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A92903	A new light of alchymie: taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D.; Novum lumen chymicum. English.	Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.; French, John, 1616-1657.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Of the nature of things.; Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2506; Thomason E604_3; Thomason E604_4; Thomason E604_5; ESTC R203736	79,289	151

substances as Tallow Oyle Resine and the like but if without any flame it goes all into fume it is a signe that there is in it much Mercury and little or no Sulphur This you see happens in hearbs and flowers c. and other Vegetable substances and volatile bodies as are Mineralls and Metalls remaining yet in their first being and are not mixed with any sulphureous body which send forth a fume and no flame Mineralls and Metalls which send forth neither fume nor flame doe shew an equall mixtion of Mercury and Sulphur and a perfect fixation Of some peculiar Signes of Naturall and Supernaturall things VVEE must yet further speak of some peculiar signes of which hitherto we have said nothing In which Treatise it will be very necessary for you that boast your selves to have skill in the Art of Signatures and desire to be called Signators that you rightly understand mee For wee shall not in this place write theoretically but practically and shall declare our opinion in few words What the art of signing is And first know that the Art of signing doth teach how true and sutable names are to bee put upon all things all which Adam truly knew For presently after the Creation hee gave to every thing its proper name as to Animalls so Trees Hearbs Rootes Stones Mineralls Metalls Waters c. And to all the fruits of the earth Water Air Fire c. And what names he put upon them all were ratified and approved of by God For from the true and intrinsecall foundation he tooke them all not from opinion or from a predestinated science viz. the Art of Signing Adam the first signator Adam therefore was the first Signator And it cannot be denyed that also from the Hebrew tongue true and proper names doe flow and are put upon every thing according to its nature and condition The nature of the Hebrew tongue For what names are put upon them from the Hebrew tongue doe with the same labour signifie their vertue power and property So when wee say this is a Hog a Horse a Cow a Beare a Dog a Fox a Sheep The signification of a Hog Horse Cow Beare Fox Dog sheep in the Hebrew tongue The name of a Hog signifies together with it a filthy and unclean Animall so a Horse signifies a strong and patient Animall a Cow a devouring and insatiable beast a Bear a strong victorious and an untamed brute a Fox a shifting and crafty beast a Dog an animall false to those of his own kind a Sheep a mild and profitable beast and hurtful to none Hence it is that a man is called a Hog for his sordid and swinish life And a Horse for his bearing for which hee is eminent And a Cow because shee is unsatiable with meat and drink and knows no measure of her belly And a Bear because he is mishapen and stronger then other men A Fox because he is a turn-coat and deceitfull accommodating himselfe to all and offending none A Dog because he is faithfull to none but his own mouth is false and inofficious to all And a Sheep because hee hurts no body but himselfe and is usefull to all rather then to himself c. In what hearb s there is a signature After this manner also many Hearbs and Rootes have got their name So Eye-bright is so called because it cures weak and sore eyes So the Root Bloudwort is so called because it stops bloud better then any other So the Hearb Pile-wort is so called because it cures the piles better then other hearbs The same also may be said of divers other hearbs of which sort I could reckon a great number all which were so called from their vertue and faculty as shall more largely be declared in our Herball Moreover there bee many Hearbs and Rootes which are denominated not only from their imbred vertue and faculty but also from their figure forme and representation As Devills-bit Five-leaved grasse or Cinquefoile Hounds-tongue Adders-tongue Horse-taile Liver-wort Ox-tongue Lung-wort the hearb Chameleon St. Johns-wort or the hearb boared through the hearb Dog-stone Tongue-laurell Thorow-leafe Turne-sole and many others which shall not here but in the Herball bee severally considered What signature there is in Animalls The same also holds concerning the signes of Animalls for by the bloud and its circle and by the urine and its circle and diseases that lie hid in Man may be known By the liver of a slain beast the flesh is known whether it be wholsome to be eaten or no. For unlesse the liver be clear and of a red colour but blew or yellow or rough or full of holes the beast is diseased and therefore his flesh unwholsome The Liver the originall of Bloud And it is no wonder that the liver can shew that by naturall signes For the originall of the bloud is in the liver and hence through the veins it is diffused into the whole body and is coagulated into flesh Therefore from a diseased and ill affected liver no sound or fresh bloud can be produced as of bad bloud no wholsome flesh can be coagulated Also without inspection into the liver flesh and bloud may be known For if both be sound they have their true and naturall colour which is red and clear mixed with no other strange colour as yellow or blew For those strange colours do signifie diseases and sicknesses What the knots in the Navell of the Infant signifie Also there are other signes worthy of admiration viz. when the Archeius is the Signator and signes the navell in the infant with little knots by which it may bee conjectured what the Mother of the infant did bring forth or shall bring forth The branches of a Harts horn signifie his age The same Signator signs the horns of a Hart with branches as the horn hath so many years old is the Hart. And seeing he hath every year a new born the age of the Hart may be known to twenty or thirty years The circles of the hornes of a Cow what So the Signator of a Cow markes her bornes with circles by which it may he known how many Calves shee hath brought forth For every Circle signifies a Calfe The teeth of a Horse The same Signator puts forth the first teeth of a Horse that the first seven yeers his age may be known by his teeth For at first a Horse is brought froth with fourteen teeth of which every yeer her loseth two and so in the space of seven yeares hee loseth all So that after seven yeares his age can hardly be known unlesse by one that is very skillfull The bills and claws of Birds The same Signator doth signe the bills and claws of Birds with peculiar signes that the skilfull Fowler may know their age by them The tongues of Hogs The same Signator doth marke the tongues of diseased Hogs with little pushes by which their impurity is known

it will bee necessary that I produce one example with which I shall silence those Sophisters who say that wee can receive nothing from dead things neither must we seek or expect to find any thing in them The reason is because they do esteem nothing of the preparations of Alchymists by which many such like great secrets are found out For looke upon Mercury crude Sulphur and crude Antimony as they are taken out of their Mines i.e. whilest they are living and see what little vertue there is in them how slowly they put forth their vertues yea they do more hurt then good and are rather poison then a Medicine But if through the industry of a skilfull Alchymist they bee corrupted in their first substance and wisely prepared viz. if Mercury be coagulated The preparation of Mercury Sulphur and Antimony precipitated sublimed dissolved and turned into an oyle if Sulphur bee sublimed calcined reverberated and turned into an oyle also if Antimony bee sublimed calcined and reverberated and turned into an oyle also if Antimony bee sublimed calcined and reverberated and turned into oyle you shall see how usefull they are how much strength and vertue they have and how quickly they put forth and shew their efficacy which no man is able to speak enough in the commendation of or to describe For many are their vertues yea more then will ever bee found out by any man Wherefore let every faithfull Alchymist and Physitian spend their whole lives in searching into these three For they will abundantly recompense him for all his labour study and costs But to come to particulars and to write particularly of the death and destruction of every naturall thing and what the death of every thing is and after what manner every thing is destroyed you must know therefore in the first place What the Death of man is that the death of man is without doubt nothing else but an end of his daily work the taking away of the Aire the decaying of the Naturall balsome the extinguishing of the naturall light and the great separation of the three substances viz. the body soule and spirit and their return from whence they came For because a naturall man is of the earth the Earth also is his Mother into which hee must return and there must lose his natural earthly flesh and so be regenerated at the last day in a new celestiall and purified flesh as Christ said to Nicodemus when hee came to him by night For thus must these words bee understood of regeneration What the destruction of Metalls is The death and destruction of Metalls is the disjoining of their bodies and sulphureous fatnesse which may bee done severall ways as by calcination reverberation dissolution cementation and sublimation Calcination of Metalls is manifold But the calcination of Metalls is not of one sort for one is made with Salt another with Sulphur another with Aqua fortis and another with common Sublimate and another with Quicksilver What Calcination with Salt is Calcination with Salt is that the Metall be made into very thin plates and strowed with Salt and cemented Calcination with Sulphur Calcination with Sulphur is that the Metall bee made into thin plates and strowed with Sulphur and reverberated Calcination with Aqua fortis Calcinaion with Aqua fortis is that the Metall bee made very small and dissolved in Aqua fortis and precipitated in it Calcination with Sublimate Calcination with sublimed Mercury is this that the Metall bee made into thin plates and that the Mercury bee put into an earthen vessell narrow towards the top and wide at the bottome and then let it be set into a gentle fire made with coales which must bee blowed a little untill the Mercury begin to fume and a white cloud goe forth of the mouth of the vessel then let the Plate of the Metall bee put into the top of the vessel and so the sublimed Mercury wil penetrate the Metall and make it as brittle as a stone of coal Calcination with Quicksilver Calcination with Quick-silver is that the Metall bee made very small and thin and be amalgamated with Quick-silver and afterward the Quick-silver bee strained through Leather and the Metall remain in the Leather like chalke or sand Divers other sorts of mortification of metalls Now besides these mortifications of Metalls and destructions of their lives know also that there are yet more For rust is the death of all Iron and Steel and all vitriall burnt brasse is mortified Copper all precipitated sublimated calcined Cinnabar is mortified Mercury all Ceruse and Minium of Lead is mortified Lead all Lazure is mortified Silver also all Gold from which its tincture Quintessence Rozzen Crocus Vitriall or Sulphur is extracted is dead because it hath no more the form of Gold but is a white Metall like fixed Silver But let us proceed to shew how Metalls may bee yet further mortified First therefore of Iron A two fold preparation of Crocus Martis know that that is mortified and reduced into Crocus this way Make Steel into very thin plates Make these plates red hot and quench them in the best Wine-Vineger doe this so often til the Vineger hath contracted a considerable rednesse then distil of the Vineger til there bee nothing but a dry powder remaining This is a most excellent Crocus Martis There is also another way of making Crocus Martis which doth partly exceed the former and is made with farre lesse costs and pains and it is this Strow upon the plates of Steel Sulphur and Tartar being both in a like quantity then reverberate them and this wil produce a most excellent Crocus which must bee taken off from the plates Also you must know that every plate of Iron or Steel if it bee melted with Aqua fortis will also make a very fair Crocus so also it is made with oyle of Vitriall spirit of Salt Allum water the water of Salt Armoniacke and of Salt Nitre as also with sublimated Mercury all which mortifie Iron and bring it into a Crocus but none of these latter wayes is to bee compared to the two former for they are only used in Alchymie and not at all in Physicke wherefore in this use only the two former and let alone the rest The mortification of Coppet The mortification of Copper viz. that it may be reduced into Vitriall Verdegrease may bee done many wayes and there are more processes in it yet one far better then another The Vitriall of Copper is made two wayes and one more profitable then another Wherefore it is most convenient here to set down the best and most profitable and to bee silent in the rest The best therefore the most easy and exactest way of reducing Copper into Vitriall is this Let plates of Copper bee dipt in spirit of Salt or Salt-Petre and let them bee hanged in the Aire until they begin to be green which indeed wil

Precipitate but bee manifestly sweet then thou hast a precipitate as sweet as sugar And the use of it or honey which in all wounds Ulcers and Venereal Disease is so excellent a secret that no Physitian need desire a better Besides it is a great comfort to despairing Alchymists For it doth augment Gold and hath ingresse into Gold and with it Gold remaines stable and good Although there is much pains and sweat required to this Precipitate yet it wil sufficiently recompense thee for thy pains and costs and wil yeeld thee more gain then can bee got by any Art or Trade whatsoever Thou maist wel therefore rejoice in this and give God and mee thanks for it How Quicksilver may be Coagulated Now that Quicksilver may bee coagulated I said that that must bee done in sharp Aqua fortis which must bee drawn off by Distillation and then the Precipitate is made How Quicksilver may be turned to Cinnabar But that Quicksilver may bee brought into a Cinnabar you must first mortifie and melt it with Salt and yellow Sulphur and bring it into a white powder then put it in a gourd and put upon it Aludel or head and sublime it in the greatest flux you can as the manner is so the Cinnabar will ascend into the Aludel and stick as hard as the stone Haematites There are two kinds of Ceruse The preparation of them The mortification of Lead to bring it to a Ceruse is twofold the one for Medicine the other for Alchymie The preparation of Ceruse for Medicine is this Hang plates of Lead in a glazed pot over strong Wine-vineger the pot being well stopt that the spirits doe not exhale put this pot into warm ashes or in the Winter into a furnace then alwaies after ten or fourteen dayes thou shalt find very good Ceruse sticking to the plates which strike off with the foot of a Hare then put the plates over the Vineger again untill thou hast enough Ceruse Now the other preparation of Ceruse for Alchymie is like the former only that in the Vineger must bee dissolved a good quantity of the best and fairest Salt Armoniack for by this means thou shalt purchase a most faire and beautifull Ceruse for the purging of Tinne and Lead and the whitening of Copper The preparation of Minium out of Lead But if wee would make Minium of Lead we must first calcine it with Salt into Calx and then burn it in a glazed vessel alwaies stirring it with an Iron rod till it be red This is the best and chiefest Minium and it is to be used as wel in Physick as Alchymie but the other which Mercers sell in their shops is nothing worth It is made only of the ashes which remains of the Lead in the melting of it which also Potters use to glaze their vessells and such Minium is used for Painting but not for Physicke or Alchymie The Crocus of Lead Now that Lead may bee brought into yellownesse the preparation of it is not unlike to the preparation of Minium For Lead must here be calcined with Salt and brought to a Calx and afterwards be stirred with an Iron rod in a Broad bason such as tryers of Mineralls use in a gentle Fire of Coales diligently taking heed that there be not too much heat nor a neglect in stirring for else it will flow and become a yellow glasse And so thou hast a fair yellow Crocus of Lead How the Azure Colour is made of silver The mortification of Silver that of it may be made the Azure colour or something like to it is thus Take plates of Silver and mix them with Quicksilver and hang them in a glazed pot over the best Vineger in which Gilt-heads have been first boiled and afterward Salt Armoniack and calcined Tartar have been dissolved in all the rest doe as hath been said of Ceruse then alwaies after fourteen days thou shalt have a most excellent and faire Azure colour sticking to the plates of Silver which must be wiped off with a Hares foot The Mortification of Gold The Mortification of Gold that it may he brought into its Arcana as into a Tincture Quintessence Resine Crocus Vitriall and Sulphur and many other excellent Arcana which preparations indeed are many But because for the most part wee have sufficiently treated of such Arcana in other bookes as the extraction of the Tincture of Gold the Quintessence of Gold the Mercury of Gold the Oile of Gold Potable Gold the Resine of Gold the Crocus of Gold and in the Archidoxis and elsewhere wee conceive it needlesse here to repeat them But what Arcana were there omitted wee shall here set down As the Vitriall of Gold Sulphur of Gold which indeed are not the least and ought very much to cheer up every Physitian But to extract Vitriall out of Gold the processe is this How the sulphur and the Vitriall of Gold are made Take of pure Gold two or three pound which beat into thin plates and hanging them over Boyes urine mixt with the stones of grapes in a large gourd glasse well closed which bury in a hot heap of stones of Grapes as they come from the presse when it hath stood fourteen dayes or three weeks then open it and thou shalt find a most subtil colour which is the Vitriall of Gold sticking to the plates of Gold which take off with the foot of a Hare as thou hast heard concerning other Metalls as of the plates of Iron Crocus Martis of the plates of Copper the Vitriall of Copper and Verdegrease of the plates of Lead Ceruse of the plates of Silver the Azure colour c. comprehended under one processe but not with one manner of preparation When thou hast enough of the Vitriall of Gold boyle it well in Rain-water distilled alwaies stirring it with a spatle then the sulphur of the gold is driven up to the superficies of the water as fat which take off with a spoon Thus also doe with more Vitriall Now after all the Sulphur is taken off evaporate that raine water til it bee all dry and there will remain the Vitriall of Gold in the bottome which thou maist easily dissolve of it selfe upon a marble in a moist place In these two Arcana's viz. the Vitriall of Gold and the Sulphur of Gold lies the Diaphoreticall vertue I shal not here set down their vertues for in the book of Metallick Diseases and also in other bookes wee have set them down at large The mortification of Sulphur that the combustible and stinking fatnesse may bee taken away and it brought into a fixed substance is thus The mortificaon and fixation of Sulphur Take common yellow Sulphur finely powdered and draw from it by distillation Aqua fortis that is very sharp and this doe three times then the Sulphur which is in the bottome of a black colour dulcifie with distilled water until the water come from it sweet and it