seldom and rarely cured by Physicians and therefore their shame and scandal as well as the Gout Dropsie Leprosie c. Divels or Witches or I know not what of the like Nature nor do they as the Scholes do generally tell us proceed from their four Humours Phlegm Choler Melancholy and putrefaction of Blood as Quotidian from Phlegm Tertian from Choler and Quartane from Melancholy nor as some particular Physicians do affirm ab effervescentiâ Sanguinis viz. from a Boyling of the Blood ab inflammato Sulphure from an Inflammation of the Sulphur in it in which last they as much mistake the effect for the cause as in the first one cause for another true it is the Blood is inflamed and that sometimes even to an extreme heighth by which the Body in which it runs is as it were almost burned up but yet this effervescentia Sanguinis is not the cause effervescentiae Sanguinis but indeed an effect of the true cause viz. an Obstruction of Nature by the Excrements of Digestion left by the debilitated Bowels and other particular Parts in their several Offices of Digestion accelerated perhaps by a stoppage of the Pores by some excessive Cold or other ways from which ariseth Obstruction of Nature and her Archeus in her Prerogative Royal and free passage and progress through the Body for its preservation and conservation in its due equation of Elements which obstructions and excrements Nature to free her self from after a Concentration or Collection of her Forces according to her abilities doth by a suddain Excursion or Sally from her Fortress the most Inward parts voluntarily and with premeditation may I so say cause this violent effervescentia Sanguinis or Passion or produceth it by her powerfully issuing forth with her Recollected forces to free her self from those incroaching Obstructions which began to diminish her Royal course and consequently to corrupt and putrefie her Mansion and the passage of her Progress Wonder not that Nature by Nature I here mean the Life Spirit Spiritus innatus custos corporis oeconomus wonder or marvail not I say that Nature should be of such power to cause so great an inflammation scorching heat or combustion in the Body for consider she is Life and Life is Fire and Fire the most pure powerful and strong of all the Elements consider seriously her Power and how she can otherways also both cure and cause even the greatest of Diseases and this by the sole power and strength of her own fancy without any previous matter in the Body for the cause or production nor doth here end the extent of her Power for it can perform even Miracles If you believe not me believe yet Christ himself who tells us that if we have Faith but as a Grain of Mustard-seed what we may do by it if you will say that this is not meant of the Spirit but of the Soul which medleth not with the curing of Bodily diseases hear yet our Saviour himself Go saith he thy Faith hath healed or made thee whole and again Be it unto thee according to thy Faith You see here that Faith is no other than the strong power of the Soul or Spirit This the most knowing and as Religious as knowing Paracelsus whatever his ignorant Antagonists report of him branding him with the Name of Atheist from which also as their due reward themselves in the general Opinion scape not free doth most plainly tell us De fide Christus haud frustra tanta nobis inculcat viz. adeo efficacem esse ut nos vel sanos vel aegros facere possit imo quod majus est per eam vel salvi vel damnati fieri possumus prout ea utimur legimus ipsum sanatis omnibus dixisse crede sanus eris aut fiat tibi secundùm fidem c. Paracel lib. Principiorum Cap. 10. c. Thus this most Conscientious and Christian Physitian Yet some of his idle Enemies viz. such as from others reports and mouths only hear but falsly what he was have in my hearing affirmed that in his whole works from one end to the other He never so much as mentioned the name of God or Christ which how false a thing it is who ever shall please to peruse his works must of necessity conclude them either very Envious or very Ignorant of him and what he wrote for there is hardly a Page in some part of his Works in which he doth not and that more than once or twice with a true Christian regard and reverence name and mention both the Name of God and also of our Saviour himself But to return to this most excellent Physician 's delivery in the aforesaid words He tells us thus that Faith is most powerful and can both cause and cure Diseases nay more it will both Save and Damn it was not therefore saith he in vain that Christ spake so much of the power of Faith who when ever he cured any of Diseases said Believe and thou shalt be made whole or Be it unto thee according unto thy Faith c. Wonderful certainly is the secret power of the Spirit But of this enough I could even with the greatest of truth be here Voluminous as to the stupendious effects of Faith or strong persuasion and imagination and what power we have by it not only upon our own Bodies but also on the Bodies and not only the Bodies but also the Spirits of others for it is said of Christ himself that he did no great Miracles there because of their Unbelief at Cynthius aurem vellit neque omnia in vulgus ratio suadet And returning to the power of Nature and to confirm it by some familiar example consider as I said before the hot and cold Fit as we call them in Agues c. Nature finding her power begin to decay by some Obstructing matter or other in her passages of Circulation Perambulation or Progress calls in all her Forces to the Centre Her forces the Spirits being called and with-drawn from their several stations or parts of the Body of which they are the Life and only Preservers those Outward parts are oh a suddain over-taken with a Chilness or as we call it a cold Ague fit the true effect of Nature's calling in her Forces there to Concentrate and Muster them up together that by her suddain Sally or Return with those her united Forces and utmost Strength she may expel and drive out either in part or wholly her Incroaching and Death-threatning opposite the Body is now again by this means viz. Nature's Return with her united Strength to expel her Enemy by degrees overspread with a fiery and flushing heat viz. the hot Fit a most certain effect and sign of the Spirits again re-entring and assuming their former Stations and with all the power and force she is possibly able to make against her powerful Adversary This Contest or Duel lasts as long as Nature is able to maintain and bear it out and having
de re experientia certiores facti juerint usus sum per viginti annos adhuc utor in curatione omnium morborum nunquam adhuc delusus fui ab ipso medicamento nec delusi fuerunt aegroti mei qui ab ipso solo medicamento liberati sunt a morbis quam maximis incurabilibus c. Pet. Johan Faber Sap. univers lib. 3. p. 201. 202. 227. c. The English to this effect In this alone he saith speaking of a Physical preparation of the same subject is the entire virtue and property of the Animal Vegetable and Mineral Nature as it were in a Chest or pretious Cabinet closely shut up and contained those that will may believe it I most willingly for the good of Mankind deliver the Talent bestowed upon me by Almighty God those who by experience shall find the truth of it will be thankful I have used it now this twenty years and do still use it in the cure of all Diseases Nor have I or my Patients ever yet been deluded or deceived by it but by it alone have been cured of very great and indeed esteemed incurable Diseases c. Take yet the testimony of a fifth most laborious Artist and unwearied Searcher into the Secrets of Nature who from his large experience of it and its wonderful effects in Medicine doth boldly and plainly deliver his knowledge of it thus Omnes rerum vires in omnibus Animalibus Vegetabilibus Mineralibus sigillatim dispersae cunctae in hoc uno subjecto concentratae perfectè unitae inveniuntur ita ut inter subjecta medicinae apta primum nobilitatis locum obtineat Auri primum Ens verum in hoc enim omnium Animalium Vegetabilium Mineralium vires virtutes facultates collectae plenè concentratae invenientur I. R. G. Pharm Spag part secund p. 61. aliis c. This is the most high and significant and yet compendious Character which the above mentioned Author delivers of it The whole Efficacy and Virtue saith he found dispersed in all Animals Vegetables and Minerals is fully and perfectly united and concentrated in this one Subject so that among all Medicinal and Physical Subjects or Drugs this Primum Ens Auri or true Solar Embryon is indeed the most noble for in it are the powers of all Animals Vegetables and Minerals closely heaped up and as it were gathered into one bundle c. To confirm and second these most ample Testimonies already cited together with my own experience of this Medicine and the Subject out of which it is prepared I could yet add the Vogue of many most famous and learned both Antient and Modern Physicians but what is already said will I am certain be sufficient to the Learned if at all Chymically and Physically studious to know not only the matter out of which it is prepared but also the truth of what I have or shall yet assert of it To others if rational and ingenious a plain and honest declaration of its Virtues which they may in a due use of it by God's blessing find most true will I am confident prove the highest and most convincing satisfaction c. The Virtues and Use c. THis most efficacious and yet most safe Medicine as prepared if taken in its usually limited Dose doth not at all produce any Purgative Emetick or Cathartick operation that is it purgeth not either by Stool or Vomit that being a little exceeded it haply manifests its force in some by Urine in others if they continue in their Beds as they may that can by a gentle breathing Sweat for it keeps not one constant progress and course of operation in all Ages Distempers and Constitutions but according to necessity and Nature's best advantage sets it self to work In other some again by a more than ordinary or usual Spitting yet not as by a Mercurial Salivation from which as dangerous as common practice and operation it is altogether free yet in none of those so much as to cause any disturbance or weakning to the Body the proportion of the Dose being yet raised and the Stomach coquus coquina culina corporis both Cook and Kitchin of the Body with the other Bowels being much clogged with Vitious and Excrementitious obstructions and humours and its Attraction of those humours for it mightily attracts being greater than Nature can suddenly dispose of or carry downwards it perhaps may cause an easie dis-burthening of the Stomach either upwards by some few gentle Vomits or downwards by a Stool or two or more according as the nature and constitution of the Patient and most conveniency for the Evacuation of the offending humour shall require but this last and greatest quantity is not always in all Distempers and Diseases absolutely necessary and therefore is very rarely or seldom administred unless in Chronick very obstinate deeply radicated stubborn or contumacious Diseases As the Leprosie Gout Dropsie Pox Agues Fevers c. In all which it is altogether yea absolutely requisite and necessary that the Patient his Age and Strength permitting do for some days yet with intermission but a more continued taking of the Pills in a smaller dose resolve to take the highest proportion which as I acquainted you before may cause as it will some gentle Vomits and moderate Stools and thus to continue until the Disease do gradually decline and at last totally vanish together with its Cause Fountain and first Original Some may haply say If this be the manner that your Pill performs its Office in viz. A resolution of the ill Humours in the Bowels and drawing them into the Stomach and afterwards casting them out by Stool or Vomit what need have we of this Medicine or in what is it better than other Purges that perform the same thing I answer Though all Purges have in some measure the same property yet they perform it in another way than this my Pill doth this doth not only operate upon the more loose and easily ejected Humours but also upon the more fixed obstinate and stubborn which cannot possibly be done by any of the best of Purging Vegetables without a very high preparation and purification And besides Vegetable Purges being administred in small quantities or doses operate not but rest in the Body and there do more hurt than good but this Pill though given in the smallest proportion imaginable doth not only not do any hurt but insensibly performs its desired Office and produces in time its noble Effects So that I have not in the whole Vegetable Kingdom no not in all Nature found a Purge in the least comparable with this c. But to return to the business it self This extraordinary or highest dose and proportion is also convenient when common Distempers shall suddenly or in short time too much grow upon and invade the Body as also when debilitated and prostrate Nature shall of necessity require a present and strong assistance for overcoming her too prevalent
Obstructed and so hinder rather than farther her Restauration However knowing sufficiently the dulness and inefficacy of their own Medicines they must still be nibling at ours and yet revile them when they have answered their desires and if at any time they are too Keen for their Skill and Knowledge they are then most Damnable and presently to be Cursed with Bell Book and Candle and not one of them to be left in their Galenical Antidotaries I would they would turn them quite out or else acknowledge them as indeed they are the best Flowers in their Garden Let them not use ours and we will faithfully promise them never to make use of theirs Ours decay not by length of time theirs putrifie and corrupt even in a Years time Ours safely pleasantly and quickly Cure theirs do rather hinder than farther Nature in her own Operation and can only when Nature hath Cured her self rob her of the praise and glory of a Cure which she her self hath performed But I hope the time is now coming when Ingenuity shall flourish seeing many of those that not long since opposed this so noble a Science do now at last begin to appear its real Friends Defenders and Propagators and when declaredly such I shall wish them their utmost due with a continued remembrance of their Names unto succeeding Generations as the worthy Promoters of so publick and great a Good A POSCRIPT To the Ingenious and Physically Studious READER I Intend also how soon I cannot yet say to present unto the Ingenious Industrious and Knowledge-Seeking-English whose sullen Fate slender and mean Education affords them only the benefit of what is published in their own Mother-tongue a small but very plain and Methodical Treatise in English as the smaller Radii glimmering Beams or Aurora to a greater approaching Light teaching a Spagirical or Chymical preparation of Animals Vegetables Minerals and Metals to a Physical use viz. the Separation of their Quintessential Medicinal Fix'd and Volatile parts the Purification Reunition or Conjunction and Coction of the said parts into most noble efficacious and powerful Medicines Arcanaes and Physical Elixirs and this in a higher or lower degree according to the Subtile Genius Industry and Prudence of the Artist Most useful and beneficial for the Preservation of the present and Restauration or Recovery of the decayed or lost Health of Man The improvement and farther consideration may haply prove a Gate to other Secrets Yet if any One in the mean time either diligently Studious of Physick or otherways curious in the search of the secrets of Nature and Art be desirous to be instructed in the Grounds of Chymistry or the Spagirick Art and shall in a reasonable and modest way request my instruction and assistance in it I do hereby promise him a faithful Manuduction and Introduction and that by plain Demonstration and Practice to the true and full grounds intent and scope of Chymistry and this either as to Physical preparations or other Nature-searching delightful and pleasant Operations Chymistry being the most noble and transcendent of Arts and by which only and not otherways and this in a more sublime or mean degree according to the Acute Ingeny Patience Prudence and Neatness of the Operator whether in Medicinal preparations or other choice Arcanaes may something of excellency be expected and produced and perhaps the wished perfection utmost aim and end of our desires at last be obtained My earnest desire of advancing improving and promoting more for a general Good than my own private Benefit this so noble a Science and opening a Gate for entrance into the infinite Treasures of Nature both for Health and other Happiness closely shut up and contained in the Creature is the chief inducement to this Additional proffer and the publick Notice of E. 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