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A28604 Medicina instaurata, or, A brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of physick with the insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing medicines, and the excellency of such as are made by chymical operation : whereto is added a short but plain discourse as a light to the true preparation of animal and vegetable arcana's : together with a discovery of the true subject of the philosophick mineral mercury ... as also some small light to the preparation of and use of the said mercury ... / by Edward Bolnest ... ; also an epistolary discourse upon the whole by the author of Medela medicinæ. Bolnest, Edward. 1665 (1665) Wing B3498; ESTC R33237 68,087 202

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so noble a Creature as except the Soul of Man there is nothing sublunary equal or comparable unto it And this those many excellent uses it daily serves us for will if we consider them sufficiently inform us of Christ himself said there was none good but God Yet of Salt he saith it is good Salt is good c. If so excellent then and truly good as it is gross and impure by reason of the Dreggs and Impurities mixed with it what may it be by a Philosophical purification purgation and other convenient Chymical preparations advanced and exalted to I will not tell thee my utmost thoughts of it for so great Mysteries depend upon a true knowledge of Salt and its purification and preparations as the Vulgar would count fabulous and therefore as unfit for their knowledge as beyond their reach and contemplation it is even as Nature the Servant of the most high Creator prepares it for us so great and high a blessing as we are no way capable of returning him sufficient thanks for c. Concerning the virtue and excellency of Salt besides that grand most signal and high Character and Epithite of GOOD bestowed upon it by Christ himself and by him denied to all but God himself I could also at large if not too large for my present intent give you the Testimonies of Paracelsus in his Herbar in Quarto pag. 3 4 5. pag. 103 104 106. c. of Peter Faber in his fourth Book Secret Chymicon pag. 443 to pag. 448. also in his Mirothe Spagiricum lib. 3. from pag. 613 to 616. See also the said Faber in his Panchimic lib. 4. from pag. 574 to 576. Who also pleaseth may at leisure in their several Works peruse the ample and wonderful Virtues ascribed unto it by Scroder Glauber Crollius Sennertus Agricola Beguin Untzer Hartman Tentz Gluckraht Kesler Querortan Kunrath and many others There lately came to my Hands a sheet of Paper printed in December last the Publisher I know not entituled The excellency and usefulness of the true Spirit of Salt being a Collection of the Attestations of several Authors and Physicians of the eminent Virtues of Salt It treateth only of the simple Spirit of Salt well prepared which doubtless even in that state and condition is a very excellent Medicine but that you may know I write not of the Spirit of Salt simply of it self I have in the Title told you it is impregnated tinged and Philosophically united with the essences of the most Cordial and Aromatick of Vegetables by which means it is exalted and become a far more noble pleasant and efficacious Medicine c. The use of this Philosophical Spirit of Salt is thus Let the Infirmed or Sound that is pleased to take it put so many drops of it into a Glass of Wine Beer Ale or the like as after stirring them well together will give a pleasant rellish and let them Drink it twice or thrice or only once a Day if they will before or at Meals and with thus using of it for some time they will assuredly find unless stupid and void of perceivance its noble Effects those that would use it outwardly must mix it also with Wine Water or some other Vehiculum fit for the purpose it is intended for and if it be for Sores or the like wash and bathe the place affected and they will also in short time perceive its cleansing healing and wonderfull Balsamic quality even to their great benefit and admiration c. III. Pilula nobilissima Purgans BEcause some either to gratifie their own Fantasie or Conceit or otherways deterred therefrom by the too great Folly or other ends of some Physicians or else more dreading the small trouble in a Vomit than valuing their own Health had rather have such a Medicine as may operate only by Stool I have also taken the pains to prepare and have in readiness such a Pill or Medicine for them pleasant in Taste and very mild in Operation yet very profitable in all or most Distempers that our frail Bodies do commonly labour under IV. Tinctura Mirabilis c. VEry Numerous and indeed as Great and Excellent as Numerous are the Virtues ascribed by the most Eminent of Physicians unto the bare and unprepared Subject of this noble Tincture I shall in brief acquaint you with some of them together with my Authors and then give you a Glimpse and but a Glimpse of those most desirable Effects which it is by this Subtilizing and Exalting preparation yet farther enabled after a due administration Convincingly to produce and benefit those by that shall rightly make use of it This Jovivenerean Subject hath been and still is by all knowing diligent and industrious Physicians much esteemed and highly valued Paracelsus that Monarch of Medicine hath and that doubtless from his great Experience of it and its Virtue given it this very ample Character It is saith he most efficacious and powerful against all inward Affects whatever Radically plucking up and rooting them out Most prevalent against all Fascinations Incantations Night-frights Poysons Epilepsie Melancholy and doth restore the Body with a kind of Celestial vigour to a most temperate Habit exquisite and most sound Constitution Nor is this the Testimony of the Experienced Paracelsus alone but also of the Knowing and Learned Hartman Crollius Penotus Sennertus Basilius Valentinus Kunrath and Quercetanus with many other most industrious expert and eminent Physicians Take now the Virtues Efficacy and Power of it as here prepared and presented such and so great is the Potency Efficacy and Virtue of this noble Tincture both in purifying the Blood throughout the whole Body and resisting all Effects proceeding from the Corruption of the same that it is with admirable success given in all Distempers arising from a corrupt and putrified Blood and this by reason of its sweet Balsamic penetrating Salt and noble Tincture from hence it moderates and in time quite taketh away both the Leprosie and its root or fountain an impure and degenerated Blood It stoppeth all preternatural Fluxes both in Man and Woman and this by reason of its Styptick Salt and Mature Sulphur hid in its Blood-like Tincture It comforteth and strengthneth the Heart and Stomach restores and cherisheth our humidum Radicale and this by its own humidum Radicale which is in a manner very like if not equal with the humidum Radicale of our Bodies It dissolveth congealed Blood and this by its Spirit and dissolved Salt most profitable in all poysoned Wounds and a high remedy for all Ulcers if mixed with any Balsam because by its Styptick and Blood-cleansing Salt it accelerateth the Cicatrization and so produceth a perfect Cure In brief it is so noble a Medicine that it deserves a far higher Character than I shall now trouble my Self or the Reader with an account of for it mundifieth the Blood so powerfully and throughly that it may in all affects distresses and debilitations or weaknings of Nature whatever most safely and