having received a Book though Licensed and Approved yet full of ridiculousness and folly a few days after my health requiring it I went on a sudden to Millaine to that Illustrious Person The Lord Marquess Fiorenza a Noble Senator of that City and I compleated this Hippocratical Doctrine in my Chariot on the way yea I had published it compleat before the last of the Calends of November the same year I mean as compleat as the nature of the argument required unless the censure of the Inquisitors had retarded my purpose which I think fit gentle Reader to acquaint thee with Favour me therefore if thou art in thy right mind and remember Hippocrates his Advice which is not to divulge or make known any thing but what is within the Ken and Cognizance of Rusticks and Plebeians Farewell Otto Tachenius HIS KEY To the Ancient HIPPOCRATICAL LEARNING CHAP. I. Acid and Alcaly the most Ancient Principles of Things what they are TO know things is to know them by their Causes as Aristotle Teaches in the first of his Physicks Now the Causes are Matter Form and Efficient Matter is that of which a thing is made for in Nature there is no thing which is not made of some pre-existent and subject matter Form which gives being or esse to the thing and by which the thing receives its name is it self invisible the Efficient Cause is that which moves the matter to its proper end Hippocrates reduces all these three Causes into two necessary and sufficient Principles calling them Fire and Water Raimund calls them Entia Realia Fire and Water Basilius Pugiles and in another place Gladiatores others stile them Lis and Concordia Attraction and Repulsion Rarefaction and Condensation The Principles of Hippocrates Acid and Alcaic Male and Female c. But I for the clearer knowledge and explanation of them do call those two Principles of Hippocrates Acid and Alcaly because all things in the Universe are made up of those two Universal Principles as I shall gradually shew by Experience so is also that one only Medicine or Physick of the Ancients To which yet a third doth Inseparably adhere Hence arose Sal Sulphur and Mercury the Three Principles of some Philosophers and rightly to as will more clearly appear in the progress These two either perpetually burn in Love one towards another or else are at perpetual variance are multiplied and one is contrary to the other so that the death of one is the life of the other and that which one produces another destroys that so from this another more noble thing may again arise Hence it is that Hippocrates with good Reason affirms That these two Elements Fire and Water or Acid and Alcaly can do all things and that all things are in them From the Acid do proceed two Masculine Qualities to wit Hot and Dry from the Alcaly as many Female ones viz. Cold and Moist all flowing forth for the generation of mixed bodies for which reason they do concur and are commixed The two greater Lights do preside over those two as Principle Elements The Sun is the Author of the Fire of Nature and the Moon the Mistris of Humids Matter or Hyle is therefore called the Principle of all things because all things in an invisible manner are generated of Fire and Water From those two is made up the innate Calid of all things which Hippocrates says is very much in them as they increase the matter will be most clear when we shall speake not only to the ears but to the eyes also CHAP. II. Acid the most Ancient Principle as being Spiritual is not subjected to the Sensure or Judgement of the Senses MY Hippocrates Chymicus in the 10th and 18th Chapter shews in Wine and Tartar that the Fire of Hippocrates the formal Principle of things can be separated by no Analytick Destruction nor by any Ingenuity of Art This the Prince of the Academicks calls Forma The Ancients as also the sacred Philosopher calls it Light Lâ—â—â— and Sulphur from its Similitude because that like Sulphur it manifests it self to be both occultly Acid and also pinguous to This they gave the first place styling it the Vital and Masculine Spirit because in it the seeds of all things are contained though imperceptibly as to our senses for we must confess that all things do consist of insensible principles as Lucretius speaks Lib 2. and all things have their original from it and there is nothing produced in the whole world but by it it hath its seat in the Air A Child of the Son because the Wind carries it in its belly and the Father of it says Hermes in Parva Schedula is the Sun whence the lofty wited Lullius in Testament Chap. 67. We says he with many others call it the Child of the Sun for first it was generated through the influence of the Sun by Nature without the help of Science or Art And therefore Aristotle called the Sun the Father and the Earth the Mother of all Vegetables because the Sun impregnates the Earth with its vivifying heat which afterwards is turned into natural heat and this is multiplied by the help and assistance of the heat of Fire c. Hereupon afterwards it was styled by the Philosophers themselves The Son of Fire The Son of Fire as appears by Bernard de Tresne in his third part who calls Gold most pure Fire So that if Gold be Fire and Fire the Child of the Sun and This the Vital Spirit which the Wind carries in its Womb as Hermes witnesses then without doubt these three must be Brethren and all Children of the Sun And as the Sun in the Firmament of Heaven is judged by Wise Men to be incorruptible constant and perpetual and by its Author is endewed with so many Embellishments that Himself is said to have placed his Tabernacle in it for which cause it is called the Form of Forms or the Acid of Acids though it be not acknowledged for such by the Vulgar as neither is Gold or the Vniversal Form which in the work of generation infuses all Natural Forms and the seeds of all things into disposed matter for every individual thing hath hidden in it a spark of this Light of Nature or Acid whose Beams do Occultly influence the Seed with an Active and Moving Vertue So also Gold being the Off-spring of the Heavenly Sun is incorruptible constant and perpetual of an entire Form or a perfect Acid and fixed though as I said before it be not owned as such by the ignorant Vulgar For unless it were a fixed Acid Gold a fixed Acid how could the saying of Philosophers be verifyed and fulfilled That which is perpetual makes things perpetual and that which is fixed makes things fixed And therefore in the beginning Light was created over the Universe and contracted into this Body being endowed with a vivifying Vertue and secret Faecundity I call it an entire or compleat Acid fixed
as well in the Animal as Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms yet with this difference that some Minerals not equally mixed contain more of Alcaly than Acid Sulphur Gold and Meat-Salt being excepted which have more of Acid as I have shewed Hence it is that the Ancients have Writ that this Virgin hath three Fathers viz. Nature Fire and the Philosopher but here we must Note that no man by the art of Ustion in any one of Natures Kingdoms Artificial Alcaly never Pure or destitute of any Form can prepare any Alcaly absolutely Pure i. e. deprived of all mixture of the Acid whatsoever he that seeks to do it will lose his labour Whence Cosmopolita Burn says he Sulphur from incombustible Sulphur and from its Soul whose Grain and Ferment indeed Mercury hath in it as much as is sufficient for it self but make that it may be sufficient for other things too Enough now hath been spoken for the convincing of Those that deny the principles of this Ancient Art viz. That Mercury hath no Sulphur separable from it 'T is altogether vain what some Masters and Writers of Vanity have thought says Geber for I have seen that It doth emanate from it c. Experience also confirms the same Common Salt is of a Salt-acid taste i. e. the Acid is prevalent in it therefore it is incorruptible if the Salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be seasoned Hence being moderately mixed with Meat it conciliates a grateful taste to them and excites Appetite Sal-Alcaly is contrary to a Salt-Acid taste hence if it be mixed though but moderately with Meats it gives them an unsavory taste and blunts the Appetite Common Salt by reason of its Acidity preserves Flesh and Fish a long time from Putrfaction and draws out and attracts from them the Volatile Alcaly which by a Retort is again easily separated as Hippoc. Chymic teaches Chap. 14. On the contrary Sal-Alcaly doth consume the Acid and promotes Putrefaction Common Salt doth imbibe nothing of Acid and therefore being dryed from its Aqueous Humidity and cast into Butter of Antimony it disturbs it not Sal Alcaly being dryed and cast into the fame Butter of Antimony is so far from not disturbing it that in an instant it quite destrovs it because it drinks up the Acid Spirits and the Antimony falls into a white Powder Common Salt being mixed with the Quadruple of Bole Armonick and distilled with an open Fire yields an Acid Liquor Sal Alcaly mixed and distilled with the like quantity of Bolus with an open Fire yields a bitterish Liquor by reason of the Bolus Insipid and Aqueous per se as Hippoc. Chymic shews Chap. 10. In this place I desire the equal Reader to take notice That the Process concerning the making Volatile Salt of Tartar A false Proâ—â— of Volaâ—ile Salt of Tartar inserted into the last Edition of the Reformer I had almost said Deformed Auspurgh's Dispensatory f. 247 was stolen out from my above-named 10th Chapter of Hippocrates Chymicus And after they had stript it of things unknown to them as I can shew what further they mutilate the Text then load it with Calumnies pervert Sentences and prove manifest Falsaries God Almighty curb such Plagiary Falsified Stoln and Deformed Labours which darken the minds of the Studious In that fore-cited 10th Chapter I did Experimentally Demonstrate That all things did consist of Eire and Water and that Water was the Basis and Root not only of Sweet and Insipid but also of Igneous Vertues and of Caustick things as of Aqua Fortis Alcalyes Salts Oyls Vinegars Hot Waters and of all things in which the Acrimony of Fire doth prevail I say Water and that cold is the root of all those things for Nature impresses the Vertues of Her things upon a moist Element Wherefore Moisture is the first Subject of Nature upon which Her first Labour is spent as I have shewed in the Third Chapter of this Book and hereafter will make clear by plain and evident Examples I say for this end my Hippocrates Chymicus in the fore-cited place reduced many things as also Alcaly of Tartar by Solution and Coagulation into Simple Elementary Water of no Taste or Smell but Fire and the Child of the Sun for whose sake the Dance is made in that Operation returns to its own Country and that for this Cause That Man may not find out the work that God doth Eccles chap. 3. v. 2. See also Hippoc. Chymicus Chap. 18. These Surreptitious Doctors have not only stoln out this my Labour Sweat and Travel to advance their own Praises but have also essayed to reproach the Author with infinite Calumnies and to suppress the Truth yea they boast that this Simple Elementary Water is Volatile Salt of Tartar in these Rhodomontado words And by this means at length Courteous Reader thou mayst be sure That the Vertues of Salt of Tartar have passed through the Lembick and That thou hast in succinct words received a great Secret destinated to thy own and neighbours Health which use happily Consider Friendly Reader whether any thing could be more plausibly devised by their Mightinesses What to rob an Author and afterwards to Defame Him and then to depress and detract from the clear Truth and that they may procure Fame to themselves amongst their Companions with a lofty Brow to Venditate most Simple Watâ—r for Volatile Salt of Tartar not only to the prejudice of ones Neighbour but to the reproach of Physick it self which would certainly be the Noblest of all Arts unless it were thus treated by such ignorant Brains which are dar more vacuous and emptie than Alcaly Loe this is the cause why now it is reputed the vilest and meanest of Arts by the Vulgar What Candid Person Ingenious Reader can be pleased with such Actions or gull'd with Prescriptions stuffed with manifest Vanities under the pretence of Physick Heretofore he that taught Falsities was accounted Infamous and a Knave Hence Cicero speaks Pro Roscio A man may easily be deceived by a Knave Their Brain is pre-possessed with so many Absurdities that they have lost their Remembrance and have forgot That Water drawn from Alcaly of Tartar is most Simple neither are any of those Vertues radicated in it contained therein which Raimund Basilius Hollandus Helmont and others Ascribe to Volatils Salt of Tartar Doth this Water which you have so Distilled from Alcaly of Tartar dissolve a Metal or at least the Stones of Crabbs by a true Solution Can only four drops of this your Distilled Water taken by the Mouth augment the Vital Spirit when it is weak with incredible Vigour To which I add that Volatile Alcaly may be made not only from Tartar but from all Cephalick Herbs which contain Alcaly in their Ashes i. e. without Clavellation So a Friend of mine extracted Volatile Alcaly out of Lillye Convallye which was very Restorative Yea I my Self have prepared the same of no less Efficacy in dissolving from the outward
change their Nature and are turned into Vitrifying Alcaly as * On Exod. Zoar hath observed which yet was not much less fixed in the Concretes before they passed through the fire which again by Inversion doth not only put on Volatility but is also reduced into Elements as I have shewed in the Alcaly of Tartar But if Alcalyes be boiled with their proper Distilled Oyls in a just proportion observing a due time with an artificial and occult Circulation and in a fit Vessel they afford Ens Mirabile So Oyl of Cinnamon Oyl made Salt being absorbed by its proper Alcaly being deprived of its Vestiments effects in the Palsy and such like Diseases as much as can be hoped from it Oyl of Tartar being Volatile and Fat with its proper Alcaly in a just proportion is made Sope. When the Reformer heretofore had been informed by me Evil departs not from the unthankful Man's house by word of Mouth of this example of Tartar he presently boils the Alcaly of Vipers with Oyl of Tartar being of a diverse Nature after a Rural fashion and with little heed which by Coction in a Glass of a long neck with the Alcaly acquired the consistence of Sope yet he blames me for my Friendly Information in a very long Letter Saying The Oyl of Tartar you advised me to pour on became like very Pitch and that so thick when it was cold that a man may cut it So that I perceive you deceived mâ— 'T is true I heard from your mouth before that the preparation of this Salt would give great light to Chymistry c. This great Naturalist had not so much Salt as we say in his Brains though he writes and seribbles of Salt as to enquire into the necessary cause of this Inspissation but presently calls that which he understands not f. 487. A Cheat and an Imposture But like as he hath observed the cause of this Inspissation which is known even to the Vulgar and to all those who make Sope even so with the same heed he hath observed the Things which he Reforms Hearken therefore to me All Oyl and also all Pingue-Does or Fatts have an Occult Acid on which the Alcalyes act and consume it otherwise Sope could never be made for the distilled Oyl of Olives doth corrode and dissolve Silver insensibly when it is cast on it but a short space which would not be unless Acidity were in it the remainder being thick better preserves Iron from Rust in as much as the aforesaid Acid hath been taken away by Distillation and is turned by a strong fire into a Coal Alcalized which is plain to the Eye by the affusion of any Acid Spirit This is the reason why the Chief Armourers and Overseers of the Arsenal of this Famous City before they Oyl their Armour cause the Oyl to Evaporate at a gentle Fire almost to the half So the common People in sharp Pains proceeding ordinarily from Acidity desire to be annointed withthe Oyl which burns before Images Thick Oyl of Olives resembles Alcaly and That asswages their Pain This Relief the Superstitious People of Greece attribute to the Image before which the Lamp burns But the true cause is the Spissitude in the Lamp loses its more subtil Acid part by the flame and so being destitute thereof it grows impatient and desires to be Saturated with a new Acid and finding That in the grieved part it draws it out and unites it to it self and so the Grief either wholly ceases or is at least mitigated and abated The Vulgar believe Why old Oyl grows mouldy that Old Oyl is as good as Balsam because the Oyl of a Hundred years old in the Castle of Breschia eases many from their pains arising from Acidity in which Oyl by reason of its antiquity the Alcaly hath in part mastered the Acidity hence at-last it grows very musty So Venerable Antiquity prescribes Old Oyl in Compositions for External use For the same reason rotten Apples do cool Rotten Apples more than boiled ones which therefore we call Anodynes Fresh Butter hath more Alcaly than Acid and therefore it cooles more than Oyl Hence Schola Salerni Lenit humectat solvit sine Febre butyrum Butter mollifies moistens and dissolves yet without a Feavor for this cause it is not coagulated in the Milk Butter unless the Milk be sowred before and if in making or Churning of Butter fixed Alcaly be cast in which consumes the Acid the Butter will never come for the Acid must coagulate the Alcaly So also Alcalized Salts do easily flow and are dissolved in the Air but as soon as Acid is poured on them to overcome the Alcaly they harden and are coagulated Sulphur in its Fat hath an hidden Acidity Sulphur is Acid. and is most readily dissolved not only in Oyl but also in Alcaly but never in that which is manifestly Acid though it be most powerful but if it be fired under a Glass Bell then its hidden Acidity is turned to Smoak which is compacted into a most Acid Juice and the Alcaly which erst did friendly embrace the Sulphur now is destroyed by It and a new production is made different from the former But Sulphur is praised by Dioscorides in the Diseases of the Lungs though some say it is the Anima thereof understand when it is evacuated by an Hippocratist and fixed into insipid and milky Earth then it becomes impatient of Innanition and again desires to be satiated with its like Wherefore it greedily attracts and absorbes the putrefactive Acidity of the Lungs which is firmly believ'd to descend from the Head but without this preparation it is found altogether unprofitable for those Diseases as the Enquirers after Truth by Nauseating experience do daily find This earth is then called by the Skilful * Milk of Sulpbur Lac Sulphuris and that worthily for it performes many things which Crollius hath mentioned under its Title Moreover Distill also Vinegar in which I have shewed that there is Fat Oyl and Aqua Ardeus drive the dry Faeces out of the Retort and there will come forth Acid and Pingueous Oyl reduce the Coal left into Ashes from These Elicite the Alcaly by common Water which again imbibes and absorbs its own Vinegar out of the Phlegm is made Aqua Ardeus From the Alcaly and the Acid you shall have regenerated Tartar so there are All in all things i. e. you shall every where find the Acid and the Alcaly All things in all things Camphire about which it is strongly disputed whether it be hot or cold is a Volatile Alcaly furnished and saturated by Nature The often smell of Aqua Fort is breeds an Atrophy with most bitter pains See Helmont c. 9. f. 71. with its proper Fatness as I have shewed like things may be done by Art for it imbibes into it self the stinking and corroding Acidity of Aqua Fortis which Suffocates by its very Smell and with
imbibes the Acid Volatile Salt from Vinegar so it takes away the Acidity accompanying several sorts of Feavors Besides Vulnerary ones Occult Alcalys there are also more Occult and Volatile Alcalys in Herbs which we call Cooling as Lettice Purslane Colts-foot Endive and its species whose Alcaly is very Fugitive and is found not only in their Juices but also in their Waters carefully Distilled Whence we may learn that such Herbs being dryed are of no value because their Alcaly hath evaporated So also the Distilled water of Frogs-Spawn the whole Spawn with Patience is elevated in è Balneo into a pure water the black and dry Grains or Specks Cooling waters have an occult Alcaly being left behind which are not to be rejected doth abound with Occult Volatile Alcaly and doth presently precipitate Lead out of the aforesaid Solution more readily and copiously than any other cooling water This water is much to be esteemed in many diseases arising from a peculiar Acidity I have known a desperate Hemorrhage from the Womb happily cured by it in as much as at first it sucks up the Acidity of the Blood afterwards it restrains and expels it Also this water applyed to the grieved part in the Feet-Gout presently asswages the pain in as much as it mortifies and alters the Acrimony But when the pain is more violent then the Acidity is in greater quantity and vigor and the Volatile Alcaly consuming the cause of the pain Volatile Altalys ease the pains of the Gout then must needs be more manifest for it indubitably takes away the pain whence we learn that the cause thereof proceeds from Acidity if otherwise the principal indications are to be taken from things helpful and nocent as Avicen teaches Foolish therefore and almost Frantick is the opinion of certain Canonical Physicians who against the Doctrine of Hippocrates out of ignorance do fear and perswade the simple that a greater mischeif is occasioned by undertaking to Cure by contraries and by endeavouring to repel the Catarrh by such Simples For Hippocrates shews that Volatile Alcaly is empty and void and that it takes away all pain of the Feet-Gout I mean not the knotty and coagulated Gout all Arthritick The knotty Feet-Gout doth coagulate as the Stone aâ— least by a diverse Acid. Hippoc. l. 1. de Diaet Simple water doth nourish and there is a great Secret in water as Hermes saith Let Canonical Physicians observe that the Alcaly of common water doth not ascend in a Limbeck Wherefore distilled it cools not as the water of Frogs-Spawn before spoken of Nephritick Sciatick and such like pain in a very short time if it be but outwardly applyed in as much as it presently imbibes and assumes being impatient of Vacuity the Acidness which is the cause of the pain But not only waters Distilled from cooling Herbs but also common water both of Wells and Rivers contains an Occult Alcaly by means whereof it nourishes Animals and all Plants Red hot Iron quenched in water acquires strength thereby as Hippocrates teaches in the fore-cited Book and daily Experience shews for Iron hath too much of the Volatile Acid whence it readily passes into Scoria and Rust but when the Acid is imbibed by the Alcaly then it is made more compact and resists more therefore Cutlers of Knives and Swords anoint their work with shavings of Horns heating their blades till the shavings melt and thus they draw the Alcaly out of the Horns and their blades become stronger hence it is that such as pass by their shops do sometimes perceive the stinking smell of burnt Horns But it is easily proved that an Occult Alcaly is in common simple water by the fore-mentioned solution of Sal Saturni which presently grows white thereby So if Silver be dissolved in Aqua Fortis and you add simple water to the Solution it presently waxes white as Milk but when the same water hath been distilled then the Alcaly doth not ascend neither doth the Solution of Silver grow white any longer thereby For which cause John Baptista Porta advises Water to be twice or thrice distilled for a Tree of Silver and Mercury Lib 5. Magnatur c. 3. which the Vulgar foolishly call the Philosophers Tree So also Water distilled from Cephalick herbs doth precipitate neither Silver nor Lead from the above-named Solution For these as I have said contain not Alcaly in their Juices So that the Water distilled only from cooling Herbs as also common water not distilled do contain a Volatile Alcaly by means of this Alcaly Water doth nourish Hence Lactantius saith From Water are all things L. 1. c. 5. which before Hippocrates Thalâ—s Milesius also knew perhaps by the benefit of this Art as Laertius witnesseth in his Life So the Ancient Hermes Water saith he is susceptible and producible of Nutriment in Men and other creatures And without Water Nature operates not c. Now because our discourse is fallen upon Cooling Waters I shall not pass over in silence the abuse of Rose Water which is said to cool but it is disproved by this Experiment At Venice Rose-water as commonly all other waters are distilled out of a Copper Vessel sometimes lined within with Tinn though oftentimes the Tinn for age is worn away This Water is prescribed to Children because it kills and expels Worms and sometimes provokes Vomitting which Operation and Vertue is Vulgarly ascribed to the Rose-water whereas Rose-water is not simply cold but of a temperate nature as containing an occult and insensible Acidity Rose-water doth not cool unless it be distilled through Lead which is unseparable from it never leaving it till it be annihilated but in flowing through a Copper Limbeck its Occult Acidity abrades and takes off certain Atomes from the Copper which are invisibly mixed with the water if you would discover or separate the Copper drop into a little quantity of this water one or two drops of the Alcaly of Urine and presently all the water turns Green because the Acidity of the water doth more greedily catch the light Alcaly more similary to it than the Metal which therefore by little and little subsides into a greenish bottom Then the same water doth no longer provoke Vomit nor kill Worms but will be like That which is Distilled through Glass Vessels but melt the green bottom with Borax and then it returns to Copper again Neither is this Occult Nutritive Alcaly found only in Vulnerary and Cooling-herbs All Pot-herbs contain a Volatile Alcaly and cooling and as all wound herbs beget Milk in Nurses for Acidity is an hindrance to Milk but in all Pot-herbs whatsoever which are therefore desired by the Stomach abounding with Acidity This Alcaly is the cause that such as eat boiled Cabbage or Coleworts before a fit of Drinking are seldom inebriated for the Alcaly of this Herb as it moderates the inebriateing Acidity of the Wine in the Stomach so it absords and consumes That in the Glass But
its foundation p. 61 C CAlx or Lime what Page 8 Calx petrified by contrary faculties p. 8 Calx its bastard Spirit of Basilius p. 13 Camphire what p. 82 Camphire with Aqua Fortis makes a Mock-shew of Oyl not so with Vinegar and other Acid Juices p. 82 Camphire absorbs the peccant Acid in the Body p. 82 Camphire its workers salacious p. 83 Camphire helps the roughness of the skin p. 83 Cementum Regale p. 21 Cinnabar Common p. 21 23 Cinnabar of Antimony p. 94 Corals its â—ncture p. 109 Corals encreased in the Fire p. 109 Contraries coagulated by Contraries p. 8 Coagulum what p. 41 Chrystaltinged with the colour of Rubies p. 93 Crocus Martis aperitive p. 106 Crocus Martis p. 59 D DIurectickness in a Flint Page 11 Diuretick from a calcined Flint p. 13 E ELixir Parvum p. 20 Emplaister of Frogs with Mercury p. 104 Emplaâ—sters prepared of Lead p. 108 Epistle of Aurel. Severinus to the Author p. 36 F FEbrifuge Oyl p. 93 Febrifuge of Riverius p. 19 Fel vitri p. 18 Fermentation how performed p. 63 Fire its flame Acid p. 107 It comes near to the nature of Salt p. 107 Fire and Water in a Flint p. 8 Fire changeth the Regiment and alters the vertues of things p. 78 Fire its various necessity p. 78 79 Fire when strong changeth the nature of Salts p. 19 Fire and Water contain all things necessary for Generation p. 38 Flint taken from its natural place grows p. 8 Flint its Powder as made by the Ancients p. 12 G GOld calcined the dry way Page 90 Gold calcined the moist way p. 91 Gold not dissolved but by Salt things p. 91 Gold its Tincture p. 91 Gold called Aurum Potabile p. 92 Gold adheres to Iron by the help of Copper p. 114 Gout its pain from Acid p. 48 its Remedy p. 68 Glass how made p. 10 it s Axungia what its Fel p. 10 11 its Burning p. 11 Glass burnt not Hurtful p. 12 Glass its Resolution p. 12 H HErbs have an Occult Nutritive Alaly p. 70 Harts-horn burnt imbibes Acidity p. 67 Hemorrhage of the Womb its Remedy p. 67 Hectick Feavor cured with Vulnerary Potions p. 66 I IVlip of Vinegar made of Water and Sugar p. 39 Inke its foundation p. 57 Iron Astringent p. 111 Iron provokes the Terms p. 111 Iron changed into Copper p. 112 113 Iron Cpens and Binds p. 114 Iron why subject to Rust p 68 Iron how it grows stronger p. 68 L LAc Sulphuris Antimonii p. 110 Lac Sulphuris p. 82 Latarge out of Lead is Preparaton p. 108 Lye for Sope its making and force p. 9 10 Letters writ with Ink why afterwards Pale p. 57 Liquor Acid changes Aliments included in a glass into Chyle p. 40 Ludus Preparatus p. 119 Luna Cornea p. 24 Lead encreased in the flame p. 107 its encrease in the Fire is from Acid p. 107 Lead delighted with Acid p. 108 it absorbs Acids of all sorts p. 108 Lead cools the Heart p. 108 Lead p. 60 Lungs ulcered cured by Vulnerary Potions p. 66 Like dissolved by like p. 8 9 M MErcurius Sublimatus its Reduction p 105 Mercurius Vita p. 105 Mercury Sublimate doth not coagulate Milk p. 41 Mercury p. 60 Mercury out of Silver p. 23 Metals one Frecipitates another p. 112 Metal its Precipitation by Alcaly p. 20 Minium its Preparation p. 107 Minerals are all associated with Acids p 20 Milk not Coagulated but by Acidity p 40 Materia Prima p. 101 Medicaments Solutive not to be dissolved in Diseases p 53 Menstrua their Obstruction from Acid p. 58 Mercury Sublimate p. 94 95 Mercury Sublimate Common p. 97 Mercury Sublimate sweet reddish p 98 Mercurius precipit Communis p. 98 Mercury praecipit per se p. 99 Mercury praecipit per se becomes Sublimate Corrosive p. 99 Mercury praecipit its Vertues p. 99 Mercuries Acidâ—ty hurts Teeth and Gumms p 102 Mercury of Metals is not praecipit per se p. 103 N NAil of Gold p. 113 Nitre its regeneration p. 25 Nettles green and dry its different effects p. 71 O OCre what p. 55 Odors many resist Digestion p. 121 Oyl is made Salt p. 79 Oyl Olive hath Acid in it p. 80 deprived of its Acidity it helps Pains p. 81 Oyl old why musty p. 81 Oyl turned into Watrer by Salt of Tartar p. 26 Oyl made Strongwater p. 28 Oyl of Sope like that of Bricks p. 27 P POx French cured by a Decoction of Vipers p. 31 Pomegranate Rinds provoke the Terms p. 58 Paracelsus his Coralline Secret p. 103 Panacaea of Michael Sendivogius p. 101 Plâ—urisy its Remedy p. 48 Plants their Regeneration p. 72 73 Posca of the Ancients what p. 63 Protochymist dwells in the Stomach p. 47 Powder Antipodagrick p. 48 Q QVinzey its Remedy p 21 Quartan its Remedy p. 72 R REgulus Antimonii p. 21 Rector what p 27 S SIlver separated from Tin p. 96 Silver p. 60 Silver consists of Acid and Alcaly p. 24 44 Stone its Analysis p. 42 Stone its regeneration p. 42 Stone how generated in the Body p 42 43 Stones Red whence p 43 Stones concreter every where in the body p. 43 Stones remedy an Hedge-Hogs or Histrixes stond how far good for it p 44 Stones other Remedies examined p 44 Stone its true Remedy p. 45 Stone its remedy out of Paracelsus and Helmont p. 48 Story of Sal Prunella p. 21 Sage its Juice grows black with Vitriol of Mars p. 120 Salt of Treacle of the Ancients examined p. 4 5 Sal Armoniack natural in use among the Ancients p. 5 Sal Armoniack natural its Properties p. 5 Sal Armoniack Ours what p. 5 6 its constituting parts p. 6 the manner of making it p. 6 Salt Common doth not wash p. 6 Salt Kaly whence made p. 7 Sal-Kaly is not unless made by Art its Vertue and Properties p. 7 Sal-Alkaly what where found p. 7 its Multiplicity p. 7 Sope its making p. 9 Sea-Salt with Oyl is not made Sope p. 10 Salt of Vipers of the Reformer is Common Salt p. 31 Salt of Tartar fix'd with Acid spirit of Salt is Sublimated into Spirit p. 34 Salt of Vipers its Inventor p. 36 its foundation known to Hippoerates p. 38 Salt things do not curdle Milk p. 41 Salt as 't was eaten found in Vrine p. 51 Salt of greater affinity to Vinegar than Metals p. 70 Salt of Wormwood its Preparation p. 77 Salts Precipitate not Mercury p. 16 Sal Fulminans p. 17 Salts frâ—m Diuretique herbs are Acid-salt p. 18 They Precipitate not Mercury p. 18 being Alcalized with a quick Flame they Precipitate Mercury red p. 18 Salts from Vulnerary herbs are Acid-salt and do not Precipitate Mercury p. 18 in a melting Fire they change their Natures and become Alcalyes which Precipitate Mercury sparkling and glittering p. 18 Salt Common the perfectest of Salts and never made Alcaly p. 18 Salts of Vipers p. 18 Salt of Wormwood Acid-salt p. 19 it is Alcalized with a strong
fire p. 19 Salts their Nature changed without fire p 19 Salt of Soot p 19 Salt of Tartar its Prerogative p. 22 it converts any Metal into running Mercury p. 23 it is a Medium in which both Metals and Minerals do revive p. 24 it is a Medium between a Mineral and a Vegetable p. 29 it is turned into Simple Element p. 27 Salt Common its Regeneration p. 25 Sal-Armoniack Artificial p. 30 Salt Common and Armoninck have an Acid communicable out of the Fire p. 30 Soda the same with Sal Kaly p. 17 Specifick Remedies p. 70 Spirit the Vehicle of the Soul p. 89 Spirit of Venus p. 115 its Preparation examined p. 115 Spaw Water why Transportable to other places p. 15 Spirit of Vitriol Acid retains the Liquamen of Metals p. 56 Spirit of Vitriol makes the Teeth yellow p. 56 Spirit Minerals p. 61 Sulphur how good for Diseases of the Lungs p. 82 Sweat proved to be Salt and Pinguous p. 35 Sweat how excited p. 85 Sulphur rubifies Mercury p. 99 Sulphur of Mercury an external Poyson but not the Acid by which it is sublimated p. 102 Sulphur of Vitriol Narcotiquâ— p. 119 Sulphur hath an Occult Acid p. 81 T TIn p. 60 Tartar how Generated p. 63 Its spirit p. 63 Its spirit not Acid but bitterish p. 63 Its Regeneration p. 26 Tympanitis its Remedy p. 93 V VInegar how made p. 64 Vinegar distilled made fat Oyl p. 26 Verdigrease yields Vinegar p. 58 Vinegar Julep made of Water and Sugar p. 39 Vegetables their Humid hath Alcaly and Acid p. 62 They have not sixed Salt by nature p. 5 Vitriol in Substance coagulates Milk p. 40 Vitriol of Mars separates the Alcaly from the Acid p. 53 Taken inwardly it tinges the Excrements p. 53 Vitriol makes the Teeth black p. 56 Vitriol of Cyprus True p. 59 False p. 58 Vitriol white p. 59 Romane p. 59 Vitriol of Mars Artificial p. 59 Vitriol its Regencration p. 24 Vulnerary Potions diminish the Acid p. 65 First given by Paracelsus p. 66 Vrine of Drunkards passes noi through all the Ducts of the Veins p. 47 Vrine of healthy men salt p. 47 Vrine of dying men not salt p. 47 Vrine of men living only on Milk hath Acid and Alcaly p. 51 W WIne turned to Water and Elementary Earth p. 64 Wine what and how made p. 64 Wood fixed p. 79 Wood rotten yields no Salt p. 76 Water called Aqua Regia without Salt doth not touch Gold p. 26 Water of Frogs-Spawn abounds with much Alcaly p. 67 Water distilled differs from that undistilled p. 69 Water of Roses causes Vomit and kills Worms p. 69 Water of Roses not altogether cold p. 69 Water of Roses hath an occult Acid p. 69 Water of Mindererus for the Hearing p. 32 FINIS OTTO TACHENIVS HIS CLAVIS To the Antient Hippocratical PHYSICK OR MEDICINE Made by Manual Experience in the very Fountains of NATURE WHEREBY Through Fire and Water in a Method unheard of before the Occult Mysteries of Nature and Art are Unlocked and clearly Explained by a Compendious way of OPERATION Senec. Epist A man can never more torment the Envious than by applying ones self to Virtue and Glory LONDON Printed for Will. Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street 1690. Where is likewise sold Coke's Marrow of Chirurgery Anatomy and Physick As also his Observations of English Bodies of Eminent persons in desperate Diseases To the Serene and Mighty Prince the Lord CHRISTIANVS ALBERTVS By the Grace of God Heir of Norway Duke of Sleswick and Holsatia Stormar and Dithmarsh Earl of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst His very good Lord. IT was the custome of the First Philosophers Most Serene and Mighty Prince that whatsoever Secrets of Things or Mysteries of Nature they found out they would immediately impose Divine Names on them and so as much as they could hide them from the Vulgar or else they would relate them under disguised Words Forreign and unusual Terms Allegories Aenigma's and Metaphorical Speeches either because they feared the offence of the Unskilful Multitude or else being perswaded that those Abstruse things would meet with no approbation if they were easily understood Hippocrates of Coos treading in the same steps that Divine and Venerable Old-man and deservedly Chief in this most Famous Art in whose Praises the Ancients and all Neotericks have sufficiently Expatiated shews the hidden Foundation of this Noble Science in these words If there be any thing Divine in Diseases the knowledge and fore-sight also of That is to be sought after if a Man would approve himself a good and admirable Physician But what that Divine Thing was he no where clearly discovered nay he Studiously and of purpose concealed it expresly affirming that nothing ought to be spoken or published in this Art save what was known to Plebeians On which account Physick was heretofore esteemed Sacred and the gift of God so that all the Ancients were of opinion that It could hardly be attained unto by Humane Understandings because the Foundations thereof seemed so abstruse hidden and admirable that They were not to be found out by the strength of Nature And although heretofore and in all Ages Men of great account for acuteness of Wit and Skill in Physick have Illustrated Its Doctrine yet there is nothing extant in their Writings in clear and express words neither can any thing be culled out from thence but what is sullied with Obscurity They all endeavouring as much as they could more to eclipse and darken It Neoterick Physicians who succeeded them in Writing Disputing and desiring to encrease this Art have falne to pieces amongst themselves and contemning that Divine thing in Diseases rail at one another and are divided into several Sects neither doth the Division cease to this very day For one desires to be styled a Chymist or Methodist another a Galenist a third a Dogmatist or Canonist so that this most Noble Ancient Hippocratical Medicine which is but One is now not only rent into many Sects but is also overcharged with an infinite number of Books by which a lover of and enquirer after Truth is not only confounded but must needs be over-whelmed There being such a vast Ocean of Them and so great a variety of Writers subtilly spinning out their Arguments pro and con In the mean time I was always of opinion that That before-mentioned short Sentence of Hippocrates was to be deeply weighed and the rather because that Famous Man whom Antiquity did almost reverence as a Deity comprehended that great Supellex and Furniture of Things which he had in his mind in short and concise Aphorismes and Speeches Excited therefore by my respect and love to Him I began to Investigate what that Divine thing was for without the Plenary knowledge of It the Art of Cureing Diseases would always be Mutilous and only Inchoative never fully and absolutely compleat in all its parts Some there are who do accuse those men of Impudence and do also Contumeliously reproach them who
Sages of Natures Mysteries teach us But if it be macerated with any mollifying Humour with the addition of a convenient Heat the innace spark of its Acid is excited which doth so distend and enlarge it self that it seems evidently to be moved out of its place and by this Expansive Motion it doth compress and overcome its Sister whom it loves i. e. as well the Alcaly of its own body as That which it drew from the Water and turns It into its own Nature that is into Acid I call this motion as both the Vulgar and Philosophers do Fermentation so out of Barley which according to Hippocrates is of a cold nature there is made not only a temperate but an inebriating Drink called Ale or Beer out of which by the Art of Distillation there is elicited Aqua Ardens which before Fermentation was not in the Barley nothing inferior to Spirit of Wine yea though it be inflamable as Hippoc. Chymic shews chap. 18. but the innate Acid is multiplied either of its own accord or by Art viz. by the addition of its like Acid which by reason of its similitude is easily admitted like being pleased with like and which by a common name we call Ferment but if we would excite that small portion of Acid innate in the Grain by an Acid not of the same nature but having a mineral Soul as for Example by the Acid of Vitriol Nitre Salt or the like then the more generous and Potent would surpass the weaker and would choake it which not enduring the yoke of Tyranny would be quite destroyed and converted into nothing So a Pearl possesses in respect of its body the 8200. part of innate most precious Acid upon which if there supervene a more powerful Acid taken from another family vsz from Vinegar distilled from Aerugo which they ridiculously call a Secret Menstruum and doth exercise Tyranny over it The Rector in the Pearl is suppressed and that clear and precious light the Child of the Sun is slain which would willingly have relieved the Vital Lumen of the Sick unless it had been unjustly subjugated by the Vinegar from Verdigrease that is the false Spirit of Venus Pearl therefore so dissolved can do no good unless the weak Stomach of the Patient can subdue and conquer that Acid Salt as I have before shewed in magistery of Corals left there by the Vinegar For as Vinegar distilled from Verdigrease doth rule over and subdue the vital light of Pearls 't is so in Diseases viz. The Vital light is suppressed by the more Potent Morbous Acid as Hippocrates says De veteri Medicina which if it be imbibed as the Acid by the Alcaly or if it be diluted and separated from the affected place the Vital light soon recovers see Hippoc. Chymic chap. 21. Hence arose that Famous saying which is no less true in Philosophy than in Divinity The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom which is as much as to say Do thou not destroy Acids by Acids against the command of the most High but sweetly and lovingly cherish them so shalt thou be Wise as saith our Lord himself a grain of Corn falling upon loose and spongy earth not upon that which is hard bound which depresses even the innate light and therefore must be plowed and turned up is there dissolved and loseth its exterior shape yet its innate light suffers not but in its own time produceth fruits like it self neither is it dissipated because the Suns Child doth extend it self in spongy earth and embraces its Sister Alcaly which it loves which being impregnated attracts Nourishment from That of which both of them do consist and so both of them together produce fruits like themselves This natural Operation and Process is the fear of the Lord and the beginning of Wisdom But when a grain of Corn is cast into Fire i. e. into a more powerful Acid not agreeable to its own Nature but taken from another family or into Sulphurous earth or into Counterfeit Spirit of Venus then is there committed a sin of Disobedience against the command of God and the Grain as well in Matter as Form is corrupted dissipated and made unprofitable both for Generation and Fermentation as I have before shewed in Pearl dissolved in Vinegar so the fear of God is not regarded and instead of the beginning of Wisdom there grows up the beginning of Folly where we may observe Fire is the inflamâ—tion of the Acid Ferment that as the Acid innate in the Grain doth act by Fermentation and multiply it self either in vertue or number so also Fire which is Acid inflamed doth act as ferment and never gives over till it finds something on which it might act after the manner of ferment or might make it like or equal to it self So that whatsoever is dissolved in an Acid out of its own family or more powerful than its innate Acid presently its weak Acid is suppress'd and being dissolved it must needs take upon it the nature of the Dissolvent for the Acid in dissolving is coagulated and imbibed by the innate Alcaly of the Thing and the weight of the same Thing is encreased by the dissolvent Acid as I have shewed above concerning the counterfeit Child of Venus acting upon Corals and in my Hippoc. Chymicus concerning Sublimate Mercury I say they all encrease in weight from the External Acid which to the utmost of its power doth suppress and kill the Internal and that not only in the Via humida as I have shewed but in the Sicca fiery and burning way An Example whereof may be seen in the following Experiment Lead to the weight of 100 Drachms Preparation of Minium being burnt in a reverberatory flame of dry Wood into Powder which is very Red for the weak Acid of the Lead is suppressed by the imperious Acid kindled Flame and it loses the name of Lead and the Figure too and again puts on a fiery Colour and is called from its shining Redness by means of the mastering Acid Minjum Weigh this in a ballance and you shall find the Minium encreased ren drachms from the kindled Flame for as in the moist way Corals dissolved in salse Spirit of Venus and coagulated do receive an augmentation so also Lead in the dry and fiâ—ry way is encreased and augmented from the Acid in the flame Hippic Chymic chap. 26. For there is the same reason in both which the Deans with their Fellows cannot comprehend and that makes them cry out That the encrease of ten drachms in the Minium doth not proceed from the Acid out of the kindled flame but from the Air. What do your Doctorships say From the Air whether will ye go strait to Anticyra I advise you with the company going before you for your Cure For Philosophers say that Air is Natures Sieve through which Vertues and Influences are transmitted and that it is impatient of a Vacuum no ways condensable of it self but an immortal and