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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

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

right Amendment of the Spirit of Life which animates the mighty lump of Matter the Body Alas what are We without it and by what small invisible Power is so great a mass of Matter lightly mov'd about at pleasure When the Spirits are rich and well united how supple gay and vivid are all the Senses and Organs of the Body how concordantly do they move in all their just Dependencies no one griev'd on a●●●icted to abait the Harmony Now a true Sal 〈◊〉 O●●●sum is the fairest Medicine to lay down for these purposes Because every one may be a Judge of what he takes and of what is true from false And to help 'em in this Discovery and a little elucidate this Universal Remedy is my present Business But first 't will be necessary to preamble the great Difference there is between Comp●s●●● and M●st●● the one being a Conjunction of Bodies in place the other in quality and consent the one imperfecte mista a Confusion the other a Union Compositio is the joining of Bodies without a new Form Mistio is the joining or putting together of Bodies under a new Form For the new Form is Commune Vinculum Natural Philosophers know that Compositio is Opus hominis and Mistio Opus Naturae Man makes a fit Application of Bodies together but the perfect Fermentation and Incorporation of 'em must be left to Nature to make that Continuum which otherwise is but Contiguum 'T is therefore a great turn of Thought to find out the Art of compounding in Life so that Mixtures at first troubled may grow after clear and settled by the benefit of Rest Time c. The due Contemplation of Nature as well above as below and some competent Knowledge how the superiour act on inferiour Bodies seems to me altogether needful For the Heavens do not enrich themselves by the Earth and Seas nor keep no dead stock nor untouch'd Treasures of that they draw from below but what they do take up they return and spend in Dew and Showers impregnated with Life and Power This Consent in Nature and some other luckey Hints have prov'd sufficient to beget my Sal Volatile Oleosum which is a Nitro-aereal volatile Salt magnetically ty'd by the Knot of Love in Nature to a luminous Sulphur 'T is more Philosophical to call it Sal Volatile Sulphureum But to speak it at once 't is Spirit of Air and the best seasoning in the whole World of Animal Bodies in Life For by Philosophick Management the truest purest and most wholsome Volatile Salt may be extracted from the Air and the first begotten Oleity in the World which transparent radical Moisture prior to all specifick Lives has some portion of the universal Form that animates it And this may properly be call'd a luminous Sulphur which is the root of all Oleity for I wou'd have it take the Name Oleose when the Sulphurs are cloath'd upon more bodily and thus you may descend to the more gross Bodies of Oils and Fat 's But to comply with the common Meanings of Men I 'll call my Medicine no more than Sal Volatile Oleosum but then it must be consider'd as perfectionate And without doubt 't was some quondam great Philosopher favour'd with a propitious Birth that first discover'd this Union in Nature And some learned Doctor searching into Sacred Remains an Admirer of the Disguis'd Learning of the Ancients that robb'd the Philosopher of the Name but not the Secret and handed it down to our Age. How cou'd else so many agree in the name and not understand the reason or truth of the Medicine Yet every one can talk of a Sal Volatile Oleosum and every little Processmonger can make it That I expect in a little while to hear it cry'd about the Streets like Elixirs made of Brandy Jalop Seeds and Licorish Whenas by the name Elixir the Philosophers of old mentioned their most Venerable Secret but now 't is profan'd and affix'd to a parcel of murdering Trash And the World finding such sorry Stuff under the highest Titles in Philosophy have of late damn'd and ridicul'd the whole Science But I admire the Wisdom of the Ancients in vailing such glorious Knowledge under their Hieroglyphical Figures and Aenigmatical Expressions to secure it from barbarous and profane hands No let all their Followers the true Sons of Art become worthy of useful Rarities by imitating their Piety and Honesty then I wish they may find Ariadnes Thread to conduct 'em thro' the delusive Windings of this intricate Philosophy 'T is one of the greatest Misfortunes of latter times that all Medicinal Experiments are put out to making The Physician must by no means now-a-days know more than half of his Art having nothing to shew but multitudo librorum The compleatest Medicine wou'd stigmatize him with Quackery altho' it is the Accomplishment of all his Learning Nothing 's more difficult than to hit a Curiosity aright which the best of Authors have difficultly enough discover'd And he 's a very sensible person that can correct twenty mistakes in a Preparation and by them grow wise enough to bring about his end And 't is not a low educated person can thus improve he will take quid pro quo and if the Physitian is not experimentally skillful he must be put upon and consequently his Patients Thus we become full of Medicines but no Remedies For if any one can but raise a Volatile Salt from Horns or Bones and join therewith some Aromatick Oils which for Odour and Thinness couple to the best advantage with his Salt then he cries out presently 't is a Sal Volatile Oleosum altho 't is no more a Medicine than a gilt Shilling is a Guinea And Mistakes herein are of fatal consequence to them that rely on such Preparations for they are at once banter'd out of their money the time of helping themselves and thus by delay out of Life too sometimes 〈◊〉 affirm 't is not from Horns Hoofs nor Bones which abound with Salts no nor from Sal Armoniac that this Remedy can be drawn For altho' there be plenty of Volatile Salts which Chymists call so that by the force of Fire will come over the Helm yet they bring with 'em somewhat of Fixity petrifying Dispositions and caustic Qualities And as for Horns and Bones they are endow'd with very faetid corporal Oils so that from these they borrow only a little pungent Salt dilated in a Phlegm which is so poor a Vehicle that the Salts will drop through to the bottom of the Glass Now having made a shift for his Salt the Chymist is to seek for the Spiritual Sulphurs or oleose part which constitutes the Medicine Here he 's at a loss in Philosophy and bluntly takes an oily body to join to his Salt and because he finds the grosser bodies of Oil are greasie and wont mix well he wittily turns one Thought to the purer Oils of Seeds or Aromaticks and there he gets a Scent too and finding they

exalted with the Volatile Salts and beget a mild and easie Ferment in the happy Concentration of the Principles from whence the fix'd parts receive their vivid Impregnations and the insite Fire is fed with its proper Pabulum and kept from rebelling In all things near the Principle of Life is a smooth supple oily Substance in all Seeds we find it more or less therefore from so small Bodies as Seeds Oils are drawn The Substance of all animal Sperms that of Eggs and many other things will help to demonstrate that 't is an oleose Body that early covers the Principles of Life till they are cloathed with our Bodies as our Bodies are cover'd with Cloaths But when the inbred fire is harsh and inrag'd thro defect of this Balsom and Union and by the contrary abounding of Acids then the Spirits are inflam'd the Oil burns the Stamina Vitae shake At length the purer Flements fly the Texture the mixt Body dissolves and the Corruption of the frail Elements come to a loss The Aetherial Nature returns to its native home and there is nothing left in the Carcass but a perturbation and confusion of the corruptible Elements having lost their Governour Then reigns Corruption Death and Darkness in the deprived Matter until the virtue of Heaven does again slow down into it and summoning the wandring Elements re-inkindles the weak light of a new Form and reassumes the Elements into the methodical composure of a new mixture Life is an harmonious Copulation of Matter and Form constituting the perfect Being of an individual Nature the Health of that Life is a regular Assumption of the Principles into magnetick Love wherein our natural Fire retain'd by spiritual Sulphurs lies well beded in Oleity rightly season'd with Nitro-aereal Salts not lock'd up deprest or drawn out beyond its Centre And this I call the Salino-sulphureous Temperament which to preserve or restore is the Scope of Medicine the Design of Physick and Physicians I am warranted in this rational Conjecture from some experimental Observations which is as near as humane sight can penetrate 'T is true these things in their own nature are invisible and transacted in secret which makes em not understood by the gener●lity of Men who know not the occuls much less to make it manifest and are altogether unaccustom'd to such Contemplations and Experiments Nevertheless they are not to be look'd upon as Dreams and Fancies no more than the Spirit of Life which animates ' em For altho' Nature is not visible yet she acts visibly from a volatile sulphureous Spirit which executes her Office in Bodies 'T is generally granted that Life lies eminently in the Blood and so I say and that from its abounding with a pure Sulphur and a volatile Salt which are demonstrable Sulphur illuminates gives Tincture and Centrality What Red more beautiful and more vivid than in good Blood and what a sibrous Consistence has it That there is plenty of volatile Salts appears to an Artist who can extract em besides 't is evident to all by Sweat and Urine both which abound with volatile Salts But some may say the Ingesta of Meats and Drinks may supply those no it cannot be for these Discharges are larger than they amount to Be pleas'd to make the Experiment of living with Bread and Water for one Week and use hard Labour yet you 'll find your Sweat and Urine well impregnated with Salts very few of which proceeded from your Dyet The great Repairer of these is the ambient Air in which both are eminently and therefore plentifully convey'd in breathing thro the Lungs to the Blood helping it to sanguisie the new Access of Chyle in bestowing vital Ferment and a vivid Colour I 'll take it for grant that by this time we are agreed on the Point viz. That the healthful juvenile Temper of our Bodies consists in the Harmony of our spiritual Sulphurs and volatile Salts which magnetical ly join to the subjected Natures and gives 'em their proper seasoning These tun'd with vital Air rarisie and illuminate our Bodies still preserving a due Regimen of our inbred Fire and a healthful Government of the whole Oeconomy This Temperament presery'd is an Antidote against all Diseases and Decay 'T is true 't is very nice to hit and keep it because we deal so low in the corruptible World and depend so much on corporeal Supplies for our Subsistance and are liable to so many changes of Seasons Weather and Chance that 't is no wonder so few make up a competent number of Years Yet 't is good to know the Standard of Health that we may still be aiming at that Mark some near Approaches to which will preserve Life altho' it is not acted with that Satisfaction and Pleasure the compleatly healthy do enjoy But to lye under riveling Acids scorbutick Wildfires Stones in wrong places Tartar in Joints rambling and fixt Pains and forty more troublesome Distempers which make the Body such a Clog to the Soul that to a generous mind 't is the greatest Punishment in the World to attend upon it in blowing its Nose wiping its Breech dressing undressing washing combing cleaning and colouring it in order only to the eating of Water-gruel and drinking Small beer with him Who would not rather be at some Pains and Cost too to make him a little better Company for himself and his Friends by introducing that smooth oleose Temper I have already describ'd And where that does bear sway the Saline Stem of Acids cannot set up to play its Pranks The inbred Fire is kept so truly delighted and entertained with those Solar Guests that it can't turn sour or ill-natur'd For the Sharpness of all Salts arises from the insite Fire of Mixts And the more the fixt Fire is urg'd the greater the Sharpness from both the Blood 's corrupted and many Diseases are deriv'd throughout the whole Body which exercise the utmost Skill of Physicians and notwithstanding all their Cunning they are often buffled by ' em So great is the Energy of Acids that it preys upon all the Sulphureity in the Blood till it has devour'd its whole Tincture and left it sizy or turn'd it into Matter at least several Colours but robb'd it of its Life and transmuted the other Juices into a Vitriolick Tartness Such Acids will corrode Metals eat Holes in Iron and make the Sulphurs putrid and stink to the offending of your Nose But I 'll shew in particular Distempers some of the many Mischiefs that arise from this Root of Acids the grand Enemy of Man's Health Our natural Fire divested of its vital Allay grows burning and scorching and being fed with the Fires of mixt and disturb'd Elements at length puts on a raging Fit and sharpens all the Humours and when 't is more intense enkindles the Aetherial Spirit and becomes a strong Fever more difficult to cure than putrid ones and when it becomes mortiferous usually ends in Convulsions if it be not timely understood and

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