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A28630	Paracelsus, his Archidoxis comprised in ten books : disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c : together with his books of renovation & restauration, of the tincture of the philsophers, of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone, of the virtues of the members, of the three principles, and finally his seven books of the degrees and compositions, of receipts and natural things / faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J.H., Oxon.; Archidoxa. English	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; J. H. (John Harding), b. 1600 or 1601.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3538; ESTC R19424	195,085	345

which wee 'l forbear mentioning of now For That which rests or sleeps doth not naturally offend If the Paroxism sleep it is not felt but if it doth not sleep the Operation thereof is accomplished This now Comforts and encourageth us in that we see many Cares and Melancholy taken away by sleeping But yet this is to be noted in this place That t is not necessary that the man sleep but the Disease it self And therefore we compose a Specifick to sight only against the Disease and not the whole man as is to be understood of Feavors and is to be made use of in them Now we propose and set down such things as are Mortal in the full or perfect man but healthful and Salutiferous in a full or perfect Disease And therefore we set upon the Disease it self and herein we labour that it may have no operation upon the Body nor be able to have on this wise Take of Thebaick Opium one ounce Of the Juyce of Orange Apples and Quinces of each six ounces of Cinnamome and Cloves of each half anounce Beat them altogether exceeding well and being mixt put them into a Glass with its blind Cover and digest them at the Sun or in Dung for a moneth afterwards let them be prest out and be put in again with these following things viz Take Musk one Scruple and half Ambergreece four Scruples Saffron half an ounce The juyce of Corrals and the Magistery of Pearls of each one Scruple and half commix them then after their digestion for a moneth Add of the Quintessence of Gold one Scruple and half which being permixt with the rest there will be a Specifical Anodine for the taking away of all griefs both Internal and External so that no member may be tormented or seized on any longer Of a Specifickal Diaphoretick NOW we come to speak of a Specifical Diaphoretick whereby every such disease is cured that can or ought because of its Nature Propertie to be healed by sweat such a disease is to be driven out with this Medicament beyond all other Medicines For by a Diaphoretick a Cold Disease becomes Hot and is by that Heat took away for it hath often befallen us that the Cassatum or the dead Blood in the Veines obstructing the motion of the good of twenty years standing hath been healed by a Diaphoretick and very many other Diseases which they call Intercutaneous or between the Skin and also such as stick in the Marrows in which Diseases a Quintessence effects nothing much lesse a Comfortative Arcanum the cause is chiefly this viz. there is not so powerful a Vigour in the heart as to drive out the Cassatum except it be done by a Diaphoretick alone for even as the O doth heat the Frozen Stone melts the hard l●e even so doth a Diaphoretick display its Virtues upon a Disease which cannot be cured with any other Virtues how noble and good soever And although Flammula or Crowfoot be a most hot Hearb yet nevertheless the heat thereof is not at all comparable to the smalest point of the Nature of the Sun Even so exceeding much is the difference betwixt each hot things and Diaphotericks themselves Therefore we set down in this place a Specifical Diaphoretick which comprehends Diaphoretical Virtues Take of Ginger one pound Long-Pepper and Biack of each half an ounce Cardamomes three drams Granes of Paradise one ounce beat them into Powder and put them in a Glass with one ounce and half of the best Camphire ground or beaten and with two ounces of Aqua Solvens or the dissolving Water Seal up the Glass and let i● remain in Sand the time of finishing its Digestion Then Separate from them the dissolving Water and let it putrefie for a moneth and be circulated one week Afterwards presse it out and keep it this is the best and most potent Diaphoretick acting more vehemently then is credible as well in the Cassatum as in other most grevious Diseases of which enough Of a purging Specifick T IS expedient also that we write of a Specifick Purgative and although the Complexions and such like things come under consideration yet nevertheless we are confirmed and build on a solider Foundation taking such things as take away the Diseases and that do not drive away one or another Disease particularly but every evil from whence may be gathered that whatsoever of choler is superfluous and of no moment doth thereby depart The like is to be understood of Offending Phlegm Melancholy and Blood as also of Apostemes and other Corruptions which cannot be purged according to the Complexions nor be resolved with Purgations of which sort of Diseases there are many to be found We do therefore endeavour to draw out the offending Matter onely whether it be corrupt or not whether with an Aposteme or Complexion or any other permixion But as for the tedious and unprofitable discourses of the Universitie Physitians we shall not care for them but diligently consider of the health it self and for this cause we will frame our Medicaments Such a Medicament is Tartar which of its own Nature and Propertie takes away all Putrefactions nor is it inclined to Choler nor Melancholy nor Phegm nor Blood but takes away every unprofitable thing in the Body and such as may endammage it So likewise Vitriol purgeth away all such occasions as give birth to many infirmities For verily we are to consider that Colocynthis doth not purge us of all our Choler or of all that ariseth therefrom neither also doth Rhubarb do it nor doth Tur●ith carry off every thing that proceeds from Phlegm nor Lapis Lazuli all the Impediment caused by Melancholy nor doth Manna expel all the coutrarietie of the Blood but these our two Specifical Purgatives and many others not here mentioned do accomplish it and that principally in all these putrefactions and superfluous feces of the Body from whencesoever they proceed all which it purgeth no otherwise then as Water washeth Linnen Cloaths and as Soap clears them from their filth and defilements of any kind For thus do they Operate singularly upon each disease We will therefore now set down that Specifical Medicament according to our aformentioned purpose after this manner Take the Magisterie of Tartar and the Magistery o● Vitriol both which commix together into one Body then add equal parts of the Quintessence of Saffron the being shut up in a Pellican let them be digested is Sand for a moneth and let the Medicine which ● spake of above be kept most carefully as or the res● hereto necessary there is requisite a greater understanding as well with the learned as the ignorant neither are Men onely but also Trees and Hearbs capable of being purgedfrom their Diseases and superfluities for there are infirmities as well in the things that grow as in Persons and they also have their remedies as we have elsewhere mentioned the defect of Anthos viz. when it cannot perfectly grow strong the Magistery

afford their Magisteries the which indeed may be accounted no lesse then Quintessences as to their Virtues Gold doth deposit and lay down in its Magistery all its Quality and Complexion in one essence And it is not to be therefore supposed that because the Body is of no moment or Value that therefore the rest will be infected therewith No for the Leprosie thereof doth not at all hurt in this place but the whole is good Sugar is intirely sweet whilest t is yet in its Body and not Separated and it also may be so prepared with an abiding in its sweetnesse that it may become far more sweet and efficacious then it was afore but the abstracted Quintessence is not sweeter then in or with i● own Body Wherefore this Body doth not at all bring any dammage thereunto But yet notwithstanding the Virtue thereof Separated from the Body is more Noble then being prepared in or with it But the Magisterie doth amend it more then Nature could The very same also is to be understood of those Stones that enter into the number of Magisteries and likewise of their Bodies viz. that that which is assumed about the use of them is not defective in its Virtue but is a Magistery sufficiently strong This you are to understand on this wise even as when Sulphur is kindled and wholly burnt up that which burns it is the very least portion thereof so likewise the stones as for Example Chrystal when t is reduced into a Magisterie it brings all Stones into their First Matter and grinds them after a wonderful manner no otherwise then the Essence thereof and that s●● this Reason because the Body may be or is tinged by the Quintessence and may be accounted for an Essence no otherwise then as Vinegar and Wine is One whereof doth make the other like it self without any defect In like manner t is not onely so in Stones that the Tincture is thus made but also in such like Metals a the Quintessence of Gold Tingeth all its Body into a pure Quintessence the which light we account of a great yea too too great viz. the light of all the secrets of our Archidoxis and therefore we kindle Coals with a cheerful mind that so we may find the final conclusion of those Noble Mysteries of Nature We draw our Instructions from Examples proved experimentaly by us as in Magisteries and chiefly in that ● Gold the which contains both the Body and the Quintessence equally as well as the Quintessence it self is that is drawn therefrom And therefore Magisteries are known to us to be gifted with peculiar Virtues and we write them down to our praise even to death We speak in like manner of the Magisteries of Hearbs the which are so effectual that half an ounce of them operates more then an hundred ounces of their Body and the reason is because that scarce the hundredth part is the Quintessence Wherefore the quantitie of it being so very little the greater heap thereof is to be used and administred which is not required in Magisteries for in those the whole quantitie of the Hearbs is reduced into a Magisterie the which is not then to be esteemed inferiour by reason of its Artifice to the true extracted Natural Quintessence it self one part of this being administred is more profitable then an hundred parts of the like Body and that for this reason because the Magisteries are prepared and are rendred accute to the highest degree and are brought to a qualitie equal to a Quintessence in the which Magisteries all the Virtues and Powers of the whole Body are present and from them Virtues doth its help and succor arise unto it For in them doth the Penetrabilitie and Power of the whole Body exist from the permixion that is made therewith for the Body doth not receive any of these with desire or affection but such things onely as are spiritual to it self whereby it comes to pass that it attracts that Magisterie and permixeth itself therewithal no otherwise then as even Gold draws to it self the Mercurie of Life and is commixed therewith the which thing Iron doth not do and the reason is this because they are not so agreeable betwixt themselves in the Composition and so both the Body of it and this Magistery are Amalgamated together and made one concerning which product many Examples are to be found which we shall not mention in this Place Some of the Marcasites do after the same manner perfect the Operation of their Medicinal properties but yet with this difference viz. they leave their Body and the best part of them onely as the juyce is extracted and is neverthelesse a Magistery albeit the Body be Separated therefrom But yet this is to be understood that that is not the Body of the Marcasite but rather of the Earth or Mineral in which the Marcasite doth lie for it hath not such an efficacious Virtue of it self whereby to be Separated from the Earth or Minera but abides therein as a Marcasite and is so accounted of And therefore to declare a Magisterie what it is of what it is made and what Virtues it is endued withal we will in what follows set down the Practise thereof and likewise describe the Artifice of its Preparation but yet this Process cannot be couched in one General Explication but there must be a particular treating of each as of the Metals by themselves also of the Marcasites by themselves and so of the Stones and Hearbs Likewise there is to be had a Singular Magistery of Blood and this is also taught by a Peculiar way and manner In it is to be considered what the Virtues and Powers of a man are and that the Nature of it contains in it self in what things there is a defect c. but yet without the diminution of the Natural Creation it self but is to be considered as a work perfect compleat with its parts even as a bird with all its Feathers Of the Extraction of the Magisterie out of Metals First of all we will set down the Magistery out of Metals and declare that which shews it self to be of wonderful Virtues and are to be known according to the Tenour of its Essence The Process of them must be done without any Corrosives and all such complexionated things as are coutrary to the metals For the Essences are corrupted by the Conjunction or Commixion of contrary things insomuch that by this errour they shew forth no virtues the one overcoming and bearing sway over its contrary And whereas a great regard is to be had of their agreement and affinitie therefore the Temperate alone will be suitable thereunto but now you are to know what that Temperate Thing is a Temperate Thing a Complexionated somewhat or Body for this doth receive the other into it self and is incorporated with that whereto it shall be adjoyned so that it doth not any more discover the old and its own complexion but the Virtues of that

be made by which the Sweetnesses passe into Corruption To prevent which this is our Intention and Experience viz. That i● that Composition such a thing be taken as may not hinder the Sweetnesse to remain in its proper Essence and such as may be without the Corruption of any other things By this way and means it hath the Virtue of a Balsame to Conserve the dead fleshy bodies of Carcasses and other things For such a like Sweetness is the Balsame of the Earth and othersome there are of Dew for in them hath it its Original We will therefore set down the Elixir of Thronus because there 's no Sweetnesse comparable hereunto It doth also contain more Mysteries then is credible as we set down in the Book of Generations By the preparation of which may be Collected the wayes of preparing other Sweetnesses The Preparation of Thronus is thus Take as much Thronus as you will which let be put in a Pellican in digestion at the Sun for two months but t will be better for a whole Summer Afterwards let be added a fourth part of the Quintessence of Gold and so let them be Circulated together for two months then keep it Albeit this way be very short yet neverthelesse the Elixir hereby made is very wonderful in very old folk Of the Fourth Elixir which is Of Quintessences IN like manner may Quintessences be brought into an Elixir which Conserves both living and dead bodies like as Balsame doth We make but a very brief Rehearsal thereof in this place because t is afore demonstrated in the Process of Quintessences So therefore wee 'l proceed here a little further and set down such things as we have noted to make for Preservation and Conservation Then out of the Elixirs of those processes we will teach the Composition of one Elixir fully as profitable to the body as the Three precedent are Verily you are to underdand that this Elixir of Quintessences hath in it a secret Virtue which daily tends to a Restoring and which endeavours to Renovate and Restore the whole body Therefore it Operates more then a bare Conservation for it also Renovates yet not so perfectly as we have mentioned above of Quintessences and Arcanaes but is of meaner Virtues and that because the Conservative and Renewing property of them cannot be together but yet by this way is Renovation disposed for Conservation thus Take the Quintessence of Celondine of Bawme of each two ounces the Quintessence of Gold the Quintessence of Mercury of each half an ounce the Quintessence of Saffron and of all the Mirobolanes of each one ounce Let them be all well mixt together and be shut in with a blind Head and remain in the digestion of Sun for two months Then adde of the Quintessence of Wine and the Magistery thereof of each one ounce and an half and let them be digested again for a Month as above then keep it as a Treasure not only for Preservation but also for Restoration The Fifth is called the Elixir of Subtilty NOw we accompt it expedient to set down the Elixir of Purity or Subtilty for it Conserves by the power of its great Purity and Cleannesse such as is the Corrected Oyl of the Philosophers this suffers nothing that shall be anointed therewith to putrifie The like doth the Corrected Oyl of Bricks or Oleanum Laterinum effect and many others and yet t is not their property to preserve from putrifaction but they acquire this thing and get such a property from the Preparation and Labour So likewise Distilled or Corrected Wine permits not to putrefie nor doth Digested Wine nor is it at all changed by the fire The Water of Honey doth by its preparation resist putrefaction as to what appertains to sensible bodies but the Crude Substance thereof doth not do so but is subject to all putrefaction We therefore set down an Elixir of Subtility forasmuch as mans body is just like as Mercury it self which is volatile is fixed with its own Water and made permanent also fixed into a Constancy and permanency Now although that this same thing may be done by many other things then what we here describe Yet neverthelesse we will mention such only as are known unto us by Experience Nor will we for this Cause detract any thing from the others but only we say thus much That as yet all of them have not been known unto us nor been Experienced by us The processe of this Elixir is thus Take Oyl Olive Honey and Vinum Ardens or burning Wine of each one pound Destil them altogether according to the Chymical manner and that thrice Afterwards Separate all the Phlegm from the Oyls which are distinguishable by the many Colours put all these Oyls into a Pellican and adde to them of the Quintessence of Bawme and of Celondine a Third part digest them for a Month Then keep it for your use There is no Sensible body is able to resist it no nor Insensible and that for many Causes and properties which we will not at all set down in this place The Sixth is the Elixir of Propriety IN like sort may a perfect Elixir be extracted out of Natural Things as out of Myrrh Saffron and Aloëpatick but as for those Vittues that it proceeds from we describe in their Generations We only mention the process here omitting their Original which we elsewhere do often Treat of Take of Myrrh Aloëpatick and Saffron of each one quarter of a pound the which being put together in a Pellican and placed in Sand let them ascend most gently for two Months then at length Separate the Oyl from the feces by an Alembick without Adustion or burning This Oyl must be digested for a Month together with Circulatum in equal weight then after keep it In this Elixir are all the Virtues of the Natural Balsame yea and such a Conservative Virtue for old Folk more then is fit to ascribe unto it because there doth not only proceed one Age therefrom but Four Seven or Ten c. T is scarce possible to expresse its force and natures but t is in my Judgment sufficiently enough Dilucidated nor do we think it need any more ample Interpretation The End of the Eighth Book c. THE Ninth BOOK OF THE ARCHIDOXIS Of Extrinsecalls HAving in the Precedent Books treated of Intrinsecal Diseases 't is expedient now for us to write of those Diseases as proceed from without and to set down some remedies for them And although we insert nothing in these Books of the Origenal of those Internal and also External Diseases yet notwithstanding we will set down the Originals of those Medicaments and then afterwards the composition of such like remedies for external Diseases Some remedies are onely for Wounds with which a Wound may be cured in twenty four hours which you are to understand thus When there is a Wound made it needs nothing else but that it be again knit together or conjoyned on such wise as