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A55298	Novum lumen medicum wherein the excellent and most necessary doctrine of the highly-gifted philosopher Helmont concerning the great mystery of the pholosophers sulphur. is fundamentally cleared by Joachim Poleman. Out of a faithful and good intent to those that are ignorant and straying grom the truth, as also out of compassion to the sick. Written by the authour in the German tongue, and now englished by F.H. a German.	Poleman, Joachim.; F. H.	1662 (1662)	Wing P2748; ESTC R218989	75,233	217

added It is also further here to be known that the double corrosive not only therefore le ts fall its Metal the Copper because that it comes over gently with the Spirit of Wine but also for this reason because the great sharpnesse and edge of the corrosive is blunted and abated by the Spirit of Wine insomuch that it is not able to hold the Metal any longer because it hath lost its strength or corrosivenesse whereof you may be convinced by this experiment that if you mix this green spirit with a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine and set it together in continued digestion for a competent time viz. for a great space of time of many moneths the Metal will also precipitate slowly and by degrees in forme of a very spongious light dust But this being too tedious the more expedite way is by cohobation for then you will far sooner attain to its period Now these cohobations being continued to sufficiency and performed as they ought and all the corrosive being got over you have then the true Crocus Veneris Martis Auri c. according to the Metal which you have taken of farr higher and nobler Vertues than all the Croci of the common Writers and however they be prepared yet they cannot be compared unto these for their Croci are dead bodies but here is a resuscitated and quickned body its soul being quite turned outwards and in its full lustre which you may perceive by the glorious splendour which this Crocus with its choicest colours leaveth in the head if peradventure it be driven over by too strong a heat Now by this light turned outwards this Crocus hath so great vertue as well for inward Medicine as externally to be used in plaisters salves and other sorts of exteriour Medicaments as hardly can be believed before it be experimented And therefore also I will referr it to the experience of the diligent searcher of truth who will find far more Vertue in it than he is able to conceive at present But to clear this I cannot forbear to mention why the antient wise Authours of the highly noble Chymia called these resuscitated and revificated atomes of Metallick bodies Crocus which signifies Saffran Now he that hath but a little Enquired into the Vertues of this Crocus revificatus by experience will quickly know the reason viz. because this Crocus Metallicus doth perfectly possess those Excellent Virtues of Saffron which is the King of all Vegetables and therefore called the Philosophers aroma or spice as our Philosopher de Lithiasi cap. 7. § 14. declareth adding that the Aroma Philosophorum by reason of its Golden Tincture is the surest preservative against the Stone For as Saffron 1. causeth rest 2. comforteth the heart 3. openeth obstructions 4. mollifieth and ripeneth that which is hard and unripe 5. healeth all that which is wounded and preserveth it from all Sympomes So likewise yea in a farr higher degree and with far more Efficacy this our Crocus Philosophicus causeth rest and appeaseth pain powerfully strengtheneth weak Nature openeth the most dangerous obstructions of all the Viscera yea stoppeth all Fluxes by vertue of the shining Anima turned outwards and as well in Tumours as Ulcers and wounds affordeth such quick help as no Mineral Medicines of the common Writers can parallel as the Reader having tryed it will find by experience I can also not omit to relate the Eminent Vertues of the Spirit of Wine which carried over the double corrosive and is united therewith For in it is a double power or vertue first of the corrosive which in its nature by reason of its duplicity and containing an Alcali Volatil doth far exceed all Acid Liquors and therefore also is of great vertue in the Stone Secondly because of the splendour or radiation which this double spirit receceived from the Gold-like Anima of the Copper for although not the least pulvisculus of this Gold-like Tincture remained with this corrosive yet having received its radiation and kept it which is as it were by a seal deeply imprinted therein and thence exalted in vertue beyond what it was before of it self Therefore let this spiritus vini esurinus be commended to you in all cases in which you use Acida and Esurina and you will find with joy its great power in allaying all manner of unnatural heat beyond all known Acid Spirits Also its great Corrosiveness is much mitigated and abated by the Spirit of Wine and so safer for use than before and being fast and intimately united with the spiritus vini it quickly uniteth by the means thereof with the Archeus and performeth its operation with much expedition because that the Virtue of the spiritus vini is readily entertained and so the power of this excellent Acetum Esurinum penetrateth also with it and gently cooleth and refresheth the incensed spirits CAP. VIII How to extract the pure Anima or Tincture from the true Crocus Veneris and by what means WHen your Copper is brought so farr that first by volatilisation it is divided into the smallest Atomes and by the Volatil double corrosive rent asunder into impalpable dust and then in a gentle way totally freed again from all corrosive then and not before it is fit to yield its tinging soul and heavenly virtue unto such a Menstruum which is like unto its Anima in substance viz. which is of a like fiery Nature as the Tincture of the Copper is which is a meer fire and therefore called by our Philosopher and other Wise men the Element of Fire consequently cannot be extracted severed or radically opened but by a very Fiery penetrating vehement and sharply separating Volatile substance which alone hath the power out of the hard ligament of Metallick Coagulation performed in the Copper by Nature by a strong Magnetick Virtue eagerly to attract its like and by its great Fieriness to melt soften and open it to the very inmost ground root and Center such a Water or Menstruum it must be as toucheth nothing at all of the Body of the copper nor desireth to touch much less to dissolve the least of it yea hath no power at all to do so but barely and only falleth upon the Anima or Sulphur of the Copper as upon its like and receiveth the same into it self such a liquor you must look for in the Fiery principle as I discovered above in the second Chapter viz. in the nature of the Oyl which by the strong power of the Fire being turned into fiery Salt by Artificial operation must be translated from the seat of a fixed Salt into that of a Volatile penetrating Fiery spirit Now you may say since this Menstruum is such a Fiery substance why can it not by its strong power as well extract the Anima out of a common Crocus Veneris Auri Martis c. as out of that which hath been made Volatil whereby much labour expence and time might be saved in preparing of this Arcanum For answer

other into its nature and being both turned into one substance they can never any more be parted asunder But let no Man think that because that part of this Menstruum remaineth with the solutum that therefore the case is the same here as it is with your Corrosive Menstruum's whose strongest part remains with the solutum and the weaker ascendeth by no means for that part which riseth here first is of the same force and strength in its Fieriness as that which cometh over last for in this Fiery solvent there is no such imparity of parts as in the corrosives but this Fiery Menstruum is totally similar and uniform in its substance and knoweth of no other division but that either it remaineth totally with the solutum in the bottom like a fixed Salt or else totally ascendeth therewith like a volatil spirit and therefore that which after the solution is drawn over from the solutum is not at all changed nor diminished from its former strength which it had before the solution Also let no man wonder at it that here part of the solvent remaineth with the Solutum for the Law of Uniformity in substance doth carry it like eagerly laying hold of its like and unseparably uniting it self therewith And this is the chief property whereby an Essential Natural Solution is distinguished from a Corrosive one that alwayes the Corrosive by art can be severed again from the Solutum but the Essential solvent by no means Hence our Philosopher himself in this sence confesseth concerning the Liquor Alcahest that it is stayed or retained by its Compar and transmuted into another Nature his words hereof in in ignota actione Regiminis § 11. are these Liquor Alkahest omnia totius universi corpora tangibilia perfecte reducit in vitam eorundem primam absque ulla sui mutatione viriumque diminutione à solo autem suo compari subter jugum trahitur atque permutatur Hence the ancient wise men said Naturâ natura gaudet natura naturam vincit permutat c. And the whole Nature and all the powers thereof do testify the same that like is alwaies inclined to stay with its like yea in this very point consisteth all the whole groweth which happeneth in Nature whereof I do not intend here to speak more largely but only I was occasioned to point at it by our natural Solution of the anima of the Copper which as a true fire retaineth the fiery solvent prepared of the Alcali as its like and is inclined to remain inseparably united therewith Now some may say since the tincture of Copper or Element of fire is wholly turned outwards in this Volatil and well prepared Crocus why may it not as well be extracted and severed by a fixed Alcali as by an Alcali volatil for the other is also very fiery and of a like nature with the soul of the Copper and why must the Alcali first be volatilised for a fixed Alcali might do it as well and the work might be sooner ended and much time and expences saved I answer that although a fixed Alcali makes a shew as if it would and could sever this fiery principium from the Copper yet in effect and in truth it is not so and that little which the fixed Alcali severed from the Crocus Cupri is nothing to be accounted of in comparison of what remaineth unseparated the reason is the grossness of the Alcali it being too thick corporeous and material and not as it should be spiritual volatil and penetrating hence it is that though you take an Alcali as fiery as that it burneth the tongue as much as a live or burning coal it being possible to get such a vehement burning Salt Acali from Mars which in a moment touching the tongue but very gently burneth the same as if it were red hot iron and dissolve the same in some Water and put therein your Volatil prepared Crocus of Copper and boyle it soundly thinking by this great fieriness to sever the Element of Fire from the Crocus yet for all that you get nothing and all your labour is lost the fiery Alcali being much too gross and too weak to untie this hard Metallick ligament But if you mix that Alcali with the Crocus grinding both well together and Endeavour the separation by fire in viâ siccâ you will reach so far that because by the External fire the fieriness of the Alcali is much fortifyed and becometh intenser than it was of its Nature and so the prepared Crocus is more opened and more fitted thereby for Extraction that in this manner the Alcali layes hold of some of the Tincture and severeth the same but being wholly material it reduceth the Copper on the other side by its gross fiery saltness again into a body insomuch that you get again material gross Copper and so all your former tedious Labour is brought to nothing But that little which the Alcali lad hold on though it be the true Sulphur and Gold-like Tincture of the Copper for this Alcali being rub'd upon Silver with some Moysture covereth it over very fair with a Gold-colour very pleasant to look upon but there is so little of it that it is rather to be counted but a shadow than substance of the Tincture Moreover though it were faisible in this manner to sever all the Sulphur from the Crocus yet it would be barely separated but not essentially dissolved become an opened oyl or juice for to this pass it ought to be advanced that part of the natural solvent remain with the solutum and by its fusile moysture this be reduced into a juice or liquor which the fiery Alcali is not able to do in regard that the same it self is no spiritual fusile oyl or Spirit but a gross material Salt which very easily can be severed again from this small quantity of the extracted Sulphur Cupri if it be dissolved in water and a corrosive dropped thereinto for then the Alcali uniteth with the corrosive and lets the extracted Sulphur fall to the bottom which after exsiccation is a powder but what would become then of our Philosophers doctrine who will have that after this Gold-like anima is severed from the body it is to be coagulated and fixed but how can it be coagulated if it be not first reduced to a Liquor by an essential solvent that is so softened that it remain an Oyl or fusile penetrating spiritual substance after its separation from the body which is the true mark or sign that this Gold-like anima is essentially and naturally unlockt and untyed from its inmost center such an excellency can the gross material Alcali not afford as may be seen by that small quantity of the precipitated Sulphur although the same also hath its rare Vertues Also let no man fancy that such an Essential solution may be performed by the spirit of Wine that if one should take this Alcali after it hath received that little quantity of the anima Cupri and grind