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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

superficies of this powder from whence the purging facultie procéedeth as is plainely shewed in the end of the sixt Chapter is cold therefore ꝑ conclude that it cannot draw any humors into the stomacke My proposition was proued before by the naturall effectes of heate and cold and by the authoritie of Galen before cited in his booke intitled Quos purgere oportete and in his fift booke De simp medi. facul the sixtéene Chapter My assumption I proue thus as is the effect so is the cause but the effect which Mercurie worketh is cold and therefore Mercurie it selfe is cold My proposition in the Philosophers maxime the assumption is proued by instance in the disease called the Palsie and relaxation of the Sinewes which we see dayly happen to those that deals much with Quicksiluer as our Gilders with rich Gold being caused by the sinne of the Quicksiluer Now that the Palsie is a cold disease Galen witnesseth in his fourth booke De causis pulsuum My second instance is taken from another effect of Mercurie which is this When any hath taken a great quantitie as much as will poyson a bodie during all the time of the working of it the partie shall neuer thirst which if it were hot it would inflame the bloud and vitall spirits and cause intolerable thirst as it happeneth after the taking of all hot poysons for the partie will thirst euen to the death which is proued by an example cited of Conciliator in his booke De venenis of an Apothecarie who thirsting in the extreame heate of Summer in the night time tooke a Pitchard of Quicksiluer in stead of some drinke or other and dranke of it forthwith it cooled his thirst congealed the bloud and destroyed the vitall spirits and being found dead in his bed in the morning his body by the aduice of a Phisicion was cut vp and there was found in his stomack one pound of Quicksiluer the bloud in his heart being congealed by which the same Authour concluded that it was of a cold qualitie To these instances may be added that it is in the forme of water altogether without taste not bitter sharpe sowre salt swéete or hauing any stiplicitie or corrosiuenesse Besides these probable inductions the authoritie of diuers of our moderne Authors may be added who haue diligently both by speculation and proofe inuestigated the nature of it whatsoeuer Paracelsus through vaine subtilties and trifling arguments goeth about to perswade the world that it is of a hot qualitie then since the superficiall purging qualitie of this powder is cold it manifestly proueth that it doth not purge by attraction The second reason which proueth that this powder doth not purge by attraction is taken from a sure demonstration by certaine experience which is this The first time that it is administred vnto any bodie it will worke his effect duely as it ought to doe euacuating the humours but if it bee administred againe the next day it will then verie little worke by siege or vomit or nothing at all by reason the first day it did euacuate all the humours within the stomacke and bowels which it then met withall now all other purges attractiue being taken againe the second day will worke afresh because they still drawe mo humours out of the veines and fleshie parts of the bodie and if there bee none to draw they dissolue and melt the flesh it selfe draw bloud out of the veines spirits out of the arteries and so by consequent life it selfe which vice would also bee incident to this powder of Gold if it did worke any whit by attraction which seeing it doth not it cannot hold with the naturall possibilitie of this powder to produce any such fatall euent and as it worketh not Attrahendo so neither doth it worke Comprimendo because it leaueth the bodie after alwayes soluble sometimes a weeke a month yea a quarter of a yeere by which may bee noted the excellencie and preheminence that this purge hath aboue all other purging medicines in the world for this must needes be graunted which Galen himselfe confesseth in his booke entituled Quos purgare oportet That al purging medicines which worke by attraction are verie offensiue to the stomacke and noysome to all parts of the bodie diuers symptomes and great inconueniences following them by reason when there is such a suddaine violent and vnnaturall pulling and riuing the humours from bloud wherein life consisteth nature can hardly endure this seperation being before so firmely vnited together without her great detriment and losse of many spirits the inconueniences and vices whereof I will shew at large in the sixt Chapter Now this purge of Gold seeing it worketh not by attraction cannot be scandalized with any of those blots neither can any such symptomes follow it But happily some may here obiect that if it onely purge Leniendo and Lubricando and not Attrahendo how can it remoue and purge stubborne and rebellious humors out of the veines and solid remote parts of the bodie and then not being able to remoue them how can it be good almost for any disease and to conclude it were as good to take a glister or eate a little Cassia Manna or stued Pruines as to take this golden purge To this I answere that though it purge not the humours within the veines and fleshie parts by attraction yet it doth either helpe nature to digest them or expell them by sweate and Vrine which is a direct course according to natures owne procéedings so you see that it doth worke by vomit siege sweate and vrine according as nature is burdened and ouerladed for if the stomacke bee oppressed with light choler water and flegme it purgeth them by vomit if the intestines and lower parts bee ouercharged with choler water or flegme it worketh by siege if either stomacke or bowels be ouerladen with melancholy it euacuateth alwaies that humour by siege if the bloud and the solid parts of the bodie bee oppressed with any of those humours it dissolueth them and openeth their passage and purgeth them by sweate and insensible expiration If the Emulgent veines or reynes of the backe be burdened with choler flegme or melancholy or haue any obstructions it openeth the passages dissolueth the humours and bringeth them out by Vrine for it purgeth all the vicious and offensiue humours alike not hauing any humour destinate to it but as the body is most ouercharged on that it worketh first In the answering this obiection a greater may arise among the learned and that is this Whereas I say that this powder of Gold dooth purge by sweate and Vrine how can that agrée with naturall Philosophie and experience that a cold qualitie which I affirmed before this powder had can open dissolue sweate and expell by Vrine To this I answere that though the outward superficiall qualitie of this powder of Gold bee cold from the Mercurialitie yet inwardly there is a subtill acrious heate from the Aureitie which is