the veines are easily broken Although manie do greatly commend hony but they are not the children of philosophie neither do they vnderstand the nature of it But when it is brought to a simple fixed as wine then is it the chiefest medicine amongst al the vegetables neither is the like vnto this found in al the world Giue God thankes and be liberall vnto the poore The dose of this is one graine and it must be taken euery morning with an empty stomacke likewise in the euening vntil the ende of the disease For euery disease will bee cured in shorte time euen after the same manner as the Minerall stone maketh his proiection vpon mettals Praise God and labour diligently The manner and order how to drawe the Quintaessence out of the hearbe called Rose solis NOw my sonne I will teach thee the greatest mystery or secret amongst all vegetable things whose force and strength hath beene kept secret amongst all the auntient workemen and they haue bound themselues one to another by oth that they should not vtter in their bookes or writings the strength of this herb which is caled Rose solis and in the Germane tongue Sindawe Whosoeuer therefore hath not the whole vegetable worke he cannot attaine to the strength of this hearb For in that worke is comprehended al the force of medicinall things And this worke of vegetables is not come to the handes but onely of the antient sworne artificers which were skilfull in the liberall artes But now my sonne I will open it vnto thee with ad 〈…〉 ration that thou shalt keepe this hidden knowledge secret First my sonne you must vnderstand that this hearb is the hearb of the sunne vppon the which the sunne spreades his beames and influences as he doth vpon gold in the veines of the mines And he powreth out his influences more vpon this hearb then vpon any other which is created of God as it is euidently knowen of the antient philosophers and this hearb doth so far surmount al other herbs which spring out of the earth as the sunne doeth all other planets in the heauen and hath greater force and power of influence then any other thing created of God in the firmament So this hearb doth excell al others in vertue and therefore this hearb is decked with another colour other leaues and stranger shape then all other hearbs And his nature is such that the hotter and d●ier the countrie is in the time of the yeare and the heat of the sunne and the more that the sunne doth heate and burne him this hearb is the more moist and filled with deaw insomuch that vpon one branch will hang aboue a thousand drops Make a triall and strike this herb with a slender twig that the drops which fal from it may fall into a large glasse vessell and you shall see the vessell filled with a maruelous dew and if the sunne be vehement hot those branches in short space that is within the space of halfe an houre will be more full of dew then before and if you strike the dew twentie times with a rod

yet will it againe be laden with drops it were enough if we did see no other myracle then from whence this dewie humour should rise which in so short space doth so aboundantly flowe from it and how much the more the burning sunne doth scorch vp the other herbes so much the more is this moist and filled with drops euen as though it had beene sprinkled ouer with water hereupon may we gather his maruelous qualities and iudge that there is some secret operation hidden in it if thou do keepe this water thus gathered in a glasse therewith thou shalt cure all the diseases of the eies whether they come of ru 〈…〉 es or of inflamation it helpeth moreouer all the paines and diseases of the heart it cooleth the liuer and stomacke that is inflamed doth mittigate all the paine of the head that commeth of heart and driueth away all dreames and fantasies it is good also to kil the canker the woolfe against the biting of venemous beastes against poyson dronke if it be taken by the mouth it helpeth also the pestilence it is good for many other diseases which were too long here to rehearse This herb hath the colour of the sunne for his colour is red darke diuided with yellowe lines and his shape is like a star and his proportion like a heauenly planet and consisteth of seauen branches in the vtter parte brode neare the ground narrow it is as though it were heauie of a tender substance outwardly hot and moist inwardly cold and drie The left side of it is cold and moist the right side hotte and drie and it is most temperate as gold Wherefore his elements cannot be seperated one from another as in other herbes but it may be purged from his pheces for his fixing letteth that the Elementes cannot be separated for the fire will ascend with the aire by the Balneum as wee will heereafter teach The earth may bee separated from his Pheces and the Pheces likewise from the fire and ayre although it hath not manie dregs Some latine writers call it Lingua auis or Birdes tongue some call it Solaria of the sunne of Lunaria is called the moone the Flemming cals it Sindow But the old Philosophers haue kept secret the qualities as yet for the maruelous effect it worketh And it is maruell saith Arnold de Villa nou● that a man should die that eateth euery day some of it in his grose substance what will it then worke when it is brought vnto his finenesse and clensed from his pheces It hath this great vertue in it that if it be put into a glasse wherin there is poisō mingled with wine or any other cup that is poisoned straightwaies the glasse wil flie in peeces but if it be a stone pot of aleblaster or such like the wine wil so boile as though there were a violent fire vnder it al the wine wil run out vntil there be nothing left in the vessell also if any man carrie this herb about him happen on his enemies they shal haue no power to hurt but contrariwise to shew him all kinde of dutie Also if any man bee bewitched either in bodie or in his art that is in Cookerie Bruing or Baking or by any other meanes this herb caried about him makes him free from the witchcraft If it bee also tyed vppon the bellie of a woman with childe she shall straightwayes be deliuered although the childe were dead and rotten within as it hath beene oftentimes prooued by experience This herbe caryed about one or a little thereof euerie day eaten as long as it is vsed preserueth man from the falling sicknesse Moreouer if a man bee taken with the Apoplexie that his mouth bee drawen aside and his speech and senses taken from him they shall be all restored againe if the sicke drinke the iuice of this herbe strained as hath beene oftentimes prooued Moreouer if it be hanged about the neck of one that is possessed of a spirit so long as he carieth that about him hee shall be quiet as a Lambe and the power of the spirit shall be taken away Make a proofe and you shall finde it true The bleeding at the nose is by and by stayed if you hold that herbe in your mouth They that are wearied with trauell if they drinke the iuice thereof in wine they are by and by so refreshed as if they had not laboured or gone no iourney it doth comfort the synowes muscles tendons and all the whole nature Woundes are also cured therewith if it bee dronke tenne daies together in wine or ale if the wound be washed with the same drinke and bound vp with a cloth wette in the same The paine of the teeth is by and by apeased if that herbe bee laid vnto it All these things haue beene often prooued and found true If it will doe such things whilest it is yet hindered with his grosse matter what will it worke when it is brought to his perfection My son knowe this for a truth that there is no herbe that growes vppon the earth to be compared vnto this in strength and goodnes therefore take heede that you doe not neglect it but diligently remember and keepe the secret close from them that are not of the nature of our children and from the ignorant For if this herbe did not grow so plentifully and the properties thereof were knowne it woulde bee more esteemed then golde or pretious stones for the effects of the quintaessence are maruelous as heereafter shal appeare Nowe there remaineth that wee must teach howe to bring this hearbe to his highest degree and to his quintaessence First it is to be gathered the same hauing his course in his owne house that is in the lion and the moone behold him with a sinister quadrate aspect It is to be gathered whole with rootes leaues and flowers so that there be neither earth dirt nor other hearbes mingled withall Neither must it by any meane touch any water or be made moyst Therefore you must take heede that you gather it not in rainie wether or moyst wether but rather when the sunne doth shine hottest vpon it gather great store of it and stampe it well in a mortar of Marble and put it in a Cucurbite of stone with a head and receauer luted and set it in balneo and distill away al the water vntill it be so drie like pouder and there will rise together with the water of the color of most fine gold which onely happeneth in this herbe and in none other and when there remaineth no more liquor yet leaue the cucurbite for three or foure dayes in Balneo and boyle it night and day that all the moysture may be perfectly seperated and drawne away then let it coole and take away the receauer and stoppe it diligently then take off the head and take out the matter and beate it in a Marble morter into most fine pouder that it may passe through a