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life_n	age_n	live_v	old_a	4,232	5	5.4475	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43286	Fons salutis, or, The fountain of health opened in the wonderful efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl, which is made of sulphur vive, set on fire and called commonly, oyl of sulphur per campanam / faithfully collected out of the writings of the most excelling philosopher and unparalel'd physitian of this last age, John Baptist Van Helmont, lately deceased, and confirmed by the experience of Thomas Moulson ...	Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.; Moulson, Thomas.	1665 (1665)	Wing H1399; ESTC R15958	7,620	23

FONS SALUTIS OR THE Fountain of Health OPENED In the Wonderful Efficacy and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl which is made of Sulphur Vive set on fire and called commonly Oyl of Sulphur per Campanam Faithfully Collected out of the writings of the most excelling Philosopher and unparalel'd Physitian of this last age John Baptist Van Helmont lately deceased and confirmed by the experience of Thomas Moulson Operator in Chymistry and Med. Lond. LONDON Printed by Andrew Coe and are to be sold at Thomas Moulson's House in Tenter Ally in Little Moor-Fields at the signe of the Golden Key To the Reader TO let you know I have not spent all my dayes in speculative notions only I have appeared in this Publication to have some practical experience also yet this is neither Inducement nor is there any Obligation as I am cautious of lies upon me to enforce it but only one and that is pura lex Charitatis the undefiled Law of Love as one Christian and every one ought to exercise towards another in assisting one another in every gradual motion tending to the benefit one of another and as one Tree yeelds not all kinds of fruit but every one several gratefully yeelding the more various contentment applicable to every use so by the Divine Providence my Talent being bestowed on me this way lest I should hide it in a Napkin and incur the deserved sentence of the barren Figg-Tree I freely make it Communicable to the good and salubrity of all and shall always be studious thereof while I am Thomas Moulson From the Golden Key in Tenter-Alley in Little Morefields July 20th 1665. FONS SALUTIS The Wonderful efficacy and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl which is made of Sulphur Vive set on fire and called commonly Oyl of Sulphur per Campanam Of this most noble Liquor and not vulgar Medicine the excelling Philosopher Helmont writeth thus in his Excellent Discourse concerning the Tree of Life IN the year 1600 a certain man belonging to the Camp whose office was to keep account of the provision of Victuals which was made for the Army being charged with a numerous Family of small Children unable to shift for themselves himself being then 58 years of age was very sensible of the great care and burden which lay upon him to provide for them while he lived and concluded that should he dye they must be inforced to beg their bread from door to door whereupon he came saith Helmont and desired of me something for the preservation of his Life I then being a young man pittyed his sad condition and thus thought with my self the fume of burning Sulphur is by experience found powerfully effectual to preserve Wines from corruption Then I collecting my thoughts concluded that the acid Liquor or Oyl which is made of Sulphur Vive set on fire doth of necessity containe in it self this fume yea and the whole odour of the Sulphur in as much as it is indeed nothing else but the very Sulphurous fume imbibed or drunk up in its mercurial Salt and so becomes a condensed Liquor Then I thought with my self our blood being to us no other then as it were the Wine of our Life that being preserved if it prolong not the life at least it will keep it sound from those many Diseases which proceed originally from corruption by which means the life being sound and free from diseases and defended from paines and grief might be in some sort spun out to a further length then otherwise upon which meditated resolution I gave him a Viol glass with a small quantity of this Oyl distilled from Sulphur Vive burning and taught him moreover how to make it as he should afterward need it I advised him of this Liquor he should take two drops before each Meale in a small draught of beer and not ordinarily to exceed that Dose nor to intermit the use of it taking for granted that two drops of that Oyl contained a large quantity of the fume of Sulphur The man took my advice and at this day in the year 1641. he is lusty and in good health walks the streets at Brussels without complaint and is likely longer to live and that which is most remarkable in this whole space of forty one years he was not so much as ill so as to keep his bed yea although when of a great age in the depth of Winter he broke his Legg near to his ancle-bone by a fall upon the Ice yet with the use of this Oyl he recovered without the least Symptome of a Fever and although in his old age Poverty had reduced him to great straits and hardship and made him feel much want of things necessary for the comfort and conveniency of life yet he lives healthy and sound though spare and lean The old mans name is Iohn Mass who waited upon Rithovius Bishop of Ypre in his Chamber when the Earls of Thorne and Egmont were beheaded by the Duke of Alva and he was then twenty five years of age so that now he is compleat 99 years of age healthy and lusty and still continues the use of that Liquor daily Thus farr Helmont which relation as it is most remarkable so it gives the Philosophical reason of his Advice on which it was grounded And elsewhere the same Authour relates how by this Liquor he cured many dangerous deplorable Fevers which by other Physitians had been given over for desperate And in other places he commends it as a peerless remedy to asswage the insatiable thirst which accompanies most Fevers ●●so which relation and testimony of this most learned Physician and excelling Philosopher I shall add my own experience I find it a sure Preservative against corruption not onely in living creatures but even in dead Flest Beer Wine Ale c. a recoverer of dying Beer and Wines that are decayed a cure for Beer when sick and ropeing flesh by this means may be preserved so ncorruptible as no imbalming in the world can go beyond it for the keeping of a dead Carkase nor Salting come near its efficacy as to the conserving Meat or Fowles or Fish which by this means are not onely kept from corruption but made a mumial Balsom which is it self a Preservative from curruption of such as shall eat thereof which being a curious rarity and too costly for to be made a vulgar experiment I shall pass it over and come to those uses which are most Beneficial and Desireable It is an excellent cleanser of the Teeth being scoured with it they will become as white as the purest Ivory and the mouth being washed with this Oyl dropped in water or white Wine so as to make it onely of the sharpness of Vineger it prevents the growing of that yellow scale which usually adheres to the Teeth and is the fore-runner of their putrifaction it prevents their rottenness for future and stops it being begun from going further takes away the pain of the Teeth diverts Rhumas and