yet are they in aid of both by strengthening appetite and disgesture by rectifying and quickening all the natural faculties by opening and clearing all the most secret passages of the Body and either speedily dâ—scharging the Distemper or laying a sure foundation for farther help besides by their benign qualities and true Humane Temperature they are the most acceptable Food of the spirit the joy of the Heart and delight of Life and as the genuine heat of the Sun brought into the inward parts such and no other are their heat and comfort And through whose variety and specifique vertues hardly any distemper can befall but there is amongst them for fit relief even in all distresses and occasions and that with such safety and innocency that although they have been frequently used by the weakest both of men women and Children in their most weak and sickly estates yet never any thing but good was ever received from them so as these arrive happily to take place of all burning drying and impure helpers so much complain'd of in former times yea and warn'd against though little regarded as in these and the like sensible expressions I advise the healthy much more the weak to beware of those burning liquors which beguile the unadvised World chiefly in times of mirth and refreshment The Life of man or his Spirit is in the Blood which Blood is mild and quickly dryed up with violent heat Such as the Blood is such are the Spirits for they issue from the Blood it self and such as the Spirits are such is the temper or distemper of the Brain and Heart and such as the Brain is well or ill disposed so also are the virtues of Imagination Understanding and Memory Proper and true humanized helps to Diet and Physick such as these are therefore of more moment then can suddenly and cursorily be imagined For as another learned one saith The Meat and Drink which we Diet on or at least the better part is terminated into humours and at last into Spirits by whose efficacy the Flesh Nerves Bones and all parts of the body are nourished and augmented and do by the never-tyred work of supply repair decaying nature Of so great use are Spirits to the body and so exceedingly beneficial are al kindly means wch increase and improve them The truth is in that warfare which is maintained all our life-long twixt health and sicknesse the main Agents in our defence are our natural Spirits yea so material unto life have the wisest ever deemed them that they have assigned them to be like little indiscernable Chains 'To unite and fasten the Soul to the Body and which dissolving the dissolution of the whole Fabrick soon followeth Which office and effect of Spirits whoever duly weighs will soon perceive that as nothing is or can be of greater importance to mans health than the plenteous contribution of Genuine and Benign Spirits so also that the true Improving Virtue of all things taken into the Body dependeth upon their version to the true Humane Temperature Which being the peculiar qualification and proper work of those Moderate Spirits with which this little Store-house is furnished renders them most kindly and powerful assistants to Humane Frailty and an improvement of the Art of Health of great importance and not to be despised Having thus exprest sufficient to induce a belief that they are such an assistance to mans Nature as is really wanting needfull and effectual for supply of the daily wast and expence of Spirit for heightning and rectifying of Diet Medicine and Refreshment and for relief in all necessities and extremities Take a view of them in their particular Titles Vertues and Uses as followeth And as They are alwayes to be had at the Star in the Postern-Street joyning to little Moor-fields viz. Â l. s. d. 1. Amicus Vitae Good in all Surfets Colds Agues c. at the Pint. 00-01-00 2. Sarguis Vitae In all Distempers of Stomach and Bowels at 00-02-00 3. Adâ—utrix Vitae To procure Appetite and Digesture A pleasing Cordial 00-02 00 4. Vis Vitae For Dropsie Scurvy Spleen Wind Gravel 00-03-00 5. Succus Vitae For Convulsion Passie Falling-sicknesse c. 00-05-04 6. Laâ— Vitae For Rickets Wormes Green-sicknesse Mother-Fits 00-05-04 7. Raâ—â—ix Vitae In Coughs Shortness of Breath Passions of the Heart Vomitings Looseness Gripings c. 00-06-00 8. Nutrix Vitae For Consumptions Defluxions a great strengthner 00-08-00 9. Salus Vitae For all Cases Infections Pestilential or Dangerous 00-08-00 10. Medulla Vitae For Wastings and all Weaknesses 00-12-00 11. Deliciae Vitae Against Sadness Melancholly a great Reviver 01-00-00 12. Stella Vitae Not so milde in Swounings and all Extremities 00-12-00 13. Ignis Vitae Very high in Lethargies Dulnesse of sight c. 00-16-00 There are also divers others AS Spirits of Oranges Lemons Cinamon Cloves Rosemary Angelica Mint Saffron Bawm Clary Wormwood Mace Nutmegs c. the vertues and uses whereof are so generally known as needs no information All extracted with such special regard to the true humane Temperature as renders them of singular use in all conditions especially to such whose weaker Constitutions require Mild and Gentle Helpers being called Spirits not for their Heat but from their sublime Purity and Vivacity which are more Spiritual Qualities and through which their Operations are not forcible and violent but like Benign Influences quiet secret sure and most effectual So ye have here a large variety of powerful Assistances to humane Frailty with whose virtues who ever throughly acquaint themselves may easily and pleasantly recrute their continual expence of Spirits and in their familiar use and strength and vigour to their usual diet solace and recreate themselves with real advantage to their healths and supply all sudden exigencies without fear of after-inconveniences Those now who know not by sad experience the difficulty of gaining credit to truths of this kind might well suppose enough had already been expressed to perswade at least a tast and tryal of these if not a fair and clear acceptation But so great a prejudice against new Discoveries remains upon the minds of the most by abuse of Deveivers That what hath been said in their behalf will hardly prevail for such a reliance upon their use as their virtues really deserve Therefore to silence all opposers and to obtain their chearful embracement take here the sure testimony of some instances of their happy victories and successes in divers remarkable cases and conflicts Wherein though the Studier and Producer of them have much to say for daily benefits to himself and relations too numerous to recount yet knowing whoever duly weighs the other instances will easily conclude They must needs have been most serviceable where they have been most employed he refers wholly to their other performances and cures else where The first of which shall be of a Child about four years old that had long time been extream ill through a Feverish Distemper The Parents using
neither could his Doctors though two of them and those most eminent in their professions find out means to perswade his pallate to approve or so much as endure the tast of ought they could administer until his wife put him in mind of your Radix Vitae and her stock being utterly spent she makes an address to me if I had any to supply it if none to send for it well it was my happiness to be able to supply once again and the third little Bottle of some four ounces The next news I hear the Gentleman is well and the Doctors upon tast and experience approve and admire the use of it And I bless God for his Mercy that I had it for them And for a close to all the last instance shall be of an Honourable Person who was much exercised in the Art of Chimestry A Person of great worth that had good esteem of the Spirits desired he would please to go with him and tast them which somewhat unwillingly he did being there the Gentleman that brought him took two or three Glasses freely down but could not prevail with his Noble Friend so much as to tast or sip of them until he perceived he was troubled at his coynesse then he tasted very nicely of one of them then drank it down after that another and another and was so taken with them and is to this day that he hath made such profession of their pertinency to mans Health and Prolongation of Life that its evident he deems them the highest of Arts attainment affirming that he hath tasted he is confident the best that either this Nation or France or Spain or Italy Germany or the Netherlands affords yet never found any so pleasant so powerful and so friendly to mans Nature as these are and iâ—geniously acknowledged that his aversness to tast them was for that he thought it impossible they could exceed what he had elsewhere tasted his after commendations resembling that of Ulysses in Homer Had you the Odour Smelt and scent it cast It would have vext you to forbear the tast But then the tast gain'd too the spirit it wrought To dare high things set up an end my thought And I could for a farwel tell a true story of some young Gentlemen who have found out the right use of these Spirits fortifying their Nature therewith against the accidents attending early risings late sittings up Colds Heats unseasonable Diet toylsome bussling in Business and continual discourse which their occasions subjects them to all which they pass through with such Celerity and Pregnancy in suiting to all Persons and all affairs that it may be rationally supposed the expence of forty or fifty shillings in these may advantage them some hundreds of pounds yearly besides the benefit of their health the greatest of Temporal Blessings And now having thus strewed their way with some of the Roses sprung from their own virtues It may be rationally hoped that wheresoever they are henceforth spoken of they will be treated as true and useful Friends There being not the least circumstance here related but what is reall truth and can so be manifested in few hours time past all dispute But if jealousie still remain It must be concluded to proceed from their covetous Phylosophy whose fear of loss though from never so gross and putrid things is cause enough to blast and â—â—ifle all new Discoveries though never so much wanted or transcendently Beneficial There being No Enemies to true Science Like Arts-men without Conscience How far otherwise they may be of use these instances well weighed will sufficiently instruct and Minister good grounds to believe that hardly any person of any quality but first or last at one time or another may have special service by them For who is there that wasteth not daily their Natural Spirits Who is there that is not liable to the assaults of time and accidents Who almost that feeleth not at least the approaches of some infirmity or other Who then would be without such kindly and effectual helpers as those have approved themselves And although for every one to carry a small Glass of the Radix or Salus alwayes about them might seem ridiculous to youth and daring Spirits yet that Authentick Poem both checks that humour and thus highly warrants so discreet a practise Canto 6. 12. Make way said he and give experience room The Confident of Age though youth's scorn'd guide My wounds though past out-number yours to come you can but hope the knowledge I have try'd His Hilts round pomel he did then unscrew And thence which he from Ancient Precept wore In a small Chrystal he a Cordial drew That weary LIFE could to her walks restore And as they are thus approv'd so where great Magnificence and Delight draws multitudes together were they there so familiar as China Oranges the fancy would be infinitely advanced and Nature secured from all fainting accidents But where there is daily large and great expence of Spirit there they are absolutely necessary As after any stress of the Body long and careful Studies earnest and loud speaking in early risings and late watchings violent exercises hazardous walkings and dangerous visitations of sick people or in crowds and steaming breathings of multitudes And where damps and noisome vapours are to be feared such as have sometime befaln at Goal deliveries where for want of help at hand many of all qualities have been snatcht away in a moment in voyages of Sea or journeys by Land or Water their use is singularly necessary They would be also infinitely useful at the Bath where as Doctor Venner in his Learned Discourse observes much prejudice is received by the common use of things ordinary putrid and burning to the great disparagement of those admired Fountains whil'st the tenderest constitutions and weakest people might be familiar with these and continually refresh themselves without any after inconveniences As advantagious also would they be were they relyed upon in the use of Tunbridg Epsome or Barnet Waters where frequently are incurred most sad inconveniences for want of such mild safe proper and powerful helpers And if it should be affirmed that they are more useful in Physick divers wayes then can suddenly be imagined and more proper for variation and advancement of Cordials and Cordial Juleps Electuaries c. than any thing extant and that they deserve to be well considered and well studied to those intentions 't is no more but what frequent experience would strongly plead for Much more might be insisted on but to multiply were to doubt the progress of ingenuity POST-SCRIPT AS touching the quantity that may be taken of them except the Stella Vitae and Ignis Vitae a child may take out two or three spoonfuls as discretion will direct and sometimes more allayed with Sugar does well women in labour have taken in two hours time two ounces of the Salus and may of any other of them as safely and to shew clearly their In-offenciveness
and Innocency It is frequent with Friends sitting and discoursing familiarly together in two or three hours time to drink their quarterns half pints and more a piece with great delight and after contentment The Stella and the Ignis may be taken a spoonful or two or more without danger if the Parties can take it Upon the Inventor of the Moderate Spirits VVIt went wool-gathering these many years And Englands Hippocrene was turn'd to tears The Muses choak'd with smoak and foggy Ale Croaked in Styx but now a wholsome gale From th'Authours Spirits so refresheth us That we may style him Englands Pegasus Restorer of the Heliconian spring Where the revived Sisters chirp and sing Where 's Physick for to cure our feeble age Of Surfets from the crambe of the stage And keep our Laurel green that actors lack No more supplyes from the old sons of sack W. ROWLAND M. D. Upon Mr. W. W. his incomparable Moderate Spirits The happy Ammunition of this new Store-house IN Surfets Agues or when Cold doth nip Of sweet Amicus Vitae take a sip If in thy Guts or Stomack thou perceive Any distemper Sanguis will releive If Heart be faint or if thy Meat thou loath Call for Adjutrix she is good in both In Dropsie Scurvey Gravel Spleen and Wind Keep to Vis Vitae and thou cure shalt find In Falling-sickness or Convulsion Make Succus Vitae thy Companion In Rickets VVorms Green-sickness Mother-fits Lac Vitae 's best and each distemper hits In Coughs short Breath Vomiting Looseness Pain Take Radix Vitae if thou cure wilt gain In a Consumption if thou'lt save thy Purse Let pleasant Nutrix Vitae be thy Nurse In Plague time or in great infection note That Salus Vitae is the Antidote Is thy Back weak for which dame Nature groans Medulla take she 's marrow for thy bones Doth Melancholly Grief or Care oppress Make rare Deliciae thy Mistress Keep Stella by thee if to swound thou' rt bent And Ignis if thou 'lt Lethargyes prevent If these thou hast or them to Sea dost carry Thou art both Doctor and Apothecary They 'r cheap and by experience wond'rous rare Buy them or wish at Sea thou hadst them there W. ROWLAND M. D. To his honoured Friend the Autâ—â—ur upon his useful Book and admirable Life-preserving Spirits FOR many years dull Ignorance did keep The hood-wink't world in lazie careless sleep Poor Mortals then desir'd to know no more Then what was known two Centuries before They breath'd this air Then did all secrets dwell In the obscure recesses of a Cell All learning likewise if there any were Took up a quiet retir'd mansion there Then Ignorance and cold Stupidity Triumphing sat in greatest Majesty But afterwards pure Learning's rising light Dispell'd the shades of this obscurer Night This foggy night of loathsome Ignorance And once again did bravely re-advance Philosophy and all her radiant Rays Producing a clear Skie of Knowing Days Which still are crost with the unhappy Fate Of thinking all things bad but what the State Of Learning though in darker times contriv'd Long since condemning all but what hath liv'd In the old Volums of the Stagarite Or in those other Galen once did write If to the Ancients ancient times had been So inauspicious our Dayes had not seen Their many now inventions which did grow From long and try'd Experience for know Their rare productions new inventions were When they did write them and remained here Let then our knowing and quick-sighted dayes Be kind to safe though here un-practis'd wayes Of health condemn them not except thou shew Some other reason then because they 're new New Aids were wanting These are a large supplie Who e're denies it doth the truth defie Yet think not Sir your Mod'rate Spirits shall By selfish Int'rests be approv'd at all They being possest with Qualities so rare As to exhale their profit into air Your matchless Spirits were for ought we know The true Ambrosia and the Nectar too Antiquity doth so applaud which Jove And all the other Powers so much did love These quickning Spirits I am almost bold To think reserv'd were till the world grew old By Providence for if they had been known Long since the world to such a bulk had grown By their Life-strengthening vertue that it might E're this perhaps have sunk with its own weight WILL. SMITH late of C. Hall Cam. Upon certain knowledge of the Usefulness of these Spirits in Diet Physick and Refreshment I Must confess if I but speak what 's right They are the neatest ayds e're brought to light Galen or Paracelsus were th'alive VVishing as sure they did the Art should thrive Gladly would entertain them as the just mean Highly to strengthen man yet shun th'extream Of an unkindly heat and them commend To general use as bound more to intend Their Patients welfare than the vninesteem Of being sole Authours of what e're were seen VVe know for want of such how most abuse Their healths with putrid things of â—â—mmon use At which who wink and pass it silenâ—â—y Are guilty of those ills which come thereby VVhereof I am resolv'd my self to free And to promote what 's good whos'ere it be R. B. M. An Experimental Probat of these exquisite Spirits IS it not a fair design To advance the Muses nine Above the heigth of richest wine Now in wit's obstructed time Rare have been th' effects of Sack But or the old Writers still we lack Or why no more of those alack Sack can no more though brain should crack Yet for supply loe here you have A fountain will wit's credit save Of this new Helicon then freely Lave And Merit All True Poets crave W. N. On Mr. W. W. his Gentle Spirits OF all those Spirits which the Chymic Art Or the Apothecarie's shops impart For Pureness Mildness Taste and Vertues rare There 's none that with these Spirits may compare August 27. 1661. WILLIAM RAND Dr. of Physick and the Liberal Arts. FINIS