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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14595	The copie of a letter sent by a learned physician to his friend wherein are detected the manifold errors vsed hitherto of the apothecaries, in preparing their compositions, as sirropes, condites, conserues, pilles, potions, electuaries, losinges, &c: wherein also the reader shall finde a farre better manner how to preserue and correct the same ...	I. W., fl. 1586.	1586 (1586)	STC 24906; ESTC S104450	15,658	34

Popie for if you let the stinking Mercurie of Opium flee away and lay aside his Diaphoreticall salt for another purpose you shall then haue a pure Narcoticall Sulphure which by himselfe may be safely giuen inwardly to asswage any paine whatsoeuer In like māner may you vse Mandrake and Popie whereunto as vnto the rest you may adde the tinctures of Corrall Cinnamon Cloues and such like so shall you haue Anodina comfortātia Exhilarantia in one medecine So shall you not neede to stay a long season for the mellowing of them but may minister them presently if need require These few lines I trust will perswade you and cause you to confesse that you haue a long time erred in the preparation of al your medecines But I feare you are so deepely grounded in the principles the foggie mists and bogges of Aristotle Galene c. that you are fully resolued that these simples which we cal venemous are so cōpounded of the foure Elements into one substance that there ought not to be any separatiō made but they must be corrected by additions O what impietie is this that such as are called to the knowledge profession of God and his word should giue more credite vnto these wicked Infidels then to his sacred blessed word why should wee be Infidels in our philosophie and Christians by name only in respect of matters concerning eternitie why should we be as Christians in matters of the soule as Infidels in things belonging to the body why should we be as professors of holy religion in our meeting together after the manner of Christians on the Lords day and all the daies of the weeke after be as Infidels in the things concerning the bodie which God hath framed as the house of the soule Dooth not Moses that heauenly philosopher record that God beheld al things which he made and loe they were exceeding good How dare you then affirme that Opium Mercury Arsnick or any thing els is except If they were good then doth that goodnesse still remaine in them how then commeth it to passe that they are such strong poysons if you seeke the cause thereof in Aristotle or Galene you shall neuer finde it for herein they were as blind as beetels being altogether depriued of such knowledge vnto whom God vouchsafed not to impart the same yet left them inexcusable against the day of their appearing before the dreadfull Maiestie of that great God euē our Sauiour Iesus Christ But let vs take our way vnto the worde of God which will fully resolue all men that beleeue it which telleth vs that for the transgression of one not onely death was enioined vnto him but for his fault euery creature hath a deth inflicted vpon him each creature had an euill ioyned to his good but like vnto like vnto strong life was added strong death or venome for the death of Roses is not so strong as the death of Arsenicke which may bee perceaued hereby in that the balme of Arsenick is far strōger then the balme of roses as the life or balme of roses is inferiour to the balme of Arsenick which is of such force that he is able to preserue from death dissolution many yeares that most strōg poison which is ioyned with him whereby wee may perceiue that in the strongest poysons are the most pure sweetest balmes to be found But of this you shal heare more in my Anatomy of death Now we may see that before the fall of Adam all thinges were good all things came vnto him and were bred vnto his hand without his labour But afterward part of it was ioyned to poison part of it so fast lockt vp that without great sweate of browes he should not eat of it And in these our latter dayes sloth is growen so strong idlenes hath gotten such maisterie that there are very few which will let one drop fal frō their browes to seeke this bread but indeuour by all methodicall meanes to maintaine this idlenes and to continue it after their accustomed manner that they may sit in their chambers on a soft cushiō take pen inke a litle paper setting downe their prescriptions to their Poticaries ℞ rad flores Semina c. These men do not onely neglect their dutie themselues but with might maine they seeke to deface those which spare for no costes or labour to earne their bread in this māner by raising of ill reports against them whispering in the eares of the Honorable telling them that we are mad men that we do say we know not what are not worthie to liue in a common-wealth Howsoeuer other men be affected I pray you be not angry I haue a better opinion of you I doubt not but you thinke as wel of Paracelsus as his great friēd Erasmus doth which could not choose but commend his diligence in preparatiō of his medecines iudged them farre to exceede those which were commōly vsed At this time I craue no more at your hands but patiently to heare me and read that which I haue here set you downe neither will I at this present trouble your head with any further declaration of the matters before spoken of nor in prouing vnto you how farre you haue erred in bringing in your humors intemperie obstructions to be the causes of all diseases that they be but fantasticall inuētions of an idle head hauing no foundatiō or groūd in nature I know I should but anger you or tell you paradoxes to proue that neither Apoplexia Epilepsia Melancolia Mania Paralycis Lithargas Pleuritis Peripneumonia Pestis Sincope Colica Iliaca Dysenteria Diarhaea Gonorrhaea Nephritis Stranguria Dissuria Cachexia Hydrops Icterus ater flaum Febris Diaria Quotidiana Tertiana Quartana Hectica Lepra Vlcera Apostemata or any other disease whatsoeuer are the proper death or sicknesses of Microcosmi but are the sicknesses and death of the fruit of Microcosmi that by transplantation they growe in Microcosmus Hardly would you beleeue that Estis is the deth of Arsnick Pluritis the death of Antimonie Prunella the death of Brimstone Epilepsia the death of Vitriole Colica Podagra Gonagra Chiragra Ischias Arthritis Hemicrania the death of Tartar Morbus gallicus the death of Mercury Lethar the death of Opiū Febris the death of Nitroci sulphuris Vlcera the death of Saltes c. And if you had bestowed but half your studie in the first booke of Moses which you spent in the foolish Philosophie of Aristotle you had espied your errors long agoe I haue told you already yet I grieue not to tel you againe that for the offence of our first parents death was not onely laid vpon them but for the same transgression God planted a death in euery thing he had made in euery thing he put a death able to destroy such a life And these deaths were not nether are they dead deaths but quicke liue deaths they tooke power both of multiplication and transplantation of him which sent them This is the cause that mā dieth such sundry deaths because hee eateth in his bread the death of all other things which when perfect separation is not made bringeth foorth fruit according to his kinde Ouer these deaths hath the Physician power and not ouer that which was inioyned to the body of man particularly Therfore we affirme that neither Podagra Hidrops Lepra or Epilepsia are vncurable diseases the reason is for that as I sayd before they are the death of the fruites of the great world not of man that they grow not naturally in man but come in by transplantation therefore may be seperated But soft a litle I thinke I haue angred you before I was aware wherefore I will imitate the wise skilfull Chirurgion who when hee seeth a great deale of proude flesh in an vlcer will not apply a strong corosiue to take it away at once although need should so require but will by litle litle apply his corrosiue as well to keepe the good will fauour of his patient as to prefer his owne profite Euen so I seing these cancred opinions grafted rooted in you thinke it best rather to diminish it by litle litle then violently at once to pull it away least thereby I should purchase your displeasure which I am very loth to doo But if I shall perceaue that you will giue these my simple letters the second or third reading ouer you shall not onely encourage mee in my next labours to set out particularly and plainly that which I haue now hastily trust vp hard in a bundell cutting it as shorte as possibly I could doubting how you would take it but it will prouoke me to reueale vnto you the true and perfect preparation of such rare medecines which are found out by this arte of separation so called because it doth shewe the way how to seperate the good from the bad not to make that which is e●… as some haue falsly vnderstood And the more perfect that the seperation is the more worthy name it receiueth as for example if Antimonie be so purged that without any euident annoyance it may be inwardly taken then is he said to be in his magister but if he be further purged one degree higher then is he in his essence Nowe if you leaue him not there but do purifie him more then doth his tincture appeare and if you can purge him throughly and perfectly then shall you haue his Arcanum so of others There are also these degrees in solucion whereby the essence of gold surpasseth the Magister both are expelled by his tincture Thus leauing of at this time to trouble you I cōmit you vnto the tuition protection of Almightie God who for his sonne Christ his sake inspire you with his holy spirit whereby mutuall loue may bee increased in those that are his that in things concerning their owne other mens soules bodies they may agree be of one minde that God may haue the glory by their actions in this life and afterward they may through Christs merits attaine euerlasting happinesse From my house at S. the 21. of this present March 1586. Your louing Coosin and freend student in Physicke 〈…〉