the ordinary one make thus â„ž white Sugar Candid â„¥ 6 spirit of Salt well rectified half an ounce and as much pure water as will make the Sugar like thick a syrup then add to those half an ounce of purple Calx of Gold which hath been first solved in Aqua fortis then precipated with Tin or Spilter and well edulcorated and dryed lastly to all the former ingredients add also one ounce of pure Pearl in subtil powder and one dram of good Ambergreece so have you a far more excellent Confection than the common one wherein the Gold is used in its metalline form and so hath no effect in the medicine but here by reason of it subtil preparation it rendreth the medicine aboundantly more cordial more effectual CHAP. VI. Of the Lethargy THe Lethargy is a torpor or drowsiness and almost an unresistible necessity of sleeping according unto The Lethargy is almost an unresistible necessity to sleep Celsus lib. 2. cap. 10. 20. The Galenists say that the cause of this disease is a cold and slegmy humour which in great aboundance is effused into the substance and Ventricles of the brain The kinds of it are the Catophora the Coma and the Carus The Catophora is a profound and deep sleep The Coma Catoche or Catalepsis is a stupour while one wakes whereupon Physicians The Catalepsie is a prefernatural affect of the Head whereby man is deprived of all motion suddenly as if he were congealed call it a waking dream by which the affected both waketh and sleepeth together which sometimes rises from too much drinking of Wine as Galen affirmeth in his 3. book Chap. 5. de temperameutis The Carus is such a profound and deep sleep so that the sick doth neither feel the The Carus is a dead sleep out of which man is not easily wakened without often and loud calling upon and beating of his body pulling off the hairs nor beating nor pricking of the body Paracelsus in his 2. book de vita longa Chap. 2. de gutta saith that the lethargy is a kind of gutta that is of the Apoplexy for the Apoplexy is begot of ill-digested sublimated Mercury if that the genus of the Lethargy then the species though the sublimation be not so vehement in the lethargy and other kinds of the Apoplexy as in the Apoplexy it self â—n another place he saith that the Lethargy is generated from too much moisture of the brain which being dryed and abolished the effect is removed when it is to be dryed and exsiccated the 1. book of preparations teaches us tract 4. fol. 42. The Cure of the Lethargy It is to be removed and Nature is to be corroborated and strengthned Paracelsus in Parag. de Alchymia saith that the lethargy is not to be cured by ordinary decoctions for it is a Mineral disease and therefore it is to be cured by Minerals Paracelsus in his cures relates that a certain man after a Fever fell into a deep sleep so that he felt not if any prickt him neither would he open his eyes or speak any thing he had the lethargy and I cured it with the oil of Vitriol so also there was a woman waking which was affected with the lethargies sleep so that her eyes were still shut and hardly would open them if she were called upon neither could any understand what she spake neither did she rightly answer I restored her to her health by the oil of Vitriol alone The chief Medicine of all in Curing this Disease is Antimony for in this one all the wayes of curing are found for it takes away the cause altogether and strengthens Nature by a specifical vertue wherein it excels Some drops of the oil of Vitriol administred with Marjoram water availeth much In this part the spirit of Vitriol is much better and more excellent In the volability of Vitriol there is a secret of corroboration of the spirits of the brain and heart Bartholomeus cures the lethargy with Sulphur lib. 16. Chap. 94. so also lib. 7. Cap. 7. affirms that this is a most excellent Dosis in the Falling-sickness â„ž of Opium Theb. Ê’i of Cinnamom Ê’iij of Musk and Ambergrece ana 6 gr of the seeds of both the Poppies Ê’i of Mandragora ℈ i. of the juice of Henbane ℈ i. of Mastick Ê’iij let them be pulverized mix them and make a mass of them with the juice of Pomcitrons put them in the rine of the Pomcitron and shut it with the bark afterward put it in dough bake it as bread when the bread is back'd let them be taken forth and bruised and put in â„¥ i. of the secret of Vitriol Read Theophrastus Paracelsus de morbis Amentium tract 2. Cap. 1. A precious Medicine of Antimony in a Red Oil prepare thus â„ž pure Regulus of Antimony grind it to subtil powder put it in a Cucurbit and by degrees pour on good Aqua Regis prepared with Salt so dissolve the Antimony and when it will dissolve no more decant it and on the remaining part undissolved pour fresh Aqua Regis and so do till all the Antimony be dissolved then let it all stand unmoved and the Antimony will settle to the bottom of the glass in white powder from which decant all the water and with sweet water made hot edulcorate the white powder and dry it that being done put the white dry powder in an Iron box stop it well with a scrue that no air may enter and keep it five days in good heat then take it out and you shall find the white powder become red from which extract a red tincture with pure distilled Vinegar which abstract again then remaineth behind a pure tincture of Antimony upon which put pure Spirit of Wine digest together in Balneo then distil by retort so will you have a bloud-red Oil which may well be termed a great Arcanum in medicine which being most prevalent not only in the foresaid disease but in many others likewise CHAP. VII Of the Falling-sickness and his kinds THe Falling-sickness is a disease inherent in the body not corporally but an The Epilepsie or Falling-sickness is a preternatural affect of the Head by which the whole body for a certain time is convulst with the hurt of sense and reason astral disease It is an Elementary disease not a complexionate disease it is a spiritual disease not a natural disease The species or kinds of the Falling-sickness are all the kinds of the Epilepsie the suffocation of the matrix without his place the swounding with his kinds viz. the returning deliquium and the swounding not returning the Vertigo or turning of the The Vertigo is a preternatural affect of the Head whereby all things seem to turn about head The Vertigo rises from the obstruction of the principal bowels Paracelsus lib. 3. de caducis para 2. The Vertigo is a kind of the Falling-sickness The cure of the Vertigo is the same with the Falling-sickness The cause of
suffocation of the Matrix or Strangling of the womb Take the Fig of the flesh put Theophrast tract 2. cap. 4. it upon the coals and make that a smoak ascend through womens privity unto the Matrix Paracels lib. de Ictero cap. 3. fol. 356. saith that the liquor of the herb Dogs tongue and the secret of the water of Balmmint are very available Thomas Muffetus in his Epistle 279. perchance fol. 179. saith thou hast a singular remedy Take the mossiness of the Wallnut and dry them bruise them into powder and let there be given of it with two drops of the oyl of Amber I never found any medicine more excellent then this for this affect For the falling down of the Matrix take such a ball as children use to play with in Medows or gardens and rowl it or cover it with new melted wax which hath a string fastened to it somewhat strongly with which ball rowlâ—d in wax after the Matrix is inclosed and thrust in you must stop the fundament lest it fall down again in the next place take Balmmint Cumin Mint Crispa the red Mugwort Wormwood and red roses put them together in a bag and let them be boiled in distilled Vinegar of wine and put them hot in the fundament administer also the oyl of Mirâ—h and the spirit of Turpentine drops 4. in the water Nicotiana or Tabacus CHAP. XXXII Of the Arthritis Chiragra Gonagra and Podagra PAracelsus takes Podagra generally for every pain existing in the joynts of the bones or glew of the The Podagra is a disease which affects the less foot body The Podagra is a disease or being of tartar or a disease of Mineral salt or sour liquor Under tartar all the spirits of salt are comprehended And as the nature shall be of common salt sal gemmae and sal maris or sal alcali and of the salts of Vinegar Barbery and Acacia So the pains of the Podagra shall be and their signs shall vary The tinctures of salts are sour bitter salt and sharp and of the nature of Sulphur Pearl Niter Alume Medlar Nettle and Arsemart but amongst these the tincture of Niter and common salt produce most grievous and sharp pains The pains of salts of Pearls and Sulphur are more vehement than those of the spirits of the Alumish nature and sal gemmae Sour Alumish Styptical and Barberizated tinctures are the authors of coldness and frigidity The Sulphur and tinctures of the nature of Cuccopintle mixt with the spirits of Arsenick do cause redness heat inflammations and pulses This is it which Paracels sayeth namely that the Podagra is a Sulphur ascended and kindled in the glew also he saith that it is a coldness kindled in the glew of the body for Narcotical and cold tinctures being kindled with digestion and circulation present an adulterated Image of heat But how do these tinctures of salts come into the Anatomy of the body two ways or by two means 1. Either by a hereditary means or from meat and drink Seeing that the first matter of tartar is contained in the parent which as yet is not coagulated but spiritual and astral and as yet it exists strong and infects the balm and root of mans nature by vital and forcible impression and it comes to pass by hereditary transplantation that when the first rudiments or principles of the roots are implanted from the original that such Podagraes should arise because they are fostered in the most vehement and forcible element The Podagra is generated from the weak ventricle which separateth not rightly and hotter Liver if the matter of the urine be not â—ightly separated The Podagra is generated from meat and drink for the mechanical spirits of the ventricle cannot separate all the seeds of diseases from the aliments therefore there remains impurities which are conveyed to the glew of the body after a spiritual and vaporous manner together with the aliments And not only impurities tending unto resolution but also tartareous excrements destined unto coagulation the separation being frustrate produce corporeal stony cloddy or massie diseases diseases of the nature of Tophus Pitch neither is it difficult for the seeds of those diseases seeing they be resolved spiritual vaporous and permixt with the vapours of the aliments to peirce every way Seeing therefore such like seeds are contained in the Anatomy of the bloud and are resolved and flow with the seeds and persist or stay in the glew or balm of the hands and feet they make some manifest Sev. p. 271. marks in their passage before they come unto the matrices according unto the analogy or similitude of the spirits and purity of the glew or balm in the members by which they pass for if the vehemencie of the spirits be very great and tinctures very sharp terminating in an excrementitious coagulation and if the balsame or glew of the thighs and arms be infected or corrupted with consentany impurities or impurities of the same kind which are agglutinated about the membranes of the bones then are felt doloriferous fluxes in those places importing a calamity hanging over the suspected or infected parts The generation of the contracture is almost alike which appears in the veterated Podagras The resolution of the tartareous spirits sometime vexes the patients in the Arthritis which are driven and agitated through all the members upward and downward The cure consists in the cure of the Arthritis Concerning the cause of the Arthritis read Paracels tract 2. de malis ex tartaro cap. 2. The particular cure of it is made with the essence of Walwort the oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Hartstongue f. 271. In the cure of the Podagra there must be made a destruction The Cure abolishing consumption and resolution of the tartareous matter and that by resolving medicaments These three viz. dissolving mitigating and corroborating medicaments admit mixtion and may be absolved and comprised in one and the same medicament Paracels lib. 2. de vita long a cap. 1. saith that in the beginning all the matter of the Podagra is to be purged with a perfect and sufficient purgation and this may be made by the secret of Corals whereby the Flux of the Podagra is expell'd so that there is no place left for this assailing evil There is such vertue and force in this secret of Coral which is from the essence of Gold that it is impossible to be deprehended of a Physician but by purgation This purgation may be made six or seven ways according to the veteratness hardness or nature of the Podagra This Secret of Coral is nothing else but fixt Diaphoretical Mercury which emulates the virtues of Gold In the pains of the Podagra anoint the affected place with the oyl of Juniper and the pain will instantly be removed Against the Podagra in the beginning of the disease use the spirit of Vitriol For I have seen one troubled with this disease for
as the Fern having a very white root in the waters use and experience will teach us many remedies out of the assigned art Mandragora Woolf-bane and the inverted Grape perfect this cure for under the greatest poison there lies the most vertue which is to be noted well Thus prepare the foresaid Essence of Beaver stone â„ž the right Beaver stone for the counterfeit are often sold for true ones make it into subtil powder then dissolve it in a pure well rectified spirit of Salt then abstract the spirit of Salt from it again and upon it put the best and highest spirit of wine digest them together in Balneo then decant off the spirit of wine clear from the feces and in Balneo distil off all the spirit of wine and behind will remain the true essence of the Beaver stone CHAP. X. Of the Excrements of the Brain and of Plegm DIstillation with the Greeks Catharros The Catharr is a preternatural flowing of plegmatick humours from the Brain to the inferiour members a Rheum is a falling down of supervacaneous humours from the head unto the members This name is taken generally of the late writers but the old writers have only taken it for that rheum which falleth unto the jaws therefore the cause and matter of pain is the excrement of the head The descending distillation hath his name from the place whereupon it is said if the rheum flow unto the breast it is called a flegm if unto the jaws it is called branchus if unto the nostrils it is called corysa Galen in his 3. book cap. 4. De symptomatum causis Elsus book 4. Chap. 2. The procatarctical causes of the flux of the head are too much drinking sleep at mid-day night-watching unseasonable studies The procatarctical cause of the plegm especially after meat for vapours ascend unto the Brain and over charge it because the mouth of the Ventricle is not yet shut which vapours are resolved into humours whereupon the colours of the rheum are which are called A suffocative rheum suffocative rheums unto which those for the most part are obnoxious which watch much Those rheums oftentimes descend in great aboundance unto the jaws and lungs where they threaten death very often Fernelius The excrement of the head is twofold distinguishes the excrement of the head into the internal and external The internal is that of which we speak which descends unto the inferiour members and is collected in the Ventricles of the brain especially under the skin of the Crown of the head where the ends of the veins are which go through the Face and Temples unto the Head for as often as these veins do swell with much excrement and humour they effuse the relicks and superfluities of the aliment under the skin which can scarcely evaporate by reason of the thickness and crasseness of the skin This is the fountain and fosterer of all external pain from hence a distillation flows unto the external parts of the body as unto the Eyes Gumms Teeth Neck Shoulders Arms Sides and Loins c. But what needs many words here is the fountain of diseases of Galen and Fernelius He which remembers those things which we have said concerning the Generation of Tartar in the parts of the body Read the 2. Chap. of this tractate of the causes of the head-ach and above Chap. 23. of the Tartar of the marrow will laugh at the seutence and opinion of Galen and Fernelius and he will easily confute their opinions concerning the external flux The true cause of the rheum Paraâ—â—ss The cause of rheum is resolved Salt when the corrosive Salt is mixt there rises pains from it being resolved The cure Every indication of cure consists in this that The indication the head be strengthned and that the flux and superfluous humidities of the brain be exiccated In the mean time a regard must be had of the Ventricle that it perform his office These three herbs take away the rheum that is the essences of them namely Balmmint Lunary and Spurge do purge and take away all humidities and flux of the head Sarcocolla or Gumm of a tree in Persia the Eldertree Anaxardium or tree in India Garden Saffron Colloquintida Thime the wild-Vine Hermodactylus Pellitory Euphorbium Mullein the Salgemme Theophrastus Read the same 2. book de signis Zodiaci sub signo Arietis These following purge the flux of the head and melancholy and indurated bloud of the head namely Polypody Ellebor Fleawort Cataputia or Spurge Tithimalus or Sea Lettice Centory and Agarick If the flux of the head descend unto the breast let him use Diacodium Diapapaver Phrisius in his speculum lib. 2. cap. 14. saith that the composition or electuary and the aurea Alexandrina expels and consumes the flux of the head which possesseth the Eyes Ears and Gumms Phrisius in his speculum the cited book and Chap. Pliny lib. 25. cap. 8. writes that these following be very expedient for the rheumatick namely usual Plantain compound Hierapicra with Agarick given at morning and at night for a dosis Ê’ purges the head from the flux likewise Ê’ of the root of Mechoacum administred purges the bloud and flux of the head Against the flux of the head and obstructions of the Ventricle take of Eyebright and Silexis Montanus and Saffron ana Ê’ of the seeds of Filipendula or Dropwort Fennel-seed Ê’ij of Marjo am Sorpillus of Pepper of the grains of Paradice ana Ê’ of Sugar Ê’ij let them be pulverized and mixt and taken in a draught of Wine or Ale The herb Bugloss is threefold the greater the less and the mean The mean Bugloss hath blew flowrs the less hath red flowrs and it is a manly kind if any carry this in his hat or on his head it is made very moist for it attracts the humours very strongly out of the head These crude medicaments do somewhat effect but yet there are far stronger vertues against the fluxes The spirit of Vitriol the spirit of Sulphur the spirit of Turpentine Terra Sigillata which by their specifical properties consume and dissipate all the matter of fluxes and distillations There must be administred three or four drops of the spirit of Vitriol in a covenient liquor in the morning or at night with Ê’ of Terra Sigillata for a dosis Preservatives as A preservative against theum in all other diseases do much avail The chief preservative is the flowrs of Sulphur which like fire consume all the superfluous matter left of Nature and stir up the natural heat that it may work strongly in the expulsion of the excrements But in the preserving much care is to be had of the Ventricle by comforting medicaments and such as stir up the native heat lest that crudities be left from the heat in the Ventricle which are the causes of most grievous diseases This can be done by no medicament as by the antidotum of Mithridatum which must be taken twice
that terra sigillata administred in Paracel theriaca will cure this disease so also Sulphur and Salniter being prepared cures it The Empyema is cured by the Empyoma oil or spirit of Turpentine which disposes the faulting matter unto expulsion of the Empyema Paracels in his cures saith that a noble woman had the Empyema which is an avoiding of filth and I cured her with the oil of Sulphur in the water of the Herb Hogs or Sowbread Balmmint and Betony If any feel a pain or pricking of the side in the lest side about the place of the heart especially upon night and if so be the pain do somewhat lessen then the pain comes from crass winds let him take of the seed of Carduus Benedictus in a convenient liquor and of the burnt horn of a Hart untill the pain vanish The said Diaphoretick Mercury prepare thus â„ž well purged Quicksilver grind it well with Salt Peter calcined Vitriol and Alume calcined ana then sublime up the Mercury in a Cucurbite in the head will ascend white flowrs which are useless and therefore to be cast away by the sides of the body will stick yellow flowrs which separate apart and on the Caput mort will lie Mercury sublimed red as Cinaber which take off carefully then grind the said red Mercury and likewise the yellow that stickt on the sides of the body with fresh Salt Peter Vitriol and Alume subliming the Mercury as before so do also the third time This being done take in the third sublimation the red Mercury only which remained or lay upon the Caput mort gâ—ind it with ana of flowrs of Sulphur and Sal Armoniac sublimed from calcined Vitriol being all well ground together set them to sublime in a subliming Urinal and what sublimeth grind again with that which remained unsublimed and sublime as before which work of grinding and subliming reiterate five times then shall you find your Mercury in the bottom of the Glass of a very deep red colour which is a true Diaphoretick Mercury of very powerful effects in extirpating all obnoxious humours in the body Dose is from 6. grains to 12. according to the strength of the Patient CHAP. XVIII Of the Affections of the Heart THe heart is obnoxious to diseases which partly proceed from the obstruction of the spirit of life partly from putrifaction The diseases which proceed from obstruction of the spirit of life are palpitation and a most vicious dauncing thereof The palpitation The palpitation of the heart is a bad motion of the heart somewhat like unto dauncing of the heart is begot from tartar in the coffer or place of the heart namely when the mechanical spirit of the heart doth not rightly separate the tartar which is in all the aliments or else doth not rightly expel the matter separated for then the passages of pores of the case of the heart are obstructed and the passage of the spirit of life is stopt from hence is palpitation from hence is putrifaction from hence is destruction and lastly from hence is death The Lypothymy is properly a disease of the heart but the Syncope or swounding is of the The Syncope is a prostrating of the vital vertue and strength of the whole body The Lypothymy a is prosâ—raâ—ing of the vital strength of the whole body caused suddenly and at once with sweat and danger of death Ventricle being hurt with crude and slegmy humours Johannes Montanus an excellent Philosopher and Physician in his Treatise de terra sigillata writes that the Lypothymy rises from vapours elevated from the Ventricle or Liver and from putrifaction and poisonful obstructions which invading the heart cause Lypothymies palpitations or trembling The Eclipses of the Microcosm of the heart which stop the breath and brings debility to the members Hippocrates lib. 7. Apo. Barthol Anglus lib. 16. cap. 103. Alexander Benedictus lib. 10. cap. 10 11 12. Read the sign in Galenists The causes which the Gnlenists adduce in the Syncope of the heart are for the most part true some are false which any ingenious man may easily distinguish The cure In the curing of the palpitation of the heart there are to be administred deoppilatives and unobstructive medicines of the spirit of life of which sort are the liquor of Gold the oil of Margarites and Corals Michael in his Apolog. fol. 173. saith that Pearls or Margarites do especially help the affects of the heart So the vertues of Corals amongst the rest are commended because they bring hilarity and alacrity to the heart and because they purifie the bloud and restore a heavenly body unto a temperate habit and absolute mediocrity by a certain vertue and power The essence of Saffron is good for Saffron provokes Urine and amends the colour helps the concoction and it is good to the heart The liquor of Macis Celandine and Balmmint as also the water of theriaca and all Diaphoreticks and Alexipharmatical medicines The liquor that flows forth of the Cedar-trees hath excellent faculties removes the affects of the heart Musk confirme the cold and trembling heart and it helps all the affects of it Ambergreece being smelt adds strength to the brain and heart it helps old men and those which are cold by nature wonderfully The spirit of Vitriol being reduced unto sweetness and some pleasantness of a sweet sowrness is a comfortative secret of the palpitation of the heart and the spirits of the heart and brain Davus fol. 399. The same is effected by the oil of Amber Diamargaritae calidae the confection of sweet Diamoschus Diambra Diacameron and Elâ—ctâ—arium latitiae expel the palpitation of the heart Galen saith very new conserves of Roses Schordion and Theoriaca are profitable in the Syncope and Lypothymy of the heart There must be administred comfortative and strengthning medicines as Gold Smaragdus and Coral Theophrast de tribus principiis cap. 10. so also medicines made of Pearls Saffron Balmmint Macis Theophrast lib. 2. de viribus membror cap. 1. also Succory Hysop and Mint of which Fuschius Thurnens in Pisone lib. 1. cap. 3. saith that Penniroyal red Mint and stores trinitatis are profitable so in the 7. Chap. Fengreek Betony false Ditany Savory Withwind the gumm of a tree in Persia and Earthsmoke so also the herb prunell which is gathered in the beginning of the Spring also Aromatica Moschata Diaboriginata Diabuglossata Diambra and Dianthos laetitiae Take of Oleum Benedictum of Galen in wine with a fasting stomach Riffius bids take it in his Antidotary so also Theriaca water and of Andromachus the conserve of Borage Sorrel and Bugloss do cure the palpitation of the heart Manus Christi Diamargaritae frigidae Diacoralli and Saunders comfort the cold heart these cure the dejected strength and Fevers Thurnens c. Against the straitness and heart-ach take the essence and tincture of red Roses Violets and Sorrel with the salt of Crystal and tinctures of Corals Quercitanus in his answer ad Anbertum
fol. 21. So there may be made medicines from Musk Civit oil made of Bevers stones and Unicorns horn Ivory the Horn and Bone of the Hart are effective against the heart-ach and other affects as are Lemmons Garden Cresses The dolours of the heart are cured by cutting the middle vein The water of the Carbuncle is a most excellent comfortative of the heart half a spoonful of it being taken So terra sigillata Stregonensis the Balsam of sulphur and the spirit of tartar Read Theophrastus tract 3. praeparationum and in the same place tract 5. lib. 1. de signis Zodiaci about the end An Excellent Balsam of Sulphur for the Heart and Lungs â„ž the best yellow Sulphur grind it small and sift it through a fine laune serce or rather which is better Take flowrs of Sulphur and put them in a glass and pour thereon oil of the Salt of tartar made by solution per deliquium a hand-breadth above it set it in gentle heat and in few dayes the Sulphur will dissolve red as bloud pour off the solution into a glass and upon it sprinkle good distilled Vinegar so much as will make all the Sulphur precipitate to the bottom of the glass which it will easily do and that with a profound stink let it well settle then decant off the oil of tartar and dulcifie the Sulphur well then dry it not in the Sun or heat but in a dry air Take the dry Sulphur put it again into a glass and pour upon it a Philosophical spirit of wine let them stand together in gentle heat three dayes in which time the spirit of wine will receive into it the purest part of the Sulphur the excellent tincture of Sulphur decant that extraction and distill it with strong heat in sand so will ascend with the spirit of wine a pleasant odoriferous oil then in very gentle Balneo separate the spirit of wine and the Balsam of Sulphur will remain behind in form of an oil Dose is 6 or 8. drops in a spoonful of wine CHAP. XIX Of the Diseases of the Ventricle THere is a nutritive vertue in the Ventricle because from thence nutriment is derived into the whole body and it disposes the meat and gives it a nutritive faculty The Ventricle is subject and obnoxious to divers diseases which are begot by reason the separation and expulsion are frustrate of which kind are the pains of the Ventricle Etosions Burning Wind Inflammations Fluxes Pinings of which Alexander Benedictus lib. 11. in his Proem and in the Chapters following and in the 12. book through the whole book doth intreat wherefore that the Ventricle be sound great regard is to be had Tobias Hess The seeds of diseases in the anatomy of the Ventricle are rooted for the most part in the superficial sulphureous fetide and excrementitious impurities which for the debility of the in-bred Balm and mechanical spirits by whose ministery the impurities should be expelled and resolved by the accustomed wayes they find convenient and fit Receptacles The seeds of diseases which are planted and rooted in the Ventricle consist in sulphureous and excrementitious Of the seeds of diseases of the Ventricle impurities in which two excrements are mixt namely of Sulphur and Salt which two are in all aliments and are separated from all nature being perfect in vertue and strength These two excrements unless they be mixt and expelled together do interpel and interrupt daily the administration of natural actions because the strength and vertue of nature is diminished Therefore when as they have introduced their roots into the anatomy of the Ventricle they generate diseases If Sulphur be commixt with a tartareous stiptick and alumish excrement The Fever of the Ventricle and filth then Fevers are generated in the Ventricle Of Paracels they are called mitrosulphureous diseases when as Mucilaginous Salt or Tartar alone remains in the Ventricle by continual nutrition at length it produces divers symptoms noted by divers names but altogether rustical and phantastical The rustical are Imbecility Bradypepsia vitiated concoction Bradypepsia is a weakness of digestion when as the Ventricle doth difficulty and slowly concoct and turn aliment into chyle and crudity The phantasie hath begot the distemperature These symptoms have their names from the properties of their roots or causes from which they rise but more rightly they are called mucilaginous and sulphureous diseases from the alumish Vitriol and cacochymical spirits or from biruminous and sandy colours from the properties of the spirits and such like the causes of all symptoms ought to be explained which are superadded to the foresaid diseases of the Ventricle The mechanical spirits being corrupted and the tartareous alumish and stiptical tinctures of the Ventricle being inquinated and depraved they cannot absolve as they ought the separation of the pure from the impure The cause of slow conâ—octions and they perfect very slow concoctions but if those tartareous spirits the authors of Transplantation shall be hotter and do overcome the in-bred spirits by enmity and malice then they produce perfect crudities and keep the mechanical spirit of the Ventricle bound and captive and from hence are begot crudities inflations belching heaviness sloth drowsiness Belching is a violent and sounding expulsion of wind existing in the stomach by the superiour part Nausea or loathing is a frustrate endeavour to vomit The cause of cruditees inflations and belching Vomiting is a violent expulsion of crass and palpable matter which molests the stomach by the superiour parts Sev. p. 278. Orexia Launcing Cardialgia is a pain of the superiour part of the Ventricle when as the supreme Orifice of the Ventricle is molested and offended Bulimus â—anina fames The Bulimia or Dog-like â—â—petite is an insatiable desire to eat â—he inflammation of the â—entricle by which disease â—uther died loathing vomiting and infinite more torments and pains of this kind When the tartareous spirits possess the superiour part of the Ventricle namely the mouth then there arise the Orexia the burning the launcing and most cruel dolours by reason of the exquisite sense of the mouth of the Ventricle from whence rises the Cardialgia for the mouth of the Ventricle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stomach viz. for the consent of the heart and the mouth of the Ventricle elsewhere is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or biting of the heart The mouth of the Ventricle hath a most exquisite sense for the many sinews collected there The Vitriol spirits oftentimes cause the Bulimia or Wolfish and Dog-like appetite There are not only excrementitious mucilaginous and tartareous impurities implanted in the Ventricle but Arsenical Auripigmental Antimonial and Inflammatory impurities find confluence there which little or not at all differs from the pleurisie A most burning Fever a great tossing of the body and restlesness unquenchable thirst a continual vomiting a frequent exolution of water watching and doting for the most part ensue this Inflammation As the Phthisis The
Phthisis of the Ventricle or Consumption is begot in all other parts of the body so likewise in the Ventricle the cause of it is above-mentioned That all things may be made more manifest and clear the Generation in the Ventricle is this when the sides or plaits in the Ventricle are obducted and covered with tartar and the passages and pores of it be obstructed there follows an oppilation of the spirits of life and from the oppilation there insues corruption and putrifaction of the whole member from hence is the Consumption of the Ventricle of which the whole body hath a compassion and feeling and deplores the destruction most vehemently it being destitute of aliment The Convulsive Hicket is a motion of the Hicket is a Convulsive and sounding motion of the Ventricle for to expel the offensive matter contained in it Ventricle which Hippocrates affirmed to be caused either from repletion or emptiness like as the Convulsion of the members from evacuation as from the immoderate flux of bloud and from immoderate purgation from repletion as in Children and those which are addicted to surfetting These are the causes of the Hicket which are wont to be adduced besides which others more grievous do exist for oftentimes spirits or malignant and poisonful vapours cause a worse Hicket of which kind we have seen in malignant and pestilent Fevers and in the inflammation of the Liver and especially when the figure of it is straitned and the heart is overwhelmed with the vehemency and malignity of the disease There is no better remedy for the preservation of the The cure Ventricle in these diseases than the vertue and power of the Vitriol of Copper so that afterward there be made a liquor and spirit from it and this is the hungry acetocity or sowrness of it which excels in so many vertues that it will consume all things which are contained in the Ventricle whether they be tartareous or sulphureous impurities as also it will comfort and corroborate the stomach that it may be able to concoct all things as the Estrich concocts and digests iron Concerning this acetosity of Copper Paracels writ in his book de morb tartareis Chap. 16. where he distinguishes sowr things into natural things and artificial The natural sowr things are hot baths and sowrness The artificial are extracted from metalls minerals and ill juices and it is the salt of them The same is effected almost as well in the preservation as the cure by the spirit of Vitriolum Vngaricum Romanum of which Paracels writes in his book de mineralibus that it is able to cure all tartareous diseases But yet not too much of it must be taken for nimiety or too much of any thing is hurtful and an enemy unto Nature therefore it must be taken with discretion that the mouth of the Ventricle may be shut Take the root of corrected Azon powder of Betony and the sweet Cane burnt into Salt let them be powdered and mixt of which powder let him take after dinner and supper the quantity of two pease but let him drink no more The confection of Anise which is for to shut the mouth of the Ventricle is made with distilled Vinegar put into it by macerating and then exsiccating the Anise for the space of 24. hours and afterward again by macerating and exsiccating it in Vinegar and so it must be done thrice for the dosis there must be given pugillum 1. after dinner and supper for the evacuating of the Ventricle there must be given iiij grains of the slowrs of Antimony in an Electurary In the resolving and consuming of the tartareous and sulphureous matter in the Ventricle Antimony is available which purges by Vomit the Belly of the confection of Urine In the griefs of the stomach the preparation of Mastick is good Take of Mastick of the Alcool of wine of Galingal distil them through an Alembick the dosis must be smal to comfort the stomach The confection of Ginger made of the Quince-apple Diacinnamon Diatrion Pepperwort oil of Wormwood oil of Mastick Balsam of Sulphur the oil of Lawrel-Berries rectified 10. or 12. drops taken in broth looses destroyes the pain and mixeth with the peccant matter c. The Cardiaca or Cardialgia is cured by the oil and magistery of Pearls Barth Anglus lib. 16. cap. 72. so doth the Saphire stone in the same book Chap. 87. waters made of Antimony cure and mitigate this disease so also waters made of Salt Peter Thurnens in Pisone lib. 5. cap. 25. Of Musk Civet Beavers stone Unicorns horn Ivory the horn and bone of the Hart there is made an excellent medicine for the Heart-aches and such other affects Josephus Quercitanus in his answer unto Anbertus pag. 21. saith that there is the same cure of the inflammation of the Ventricle and of the Squincy or Prunella or Pleurisie c. The oil of Anise 5. drops administred in wine or other decoction and the navel being anointed with it expels the hicket Read Phrisius in speculo lib. 2. part 4. tract 2. cap. 11. Barth Anglus lib. 7. cap. 45. Alexander Benedictus lib. 12. cap. 19 20 21 22 23. The magistery of Pearls made with Origanum help the concoction so the waters or subtilties of common Salt Salgemmae and Salmaris Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. The preparation of Salt Gemm that it may strengthen the digestion in the stomach and preserve from putrifaction Take of Salt Peter and common salt which are fusible and of Salgemmae ana of Gallingal let a powder be made of them and the dâ—sis four grains in the morning with a fasting stomach Read Theophrast lib. 1. de praeparatiombus tract 4. Gilliflowrs corroborate the Ventricle and head and provoke and stir up the Appetite they also help the Liver so the water of Mint with the spirit of Vitriol CHAP. XX. Of the Hurts Causes and Signs of the Liver OBstruction is very usual unto the Liver and no The obstruction of the Liver bowel is equally unto it troubled with this disease because vena porta which is dispersed through the substance of the Liver into little branches is obstructed as also other branches not less small come from vena cava unto it by which all aliment should be transported and conveyed The obstruction is caused from tartar which obstructs the veins and hinders the course of the bloud it hath these marks heaviness and distension happeneth to the right Hypochondrium with an obtuse pain and then especially when one goes to exercise presently after meat The obstruction of the Lungs is twofold one is of the veins from whence the Dropsie is the other is of the substance from whence the phthisis and inflammation are The Galenists have left this difference unexplained and have used one for the other Theophrast lib. 1. de tartaro tract 2. cap. 3. fol. 226. when the obstruction is in the Liver then man is discoriated and his colour is changed in a dayes
Mercury is called the Renewer and Restorer of mans body So also the Antimony of all the Waters is the best Cordial in which so great power and vertue of Balm is occultly contained so that it is able to cure all desperate and deplored Diseases as well sharp Diseases as Chronical What shall I say of Vitriol which alone is able to cure the fourth part of all Diseases and to root out altogether all Tartareous Diseases I let passe Sulphur indued with infinite properties and Sal-niter which helpeth and cureth the greatest Diseases beyond our expectation so also I let passe Sol and Luna Margarits and Corals and other Individuals of this kind The Minerals demonstrate their Vital qualities with such a vertue of their actions and they demonstrate the differences of the Vital qualities that is of the first qualities from which all actions proceed from them Paracelsus fetches seeds which are Vigent and bear sway in the Treasures of the Elements for to administer the Worlds province and that they might come forth into aspect they do unite with the Spirits but yet with such Spirits as of which bodies may be constituted and compounded And this Wedlock or Union is the connexion of the seeds and principles Afterward when as they have found forth fit Matrices and Receptacles for every Element bringeth forth the Fruits not in his own proper place but in a strange or unusual place they admit rather the company of visible bodies than of compound and mixt bodies Then the Elements constitute not the common bodies but the bodies proper unto the Minerals In like manner the principles of bodies that is Mineral Sulphur Mineral Salt and Mineral Mercury do constitute Mineral Fire and Mineral Air Earth and Water and this is the union or connexion of the Elements and Principles These being absolved and perfected they produce all Congelations Colours Signatures which are Vegetive in the seeds stars or Vital principles thereof and they demonstrate Metals or Minerals very nigh unto Metals In our Astral Philosophy it it said that there is a corporeal Second part cap. 2. life in all things which lie hidden in the Centre of the Elements which life is subject to the wills of workmen by wonderful Providence and Wisdom of God For the mechanical Spirits or Soul hath made a firm and constant union or connexion with the body but yet not with the external Crasse and last bodies which are altogether unvalid and unfirm but with the internal aed sâ—irituâ—l bodies which are destinated unto properties Furthermore those which have their Roots fixt in the Centre of the Elements live obscurely be cause they are not distracted with the offices and varieties of actions neither serve they for sense and motion But those which live obscurely have a common Hermophrodites seed agreeing with many Spirits that is the Nature of all things living obscurely and lying hidden in the Centre of the Elements is so framed that they participate something of all kinds of their kind and for the Harmony Society and Constellation of their Nature they most easily conspire These things are illustrated and made more plain by examples Alexander a Suchlen in a certain Querâ—itanui against Anon p. â—4 Treatise of Antimony writes that he found in one Root of Antimony not only three united principles the Roots of Minerals but also Gold Silver Mars Jupiter Saturn except Venus So from Venus and Mars Vitriol is drawn by art from Metal Mineral is drawn and contraiwise This is that which Severinus Davus pag. 124 saith by the great power of Nature we have wondred and admired in the seed of the Minerals not only the unexpressed variety of the Sex but also the united principles of the Individuals and Spirits in one and the same seed These are the mysteries and secrets and wonderful things of God placed in the Majesty of Nature Let these suffice concerning the Generation of the Element of Water Now we proceed to the Generation of the Element of Earth and we will intreat of Vegetables All Vegetables are those which have Roots fixt and fastened into the Earth and are sustained by a Vegetive Soul Furthermore Plato called the Plants Animated or Vegetables There are especial differences of Generations in regard of the Elements and of the seeds The seeds and stars are ever the same in Nature Virtue and Essence but the Elements differ much amongst themselves in subtileness and moveableness as the Element of Water is more subtile and moveable than the Earth so the fruits and things generated from it are more subtile moveable valid or firm and more excellent than the fruits or things begot from the Earth From hence it is that the seeds of Vegetables have a clammy soft crass body in respect of the Minerals and Animals whose seeds are more spiritual and subtile bodies Concerning the manner of Generation of Vegetables those which proceed of their own accord without mans industry have almost the same manner of their Generation with the Minerals for the seeds of Vegetables rise forth of the Matrix of the Earth and at first unite with the Spirits and so constitute their principles Vegetable Salt Vegetable Sulphur begot Vegetable Mercury Vegetable Water and Vegetable Fire Earth and Air. But this is to be observed which is most worthy to be noted that the fruits or effects of every Element retain and reserve the properties nature and conditions of the Matrix in which they lie hidden from the beginning and they never depose them So Paracelsus in his third book 2 Chap. of degrees brought this difference he made the fruits or the effects of the Earth to be of the first degree the fruits of the Air to be of the second the fruits of the Water to be of the third to the fruits of the Fire he ascribeth the fourth degree where he adjoyneth these words he laboureth in vain whosoever he be which would get the quintessence out of Earthly things which is like to that which is got forth of Air. In like manner that quintessence which is from the Air cannot be compared to that which is brought forth of the Water upon this Sentence so it is to be judged of the fourth Element Concerning the extracting of the quintessence forth of the herb Chelondine it is not that thou labour to attain the quintessence of Gold by the quintessence of Chelondine though there be more secret in Balmemint Chelondine and Valerian than in the rest only so far proceeds the degree that the secret may excel in many parts so that in every degree one Element exists higher than another wherefore it is to be observed in things made of Earth whether the Chelondine excel the Balmmint and whether the Balmmint excel the Valerian so likewise it is to be judged of the three other Elements The spontaney or free Generation of the Vegetables cometh nighest unto Nature and is almost like the Generation of Minerals excepting that the seed of the Minerals according to their
grievousness of the Fever five grains of Laudanum and therewith the Fever was expelled and he sleeped six whole hours The grains of the oil of Pearls and the herb Sena administred in his proper liquor extinguishes the inflammation of the Brain The strengthning of the Brain is made by the green liquor of Silver the secret of Vitriol the oil of Bread the liquor of Saphire the liquor of Musk the balm of Sulphur the water of Silver The tincture of oriental Saffron being applied about the Nostrils or Temples will help the Frentick or Sottish men Bartholomeus extols and commends the essence of Topaze lib. 16. cap. 96. The Urine of the Frentick which is of a pale colour fore-shews and Prognosticates death green Urine with a green circle shews the most present danger of death The said green Liquor of Silver being an Excellent Medicine for all Infirmities of the Brain is thus prepared â„ž pure Silver dissolve it in Aqua fortis and precipitate it with Salt water then dulcifie the Calx with hot common water the more the better till it be fully free from the Salt tast which being done mix it well with flowrs of Sulphur then reveâ—berate it under a Muffel to a vrey subtil Calx upon which put a high rectified Spirit of Wine Tartarized and set them to digest in Balaneo moneth then distil off the Spirit of Wine and return it on again which work of Cohobation must be reiterated seven times and then have you your foresaid Calx in a Liquor which you must set in Balneo again to digest a moneth then will it become a pure green juice most prevalent in all affects of the Brain much conducing against the Stone in Reins and Bladder and very succesful in all hot Fevers CHAP. IV. Of Out-raging Madness WHen black Choler is begot by the adustion of melancholy or bloud or yellow choler then the Mania invadeth and possesseth which comes often unto the melancholy waxing hot This black humour as likewise melancholy is collected sometimes in the films of the heart sometime in the whole body sometime in the head alone when this humour is hot it causes horrible and Out-raging doting but if it puâ—rifie Of the Causes Differences and Cure of the Mania Cap. 1. Of the Treatise of Diseases of Mad-men The Mania is a great Sottishness without a Fever it bringeth a Fever but if it only boil vehemently then it causeth a solitary Out-raging madness without a Fever and also it adjoyneth the signs The Mania is of us called a furor or Out-raging madness which immitateth the doting of the melancholick neither in thought word or deed but yet with brawling chiding and shouting as likewise the man possest with it is of a terrible look Again the Mania doth impel and possesse the patients with a greater violence and trouble and perturbation of the mind so that they invade men immodestly and fiercely like wild beasts with their teeth nâ—ils and hands The signs and proper adjuncts of those which are Out-raging are demonstrated by experience The cause in which all the Galenists insist and agree of shall be manifested by Paracelsus whether it be true or false The Mania according unto Paracelsus is twofold The one which invadeth a sound man and it is a disease the other is a symptom of a disease as in the Plague and Fevers Paracelsus in his book de morbis amentum writes in the second Chap. that the Mania rises from three principles or beginnings and in the same Chap. he divides the Mania into two kinds The one is that which rises from pain when as a vapour remains in the Head the other riseth from sublimation and is coagulated in the Head In the Cure we must respect these two causes viz. that the vapours from pain be consumed and dissipated and that that be resolved and reduced which is coagulated of sublimation The Mania hath his original either from Bloud Veins Ventricle Intestines Reins Liver Spirit of Urine and the Lungs de morb amentium cap. 2. It cannot be sufficiently known where the mine and procreant cause of the Mania is for it is an astral disease The true cause of Mania is in what part of the body soever Mercury lyeth hid and is reverberated into slime and is dissolved in very strong water which being dissolved is mixt with the spirit of life and inflames it there is such a subtileness in this strong water that it will not bide in the bottom but rises up unto the top The extreme acrimony of that humour appears from sneesing which provoking quality rises from the greatest acretion which comes to pass if any receive in at his Nostrils the smell of the spirits of Aqua fortis Salt and Vitriol This reverberation of Mercury proceeds from too much heat as for example If the spirit of Salt be mixt with the spirit of life it is of such a subtilty and power that as soon as it comes to the Brain it causes the Mania and extreme madness The Cure of the Mania is twofold the one which refrigerates and coagulates the faulting matter The other which altogether disperses and consumes the matter of which it is generated The refrigeration and coagulation of the matter faulting is caused by the curing of the Falling-sickness Receive of the oil of Camphora Ê’ of the oil of Musk Ê’ mix them and administer them at every time This medicine is most excellent in the cure of the Mania for it doth wonderfully coagulace the matter of the Mania and it extinguisheth the heat of the body and the boiling of the bloud and it altereth the matter as cold changes Water into Air. This oil may be applyed outwardly about the Templâ—s and Fore-head Also these remove the Out-raging madness by a secret specifical vertue The quintessence of Silver the quintessence of Lead the quintessence of Iron the quintessence of Quicksilver the dissolving of Christal and Coral so also the appropriate extraction of Camphora the extraction of Gold The medicines which remove the hurtful matter of the Mania are these which may be applyed either outwardly or inwardly Chief sleeping medicines the quintessence of Mandragora of Opiates of the Poppy Henbane The chief Cure of the Mania consists in Laudanum prepared with Pearl lib. 2. cap. 4. he setteth down a secret of Salt Peter which so strengthneth the Brain that neither turning of the Head nor the Phrensie nor Mania can hurt it By that Salt Peter he understands in that place distilled Salt Peter with the Spirit of Wine alcosiated and rectified Again let it be circulated untill it be made spiritual volatile and essential which essence is to be administred with claâ—ied Wine Pythopaeus says that he cured some which were Out-raging mad with the spirit of Lead Read Theophrastus Tom. 7. fol. 186. he understands by Gilla Salt Peter The said Laudanum prepared with Pearl â„ž old Opium â„¥ 4. cut it in thin slices put them in a Pewter dish so that they touch not
part be thick and crystaline which put on a Marble to dissolve per deliquium being dissolved abstract again as much fleme from it in gentle Balneo till it remain like crystal then set it on a Marble to dissolve as before and this work of abstracting the fleme and dissolving the thick into oil you must reiterate 4. times Then have you Paraces Secret Mercurius vitae but not brought to maturity and therefore it must be multiplyed in vertue with adding a little of its own Radix and often repeating the said solution of both together He that understandeth the dignity of this Me â—icine will be thankful for so clear a light to its discovery CHAP. XXI Of the diseases in the Receptacles of the Gall. OBstruction Stone Repletion and emptying do Obstruction occuâ—y and possesse the Receptacle of the Gall. The obstruction is either of the passage through which Choler is conveyed from the Liver or of that passage through which Choler is conveyed from the Gall to the Intestines The obstruction is from tartar as the obstruction of other parts in both the belly is harder and most gross the dregs are white the Urine yellow and so crass that often they begin to be black The Stone in The Stone the cavity of the gall congealeth black yet smooth and if it be diâ—t into water it will swim It is conjectured to be of a sulphureous Nature neither as those which are conveyed from the Reins or Bladder The first matter of it lies in the bottom and it is attracted by the Gall from the Liver This stone causes the effusion of the Choler into the Ventricle from whence divers diseases are got but not of Choler alone but the stone or tartar transmits his flowrs with the Choler unto the Vetricle so the tartar of the gall is the cauâ—e of the Jaundies viz. when it emits flowrs with the gall into the whole body The spirits of the tartareous flowrs have a corrosive vertue whereby they peirce through the pores of the skin and tincture the whole body Paracelsus lib. de Icteritia cap. 1. saith that the Jaundies takes his Citrine colour from the commixtion of The Jaundies is a eachevia or bad habit of the whole body infecting the skin with a foul colour threefold Salt namely Sal entabicum Sal vitriolatum and the liquor of resolved Sulphur for when these three commix they cause the original of the Jaundies and new colour and according unto the subtilty of the heaâ— the disease of them all is transparent or subtil black or yellow or white c. and so of the rest of the colours Et ibidem The Jaundies cometh with a trembling and heat and it is not purged because Minerals are not cured by purgations There is no tincture in the Spleen so that it cannot produce the Jaundies neither doth it tincture Jaundies Black Citrine so that black Jaundies is not from the Spleen The Citrine Jaundies consists of Ental Vitriol and liquid Sulphur and black Musk and dissolved Vitriol and Sulphur The green Jaundies is from the six fore-named Green Pale The pale is from a cut mercurial liquors and white Vitriol Paracels makes the Jaundies sevenfold in regard of the seven principal members from whence many chronical diseases arise The Jaundies which is from the tartar of the gall is incurable in regard of the specifical Remedies seeing the spirits of tartar which tincture the body are stronger This disease is mortal when any hath long conflicted with it and then other symptoms invade The Jaundies sometime follows the Plague Read the tractat of Conradius de febre Hungar. cap. 26. when the Plague hath assailed in any Region and begins to cease then in the place of it the Jaundies is wont to succeed The Jaundies as an Astral disease becomes an Epidemical diâ—ease and they are the Relicks of the poison of the Plague Therefore who so endeavours to cure the Jaundie it is necessary that he prepare as in the curing of the Plague with Diaphoreticks and Alexipharmacal medicines The liquor of Vitriol is the best medicine to take away the obstructions of the gall and so is the oil of colchitar The oil or essence of Iron is the proper heaven of the gall which is able to expel the contraries from his Globes Thom. Muffetus in dialogo fol. 45. Fallopius and Hector Nonnius a man of The seed of Henbane is a notable Remedy against anger if from it the tincture be caused great Experience and Learning affirm and commend highly the Saffron of Iron for the curing of the Jaundies and for the removing of the obstructions of the Milt The effusion of the gall is caused from tartar or stone The effusion of the gall of the gall let that tartar be dissolved reduced and consumed and there is made the true cure This resolution reduction and consumption is caused by Antimony or Cheiri as also by precipitated Mercury for when the flowrs of tartar are resolved Antimony being of the nature of a confection expels surperfluous Choler from which there arises the Cholick the Iliack the contracture the trembling and many other diseases of the Ventricle Rheubarb and flowrs of Antimony taken in wine of life consumes it Read lib. 2. de viribus membror cap. 11. 12. Paracelsus in his book de Ictericis professeth that the blew Jaundies which is the beginning of the Leprie may be cured by Antimony so likewise he cures all the affections of the gall by Antimony Lib. 2. de viribus membror cap. 12. Precipitated Mercury is an excellent medicament for these two medicaments of Mercury and Antimony expel the Jaundies which is incurable in regard of specifical medicaments The specifical Remedies are these Red Mint Fengreek Betony Savory false Ditany Lavender Spicknard Diarrhodon Abbatis flores trinitatis Gold and Rheubarb Phrisius says the interiour flesh or substance of Oranges Triasantalon is also a specifical Remedy of the Jaundies which is proved from the signed art so also the yellow pellicle or skin taken from the feet or bellies of chickens and Succory and Garden Endive from the signed art which the Slei call anguillaâ— put it in the forks of the breast or place of the gall and it extracts the Jaundies prescribe also that the patient make his Urine upon a clean linen cloth hang in the Sun and dry it and when he makes water again let him make it upon such a cloth and hang in the Sun as before and so afterwards the cloaths become yellow or of a Citrine colour and the patient begins to wax well so by the air which is a most subtil Element the Jaundies is cured Rebisola which Paracels Tom. 7 fol. 371. is become a cocted and an exactly despumed Urine is the Salt of the Urine and it is the secret in the Jaundies Centaurea minor or Feverwort which they call fel terrae is counted a secret in the Jaundies so likewise the essence