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A76995	Paracelsus his Dispensatory and chirurgery. The dispensatory contains the choisest of his physical remedies. And all that can be desired of his chirurgery, you have in the treatises of wounds, ulcers, and aposthumes. / Faithfully Englished, by W.D.; Dispensatory and chirurgery	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; W. D.	1656 (1656)	Wing B3541; Thomason E1628_1; ESTC R208971	143,934	437

PARACELSVS HIS DISPENSATORY AND CHIRURGERY THE DISPENSATORY Contains the choisest of his Physical Remedies And all that can be desired of his CHIRURGERY You have in the Treatises of Wounds Vlcers and Aposthumes Faithfully Englished by W. D. LONDON Printed by T.M. for Philip Chetwind and are to be sold by Stationers 1656. To the Reader REader Thou hast here some of the best Physical pieces of the best of Physicians who is so well known through the most part of the world for his excellent skill in the practice of Physick for his singular knowledge of the secrets of Nature for his candor in communicating his Secrets and Experiments faithfully to the World that I need do no more to commend these following Treatises to thee but to tell thee that they are Paracelsus's who very well deserves the Title of Princeps Medicorum The chief Physician of the Microcosm and the best Anatomizer of the Macrocosm for he hath brought out of its Bowels more of its hidden Secrets to the publick view then any Physician or Philosopher before or since his time as it plainly appears by these ensuing Treatises wherein you shall finde many Secrets worthy your knowledge Here you have excellent Physical principles whereby the Physician may be directed both in his practice of Physick and how to finde out Physical Secrets Here also you have rare and most useful Experiments for the benefit of the serious and very strange secrets for the satisfaction of the curious But these secrets have been much abused by many who unjustly desiring to have the praise of them from Paracelsus have inserted them in their own writings as secrets of their own finding out And to make the World believe this they have set down those secrets in their Writings so imperfectly and so much varying from Paracelsus minde that they are altogether useless and false Therefore those who desire to have these secrets truly and fully let them hear Paracelsus himself speaking his own minde in these ensuing Treatises and other his Writings let them reade them attentively and seriously so as they may have his minde fully and they shall finde these secrets true which hitherto have been accounted vain and frivolous as they have been falsly set down by others in their Writings In Chymistry Paracelsus was excellent and indeed Posterity is much beholding unto him for reviving an Art so useful for by this Art are made strong Waters Oyls Spirits and many excellent Medicines the which how useful they are almost every one now knows Yet this Art had been buried with the ancient Philosophers if it had not been for the great pains and diligent study of Paracelsus who made it his chief care to bring this Art abroad into the World which formerly hath been shut up in the Closets and secret Furnaces of Princes and Philosophers and hath taken off the vail which was left upon it by the Ancient Philosophers and hath discovered to us the many profitable uses of it and many worthy secrets of it never before known And this he did not for praise or gains for he was a man free from ambition covetousness as all who knew him do acknowledge the onely thing he aimed at in his actions when he was alive and in these his surviving Writings was onely the publick good and because of this his candor and faithfulness and the excellency of his skill he became an object of general envy that both when he was alive and now since his death he hath been maliciously scandalized by many And those who knew not the truth of these things taking upon trust from the malicious at first believed those falshoods and afterwards they themselves spake them as truths So that it is doubtful whether Paracelsus and his writings have had more wrong from the malicious or from the ignorant for those scandals put upon Paracelsus which have been invented by the envious have been defended by the ignorant Reader what is here spoken in vindication of Paracelsus it is onely to give thee notice that he is much wronged by many and not that thou shouldest think him faultless or his Writings infallible for nullus sine crimine vivit and no doubt but he hath had his faults and errors as well as other men and those none should defend but what is good in him and fit for publick use let none condemn Many of his Philosophical Opinions are not to be approved but his Physical practice is certainly very good and whereas the truth of Phylosophick Opinions which must be found out by reasoning in abditis recessibus latet is hardly found out therefore Paracelsus as most part of Philosophers do useth a liberty and a latitude in such Opinions But let the Reader use discretion in reading and be cautious in receiving such Opinions as in some of the following Treatises viz. of Corals Secrets of Vermin and St. Johns-wort where he saith That Coral and St. Johns-wort will drive away Ghosts and evil Spirits from the place where it is or from the person who carrieth it about them And in the Treatise of the secrets of Vermin he telleth us of strange things which may be done by the tongue tail and skin of the Adder c. These things are in deed very strange I cannot say much for the probability of them neither can I say that they are impossible I am not of that minde as many are who conclude those things to be impossible or that they must be done by the Divel which are extraordinary and are such things which they cannot understand For I know that God can do many things and many things naturally which we cannot understand how they are done we onely can admire them yea God hath given understanding to some men how to use some natural things whereby wonderful effects are done Now when we see strange things done or hear that such or such strange things may be done shall we think that they cannot be done naturally nor by God because we cannot understand how they are done is any mans reason so reaching and so comprehensive as to know all that can be done by God and Nature shall we say that this or the other thing is not done naturally because it is not according to those Principles which we only know Is not this to binde God and Nature to our Principles as if they cannot do otherwise then according to our Prescriptions O the vanity of weak man to dote so much upon his own reason Alas how little is the greatest knowledge that any man hath and how much of that little is very uncertain how many uncertain how many contrary Opinions in Phylosophy in Divinity in every Art and Science Quot homines tot sententiae I have a little digressed but to return again to Paracelsus Paracelsus Opinion concerning Spirits and Ghosts and many other his Philosophick Opinions which indeed are not ordinary I do not approve them nor will I here refute them his Physical Practice I do approve and

doubtless his cures and Physical Experiments which he hath left to us in his Writings the best part of which are in the following Treatises are very good as the experiences of many since his death who have tryed them do testifie to us viz Crollius Baptista Vanhelmont Dorneus and many other famous Physicians who have followed his way altogether yea those that profess that they will not follow his way do nevertheless use most of his Medicines in their Practise as their Writings and Apothecaries can witness it And Paracelsus in his life time gave proof thereof for he did such cures which never any Physician hath done the like He commonly cured those Diseases which all other Doctors accounted incurable the truth of which is well known in all Germany where he practiced for he was Physician to the most part of the Peers and Princes of Germany and many other Nations during his life as all who knew any thing of Paracelsus yea even his enemies do acknowledge it so that he cannot be defrauded of this praise See Sennertus his Book De Consensu dissensu Peripateticorum Chymicorum and therefore I do admire that any should put th●s scandal upon Paracelsus to say that he was a Mountebank since all even his enemies do confess that he did such great and strange Cures And certainly Basil which is one of the most famous Universities of the World would never have chosen him to be their Publique Professor of Physick if he had been a Mountebank or a weak man He was chosen to be their Professor when he was but thirty years of age and there taught Physick publickly many years and many came thither to hear his Physick Lectures from all parts of Germany from Spain Italy France Hungaria Poland Denmark c. See Sennertus in the aforesaid Book We also see many learned men approve of his way in the practice of Physick and have followed it whereby it appears that this man was no Mountebank as some do enviously and falsly scandalize him Reader I thought it fitting to bint these things to thee to prevent or remove thy prejudicial thoughts of Paracelsus which may be bred by those false scandals which are too common in the mouthes of those who know not the truth of these things lest by thy prejudicial thoughts of him thou be deprived of the benefit of those things which thou mayest meet with for thy good in these ensuing Treatises The Treatises of the Dispensatory I have given you in Paracelsus own words I have onely for thy benefit divided the Treatises into Chapters and to the Chapters I have added the Contents of them But his Chirurgery I have abreviated giving you onely the cures with the marks of those Ulcers and Aposthumes for which he hath appointed the Cures Very few of the remedies in the following Treatises are Chymical but they are such as any may themselves easily make them Paracelsus Chymical Medicines you shall have also shortly in English altogether with their Preparations fully and clearly explained W. D. The Table and Contents of this BOOK TREATISE I. OF the Medicinal Vertues and Preparations of Hellebore Chap. 1. There are two kindes of Hellebore viz. Younger and Elder the younger is for young people and the elder for old people pag. 1 Chap. 2. Hellebore a singular Medicine for prolonging life How it was used by the ancient Physicians pag. 6 Chap. 3. The cure of the Falling-sickness with black Hellebore and the several ways of preparing it pag. 10 Chap. 4. The cure of the Gout with black Hellebore pag. 17 Chap. 5. The cure of the Palsie and Hydropsie and other diseases with black Hellebore pag. 21 Treatise II. Of the strange vertues of Arsmart Chap. 1. How the Arsmart should be used for any Wound or Ulcer pag. 26 Chap. 2. What other diseases are cured by Arsmart viz Inflammations Tooth-ach c. pag. 32 Treatise III. Of the vertues and preparations of CORALS Chap. 1. What kinde of Coral is best The vertue of it against Spirits Melancholy vain Phansies c. pag. 39 Chap. 2. The vertues of Coral more particularly with their proofs shewing these operations of Coral to be true and natural pag. 44 Chap 3. The marks of the best Coral How it should be prepared and exalted the vertues of its Essence pag. 49 Treatise IV. Of the vertues and preparation of St. Johns-wort Chap. 1. The vertues of St. Johns-wort for phantastick Spirits worms and wounds pag. 54 Chap. 2. When the St. Johns-wort must be pulled out of the ground and how it must be used against Phantastick Spirits pag. 59 Chap. 3. How the St. Johns-wort should be prepared for wounds bruises Fractures of the bones and Ulcers and how it should be used when it is prepared pag. 62 Treatise V. Of the vertues of the Load-stone Chap. 1. The vertues of the Load-stone and how it should be used pag. 69 Chap. 2. In this chapter you have the vertues of the Load-stone more particularly for several diseases pag. 76 Treatise VI. Of the Preparations and Medicinal Vertues of Turpentine of Ebbony and of Mummy Chap. 1. The difference of the wilde and the planted Larch-tree and that the natural place of the Larch-tree maketh much for the good of the Turpentine pag. 83 Chap. 2. That the right Turpentine is equal to the Indian Balsom in its preserving Vertue and how it hath this vertue by the influence of the Stars and by the Elements is fully explained pag. 87 Chap. 3. The vertues of Turpentine pag. 94 Chap. 4. The preparations of Turpentine pag. 98 Of Ebbony Wood. Chap. 1. The preparations and vertues of Ebbony-wood pag. 104 Chap 2. The vertues of Mummy pag. 108 Treatise VII Of the secrets and wonderful Medicinal vertues of Vermin Chap. 1. The Medicinal vertues of Serpents p. 111 Chap. 2. The Medicinal vertues of Serpents pag. 114 Chap. 3. The medicinal vert es of Serpents pag. 116 Chap. 4. Preservatives to keep us from the harm of Serpents Adders and Snakes pag. 118 Chap. 5. The medicinal vertues of the Toad and Spider pag. 121 Chap. 6. Paracelsus compared with other Physicicians pag. 123 Ch. 7. The Medicinal vertues of Earth-worms pag. 126 Chap. 8 The Medicinal vertues of the Earth-worm and of the Crab-fish Cancer pag. 128 Chap. 9. The vertues of the Crab-fish Cancer pag. 131 Chap. 10. The cure of those marks in the body which the patient hath from the mothers womb pag. 135 Treatise VIII Concerning common Salt and Brimstone their medicinal Vertues and Preparations Chap. 1. pag. 139 Treatise IX Of the Medicinal and Chymical Vertues and Preparations of Coperas Chap. 1. The kindes of Coperas and the marks of the goodness of Coperas pag. 161 Chap. 2. The Medicinal vertues of Coperas unprepared and of Coperas calcined pag. 166 Chap. 3. Of the true Spirit and true oyl of Coperas how they are made and what are their vertues pag. 171 Chap. 4. Of the red oyl of Coperas commonly called The