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A20901	The practise of chymicall, and hermeticall physicke, for the preseruation of health. Written in Latin by Iosephus Quersitanus, Doctor of Phisicke. And translated into English, by Thomas Timme, minister; Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis responsio. English	Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1605 (1605)	STC 7276; ESTC S109967	142,547	211

made the world after his owne Image which may plainely appeare in this that albeit the whole world is one yet it ioyeth in the number of thrée being framed in order number and measure in whose bosome these thrée simple bodyes were included Salt Sulphur and Mercurie Therefore let vs compare the workes of God a little with the similitude of the Trinitie The worlde is diuided into these thrée partes Intellectuall Coelestiall and Elementall The Elementall to let the other two alone as lesse known vnto vs consisteth of Minerals Vegetables and animals beside the which there is nothing to bée found in this world Of Minerals there are thrée differences Stones Metals and meane Minerals In like maner among Vegitables there are thrée sorts Herbes Trees and Plants Also of Animals there are thrée orders créeping things swimming things and flying things If we should prosecute euery particular at large wée shall finde this Teruarie euery where and in all the parts thereof But we will consider of man onely in this point Man consisteth of Spirit Soule and body as holy Writ testifieth The Spirit saith Hermes is represented by Mercurie the Soule is represented by Sulphur and the Body by Salt The Spirit consisteth of minde reason and phantasie The Soule hath thrée factulties naturall vitall and Animall The Body is cut into thrée partes in Anatomie to wit into head belly and members These haue thrée principall members wherunto others are subiect the braine the heart and the lyuer The braine hath thrée helpes to purge by the mouth the nostrils and the eares The purgers and receiuers of vncleannesse from the heart are the Midry●e the Lungs and the great Arteries The purgers of the Lyuer are the Milt the bladder of the Gaule and the Reines So there are thrée principall vessels which doe serue the whole body namely the Arteries the Sinewes and the Veines Further if we consider the head againe it hath thrée skinnes The braine hath thrée bellyes two soft before and one hard behinde There are thrée principall instruments of voyce the throate the pallate and the kernels To conclude this point if all these should bée disseuered and separated into their beginnings they might be resolued into Mercurie Sulphur and Salt whereof they consist Therefore these thrée formall beginnings which we haue described by their offices and propertions albeit they are more spirituall than corporall yet being ioyned with simple Elements they make a materiall body mixt and compound they increase and nourish it and preserue it in his estate vnto the predestinated ende And séeing the properties Impressions and faculties are inset and included in those beginnings and haue those vitall qualities of tastes odours and colours hidden in them how materiall soeuer those séedes be yet notwithstanding they rather contende to come néere to Forme than to Matter but the Elements doe more cleaue and inclyne to Matter than to Forme And therefore the Phylosophers call them properly simple beginnings formall because they are more principall adorned and inriched with the first and chiefe faculties of astral séedes But the Elements they call beginnings materiall simple To the one they attribute actuall qualities and to the other passiue And so of them both as it were secondarily and so neere as may be all mixt bodyes are compounded and doe consist If therefore we shall throughly discusse and ransacke euery particular indiuidiall in his kinde and their generation we shall finde that which is said to be true namely that some simple beginnings are formall and spirituall others materiall corporall and visible And that the Inuisibles are the Elements simple formall the astral séedes and spirituall beginnings Also that the visibles are all one and the same but yet couered with a materiall body The which two bodyes spiritual and material inuisible and visible are contained in euery Indiuiduall albeit that which is spiritual cannot be discerned but by reason of motion of life and of functions and yet is within it These visible and material bodyes are of thrée sortes Séedes Beginnings Elements Of these 3. some are Actiue as Séeds and Beginnings Passiue as are the Elements The Actiue bodies of visible Séeds wherein there is any vertue are The séedes of liuing creatures put forth by Venus The séedes of herbes trées in their seueral cases trunkes The séeds of Mines ouerwhelmed with a great heape of impediments All which lye hidden in themselues haue Spirits The Actiue bodies of beginnings haue Two moyst Mercurie Sulphur One drie Salt Mercurie is a sharpe liquor passable and penetrable and a most pure Aethereall substantiall body a substance ayrie most subtill quickning and ful of Spirit the foode of life and the Essence or terme the next instrument Sulphur is that moyst swéet oyly clammy original which giueth substance to it selfe the nourishment of fire or of natural heat endued with the force of mollifying and of giuing together Salt is that dry body saltish méerely earththy representing the nature of Salt endued with wonderfull vertues of dissoluing congealing clensing emptying and with other infinite faculties which it exerciseth in the Indiuiduals and seperated in other bodyes from their indiuiduals These thrée beginnings were by Hermes the most ancient Philosopher called Spirit Soule and Body Mercurie the Spirit Sulphur the Soule Salt the Body as is already said The body is ioyned with the spirit by the bond of Sulphur the soule for that it hath affinitie with both the extreames as a meane coupling them together For Mercury is liquid thinne flexible Sulphur is a soft oyle passable salt is dry thicke and stable The which notwithstanding are so proportionate together or tempered equally the one with the other that a manifest signe and great analogie or conuenience is found in this contrarietie of beginnings For Sulphur or that oyly moysture is as I haue said a meane which with his humidity softnesse and fluidity or passablenes ioyneth the two extreames that is to say fixed salt and flying Mercurie that is to say the drynes of salt and the moystnes of Mercurie with his viscus and clammy humiditie the thicknesse of salt and the subtiltie of Mercurie vtterly contrary with his fluiditie which holdeth the meane betwéene stable and flying Moreouer Sulphur by reason of his excéeding swéetnesse doth contemper the sharpnesse or sowernes of Mercurie and the bitternesse of salt and by his clammynes doth conioyne the subtill flying of Mercurie with the firmnesse and fastnesse of salt CHAP. V. Concerning Salt OF all other the Philosophicall salt is of greatest vertue and force to purge and is as it were the generall clenser of whole nature deliuering the same from al impuritie whether it bée the belly by siege the stomacke by vomit the reines by vrine or the body by sweate opening clensing obstructions comming of what cause soeuer This kinde of purging is very large whose partes albeit they tend to one end yet they haue as it were diuers contrary effects procéeding frō one

is seated the fountaine of all motions of life and of heat resembleth that celestial middle world which is the beginning of life of heat and of all motions in the which the Sunne hath the preheminence as the heart in the brest But the highest and supreme parte which is the head or the braine containeth the original of vnderstanding of knowledge and is the seate of reason like vnto the suprem intellectual world which is the Angelical world For by this part man is made partaker of the celestial nature of vnderstanding of the féeling and vegetating soule and of all the celestial functions formal and incorruptible when as otherwise his elementary world is altogether crosse material and terrestrial And as man as touching his substancial forme possesseth all the faculties of the soule and their degrées that is to say the natural which is vegelatiue the animal which is sensatiue and vital and the Rational which God inspired into man when hée had made him euery of the which thrée contained vnder them thrée other inferiours whereof to speake in this place is néedlesse so as concerning the material body of man there are in him thrée radical and balsanick essences out of the which both the containing parts of the body as the fleshy and more solid and also the contained parts that is to say the spiritual and fluible parts are made compacted nourished and doe draw their life Salt in them is the radical beginning of all the solyd parts as being also in the animal séede it compacteth and congealeth the solid parts so as it is accounted the foundation of the whole frame But the radical beginning of swéete Sulphur in the animal which is the natural moist original oylelike sheweth it selfe in the fat grease and marrow and such other parts as wel hidden as manifest The radical Mercury wholy spiritual and ethereal which is that inset and natural spirit of euery part and member the next instrument of the soule doth no lesse declare it selfe in maintayning and concerning the animal life as being the very same which from the soule is the life powred into the body which the Sulphurus part nourisheth and sustaineth These thrée radical essences shut vp in the séed of the animal which we haue set forth in the framing of man both according to forme and matter doe procreate in his members thrée kindes of spirits and faculties The first faculty is that which is called natural or vegetal which being chiefely seated in the liuer taketh conseruation and nourishment from Salt that first radical beginning and base of the others The vital faculty seated in the heart is cherished and sustained by a Sulphurus liquor the which liquor is the natural moysture and fountaine of heate and of life The animal faculty wholy Mercurial ethereal and spiritual and the principal instrument of the functions of the soule is placed in the braine which is defended and conserued by Mercury the third radical beginning which is wholy ethereal and spiritual Hereby it is plaine that these radical spirits or substancial and formal beginnings of things doe so mutually embrace one the other and which is more the one wil beget the other But the terrestrial and solid Salt which is discerned to be in the bones and in other hard parts doth compact and knit together with his gluing force the more soft parts with the hard euen as a windy spirit or windy ayer shut vp in euery body doth make a liuing body more light and nimble then a dead carkasse The which qualities and faculties are wholy elementary as procéeding rather from matter then forme And thus briefely is shewed the thrée beginnings of man and their faculties and powers The body thus compacted and made of these thrée beginnings hath néede of his daily foode and nourishment whereby it may be preserued Which nourishment cannot be supplyed from any other then from those things which are of the same nature whereof it consisteth For we are nourished with those things whereof it consist Neuerthelesse for so much as the bodie is weak tender by his first original it is not to be fed with the more hard food but with meat which wil easily be concocted and turne to nourishment containing these thrée beginnings Such milke which is giuen to Infants to suck without art or labour doth plainly enough shew his thrée beginnings For the butter sheweth the sulphurus substāce the whay sheweth mercurial and the chéese his saltish beginning This milke being of one and the same essence contayning these three substances is easily concocted in the stomack of the Infant and is first turned into a white iuice and then into blood The which blood possesseth that which is more formal and radical in these beginnings separating and abiecting the rest into feces and excrement Also the same blood being carried into the heart by the veyne called Vena Cana which is as it were the Pellican of nature or the vessel circulatory is yet more subtilly concocted and obtaineth the forces as it were of quintessence or of a Sulphurus burning Aquavita which is the original which is the original of natural vnnatural heat The same Aquanita being carried from hence by the arteries into the Balneum Maris of the braine is there exalted againe in a wonderful maner by circulations and is there changed into a spirit truly ethereal and heauenly from whence the animal spirit procéedeth the chiefe instrument of the soule for that it commeth more néere to that same spiritual nature then doe the other two beginnings For as from wine those thrée beginnings are extracted by a skilful workeman the which also may be done out of milke with lesse labour so in blood which we rightly compare to wine are those thrée beginnings which by nature her selfe executing the office of a true Alchymist hath prudently and seuerally distributed and dispearced into all the parts of the bodie in such measure as is fitting to euery member giuing to the bones sinewes and ligaments more plenty of the salt substance then of the others to the fat grease and marrow the substance Sulphurus and to the flesh and humours which come out of blood and to the nourishing and natural spirits whether fixed flowing or wandring a greater plenty of the Mercurial spirit That first age of infancie ouerpassed and greater strength being increased to concoct and digest meat then the stomack offereth it selfe to more solyd and firme sustenance as to bread wine and such like comming as wel out of the store of vegetables as of animals fed and sustained by the same vegetables which are passed into an animal nature that is to say sensatiue euen as a mineral substance is brought into a vegetatiue It is afore shewed that the vegetables and animals appointed for mans substance doe change and come into his substance and nature with their beginnings whereof they consisted so as they being deuoured and concocted and turned into that white iuice called Chylus and