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A78096 A short description and vindication of the true sal volatile oleosum.Of the ancients wherein 'tis prov'd the great medicine of the spirits; and consequently, an universal remedy. By T. Byfield, M.D. Byfield, T. (Timothy) 1699 (1699) Wing B6399; ESTC R232656 6,670 20

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A Short Description and Vindication Of the True Sal Volatile Oleosum OF THE ANCIENTS Wherein 't is prov'd The Great Medicine of the Spirits And consequently An Universal Remedy By T. BYFIELD M. D. LONDON Printed for R. Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. Price Two Pence A Short Description and Vindication Of the True Sal Volatile Oleosum THE Errors about this Noble Medicine are so many and so gross they deserve not to be refuted But the disparagement done to Learning thereby as well as Damage to the Healths and Lives of Persons has concerned me in the Preparation and Vindication of it All the Learned Masters of Chymistry who have treated of this Celebrated Medicine have declared the Subject to be the Salt of Nature alone altho they have obscurely wrote concerning its Discovery and Preparation which has precipitated many into very great Errors who not knowing the Subject busie themselves about other things altogether unfit for this Work But if they wou'd consider what this Salt is in its own Nature and what Qualities it hath and so comparing the Qualities of their Compositions with the Qualities of this Salt of Life the Thing it self wou'd discover what is Truth and what not Take a Description of it in these Particulars 1. The Subject of the true Sal Volatile Oleosum must be only one thing For Oleosum is opposite to Macrum as Fat to Lean. 2. The Virtues and Powers of the Superiors and Inferiors are concentrated in it 3. It containeth in it self the Vital Fire 4. 'T is incombustible and despiseth the Violence of the Flames 5. 'T is both Volatil and Fixt 6. It containeth the three Principles of Nature in the highest Purity viz. Salt Sulphur and Mercury 7. 'T is of great Splendor Ponderosity and Tenuity 8. It contains the Vital Tincture of the World in Potentia 9. 'T is the very Spring of Radical Moisture 10. 'T is only one Clean Bright Fat Salt I know there are many who will not approve of this Description of our Medicine especially those who are employ'd about divers Mixtures and Compositions which they call by this Name altho they have nothing of the Nature and Virtues of the true Medicine But such wou'd do well to consult the Ancient Philosophers who expound the Principles and their occult Operations Then the certainty of this Salt wou'd be evidently known by shewing Sulphur residing in it in the form of a Subtil Thin Illuminating Oil of an Ethereal Quality And Mercury as the Aereal Humidity and the inseparable Companion of Sulphur and the Medium to conjoin it with the Salt And the Principle of Coagulation is the Salt wherein is secur'd the Mercury and Sulphur for it is call'd Domicilium invisibilis seminis So you have the three Principles of Nature all in one Saline Body But Salt is always reckon'd first by Chymists because whoever has the true Universal Salt of the World has Mercury and Sulphur included You must be very wary in the Choice of your Salt for it is of most profound search and differs much from all other Salts Avicen discoursing of this Medicine says Salia cujuscunque generis sint nostrae Arti sunt contraria excepto Sale Naturae Sal Naturae in centro Elementorum qualificatione Astrorum per Spiritum Mundi absque ulla cessatione generatur radiis Solis Lunae in ma●● Philosophico gubernatur Arnoldus But Morienus gives the Receipt Spiritus Vniversi dicitur Sal Spirituosum illud Sal extrahitur mensibus vernalibus Sole ad nos redeunte Illud ipsum Sal ex rore Majali colligitur ex eoque fit conficitur Medicina Vniversalis If your Salt be right in the Anatomy of it you 'l see a certain Subtil Shining Transparent Oil which is the Oleosum of the Medicine full of Active Virtue and containing the Vital Fire of the World But most Temperate Equal and Similar to Life in Man For the Natural Heat or Fire in Bodies is that Vital Flame which forms its own Body and is nothing else but the Spirits or Fiery Life in Creatures And this Fire or Life which preserves Beings must be cloathed with such an Essence as can pierce and penetrate all Bodies whatsoever for where it cannot penetrate it cannot quicken and illuminate The Sun by its Fire doth excite and quicken every thing upon Earth So the Fire which is proper an● peculiar to every Creature does preserve in it Life For we find that when our Heat or Warmth begin● to decrease in its wonted Activity we grow Dull Cold and Unactive and when it ceaseth altogether we Die and Perish It may be observ'd in declining Age when Natural Heat abates that a cold Phlegmacy and rawness abounds with a crude Earthiness and such Persons have often fresh insipid Urines for want of the Salt of Life which is inseparable from the Volatil Living Fire Experience shews that wheresoever our Fire is strong Salt abounds as in Sweat Urine c. The Salter any ones Sweat and Urine is the more lively and vigorous he is So that Salt is the consequent of Fire Wheresoever Salt is there Fire is also whether it be in Air Earth Vegetables Animals c. Some of the Ancients have called the Sun the Salt of the World For which reason 't is probable the Greeks call'd Salt ἅλας and the Sun Ἥλιος The Romans called the Sun Sol and Salt Sal representing the likeness of their Natures by the likeness of their Names 'T is said Mark 9. 49. Every one shall be salted with Fire And this Fire or Life which is in the Salt is properly that which preserves the Creatures from Putrefaction For when this Life hath once left the Salt we are told Matth. 5. 13. That it is good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trod under Foot by men Every Creature hath its vivifying Spirit or Fire and stands in need of a Spiritual Nutriment which is plentiful in the Air and to be attracted in the Form of a tender Oily Salt And since Spirit of Blood is a fine Volatil Salt what more similar and uniform than the Salt of Air to that of Blood But 't is from the Sulphur and Mercury contain'd in the Salt that it becomes capable of Production for with them the Volatil living Fire insinuates it self most intimately with its influential Virtues giving Splendor and Spirit to the Salt Thus it becomes agreeable to all Creatures for the sustaining of Life and those Bodies that are most impregnated with it are in a better State of Health and Vigor Besides 't is the true Vital Ferment of Bodies and Root of Radical Moisture For by the Action of the Fire upon the Principles is generated the Balsom of Nature and Seminal Spirits and these are coagulated in this Salt of Nature which is the Soul of the Earth and of all other things If the Earth were depriv'd of this Salt it wou'd want the Power of Sprouting and