cause cure of 3 Cholick-stones of a vast unwonted magnitude also the History of the Exection of the Spleen out of a Dog that lived two years and a quarter after very lively and well with sufficient reasons to back the Experiment the Diseases of the Spleen with preservative and Curative Instructions of the same Lastly a Synopsis or Abridgment of Loimotomia the dissection of a Pestilential Body all in Latine wherein Materia Medica and its Philosophical management shall be more amply examined From Queen-street formerly called Soperâ— lane in Well-court nigh Cheapside 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A just Complaint of the Deceitful Dangerous and Pernicious Method or Way of Curing obstinately insisted upon by the Galenists at this day when a far better means is found out by the Philosophical Chymists Also the Advantage or Benefit arising from a Legitimate Learned Colledge established by Authority Moreover an Invitation to the Galenists to become Ortho-Chymists TO offend when a man neither knows nor is taught better deserves Pity To act amiss through an Importunate Imperfection with an earnest desire to reform argues Ingenuity and a Noble Spirit But wilfully to persist in a Capital Errour to the Ruine of aur Neighbour when one is Advertised thereof and may have better things indigitated to the Senses makes one guilty of abominable Wickedness The time was 26 years past that following those Dogmatical Rules received from Antiquity I did help for two or three years to fatten the Churchyard howsoever with many anxious thoughts much regret and checks of my Soul that I neither did nor could tell how to perform my Duty with more ability in this Weighty profession So disquieted was I night and day upon consideration how being sent for in the beginning of an Acute Evil I suffered a young Man in the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Flower of his Strength to be cut off for want of due Medicinal Provision that I resolved to take some other course of life to get a Subsistence rather than thus Conscious of my own Insufficiency to be accessary to the Death of my Patients Yea I did believe persevering in this common road of Malepractice I might contract the guilt of plain Homicide to the utter undoing my Soul Thus after many an Agony or Conflict of Spirit I fell off by little and little from that great Dictators Method and Pharmacie reputed by me at first Oracular Having acquired some Furniture of ordinary Chymical Medicaments I exhibited them though with a trembling Hand and Heart partly through Prejudice partly through fear of being Adulterated to those tired out with long Sickness as the Scurvie Qâ—artane Hypocondriak Passions c. yet with a success happy beyond my expectation The Galenical Doctrine becoming at first suspected and at length less reputed incited by my Tutor and another Friend an excellent Chymist I was fully bent without wavering to purchase Van Helmont one formerly slighted by me for inveighing without cause as I foolishly thought against the Schools to read him intirely impartially with a single Eye and a Marginal Note In the upshot after a serious rumination of those Physical Verities relating to the Radical Essence and Cure of Diseases communicated by this incomparable Searcher into Nature I forthwith took out a new Lesson of Theory and Practice renouncing my former mistakes imploring an Influence from Heaven that I might be farther informed Wherefore nauseating a Hundred Treatises of Feavers and other 〈…〉 nothing but Cramben millies coctam the same obsolete stuff over and over I rid my self of the Impediments or luggage of a fruitless Library wholy addicting my self to the Lecture of Initia Physicae inaudita and other of the most Authentick Authors coadjuvant to the understanding of the more obscure places delivered by our Philosopher Then according to his Advice I bought Glasses erected Furnaces fell to labour with my own hands prepared according to his general direction the Materia Medica which I first took into my own body for Tryal afterward tendred it to my Patients In this manner making a progress twenty years compleat from that time to this Having maturely received a farther Illumination and Confirmation of the solid Principles of Chymical Physiologie and the rotten Foundation of the Galenical abominating Bleeding as rightly stated uncorrected Purgatives c. I have with convincing predictions been able Auspice Deo to relieve the Calamities Languors and grievous Wounds of poor Mortals to the infinite satisfaction of my own Spirit A proof whereof I have tendered to Dr. Willis Dr. Merret Dr. Goddard and divers others of our London Colledge and am now ready to make good by Fact in a publick Hospital or private Families that the Galenical Design of Healing is Fraudulent Dangerous and Deadly As likewise that our rightly Instituted Fabrick of Pharmacy with the Method of dispensing and distributing it is Upright Safe and Sanative withal that those Allegations of excessive preternatural Heat Virulency Violence consuming the Humidum Radicale or shortning the Life imputed to our Remedies are Malicious Slanders False Accusations Detractions Cavils and subtil Devises contrived by these Traders in Men's Skins on purpose to keep up their Interest though Myriads perish Any but one obstinate rash self-conceited will judge Charitably of my proceedings in this kind sith deserting the Galenical usual manner of prescribing I incurred the displeasure yea hatred of most Apothecaries a dis-repute among the Galenical Chirurgeons because I condemn Phlebotomy and the common way of Healing Wounds Sores c. The rash Incogitant censures and Raillery of Midwives Nurses or such like Creatures with the Huffings sâ—ibs tepulses of Fortunes Favourites and the Abuses Sarcasms opprobrious Language of the ruder sort Moreover hereby I haue lost my Ease outward Applause Riches and Honours and many secular Respects laid hold by the Galenists in Oliver's Days and since without the least touch or scruple of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Besides upon Consideration that had I then plaid my Game Craftily which I could easily have done as well as the best of them I should have enjoyed no less Temporal Advantages than they But seeing I had more sublime thoughts esteeming nothing too dear so that I might attain the Gift of Healing as I ought Therefore in all Equity and Reason I ought to be listned to who request nothing more than that the Helmontian Doctrine which I assert may be accepted so far as I can make it appear true by repeated Experiments Once more I shall entreat those Learned Galenists they would be pleased out of Respect to their own Souls Commiseâ—ation to miserable Mortals for the Dignity Glory and Promotion of this Divine Science to put a stop to their profuse Effusion of Blood Consumption of the strength of the Body by tabefying Purgations withal to abandon fruitless cooling Julebs Pusillanimous Cordials Poysonous Vesicatories If the Galenists whose Estimation I should abhor to blemish did not the Life of Man stand in Competition still
no sooner are they received into the Stomach but part of them are rapt into the Vessels being suddenly carried into the Heart and Brain whereby the whole Body is invigorated the Vital Spirits in a Moment encreased and illuminated hereupon the Peccant Matter disturbed is profligated by Sneezing Expectoration Sweating or Transpiration by some Effloresence or Eruption in the Skin as Pimples Spots Botches c. by Stool or Urine The Truth of this as I said before is confirmed by those who making long and dangerous Voyages recover of grievous Maladies as Calentures Scurvie c. by force of a quickning Drink called Punch made of Rack or Brandy whereas formerly they were turned off as fast as rotten Sheep through that Nonsensical Method of Healing which the Doting Galenists taught the Credulous World by Cooling and Moistning Juleps In such sort hath the Authority of these Dogmatists Domineered over Mankind for many Ages past yea doth yet endeavour to uphold the same amongst us that Millions have perished by this Absurd Doctrine of Heating in Cold Diseases as likewise Cooling in Hot. However many Intelligent Subtil Wits do discover the Falacy of their Corrupt Theorems or Axioms in Physick casting away their Slibbersauces do rather chuse to trust to Holsome Well-made Strong Liquors in Feavers than their Ill-contrived Insalutiferous Weak Drossie Mixtures or Compositions I heard a Learned Gentleman of Note declare that he was Cured of a Malignant Feaver by means of Brandy Wine well construed taken in a large quantity when the Methodical Doctor of the Colledge threatning his Ruine thereby caused him to desist but for one day and take his more Temperate Prescriptions which had like to have cost him his Life if he had not fallen to his former Spirituous Liquor again For my part I am of this Judgment that 't is better for the most part to Cure Feavers after the Maritine Mode than to walk in the Customary Road of Exhibiting Medicines according to the supposed Qualities described in the London Dispensatory I le maintain Hippocr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 constant moderate sumption of Strong Liquors omitting Broath Gellies Water-Gruel Spiritless Posâ—et-crink c. shall be more prevalent to rid away Feavers in general than that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hodg Podg of Supernumerary Ingredients jumbled together without Discretion or serious consideration of the congruity of each one with another without seperating the precious from the vile by a Pyrotectnical Analysis of every Concrete whereby the violent Ferine powers of some things are mitigated cicurated and made Friendly to our Constitution also the singular Medical Dowrie of other Concretes are explicated exalted graduated the clog of their Terrestrial Impurities discharged hindering their Activity Who that is experimentally Intelligent would not in a sudden Lipothymie or Defection of the Spirits rather confide in the Analeptical or Refocillating Efficacie of good Wine or well Distilled Brandy than in Diascordium Venice Treacle London Treacle or any of their Confections Elect. or divers of their Potions I cannot otherwise believe but that the Benign Creator pitying the sad Condition of Man made worse by the Doctrine of Galen who never saw Aqua Vitae therefore delivered to Posterity this Gross Fulsome Fruitless Means of Curing hath in this later Decrepit Infirm Age of the World detected by the mouth of Mariners and Rusticks the use of those excellently well Distilled Spirits which these Thermologists and Psychrologists a company of Delirous Disputants about Hot and Cold Diseaseases requiring as they say Instruments of a contrary quality thereto to be applyed neglecting the Essential Nature and Radical Cure of Diseases have Suppressed to the Infinite Detriment of Mortals for many Centuries of years Now can the Indigent Sick-man without fear of over-heating his Blood threatned by these Thermologists confidently swallow a due Portion of vegetable Spirit potent to augment sometimes to admiration the paucity of the Animals enabling them to exclude some part of the Spurious Juice offending the Body like a Thorn in the side Now both Country-Men as well as Sea Men take these Spiritouus Liquors withouâ— scruple that they may quench their thirst asswage Burning Feavers keep off a fixeâ— Delirium and procure rest to the confusiâ—on of the rotten Precepts of these Ignorantly Learned Galenists Away then with these idle fopperies of taking directions of curing from Heat and Cold hereby fancying apâ—plications contrary to those Accidents wilâ— prevail seeing it is perspicuous all those endeavours come to nought unless the vital Spirit be animated to exterminate the occasional extimulating cause of Heat and Cold. It being then demonstrable that Spirits are best multiplied vigorously by Spirits with which they symbolize we ought to be solicitous concerning their preparation with a proportion to be allowed to the Archeus I find it frequent among the vulgar Chymists to boast how they can make vinous Spirits that in a considerable quantity will all burn away to the accension of Gunpowder in the bottome Having attained thus far in this process they think there remains nothing more in our Philosophy For all this if any study earnestly to 〈◊〉 as an able Physitian those Spirits made according to the common tract seeming to be reâ—ned contain in them an occult Impurityâ— some clandestine discommodity with some diâ—gustful tang sensible by the tast of our Vitals Although it be hard for the Plebeian to distinguish one from the other yet an expert Distiller knows the difference and happy effect of that which is really mundified above what seems to be so That Spirit of vegetables may be handled knowingly it behoveth the Naturalist to anatomize it pyrotechnicoôs that he may understand of what parts it consists and how useful it is According to our Philosophy an Aqua-vitae may be extracted out of all Herbaccous Plants i. e. Grass Blade Leaf Weed c. which contains an Alkali a Sulphur and some particles of an occult sub-acid Salt easily to be converted into Vineagar when it floats with a Tartareous Matter The vinous Alkali and Sulphur together exalted become a Balsamical Spirit of great force to preserve things from corruption Taken into our Bodies it is immediately changed partly into a vital Spirit suddainly conveighed by the Vessels to the Head and Heart part becomes Acid in the Stomach for the recreation or emendation of the Innate Ferment as likewise for a previous Disposition in order to a future alteration in the Intestines into a volatile Alkali by the eliquating or scouring facultie of the Gaulâ— afterward transmitted to the Kidneys it is turned into a Urinous Salt by a peculiar Ferment there implanted Lastly some portion runs into an Insipid Liquor called Latex or Lympha Thus is Salt and Sulphur of Plants which make up one Spirit pliable subactil or mutable above other ingested things into this or that form according as the Ferments of every shop of digestion please Moreover the Spirit of Plants if dextrously exercised is capable to be assimilated into all parts Continent
all Dreggy Drossy Indigested Extimulating Fretting Saline Unclean Malignant Virulent Medicaments which frequently given by them certainly do often positively disturb the Stomach procuring unkindly Heat 'T is not that seeming to be Hot because it penetrates rarefies and affects the parts by its glowing Spirituous Particles as if something fiery were applied is rashly so to be censured in Effect But what is Impure Corrosive or Venemous is to be Condemned as Burdensome caco-stomachical Clogging Fretting Vexatious Spinous absolutely Hostile to our Principles Putrefactive and so Consequently Thermopoietick It Argues great Incogitancy in any to Judge of the Inward Energie of an Elaborate Pharmacon by the Taste or outward apposition before the Ingredients be rightly understood and the exquisite Manufacture discovered Some things either taste not at all or pleasantly yet procreate Dyscrasies deadly Intoxicating Consequents there is also that whose Sapour harsh nauseating of an Excelling Gust notwithstanding Vivifick Alexitery Salutary Eucrate in Operation 'T is the Calamity of our Art that the World knows not how to distinguish between the Adulterate and Legitimate Tractation of Chymical Works Hereby Opportunity is given to the Enemies thereof lying in Ambush to Sally out opportunely and Charge it fiercely with those Crimes that their own and Vulgar Pseudochymical Medicaments are guilty of Because the Officinal mixtures are inexpertly entred upon ill-contrived slubbered over indiscreetly fabricated for that respect are too Hot Violent hurtful to the Stomach leaving sad Impressions behind of an Inflaming Colliquating Tabefying Condition ought upon this Score our Philosophical Polyacea's acquired by Sweat long Experience and true Sophy of Pyrotechnie be Sentenced as Vile and Pernicious Certainly the best Sack is not ere the less to be Reckoned a Noble Cordial because some Vintners sell Sophisticated depraved Liquor What is more Common at this day than to counterfeit the best in its kind through Idleness Self-love Avarice and wilful Inexperience If the Galenists would take pains themselves not fearing the choaking fumes of Charcoal nor the Arsenical Spirits of Minerals taking the Fruits of their Labour into their own Bodies before they tendered them to their Patients Would they spare no Cost to the purchasing the best Materials or be willing to learn of those who are able to Instruct them then would they soon be convinced of their Folly that what I offer the Diseased is neither too Hot Dangerous or Injurious to Nature though taken in a Quintuple Dose Assuredly were not the Galenists most disingenuous beyond Expression they would never discover their active Ignorance thus perpetually to contradict oppose and malign the Method which they cannot but be Canscious is the Down-right Clear Safe Concise way of Healing by Suppressing Taming and Profligating what is really the Occasional Matter of the Disease according to Hippocrates Acide Austere Bitter Pontick not Cold or Hot. Those being altered and discarded by means of powerful effectual Arcana an Eutaxie Eucrasie and Symetrie in the Microcosm follows The Good Old Man also tells us of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Diseases which I find common to all great Feavers containing a venemous Nature more or less acting in an Extraordinary Irregular manner different from meer degenerate Matter as Acid Bitter c. This sometimes if not maturely prevented stabs the Heart aâ— it were with a Cryptick Dagger no manifesâ— Reason derived from the Elements to be alledged So Spiritual graduated Poison is hatched in our Bodies that it pessundates or knocks down Animals in the twinckling of an eye Dares any Humourist undertake by means of Heat or Cold to overcome Arsenical Râ—algar Aconital Opiate Sardonian Taxeaâ— Cicutarie Viperine Scorpionian Tarantula like Poisons forged by the continually moving Archeus and specified according to its Fancy What a Childish Conceit is it to wave the oblation of what hath an Antidotal Virtue implanted in it sufficient to mortifie the foresaid Properties least they be too heating What grand Doâ—age yea Madness even to Homicide not to permit a Cure for the scruple of an Idle Vain Qualitie Doth any but a Dolt fear to give Aqua-Vitae or any Spirituous Liquors to a Lipothymical Person whose Vitals Wanze and Wain imagining it may heat too much Were our Lukewarm Physitians but as well experienced as Sea Chirurgeons yea even as some of the more knowing Mariners they would extirpate Feavers here as Calentures at Sea by â—ubtil Spirits corrected with better Judgment than their Punch For I know no solid â—eason why our Seamen should so frequentâ—y miscarry in their long Voyages heretofore â—â—so that hardly a competent number were â—eft to bring home the Ship unless this that â—hey take and give in Causons or Burning Feavors apply likewise to Inflammations Spiritous Liquors a thousand times to be preferr'd before their Flat Dull Vapid Morâ—iferous Cold Juleps and other Insipids If these Spirits too Hot as they will have them do good beyond their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spiritless Prescriptions what will they perform in the hand of an Adeptus who knows how to correct and free from Impurity Acrimony Tenacity too much Famelick Praedatory faculty the Real Cause oftentimes of the indignation consequently the excessive Heat of the Archeus the best of their Spirituous Preparations This demonstrated ex facto without frivolous Controversies or Cavils one would think should take these Humorists or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from their Jejune Cold Torpid Barren Opinions that this or that is too hot because it seems so to their Plebeian Rustick Taft whereas in very deed it is only endued with a highly defecated Spirit rectified beyond their vulgar Art not able to free from a Cacostomachick dross or Fretting Coagulating Spinous Salt and Malignant Venemous Sulphur the occasional Causes of all Praeternatural Heat in the Body Let these Philosophical reasons suffice for the confutation of their Accidental Way of Curing by Heat and Cold and that Calumniating Objection that the best Chymical Remedies are too Hot. Now shall I proceed in short to detect how Maliciously as well as ignorantly they impeach our Salutary Manufactures of Danger of Evil Consequence of sad Impressions left behind causing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antedating the Life and bringing it to an Immature Period I confess what they make the World believe in relation to our Instruments of Healing may be fitly applyed to the Medicaments of their Dispensatory for they are either clogged with Nauseating Dirty Foeculencies abound with Impure Acrimonious Corrosive Salts and Sulphurs or endued with some Deletery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ill-conditioned Intoxicating Concretes very adverse to Nature The Chymical Preparations which they formerly inveighed against as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lethiferous or dangerous the Galenists have of late entertained into their Ill-compiled Worse-managed Exemplar This Rhapsodie of Chymical Pharmacy tranâ—cribed out of the more Trivial Authors is 〈◊〉 Rude Indigested so slightly handled more fitting the Laick than any Sophical Clark so uncertain yea perilous in their â—ffects Some whereof are Virulent leaving many
Aqua-Vitae certain Essential Salts holding close concordance with the Vitals some of which harbour Specifik Gifts for the Cure of certain kinds of Griefs In general these Salts absterg glutinous Excrements attenuating Viscosites sweeten preternatural Acidity animate the Archeus help Digestion and strengthen all parts causing Urine Sweat Expectoration Now these ought to be accurately framed for Medical use otherwise they will come short of what we expect I find it the most Compendious Effectual way to Separate the Sulphurious or Oily part from the Concrete than to change it into a pure volatile Alkali This is done by Ablution Digestion repeated Distillation Thus much concerning the Iatrical Virtue of Spirits and Salts fetched from Vegetables â—s they have Affinity with our Vital Principles now I shall proceed to shew what proâ—inquity there is between the Vital Spirits â—nd Alkali's obtained from Animals I find according to Pyrotechnical Trials â—hat all parts of Man even his Excrements â—bound with Urinous Alkali's especially the Bones Blood and Urine Each of which afford in Stilling an Alkali or Urinous Salt much alike yet different in their Effects for according to Van Helm Spirit of Blood avails against the Epilepsie The Spirit of Urine is of no force thereto Likewise I find Spirit or Salt of Bones to Operate that which the other two fail in yet may they all be so prepared that neither Taste Smell Colour â—hall distinguish them I have for many years much toiled with my Head and Hands to find out what might directly match the Principal Agent in our Body the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contriver of both Health and Sickness After often and serious Contemplation with strict Examination of divers Concrets by optical Analysis I find nothing more like to do my business than those subtil saline particles drawn out of the Horny Bony or Dental Concretions of certain Animals or got out of the Dung of some Creatures abounding with Volatile Salts But above all I found at length Volatile Salts or Spirits allured out of divers Poâ—tions of Mans Body were most to be prefeâ—red for the Augmentation Vigour of thâ— Archeus to this I was induced by the uâ—doubted Authority of the Maxime in Phioâ—sophy Simile simili gaudet also Iisdoâ— nutrimur quibus constamus Besides my pâ—â—pose was confirmed by the Essential Consiâ—tution of the Vital Spirit viz. Saline aâ—cording to our Philosopher Est ipse Spiritâ— Vitae de Natura Salis volatilis Salst v. â— 136. Sextup Digest The Vital Spirit is of 〈◊〉 nature of a Volatile Alkali Moreover 〈◊〉 Blas Humanum p. 113. Per motum nempe 〈◊〉 Sanguinis non quidem Acidi sed Salsi exte nutio neque ideo in pinguedinem sive Butyruâ— vertitur sed in Spiritum Vitalem de salis adâ—oque de Balsami natura Certainly by Motioâ— the Blood is rarefied into a Saline not Aciâ— Spirit neither is it changed into a Fatty Buâ—tynous Substance but into a Vital Spirit oâ— the nature of a Sal for that reason it is Balsamical Also Pa. 443. AuraVitae Estque ideâ— Spiritus Vitalis Salsus viciniorque Spiritui loâ—tij quam Sali-petrae The Vital Spirit is a Salt of nigher affinity to the Spirit of Urine than Salt-peter Membro semel stupefacto si sensus redierit id sane cum sensibilibus stimulis punctionibus fit quae verae salsedinis sunt indicia If at any time a member benummed recovers its perfect sense there is felt prickings and thorny shootings which are infallible signs of a salt matter From the consideration of the saline Texture of the Vital spirit I laboured about the Alkali's of this Microcosm divers parts whereof I Dissected fetching out by Pyrotechnie their Volatiles which I studied to nobilitate by frequent scouring iterated distillations even to ten or eleven courses adding every turn a fitting Mundifier keeping them in digestion three weeks or a Month I then proceeded to correct any harsh Acid quality lurking in them by that which blunts lenefies or mollifies the same by feeding their hungry appetite with a pleasing Nutriment that they may not so eagerly prey upon the Body to entangle and clip their Wings that they may not ascend too high or fly away too nimbly to exalt them and advance them to a more lofty virtue by the intermixture of some small portion of Salt of Tart. volatile united with a pure vegetable Spirit Having thus prepared the highest clarified Liquor I have found it to carry an admirable conformity with the Vitals to symbolize with our Constitutes so that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taking it up greedily forthwith strengthned musters greater Forces for the expulsion of the Enemy that hath Invaded its Teritories This is really a Polyacea if further graduated it may come nigh a Panacea No sooner do the most defaecated Atoms in this active fluid Body arrive in the Stomach but some portion is strait absorpt or lickt up by the Archeus for its own Corroboration Part is made use by the natural Archiater foâ— the banishment of those burdensome aculeating strange Apostate Juices absolute enemieâ— to Life through all the cleansing passages convenient Quo natura vergit whether she pleases by the Kidneys Intestines through Mouth Ears Nose through the Pores of the Skin oâ— by a vigorous extermination of some malignant cadaverous Excrements lodging in the Center to the utmost bounds of the Body Add to this the Archeus enabled makes use of this symbolizing Alkali as an Instrument to edulcorate what is Acid to make slick any roughness to mitigate any biting or fretting Liquor to suppress reduce to regularity or explode exorbitant wild Spirits to correct the defects or obliquities of the Ferments that they may not continually engender the like vitiosity to deobstruct the Vessels stuffed with any congealed Blood or viscous calculous concrete or Phlegm by attenuating dissolving scouring away the same lastly to polish and confirm the Tone of every part Thus can Nature Act rare feats when it is animated by a Second when it meets with that which is of the same Pedigree with it self i. e. those saline particles first framed in the Stomach and Intestines afterward more refined are destinated for diversity of uses in this mass of flesh Now 't is not the common Alkali's used by the Galeno-Chymists that are sufficient to satisfie an able Chymist for the attaining the foresaid end Although I acknowledge the best remedies they possess are volatile Spirits drawn out of Harts-horn Armoni Ivory c. Yet I must tell them withall if they would desire to be instructed in the Art as it is Scientifick indeed I can demonstrate that their Spirit of Harts-horn and Sal. Armoni are neither rightly Corrected nor Clarified as they ought for that reason not so well embraced by the Vitals It is not without cause then that some pronounce it to be overheating c. Therefore to be given Scrupulously seldom above a Scruple at a time whereas if it be prepared by the hand of a
Legitimate Chymist it hath no ill property but is fitting to be administred without the least danger in a large quantity to the debilitating strong Acute and Long Diseases For the confirmation of what I deliver if Doctor Willis who trusts much to this volatile or any other would please to be so Ingenuous to make the experiment thereof I shall order Spir. C. C. so Technically that without measuring or weighing it I will undertake to cure Languid Person with more speed security and pleasinâ— gust wholly trusting to this Alkali alâ—though I have for many Years laid it aside Remedies of more excellent Form coming to my Possession than they with their owâ— unpolished imperfect Distilled Spirit oâ— the same kind The Alkali out of Mans Bones I musâ— commend as an admirable Medicine usefuâ— both for Inward and Outward griefs of thâ— Body if construed by a Philosophicaâ— hand Yet I have rarely met with any so compleatly regulated according to those Rules before described but brought to the Test it hath not been altogether so safe insisting upon an Ample Quantity nor so efectual respecting the Quality or singular Analeptick property with which such volatiles ought to be endued Spirit of Sal. Armoniack if elegantly prepared that it move in the middle Sphere not soaring wantonly too high if its hungry Appetite be in some measure allayed if freed from any impurity if married intimately to a Vegitable Spirit with which it hath similitude abounding with an abstersive Salt may challenge no small priviledge in strengthning and encreasing the Vitals That Volatile Alkali's do match the Texture of the Animal Spirits above any besides is certain However Acid Spirits if handsomly framed want not their eminent use in refreshing the Archeus wherefore their keen corosive particles are to be made blunt supple their foul Sulphur cleansed their fair extraverted what is gross in them to be rarefied whatsoever is extraneous savoring of an unkindly Mineral condition ought to be rejected their ill odour to be amended all dross to be separated from them and lastly to be copulated by frequent Distillation with a defecated Alkali Such an Acid avails much in healing for it is grateful to the Stomach raising a kindly Appetite it reforms a preternatural Ferment cherishing what is genuine By it rotten stinking spurious saline matter in the Stomach producing extream thirst is tamed altered and cleansed away The Vitals having Allured to themselves the Alkali Atomes the Acid Corpuscles are stamped into another Form in the second digestion where they become by the transmuting faculty of the Gaul injected on them another Juice loosing their Acidity withall assuming an abstersive Salt which easily passing through the Kidneys puts on an Urinous Nature producing plenty of Urine In other shops they purifie the Blood and Lâ—â—tex penetrating deep carry off superfluitie through the whole skin I admire the Galenists who proclaim themâ—selves Chymists should dare to give sucâ— Ill-prepared Acids in their Juleps or otheâ— Mixtures such as are so far estranged from the constitution of the parts continent anâ— contained that they carry no concordancâ— with them Of this sort are Oil of Vitriol Sulphur or what they nominate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spirits of the same for those are fretting gnawing biting mortifying Thesâ— meerly acetous rough harsh stiptick unâ—pleasant flat dull unprofitable Liquors plainly detecting that they were never made by a knowing Philochymist as intended foâ— that use which our Dogmatical Scribes put them to For hereby they think to take ofâ— Heat and Thirst in Feavers upon the account of their supposed cooling quality attributed to them by these Thermologists not considering that those effects of a few drops eatting a Woollen or Linnen Cloath quite through in a very short time cannot possibly arise from a cold Temperature or any other primary quality but from the abundance or conglobation of acute saline ponderous Particles as it were connexed in a Cone which thus concenterated tear and rend in pieces any subject capable wherefore as long as these Salts continue in this position or Texture I cannot allow them fitting to be exhibited by an able Healer for being Salts colliquated or melted then forced over by a strong fire they retain much of their pristine Original easily prone to be reduced into Salt of a nauseous unpleasant taste He that desires to procure a Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur of a grateful smell and taste welcome to the Ferment of the Stomach capable without difficulty to be altered into an Alkali apt to discharge â—mpurities through all convenient sluces must extravert the Sulphur so then by a strong fire dilate their fiery beams that they may become Luminous not burning must farther take off their sharp edge by intervening particles readily closing in with them whereby their heavy corpuscles are allevated their opacous consistence made nitid hereby our Spirits comprehend them with joy Moreover the Spirit of Salt so much disscoursed of also applauded by some as made so Artificially I find very deficient scarse deserving the name of Spirit for that vulgar Liquor abounds with Phlegm little Saline Matter and that far from a genuine Spirit sith it may by evaporation be brought to a corpulent Sal. What is really a Spirit is so volatile that it flyeth away unless very closly stopped incontinently Distilled iâ— leaveth no gross residue it is delectable to the taste of the Stomach alike as to the Palate hence it is very Medicinable This requires labour with discreet Analysis of the Body of the Salt by a Golden Sulphur and an Alkali I shall here opportunely reprehend our Galeno-chymists who affuse Oil of Sulphur to those three Species the matter of Elix Propri supposing hereby both to open their Body correct any ill property and advance their virtue whereas they make by this means the excellent dowry contained in them more concluse hardly to be communicated to their very homely Menstruum they encrease the biting acride fretting quality of the Aloe or Myrrhe whereupon follows a Dyscrasie in the parts geld or mutilate the Species instead of raising them to be more masculine and compleat If we contemplate this rude Manufacture of Elix Propr 't is no wonder those botching Chymists mist of their drift in curing by such imperfect Instruments 'T is no wonder they complain they are too Hot unsafe causing Cephalalgie c. Thus taking measure by their own deformed Practice the Reason is plain why such Contumelies and disrespect is daily offered to this Salutary way by these Chymicophants continually buzzing Falsities in the years of the Rich as well as the Poorer sort unstable credulous admiring the Authority of a company of Outsides who have nothing to plead for their Errors but Antiquity They have Impudently Fictitiously suggested that the best Chymical Remedies although fabricated by a most accurate Vulcan are dangerous excessively Hot leaving a Sting behing not to be prescribed but by the most precise Rules of their Method exactly weighing or measuring them Thus
these Praevaricators impose upon the Simple perswading them that they possess well-prepared Medicines above others when in truth I can prove them to be but meer Philosophasters in our Sophy that they are miserably involved in Darkness not only to the handy work of the best Innocent means but also in what belongs to the Oblation of them to the Patient in a just quantity time These Chymicophants certainly did they rather chuse to be than seem would uncessantly make a severe Scrutiny by Protechny into the Essence and quiddity of Concretes that having extracted their pure parts they mighâ— advance them by adjuncts agreeable to Naâ—ture avoiding all hurtful Acids circumciâ—sing or empairing their Goodness Whereâ—fore the Mass of Aloe Myrrhe Saffron being recluded by a proper Alkalizate Liquor wilâ— by digestion freely communicate its more reâ—fined particles to a Spirit symbolizing with ours of great efficacy in curing Dangerous Maladies if given proportionably to their degree of Malignity Note some Acids wherein certain concretes pulverized very fine are infused seem to dissolve them radically to draw out high Tinctures in so much the Loborator is much affected therewith supposing he hath obtained his wished desire when at length upon a stricter test it is really only a disguise in the Liquor arising from the piercing Salt of the Dissolvent obsorbing the tenuious Corpuscles of the Dissolutum which closely combined produce this colour These Salts keeping in a FIux the particles of the Matter infused hide them that they are not discerned till the activity of the Salts be somewhat exhausted or grown languid through Expiration or a matter injected suddenly embracing the Dissolvent makes forthwith a separation of it and the Dissolutum whereby a palpable Pouder is precipitated to the bottome and the colour of the Liquor reduced to what it was before This I made trial of in Zwelfer his Spirit of Venus pouered upon Crabs eyes seeming to be brought into a Mucilage their primum Ens till upon the coalition of an Alkali they returned to their former shape of a Powder The same deception may be discovered in Spirit of Bread affused to red Coral as likewise in several other Acid Dissolvents This may suffice to shew that vulgar Acids do neither candidly deal with us in dissolving Concretes radically neither do they prefer them to higher dignities of efficacy in Healing Van Helmont's advice is therefore strictly to be observed to endeavour to make the fixed Alkali of Tartar volatile for the separation and improvement of the better part of Bodies Doubtless that great Segregatour of all Concretes into Salt Sulphur Mercury that the pretious may be separated from the vile and yet it self kept in its integrity without any diminution of its virtue hath its original from an Alkali combined with pure Mercury It behoveth then every Physitian to make a daily inspection into these Salts both friendly to the Nature of Man and so prevalent in the unlocking Materia Medica that so we may carry away what is sanative and leave the destructive CHAP. XI AS the Vital Spirits are to be multiplyed by their like that they may be lusty to conquer their Enemy so are they likewise to be pacified lulled asleep diverted treated gently to be gratified with harmless Anodives Sedatives delightful Speculatives the most lucid Objects and most beautiful Idea's This Renowned Design is to be accomplished by Vegetable Animal and Mineral Sulphurs Nothing in this kind acts better than Mineral Sulphurs brought to an height of Entelechie for no sooner are they taken into the Stomach but the Vitals are refocillated by their bright Rays a sweet composure follows their fury and rage taken off black deformed Images of Mortality defaced bright lovely Idea's of Health taking place Vegetable Sulphurs afford us excellent virtue in Healing if freed from an Empyreumatick Tang elaborated from an unkind Acid lurking in them either to be altered to a sweetness by what is apposite or abstracted from them by curious Art Add to this if they abound with store of volatile Alkali's and of good odour otherwise they put the Ferment of the Stomack to difficult labour â—n removing their unctuosity that they may become fitting for sanguification Those volatile Salts which harbour a stinking Oleous Odour can never be grateful to the Vitals Odores Oleosi abstracti a suis Concretis inquinando potius afficiunt quam materialiter in Arterias subeant Helm de Fâ—br p. 90. Wherefore I admire how some of our Learned Chymicophants can pretend to be so knowing in our Sophy yet know not how to rectifie or to give a better Odour to Spirits of Harts-horn Soot c. that they may be more acceptable to the Animals As long as any relique of faetid Oil lies couched in the saline Particles it must needs contaminate the more elegant Crasis Although some alledge the Medicine is robbed of part of its Medical endowment if this unpleasant hogo be sequestred yet dispensing with the frequent employment of about some Graveolents as likewise what may be requisite in Historical Affects without Controversies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bene Olents are most agreeable to the Synthesis or Constitution of the Vitals witness the Essential Oils of Cinamon Clove Mace Nutmegs c. which being odorous plentifully imbued with Saline Particles immediately Refocillate Illuminate and Compose Nature All caution therefore ought to be used that the Fire may not give Vegetables or Animals an ill odorous Impress scarce somtimes to be expunged also to exercise 〈◊〉 manner of industry that the foul Sulphâ—â— may not rise with the clean Spirits or Salâ— or if it so happen it may by digestion and maâ—nifold distillation with proper Adjuncts 〈◊〉 divorced at least much diminished There are several Sulphurs Balsams oâ— Oyls extracted out of Vegetables of good conâ—cernment in Healing as Aromatick and maâ—ny fragrant Plants Oyl of Aniseed Fennelâ— Marjoram Rosemary Thyme Lavender Sassafras Lemons c. are to be commended as they are if nitide and throughly polite by reason of the auspicious benevolent aspect on the Archeus yet if they shall be converted into benign Spirits or Salts they far transcend the former working strange Cures Oyl of Terebinth spiritualized by a right Spagyrical hand will get a Physitian credit by its splendid effluviums but Oyl of Amber made serene will do better things also Balsam Peruvian and Balsam Capiviae Arbor Vit. rarefied or set at liberty from their grosser matter then changed into a sublime Aethereal substance will send forth some bright beams for the enlightning this microcosm Oyl of Guaicum and Box Distilled without â—aetid unsavory fiery smell or tast afterward exalted to a highly volatile Spirit are delightful to the Archeus and far to be approved before any Diet-drink bochet c. offered by the Galenists for the cure of the Lues Venerea or other stubborn Diseases Note that we ought to be very studious in the hebetating or withdrawing the Acid latitant in most Oils whereby their virtues
Cinabaris Nativa called of Paracelsus Metallus Primus sive Masculus comprehends a most Radiant Solar Sulphur This brought into a red Oyl afterwards into a Mercurial Juice named Vinum vitae or dissolved in some Aromatick Oyl Circulated with an Alkali in Spirit of Wine doth not onely cleanse away banishing what is hurtful in the Body but also renovates the Strength â—mpaired in the whole reducing the Tone and Vigour of every part to a just proportion and Equal Action Hence it is deservedly conducible for the protelation of Life The Sulphureous Particles of Lapis Haematites extraverted by Sublimation send forth a most fragrant smell like Saffron These Flowers immerged in a Benevolent Menstruuum digested often Distilled give a Tincture no whit different to a dissolution of Gold Great is the Power hereof to please the Vitals to Illuminate the dark Corners of the Microcosm Out of Bismuth Zink Talk Ludus Paracel and divers other Marchasites are extorted good Sulphurs which Elaborately Refined United with Symbolizing Liquors afford Remedies fitting to allay the perturbations of the Archeus There are also certain Precious Stones as the Emeral'd Saphire Granat c. whose rutilating Sulphurs although they are fast locked up yet may be recluded by means of penetrating Dissolvents whereby their shining Dowries being diffused in a Friendly Diaphanous Bath the Rigour of the Archeus may be made supple compliant and enlightned when at any time it is obnubilated For if Precious Stones be reputed to have a Happy Influence upon the Vitals by those bright Beams darted outwardly Certainly they will perform it much better when that Light imprisoned shall be set at Liberty from the grosser part being United as it were in a Cone shall be received into a fluid serene Matter so taken inwardly Those Luminous Concretions Nature seems to have taken extraordinary pains about to free from Heterogeneâ—ty or Alloy namely Unions or Pearls indigitate to us by their Clarified Signature that such shining Sulphureous Remedies may be fabricated by Analysis of them which the Archeus may esteem as Vitae Deliciae Feasting upon â—hem with admirable delight Now this Dainty Morsel for the Archeus to Banquet on is not to be acquired by a trivial affusion of Vinegar which doth onely imposie upon our Eyes representing them as truly dissolved whereas indeed they are no otherwise than Masked no better than pulverized Moreover doth likewise fleece them castrating these splendid Concretions of their real eminent Lustre they had before but by means of such a dissolvent able to make them retire to their Ens primum This is verily a great Cordial sweetly imbibed by Nature worthy to be called Elementum sive lac Margaritarum because it is a great Restorer of what is impaired a disperser of those black Meteors darkning the Spirits Thus I have I hope pro modulo confirmed one Leg of this spacious Body of Therapeutick Physick viz. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Indication dedueed from the Necessary support Augmentation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Placation Moderation Applause Photism of the Vital Spirits CHAP. XIV THE other Leg to be insisted upon or principal immediate Indication to be Considered is the ablation of the Inwarâ— Efficient Cause of a Disease and the Ouâ—â—ward Occasional Irritative Morbifick Matteâ— That the Archeus is the Prime Author 〈◊〉 all Sickness is an undoubted Truth Nether can any Malady Seat it self any where but in the Life as it 's proper Subject foâ— the Body once extinct all Diseases vanish Now this Ens morbosum as all otheâ— things arises from a Seminal Principle thâ— Quiddity or Activity of which necessarilâ— depends upon an Idea impressed upon thâ— Spirit As soon as this Idea is formed by the Arâ—cheus invested therewith it forthwith falls to Action uncessantly Labouring to pollute part of the Vitals hereupon an unkindly Forreign Ferment emerges which the Archeal Idea makes use of to alienate the Life more and more from it's Integrity Thus from an Invisible Beginning a Real Morbous Ens is Created defined by our Philosopher Vitalis Potestatis Actus Idealis Efficiens induens sibi Vestem ex Ideali materia atque aâ—quirens formam Vitalem substantialem juxta differentiam Tarditatis Celeritatis seminum Ide alum That this depraved Efficient Act of the Vitals may be hindred frustrated and deprived of Ideal Matter to clad it self so be disappointed from arriving to or continuing in a Vital Formality the Ideal Seed is to be defaced blurred and extinct by all means possible To bring this Intention home to a purpose Immediately and speedily requires the best of Van Helmont's Arcana Yet I doubt not but some of those Medical Instruments I have before proposed will by Degrees in some reasonable space at least Cancel if not totally deface those black Preternatural Ideas that the Archeus disturbed with irregular Passions hath delineated in the very Essence of Life Certainly when a supreamly clarified Salt and Sulp. shall be taken into the Body then Conducted into the very Bed-Chamber of Life shewing the Archeus as in a Looking-Glass the ugly shape of the Disease Pourtrayed it cannot but after some Re-collection Repent of Former Errors exceedingly contented at the presence of so beautiful an Object offered to the view whose salutiferous Idea causes a Composure in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereupon it falls to razing out the deformed Image of Mortality instead thereof limns though rudely at first the Picture of future Sanctity Pulv. noster Bezoard vel Pestifugus Tinct Bals. Solar Polya Sulp. ♂ ♀ most defaecated destroy in some sort Diseased Ideas producing luminous instead of Caliginous Images I question not but there are Remedies to be purchased as Active in framing Healthâ—ful Characters on the Spirits as there arâ— things noxious framing with admirablâ— Agility deadly Impresses Did we not too much acquiesce upoâ— Traditional Notions prone to be ratheâ— Credulous through Idleness than to make a narrow Indagation into the formal Essenâ—tial Virtues given to Concretes we should without Question be better Instructed concerning the specifick Properties of Animals Vegetables and Minerals we should more directly understand what is to be adapted adequately immediately for the abolition of contumacious long Maladies whose difficulty of Curing consists in fixed Ideas the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of which would quickly make a Cure 'T is I say for want of the knowledge of the seminal Endowments of Creatures able to wash away the foul Tinctures or black Ideas of Evils and in lieu to ting the Body with a Vital Balsom Creating good Images in the Spirits that our Calamities are so Grievous and long How Vainly then Foolishly Obstinately yea deceitfully do the Galenists obtrude upon their mâ—serable Patients Faint Cordials Insignificant Juleps Destructive Bleeding Pernicious Solutives together with outward Butcheries as Vesicatories c. for the Conquering those Radicated Maladies whose Essence principally depends upon a Spiritual Morbifick Idea which once expunged salutiferous Images come in place Nature flourisheth it 's
Enemy shortly withers I grant the Dogmatists own the use of Specificks affirming that they substantially and formally resist the Evils of Life For all that 't is well known to the Faithful Philosopher how little they trust to them being conscious to themselves how ieiune and barren they are therein never profoundly to a purpose examining this Ideal Doctrine or putting it to the Test of Solid Learned repeated Experiments as they ought but rather trusting to what Good-wives have Taught them who Happily deprived of their false Methods slighting their Hodg podg Bolmong Non-sensical jumbling together of multitude of Ingredients looking Ninety nine ways at once but in no wise at the right Mark led by their own Genius put to some difficulties moved to pity their Neighbours Languors simply looked upon by them with a sincere Eye of Healing without that chief Sordid Mercenary End our Galenical Hucksturs or Ingrossers drive at have been by Divine Providence conducted to the knowledge of those Specificks that have beyond expectation made a Metamorphosis of the Infirmity into Sanity To the Rude contingent Essays of the Plain Candid Immethodical People are our Fine-finger'd Disingenuous Methodical Galenists beholding hardly affording a Mantissa of their own Experimental Discoveries to the weight of Direct Immediate Scheme of Curing This is the Reason we have so few Patterns of Antidotes in this kind sufficient to annihilate those Venemous Characters made by multitude of dayly Occurrent Occasional Causes such is the Laziness of these Antichymists that they will neither labour themselves nor encourage Industrious men Their Main study is to disguise themselves that they may rather seem than be truly Philosophical wherefore like the worst of Thieves stealing Pretious Truths out of Van Helm or his Legitimate Disciples they conceal them by dressing them in a strang Habit thus bring them upon the Stage of the world to be Admired as the Off-spring of their own Head and Hand whereas indeed they are but meerly Surreptitious for which they ought severely to be animadvâ—rted especially for Cavilling and Carping at this Noble Philosopher to whom they owe what Orthodox Knowledge they have Of this Crime I know some cryed up by the Ignorant for great Spagyrists who as I can expressly shew hath pillaged our Philosopher of Substantial Physical Verities changed their Name cut out their Mark put on a larg fine Coat of Rhetorick to make them look more gaudy so exposed them to Sale at the Phantastical Fairs of this Foolishly Affecting willingly to be deceived World Now let us find out if possible some Rare Gifts Instilled into the Creatures by the Conditor of all things These are fitly to be divided into three Monarchies or Republicks each one bound to act according to that Power they are subject to viz. Animal Vegetable Mineral to which is added Marine CHAP. XV. AMong the Tribe of Animals with their Parts the Spirit of the blood of Man blots out the Idea of the Falling-sickness which the Spirit of Urine in every respect besides equal with the former cannot effect The Pouder of the Skul of a Man strangled is reputed a Specifick in the Epilepsie The Spirit of the Brain is valued after the same rate To drink his own Urine preserveth from the Image of the Pest. The repeated Potation of Urine cures the Tertian and makes the Seminal Character to fade away The Uterine Blood of a Child-bed Woman drank hath an excellent faculty to stop immoderate Fluxes of the Womb arising from a furious Idea The Blood flowing from the Nose stops excessive Haemorrhagies Menstruum Virginis extinguisheth Erysipelas Blood Extravsated or quitture hath a Sympathetical Sense diffusing Beams at a great Distance towards the Vital Blood causing Idea's Sanative or Corruptive in Wounds or Ulcers according as Moderate or Violent Impresses are made upon the Matter removed from the Body The Gaul of Man correcteth Deafness The Mumy of Mans Body duly prepared acts strangly upon the Innate Spirits Ferments and Idea's for saith our Philosopher Nec etenim tutum est satis Mumiarum ad invicem connexum concordantiam exprimere inde nempe tota dimanavit Necromantia veterum A man may presume to dive too far into this abstruse Philosophy to his own prejudice imitating the Necromancy of the Antients Without Controversie the true Mumy operates notably upon the Morbifick Seal enabling the Spirits to abolish it to make salutiferous Images in place of the former But it is not to be purchased sincere at this day nor a succedaneum thereto for that liquor as it is described was of a thick Mellaginous consistence of good Odour of singular Efficacy proceeding from the Balsome of Myrrhe Aloe Cinamon with which they seasoned Mans Body Ours at this day is of a different form to the right Being only a Cadaverous Liquamen or a piece of Flesh Condited and dryed very little significant for the cure of any great Disease The Fat of Man wants not its worth as a Topick in removing weak troublesome tormenting Marks made on certain parts of the Body The Fat of Man enters into the Weapon Salve for the advancement thereof To what Nefarious Impious uses Witches put the parts of Mans Body for the execution of their horrid Enterprizes is known to those who have enquired into Natural Magical Causes of things The same parts of Man differently handled may destroy their wicked villanous Bewitching Idea's by introducing Good Moral Divine Religious Representations 'T is vulgarly known how Fasting-spittle doth take off some Griefs not so much by power of a volatile Salt in it as by a gift conferred of spoiling the Stigma in the part affected Ear-wax cometh not short thereof in Energie The Spirit of Hair applyed causeth Hair to grow Man's Dung is reported to be an Adaequate Antidote for mortifying the terrible Idea of some Poysons The great Tooth of a Dead Body placed upon an aking Tooth causeth it to fall out by bare contact Van. Hel. affirms Morientium sudor mirificas vires mortificandi Haemorrhoides excrescentias possidet p. 233. The Sweat of a Dying Man destroys the form of the swelling of the outward Piles and other Excrescenscies A Dead-mans hand caused to stroke the same acts in like manner Lice swallowed alive diminisheth as is confirmed by some experimentally the Tincture of the Jaundice and sometimes totally removes the steps thereof Intestinal Worms dried poudered taken inwardly destroy the Figure of living Worms Lice are said to rid away Lice Some declare the Stone of the Kidneys and Bladder prudently Ordered by an Expert Pyrosophist marreth the fashion of the Duelech loosening the Compage thereof making it become Retrograde to the Principle of it's first Concretion There are some who have such an Idiosyncrasie or peculiar Constitution of Body that upon Contact Palpation or stroaking another Living Body they change the Texture of the same alter a valetudinary Melancholy stamp to a wholsome Chearful Image And I doubt not but some Infected with the Venereal Poysonous sting
deformed Venemous Epileptical Image Lilly conval the Flowers of Linden or Teil Tree Black Cherries Southern wood Valerian Oyl of the Wood of Hazel Balsam of Palestina Spirit of Tobacco Spirit of Camphire are according to tradition Specificks against the Epilepsie Appoplexie and Palsie Balm Black Hellebore prevail against mad Phancies White Poppy Nutmeg help to abate great Watchings Serpillum or Wild Thyme Vervein Regulate the Disorders of the Head The Flowers of Succory Rochet applied to the Nape of the Neck Celandine the green leaves of Tobacco mitigate the Inflammation of the Eyes Hieracium i. e. Hawkweed Eye-bright Fennel strengthen weak Eyes Wormwood Vervain diminish the tingling noise in the Ear. An Onion Pellets of Common Raddish put into the Ear have a property to help the difficulty of Hearing The Root of Gentian amends the Idea of an Ulcer in the Nose Majoram Hors-mint Restore the decay of Smelling The Juice of mil-foil the mushrom of a Birch tree the Flowers of Daisie the lesser restrain Haemorrhagies Flowers of Benzoe stalks of Nigella Romana or Gith Dissolve Congealed Blood Oyl of Box the Root of sharp pointed Dock Burdock are reckoned appeasers of the Tooth ach the Fume of Henbane killeth Worms in the teeth A Decoction of Veronica mas i. e. Fluellin the male is said to Cure the Aphthae the Thrush in Sucking Children The Root of Aron Bryony Valerian are Specified against Diseases of the Lungs Ground Ivy is powerful to do good in those who are Empical i. e. have Corrupt matter gathered in the Chest the Seed of Roman Nettle and the Root of Comfrey are also proper Horse-tongue Ladies Thistle appease the pains of the Side Wild Cresses take off the mark of Hoarsness upon the Lungs Zizipha lenifie a Cough Henbane-Seed the Root of stinging Nettle Fluellin Bistort Comfrey Burnet Sanicle check spitting of Blood The Lesser Housleek is of great force against a Quinzie English Saffron Scabious Garlick Horehound Spirit of Tobacco Benzoe deface the Character of the Tissick The Root of Mullein before it comes to Flower hinders the Impetuous Flux of the Latex to any part The like Virtue is attributed to mother of Thyme and Ground-pine Zedoarie Balm Anacardium give redress in Lipothymie or Fainting Fits Oyl of Cynamon in Palpitation of the Heart Hemlock Gum of Juniper afford succour in the Inflammations of the Breast Likewise Rhaeas or Wild Red Poppy Daisie Roots and Flowers The Juice of Ground Ivie the Flower of St. Johns Wort reform the mishapen figure of a Phthisis or Ulcer of the Lungs Hemlock Mint the Root and Seed of Fennel hinder an overplus of Milk and its curdling The greater Dragon Aron spoil the filthy shape of a Cancer Burnet Bryony Root Water of Vine branches abate the Phantastical Longing of Women hindering the mischief which commonly coms upon it Zedoarie is applauded as an excellent proper Stomachick Essence of Bread helps Digestion admirably well The Seed of Columbine Crocus Horehound Strawberry Leaves and Root alter the Dye or Stain of the Yellow Jaundice Elder Berries lenefies the vehemence of the Bloody Flix Essence of Persicaria is excellent against the Diseases of the Mesentery Gladiolus Sword-grass Fox-glove are of great importance in the Kings-Evil Black Hellebore Tamarisk Garlick Fern Epithymum Polypodium Seed of Roman Nettle are accounted Remedies for the Spleen Gratiola doth good in the Dropsie Anasarcha Tapsus Barbatus in a Tympany Garden Scurvy-grass well prepared Brooklime Lesser Celandine Horse-Raddish Herb two Penny the leaves of Pine or Firr help to Cancel the virulent Idea of the Scurvy Rupture wort Hippoglossum Pilosella Semen Sophiae Filicula Perfoliata are appropriated for the Cure of a Rupture of the Guts Herb Paris reduces the Inflammation of the Scrotum to an Eucrasie The dead Nettle Terebinth Ebulus much conduceth in a Gonorrhaea Satyrium Boletus Cervinus Cubebs the Root of Dogs stone Umbilicus Veneris quicken Veneral Phancies Oyl of Rue abates the Priapism Sweet Bryar Balls Alkekeng Juniper Berries Saxifrage Lignum Nephriticum Peach stones Lachrima Job the Liquor of Birch drawn from the Tree in March are commended for the stone in the Kidneys Decoction of Red Ciches avails in the Strangury Agrimony in Pissing of Blood Figg leaves Juice of Onions Aloe open the Piles Linaria the Ashes of Vine Branches remove the Warts and knubs of the Fundament Black Hellebore quilted with Cotten in form of a Girdle worn stops the Excessive Flux of the Piles The Root of Sloe bush restores the Falling down of the Fundament Down upon Quinces Maiden-hair Thapsia cause the Hair to grow Storks Bill called Gratia Dei Unites broken bones Persicaria Celandine the lesser Bryony take away black and blew strokes Hypericon Persicaria are excellent vulnerary Herbs The Root of Bryony steeped in Water with Oak Ashes destroys Worms in the Skin Gladiolus applyed fetches out Thorns and Splinters Mushroms of an Oak mortifie Carbuncles Strawberries are accounted a Specifick against the Leprosie The Bark of Birch Bladders on Elm leaves cleanse away Freckles A Bath made of Osier leaves refresheth Consumptive Limbs Lunaria is a special Remedy for a Cancer An Apple applyed to Warts and buried under ground mortifies them CHAP. XVII Lastly Mineral and Marine Substances Act upon the Idea's of Diseases by defacing or expunging them THE Legitimate Spir. of Vitriol Amber Terra Sigillata Red Coral Natural Cinnabar Cinnabar of ♠The Emeral'd scatter those black Clouds arising from the horrid Spectrums of the Appoplexie Epilepsie introducing instead thereof a brightness and splendour in the Spirits Our Bezoartick powder with ☽ doth notable things to this purpose It operates rarely well in Comatous Evils and Watchings Balsam of Saturn appeases the furious Commotion of the brain The Sulphur of Vitriol Cures the Vertigo or Diziness The pure Tincture of Tutia respects the Good of the Eyes causing the Species of Objects to be seen more plain Sal Punella Flowers of Brimstone made as they should be are doubtless of commendable use in the Quinzie and Tissick Tincture of Mars Lapis Haematites and Vitriol stop excessive Bleeding Antimonium Diaphoreticum is conducible in Imposthumes of the Lungs The Flowers of ♠fixed are so prized in an Empical Condition Bezoar Mineral dissolves blood congealed and is of great validity in a Phthisis but above all the Anodine Sulphur of Vitriol is to be preferred Coral Revives the Vital Image in Lipothymical Persons Powder of Crystal encreaseth Milk Spirit of ♄ amends the defects of the Stomack Emeral'd Coral Sulphur of ☉ are magnified for good Remedies in Cholera and Dysenterie Mars Saccharum ♄ Clarifie the Spleen Reforming it's peccant Idea's The Load-stone applyed to the Navil causeth Cholick pains to cease by destroying the Image of the Disease The Sea Spong Sal Gemm is much commended in Schrofulous Affects Sal Gemm Artificially prepared is extolled in Bubonocele and Enterocele Mercury destroys all sorts of Worms Essence of Amber Venice Borace Revives the Image of Virility extinguishing the ill-favoured type of sterility
framed but strait vanish becoming Non Entia for they are momentany and easily thrust out by the next Successour But when any Object shall often savourly and seriously affect us then the Representation of the same doth take deep Roots in the Spirit altering the Texture of the Blood Latex or Lympha so that according to the Species of the Immoderate Passion and the Picture thereof drawn either in the Innate Archeus or that continually repaired different Accidents Symptomes Signs and Effects arise That all Diseases have a Type Copy or Example set according to which the Archeus that first moulded it acts may be confirmed by the Uniformity Regular Motion Inseparable Appearances or Signs belonging to them from which they receive a Name proper to their Nature Those tell us of what kind the Sickness is insomuch a Judicious Physitian is able as well to make distinction between one Maladie and another as between a Pippin and a Pearmain an Almond and a Chesnut likewise to sort them into several Kinds Classes Forms Degrees a thing never to be done if there were not a certain Director Informer oâ— first Mover that laid a Platsom of whatsoever Grief depending upon an Efficient and Material Cause as all other Sublunaries Again that the Archeus doth first make a draught of the Evil in self working afterward accordingly to its own Hurt or Destruction may be proved by that Intermission Silence we find in Feavers Falling-sickness Gout Stone Convulsions Tissick c. which as it were sleep for some time then awake repeating their former Tragical Act exactly Certainly if there were not an Agent lead by a strict Rule it were impossible such a constant Mode and Method could be observed in the Beginning Progress Height Declension and Determination of Maladies Briefly therefore the true Efficient with the Material Cause of all Diseases is not any Distemper of the Elementary Qualites not any of the supposed four Humours derived from the four Elements not Salt Sulphur Mercury c. not any thing meerly Excrementitious Vexatious Ambient but the Vital Spirit stirred up to Indignation Fear c. by some loathsome tedious Object present whereupon it makes the very shape planting the Seed of the Maladie in some Portion of that Aetherial Blast separated from that in Integrity upon which Matter as a Patient the Seminal Ideal Agent works shooting forth those Manifold Fruits or Appearances in Sickness CHAP IV. Of the Therapeutick or Healing Method 1. Of Diet in General respecting the Prevention and Sanation of Mans Infirmities THe Immediate Undoubted Cause of all Diseases made Manifest their Cure will become more Easie to the Purpose Speedy with less Danger and Loathsomness There are two Capital principal Indications Ends or Marks which ought to direct us in the ordering our Diet as well as Pharmacy 1. The Support of the Strength or Vital Spirits 2. The Declining or Eschewing whatsoever is an Enemy to Nature that Incenses and puts it into inordinate Passions Laudable Diet then both Supports the Vitals encreasing them also Clarifies Pacifies and Diverts them from making Hurtful Images yea in some proportion Duls Defaces and Eclipses those already framed Now by Diet are comprehended all those Necessary Succours Requisites or Concomitants without which the Life of Man cannot Subsist Namely 1. Ingestion or taking into our Bodies whatsoever is Alimental or Nourishable 2. The Egestion or Discharge of Superfluities arising from our Food and the Retention of what is agreeable to our Nature 3. The Rectification of the Aire 4. The right ordering of Rest and Motion by Turns in due Measure and Time 5. A just Allowance of Sleep and Watching Lastly The Moderation or Regulation of the Passions aed Perturbations of the Mind In the first place the direct way to uphold increase the Spirits to keep them Clear Bright and free from unreasonable Sickly Turbulent Melancholy Idea's or Impressions is to have an especial Care of the Fountain from whence these subtil Particles spring i. e. the Stomach This Noble Part is with Care and Tenderness to be respected above any other for this purpose nothing is to be taken offending it either in Quality or Quantity Neither is the Substance and Quality of any Nourishable to be insisted upon so much as the just Quantity we are to observe for if the Stomach earnestly desire what is generally Reputed to be hard of Digestion or to afford bad Aliment notwithstanding if there be an eager Appetite to the same this Noble Part is to be indulged or favoured in such a Case only allowing a lesser Quantity Doubtless this most sensible Membrane of Exquisite Gust doth for the most part best prompt uâ— to what is for the Good of the whole so that giving a Repulse or Check to a vehement Appetite hunting after any thing eatable or drinkable we oftentimes cause a cloudiness dulness sullenness and darkness in the Vital Spirits bringing them into such a disorder that they Coin many foul black Images whereas if the Archeus of this eminent Ventricle were gratified and humoured in what it extreamly desires there would be a serenity and lustre in the Spirits and then alâ— Actions executed with more strength The severity of some Physitians in forbidding their Patients to eat that to which their Appetite is exceedingly addicted hath caused no small discommodity Neither do they less offend who strictly impose upon them such a Diet as they according to some general Rules apprehend most fitting derived from bare Qualities of Heat and Cold c. not considering that in all Diseases especially those of long duration enquiry ought to be made to what Diet the Sick is most naturally inclined to and accustomed what his Gust doth best relish then according to that account to grant him some small Portion of what he eagerly covets although usually reckoned amongst Food of hard Digestion of ill juice of bad quality or very Hot c. For none can give better Arguments of a Diet more proper for the satisfying the Appetite than a Man himself especially if he be of years carefully taking notice what doth most agree with the Genius of his Stomach I have known Posset-drink out of an intent to cool prescribed by some Doctors Humorists without farther Examination of an Antipathy thereto even to the endangering the Life in Malignant ill-conditioned Feavers Such Darkness hath forthwith seized upon their Spirits and such Loathsome foul Shapes have been delineated thereby that they have approached the shadow of Death undoubtedly perishing had not prevalent Art blotted out speedily those deformed Figures So hazardous it is to withhold what Nature doth most Sympathize with or to offer what it bears an inbred Hatred to This certainly is to be known by a Man 's own Experience whether he have an absolute dislike to Honey an Egg Sider any Spice c. For this Reason methinks 't is great vanity in those who will undertake to be Magisterial and over-rule Persons in Diet more able to judge of this
Matter than Physitians who presume no less ridiculously than ignorantly to enjoyn Iohn Thomas William the same Food Order Season and Measure of taking it alike without having respect to any Individual or Peculiar Stamp made upon the Spirits in the Womb whence Qot Homines Tot Diaetae observendae As many Men as there are in the World so many inseparable Properties are to be indulged as to the election of Eating and Drinking this or that If our Galenical Physitians who stand so much upon their bare Qualities of Heat and Cold in the Cure of Griefs according to the Rule of Contraries directing them as they say but upon false grounds to extinguish one by another did rather aim at the Cancelling and blotting out these perverse deformed crooked Impresses or Characters born with us and in process growing up to such a height insomuch that they become unconquerable Mortals would certainly enjoy both a sounder Body and Mind be free from Melancholy enjoying far more clearness of Spirit I am Confident that the Stomach whose Digestive properly is utterly estranged by a Feaver or long Imbecillity being whetted by a strong affection may alter a Red-herring Oysters a Lobster c. better than Veal Chicken Broth Gellies or any such contrived Cookeries Therefore to urge the Sick to Eat Sodden when he lusts after Roasted or Liquid when he requires Solid is to cross Nature supposed either can be made fit for nourishment In all those states wherein I find the Infirm Person 's Stomach uncapable to make a formal chang of the Food for want of a kindly Ferment or Dissolvent as for Example in all Feavers and very ill habits of Bodies there I generally injoyn the best Liquors abounding with good Spirits easily to be altered into the Vitals leaving no considerate foulness or dross behind the watrish part entering into the Vessels carrying off some Superfluities it meets with by Urine and Sweat so that my Practice hath taught me many years what Hippo. hath delivered Facilius est refici potu quum cibo The Vital steam is with more speed refreshed and longer maintained by Spirituous Liquors than by Flesh or its Juices which for want of a Living Dissolvent requisite for this chief Cook-room become Degenerate Dead and stinking whereupon a Feaver is added to a Feaver the Archeus being encreased in its Fury makes Idea's of Weakness Despair and Confusion according to the Truth of the Old Man Siquis in febre cibum de derit valenti Robur Aegrotanti Morbus Yet the custome and Authority of Malepracticants is so powerful that the Sick thinks he must be weakned if he eat not Broth of Flesh Caudels Water-gruel c. which those Diet-mongers have justified contrary to the Aphoris will turn into Nourishment whereas the Stomach hereby becomes more weakened Excrements engendered abundantly the rage of the Archeus advanced hence arise Misty Gloomy Representations eclipsing the Sun of Life raising as it were a filthy fog in the Archeus so that it cannot see how to rectifie its Erroneous Idea's suffering them to become more fixed No less Mischievous is the Galenical Doctrine of Cooling Liquors in Feavers viz. their Maukish Spiritless Dull Flat Posset-drink Small-beer Barly-water loathsome Decoctions of cooling crude Herbs Pippin Liquors and the like which starve the Vital Spirit bringing a numness upon it that it cannot do any thing effectually for the expulsion of its Enemy They likewise wedge in the ill Juices so that either Nature is totally oppressed yielding to its Fate or led Captive by a long Disease the Common Event of their Mortiferous Method Whosoever then falls into a Feaver or any other Calamity I advise him upon Fundamental Trials made many years to avoid the aforesaid poor Starvling Liquors to apply himself to the drinking of that which will enable the Archeus strongly to resist its Enemy to frame benign clear lightsome Imaginations tending to Health to subdue the detestable filthy Matter holding no communion with Life by Sweat Urine Spitting Vomiting or Stool Yet still let Moderation be the Guide in all things for the most Commendable things may be abused witness those to whom I allowed to drink now and then a Glass of Sack in a high Feaver who unadvisedly fortewith poured down a whole Quart-bottle to their Prejudice As I never forbid any in a Feaver good Strong Liquors to quench Thirst to strengthen the Stomach and Spirits So I admonish all to make use of Temperance Neither do I prohibit Broaths Collises Eggs in any Maladie c. upon any other account but that they become corrupt in a Stomach whose Ferment cannot turn them into a nourishable Juice He that will take a course to obtain Iuventutem in Senectute to be young and chearful when Old must have respect to Senectutem in Iuventute careful to be Temperate Sober and Discreet as some Old Men are Could we but know our selves aright so far as to command our greedy Appetite not to devour more than the Ferment of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is able to conquer we should frustrate the Common Saying Plures Gula quam Gladius Multitude of Evils of Body and Mind might be prevented and remedyed For sith Natura paucis contenta est 't is far better in Eating and Drinking to subsist on this side the Golden Rule of Mediocrity than to transgress beyond that being more easily corected A peculiar Robust Constitution the course of Life we follow the Exercise we use the Region or place we inhabit the Air we suck into our Lungs the Agility or Dulness the Alacrity or Indisposition we find the morning following the foregoing days Diet Dictate what Quantity of Food of what Quality and at what time we ought to Eat thus accordingly we are to Regulate and Reform what is amiss One of an Athletick Body labouring hard living in a Mountainous Clear Temperate Aire or much conversant at Sea Lively Airy and Spiriteful after Sleep may justly challenge a greater share of Aliment than a Weakly Lumpish Drousie Habit addicted to a Sedentary Studious Life in a Populous City or any Fenny Foggy Countrey remote from the Sea For I find generally that Aqua praecipue Marina promovet Digestionem The Agitation of the Body by Neptune's Ebullition the Recentation of the Aire those Copious Volatile Particles of Acid and Alkali in the Ambient do powerfully corroborate the Ferments of Digestion carry off insensibly any Recrements without any Coagulation or Dreggy Settling left behind so that many can eat without Discommodity Quintuple the portion at Sea above that at Land Large Morning Draughts are for the most part very injurious likewise frequent Drinking between Meals for the kindly Dissolution of the Food is retarded hereby the Fibers of the Stomach by degrees made Flaccid and the Tone Debilitated One Meal a day discreetly modefied and with one or two short snaps beside may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very well suffice most men using but gentle Motion and living in places where the Aire
he would turn all into dross To advance his base enterprize the more he hath in readiness his Emissaries whom he hires or Bribes to trumpet out magnifie and extol his rare Cures he endeavours to prostitute this Chast Art to make it a very Whore to his Lusts Pimp or Pander to compass his vile Ends. He is Impudent beyond expression and because Stupid and Ignorant a most sworn Enemy to Learning yet will admire Van Helm although he never read him nor is in least able to understand him though Translated into his Mother Tongue He boasts of his Specious Furnaces but seldome handles a retort himself yet will tell you what Herculean Labours he hath undergone what he hath atchieved making comparisons with the Best He and the Galenist are herein well met for Subtlety for like Apes they know how to take Nuts out of the fire with the Paw of the Cat. This Foul Bird such as the Poet speaks of contactu omnia foedans hath a strang faculty by the enchanting melodious Tune of his Long Bill setting out his wonderful Cures to draw one into his Net hiding the rest of his ugly body till he hath picked your Pocket wronged your Health or mortally wounded you He Counterfeits the true Chymist as the Hyaena a Mans voice tempting unwary people to come unto him and then worries them He and the Chymical Galenist like Davus confound the whole World so that few know how to chuse the Right and leave the Wrong Way of Curing He is still sowing his Pseudochymical Tares so thick that Orthochymical Wheat is in danger to be strangled thereby Although he be really of no Religion yet sometimes he as well as the Galenist will profess to be of some Congregational Church or of some Fanatical Conventicle to the end being changed into an Angel of Light he may set a specious gloss of Piety upon his fraudulent ways hereby gaining more reputation amongst the Brethren he may cozen his Patients more plausibly At his first entrance upon Pseudochymical Devices he pretends to be a great Astrologer thereby to determine whether the Sick shall live or die yea to make him more notoriously famous he undertakes to tell Fortunes to instruct the people how they may come by their stolen Goods again whether Mariners shall make prosperous Voyages whether men shall meet with good or bad success in Marriage Women with the like c. But afterward having pretty well feather'd his Nest by plucking those Credulous Gulls who have stooped to his Call also now his Art of casting Figures becoming more and more suspected likewise conscious to himself the Heavens will not suffer any longer his Impostures he begins to lay aside Ouranoscopie thinking it best non altum sapere sith quae supra nos nihil ad nos and betakes himself to Ouroscopie where he fixes pretending to be a notable Pispot Prophet to tell by bare inspection of the Urine without farther enquiry what 's the Disease whether the Party may recover and how long c. To this Hocus Pocus Women of all Sorts and Degrees flock to know whether they be with Child yea supposed Maidens to be resolved whether their Tympany be Intestineal or Uterine how they may be rid of the last with privacy whose expectations he says upon good Terms he is ready to satisfie to all intents and purposes by means of a secret knack he hath attained I could acquaint my Countreymen if I had leisure with multitude of Gins Traps and Snares this Bastard Chymist lays to catch the simple harmless man that he make a Prey of his Body and Purse In short he is a most Pestilent Animal no more fitting to be tolerated by the Magistrate than Wolves and Foxes amongst Sheep A Short Description or Explanation of the Happy Efficacy and Sanative Virtue of Our STOMACK ESSENCE THE Grand Opposers of the Ortho-Chymical way did put me hard to it at first by reason of the Implicite belief most Men have Supinely and in a blind manner of Obedience without further Scrutinie yielded to their Authority and Antiquity to preserve this most Useful Florid Splendid Remedy Ess. Stom from being blasted or extinguished by their malignant Breath more mischievous to the Truth of Direct Healing than any Mephitical damp to the Life of Man However 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 crescit sub pondere Virtus the more they have endeavoured to suppress it by fastning false weights of Defamation to it viz. that it was too hot inflaming burning too strong violent consuming the Radical moisture shortning the Life withal under-valuing it that it was no better than Pepper drops and that it might be made in half a dozen hours which Dr. Merret unworthily Reported behind my back who when I came to face him offering to give it under my Hand presently to be bound to reward him with a Hundred pounds the next Morning if he would teach me to make it in twenty four hours replyed by way of Collusion that he could counterfeit it in that time I say the more these Chymicophants have laboured to sink down this Noble Remedy the more it hath sprung up and flourished to their grand shame Yea I dare averr upon Reasonable Experimental grounds this Polyacea will be esteemed by Posterity one of the best Medicines for it's general Utility to the Life of Mortals Innocent Nature Pleasant Gust and easie purchase that ever yet came to light He that will may read the just Vindication of it Published formerly none of my Adversaries daring to oppose it openly unless a tergo sneakingly below a Generous Man What Excellency I have here Attributed to it rather comes short than transcends it's desert This Medicine is not with little Labour Fabricated being brought over in Glasses above twenty several times and digested many days It consisteth of three pure Volatiles United fetched out of the Store-House of Animal Vegetable and Marine Substances which produce these Salutary Effects following It exceedingly strengthens the Stomack helps it's Digestion encreaseth and maketh Active the Vital Spirits and their Instruments by which they work called Ferments rectifies the Spleen scatters and expels Wind Vapours or any wandring wild Spirit which flies in a moment from one place to another vexing the parts It sweetens in some measure the sharpness of the thin Liquors in the Body which often-times causes pains Feavers c. It subtilly enters the Veins and Arteries being carried about with the Blood which it very much cleanses It carries off to the out-side whatsoever is impure causing a kindly breathing in the Skin It also causeth Urine conveying Gravel from the Kidneys hindring that it may not be engendred and fixed It is helpful in difficulty and pain of making Water coming forth sometimes by drops 'T is of great Service against pains of the side the Colick Griping of the Guts It is a very great Cordial preserving from fainting and restoring those who are surprized with loss of Vital Spirits It is very effectual to
keep one from and to Cure Surfeits It is very powerfully good against the Scurvy or any poysonous ill-conditioned infectious Evils It prevents and helps to Cure all kind of Feavers It quencheth the Thirst to an Admiration above all supposed cooling things whatsoever It bringeth Preternatural heat or coldness to a due moderation by removing the Efficient Cause thereof reducing the parts to their former strength It is available against Fits of the Mother the Whites It dissolves Congealed Curdled Matter ripeneth raw Juices bringing them either to a better Condition for the Use of Nature or preparing them to be sent packing out of the Body by convenient ways and Medicaments It abates a nauseons Disposition or Vomiting by confirming the Membranes of the Stomack and by promoting the throwing off that which disturbs it It cutteth and cleanseth away slimy Birdlime-like Flegm giving ease in difficulty of Breathing mitigating the violence of the Tissick It is admirably useful against Melancholy Imaginations passions from the Spleen c. called Hypochondriak an evil state of body arising for want of proportionable Nutriment or from Galenical Medicaments It availeth against the Dropsie or Consumption The frequent use thereof strengthens the Brain Sinews Loyns Memory and all the Senses Stom Ess. outwardly applyed challengeth noble effects For 't is very Healing Balsamical curing green Wounds and plain Soars being often touched therewith I have hitherto found it constant in happily Curing Burnings Scorchings or Scaldings some drops being frequently distilled thereon and forced inward by the bottom of a smooth Glass I cannot but experimentally commend it as one of the best asswagers of the pain of the Teeth I have hitherto met with It is also of great force to preserve them from corruption likewise in part to restore them resisting the putrifaction of the Gums Neither is it to be contemned for the mitigation of the pains of any part strengthning and quickning the Vital Spirit thereof With many more laudable properties is Stom Ess. or Alexi flomachon endued which the frequent use thereof and a longer strict observation will bring to light The quantity to be given is measured by the greatness and stâ—bborness of the Disease for sometimes ten or twenty times as much as the common portion ought to be offered neither is it to be feared that any hurt will arise therefrom The ordinary Dose or extent of giving it is twenty thirty forty fifty sixty drops in a draught of any Liquor as Beer Ale separate or mixt sometimes Wine as Sack or whatsoever doth best relish with the person It may be taken at any time when the Stomach is out of ordeâ— troubled with Indigestion Wind Pains Gripes or any of the foresaid vexations then let them take liberally thereof He that constantly takes every morning thirty or forty drops shall prevent many mischiefs in reference to his Health I doubt not but the Galeno-Chymists or the Pseudo-chymists will like Apes endeavour to imitate and counterfeit this experienced Essence which before I am convinced by Fact I shall presume to prefer before any Medicament of its rank yet visibly extant among us Of such I shall advise my Countreymen to beware for these Adulterators will but disgrace and degrade it for I am sure none can find out the true way of making it unless he be a knowing Philosopher working with his own hands and taking Preparations into his own Stomach Thus much I advertise He that dextrously can volatilize Salt of Tart. may do something tending to this purpose otherwise not He that desires to be farther instructed concerning the defence of the Virtues of this Essence and the disproving of what is spoken against it by Malâ—volents let him read with integrity the just commendation of it in Haematiasis c. Indefatigable perseverance in opening Bodies â—y the Fire and the repeated Assumption of what was thence produced hath brought me to the knowledge of a Pill I call Polychrest which consists of three Golden Sulphurs from Minerals well purified and friendly to Nature whose innocence as well as effectual Operation is remarkable and upon tryal to be justified by any who understands a good Remedy They are conducible in most Diseases They act by cleansing opening corroborating and purifying the Blood without leaving the least ill impress behind for they contain no laxative so noxious as Senna or Rewbarb they are of great force to conquer the Scurvie also prevalent against the Dropsie They prevent the Stone and carry off Gravel They sweeten sharp Liquors in the Body They overcome the Venereal or foul Disease if taken a considerable time neither is it to be suspected that one may be weakned by the long frequent use of them for they contrary to other purging Concretes make one more lusty and vigorous as I have found in my having taken many thousands of them with an advancement of my strength They reform the Spleen help to cure Feavers prevent relapses and long Maladies They may be swallowed at any time of the day or night neither will they cause injury but rather benefit if they loosen not the body in twenty four hours which is rare for usually they give a stool or two in that space The Dose is two or three Pills a little before Supper or early in the Morning The Patient proceeding thus for three or four days and resting a day or two and then repeating them Tinct nost Emetica is profitable in all Malignant Feavers in the griping or loosness of the Belly difficulty of Breathing pain of the Sides Headach Diseases of the Stomach Spleen It leaves the Vitals more cheerful and active It matters not whether it work or no by vomit or stool however it will do good by Sweat or causing Urine If the party be capable it may be given a week together at any time of the day or night I often give it in bed Pul. Emeto Catharticus is profitable in many Diseases as Emetica Tinctur It searches out the Morbifick matter leaving wholesome Juyces untouched when other Vomits are given in vain this Profiteth Pil. Emeto Cathart are useful for the same Diseases as Pulvis Emeto Cathar Polyacea Tinctura Solaris or Balsamica are great supporters of Nature the tamers of Malignant Feavers they go into all parts illuminate and augment the Archeus or Vitals They carry off by Sweat Urine and Expectoration There are few Diseases which will not somewhat yield to these Cordials if exhibited in a just proportion Elixi Proprietat nost resists Putrifaction opens the Spleen helps Digestion purifies the Blood It is very cordial expels Menfâ—râ—a stopped and gives a check to them flowing excessively It is most efficacious to cause an easie and speedy delivery in difficult labour of Women Its Dose is from ten to an hundred drops or more in strong Liquor With several other salutary Remedies could I acquaint the World but now I must desist hoping God may spare my life till the Edition of my Physical Observations the history