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The potable balsome of life being a collection of the choicest preservatives that are extant within the three natural families of minerals, vegetables and animals, reduced into such essences and tinctures by the scientifick art of chymie ... by which the bodies which are in health may be preserved ... / published by P. Bellon ...
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Belon, P. (Peter)
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1675
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Wing P3026B; Wing B1856; ESTC R4899
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from the Mines is crude and undigested and imbued with some malignant qualities but not to be rejected since that by due preparations its impurities may be seperated from its purer parts its Homogenious principles from its Heterogenious adherences and its Medicinal virtues freed and purged from all venemous and offensive qualities therefore not to be despised much less wholly rejected for dayly experience teaches us that Vipers which are venemous in their own Nature are notwithstanding inserted in the Theriaca Andromachy not without great success and that the bare suffocation of them in Wine or in its Spirit produces a sovereign Antidote against all Poysons nay what 's more by this bare Emergency they become a test by which such medicaments as are dayly used as Catharticks are examined whether they be of a venemous nature It is not my intention hear to Impeach any particular Medicament least I should add to the general adversion against Physick I have two much respect for it and its learned Dogmatists therefore only in general take this example make choice of two persons as near as you can of one age habit and complexion give to the one an ordinary dose of Viper Wine to the other none then administer to each an ordinary dose of a Cathartick Infusion and you will find that the Person which took the Viper wine shall not be moved and the other sufficiently purged which clearly proves the Alexipharmicalo peration of the Vipers upon the noxious qualities of the said Catharticks which with pricking Volatil Salt irritates the expultrice faculty and so provokes dejection it being a Maxim that none but fix qualities can expel fix diseases Neither is it so much the driving forth by stools of the excrementitious peccant matter which is so effectual as the Evacuations through the Emunctories by Sweats Urines and imperceptible perspirations Now this Preparation which I have chosen here being the most fix of all the Preparations of Antimony for that very reason I have made choice of it having in twenty years experience found it to be most efficacious against the Leprosy the inveterate Itch the Scurvy and all Venereal diseases as also in the Dropsy and generally all obstructions it purifies the Mass of blood helps Melancholy resists Poysons opens Asshmaticks heals Ulcerated lungs cleanses the womb helps Generation and Conception and is indowed with a renewing quality Thus much of Antimony And now Concerning Coral Coral is a stony Vegetation in the form of a Tree sticking fast unto rocks in the bottom of the Sea There are chiefly two sorts the White and the Red but this last is the best There is some of other colours also to be seen in the Closets of curious Persons as Black Yellow Blew and the like As to the choice the Male is the best which is of a deep and clear Red this Concrete if well prepared and opened yeilds a Tincture as red as blood whose effects vitutes are to purify renew the blood it dries cools strengthens the Ventricle and the Liver but chiefly the Heart It is good against the Plague Poysons and malignant Fevers it recreates the spirits stops all Fluxes it is an excellent Anti-Epileptick prevents Convulsions in Children is sovereign in the Palpitation of the Heart Fainting fits Melancholy Dropsy Gout all which it performs through that Solar Tincture which is communicated to it from Gold in a great measure which gives it the true and deserving Title of Preserver and Renewer Concerning Vipers The Viper is a Serpent the most venemous of all Reptils apt to be irritated and when so it drives in the twinckling of an eye from the vesicle of the gall to the gumms through an almost imperceptible vessel so spirituous and subtle a poyson which insinuates and communicates it self so suddainly to the spirits and the natural heat that it as subtlely stupifies the parts as it has bit which poyson communicates it self immediately to the heart and from thence to the brain by the means of Circulation The remedies which this Animal affords are no less surprising admirable than its poyson for it doth not only combat its proper poyson but enervates absolutely overcomes the strength power of all the poisons that the three natural Families does produce provided that these Vipers be well prepared administred in time and order This long-liv'd Animal of so great assistance so abounding in a Balsamick Salt doth not only renew those that frequently make use of its preparations but renews it self also in order to which towards the end of the year when their food begins to fail them they hide themselves under stones and in the Earth where they remain languid till the beginning of the next Spring when so soon as they have fed upon the balsamick blades and sprouts of budding plants refreshed themselves with the Aromatick Air and cherished themselves in the Raies of the Life-giving Sun they seek out rugged places to rub themselves against and strip off their old skin which they have no sooner laid by selves against and strip off their old skin which they have no sooner â—aid by but immediately possest with the sence thereof and of its acquired benefit it crawls more nimbly and declares by the quickness and liveliness of its motion the Oriental colours of its new garment that it is really renewed and that by consequence those remedies which it does yeild can produce the same effects in humane bodies also The Virtues of this Animal are to strongly resist all poysons they are good against Leprosy all Venereal diseases Consumptions Hectick Feavers but chiefly against the Scurvy driving forth through its Volatil Balsamick Salt all the malignant â—erosities which infect the mass of blood the cause and fomenter of this popular disease so raging at this very time amongst us Of the Roots of Sarsa China and of Saffron Rosemary and Lavender flowers These two Indian Roots are so frequently used well known to every vulgar eye that I need not say much concerning them I shall only in few words give you the reasons why I have chosen them to enter into this Composition They abound both in a fix Balsamick Salt in a Faecula which is of a very drying healing quality they are both Diuretick and Diaphoretick friendly to the Liver good against the Dropsy Palsey Gout Head-ache Jaundice Green-sickness the Scurvy all Venereal diseases they heal and dry up all inward Ulcers which makes them to be dayly used in all diseases which require exiccation Saffron is a flower which abounds in such Virtues as are Analogick with the rest of those Ingredients wh ch compose this noble Balsum so that I should have done it wrong not to have inserted it amongst the rest It is a great Anodyne a great Cleanser of the womb a Cherisher of the Heart a Disopilator of the Liver and Spleen a great Provoker of Child-birth and of what should immediately follow it is esteemed the most sovereign Cordial
of the Lungs the actions of its Virtues being carried distributed unto the very last disgestions through the Circulation of the blood and by respiration It is a little Panacea against the Plague all other infections malignant diseases a great Specifick in the Jaundice good against the Apoplex Asthmas and fits of the Mother in a word it abounds in a Balsamick Sulphur which is manifested by its exquisite odour and in a Magnetick salt which makes that afâ—er it has been dessicated it attracts to it self again from the ambient Air that Balsum which affords it afresh the same weight of body the same vivacity of colours and the same activity of odours as it had at first which is a thing worth observation The flower of Rosemary which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by excellency does not come short of the Saffron for not the flower only but the leaves of the plant also are totally Balsamick which renders it a Specifick against all the diseases of the head and of the Genus nervosum they strengthen the stomach clear the Optick nerve resolve open all the obstructions of the Liver Spleen Womb Mesentery Pancreas c. They cleanse and strengthen the Womb help Conception good against the Palsy Apoplex Convulâ—ions the yellow Jaundice Greensickness and the white Effluviums The Flowers of Lavender are absolutely devoted to the Brain and Genus nervosum Therefore excellent against Apoplex Palsy Trembling of Nerves Cramps Convulsions Falling-sickness fits of the Mother and concussions of the Brains All these three Flowers are also excellent in all Contusions old Ulcers Fistulas outwardly applyed especially in spirit of wine Of the Gumm Guajacum This Gumm which proceeds from a great Indian Tree is of so pure a Balsamick body that it dissolves wholly in spirit of wine leaving little or no faeces at all behind it It is drying and healing and taken in a large quantity purges downwards it 's a great Sudorifick and Diuretick and hath an Alexipharmical faculty it is also cleansing dissolving and attenuating All which qualities makes it a Specifick against Venereal diseases for by these forementioned qualities it purifies the blood dryes up and drives forth all superfluous moistures heales all inward wounds ulcers and inflammations strengthens the Nerves resists putrefactions augments the radical Balsum and fortifies the stomach and the Viscera against all putrid humors suppressing all preternatural ferments strengthning the natural Acid. It cures the Dropsy Asshma or stuffing of the Lungs Convulsion fits all diseases of the Bladder Reins pains in the Joints Gout Flatulences Crudities all Cronical diseases especially such as have their being from cold and moist causes It expels all gross and viscous humors helps decay'd memory Catarrhs Deafness Gripings Colicks Sterility Cancers or Ulcers of the Womb and all cold humors It was in respect to this large Catalogue of its excellent Virtues that I have elected it to be the basis of this Balsamick remedy it being a Balsum in it self proper against the Scurvy and all venereal Deseases as likewise a preserver and renovator Of Myrrhe Myrrh is of those Balsamick Gums which are used for the Inbalming of Dead Bodys for their preservation from corruption and Putrefaction during many Ages and seeing that through such properties this Gum has a peculiar Energy of preservation I thought I could not err by introducing it among the rest of our Balsamick Ingredients as a preserver as well as in respect to its other excellent Virtues for it is such a resister of all putrid and corrupt humours and all accidents and diseases that result from thence that it is dayly used in all those diseases that proceed from corruption and putrefaction as in the Scurvy all Venereal diseases Poysons Putrid Feavers Small Pox and the like it is a Cephalick Specifick it drives all impurities from the Womb the dead Child also Facilitates Childbirth what should Immediately follow it and helps conception Provokes Generation strengthens the Nerves and is a sovereign Antidote against the Plague It was not therefore without good reasons that I have admited it to a considerable quantity in this Potable Balsum of Life Some short but necessary reflections upon the meanes of Preservation and Renovation The reasons why I have given the name of Balsum of Life to this excellent composition are because this Medicament is not a bare remedy for the cure of diseases but that also through its admirable Virtues and qualities it is a preserver of Life by the means of its Balsamick Principles and great Virtues in Renovation but because there are divers Persons that will not allow of Preservers and especially of renewers I will indeavour in as few words as I can possible to assert it In order to this that those to whom I address this discourse may the better relish what I shall say hereafter I would desire them to reflect a little upon the dayly method in preservation of dead bodys such as are wholly deprived of all inward assisting qualitys which are nevertheless so preserved through the assistance of some Medicaments as to be kept from Putrefaction for many after ages and then I hope they will be more inclined to approve and allow of a preserving and prolonging power in such Balsamick remedy as may be administred to living bodys such as are replenâ—shed with vital Spirits and a Native Balsum of Life Now whereas our Nature according to the opinion of the learned cannot renew her self without the aid and assistance of some Medicaments by reason of her own insufficiency in the seperation extraction of a pure clear Quintessence from her ordinary and usual food whereby to renew her self we must conclude that these assisters hold the place of Preservers and Renovators For could nature make a pure extraction from the Aliments such a one as would be required for Renovation it would be contented with very little proportion whereas on the contrary she does dayly crave a large quantity of the said Aliments to supply her self withal whereby an abundance of impurities are distributed throughout the whole body which puts her to a continual Labour in the expelling of them again This its deficiency is dayly manifested by a continued vissicitude of Lapsies into divers sorts of distempers but could she extract any such excellency from the aliments life would then be a continued series of health without alteration Now since our Nature is destitute of such qualities too Weak deficient in her self to attain to such a height of perfection by her peculiar fire the Instruments of her own Laboratory Medicine must be invited to her Ayd with refined Balsamick and Spirituous Medicaments such as Almighty God who has promised length of Dayes through his immense goodness to Mankind has ordained for preservation and prolongation of Life whence may be concluded a necessity of such preservatives in Nature whereby our humane Nature being supported and exalted by a pure Quintessence the sphear of