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A30806	Horæ subsecivæ, or, Some long-vacation hours redeem'd for the discovery of the true sal volatile oleosum of the ancient philosophers now happily regain'd to the materia medica : and distinguish'd from all other preparations, partly by the senses, but more effectually by its medicinal performances, totally extirpating the saline stem of acids (the root of most diseases) and inferring the volatile oleose temper, the standard of health in humane bodies / by T. Byfield ...	Byfield, T. (Timothy); Byfield, Thomas.	1695 (1695)	Wing B6397; ESTC R36317	13,427	33

supply'd with proper Alkali's in the method and often enough repeated to correct the Acids But when by good Conduct you get it to a Remission and then an Intermission it is like to issue well For in the Intervals you have time to apply Alkali's which abate the Fire by absorbing the acid Fuel for Acids commonly cause this Fire and this Fire creates Acids This seems to be the Reason of the use of Jesuits Powder T is freely given in Intermissions serving to good Purposes because impos'd so long till it shall do something Not but that other Alkali's may do as well nay it may be better in some Cases if administred in as large Doses as often repeated and as long continu'd and I doubt not to say with less injurious Consequences But Jesuits Bark at present is got in fashion and must be so because it sometimes does the Feat tho seldom consider'd how it comes about but reverently look'd upon among the occult Qualities which to examine is reckon'd unmannerly because difficult In continued Fevers of pure accension Blood-letting is proper in the beginning and a close Application of Alkali's and there are of such sort as may be securely given although the Fever neither intermit or remit But the Jesuit must not be so us'd he plays Tricks in a Paroxysm for besides his Alkalisate absorbing Quality he has a churlish Roughness and Stipticity which at sometimes recommends him but at other times makes him very ill Company Where the Fever comes Aguishly or intermittingly with Cold and Heat by turns thro' the abundance of indigested roapy Humours here Jesuits Powder by its Astringency Roughness and Bitterness Sutgeneris besides its Alkalious Quality becomes a very good common Remedy if well apply'd But in all Fevers arising from Faetid Sulphurs which are to determine in seasonable Separations to the Supersicies there Jesuits Powder is altogether improper but the Variety in these sort of Fevers is so great that 't is not at present to be medled with The Rise of the Scurvy proceeds from the Blood impoverisht and separated for when the lively vinous Spirits are exhul'd what remains divides into two parts a wateny and a thick Substance which latter being of a Tartarous Nature is impower'd with a faculty of turning the Juices into Acids The watery part conveys to the Glands and by them to the Superficies a firy sharp thin Humour which stets and corrodes the Gums and Skin sometimes breaking out on the Hands and Legs and will run a great quantity of clear and limpid but sharp Water and from the Tantarous Fund this is supply'd which still transmutes the thinner parts of your Aliment into this sort of Acid Liquor Until the Blood shall be again brought to its due Mixture by the Addition of a sweet Sulphureous Spirit the Jively Principle that gives Tincture and keeps it in a just Consistence and makes it perfect And thus it becomes a Mediclnal Fountain from which all parts are supply'd according as they differ each by its attractive quality drawing Nourishment peculiar to its kind From this decay of lively Principles and Separation of the Blood tho' with some Alteration where the slegmatick Humour more abounds and the Tartarous Body less proceeds those Overflowings and inundations of the Dropsie which tho' of fatal consequence if confirm'd yet taken in time by proper Medicines and Methods may be prevented The Gout is a Distemper that owes its Original to Tartar which in the extraordinary undue Ferment of the Blood is work'd off into the extream parts thro small Meandets and lodg'd in the Interstices of Joints from whence it can't return and by repeated Ferments increases its Mass to a visible chalky Substance which is of a dry stiptick Nature that by degrees drinks up the Joint-water and loading the Socket renders the part crooked and useless tho in all it does not come to this height nor needs it if timely care be taken The Stone differs but little from it unless in Scituation Many other Diseases are deriv'd too from this general Root But because the Mischiefs from Acids and sick Blood are more obvious than their Remedies I shall therefore betake my self to the Description of a Universal Noble Medicine abundantly qualified to bring about the great Design of Health and rescue Life from the innumerable Dangers wherewith it is surrounded The True SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM OF THE Ancient Philosophers FRom what I have said already it may appear that the Volatile Oleose Temper is the most natural to our Bodies and governs best our Calidum innatum contrary to the Saline Stem of Acids which divides and precipitates enraging the insite Fire scattering it up and down scorching the Body till it has one way or other ruin'd it like slashes of unbounded consuming Fire from the Heavens In order therefore to the preventing of such Destruction I have laid my Design in Physick and liberally expended in preparing two general noble Remedies a Panacea which I formerly treated of and this Sal Volatile Oleosum for extraordinary Directors whereby lesler or greater Aberrations may be reclaim'd to a due state of Health For altho all Persons that are declin'd from a just Temper are not immediately turn'd out of their Beings yet so many live in pain decaying and wasting away that 't is grievous to a Physician besides a great Reproach to Art to hear 'em complaining and crying out their very Lives are burthensome There are indeed some wonderful strong Bodies that will hold out thro' courses of Excess to great Ages But hundreds for one such go early to the Grave and they too with such hail Constitutions in all probability might have liv'd much longer with Temperance I 'm sure they ought to have liv'd to much better purposes But 't is not my business to disturb such tranquil Souls who risque their Lives in a perpetual Tickle of Sensuality aways stimulated with the wild fires of Wines and Drams to the committing of very odd Actions Thus the glare of borrowed ●ights present phantastical Ideas which to represent in Figures to the view of others require the nicest Artifice of the Sensual Man for their Equipment Then appearing very taking with such as are led by the snares of their Senses no wonder so many dance after these Ignes fatui willing rather than to be at the pains of serious Thinking to run secundo flumine with the Croud chaft and heated with Desires As tho the Fall of Man had been their Happiness and 't were a Divine Blessing thus to be brutify'd But I 'll betake my self to the assistance of the Infirm and such as thro' the want of bodily Health know how to value that And here if persons will but contribute one quarter of that Care about themselves which I have done faithfully to preserve and serve em abundance of complaints wou'd soon be remedied on very easie terms I appeal to every one whether 't is not a fair design in Medicine to aim at the

Horae Subsecivae OR Some Long-Vacation Hours Redeem'd For the Discovery of the True SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM OF THE Ancient Philosophers Now happily regain'd to the MATERIA MEDICA AND Distinguish'd from all other Preparations partly by the Senses but more effectually by its Medicinal Performances totally extirpating the Saline Stem of Acids the Root of most Diseases and inferring the Volatile Oleose Temper The Standard of Health in Humane Bodies By T. Bysield M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians in DVBLIN LONDON Printed And are to be Sold by J. Whitlook near Stationers-Hall M DC XC V. THE VOLATILE OLEOSE TEMPER THE Standard of Health IN HUMANE BODIES MAN the accomplish'd Draught of the Universe Prince of all Creatures and of the Lower World for his super-celestial and divine Soul has an immortal Ray of the Divine Light reflected to the same by the sharp Sight and soaring Contemplations of his Mind which shew he is a dependent Spirit on the Father of the Spirits of all Flesh And for his Body he has a beautified Composure of the Elements a perfect mixture in Life illuminated with an undiscernable Spark of Celestial Fire the Form of a mixt Body first surrounded with a Radical Moisture then bound to an Elementary Body by the Mediation of the Spirit giving it individual Being And Life thus deriv'd is the most supream and compleat Act of Nature For the Souls of Living Creatures are vastly distant from the dark and earthy Matter of their Bodies till by this subtile mean of an Aetherial Spirit they are fastned to 'em by the strictest Tye in Nature The former of these two Souls I leave to the Conduct of Divines the latter falling within my Sphere I 'll endeavour to direct into an harmonious Union with the Body by the help of the Spirit which is a small portion of the purest Air a middle Nature betwixt the Body and Soul light and invisible temper'd with Fire Volatile and a most pure Substance begetting Vital Spirits Its first Cloathing is with an Universal Sperm begot on Sulphureo-Saline Exhalations drawn up into the Air rowling up and down in the Belly of the Wind till it takes up its proper Residence in the Seeds of Things And thus descending to the Lower Region it assumes the Moisture of a watery Vapour and by degrees the Element of Water which is a mean betwixt the Air and Earth a passive yielding Nature assuming multiplied Shapes apt to mix with things delighted much in motion fit to receive and preserve every thing that 's subtile capable of the heavenly Influences and to convey 'em thro' the Pores of our Earth which is an empty place into which all the other Elements project their Virtues a proper Receptacle for the Spiritual Elements a convenient hiding place to conceal the Principles and Operations of Nature Here I may take notice how the four Elements which upholds the Fabrick of the World continually acting one upon the other beget and bring to light the fundamental Principles of Nature and Philosophy The Fire acting on the Air produces Sulphur The Air acting on the Water brings forth Mercury The Water acting on the Earth brings forth Salt The Earth having nothing to work upon brings forth nothing So that we must take up with three Principles out of the four Elements But I must not enter into so large a Field since I design but a short Lecture not so much for Theory as to demonstrate a rational Practice from my Sal Volatile sulphureum which is the most sensible and beneficial Performance I shall therefore consider that the joyning of the Principles well or ill together makes up a perfect or imperfect Body And that the prime Agent is the Fire that is plac'd in mixt Bodies and hath chosen the Radical Moisture as its proper seat the principal residence of which in Man is in the Heart the Centre of the little World the prime Organ of Life altho' it be diffus'd thro' all the parts of the Body But there commanding from its Castle doth move concordantly all the Faculties and Organs and breath Life into the Spirits Humours and the whole elementary Mass It s Food is a vivi●ical Spirit flowing down from the Superiour Natures thro' the Air which becomes a natural oleose ferment and food of Life without which neither Man nor any living Creature cou'd subsist for Man lives not by Bread alone but by the heavenly Food of Air. Yet the Lamp must be fed with the nutritious Juices of corruptible Bodies which have in 'em a fixt Fire But the less we partake of those Meats and Drinks which have lost their supple nourishing Particles the more evenly we feed our vital flame For salt Meats sour Drinks firy Wines and strong Drams are like so many fire-works thrown into the Magazeen of the Heart which will blow up the Man 'T is of dangerous consequence to enrage our Calidum innatum making flushings of Wild-fire to run about our Bodies like flashes of Lightning from the Heavens As the Sun is the Centre amongst the Spheres of the Planets and scatters its beams downward by its motion so is the Heart the Centre of the Body which by its perpetual Motion in Conjunction with the Air in circulating the Blood sends heat to the Superficies of the Body which we allay from day to day with Liquids that penetrate our Pores and cool it In imitation of the Air and Clouds which flying round the World temper and mitigate the heat of the heavenly Sun For as the heat of the Sun would destroy all things and nothing produc'd in Nature if the Air and Clouds did not intervene so wou'd the invisible central fire of Bodies consume 'em if balmy Sulphurs and watery Vapours coming betwixt did not prevent it 'T is the universal Fire thro' the medium of the Air that governs all the subordinate sixt Fires of Bodies for Air hath ingress into Air and they join themselves together Nature being delighted in Nature And by how much the greater are the Pores by so much the better the Body may be purify'd Thus beams of Light incircled with radical moisture are our spiritual Nourishment But that will not support us without corporeal Nutriment the former will avail but little without the latter We stand in need therefore of Food that the natural Spirits may be recruited which do continually slide forth thro' the Pores for thus we must maintain a successive repair of the loss of Nature Our nourishing Juices are made by the more succulent substance of our Meat whereby the Parts and Humours of the Body are reinforc'd The radical Moisture is renewed out of the purer Particles of Blood with the celestial Influences intermingling with 'em by Respiration Thus the natural Ferment of Man's Body as well from his spiritual as his corporeal Diet seems to consist in a Sulphureo-Saline Temperament which Vital Union becomes more inbodied in oleose Salts and then assumes a greater Corporeity The spiritual Sulphurs are

will hang about his Salts he then pronounces ore rotundo that 't is the right Sal Volatile Oleosum of Silvius de le Boe or of some other cry'd-up Doctor whose Reputation can support it not regarding Science or the Medicinal Virtues so long as 't will pass for a Commodity in Trade I must confess 't is very difficult and a great piece of Art to prepare this Medicine so as to answer learned Tests and Physical Intentions For the Salts as well as the Sulphurs are deeply conceal'd in Nature and their Union is a great mystery as nice as the Subtile mixtions in Life not to be received into one another by the Philosophers adjoining altho' he must have a hand in the business till his Design is wrought about by Art The Sulphurs must be spiritualiz'd that mix with Volatile Salts and be united by the mean of an Aetherial Spirit and held to view illuminated and perfectly united As in sine fermented Ale the Water Malt and Hop are so entirely one that Art can never more shew the Ingredients apart all three make up one thing call'd Ale I have well consider'd the Vegetable nature and in the Mineral Kingdom have much pleas'd my self with fine Sulphurs difficultly enough obtain'd from Antimony but yet am disappointed in both Animals methinks shou'd seem to yield the best Sulphureous Volatile as nearest of kin to our Natures but so subtile are the Spiritual Elements that they wing away with Life in one quintessential form to the Aereal Mansions and leave you only their corruptible Natures to work upon I cannot imagine where to apply my self in Nature for a very wholsom Salino-Sulphureous Volatile unless it be from the Atmospherical Air where Nature forms the Universal Sperm of the World by her heavenly fire on the gentle and soft Sublimations of the purer Elements and incorporates 'em to your hand beyond the profoundest skill of the most inquisitive Philosopher altho' he have laminated the greatest part of Nature on Vulcan's Anvil For amidst all the Variety of Salts and Sulphurs in the World which are as many as there be Species of things none can be more agreeable than what 's drawn from this general Bank of Nature whence I borrow not only my Matter but therewith some portion of the Universal Form and that 's a lively Touch indeed And since I can find here what I want why need I look any farther I have rov'd and search't as well as others but reckon I have anchor'd well at last considering I had no Pilot. And he will prove a luckey man that hits my Knack or rather discovers such a Terra incognita in Philosophy altho ' I give him here that aim which I never receiv'd But shou'd he find my Bait yet one half of the Skill does not lie in catching my starry Volatiles for I do assure him he must well understand and have long labour'd in Experimental Philosophy before he shall be Master of this Rarity in Nature Dii omnia laboribus vendunt However 't is curious to know the Operation of Nature and how she produceth things by her Workings which requires subtilness and quickness of Mind for she is not perceived by vulgar eyes 'T is necessary to learn first with the Brain and Imagination if 't were but to save labour and charges in Fires and Glasses Besides there is no pleasure in the dull composition of things Give me vital Principles wreath'd together by a magnetic Virtue whence they become a sure food of Life and security from the hasty separation by Death which is nothing else but Life separating it self by its self from a Corruptible Body But if any petulant Sophister stiff in his Opinion shall oppose these Experiments let him know that what he assumes on Trust I make good by Tryal Now in describing more particularly the Virtues and Use of this Remedy I 'll begin from its first entrance into the Body In the Stomach these Sulphureo-Saline Volatiles do loosen and cleanse away all viscid clammy Humours and ill Digestions they correct the austere and acid Ferment which gives Heart-burn Sourness Pains in the Stomach Flatulencies Collicks Convulsions and ill Vapours offending the Head And they bring in that Oleose Volatile Temper which causes a good Digestion well govern'd Bowels and a right nutritious Chyle wherewith the Body is supply'd throughout with wholsome Juices The food precipitated and hardned by Acids sticks to the folds of the Stomach like Glue and being too long detain'd turns putrilaginous and austere becoming a Load on Nature to the great disturbance of the Spirit of Life and Temperies of the part from whence great Oppressions Strugglings Faintings Flushings of Heat Palpitations and sometimes very dangerous and sudden Mischiefs ensue● but if they do not arise to such hasty destruction yet these Acids will by degrees so debauch the true design of the Stomach and corrupt all your Aliment that instead of a well-digested wholsome Nourishment you must be supply'd with sharp corrosive Juices throughout the whole Body Till at length you 'll find the Blood and all things spoilt and all the Bowels and Organs griev'd And then supply your Bodies with the softest things in Nature and the greatest Art in Cookery all is presently spoil't in this vitiated Stomach But here you may again remedy these contrary Ferments and abounding Acids and vanquish the Root of 'em and not only so but in lieu thereof regain a well-condition'd Stomach oily Bowels a true natural Ferment and a Supply of Oleose Volatile Particles which mixing with the Chyle renders it not barely nutritious but medicinal and balsamic And this is not all for they give a lasting Vigor and Strength to all the nervous Texture causing a round Ability of the whole Body Besides pleasing Gas's ascend the Brain and recreate the Senses instead of cloudy noxious Fumes And because so many Diseases are to be remedied in the first Digestion from a well-govern'd Stomach And that it is the most sociable and entertaining Organ I must have one Bout at him more but first shew that the Glandules glutted with these Sulphureous Volatiles convey in chewing a very wholsome Saliva into the Stomach with your Food instead of a Scorbutic Vitriolic Flegm And that these subtile Particles enable the Stomach to such pleasant agreeable Actions that he plays the Wanton with all his Pabulum This Medicine keeps the Orifice of the Stomach clean and as tite as that of the Anus folds up all the expanded Wrinkles reimpregnates remaining Food and gives a thousand pretty pleasing Touches besides substantial Services to the whole Body It suffers no canine Appetite which ravenously devours what it can't concoct sometimes to disgorging but gives a well-bred Desire which will equip you for all the Dainties of a Luxurious Table and warrant the decent carrying off thr Largesses of Friendship The Lungs and all its Pipes are herewith cleans'd of tough foul Spittings thickned by a praeternatural Heat which causes Consumptive P●hisical