ill dispos'd Milk or when the Infant is infirme and cannot digest the Milk received where it corrupts and sowres in the Ventricle which corruption degenerats into an eruginous virid and Vitriolated virulency ut ex eorum rejectionibus ac vomitibus hujusce coloris videre est whence are rendred those fearfull accidents of that more horrid Malady And this Hipocrates makes more authentick where his Oracle Prognosticats your Galenicall errour in this Aphorisme Comitiales Melancholici facile fiant Melancholici Comitiales Though I presume he never suspected such complexions to abound with acide and Vitriolated humors Come let us to worke then and let not your Lady hands make any conscience in picking the Colliars Purse Off with arts Epidemicall delicacies and learne first to make Glasse malleable with the Fat of your Mothers Entrals And then our Freshmans first operation the Sublimation of Wine shall be my instance to prove that the veins of Mans little Earth doe flow with Minerals and Semiminerals no lesse than those of the greater worlds Earth Whilst our Coals are kindling therefore let us sit down and rub up our Sophistry a little that the World may see per Artem Spagiricam we can rectifie errours by the Circulation of reason and the Cohobation of Experience Reason therefore thus disputes Si magna est ejusmodi Vitriolarum Mercurialium Sulphuriarum Salium copia in multis Vegetabilibus quibus nutrimur ex quibus elaboratur Sanguis sequitur ut similibus inquinatur Sanguis Sed in Vino Cerevisia Pomatio Pyratio c. ejusmodi Sulphura Salia reperiuntur Ergo Your tutor Galen I know hath taught you to say nego minorem Your own experience too perchance in the Sublimation of so many Quaâ—t Pots can confute me who in none of those lâ—quors could ever see or tast any such imaginary Salts Yet me thinks I over-heare a secret confession acknowledge that in many Wines which have past a triall of Fire you have often found store of Saccharine Salts Sweet Sir be not then so glucupricontically obstinate but let 's to work and make the Alembick our moderator I will give you an instance in a cup of Claret to excite alacrity in our operations and to extract your errours out of your own Element In this distillation your dullest sense shall feele the truth of our argument and you shall see in this enucleation of Wine both Vitriolated Nitrosulphureous and Tartareous Salts which demonstrated Consequence shall force your beliefe to acknowledge the same in our blood By the way I desire you to be patient and stir not lest we break Glasses for this operation is very phlegmatick and your Choler may alter our degree of heat and so produce an Empyreuma in our Aquavitae Stand quietly therefore with expectation like a Spaniard at the siege of a Piazzâ— and presently your errour shall evaporate and both our opinions shall dance together in a Limbeck Marke therefore how true an Analogy there is between Wine and Mans bloud and then tell me whether Hermeticks nurse any Opinions but what are legitimate to reason From Wine therefore we first Sublimate the Aquavitae by a temperat heat in Balneo From Bloud by the same soft naturall heat of the heart is separated the Aquavitae also Spiritus vitalis Againe from Aquavitae by Rectification and Circulation we extract the Spirits of Wine a part more aethereall and essentiall than Aquavitae a drop whereof let fall â—stius in auram evanescat quam in terram delabatur So from the Aquavitae or Vitall Spirits of the Bloud by Rectification and Circulation in the naturall Balneo Maris of the Brain are produc'd the Animall Spirits the which likewise in subtility and purenesse doe infinitely excell the Vitall In these preparations remaine great quantity of unprofitable Phlegme And is not the same in Bloud After the Separation of the spirits and Phlegma from Wine there remains store of dregs which abound with Sulphur Niter and Tartar The like shall you discover in the distillation of Bloud where Choler doth aptly Symbolize with those Faeces that being Nitrosulphureous Of the Dregs of Wine is made Vinegar whose Pontick and Acide Taste doth wholy resemble naturall Melancholy which subsides in the Bloud and from whence nature supplys the Kitchin of her Stomack with Vinegar her Cook using no other Sawce to excite appetite In the distillation of Vinegar likewise their remains a Tartareous Sediment so sharp black and acrimonious the major part being a Vitriolated Salt that dissolve the least quantity of it in a competent part of Water and it instantly inquinats the whole masse making it Acide like Vinegar And this is likewise seen in the Bloud for those black dregs of Vinegar correspond unto black Choler or Melancholy Adust as you falsely call it for it is not such from any Adustion as you dreame but from the separation of the Mercuriall from their Sulphureous parts by whose permixtion before it was made temperate those Corrosive Salts being as it were lull'd asleep in Mercuriall Humidityes which is evidently seen in Culinary Vinegar whose Mercuriall Phlegma not separated is edible and usefull but those humidityes by ebullition once evaporated his Salts like drowned Flyes sensible of heat begin to actuate as your Tongue may taste and testifie 'T is evident therefore Adustion cannot produce such Acrimonies for give Common Water or the Phlegma of Wine all the ebullitions and re ebullitions you can they shall never be brought to this Acrimony which you call Adustion because they are destitute of those Vitriolated and Nitrosulphureous Salts What you find in this Anatomy of Wine the very same is likewise in Cyder Perry and Beer and not our Drinks only but all our nourishment be it of Vegetables or Animals abounds with those Sulphurs and Salts How then shall the Bloud escape from their infection your own Master tells you talem esse Sanguinem quale Nutrimentum Let an ingenuous confession then coutch â—his erroneous Cataract and so without â—ading your Nose with Ages glasen Opticks you may perspicuously discover the grosnesse of your Methodicall Errours which envidious Ignorance would never yet suffer to be brought to the Copella of Examination Then armed with Truth you may boldly bring hither many a ridiculous Page of Galens to supply the defect of charta Emporetica I will not here discover any lest Imitating the Sons of Noah I detect Paternall nakednesse No! but rather with reverence I adore the Divine Oracle of Hipocrates acknowledgâ—ing Galen to be our {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and admiring their sedulity and Infinite labours in laying the first Foundation of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} his Temple thaâ— future Ages by their examples might daylâ— adde a Stone to their Architecture thaâ— so with time it might glory in Perfeâ—ction Those good old men are not to be coâ—â—temned or neglected because their first Prinâ—ciples have past the Alembick of so maâ— Brains that now all
chance hang his Head for it For thus you corrupt the Embassadours and Agents which Spiritus Naturalis imployes in the Stomaticall Territories by diverting them from their Function whereby their charge is rawly executed Next you give a false Alarme throughout the whole Microcosme making Spiritus Animalis retire his Forces to the Cephalick Peninsuâ—a when there is more necessity of their succour â—n terra firma Lastly you rob the Treasury â—rawing from the Exchequer of the Heart â—ood Angel-Gold pure vitall Spirits and â—nd back false indigested Metall all Mercuâ—iall falsifyed by a weak externall Tincture â—nly but brought to Natures test alla Copella â—nd after dissolved in her rectified Spirits you â—hall scarce draw from a Pound one scruple â—f perfect Aurum potabile Thus likewise you cause fearfull Inundatiâ—ns in this Peninsula making his Fluxes and â—efluxes so Violent that they drown the very â—arrow and Heart of the Soil bringing with â—a Marine Saltness whose Corrosive heat conâ—â—mes the true Balsamicall moisture leaving â—â—ose Parts where it runs so impregnable that â—â—thing prospers there but Tussilago Nor is this all the Danger for by eating â—â—icks in the Neck-land it threatneth the â—â—ole Continent Here in the Chamber of Memoria I found Book in Manuscript full of Politicall Maxâ—es and Matchavilian Principles for the bet 〈…〉 Government of the Sephalick State The â—â—â—ef whereof were these â— How ever the World go be not too Viâ—â—â—ant in your Affairs leâ—t by over greediness of Gain you lose your Interest in the Publique Treasury and at last abandoned by Intellectus you grow out of Memory amongst your Friends and so pass for a Man of small Judgement 2. Be carefull that the Inland Inhabitants suffer not their Culinary Excrements to lye putrifying in their Channells but dayly to evacuate them by the Port Esculine For believe me the Contagious exhalations which ascend from those faetidâ— neglects will quickly breed the Sickness in the Cephalick Land 3. This Peninsula being barren and receiving all his Provisions from the Continent 't is necessary that you keep an Eye open upon the Stomaticall Magazin and see that Memory forget not her self to charge all the Lady Sences to be vigilant in this action and not so much as to Dream of any other negotiation untill they have seen a full and perfect distribution For if you let those Ministers sleep you may be supplied with a corrupt Munition sufficient to morbifie all your Inhabitants 4. Here Intellectus must answer the adviâ—â— of his Physitian Sensus Communis with obeâ—dience and moderate his hours of Recreatâ—â—on in the Helicon lest he grow dull witâ— those stupid Vapours and so unapt to negoâ—ciate be at last put out of his Office by the Princess Phantasia 5. As far as Possibility permits this Peninsula must be defended from those injurious Sea Winds especially from that Pincerna pluviae the South whose humid Gusts supported on the wings of noysome Foggs lend a new body to the investing Aer increasing the Violence of his Fluxes and sending a Repletion even into the Cranyes of that Earth 6. Here is allowed to Intellectus his particular Recreations for the preservation of his Vigour and Health and those he shall borrow from the Lady Sences For sometime Visus shall divert his too serious and retir'd meditations with the reviving Aspect of some actuating Beauty whose presence will give such a charge to his defatigated Spirits that in a Point of Time by the strong refraction of those Rayes all his forces shall be inflamed with a renovating Fire Tactus yet more audacious shall bring him on to touch this Beauty making him imbrace Corporality to adde a greater feeling to his Delights And there the Intellect might die in Eâ—â—tasy did not Auditus presently by some Syrene voice or Orphean Instrument relieve his melting Soul from the Abyss of Plesure And lastly Gustus shall salute him with her Arms full of restoring Dishes making the Lady Lingua invite him to a Sack Posset as the most proper Nâ—penthes for his Lassitude and of all approved for an Authentick settle-brain In this my Cephalicall Mâ—pp you may discover the Head to be the most noble part of the Microcosme the little Worlds Britania Wisdoms Cabinet The Muses Parnassus Apollo's Oracle Minerva's Temple and which crowns all the Souls Imperiall terrestiall Tribunall whose Foundation is the Body which if once impaired his fair buildings fall and kiss their Mother Earth for a second admission into her Bowels Who then so desperate of sence as to neglect the preservation of so Principal a Part Believe me 't were Madness in the abstract and such might well pass for Hair-brain'd humorists This my second Course therefore shall consist wholly of Cephalicall Preservatives Look from one end of my Table to the other and you shall not see either gross flatulent unctuous vaporous nauseous or crude and indigestible meats such as are Old Beefe Milk Fat Broths strong Wines Butter Black Olives Nuts Onions Cabbage raw Sallads Beans Pease Rochet or any such Cephalick Enemy No! I sent my Spenditore to Galens Market where he bought me these Ingredients Betonica Majoran Salvia Hyssopus Melissa Rosmarin Fol. laur Satureia Ruta Ocymum Cal. arom Melilotus Paeonia Sem. Faenic Coriandri Anisi Rad freos Caryophyllata Visc. Querc Flor. Tiliae Bac. Iunip Acorus Pulegium Nepita Euphrasia Calaminta Serpillum Spica Lavendul Origanum Horb paraly Lil. conval Galangae Staech Arab. Chamomilla Anacard Nuc. Mosch. Succinum Moschus Ambra griz Lig. Aloes Caryophyll Cubebae Cardamomi Macis c. And these by an Essentiall Fire we have brought into Quintessences Elixars Extracts Tinctures Balsoms Magistralls Spirits Arcani and the like all which you shall find far more toothsome Specificall to Cephalicall Distempers than any of these following Methodicall Dishes Diambra Diamosc amar Diacastor Diapaeonias Theriaâ— dâ—â—tes Pleres archont Opâ—yra Conf. Anacard Hygija Graec. Diaolibar Aurea Alex. Mithridat Dianthos Theriaca c. No I presume all sorts of delicate and nice tempers will rather honour our Hermeticall Feast especially those curious Females whose very Stomacks are Complementall in so much that they will not take a grain of Physick under a Pound of Ceremonies Nor can I blame them For whose Disease hath once invited them to Galens Table they shall find that the Nauseous variety of Syrups Potions Boles Pills Apozemes Emulsions Powders Electuaries Lozenges Eclygmes with a world of such like Kitchin-stuff shall give his Stomack so compleat a Surfit that at a second invitation they will rather dispensing with good manners appeal thrice to the Judgment of the Nose before they will once ask the Opinion of the Palate This if any man deny I refer him to the infallible experience of his next Malady oâ— to the Volums of Hippoc. Galen Aviâ—en Rhasis Aretaeus Aetius c. Whose practise our Methodists now wholly imitate Read those and you shall find most bitter Examples of all that I have mentioned And whose
Elixir which is the Stomacks proper Balsamum â„ž Cinamomi Zedoariae Cardamom Maceris an. â„¥ j. Garyophyl Nuc. Mosch. Cubeb an. â„¥ j. ss. Galanoae Ê’iij Piper long Ê’vj Garyoph hortens Ros. Rub. Flor. Buglos Flor. Menthae Rom. an. M. j. Folior Menth Rom. Absinthii an. M. ss. Bruse them small in a Mortar and adde thereto ten ounces of the Crum of white Bread Put all into a Glass Cucurbita and powre thereto of the best Sack as much as they can drink with two fingers depth advantage close your Glass according to art then give it 8. dayes Fermentation which done adjoyn this Emulsion â„ž Amygd dulc. excort lb. ss. Aqu. Rosar Buglos an. lb. ij Sacchar albis â„¥ iij Fiat emulsio Then destill all in Balneo secund. attem The Dose is two spoonfulls an hour before and after meat Here follows an other more excellent â„ž Spir. Vini cum Spirito Sem. Anisii animato lb.j. Theriacae â„¥ j. Confect Alcher â„¥ ss. Specier Diarrhod Ab. Zinzib Maceris Cinamom an.Ê’j. Cort. Citri Ê’iij The Ginger Mace Cinamon and Citron-peeles being all grosly beaten mix all together and in Balneo by a gentle heat extract the Tincture To which you shall adde these Tinctur Succini Tinctur Corallor an. ℈ j. Tinctur Auri. Essent Perlar. an. gut xx Spir. Menthar Spir. Faenic Spir. Melissae an. â„¥ ss. Spir. Rosar â„¥ j. Essentiae Sacci â„¥ ij Tinctur Croci gut xij Who please may proceed farther in this Preparation by separating the Spirits from the first Theriacall Tincture in Balneo vaporoso which Spirits being Sublimated he shall find at the bottom of his Cucuâ—bita an Extract or coagulated Tincture admirable in Corroborating the Principle Parts specially the Heart and Stomack and far surpassing the Common Theriaca against all pestilential and infectious Aer Then to those Spirits thus separated from their Tinctures you may adde the other forementioned Tinctures And who ever can attain to this believe me he enjoyes a Treasure worthy of a Princes Cabinet whose vertues are so infinite that they would lose themselves in Expression It asswageth all inward dolours of the Stomack Heart Liver Bowels c. And that on an Instant 'T is a Panacaea in all Pestilentiall Fevers both Prophylactick and Therapeutick It corroborates all the Vitall Parts and renovates the Oyl of Ages decaying Lamp To conclude it recalls a departing Soul by rendring the Annuall Tribute which weak Natures exhausted Treasury could no longer disburse Hippocras and Artificiall Aromaticall Wines are much in use with us in England not without Cause since they have a peculiar Efficacy in repairing Cold weak and decaying Stomacks That those therefore which honour my Feast may at all hours and on any occasion prepare a Quart of Hippocras for their Friends in an Instant I will favour them with this insuing Hippocraticall Extract â„ž Cinamom â„¥ ij vel iij Garyophyl â„¥ ss. Zinzib Macropip Cardamom Gran. Parad. Galaneae an. Ê’ij Nuc. Mosch. Ê’j.ss Being all grosly powdred put them into a Glass Violl and powre thereon of the Spir. of Wine to the eminence of 4. fingers Stop your Glass close and set it in Balneo or in Summer in the Sun for the Space of three or four Dayes untill the Spirits have rob'd the Aromaticks of their Tinctures this done separate it from the Faeces and reserve it for your use When any of you therefore desire a Cup of Hippocras mix but Ê’ ss. of this Tincture with a Pint or more of Sack adding what Quantity of Sugar you please or which is better the Essence of Sugar and your desire is answered a Glass of which with a Toast before meat gives no small Check to a cold distemper Here likewise I present a Tast of Spagiricall Claâ—et to your weak Stomacks by the often use of which neither Crudities or Ventosities shall impaire your Digestion â„ž Cinamom â„¥ ij Maceris â„¥ ss. Dactyllor num 20. Myccbal num 4. Uvar. passul â„¥ v. vel 6. Sem. Anisi Coriand prae an. â„¥ j. Faenicul â„¥ ss. With the Spirits of Wine and Canary Sack of each lb iij being mixt set them in some cool Cellar to ferment the space of four or five Dayes Of this you may take one or two spoonfulls in a morning If I mistake not I heard some of you call for a glass of Wormwood Wine I have none ready prepared but here is a little Violl of the Spirits of Wormwood with which who please to make a Triall and put â—ut some few drops in a glass of ordinary white Wine he shall find his desire satisfied with a Cup of exquisite Wormwood Wine far more effectuall then any Galenicall maceratiâ—n or Infusion And that your defect may be supplied when this small quantity shall be exhausted I â—ere lend you the receit whereby you may â—ereafter furnish your self and pleasure a friend â„ž Summitat Absint q.s. affunde aq com s.q. stent in digestione per dies aliquot potest quid ad fermentandum adjici Destilletur per Vesicam exibit aquam oleum quippiam continens Oleum per Seperatorium separetur Aqua tota Cucurbitae vitreae indatur atque in Balneo semel atque iterum rectificetur saltem pars spirituosior absirahatur quae odorem saporem Absinthit retinet This hath a singlar Vertue in corroboraâ—ing both Stomack and Liver it resists putriâ—action and deopilates obstructions and is a â—pecifical Preservative against all Stomattical â—nd Intestinall Vermine Spirit of Mints is â—ikewise an excellent and peculiar prophylactick of a Weak and cold Stomack some few drops thereof put into a Cup of Sacâ— with a Toast adjoyning a drop of the Essence of Cinamon and taken an hour before meat To think to please every Mans Palate may well inlarge the List of Impossibilities yet Despair shall not interrupt my Carving and where one Dish likes not variety shall presently bring in another So that at length â—â— presume the major part shall satisfie the variability of Fancy and give Appetite a Delight in the Stomacks preservation Who then please may tast of this Spagiricall Stomaticall Syrupe which in delicacy and Vertue excelleth all your ordinary Cinamon-Waters â„ž Cinam gros mod pulv â„¥ iiij Vini Hispamâ— lb. ij Let them infuse in Balneo three dayes then separate the Tincture from his Faeces and adding thereto lbâ— ss. of pure white Sugar put all into a Glass Cucurbita and with a boiling Balneo distill it untill it remain at the Bottom in consistence of a Syrup So in one Operation you injoy both a Syrup and an excellent Cinamon Water both of which for Corroborating a Weak Stomack and expelling Melancholy from a pensive Heart may take possessiâ—n among your Secrets But to make it more perfect in place of Sack you shall use Spir. of Wine In the same manner you shall make Syrup of Nutmegs the which is a little more Speâ—ificall for the Stomack For windiness of the Stomack and Bowels you may