while 't is warm it may be made into Rouls or Cakes or cast into moulds or what form you please To make the Liquor of Chocolate â„ž Milk and Water of each one pound and let them boyl a while and then add of your Chocolate grated an ounce an ounce and half or two as you 'l have it in richness let it simper a little then take it from the Fire and add to it the Yolks of two new laid Eggs well beaten with as much Meevus Sugar as will sweeten it and then Mill it with a Mill for that purpose till it be thick Secundum Artem. To pickle Cucumbers so that they may look Green Take of Water and Vinegar alike and make the Liquor strong with Bay-Salt and other Salt mixt together and having boiled it very well your Cucumbers being in a Vessel in rows with Dill betwixt every row and a little of Verjuice or the Green Juice of Grapes upon the uppermost row then pour your Liquor boyling hot upon them then cover them close so that the steem may not come out and let them stand 14 days and Nights then cant off the Liquor and boyl up the same Liquor again with Pepper Cloves Mace Cinamon or other Spices as you think fit and put on your Cucumbers again and cover them very close for use by this means they will look Green The Pickle of them is good to be used in Inflamations and Scorbutick Nodes and other diseases as being a kind of Elatorium dissolved by the Acidity c. So much for this Chapter I shall now proceed to that of Distillation CHAP. V. Treateth of the Cheif heads in the Act of Parliament concerning Diâ—â—illation in which is shâ—w'd how the Constitutution of Distillation is alter'd DIstillation is a separating and extracting of the most Spirituous Liquor from the grosser part of the body by heat and therefore the purer your Basis is the more pure will your Spirits be for this end and purpose we are now to consider how we can proceed that our Hypothesis may have affinity with the Law for the Parliament hath constituted a path way for all Distillers to walk in and because we 'l make no breach in this point I shall make use of the chief heads therein contained c. in the Act entituled The Encouraging the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn. First the Trade and Commerce of France being prohibited and all their Goods from being imported into this Kingdom And whereas good and wholesome Brandys Aqua-vitae and Spirits may be drawn made from Malted-Corn For the Encouragement therefore of the making of Brandy Strongwaters and Spirits from Malted Corn and for the greater Consumption of Corn and the advantage of Tillage in this Kingdom The King Queen and Parliament thâ—n assembled have thus ordained it that every Gallon of low Wine of the first Extraction made or drawn from any foreign and imported materials or any mixture with foreign materials 8 d.. For every Gallon of low Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction made or drawn from Brewers Wash or Tilts or from any sort of English Materials other than from drink Brewed and pepared from any sort of Malted Corn or from Perry or Syder 1 s. For every Gallon of low Wines of the first Extraction drawn and made only from Drink brewed and made of any sort of Malted Corn. One penny And for every Gallon of low Wines of the first Extraction drawn or made from Syder or Perry or any mixture therewith Three pence And 't is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all Distillers and others who shall draw or make any low Wines Spirits or Brandy from Corn shall brew or cause their Corn to be brewed and made into clean and wholsome drink and from such drink so made and prepared without any mixture with any Molossus Wash or Tilts or other materials whatsoever shall draw their low Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction c. So that the Basis that Distillers are to erect upon are well brewed Beer Syder and Perry therefore the matter of Distillation cannot be so hard seeing the making of these is so well known in England but however there is one thing yet difficult which is to give a taste to English Spirits and make it in the second Distillation like to that of Brandy and that by the addition only of the Products of England so that this would be very advantageous to cause the Wares to be transported to most of the European parts and this would be wonderfully advantageous both to the Factrage and Products of England as I shall more largely touch at in the next Chapter And although I may justly claim right to this Sâ—cret yet I shall be very â—ree to give my Secret to others with this provisor that it might advance the good of the publick which can be no otherwise done than by the Establishment of a Brandy Manufacturage for otherwise the Proverb may prove true viz. Thâ—t private Eâ—ds carry away publick Profit Therefore such a Facturage would have some general tendence First the chief Cities and Towns in the Kingdom may be supplied with good Wares which now many come short of Secondly the growths and products of the Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging may be more easily brought to a Country Town than undergo the troublesome carriage some scores of Miles there being also the conveniency of Fires for Distillation at cheaper rates and again they he more ready and for that reason may be afforded cheaper in the transportation thereof for if they were to be Distin'd here in London and carried to Eâ—eter the carriage by Land as Pam informed iâ— 7 l. a Pipe and so by consequence proportionable to every part in England and this would so greatly exalt the price that People would rather be contented with indifferent Wares than pay so dear for better And that which is yet more principal by such a publick Manufacturage the King's Customs would be highly advanced and more certain than in any private hands whatsoever for that their Commissioners and Collectors might have open recourse thereunto with abundance less trouble than now possibly can be But of this in its proper place let us now return from this Digression to Distillation Where let me beg this boon of the Honourable Pâ—â— that no exceptions may be taken concerning my prescribing various Products in Distillation for I desire not to do it to infrigate the breaking any English Law but on the contrary own a due obedience thereunto only am willing to serve the Netherland where I have a Brothership and Natives priviledge too and also to be serviceable to several Islands that belongs to their Majesties or any of their Dominions where various things are made use of in Distillation which we shall here treat of but First of Malt. Aqua vitae is nothing else but well Brew'd Beer that is strongly Hop'd and well firmented but if it should not be
Quarter of Malt. YOu must in the first place make about 50 Gallons or something more than three Barrels of Wash and that in the first Extraction will make 32 34 or 36 Gallons of Low-Wines and these Low-Wines if you let them lye will in the 2d Extraction make 11 or 12 Gallons of proof-Proof-Spirits nay some Malt will make 13 Gallons especially if in the 2d Extraction you add a Can or two of Water into the Still and such Malt will run two or three Cans or 7 or 8 Gallons proof-Proof-Spirits if it be a great Still Thus much Esteemed Friend for this part I shall now answer what remains sc in Page 60. concerning Aqua Vitae for I say these Rules do agree with that Brewing where I say the Wort is not fully rich of the Malt and therefore to be distilled as soon as 't is well wrought but if it is to be made into very strong Beer then it must be boil'd and hopp'd and lye to stale the longer the better so it keeps its body For this reason stale Beer Cyder old French Wine and Rhenish are at all times fit to be work'd And again Concerning the Dutch way of Mashing in Pag. 61 62. I say 't is the most advantagious way with this Proviso that you prevent the Low-Wines from a tangue or the Still being burn'd by drawing of the Liquors knowing the use of a Press which will bring forth all the substance And again What you query in Page 64. concerning Honey Sugar and Molossus the quantity of the Water there is an Error in the Press as you may see in the Errata for it must be 34 or 40 Gallons of Water at the least to that weight and the Water being made a little above Blood-warm it must be stirred and well united together and being dissolv'd add your Ferment and work as the Book directs Glauber advises a sixth seventh or eighth part of Water but I say that is too much for it will not yield so large a quantity of Spirits but he says it makes it the more grateful But the other way you may have 10 or 11 Gallons of Proof-Spirits from 100 weight of Molossus Now as you desire to know when for certain Spirits are fermented take this rule Take three or four spoonfuls in a little Dish in the left-hand and a Candle in the right and throw the Liquor in the Dish on the Still-head being hot and what runs down clap the Candle to and if it burns 't is well wrought but if it burns not and clings clammy to the Hand like sweet Wort then is it not fit for stilling until better fermented Now what you query concerning Backs going backward and not kindly fermenting how to raise it again I know no better thing than hot Liquors and new Ferment sometimes adding either Rhenish Lees Tartar or a stone or two of Calx vive Mustard Rape French Sweets c. as we have spoke in the Book Thus much shall suffice concerning the first and second Extraction we shall now proceed to the third call'd Rectification Indeed Rectification is that on which the whole of our Art depends and about which there is so great a Noise made in the Town and he that doth perform it best must needs be the best Artist Now we say that the whole Art of Rectification consisteth in bereaving every Spirit from its external Sulphur and reducing it to its Vita media or middle Life a middle Nature being introduced naturalizating it so that of Brandy which to perform some rectifie from Bay-Salt others from the Lees of Wine or Cyder with addition of Clary Orrice or Ginger c. in such a quantity as only to give it a tangue or flavor and every Extraction they add a pretty quantity of Water into the Still the more to mellow and fine the Spirits and having brought them to fine Wares they may be allay'd by Water or Liquors to proof Now 't is observable that most or all English Spirits are of that nature as to return to their old Friend Mr. Hogo if they lye long as the Wares about Town do plainly manifest let them be ever so highly drawn and therefore there is no other way but to perform it by such things as by their homogeneous Nature will lye and mellow and exalt the Liquors concerning which we shall treat of more at large for your satisfaction in our Second Part as it passes the Press So in the mean while desiring your acceptance of this at present I remain Your's at command in all that is agreeable to the Publick Service W. Y-worth Spagirick Professor and Teacher of the said Art in all its Parts TO THE Friendly Reader By way of INTRODUCTION READER whosoever thou art it concerns me not so that thou art but diver after the Knowledge of Nature and her Mysterious and Secret Operations for 't is to such that I present these my Labours The matter herein contained are some Rivulets flowing from the grand Fountain for that all particular forms â—ook their Original from the most general and are to this day maintain'd with a quick'ning power and activity of that universal Spirit that nourisheth the great Fabrick of this World and every Individual part thereof and to speak more plainly numberless are the Infants that suck Nourishment from the Breast of this their general Mother and the thing most to be consider'd is that in and through all this she is not the least debilitated in her strength or exhausted in her vivificating power Therefore 't is mostly requisite for every Artist that bends his Wit to the study of true Philosophy to consider and endeavour to comprehend the nature of things as they are and as they originally received their impressed forms as 't was stamped on them by the great Creator and how they flowed into the Elementary World where the blessing of multiplication was given by means of a Seed to that end inclâ—sed in them and an irrevocable law established viz. that every thing was to multiply in its kind for although the providence of God was such that the multiplication should proceed from the general Spirit yet it was so ordained that the determination of the same should be by particular forms this great truth is plainly to be discerned as the Spirit floweth and passeth through the Ocean of the great World and every part thereof for certain therefore man being a little World and as I may say Lord of the Creation it was so preordain'd that this noble Creature should receive the comfort and benefit thereof in some degree or other For 't is to be observ'd that when the Microcosmical World was finish'd and the Bl ssing of Multiplication given to all things in their kind as before said at the close of all man was made a Microcosmical one an abstract and emblem of all the works of Wonder and as he was created in a degree surpassing other Creatures so had he degrees of Honour conferr'd upon him equal thereunto for
he was not only made Lord of the Creation but also was placed in the superior Theatre thereof viz In the Garden which the Lord God had planted Eastward in Eden Gen. 2. v. 8. and v. 16. the Lord God commanded him saying Of every Tree of the Garden thou may'st freely Eat except of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that was the forbidden fruit for doubtless this Tree being adorn'd with so much Beauty and pleasantness was sâ— as an object to see if man would trangress against his Creator for fading Shadowy delights which could produce no other covering but Fig leaves with which too too many in this age are covered 'T is very observable that our first Parents were no sooner beguiled by the Serpent's subtilty and pleasantness of the Fruit but they found by experience that this Fruit of Disobedience which they had Eaten was tinctur'd with death for as they were in a state of Innocency and in the favour and presence of God so on the contrary they became in a state deplorable for the wrathfull Fire stirs up immediately Horrors Fears and dreadfull Amazements and hearing the voice of God were afraid and hid themselves from his presence and although a general Woe was pronounced unto the whole Creation for Man's transgression yet the All-mercifull God provides for Man a fountain and stream of Love which by their Virtue was to extinguish this wrathfull Fire for Christ is promised in these words where 't is said The Womans Seed shall break the Serpent's Head and many are living Witnesses of the blessed full-fillings hereof which as it floweth forth in its universal operation is to kindle in the bosom of its receiver principles and practices agreeable to its divine Nature for such that are thus truly awakened breath unto the Lord and travail in Spirit with this earnest desire that all their Species may have the benefit thereof as knowing that Grace is Vniversal and extends to all that will receive the ingraffed Word which as the Apostle saith is able to Save to the utmost therefore O Man if thou art destroy'd thy destruction is of thy self as the Scripture saith for 't was evident that our first Parents did not only loose the Presence and Favour of God by transgression but also were driven out from their Habitation viz. the Garden of Eden and a flaming Sword was set on the Cherub turning overy way to preserve the Tree of Life for thus much I will affirm that the Fruit thereof belongs not to such that are in the state of Disobedience Now Man having lost his greatest Dignity I shall consider him and his Office as he is placed in the great field of Nature stating in some degree the difference between the Original and fallen State as may be discerned in these three Observations First 't is to be consider'd that Adam who was the Father of all Mankind was as the Names imports created of a red quintessential Earth yea in the very Image of God and was endued with such Wisdom that he knowing the Nature was able to give a Name to all things and as it had a symbolizing Harmony to the general or particular Forms and as the Caracteristical Power had its degree of Purity on the specificating Sulphurs or as they were more interwoven with emerged corruptions so were they named let it be how it will 't is plain that the Beasts of the Field and the Fowls of the Air were brought unto Adam to see what be would call them and whatsoever Adam called every living Creature that was the name thereof for doubtless in this State he had all â—â—e advantages of beholding the same in the great Looking-glass of Nature or that Globe of Wisdom wheron the Theological Misteries did more on its Axis by the resplendant Rays of Light which give sound Judgment and opens the Nature of created Beings as they are and shews general Science for that in this vegetative Garden the universal Spirit must abundantly flow even the first Ens of that which supplies the great Fabrick of the World and every individual part of the same For as the Learned and truly Inspired say that every Atom is a Microcosmical Globe and internally contains some Essential Idea's of a Paradyssical Purity and Man Lord of all who was created in the Image of God and endued with Superiority to Rule and excellency of Wisdom to know things as they primitively were such was the Dignity of Man in his Office in a Primitive State but in a Fall it State Man is able to comprehend nothing aright for his Vnderstanding is become darkned being blinded by the God of this World running only after the carnal Imaginations of their own Hearts which are filled with Vanity Pride and Self-conceit living in a fading and transitory World subjected to Fears Agonies yea Griefs and Sorrows Puneries Wants and Diseases and in fine Death it self which makes a change between the Pure and the Corrupted in order to prepare him for another more lasting Possession c. Secondly 't is to be observed that Man was placed in the Garden Eastward in Eden to dress and to keep it this was the excellent Office of Man in the state of Innocency when all things that were created by the great God were very good which is abundantly more Superior then that which he is now in for he was put forth is Till the Ground which hath received the effect of the Curse for Man's sake For the Earth was to bring forth Thorns and Thistles and as Man was there to eat of every Tree of the Garden the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil only excepted freely now must he eat his Bread by the sweat of his Brows and exceeding hard Labour for why the Creation is more thickly cover'd over with the vail of Corruption which doth stand abundantly more in need of a Help-mate than primitively it did so if Man's Office as it is to be a Help-Mate to Nature so doth it require more pains and Industry to perform the same For although this Nature Gods Handmaid doth flow forth in her vivifying Power yet things could never be brought to any true degree of Perfection much less to any beautiful Form without the help of Man as plain to be discerned in the fruitfulness of a well inhabited Land and the barrenness of those that are not so Nature therefore now stands in perfect necessity to be helped forward by the excellent Artificer Man for now 't is not only to be dressed and pruned and superfluities to be removed out of the way but also there must be Delving and Tilling the Ground Manuring and Setting with great diligence if ever he designs to exalt the Beauty and Form of her appearance to any degree of Perfectness it must be by a continual and regular ordering thereof The truth of what is here said is known to every Vine-dresser and Gardiner and such other Husbandmen that do industriously improve their Fields to the greatest
as Moses that chosen Prophet of God laid down Temperance through his Four Books as a main hinge of Salvation 't is the very same in the great World for a Temperate Season makes a Fruitfull Harvest and in some sence the whole Creation stands in an Harmony both in the greater and lesser World having a Sympathy and Fellow-feeling together so that if any one part rejoyce or suffer as 't is a member of the great body that will feel of the effect And if it be so as really it is why should not Temperance be observed in the right and moderate use of the Creature by which means health is wonderfully preserved and long Life expected for why the Spirits or the Chariots of Life being kept brisk serene or free and not burned with stupifying and obnoxious Vapours retain their power in preserving the qualities in a due and equal Temperature thence the Archeius and internal fire have power Spagirically to exereise the office in dissoâ—ution fermentation seperation purification distillation exaltation digestion and maturation of the alimentary parts by which the fabrick of the body is supply'd in all its parts and maintain'd in due decorum nay by this means the Spirit Soul and Body are strengthned the mind so fitted and qualify'd as to search into the most obstruce Secrets of Nature and such by consequence may sooner expect to obtain Vniversal Science than others and understand what is delivered by Moses concerning the original Chaos viz. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters with a lux fiat which soon proclaims its embassage and separated all the distinct natures that lay unfruitfully hidden in the Pavillions of Confusion such was the activity of the All searching Spirit of God as to exalt from thence a World of substantial Harmony adorning every part with unexpressable beauty from which words it is plain to be conceived that the Original of all things was a Chaos void and without form yee a confused Mountain of Water which was potentially all things yet actually nothing from whence did not only proceed the World as is said but also that Fountain and Vniversal Spirit which preserveth nourisheth and maintaineth multiplying and succouring being to this very day from hence also proceedeth by the Fire of Conflagration the Chaos Magical the true Exaltation of which is the greatest of Spagirical Operations that ever the great God revealed to mankind For out of that proceeds not only the Authors Sal Panaristos but also Paracelsus's Sal Enixum and the Sal Mirabilis of the wise together with the Liquor Alkaest and Vniversal Mercury of the Philosophers with their Aurum potibile and grand Panacea as also the perpetual lights of the Magi with their Malleable Glass their Tyron purple and Crimson dye and other such like Mysteries which are only ordain'd for the wise in heart to enjoy For such by their temperate Life are not only fitted for a search but also when obtain'd know how to make a right use thereof and for their reward they have not only Wisdom but also Riches Honour and length of days so that Temperance is a virtue highly to be esteem'd of seeing it is an inlet to many others and such as will produce the most blessed Fruits that are to be enjoy'd on this side Immortality therefore recommended to all as a most precious Jewel which if received and practised that will find the wonderfull and effectual Virtues thereof and thus I shall conclude Temperance to be the cause of much good Now as to Intemperance it is on the other hand the cause of as many Evills For we see by experience that the Glutton never esteems the Benefies that proceed from Temperance for that he is never so well satisfied as when he is gormondising himself making his Belly his God as I may truly call it for that he riseth in the Morning and scarce ever ceaseth lifting his Hand to his Mouth untill he hath made himself drunk and absorb'd all his Faculties in the excess of the abomination of the Bestial nature nay worse than the Beast of the Field for they answer the end of the Creation taking that in Nature which is sufficient for their subsistence their general sauce that agitates them is the penetrating power of the Air they commonly have no other Bed but Earth or Canopy but Heaven when as the sensual Glutton hath all that is needfull even to a Superfluity he lies upon his Couches of Ivory and Beds of Delight and heeds not Mercy and is unmindful of his fellow Creatures even the cries of poor Lazarus which would accept of the Crumbs that fall from his Table and lies at his Gates the Dogs licking his Sores till he died The cruelty and unmercifulness of this Intemperance is so abominable that I want place to resent it therefore shall pass it by here only recommend it to their consideration the difference of the future Estate of these Two Lazarus was carried by the good Angels into Abraham's Bosom But Dives by the evil into Hell to be tormented c. Now there is another sort of Intemperance which in some sence may be said to be like that of the former viz. The Miser's Intemperance which is the making his Money his God caring not how he pines his Body so that he may be rich nor who he destroys so that he may but attain his end he will gripe it in with a thousand Lies taking all advantages catching and over reaching and out-witting by circumventing Bargains yet will wipe his Mouth with this That he is a wise Dealer and that these are lawful Profits and certainly the Blessing of God attends because he is so rich and so calls Riches that are gotten by such abominable ways God's Blessings and will further conclude that consequently he must be the Servant of God when alas he is a Bondslave to Satan who hath lull'd him asleep and thus puff'd him up with Pride which causes him to despise his Fellow-creatures which are not of the same Abilities with him let their acquirements be what they will they are esteem'd not worthy of his Converse and if they are exercis'd in their Spirits through the multiplicity of Care that attend this Life so as to cause some various changes in their Actions then for certain they are supposed to be Ideots Maggots or some pitiful Fellows that have committed some secret and hainous Sins for which they are attended with such Internal and External Judgments but I thought it convenient to let such rash Judgers know that they may for certain be mistaken for all this for as the Scripture says Whom God loveth he chastiseth and David said It was good for him that he was afflicted for before he was afflicted he went astray and the Gospel Commands are That we should hoard in Treasure in
Heaven where neither Moth nor Rust can corrupt for 't is very observable to us that the Devil often ensnares those that are rich and causes them to doubt as the young Man in the Gospel did and therefore Christ said 'T is easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a Needle than for a rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven because their Minds are so much on their Possessions And again I remember the Devil lays claim to them for when he took Christ up into an exceeding high Mountain and shew'd him all the Kingdoms of the World and the Glories thereof and said All these things will I give thee If thou wilt fall down and worship me c. But lest some should make this Objection and say The Devil was a Lyar from the beginning in pretending to that he hath no right to In answer to which although we allow him to be so yet we have infallible Truths which demonstrate Riches to be such Objects that hinder the Creature many times from pressing Eternity-ward and swallow them up in the Delights thereof this kind of Intempeance is generally attended with a Brother of the same kind viz. Covetousness which in this place I shall explain to be a long Eye to other Mens Estates Goods Knowledge or Art and will undertake many sinister practises and gilded pretences the better to accomplish their end they are pretendedly circumspect in their Words and Actions covering their Hypocrisie with the external Garments of Religion but if they cannot get their ends fully answer'd they will soon manifest their bare Skin and will either gratifie thee for what thou hast done with a pretended scorn of Mumchancy's silence or else they will ungratefully tell thee that they are not so fond of thy acquaintance as thou mayst think of without they could get more by it but let such know that we are able to discern in the Forehead the Beasts marks principally Two viz. Covetousness and Ingratitude which is equal to the sin of Witcheraft Lastly there is an Intemperance which involves in sin all the rest viz. That of Vain Glory and to maintain the same they run into such Notions and Doctrines which have no harmony with sound Reason the Law of Nature or written Word of God Now these are such Intemperances as take off the Crown of Glory from their own heads and cause them to loose their dignity to rule as Man and deprives them of Wisdom and true Vnderstanding even as I may truly say of that rational part given him by the Creator of Nature and would easily discover to them that they are riding in Chariots of Death driving John like to the Pit of destruction for Intemperance produceth Diseases and Diseases are part of the effects of the Curse and being death's Messenger or as Arrows sent from the Almighty for not using the Mercies here bestowed aright but there is a Tophet prepared of old for such as turn Blessings into a Curse and for self-Murtherers and for giddy high minded disobedient to Parents and for such as dishonour God and his Holy Word Such are become the crying and heinous Sins of this Age and it hath so excited the wrathful principle causing a Centrall action on too too many in this generation who are like immature Fruit fallen from the Tree that before they are ripe they are half rotten for Intemperance blows up the black Coal of Death that would extinguish the Fuel of the Lamp before the natural pondus of the Oyl is exhausted which peradventure is not immediately or so suddenly affected in all alike yet at the best it will cause it to burn with so much fury and exhalation of corrupted fumes as to slain the vital and sanguifying Spirit thence nature comes to be oppressed and affâ—icts the body and promotes terror and anguish in all the sensitive Spirits that while such live they live in misery one sort trembles with the Palsie another groans under thâ— Gout another roars with the Stone another laments with the Pox another pines away with a Consumption and some other of the like rebellious Diseases which are so inverted in by custom that they become Cronick and Haereditaâ—â—â— Now these impostumated Seâ—◠〈…〉 â—t which issues forth thâ—â—â— wâ—â—â—â—ful quality to other generations from whence bud such Diseases as being rooted become the scoff of Galenick Medicines Thus Reader as Temperance is the cause of much good so is Intemperance the Original of many Evils Now as the learned Physitians say the Cause being known and suitable means apply'd then there may be expected a successfull Event to follow Thus much for the virtue and vice of Temperance and Intemperance which I shall desist from here and so shall proceed on by way of observation concerning the right use of Foreign Growths and also the Nature of our own Observe the all-wise Creator without exceptions created all things for the Vse and Service of Man and gave him Wisdom to compreheud the same placing a free will in him as to their use which ought to be aright which I shall here in great measure shew for information of such as as are unwilling to come short of this point then they are thus to conceive that every Climate produceth some different effects from that of another whether it be from the heat of the Elivation of the Sun or Coldness from its depression or as the Climates have adherence to the torrid temperate or frigid Zones for although the general Spirit that nourisheth all things is one yet different effects is worked on it by the various forms that every Matrix contains for the specification of Seed which may in great measure be conceived by this following Example Man the three various sorts viz. White Tawny and Black are all one in Species or kind yet very different in form and nature of constitutive Principles for some are more Hot and others more Cold according as the internal Sulphur is exalted by degrees by the external heat of the Sun for the torrid Zone causes great heat and dryness destroying the Callidum inatum and therefore scarcely Habitable the frigid Zones obstructs the Circulation of moisture by the violent congelation of Cold the Temperate Zones have an unity of heat and moisture and therefore mostly Inhabited and all the different Species that proceed from the different Climates let them be Animals Vegitables or Minerals and although of one kind yet in Operation do they produce different effects the knowledge of which is that alone which qualifies a Physician and although this is of so great importance yet few there be that consider it aright for the Illustration of which I will instance such Druggs and Simples as are commonly administer'd so by experience we know their Nature and different Operation Instance Rhubarb in China Turky Pontus or Arabia have all some different effects for the choicest of all is China yet all these Foreign Rhubarbs from their inate heat will work in half the
in the Exalting Syder c. A New ART Of Making Wines Brandy c. PART I. CHAP. I. In which we Treat of Vineyards Orchards and their Improvements NOW as to what concerns the Vitis or Vine we shall briofly but candidly handle First as to the Soyle that agrees most to the Vine is of a nitrous and sulpherous nature which is black loose and moist which proceeds from its great unctuosity of which kind we have great store in England in many waste places but in Ireland much more abundant where I suppose that Vineyards might be planted with great advantage but however if the story is true which Glauber tells us viz. that Vines might be made to grow in hard Rocks without Earth or Dung only by dissolving and reducing the hard Rock to dust by Vegetable Vineger and supplying it with the same at the fall of the Leaf he says 't is much better than Cow-dung to nourish the Root and if we will but rightly consider the things as they are we find that out of such Stones is made Lime out of which Lime by the acid juice of Vegitables is produced a Nitre which is the nourisher of Seeds because it hath its original from a sulpherous fatness which attracts a salt from the Air which is the Chariots of the Universal Spirit and so become satisfied by the cold Gas I have seen by experience this thing for in Holland in the Winter time great quantities of Niter have workt it self out of the Walls which by Distillation would give a sweet pleasant red sulpherous Spirit but 't is to be observed that generally this Lime is made from Shels as Oysters Muscles Cockles c these being calcin'd as you make Lime and the ground manur'd therewith it makes a richer and more fertile Soyl than hitherto hath been known or practised in England especially for moist and cold Lands which want the salt niteral Vertue which is the feeder thereof and by this means the ground might be so ordered as Vines might be well planted upon all the Hilly parts of this Country nay Orchards might be made fertile by this and soot mixed together and the root being opened about February and the old Soyl taken away and this added in its place and after three days exposing to the Air let it be cover'd up as before and so your Tree shall bear much more abundantly than otherwise neither is this so difficult or chargeable for if you bear the Root about the latter end of February and expose it seven days 't will attract from the Air sufficient nourishment being again covered and this method observe'd and follow'd they will bear plentifully several years Now there is a late Writer which speaks against all kind of Science knowing little of any and yet would be esteem'd the only reformer of Old Errors objects against the opening the Earth about the Root of the Tree saying 't is an exact way to render them uncapable of bearing when alas this man is highly mistaken in this as well as in some other of his rough notions for that true Phylosophy doth demonstrate that the Air is the life of all things in whose wings is conveyed up and down the Vital breath and Spiritual moisture that is the nourisher and upholder of beings and he that would be better satisfied in this point I refer him to Sandivogius pag. 97. where he treats of the Element of Air and Philosophers say that Minerals have their Roots in the Air but Heads or Tops in the Earth and this must proceed from the salutiferous and nourishing vertue it hath to beings whether Animal Mineral or Vegetable I will therefore lay this down as an infallible Maxim in Philosophy that the Air as it acts and is concreted in sulpherous Matrix to a nitrous Ens is the nourisher of all things for as the Rain dissolveth the Salt Nitre that sharpens the Water by its Acrimony this dissolves the Seed in the Earth and this dissolution is the key of generation Now by the same power things are generated by the same likewise are they nourished for the nitrosaline Virtue is by the internal Arche us or Central Sun sublimed into the powers of Trees Shurbs and Plants and supplys the radical moisture and essential juices thereof I remember a passage to this purpose written by John Welch Van Shandragh that in some Plants 't is good to turn the Roots upward as the Philosophers do their work which the Vinitorians do imitate at Ramsthat who order the Roots of the Vines so as they bring Grapes according as they will have them to their fancy If in February the Vine is cut as Yearly it is done the cuttings are reserved and dress'd their length is a Cubit these are put into the Ground presently yet the point to go out where they are kept still to a certain that they do not lose their moistness but remain fresh in May they are taken out again on the thickest part they are cut even one after another with a sharp knife they must not be cut slooping but even of these cuts one or two hundred are tied up in bundles many such bundles are made these bundles are thurst into the ground in an even place and set in smooth one by the other then a round pit is made knee deep and the bundles of cuts are laid in the pit yet so that the heads are turn'd upwards towards Heaven and the points in the ground these bundles are set close one by another orderly and the parts are alike none over-tops the other standing something out of the ground all smooth and flat they being set in the pit is fill'd with Earth the heads where the Roots should be set on looks upward which must with Earth be laid round that no Water may run into the pit when it Raineth these being all set into the pit and so ordered as is said the whole place is covered and the outstanding naked heads with Moss bespread over and over that again lay 3 fingers high of Earth and let them remain there 5 6 or 8 Weeks as is needful Observe that 't is most commodious for these pits to be made near to a Channel where the Water may run away and not sink into the pit having thus stood they 'l contract over their tops flesh pleasant to behold which sometimes is in 5 or 7 Weeks according as the Weather is good or bad you may at the end of 5 Weeks make a little hole from above and see whether by the said sign 't is time to take them out for the cuts growing to the Moss is the sign these must be presently set into the ground again which must be very good turn them again in their new setting that is the part where the cut is overgrown and the place where the Roots should be driven new must be turn'd downward this order must be kept with the second setting dividing the bundles asunder and setting 3 and 3 together and place
Worms the Salt of Tartar cleansed by decoction is not only powerful in opening of Minerals but being brought over the Helme as the Author does it is the true Key call'd the Circulatum minimum by which succedanous and true specifick Medicines are prepared which as Helmont says cures all Diseases in such a way that what such will not perform nothing in the Vegitable Kingdom will be found to do it also the Essence of Wine which is the union of the fixed Salt and Oyl of Tartar with the Spirit of Wine so as to be brought to a Balsamick Nature will I say cure musty sick and ropy Wines Indeed I have many more things to write of the Nature and Vertues of Vinor growths and principally of the friendly and balsamick nature of Raisins but seeing it will be done in another place I shall omit it here and so proceed to the Anatomizing of Concrets CHAP. II. Treateth concerning the Spagirical way of dissecting Concrets and the office of Essences exalting Wines FIrst we shall consider the various sorts of dissections there be to be performed through Chymical and Spagirical operations between which I put a considerable difference For by Chymical ye are to understand such dissections as are made by the violence of the Callenary Fire which rends asunder those tender parts and interwoven attomes which nature had so friendly united by her internal motion and hidden power of digestion fermentation and concretion and where this is perform'd in a pure Matrix generally there proceeds a perfect and pure birth but these being thus separated and especially in those things which are tender and volatile the precious Life and Virtue thereof is put to flight invisibly as the Spirit is at Man's decease and nothing but the bare Principles remain but that you may the better understand what I mean by this invisible Life of concreted Beings by which the Principles are held in Unity so as to maintain the Texture of that Being I shall give you an Instance which to demonstrate proceed thus â„ž Twenty Gallons of a fragrant Wine put it into a Refrigitory with its Helme lute all close and distill off the Spirit as long as any will come good then let all cool draw forth the Fleame in which there is a Salt of Wine and add the Spirit drawn off to it again and the Pondus will be very little diminished but the alteration will be very considerable for as it was before pleasant and fragrant Wine the tye being broken it becomes stinking and obnoxious and unsavory to be drunk for why the Life is fled away invisibly as is plain because all Savour proceeds from thence and I do affirm that he that can reduce this to its first state of fragrancy deserves the name of a Philosopher and to wear the Garland amongst Spagiricks not that I think it impossible to be done but difficult and cannot be performed by any other way and means but that which adds a new Life by fermentation and and yet not destroy the Original Nature and Form of the specificated Sulphur therein contained call'd the Callidum innatum of which no Being can be destitute and yet this reuniting Medium must have power to blot out the evil Character and hidden wrathful quality of Death which the violency of Fire stirr'd up and appease again so as to make an harmonious Unity Of this Nature is the Essence of Wine and Sal panaristos but these are Spagirical Operations and shall be touch'd at in their proper place we shall now return to speak of the Office of Chymistry and that part of it which may seem pertinent and advantagious to us in this Discourse which is principally that of Distillation which retaineth and condenseth the loose Atoms especially those of Spirits after Fermentation and those let them either be Vinor or Urinous or very Volatile now Essential Oils are also made by Distillation requiring a greater degree of Fire being the Sulphurs in another and more ponderous Form it is also profitable for making acid Spirits and also to make Sal alkali for why the Fire of Calcination burns up all evil and combustible Sulphurs and fixes down the more ponderous Sulphur and incorporates it with the grosser parts of the Body and so assumes a new Form containing its Sulphur in occulto for all Salts are salimo-sulphureous and all Sulphurs sulphureous Saline as will be manifested by union and retrogradation of Form and volatalization but this being a spagirick Operation it shall be spoken more largely of in its proper place and so conclude the usefulness of Chymistry as to this part only to consist in Distillation and Calcination for the other viz. Union and Exaltation are Spagirical which we shall now come to Treat of Spagirical Operation is not only a separating of the pure from the impure but also a re-uniting the Principles and bringing of them to a Balsamick and friendly Nature for we see by experience the more any pure Bodies are exalted the more do they contain of the vital fatness the greater is their Virtue and operative Quality on others but most principally on Vinor Spirits which are always enriched by a sulphureous fatness for as Glauber says That Vines draw Odors and Savors from the Earth beyond all other Plants and that Savours may be communicated to the Vine by the skilful at pleasure both in their growth and after they are maturated for if the Herb Scarlet be cast into Rhenish Wine it becomes very little inferior to Muscadine and again he says that those rich Wines on the Rhine before-named are as he calls it upon a Mineral Soil and therefore suck up the universal and balsamick fatness from thence as may be seen in Pag. 126. Par. 2d where he says That if the Scarlea or any other odoriferous Herb be apply'd to the root of the Vine 't will bestow its Odour on the Grapes he farther says That if you pour any Oil upon the Root of a sweet and odoriferous Nature the Vine will produce Muscadine for Ten years and 't is observable that he lays stress upon the Oil of Seacoal throughly cleans'd and rectified with the Spirit of Salt his reasons as I conceive be because abundance of Seacoals grow and are digged from thence and if this is really so why may not there be an encouragement for Vineyards here in England and other pleasant growths seeing there is such rich Soil and so well stor'd with Minerals and Sea-coal and we are well assured that the Mineral or moist Vapour which is a principal Life to concreeted Beings in that by its Spirituality it unites with the universal Powers and Forms it self into a nitrous or sulphureous balsamick Oil nourisheth the Vegetables as it flows forth and is sublimed by the Archeius to their Roots which afterward is elevated into the Branches and Fruit thereof and are changed by the forming Sulphur all one as the different Aliments which we take in are changed into the substance of our
Bodies viz. into Juices Blood Flesh and other parts as uphold the Fabrick of the body just so is it in the Mineral and Vegitable Kingdom for 't is as is said the fat and sulpherous vapour that nourisheth them and is by degrees converted into their own nature and if any of these want this nourishing vapour they soon decay pine and wither O how wonderful is nature in her operations and how many ways hath she unsearchable and past finding out for as the Phylosophers say Life is short and Art is long but let us return I say then that the Earth doth abound with this sulpherous fatness and sometimes is so over-gorg'd therewith that it spews it forth through the pores thereof as is evident by Petrelaeum an Oyl that flows naturally from the rocks and this we know that Art both may and often doth supply Nature's defects for if thou take pure Salt of Tartar and pour distill'd Vinegar thereon until 't is assatiated every time drawing off the Fleam and then distill it in a coated Retort by fire of degrees and lastly rectify the Oyl thorough the Spirit of Vitriol 't wil become lucid pleasant and fragrant grant of so great virtue that I call it my Olcum regeneratum With this Oyl much may be done for frutifying and nourishing the Vinor natures either externally or internally I have also much to write concerning the sulpherous Oyl of the Magnesia which will revive and cause to vegetate afresh the most declining Tree Shrub or Plant How wonderfull is the Operation and virtue of such sulpherous fatness in the nourishing of growths let it be judg'd of by the Judicious and let a determination be made therein only by the experienced Philosophers or true knowers of Natural things which are greatly discovered to us by our Spagirical Operation as they are made in Imitation of Nature and furthermore Wines may be wonderfully exalted by Essential Salts thus First Chymically seperate the Oyl of any Concret and the remainder Calcine to ashes the pure Salt extract and christalize from thence and reunite Spagirically the fixed Salt and the Essential Oyl and bring them to a Christalline Salt or with the Spirit of the Concret distill and cohobate so long untill it is all brought over in a Balsamick Spirit this Spirit being imbodied by the Essential Salt plainly manifesteth its Callidum innatum or drying enriching sulpher which gives life and sulpherous fatness and durable lasting and substantial virtues unto Wine exalting both the taste and smell thereof Thus the Salt or Essence of Wormwood will make rich Wormwood Wine the like will that of Mint Balm and Angellicoe c. It also gives fermentation thereunto and makes it pure Wine indeed as Wine refin'd from its Lees and gives it such qualities as deserves the highest of commendations as I could prove by undeniable reasons in philosophy which we must omit here lest this Volume should swell beyond its prefixed Volume and pass on to the meliorating and enriching Wines which is yet more highly to be performed by the Element of Fire of Venus which is made by seperating the Sulphur from the Mercury and mortifying the Sulphur and distilling of it into a Spirit and Glauber doth wonderfully commend the Element of Fire made from common yellow Sulphur and says that if it be put to defective Wine it is a present Medicine for if any one put a little of it in a Cask of Wine the Wine acquires a grateful tast and odour and will be so comforted as not easily to admit of changing or perishing as otherwise is wont to happen to common Rhenish Wine see more in his Works pag. 3. par 3. and I say that Wines are also enriched by essential and fragrant Oyls so prepared as to unite with Water or Spirit of Wine or other Wines for being dilated by a proper ferment they are easily united and so the Wines are enriched thereby thou may'st remember that I said in the last Chapter that the fumes of Sulphur Vive wonderfully preserves and enrich Wines and therefore such excellent Medicines as these cannot fail of performing much more high and that I may fully accomplish the desire of the Ingenious I think it convenient to speak concerning the Red Wine of the Philosophers which produceth and maketh my Sal Panaristos to appear for that is prepared from the three first principles christalliz'd in the three last contained in the fiery Spirit of Wine as Sandivogius says it burns up three and leaves one which is the Diamond like powder the true fixed Salt Nitre of the wise and as much may be perform'd by it as Glauber hath attributed to his Sal mirabilis But what shall I say I fear the time is not yet come to reveal such Secrets in for from hence proceeds the very Key to the chiefest of Arcana's and principally to Tinctures Essences or Elixirs universal or particular Medicines according to the specificated degrees of the exalted Sulphurs for as Basilius Valentine saith that the Spirit of Wine or the true Aquavitae of the wise hath been sought for by many but found by very few It is the Vegitable stone indeed and man loved Gold and Wine above all other creatures which may be beheld with Eyes Gold loveth man and Wine because it lets go its noble parts therein for if true Spirit of Wine be put to it being made potable it gives strength to man and prolongs his Life and Health For thus much I am bold to assert that an Aurum potabile is an Universal Medicine and without a true Spirit of Wine an Aurum potabile cannot be made for Wine bears affection to man as also to Gold because it easily unites with the Tinctures of Sol then it expells Melancholly and Sadness rejoycing Man's heart For there is originally three stones so call'd viz. the Urinous or Microcosmical one therefore called Animal which may be beheld in the beautiful Azoth or Lunar Oyl the Vegetable discern'd in the Vinor Spirit the Mineral in the golden Tincture or Sulphur of Laton The three Triumphant stones of the Wisemen viz. Medicinal Transmutative and Angelical the Triune stones or Universal most Universal the Caballistical Elixerating Tincture for Men and Mettals so much talk'd of but so little known for why they do not understand the true subject Matter from whence these three stones are obtained for it proceeds from one confused Chaos containing a spermatical Essence of all created beings the Book of Wonders and Looking-Glass of Nature wherein so many Mysteries may be discerned face to face that I dare not discover them here because time and place is too short I shall therefore conclude with the words of Basilius where 't is said He that catcheth this fiery Spirit hath got victory in this Chymical Battle c. because from hence proceedeth the foundation of all Spagirical Medicines and consequently the true exaltation of Wine which we have here candidly treated of and so shall pass on to the making
fully rich of the Malt they Distill it as soon as 't is well wrought for fear it should flat and then great part of the Spirit is lost but if it be very strong you may keep it to what age you please The way to Distill it is thus Take a large Still with a Serpentine Worm fixed in a great Hogshead with cold Water to condense the Spirits or in want of that an Alimbeck but at first be not too hasty with the Fire but by degrees make all hot until the Spirit come if the Still is large the way I best approve for the receiving these Spirits is to let it run through a Funnel into an Hogshead that is placed on the Ground for that purpose and you are to Distill as long as any goodness will come which may be known thus The Taste will be like an unsavoury Water when all the Spirit is off this Spirit is call'd Low Wine which let stand 6 or 7 days and then Distill it a Second time which is called Rectification in which it may be brought into Proof-Spirit or artificial Brandy which you please Now in this you may know when the Spirit 's off the Second time by throwing some of it into the Fire if it burns 't is good but if it puts forth the Fire the Operation is at an end These Low Wines and Spirits are proper for making most sorts of Waters as will be seen in the application thereof Now if you rectify a Third time in Balneo 't will be the better freed from its Fleam and a true Aqua-vitae is made The Dutch way is thus When the Malt is well made and new Ground not above three Hours before 't is us'd take thereof Six Bushels and put it into a large Hogshead made for that purpose to stand upon its end with a Cover to keep in the Steam with an hole in the middle to put in a stick to stir it upon occasion moisten the Malt with some cold Water and then the other water being made Scalding hot but take care it boils not put it to your Malt and stir them well together and when almost cold add halfe a pound of Hops and let it stand till 't is cold and fit for Barme and let it work and ferment four or five days till it comes to the height of Fermentation then put all the Liquor and Grains into such a Still is before directed Make a gentle Fire and put not the head into the Worm at first for fear it should boil over and so foul the Worm but if he vapoâ—r do kindly ascend then you may lâ—teâ—all fast and Distill and Rectify as beâ—ore directed This is a very profitable and advantageous way of Distilling Glauber's way Take as much Malt as your Distillation will require and in a Kettle full of Water let it boâ—l 〈◊〉 long till the Grain is broken and then pour it out into a Wooden â—â—ssel and when 't is luke-warm add fresh Druggs or Grounds of Beer when it is fermented enough which is usually 〈◊〉 the end of 2 or 3 days then Brandy is made in a common Still by Distillation He recommends this above all other ways saying that this protubeâ—ating aâ—d burst Corn cannot be burnt and therefore makes good Brandy Also he says by Decoction the ill Taste is taken from the Corn which the Brandy otherwise retaineth Further he says That if the Corn is so boiled as to be broken it produceth much more Brandy therefore calls it an excellent and profitable Secret The Spirit of Cyder The way of making Cyder is well known when it is well fermented and come to its full strength then Distill it as is directed in the making Aqua-vitae it may be rectified to what height you please the same way will serve for Perry of either of these or both of them an excellent Spirit is made to make an Artificial Brandy To work up the Grounds of Cyder Perry or Beer Thou art first to observe that if your Grounds are thick they must be prest through an hair Bag in a great Press or else in Distillation they will be apt to burn the Sâ—ill you may add to these equal parts of small Wash or warm Water which 't is fit head it well with Barm you may add in some Molassus and if it ferments not soon enough then cast in some Powder of Rhenish-Tartar and this will cause it to come to the height of Fermentation fit for Distillation nd then to be Distill'd as directed in Malt. Of Honey Molassus and Sugar Take an hundred weight of Honey or Molassus and 12 or 14 Gallons of Water to boil as is fit for Brewing of Malt and pour it into an open Vessel as is prescribed for Malt and stir them well together until they are dissolved and united then when they are cold enough head them well with Barm some use small Beer or Wash instead of Water and then the less Barm will serve Now in the Fermentation you may add what fragrant Herbs Flowers or Spices you please and if it ferments not well then throw in some Powder of Rhenish-Tartar as before directed the quantity must be proportionable to that of the Liquor this will wonderfully heighten its working thou must let it stand untill it is well headed and truly fermented which to know thy experience must be the chief guide it also must be taken in the nick of Fermentation for otherwise if the head of the Tunn begins to fall much of the Spirits will be lost if thou work'st well thou may'st have 9 or 10 Gallons of Low Wines from ever hundred of Honey or Molassus which thou mayst rectify as thou pleasest For Sugar by which Flowers Herbs Berries are so Fermented as to yield Good Wines and Noble Spirits being distilled Take what Flowers or Herbs you please as for example sake let it be Elder-Flowers and bruise them in a wooden Mortar and to every peck of Flowers add a Gallon of Water and 2 3 or 4 pounds of Sugar as thou wouldst have it in strength Barrel it up and let it stand till they Ferment work froth and flower and smell very fragrant this Fermentation may be promoted with Rhenish-Tartar Ale-yest and the like The Spirits must be kept the way to exalt these Wines into Spirits will be shew'd in the 7th Chapter Of Raisons and damnify'd ones take Raisons and pound them in a stone Mortar and put them into a Barrel and put boiling water upon them and when cold throw in a good handful of Christals of Tartar or Rhenish-Tartar but some use Calx vive ferment them very well by adding Ale-yest Stum or fixed Nitre and Flower work it up in a warm place draw off the Liquor and press the Dregs out dry and Distill all and you shall have very excellent Low Wines which being rectified makes good Brandy-wine Of low and dead Wines and their Dregs Observe that in the Distilling of the dreggs of Wine you may ferment them with their low
then may not the true Spagiricks in the Vegetable Kingdom change the nature of Saturn and Jupiter into that of Venus and the Sun seeing Transmutation is so generally allow'd and we suppose at this time of day no rational man makes doubt of its verity Thus much for the way of making Artificial Brandy-Wines We shall now offer some Considerations for the Encouragement of a Brandy Manufacturage to be established here in England The First Consideration that offers it self is that by such a Facturage great consumptions of Corn would be made and so the Tillage in this Kingdom would be considerably advanced the Malt-Corn and such other grain used would be advanced in its Price so that the Farmer might well live on it and yet make Just payments to his Landlord which is by many now found to the contrary and many Farms to our Knowledge are in divers places in this Kingdom vacant which might well be employed Another Consideration this being a publick thing the publick stocks of those concern'd therein would be able to uphold such a Facturage above all by-ends and self Interest of any particular person whatsoever so that Distill-houses and Ware-houses being erected in every County-Town in England or the Dominions thereunto belonging the Neighbouring Inhabitants might have easy recourse thereunto to bring in their Wares at Market price and receive either Wares or ready Money for the same so for Wood or other materials requisite by this means trading would be promoted and Money brought to circulate more freely Another Consideration is by this way and method abundance of Carriage and Recarriage would be saved and yet the Wares lye ready for Transportation for which reason they might be afforded abundantly more cheaper to all the Foreign Plantations than otherwise and by this means we should considerably out-do our Neighbouring Countries and yet very considerably advance our own Another Consideration is whereas Spirits are to be Distill'd from good and wholsome Beer we say then the first mashing is only sit to be distilled and the second mashing might be brew'd into very good 2d gallon Beer which would be of great service to the poor Inhabitants many of which now drink Water for want of conveniencies to brew we therefore wish it was united with and joyned to the Linen Manufacturage Then as to the Grains they might be fetch'd off while sweet to feed their Oxen Cattle and Hoggs withal by this means we say not only many thousands of poor would be employed and so Trading advanced and the Land enriched not that but the Kings Revenues as we touched at before more certain than otherwise We have many more Considerations to offer of this nature but we shall omit them till we see how these are received And so proceed to shew the Use and Application of these Low Wines Spirits and Aqua Vitae's in making several sort of Cordial Waters proper to be used in Families c. SECT II. WE shall here only lay down the way to make Aniseseed Caraway Cardamum Hearts-ease Aâ—gelico Wormwood Mint Balm according to the simple Intentions thereof because 't is convenient to have their respective Virtues per se and in many cases better than those sold in snops but however if you are willing to make compounds we then refer you to a Book Entituled The London-Distiller To make Aniseseed water Take to Gallons of good Low Wines or Proof Spirits one pound of Aniseseed or more as you 'l have it in strength now if your Spirits are high proof you may add a little Water in the Distillation and then draw off the same quantity you put on this rule serves well for Seeds but only the quantity is diversified according as they be in strength for of Cardamums you must put two pound to the like quantity of Spirits as to the Herbs Angellico Mint Balm Wormwood and the like they ought to be gathered in their prime and gently dryed the proportion is more or less in quantity according as you will have the Water in strength of the Herb for one is stronger than another and an handfull of Wormwood will go further than 2 or 3 of another Herb. To make Hearts-ease Aqua Vitae or rather artificial Brandy Take as many Gallons as you please and to every Gallon add a pound of the Seeds of Hearts ease and the like of the Blossoms dryed in the Sun tye them up in a Bag and throw them in the Still and draw off as long as it comes pleasant then dulcify with a Syrrup made of Hearts-ease and white Sugar put it in the Cask adding 2 or 3 spoonfulls of Barm and the white of an Egg or two beaten up with Flour this will give it Fermentation and refine it fit to be drawn off for Sale Observe that in the Distillation of these Waters there will be apt to come over an Oyl or white thick Spirit thus to be sined as it comes Take a fine Holland-cloth and rub one side of it very well with Black-Lead and bind the side so rubb'd inwardly towards the end of the Worm and this will keep the thickness back as experience demonstrates these Instances may serve as general rules for all sorts of Waters of the first order but we shall only give you another instance Now if you 'l make any rich and Cordial Waters you had best make use of Brandify'd Spirit which is the Spirit of Mault or any others brewed of their taste and impregnated with an azural Salt of a Vinor nature and so will the Spirit taste more fragrant of the concret than otherwise Instance Take of the best Cinamon 5 pounds of artificial Brandy 5 Gallons Sugar of Honey one pound and half let them infuse 20 days and then distill off the Spirit which dulcify with its own Syrrup and we say then this is best and truest Spirit of Cinamon that can be made and most fit for Phisical use and thus much for Simple Spirits made per se SECT III. THE best and most proper way for dulcifying colouring and persuming of the ordinary Waters fit for Sale â„ž Of Two Quarts of the cold Distill'd Water of the Herb and of the dry'd Herb 2 Pound Brasil half a pound or more or less according as you 'd have your Water in height of colour to which add of Sugar six pounds stir them well together and put them into an earthen Pot with a close Cover and gently decoct them 2 or 3 Hours now and then stirring of it immediately shutting the Cover and lastly Clarify it with the White of an Egg well beaten and when 't is cold enough strain it through a Fustian Bag call'd a Canopy and to every Barrel of Water add 5 or 6 pints of this Syrrup with a Spoonful or two of Barm to work and clear it and in 20 days 't will be fit for sale A Syrrup for making a Red Water excelling that of London Take of the best Rose water 6 Pints of Red Sanders in Powder a Pound Rose
Leaves a Pound Treacle Honey or rather Sugar 10 Pounds decoct as before directed and clarify it well with the White of 6 Eggs let this whole quantity be added to a Barrel of Aqua vitae and then make a small Bag and put therein the White of 3 Eggs a spoonful or two of Barme all beat together to which add a scruple of Musk 10 Grains of Ambergreece and let the said Bag hang by the Bung-hole in the Liquor and in 14 Days 't will be fit for Sale Now these following Simples are generally made use of for colouring your Liquors withal viz. Red Rose Leaves Poppy Leaves Turnsole Cochineel and the Root Alkaneet As we have thus prescrib'd Simple Waters useful in Families we shall now add proper compounded ones Right Irish Usquebagh Take the best Aqua vitae made from the strongest Beer Ten Gallons Aniseeds one Pound Cloves Two Ounces Nutmegs Ginger Caraway-seeds of each 4 Ounces and Distill them into proof Spirit S. A. then add to this Distill'd Liquor Spanish Liquorish Raisons of the Sun stoned of each Two Pounds let both be bruised of Date-stones the white skins plucked out 4 Ounces Cinamon 4 Ounces stop all close for three Days then add in Three Grains of Musk and Ambergreece dissolved and dulcified with 5 Pounds of Mevis Sugar stir them well together and after Ten Days let it run through Hypocrates's Sleeve and Fine it down with Whites of Eggs and Flower but some only draw it off the Lees into other Casks when Fine the Author hath a way of making Usquebagh-Royal worth Eight shillings a Quart a great Cordial in Nature wonderfully strengthening the Heart and all the principal Faculties Aqua-Corrobâ—rans or a Cordial Water Take Balme Sage Bettony Bugloss Cowslips all gathered in their prime of each an handful Low Wines Two Gallons Distill it into proof Spirit then add Galanga Nutmegs Cloves Mace Cubebes Cardamums Melolet flowers of each 6 Ounces the juice of Celandine 3 Pounds the proof Spirit the whole quantity White-wine or rather Current-wine a Gallon digest 24 hours and then Distill in Balneo till dry this is a great Cordial wonderfully strengthenging the Heart Stomach and principal Faculties being taken as a Cordial The Author 's Aqua Stomatica on Stomach water Take a Gallon of Gaskin-wine or instead thereof a midling Spirit of Wine Ginger Galanga Nutmegs Grains Cloves Anniseeds Fennel Carraway-seeds of each one Ounce Sage Mint Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Camomel Lavander Avens of each one handful bruise your Spices in a Mortar by themselves and cut your Herbs and put altogether into your Spirit or Wine and let them stand three Days in the cold keeping the Vessel very close and then Distill and Dulcify it with Syrrup of Rasberries The Author 's Aqua Pestilentia or Plague-water Take Angelica-leaves and Roots of Rue and Sage of each three handfuls long Pepper Nutmegs and white Ginger of each an Ounce and half the Spirit of Elder one Gallon Malaga wine two Quarts Venice-Treacle and Methridate of each four Ounces digest them Ten Days then Distil so long as 't will come pleasant and add to what comes over a pound of Hungarian Water and a pound of Syrrup of Vinegar and a piece of Loaf-Sugar and let it ferment with the white of an Egg and a little Flower ty'd up in a Bag 5 or 6 Days and then 't is fit for use It 's virtues This Water is an excellent preservative against the Plague Small Pox and Measles and all Pestilential Diseases two Spoonfuls being take 3 or 4 times a day as a Cordial 'T is good also for all cold Stomacks want of Digestion and the like The Author 's Aqua Multifaria or Water of many Virtues Take Balme Sage Bettony Bugloss Cowslips all gather'd in their prime of each one handful Motherwort Bay-leaves of each one handful and half of Marigold Flowers two handfuls Flowers of Rosemary Lavander Lillies of the Valley and Rosasolis of each handfuls the juice of Celauâ—â—â—e two pound â—â—ffron two Ounces Ligâ—â—â— Aâ—ceâ—â— an Ounce and halâ— Tâ—â—merick four Ounces Spirit of Wâ—â—â—â—â—â— Quatis dâ—â—â—st all six days and Distill it in Bal. Sal Art its virtues 'T is excellent in the Diseases of the Head Breast and Heart Liver and principal parts fortifying the Faculties and strengthening Nature so far as can be expected from simple Cordial Spirits without being enriched with some Mineral Sulphurs which will be shewn in our Spagirick Phylosophy asserted also in Spagirick Philosophy's Triumph Now by the way observe that most of these Waters or Spirits are too strong to be taken alone Nature not loving to ride in fiery Chariots 't is best to be dilated and reduced into Cordials the way by which 't is performed will be shewn in the succeeding Lines The Author 's Aqua Triplex or Triple Water Take Venice Turpentine four pound Frankincense Mastick of each two Ounces Aloes Epatica Date-stones Laudanum Castor the Roots of Bettony Elicampane of each two Ounces Cardemums Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Galingale Zedoareâ— Pepper Spiknard Laurel-berries Smaâ—â— lage-seeds Mugwort-seeds Fâ—nnel-seeds Annis-seeds Flowers of Brasil Elder-flowers Red and White Roses Lignum Aloes Cubebs Calamus Aromaticus Mace Germander Tormenmentil Juniper-berries Agrimony Centory Fumetory Pimpernel Dandelyon Eyebright Endive Seeds of Sorrel Yellow Sanders Fethersue Aloes-hepatick Ana of each 2 Ounces Rhubarb 3 Ounces dried Figgs Raisins Dates stoned sweet Almonds of each 4 Ounces Honey 6 pound Sugar 10 pounds Spirit of Elder highly rectified enough to over-top all sour Fingers breadth Musk and Ambergreece of each two Drachms Saffron 2 Ounces and half all being put into a Retort and its Mouth being very well clos'd with a Cork and then luted over and Lastly tyed fast to the Bladder and let it putrify 40 days in Horsedung and then remove it and Distill it in a strong Bal First will come a white Spirit then a Saffron colour and Lastly Red with some floating Oil let each be received apart and when the operation is over 〈◊〉 Baln thou mayst Distill it in violent Fire in Sand to see what more will be produced Its Virtues The first Water is proper for new Wounds old Aches and Plague Sores for weak Eyes and those that have a Pearl in them for the Strangury and Stone The Second Water for corrupted Blood and Leprosie for weak Members and for Agues The Third Water for a weak Brain and Catarrh and for the Palsie and Gout And what I have to say further is that these Bodies being opened by a proper Menstruum viz. The sweet Spirit of Salt or true Spirit of Tartar much might be expected from it for Wounds Ulcers Neli me tangere's Plague-sores Pearl in the Eyes Strangury and Stone Leprosie weak Members Agues Rheumes Impostumes Fistula's Hemorrhoids but now observe by means of the Menstruum they 'l not rise in those diversities but in an united Form ponderous and balsamick and yet more according to the degrees of exaltation impos'd thereon by the Spagyrick Physician To reduce
Spirits for the making of Cordials Reduction of Spirits is in order to bring them to a middle Temperature by uniting the Aquous part with the most Spiritual and fermenting to a Union as may be seen by the following Example Take a quart of Water and a pound of white Loaf Sugar boil them well together half an Hour or more then let it cool fit to put Barm to it but while it is Blood-warm put in Spices such as you best fancy as Jamaica-Pepper Cinamon Cloves or Orice roots sliced and and when cold enough add your Barm and let it work as Beer and after it hath well work'd you may use it for bottleing of Ale Mead Cyder and Wine if you add to every Bottle two Spoonfuls thereof a little Orice-root and a sew grains of the Chrystal of Tartar and a bit of Loaf-Sugar and being laid close 't will make it drink exceeding brisk A Cordial Take a pint of this Liquor and a pint of our Aqua Corroborans and 4 Ounces of the Syrrup of Balme and mix them together S. A. 〈◊〉 Another very Mâ—dicinal Take Plantain and Balm-water of each a pound Cinamon half a pound digest three days and Distill off the Water and add of this to any strong Cordial Spirit equal parts and half the weight of Syrrup of Violets or Clove-gilly-flowers as you best like adding a little Cocheneel and thus you 've a Noble Cordial The way of making Cordial will be more largely shewn in my Chymicus rationalis and Medicina rationalis to which I shall refer 1 you CHAP. VII Treats concerning the exaltation of high Spirits and how to make the Powers of Scurvey-grass Elder-berries with their Virtues also to make other high Spirits fit for China Japan or Lack-varnish c. IN this Chapter we shall Treat concerning the highest Exaltation of Vinor Spirits viz. so perfectly bereaved of their Flegm as to fire Gunpowder Of this nature is the Spirit of Scurvy-grass and Spirit of Elder and Hungarian-water which I shall shew by several Examples beginning my Foundations from the Wines of the Third Chapter and First of Potestates Cochleariae or the powerful united Spirit of Scurvy-grass â„ž The Scurvy grass Wine and Distill therefrom its Spirit which put upon fresh Scurvy-grass and Distill again repeat this operation till it become very strong and fragrant of the Grass and will burn all away in a Spoon then by Distillation make the Oil of Scurvy-grass and by Calcination its fixed Salt and Spagirically re-unite these and so have you the Powers or whole Virtues thereof and if 't is rightly done 't will look very green by which the Authors may be known Its Virtues These Powers abundantly surpass the Spirit in Virtue being only originally prepared by me in Holland and presented to both Universities did parallel nay in some degrees outstripp'd that of the greatest Pretenders in the European Parts both for strength and pleasantness of Tast The Modus Operandi thereof I never fully discover'd but however for the popular Service I taught several of my Disciples in their Chymical course the true and genean Spirit and this I have observed That this very Spirit althô much inferior in preparation to the Powers hath been sophisticated and when brought to the Publick we have clearly discern'd that it hath not been Distill'd by Fermentation per se but they have supplyed their defects here by adding Horse-reddish which hath not affinity therewith this hath much lessen'd its value in coming short of its Original for too too many there be that care not how indifferent a thing is so they can but make it at a cheap rate and in great quantity especially if they have their Name up Now considering this together with the prevalent Arguments of Ingenious persons and of what great service the Powers of Scurvy-grass might be more than the Spirit if Publish'd I have in answer thereunto done it accordingly and the more especially seeing its virtue is such as to continue its use c. For the Powers of Scurvy grass have an excellent Virtue in many Diseases but particularly against the Scurvy because the Herb hath a singular signature against the Disease and thus much I will be bold to say of those my powers that they give Circulation to the Blood by dissolving and dissipating congealed humours for by their Alkalizated Nature they mundify and by their Vinor nature the Venoms are embib'd and the humours thin'd giving sanity to the principal Faculties for being duly taken they destroy not only the Saline but also the Acid and Crude humours from whence the Scurvy hath its original whether bred by the eating of Gross Raw or Crude â—ruit or Raw Herbs or Salt Fish of long continuance for they are Enemies to many as is plainly seen by the Incident of the disease upon Sea-faring persons and especially such as use long Voyages for through the multiplicity of Salt food the Scurvy there greatly abounds And 't is agreed upon by all the Learned Physitians as well Modern as Ancient which experience daily confirms that there is not one Herb in the Vegetable Kingdom of a more particular specifick Virtue for curing the Scurvy than the aforesaid Scurvy-grass for its internal Texture is made up of a volitile Armoniack and Vinor Essence united with a fragrant Vital and Medicinal Crasis as may be demonstrated by the true Powers Therefore the Scurvy withall its Symtoms may in great measure be abated were but these Powers duly taken in proper time and season not only for prevention but also for healing if the Disease is not by long continuance too Rebellious for these have a specifick Virtue both at Sea and Land where-ever this popular Disease reigneth as also in Camps and Armies against the Chill-bane and Rot which are usually there by which Men die as Chore-Sheep It s Vse and Dose For the Scurvy Jaundice Dropsy Consumption Phthisick or shortness of Breath these Powers may be used at all times the oftner the better The Dose is from 10 to 30 drops in a glass of Wine Beer Tea or Coffee as the Patient best likes and after the spending of three or four Bottles of these Powers take half a Bottle of the Golden or Purging Spirit once a Week keeping moderately warm and promoting its Operation by Water-Gruel or such warm supping the Patient best likes and this will carry off the Reliques of the Disease purifying the Blood and such crudities from whence Worms are bred c. Potestates Sambuci or the powerfull united Spirit of Elder â„ž The Wine of Elder made according to the Third Chapter adding thereunto Elder-flowers and ferment it a second time and be sure to take it at the nick of Fermentation and in the greatest fragrancy for for if you let it flat most of its strength will be lost put this in the Still and Distill it as long as goodness will come S. A. But observe that those Wines you make for Distillation ought to be made from the Juice
pressed out only adding its proper ferment and some Sugar and Honey to help it on Now these Spirits so distill'd if you design to have them strong in taste and smell of the Flowers then add fresh and taken in their prime and reiterate the Fermentation and Distillation and so wilt thou have an excellent fragrant Spirit purely impregnated with the vertue of the Concret according to its Ideal and Spiritual Qualities so then to every pound of this Spirit add an Ounce of its Salt and 2 of its Oyl and unite them Spagirically for this Operation belongs unto it Its Virtues These Powers abundantly excell any preparation of the Elder and it is now some years since I began to enquire after the Knowledge Virtues and Operative power of the Elder-Tree and the Dwarf-Elder and experience hath acquainted us that this said Tree is richly furnished with Medicinal qualities in all and every part thereof even from the Root to the most tender Buds and Branches thereof so that it stands parallel with any single Eâ—s in the Vegetable Kingdom and if you consider the reason 't is no wonder it should be so for that this Tree hath its Character or Signature from the friendly Planet Venus and by her Circular correspondence abates Mars's fury in the Centre of which is the Sun who sends his Vertues to the Archeius thereof and furnisheth the Callidum Inatum with the bountiful concreting Sulphur which by Nature's Fermentation and artificial Circular Sublimation of those Juices through its Pipes with a kind of a Pulse hence proceedeth subtilty and purity to the fruit which returneth so richly loaden with a virtuous Tincture from the Fountain of Nature Now Tincture shews maturity and that brings Sanity and so by consequence other properties of health c. For this Tree hath to the Microcosme First a Cephalick Virtue Secondly an Elixipharmick and by consequence a Diuretick and Diaphoretick Finally a Balsamick and Paragorick thence prevalent in Fits Scurveys Dropsies Strangueries c. which may be evidently discern'd by another Authority besides mine for Herballs contain pages of the vertues thereof Nay the Judicious Houswife hath her remarks thereon which may easily be discerned by its various uses for out of its Buds is made a Spring-broath which cleanseth the Blood of Scorbutick and Hydroptical humours and is good in Obstructions the Wine wherein the Flowers are impregnated is most fragrant and an excellent Febrifuge cleansing the Blood of Acidity Venome and Putrifaction therefore a powerful Medicine in Surfeits Measles Small-Pox Swine-Pox and Pestilential Corruptions the Vineger made from the Flowers is used in the like causes also for Inflamations on any part of the Body The Distilled Water for weak Eyes and to clear the Skin The Oyl for Scorbutick Itches Bruises Sprains and good in the Piles also for Burnings and external pains of the Gout c. The inward bark of the Elder and Dwarf-Elder is generally prescribed in Dropsies the dry'd pith for Issues The Wood of the Tree is very durable whence may be an Oyl prepar'd for long Life and therefore pitty it should be used by so many Mechanick Artificers 't is also observable that from the innate Virtue 't is early in budding and late in declining Moreover the Berry or Fruit is made into Syrrup and preserved to be used in many Diseases there is also a Balsom of great virtue made hence Wherefore then should not the Powers of Elder seeing the Principles are therein radically united contain all the aforesaid Virtues and in great Superiority First because the Spirit is made by Fermentation and exalted to a Vinor ens wholly sulphureous and inslamable which to perform some have esteem'd so great a secret Secondly the Spirit is enriched by its own Oyl And Thirdly Strength and by the Salt so that these Powers are advanced so high as to contain the medicinal Virtue of the whole now perceiving of what general service these Powers might be I thought it convenient to publish it and the more especially discerning the things of single Virtue have taken place in the World by some kind of Service as namely the Spirit of Scurvy-grass and Spirit of Rosemary or Hungarian-water These Powers of Elder carry with a more general benefit and will manifest from their own central Virtues the popular service they have for the multitude especially for that they are so effectual against the contagious Diseases that now Reign Indeed should I be particular in every Virtue they have I might fill a Sheet but well knowing that their Operation is such that will demonstrate themselves beyond words I shall therefore leave the rest for the Patient and Prudent Experiencer thereof and so come to give their Use and Dose For the Diseases of the Head as Convulsions Falling-sickness Vertigo's Calentures and suddain Swoonings 't is very prevalent and therefore let those that Travel by Sea or Land never be without a Bottle of it For upon the approach of a Paroxisme if you drop 30 or 40 drops into a glass of Water and drink the same 't will wonderfully abate the violence thereof and strengthen Nature also you are to dip the end of your Handkerchieâ— in the Powers and snuff up the Savours thereof and strike the Templeâ— therewith repeating the same till relief is found For young Children 〈◊〉 or so drops is sufficient in a Spoonfâ—â— of Water and sweetned with Sugar but let the Mother drink a full Dosâ— while the Child is sucking and theâ— their prevalency will be seen if thâ—â— method be observed not only in cuting those that are afflicted but also prevents it in others They also abate the oppression of Wind which Children are so generally subject to They also are prevalent for the diseases of the Breast as Astma's Dropsies Consumptions spitting of Blood and the like and for those of the Stomack as want of Appetite and principally in Surfeits and in the beginning of Fevers let from 30 to 60 drops of these Powers be dropt into a glass of Water and sweetned with its own Syrrup and after taking of them drink a good hearty draught of Marigold Posset drink and sweat plentifully in Bed and as often as Nature thirsteth for refreshment let 20 drops betaken in the Liquor and by this means the offending Matter will be abated and carried off by Sweat and Urine These Powers are also prevalent for the Gripes of the Guts Cholick and Strangury and want of Rest you must take a Brandy Caudle and as 't is fit to drink put half a bottle therein and sweat in Bed and thus in few hours admirable relief will be found 'T is also prevalent for the Dropsy Hypocondriack Melancholy Scurvy Oppressions of Fear You are to take constantly of these Powers in your common Beer till relief is found 'T is also prevalent for such diseases as infect the whole mass of Blood as the Measles Small Pox and Swine Pox and other pestilential diseases for which you are to proceed thus Take of
Cocheneel and Saffron of each a Drachm and a quart of Spring-water and infuse them two or three hours upon the Embers close stopp'd then take the clear and mix a Bottle of these Powers therewith and as much of its own Syrrup as will make it into a Cordial and if this is taken as common Drink the malignancy will thereby be abated and the fountain of life fortified and the disquiet Spirits setled but you are to observe that as the disease begins to abate you must take every third day of our Royal Cordinum lenitivum and of these Power◠the intermitting days and so will the reliques of the Disease be carried off and Nature restored to her wonted current 'T is prevalent for the Gout for weak and pained Limbs for Sprains and Bruises and for Rickets in Children and to ease pain in any part of the Body If you take of these Powers inwardly and externally chafing the grieved part therewith and dipping a Scarlet Cloth therein laying it on the same repeating it every six hours till ease is found You are to observe that these Powers are an excellent Cosmatick wonderfully cleansing the Face and Skin making the Flesh smooth Lastly you are to observe for diseases of long continuance this wholsome Medicine must be continued in its application then thou mayst expect to find by it satisfactory and admirable effects but however by the way I think it fit to give thee one precaution which is thou art to observe that these Powers belong to me that I am the first Author and Publisher thereof those therefore that are ☜ minded to have a Medicine of such general service as 't is truly prepar'd let them repair to my House where 't is only to be had in its exalted degree of Virtue and very fragrant of a Purple colour by which it may be known I signify this to prevent the mock imitations of illiterate Pretenders which Agabus-like destroy many a fragrant Flower in this Art Potestates rosmarini or the powerful united Spirit of Rosemary which is made by the Flowers thereof sermented and distill'd into an high Spirit and then united with its own Oyl and Salt which abundantly out-does the Hungarian Water Observe that by these Examples you may be able to prepare what Powers you will from Herbs or Flowers or Gums To make a Spirit so high and etherial as to fire Gunpowder and fit for China Japan and Lack varnishes Take three or four pounds of Bay Salf and decripitate it very well and give it a great degree of Fire but keep it from melting by stirring of it with an iron Rod till it comes to a very fine Powder before it is quite cold throw it into a Still and pour upon it two Gallons of Aqua-vitae Brandy or any of the proof Spirits made from those former Wines and gently distill your Spirit in Baln until all is come over and so your Flegm will remain in the bottom and your Spirit shall be more fine at one Distillation than at two or three without Salt This Spirit is of great use in Spagirical Operations as well as in Varnishing The proof of its goodness is thus known put some Grains of Gun powder in a Spoon or small Silver Taster and fill it with Spirit and hold it in cold Water being fired but let not any water in and if it is good 't will fire off the Gun-powder but if moisture remain so that the powder is not burnt then it is not high enough This Spirit from English growths is worth Eight shillings a Gallon Now of its use in preparing Varnish and first of the Gold Lack. ℞ Or Seed Lack 8 Ounces of the finest Gumsandrack in fine powder 4 Ounces mix them well and put them into a large glass body and add to it of the strongest Spirit of Wine pounds and observe that one third part of the glass is fill'd and with Hay twisted about it place it in B. M. and let it stand there until as much of the Gums are dissolved as will be which will require about 8 or 10 hours minding to shake it sometimes over the Baln Then take Guttagamba one Ounce Sauguish draconis half an Ounce and as much Spirit of Wine as will dissolve them which may be about 4 Ounces and after they are dissolved mix them hot and let them stand so about half an hour then strain it out and keep it close stop'd for use Observe that in the place of Guttagamba some use Turmerick others Saffron to raise the golden colour Now Gum Anima makes a white Varnish and Gum spelt a black To make China Varnish ℞ Of rectify'd Wine one pound put into a clean Bottle and add thereunto of Gum lack 5 Ounces shake them well together and let them stand 24 hours in a moderate heat such as the Sun in Summer then strain it through a Canvas bag and let it settle by the fire and keep it in Bottles by it self for use To make the black ground from the Japan-work ℞ The grounds is of the abovesaid Varnish and mix in a Gally-pot with some of the following black with which cover the work 3 or 4 times then with clear Varnish wash the work over 10 times and let it be done in a Stove and at the end of 8 days pollish it with Trippilo To make the rarest black in the World ℞ An Earthen Lamp and put in a very large cotton then fill it with Linseed Oyl and receive the Smoak in a new Earthen dish and with a Feather brush it off from time to time which keep for use To make a Red Varnish ℞ Mix Vermillion with the ground of the Varnish with which cover the work well 3 times then strain in Cornation Red through a fine Linnen Cloth into the clear part of the Varnish with which Varnish the virmillion till the colour please your Eye then with the clear Varnish alone Varnish over 10 times and then let it dry a Week and so pollish with Trip. as the other How to make the Ingredients for the raising work Mix six parts of Whitening with one part of Bolearmonick finely powder'd with Gum-water till it be the thickness of Cream the which lay on How to make the Gum-Water Dissolve an Ounce of Gumaraback in a pint of clear Water How to make a Varnish for Silver To a pint of Spirit of Wine put 4 Ounces of Gumsandrack and one of Mastick shake them well and let them stand 24 hours in a moderate heat How to make use of the Gold and Silver Buy Silver and Gold in Shells and put to it Gum-water and then mix it extraordinarily well with your Pensil and if it prove too stiff put a little fair water into it and so you may Draw or Write as you please To make another China-Varnish ℞ Of Seed Lack 10 Ounces of Sandrack an Ounce and half put them in a Can of rectify'd Spirit of Wine shake them well together and let them stand 48 hours in a
an Impostumated Seed and decayed Body from whence in the act of another Generation it stamps its Ideas or its Matrix from hence hereditary Diseases and the cause of so many weak and imperfect Children which also in process of time produce the same effects and so cause such other new complicate Diseases such as become the amaze and astonishment of Physitians for 't is not only the Diseases varying and divers symptoms thereof appearing but also some new ones are commonly yearly produc'd vastly different from the other And this is observ'd and for a truth generally agreed upon by most of the Learned and Curious observing Physitians that I have met with in my European Travels And indeed the craziness and imperfectness of Bodies in this our Age are much to be pittied and lamented for let the Physitian come where he will he can seldom fail of discrning some Symptoms and evil Effects thereof and 't is much to be fear'd that the Intemperance of this Age will cause such evil Fermentations as to produce yet worse Diseases which I pray God the Inhabitants may prevent by timely Repentance for I dread the soreness of the Judgment c. From what hath been said 't is easie to be conceiv'd that Intemperance hath been as a Procatarctick Cause of many Diseases staining the Spirits corrupting the Humors and many times the principal Vessels causing similar organick and common Diseases For we say that one original Cause may in different Bodies or Constitutions produce different Effects and the more different symptoms according as it hath its situation or power to assault the Synteresis of Nature We shall therefore state another Aphorism viz. That the Spirit being the first admitter of disseasy Idea's those also must be Spiritual and carry with them their own Seed and forming Power or else no specification of a disease could be made Now this being so we are to consider what those diversity of Forms are that produce diversity of Diseases For we see that in Epidemick diseases which thô generally proceed from corrupted venoms yet each of them cause different Characters on the Body The Measles one the Small Pox another the Swine Pox another the Spotted Fever another and the Plague another For that hath the most raging power or violent burning painful Blains Carbuncles or Bubo's as a test of Rage changing the same in and with the solid parts to the blackness of a Coal or stinking Pus c. Now by all of these the Life is eminently threatned according as the Form hath power immediately to work upon and prevail against the light of Nature This diversity of diseasie Idea's may not seem difficult to be conceived if we but consider that the general matter of all things was originally one and that the diversity of Species came in the World by and from the character and stamp of Form in the Animal Mineral and Vegetable Kingdom in all the kinds thereunto belonging For as the Apostle saith every Body hath its own Seed and every Seed it s own Body In the vegetable Kingdom the Body is Salt the Form Sulphur or Oil which are discernably different in Tast and Smell one from another which whilst the Texture remained had power to retain its Form in multiplication of its kind through the power of the universal Spirit In the Mineral Kingdom the Body is Mercury but that which gives the various Forms is Sulphur which through the Medium of the Universal grow and are multiplied In the Animal Kingdom the Body is Flesh but the Form is that which makes the diversity according as 't is pure purer or most pure the most pure is Man being animated with the Divine Light the Pure is Fish and Foul and the less Pure is Flesh in its divers and brutish kinds yet all live increase and multiply through the Medium of the Universal Spirit Moreover Man being a Microcosme an Epitomy of all Forms a Compendium of all Powers and System of Superior and Inferior Beings must doubtless be acted upon by all Forms For as Legions of Angelical Spirits are for ministring Comfort to Man by the Rays of Light so on the other hand Are there Legions of Diabolical ones stirring up their Instruments to dart and poison him with the black cloud of Leath Therefore we say that as the Spirit of Man is acted upon by the divers diseasie I dea's yet the Primary Matrix of Diseases one viz. a moist mercurial poisonous Air which we call the Anatomia Essata whose existence is in all the urinous Spirits in the Body and is fed by the same in which the different Idea's Act and Form several Species by the Medium of the Spirit in the little World even as 't is in the Spirit of the great World Wherefore we say that all kind or species of Diseases are produced by the Spiritual Action of the dismal Form and according to the nature of the Humor acted upon or of the Vessel Organ or Passage that 't is incorporated in and as 't is nearer or more remote situated to the Archaius For we see that in the Itch and Scabs the Blood is corrupted and infected as also in the Scurvy and Scrofulous Humors yet each of these are considerably different one from another and all different from the former which still demonstrate diversity of Forms in the specification of Diseases And again in the French Pox which having its rise from complicate Vapors produceth in like manner complicate Symptoms which have some or other resemblance of various sort of Diseases Now if the Form is of a Saturnal Nature dull and languid in Motion from thence Hypocondriack Melancholy and inveterate Obstructions hard to be removed Now the further operation of these sulphurous Idea's or black Clouds will be more fully shewn in my Spagirick Philosophy asserted where the Original of Diseases is more fully demonstrated These things being rightly known and consider'd we may be able to make proper Indications of Diseases whether produced simply from one Cause or compounded with different Forms whence proceed rebellious and complicate Diseases Ex. Gr. The corruption of the Grand Itch in one uniting in Coitu with the acid or muriatick Partiticles in another produceth or bringeth forth a venemous Vapour which may prove as a Progenitor to the Pox and especially when 't is heighten'd by a volatile Acidity in a second Action The manner of which ought truly to be known And again when the Scurvy after the same manner unnites with the grand Pox it may cause such a violent fermentation in the blood as to produce a Feaver some of which I have known so violent that death hath immediately ensued These and many more of the like nature produce such complicate Diseases as have before been touch'd at so that the most learned of Physitians at the first sight by the Diagnosticks and Aetiologicks are put to an onset how rightly to give their Prognosticks which we shall endeavour to unfold according
as a Cordial sometimes the Species Antimonti Russel and Species Nostr Mineralis mitigating the violency of pains by Sal nepenth or rather Ens Vitae metallorum now for the bating Thirst take of our Spir. Odontugiasus from 10 to 20 drops in Beer c. ☞ Now for the Diseases incident Women as Wind Dropsie and falling down of the Womb Hysterick-Passion or Fits of the Mother the defect Imminution and disorderly Flux of the Menses with pain the Excessive Flux of the Mensis and the Whites Barrenness Symptoms of Women with Child viz. Nautiousness Vomiting Longing Spasm False-Conception Miscarriage Mola Difficult Travail a dead Child breaking Water the Symptoms of Lying-in Women Lochia c. The Green-sickness Furor Uâ—erinus and Womens Melancholly You are to obserxe that whatsoever is requisite to be done by manual operation must be dexterously perform'd as in the falling down of the Womb and more especially in difficulty of Travail either by some truly expert Woman or rather a Man Midwife Now for Medicines proper in the aforesaid Diseases are my Vin. vit propr Pillula sam nep The Magisterial Salt of Steel the Powers of Amber but more especially the Narcotick Sulphur of Venus dilated in my Vin. vit propr For it is not only good in hastening the delivery but also eases after-pains and takes off those Symptoms which are incident to Women that lye in c. ☞ For Diseases incident to Children se the Jaundice Children's Gripes Belching Hiecough Nautiousness Heatburn Vomiting Curdling of the Milk c. Loosness and Costiveness a Thrush Fitts difficult breeding of Teeth Childrens Coughs and Asthma's Worms Consumptions Rickets the Stone stoppage and incontinence of Urine Agues and Feavers c. take my Royal Cordonum lenitivâ—m as 't is prescribed in our Spagirick Phylosophy Asserted also our Vinum vit propr Pillula sam nep and Ens vit metall which will answer all that can be desir'd by or from a specifick Medicine and seeing I have given their true Use and Dose as-before cited I shall omit them here and refer you thither for your ample satisfaction ☞ Now for External Maladies and such as belong to the Chirurgical part as Wounds Bruises Squatts Ulcers Cancers Fistula's Noli me tangere's c. There is no better Remedies can be prescribed than our Balsamum vegitat Catholic the Volatile Spirit of Vitriol and Paragorick Spirit and principally out Vinum vit proper and the Narcotick Sulthur of Venus and the Spirit of Tartar which will perform the Cure when not to be reached by other Medicines and that with great case and safety Now Friendly Reader you are to observe that what we have writ of the Virtue of the fore-named Medicines we know by long experience to be certainly so as having relieved many thereby in such deplorable Cases that they have been given over by other Physitians as we have instanc'd and demonstrated in our Spagirick Philosophy asserted to which I refer every true and ingenious Inquirer for their full satisfaction it being an Epitome or Abstract containing the Marrow of George Starkey Van Helmont Paracelsus and other Ancient Philosophers Writings according as we have obtained the true Interpretation thereof by labouring in the Fire and as I may truly say with the expence of several hundreds of Pounds neither have I been slack or wanting in any thing which might contribute to the obtaining of true Art and Science having Travelled much and in that have had the benefit of the greatest Curiosities esteemed by the most Learned Professors in any of the European Universities conversing with many Artists of several Nations c. So then these being compil'd for my own practice yet we having a desisign of general service or for the good of such which have not had the like advantage therefore if they apply themselves to me in difficulties they may be Instructed or fitted as they desire Thus ye Brittanian Aâ—tists let me see your Smiles viz. The use and Encouragement of this so useful an Art that so its product may become serviceable to many Lands for this end was it Published Farewell From the Academia Spagirica Nova where those aforenamed Medicines are truly and faithfully prepared for the Publick Vse Observe Such as are desirous to make use of any of them must apply themselves to me or our Operator THO. NEWTON Chimicomedicus Discipulus Spagirica Philosophia FINIS Advertisement WHereas the Author of this Book hath Composed seveother useful Books and dsigning them for the Publick Service and being made ready for the Press these are to advertise those who are willing to take off or Subscribe to any number of Books let them apply themselves to the Author or to Mr. Salusbury Bookseller at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Barr Fleet street London The Books are as follow 1. Medicina Rationalis Or the Young Physitians Compleat Guide containing a grounded Definition and Fundemental Rules concerning the Original Cause and Nature of Diseases and what different Effects are made by the Morbificated Matter being Lodged on the various parts of the Body To which is added A Choice Collection of Experimintal Medicines proper for the Cure of any the most rebellious Diseases incident to Human kinds Exemplarify'd by Three various Courses viz. Pharmaical Spagirical and Philosophical 2. Chymicus Rationalis Or Chymical Doctrine stated on Vinor Vrinous Acid and Alkalizated Spirits reducing from thence proper and powerful Medicines for the Cure of many stubborn Diseases All which are Illustrated by various Examples in a way never so plainly perform'd before To which is added a Philosophical Discourse concerning the Microcosmical World viz. Man 3. Spagirick Philosophy Asserted Or The True Physitians Principles Demonstrated by way of answer to several important Queries stated by Dr. Boylwharfe Collegiate living at Rotterdam in the Province of Holland Being a Brief but yet Candid Account of the Original Nature Form and Preparation of Noble Specifick Medicines obtain'd by Knowledge of Nature and her secret Diploma by the help of Labour and Art To which is added their Virtues Vse and Dose for the Honor of the True Art of Healing or Exaltation of Spagirick Medicines Seeing so great Benefits proceeds from them in order to relieve those grievously afflicted with stubborn Diseases or sorely distrest with rebellious Maladies for by an Homogenious Affinity to Nature they Act and thence strengthen her in those Assaults made by the Anatomia Essata which endeavour a breach of Harmony and by this means the Microcosme is restored to Sanity To which is added A Cabalistical Discourse of the Original Primigeniture and Procatartick Cause Nature and Difference of Diseases All stated on a new Hypothesis agreeable to the Blood circulation and first Principle of Nature Written for the Lovers of Philosophical Verities c. 4. A Magical Magazine Or Natures Storehouse Divided into Two Volumns each of which is again subdivided into Three Books c. The first Containing the Three great Miracles of Art and
Nature viz. The Volatile Salt of Tartar The Liquor Alkahest and Mercury of the Philosophers In all of which we have handled as well the Medicinal Mysteries as the Transmutation of Metals Our Matter being deliver'd from the first general Chaos whence alone the Triune Key is prepar'd We have also shew'd its various Vses and Applications in the prepartion of all those Noble Arcana's of the Addepts The Second three Volumes is of Mercury's Caduce Rod The Doctrine of Principles and the Worlds Harmony Containing the Fundamental Doctrines concerning the Texture Seed Growth and Reservation of Natural Things all reduced to a plain and regular Method That so the Industrious Searcher after the Secrets of Art and Nature may be truly enabled to comprehend whatever hath been so hiddenly and obscurely deliver'd by the antient Phylosophers in so many large Volumes which is here collected and cast up as a Path-way in which the Sons of Wisdom may safely Walk P. 1. Spagirick Philosophy's Triumph Or the Doctrine of separating the Pure from the Impure by Fire Water and Spirit as 't was practis'd by the Antients that here asserted and maintain'd against the Pseudo Philosophers or Abortive Physitians that for the shaking off their rotten Foundations and establishing a sure one such an one indeed on which the Sons of Art may Build for we have there deliver'd Fundamental Rules concerning the Nobleness of the Spagirick Art clearly demonstrating the infalible Office of Fire Salt and Light in the preparing of true specifick Medicines and those Magical Arcana's wherein Nature and Art Triumph over Diseases Being a Treatise grounded on the Doctrine of Alkalies Shewing their Original Birth and Nature also how I feed them with proper Food and Sulphur to bring them to a full Stature in the Medicinal Monarchy wherein is shewed those various ways by which they are to be exalted so as to become Noble Arcana's through true Volatilization from whence is obtain'd the True and Genuine Spirit of Tartar and Balsam Samech of Van Helmont and Paracelsus which truly is the Circulatum Minimus of all the Adepts in that they dissolve and open the Texture of Mineral and Metalline bodies by which the Sulphurs are to be extracted from whence Specifick and Succedanous Medicines are made for the Cure of most Cronick Diseases as also the Helmontian and Essential Salts wherein is the Crasis of the Herb in its true Vita Media with an Exaltation as to its Medicinal use also the Elixer Samick Proprietatis Vinum Vitae Paracelsus in the Mineral Kingdom Also the glorify'd Sulphur of the Metallus Masculus which are the true and only remedies for either Acute Chromick or Hereditary Diseases that can by Art be prepared without the great Hileck or Sal Circulatum Minus P. 2. Trifertes Soladinis or a Declaration of the Fiery Spirits and the Clavis Ignis Adeptorum call'd Circulatum Minus Containing a brief Discourse concerning the matter and manner of preparing the Immortal Dissolvent call'd by Van Helmont the Liquor Alkahest by Paracelsus the Great Hileck or Sal Circulatus which is the second Key of the Treatise whose use is given in the opening of bodies so that they may be reduced to their first Ens but this Fire or Water remaineth immutable being the same in Weight and Virtue after a thousand actions as at first Also the right way of its use is delivered for the preparation of Magisteries Arcana's Panacea's Quintessences or other Secret Medicines of the Adepts whether from the Vegetable Animal or Mineral Kingdom Drawn from the Treasures of Nature prov'd and confirm'd by Manual and Practical Experience P. 3. Ignis Astralis Adeptorum Containing a Discourse of the Astrum of Sol and Mercury being a Discovery of the first matter of Metalls also of the Philosophical Tincture grounding its Original from the crude white Salphur unto its Exaltation of Glassy Azoth by discovering the Three-fold furnates and Mineral Fire of Artephius and Pontanus and the fiery Water of all the Philosophers the only Agent in the World that hath the Fermentative Virtue to unite Coelestials and Centralls so as to produoe the Sophical Mercury or Mother of Metalls Also the first Ens of Gold is shewn with the Conjunction of the two Spermes Sulphur and Mercury in order to bring forth the Royal Babe which is here perform'd without Vulgar or Common Gold c. Being the Method us'd by the Antient and Modern Sophi and Adepts in the Preparation of the great and wonderfull Secret commonly call'd the Lapis Philosophorum or rather the Tincture or Seminal Matter of Metals uniting in that Triune Key that Vnlocks Democrates's Fountain and gives open Entrance to the Kingly Palace of the Cabalist To which is added the Vertue of the Stone as to the Transmutation of Metalls also it s general Vse and Application for Curing all deplorable diseases incident to Humane body also the right way of its use in multiplying Precious Stones Lastly is shewed the Supernatural Power that this Elixer is endued with P. 4. Mercury's Caduce Rod or Aquila Hermatica Containing a clear Discourse of that Fountain of Christalline Waters which may be dedicated to the Virgin Goddess Diana being a Magical Accedy or Everlasting Spring which floweth to the Paradisical World of the Sophi wherein the office of Mercury is handled in general also it s particular Vegitative Power in the Metalline Kingdom c. Being a practical Treatise written from the Light of Nature and Fountain of Experience In favour of all the curious Inquirers of Art P. 5. The Doctrine of Principles Containing the Doctrine and Office of the Three First Principles of all things Being a Discourse concerning the Sperm-seed and Office thereof in Production Growth Vegitation and Multiplication of Minerals demonstrated on a Sphere and Circle of the Heavens by the Rulâ—s of Natural Astronomy P. 6. The Book of Harmony being a Philosophical Discourse of the Macro and Macrocosmical World demonstrated from the Harmony of the Spheres Observe that these Six last Books make up one entire Volume and will be Printed together if any considerable Subscriptions are made but if not they will be Printed apart c. All written by W. Y Worth Spagirick Physician in both Medicines and Philosopher by Fire Hermetical Disciple and Natures faithfull Embassador POSTSCRIPT IN this we shall give a short review of what is Written and lay down the true Method of Exalting any of the Small and Imperfect Liquors to a great degree of perfection which may be properly called Vinum Fortificatum because doubled in its strength c. Now in the next Impression of this Britannean Magazine we design to add some Excellent Rules concerning the Planting Raising and Grafting Apple-Trees Pear-Trees Currant-Trees c. and the quickest way for raising Nurseries which will be contain'd in our first Chapter in the Second we shall shew the office of Art in making and exalting of Liquors principally of Artificial Wines that being the scope and end of
advantage and here some Mens excellency out-does others as may be seen by many examples in their improvements but still all this must be perform'd with abundance of more pains and labour than originally they were A Third Observation is seeing the excellency of Man was such as to be adorned with Wisdom and Vnderstanding to know things in their Primitive state as they were so now he is deprived of the same and 't is impossible for him to arrive to any degree of Perfection therein either to rule or dispence aright of his Office except he ask it of the Lord as Solomon did to rule the Kingdom of his Father that it might be for the Glory of God by dividing and adjusting things according to the ballance of Truth sound Reason and firm Judgment this was so acceptable to the Lord although his Petition was great yet that he asked was small in comparison to what the Lord bestowed on him for to him was not only given Wisdom but Riches Honour and Length of days and in so great Superiority to others that there was none either before or after him that were to be compared to him and this proceeded from his right asking Now this Solomon in all his Writings prefers Wisdom before any other Gift for he says That all things are but dung and dross in comparison of it and O Man One of the principal Seals of Wisdom is to know thy self aright and in doing that thou wilt know from what thou wast Created and for what end thou wilt also know the difference between the Primitive and Fall'n State also by what Power thou art upheld and from whence Wisdom must proceed and what that Power is that flows into the Center of thy Soul that carries a transmuting Power with it of changing the vilest of Sinners into the best of Saints and in knowing this thou wilt certainly know thy Office and Power and what Degrees and Measures are so to be taken in thy exercise thereof for now thou wilt know the right use of the Creatures and in such a way that God may be Glorified For as the Apostle saith concerning such The recompence of reward was before their Eyes looking towards a City which was not made with hands but the builder and maker thereof was the Lord they know that in all states Man hath the excellent Principle of Immortality in the Synterrisis of his Fabrick which was to be dissolv'd from thence and to receive the reward of her Deeds c. This will cause every Man to consider with himself how he may walk so as to walk aright For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom and to harken unto Truth that is Understanding therefore I heartily wish that every Man might know the station the Lord hath placed him in and how to improve his Talent aright for we are not to be like the slothful servant that tyed up his Talent in a Napkin and buried it in the earth and when the Lord examined the reason thereof he complains that he was a hard Master but this I can testifie that God requires of no Man more than he hath given him For where much is given much is required some had five some ten and others fifty here the improvement was to be according to the principles for the right use of five Talents had the same reward as the improvement of fifty for the Widows mite mention'd in the Gospel was accepted by the Lord as a deed of great importance for that she had cast in her all Now I shall examine by what hath been said how the Inhabitants of this Land do proceed in improving their Talent or prising the great and manifold mercies bestowed on them In our opinion the returns are very small for very few there be in comparison to the multitude that are found that do rightly consider the greatness of the mercies bestowed on them but on the contrary are swollow'd up as I may say in the excess of abomination the intemperance is such that they turn the grace of God into wantonness as is too too evidently seen by the grand debaucheries this Age aboundeth with for the Sons and Daughters of Men delights too too much to inhabit the wrathful sphere and from thence send forth principles and practices agreeable to such a Nature for they are not satisfy'd in their negligence in giving their obedience to the word of God but daily start up new Atheism and Schismatical Doctrines to plead for and maintain their damnable lust which indeed flows into the Pit of Destruction these have the Austere and Lustfull principles so kindled by their intemperance that there ambition is such that they lust at all and are never satisfy'd without they could enlarge their Tents and Borders to the greatest of dignities they are for building and enlarging their Barns and Store houses which points forth the end of their desire which can be nothing but to Eat and Drink and be merry and enjoy themselves in the pomps and pleasures of this World but let them remember what was said to one in the Gospel Thou Fool this very Night thou must or shall dye and it may be in his Sins too and what must be his portion seeing there is a Woe pronounced against such that dye in their Sins and 't is a very hainous one not to use the mercies of God aright for that which was design'd to them as a Blessing they turn to a Curse and thus are guilty of depriving their selves of the great benefits design'd by the bountifull God for their Temporal and Eternal Welfares and so may expect at the final end the dreadful Sentence of Depart from me ye workers of Iniquity and the Body Soul and Spirit as they rise again to be east into the wrathfull Fire there for ever to remain for as the Prophet saith the Worm never dies nor doth the Fire go out Therefore while ye have time prize it and esteem not the Shadowy Fig leaves beyond the covering of God's Spirit nor the forbidden Fruit more than obedience to God's Command for who would willingly loose the comfort of a matchless Paradise for a dreadful portion amongst Dogs and Sorcerers without the Walls of the Holy City which every true Christian both Man and Woman ought to labour to be delivered from so indeed ought all so to do by Temperance Humility Fasting and Prayer and by a stedfast Faith in Jesus Christ by whose merits and by the blood of the Covenant we are so bountifully redeemed c. Thus much for such general Considerations I shall now come to lay down some Benefits as they arise from Temperance and other disadvantages that proceed from the neglect hereof First the benefits that proceed from Temperance are many and wonderful as may be in part discern'd from what hath been already said for then the body is more free and the judgment more sound to discern things aright for the illuminating Spirit acts most freely in pure Tabernacles for