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A62438	Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing T1029; ESTC R222195	87,128	216

Aqua-Vitae certain Essential Salts holding close concordance with the Vitals some of which harbour Specifik Gifts for the Cure of certain kinds of Griefs In general these Salts absterg glutinous Excrements attenuating Viscosites sweeten preternatural Acidity animate the Archeus help Digestion and strengthen all parts causing Urine Sweat Expectoration Now these ought to be accurately framed for Medical use otherwise they will come short of what we expect I find it the most Compendious Effectual way to Separate the Sulphurious or Oily part from the Concrete than to change it into a pure volatile Alkali This is done by Ablution Digestion repeated Distillation Thus much concerning the Iatrical Virtue of Spirits and Salts fetched from Vegetables ●s they have Affinity with our Vital Principles now I shall proceed to shew what pro●inquity there is between the Vital Spirits ●nd Alkali's obtained from Animals I find according to Pyrotechnical Trials ●hat all parts of Man even his Excrements ●bound with Urinous Alkali's especially the Bones Blood and Urine Each of which afford in Stilling an Alkali or Urinous Salt much alike yet different in their Effects for according to Van Helm Spirit of Blood avails against the Epilepsie The Spirit of Urine is of no force thereto Likewise I find Spirit or Salt of Bones to Operate that which the other two fail in yet may they all be so prepared that neither Taste Smell Colour ●hall distinguish them I have for many years much toiled with my Head and Hands to find out what might directly match the Principal Agent in our Body the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contriver of both Health and Sickness After often and serious Contemplation with strict Examination of divers Concrets by optical Analysis I find nothing more like to do my business than those subtil saline particles drawn out of the Horny Bony or Dental Concretions of certain Animals or got out of the Dung of some Creatures abounding with Volatile Salts But above all I found at length Volatile Salts or Spirits allured out of divers Po●tions of Mans Body were most to be prefe●red for the Augmentation Vigour of th● Archeus to this I was induced by the u●doubted Authority of the Maxime in Phio●sophy Simile simili gaudet also Iisdo● nutrimur quibus constamus Besides my p●●pose was confirmed by the Essential Consi●tution of the Vital Spirit viz. Saline a●cording to our Philosopher Est ipse Spirit● Vitae de Natura Salis volatilis Salst v. ● 136. Sextup Digest The Vital Spirit is of 〈◊〉 nature of a Volatile Alkali Moreover 〈◊〉 Blas Humanum p. 113. Per motum nempe 〈◊〉 Sanguinis non quidem Acidi sed Salsi exte nutio neque ideo in pinguedinem sive Butyru● vertitur sed in Spiritum Vitalem de salis ad●oque de Balsami natura Certainly by Motio● the Blood is rarefied into a Saline not Aci● Spirit neither is it changed into a Fatty Bu●tynous Substance but into a Vital Spirit o● the nature of a Sal for that reason it is Balsamical Also Pa. 443. AuraVitae Estque ide● Spiritus Vitalis Salsus viciniorque Spiritui lo●tij quam Sali-petrae The Vital Spirit is a Salt of nigher affinity to the Spirit of Urine than Salt-peter Membro semel stupefacto si sensus redierit id sane cum sensibilibus stimulis punctionibus fit quae verae salsedinis sunt indicia If at any time a member benummed recovers its perfect sense there is felt prickings and thorny shootings which are infallible signs of a salt matter From the consideration of the saline Texture of the Vital spirit I laboured about the Alkali's of this Microcosm divers parts whereof I Dissected fetching out by Pyrotechnie their Volatiles which I studied to nobilitate by frequent scouring iterated distillations even to ten or eleven courses adding every turn a fitting Mundifier keeping them in digestion three weeks or a Month I then proceeded to correct any harsh Acid quality lurking in them by that which blunts lenefies or mollifies the same by feeding their hungry appetite with a pleasing Nutriment that they may not so eagerly prey upon the Body to entangle and clip their Wings that they may not ascend too high or fly away too nimbly to exalt them and advance them to a more lofty virtue by the intermixture of some small portion of Salt of Tart. volatile united with a pure vegetable Spirit Having thus prepared the highest clarified Liquor I have found it to carry an admirable conformity with the Vitals to symbolize with our Constitutes so that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taking it up greedily forthwith strengthned musters greater Forces for the expulsion of the Enemy that hath Invaded its Teritories This is really a Polyacea if further graduated it may come nigh a Panacea No sooner do the most defaecated Atoms in this active fluid Body arrive in the Stomach but some portion is strait absorpt or lickt up by the Archeus for its own Corroboration Part is made use by the natural Archiater fo● the banishment of those burdensome aculeating strange Apostate Juices absolute enemie● to Life through all the cleansing passages convenient Quo natura vergit whether she pleases by the Kidneys Intestines through Mouth Ears Nose through the Pores of the Skin o● by a vigorous extermination of some malignant cadaverous Excrements lodging in the Center to the utmost bounds of the Body Add to this the Archeus enabled makes use of this symbolizing Alkali as an Instrument to edulcorate what is Acid to make slick any roughness to mitigate any biting or fretting Liquor to suppress reduce to regularity or explode exorbitant wild Spirits to correct the defects or obliquities of the Ferments that they may not continually engender the like vitiosity to deobstruct the Vessels stuffed with any congealed Blood or viscous calculous concrete or Phlegm by attenuating dissolving scouring away the same lastly to polish and confirm the Tone of every part Thus can Nature Act rare feats when it is animated by a Second when it meets with that which is of the same Pedigree with it self i. e. those saline particles first framed in the Stomach and Intestines afterward more refined are destinated for diversity of uses in this mass of flesh Now 't is not the common Alkali's used by the Galeno-Chymists that are sufficient to satisfie an able Chymist for the attaining the foresaid end Although I acknowledge the best remedies they possess are volatile Spirits drawn out of Harts-horn Armoni Ivory c. Yet I must tell them withall if they would desire to be instructed in the Art as it is Scientifick indeed I can demonstrate that their Spirit of Harts-horn and Sal. Armoni are neither rightly Corrected nor Clarified as they ought for that reason not so well embraced by the Vitals It is not without cause then that some pronounce it to be overheating c. Therefore to be given Scrupulously seldom above a Scruple at a time whereas if it be prepared by the hand of a

these Praevaricators impose upon the Simple perswading them that they possess well-prepared Medicines above others when in truth I can prove them to be but meer Philosophasters in our Sophy that they are miserably involved in Darkness not only to the handy work of the best Innocent means but also in what belongs to the Oblation of them to the Patient in a just quantity time These Chymicophants certainly did they rather chuse to be than seem would uncessantly make a severe Scrutiny by Protechny into the Essence and quiddity of Concretes that having extracted their pure parts they migh● advance them by adjuncts agreeable to Na●ture avoiding all hurtful Acids circumci●sing or empairing their Goodness Where●fore the Mass of Aloe Myrrhe Saffron being recluded by a proper Alkalizate Liquor wil● by digestion freely communicate its more re●fined particles to a Spirit symbolizing with ours of great efficacy in curing Dangerous Maladies if given proportionably to their degree of Malignity Note some Acids wherein certain concretes pulverized very fine are infused seem to dissolve them radically to draw out high Tinctures in so much the Loborator is much affected therewith supposing he hath obtained his wished desire when at length upon a stricter test it is really only a disguise in the Liquor arising from the piercing Salt of the Dissolvent obsorbing the tenuious Corpuscles of the Dissolutum which closely combined produce this colour These Salts keeping in a FIux the particles of the Matter infused hide them that they are not discerned till the activity of the Salts be somewhat exhausted or grown languid through Expiration or a matter injected suddenly embracing the Dissolvent makes forthwith a separation of it and the Dissolutum whereby a palpable Pouder is precipitated to the bottome and the colour of the Liquor reduced to what it was before This I made trial of in Zwelfer his Spirit of Venus pouered upon Crabs eyes seeming to be brought into a Mucilage their primum Ens till upon the coalition of an Alkali they returned to their former shape of a Powder The same deception may be discovered in Spirit of Bread affused to red Coral as likewise in several other Acid Dissolvents This may suffice to shew that vulgar Acids do neither candidly deal with us in dissolving Concretes radically neither do they prefer them to higher dignities of efficacy in Healing Van Helmont's advice is therefore strictly to be observed to endeavour to make the fixed Alkali of Tartar volatile for the separation and improvement of the better part of Bodies Doubtless that great Segregatour of all Concretes into Salt Sulphur Mercury that the pretious may be separated from the vile and yet it self kept in its integrity without any diminution of its virtue hath its original from an Alkali combined with pure Mercury It behoveth then every Physitian to make a daily inspection into these Salts both friendly to the Nature of Man and so prevalent in the unlocking Materia Medica that so we may carry away what is sanative and leave the destructive CHAP. XI AS the Vital Spirits are to be multiplyed by their like that they may be lusty to conquer their Enemy so are they likewise to be pacified lulled asleep diverted treated gently to be gratified with harmless Anodives Sedatives delightful Speculatives the most lucid Objects and most beautiful Idea's This Renowned Design is to be accomplished by Vegetable Animal and Mineral Sulphurs Nothing in this kind acts better than Mineral Sulphurs brought to an height of Entelechie for no sooner are they taken into the Stomach but the Vitals are refocillated by their bright Rays a sweet composure follows their fury and rage taken off black deformed Images of Mortality defaced bright lovely Idea's of Health taking place Vegetable Sulphurs afford us excellent virtue in Healing if freed from an Empyreumatick Tang elaborated from an unkind Acid lurking in them either to be altered to a sweetness by what is apposite or abstracted from them by curious Art Add to this if they abound with store of volatile Alkali's and of good odour otherwise they put the Ferment of the Stomack to difficult labour ●n removing their unctuosity that they may become fitting for sanguification Those volatile Salts which harbour a stinking Oleous Odour can never be grateful to the Vitals Odores Oleosi abstracti a suis Concretis inquinando potius afficiunt quam materialiter in Arterias subeant Helm de F●br p. 90. Wherefore I admire how some of our Learned Chymicophants can pretend to be so knowing in our Sophy yet know not how to rectifie or to give a better Odour to Spirits of Harts-horn Soot c. that they may be more acceptable to the Animals As long as any relique of faetid Oil lies couched in the saline Particles it must needs contaminate the more elegant Crasis Although some alledge the Medicine is robbed of part of its Medical endowment if this unpleasant hogo be sequestred yet dispensing with the frequent employment of about some Graveolents as likewise what may be requisite in Historical Affects without Controversies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bene Olents are most agreeable to the Synthesis or Constitution of the Vitals witness the Essential Oils of Cinamon Clove Mace Nutmegs c. which being odorous plentifully imbued with Saline Particles immediately Refocillate Illuminate and Compose Nature All caution therefore ought to be used that the Fire may not give Vegetables or Animals an ill odorous Impress scarce somtimes to be expunged also to exercise 〈◊〉 manner of industry that the foul Sulph●● may not rise with the clean Spirits or Sal● or if it so happen it may by digestion and ma●nifold distillation with proper Adjuncts 〈◊〉 divorced at least much diminished There are several Sulphurs Balsams o● Oyls extracted out of Vegetables of good con●cernment in Healing as Aromatick and ma●ny fragrant Plants Oyl of Aniseed Fennel● Marjoram Rosemary Thyme Lavender Sassafras Lemons c. are to be commended as they are if nitide and throughly polite by reason of the auspicious benevolent aspect on the Archeus yet if they shall be converted into benign Spirits or Salts they far transcend the former working strange Cures Oyl of Terebinth spiritualized by a right Spagyrical hand will get a Physitian credit by its splendid effluviums but Oyl of Amber made serene will do better things also Balsam Peruvian and Balsam Capiviae Arbor Vit. rarefied or set at liberty from their grosser matter then changed into a sublime Aethereal substance will send forth some bright beams for the enlightning this microcosm Oyl of Guaicum and Box Distilled without ●aetid unsavory fiery smell or tast afterward exalted to a highly volatile Spirit are delightful to the Archeus and far to be approved before any Diet-drink bochet c. offered by the Galenists for the cure of the Lues Venerea or other stubborn Diseases Note that we ought to be very studious in the hebetating or withdrawing the Acid latitant in most Oils whereby their virtues

Legitimate Chymist it hath no ill property but is fitting to be administred without the least danger in a large quantity to the debilitating strong Acute and Long Diseases For the confirmation of what I deliver if Doctor Willis who trusts much to this volatile or any other would please to be so Ingenuous to make the experiment thereof I shall order Spir. C. C. so Technically that without measuring or weighing it I will undertake to cure Languid Person with more speed security and pleasin● gust wholly trusting to this Alkali al●though I have for many Years laid it aside Remedies of more excellent Form coming to my Possession than they with their ow● unpolished imperfect Distilled Spirit o● the same kind The Alkali out of Mans Bones I mus● commend as an admirable Medicine usefu● both for Inward and Outward griefs of th● Body if construed by a Philosophica● hand Yet I have rarely met with any so compleatly regulated according to those Rules before described but brought to the Test it hath not been altogether so safe insisting upon an Ample Quantity nor so efectual respecting the Quality or singular Analeptick property with which such volatiles ought to be endued Spirit of Sal. Armoniack if elegantly prepared that it move in the middle Sphere not soaring wantonly too high if its hungry Appetite be in some measure allayed if freed from any impurity if married intimately to a Vegitable Spirit with which it hath similitude abounding with an abstersive Salt may challenge no small priviledge in strengthning and encreasing the Vitals That Volatile Alkali's do match the Texture of the Animal Spirits above any besides is certain However Acid Spirits if handsomly framed want not their eminent use in refreshing the Archeus wherefore their keen corosive particles are to be made blunt supple their foul Sulphur cleansed their fair extraverted what is gross in them to be rarefied whatsoever is extraneous savoring of an unkindly Mineral condition ought to be rejected their ill odour to be amended all dross to be separated from them and lastly to be copulated by frequent Distillation with a defecated Alkali Such an Acid avails much in healing for it is grateful to the Stomach raising a kindly Appetite it reforms a preternatural Ferment cherishing what is genuine By it rotten stinking spurious saline matter in the Stomach producing extream thirst is tamed altered and cleansed away The Vitals having Allured to themselves the Alkali Atomes the Acid Corpuscles are stamped into another Form in the second digestion where they become by the transmuting faculty of the Gaul injected on them another Juice loosing their Acidity withall assuming an abstersive Salt which easily passing through the Kidneys puts on an Urinous Nature producing plenty of Urine In other shops they purifie the Blood and L●●tex penetrating deep carry off superfluitie through the whole skin I admire the Galenists who proclaim them●selves Chymists should dare to give suc● Ill-prepared Acids in their Juleps or othe● Mixtures such as are so far estranged from the constitution of the parts continent an● contained that they carry no concordanc● with them Of this sort are Oil of Vitriol Sulphur or what they nominate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spirits of the same for those are fretting gnawing biting mortifying Thes● meerly acetous rough harsh stiptick un●pleasant flat dull unprofitable Liquors plainly detecting that they were never made by a knowing Philochymist as intended fo● that use which our Dogmatical Scribes put them to For hereby they think to take of● Heat and Thirst in Feavers upon the account of their supposed cooling quality attributed to them by these Thermologists not considering that those effects of a few drops eatting a Woollen or Linnen Cloath quite through in a very short time cannot possibly arise from a cold Temperature or any other primary quality but from the abundance or conglobation of acute saline ponderous Particles as it were connexed in a Cone which thus concenterated tear and rend in pieces any subject capable wherefore as long as these Salts continue in this position or Texture I cannot allow them fitting to be exhibited by an able Healer for being Salts colliquated or melted then forced over by a strong fire they retain much of their pristine Original easily prone to be reduced into Salt of a nauseous unpleasant taste He that desires to procure a Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur of a grateful smell and taste welcome to the Ferment of the Stomach capable without difficulty to be altered into an Alkali apt to discharge ●mpurities through all convenient sluces must extravert the Sulphur so then by a strong fire dilate their fiery beams that they may become Luminous not burning must farther take off their sharp edge by intervening particles readily closing in with them whereby their heavy corpuscles are allevated their opacous consistence made nitid hereby our Spirits comprehend them with joy Moreover the Spirit of Salt so much disscoursed of also applauded by some as made so Artificially I find very deficient scarse deserving the name of Spirit for that vulgar Liquor abounds with Phlegm little Saline Matter and that far from a genuine Spirit sith it may by evaporation be brought to a corpulent Sal. What is really a Spirit is so volatile that it flyeth away unless very closly stopped incontinently Distilled i● leaveth no gross residue it is delectable to the taste of the Stomach alike as to the Palate hence it is very Medicinable This requires labour with discreet Analysis of the Body of the Salt by a Golden Sulphur and an Alkali I shall here opportunely reprehend our Galeno-chymists who affuse Oil of Sulphur to those three Species the matter of Elix Propri supposing hereby both to open their Body correct any ill property and advance their virtue whereas they make by this means the excellent dowry contained in them more concluse hardly to be communicated to their very homely Menstruum they encrease the biting acride fretting quality of the Aloe or Myrrhe whereupon follows a Dyscrasie in the parts geld or mutilate the Species instead of raising them to be more masculine and compleat If we contemplate this rude Manufacture of Elix Propr 't is no wonder those botching Chymists mist of their drift in curing by such imperfect Instruments 'T is no wonder they complain they are too Hot unsafe causing Cephalalgie c. Thus taking measure by their own deformed Practice the Reason is plain why such Contumelies and disrespect is daily offered to this Salutary way by these Chymicophants continually buzzing Falsities in the years of the Rich as well as the Poorer sort unstable credulous admiring the Authority of a company of Outsides who have nothing to plead for their Errors but Antiquity They have Impudently Fictitiously suggested that the best Chymical Remedies although fabricated by a most accurate Vulcan are dangerous excessively Hot leaving a Sting behing not to be prescribed but by the most precise Rules of their Method exactly weighing or measuring them Thus

keep one from and to Cure Surfeits It is very powerfully good against the Scurvy or any poysonous ill-conditioned infectious Evils It prevents and helps to Cure all kind of Feavers It quencheth the Thirst to an Admiration above all supposed cooling things whatsoever It bringeth Preternatural heat or coldness to a due moderation by removing the Efficient Cause thereof reducing the parts to their former strength It is available against Fits of the Mother the Whites It dissolves Congealed Curdled Matter ripeneth raw Juices bringing them either to a better Condition for the Use of Nature or preparing them to be sent packing out of the Body by convenient ways and Medicaments It abates a nauseons Disposition or Vomiting by confirming the Membranes of the Stomack and by promoting the throwing off that which disturbs it It cutteth and cleanseth away slimy Birdlime-like Flegm giving ease in difficulty of Breathing mitigating the violence of the Tissick It is admirably useful against Melancholy Imaginations passions from the Spleen c. called Hypochondriak an evil state of body arising for want of proportionable Nutriment or from Galenical Medicaments It availeth against the Dropsie or Consumption The frequent use thereof strengthens the Brain Sinews Loyns Memory and all the Senses Stom Ess. outwardly applyed challengeth noble effects For 't is very Healing Balsamical curing green Wounds and plain Soars being often touched therewith I have hitherto found it constant in happily Curing Burnings Scorchings or Scaldings some drops being frequently distilled thereon and forced inward by the bottom of a smooth Glass I cannot but experimentally commend it as one of the best asswagers of the pain of the Teeth I have hitherto met with It is also of great force to preserve them from corruption likewise in part to restore them resisting the putrifaction of the Gums Neither is it to be contemned for the mitigation of the pains of any part strengthning and quickning the Vital Spirit thereof With many more laudable properties is Stom Ess. or Alexi flomachon endued which the frequent use thereof and a longer strict observation will bring to light The quantity to be given is measured by the greatness and st●bborness of the Disease for sometimes ten or twenty times as much as the common portion ought to be offered neither is it to be feared that any hurt will arise therefrom The ordinary Dose or extent of giving it is twenty thirty forty fifty sixty drops in a draught of any Liquor as Beer Ale separate or mixt sometimes Wine as Sack or whatsoever doth best relish with the person It may be taken at any time when the Stomach is out of orde● troubled with Indigestion Wind Pains Gripes or any of the foresaid vexations then let them take liberally thereof He that constantly takes every morning thirty or forty drops shall prevent many mischiefs in reference to his Health I doubt not but the Galeno-Chymists or the Pseudo-chymists will like Apes endeavour to imitate and counterfeit this experienced Essence which before I am convinced by Fact I shall presume to prefer before any Medicament of its rank yet visibly extant among us Of such I shall advise my Countreymen to beware for these Adulterators will but disgrace and degrade it for I am sure none can find out the true way of making it unless he be a knowing Philosopher working with his own hands and taking Preparations into his own Stomach Thus much I advertise He that dextrously can volatilize Salt of Tart. may do something tending to this purpose otherwise not He that desires to be farther instructed concerning the defence of the Virtues of this Essence and the disproving of what is spoken against it by Mal●volents let him read with integrity the just commendation of it in Haematiasis c. Indefatigable perseverance in opening Bodies ●y the Fire and the repeated Assumption of what was thence produced hath brought me to the knowledge of a Pill I call Polychrest which consists of three Golden Sulphurs from Minerals well purified and friendly to Nature whose innocence as well as effectual Operation is remarkable and upon tryal to be justified by any who understands a good Remedy They are conducible in most Diseases They act by cleansing opening corroborating and purifying the Blood without leaving the least ill impress behind for they contain no laxative so noxious as Senna or Rewbarb they are of great force to conquer the Scurvie also prevalent against the Dropsie They prevent the Stone and carry off Gravel They sweeten sharp Liquors in the Body They overcome the Venereal or foul Disease if taken a considerable time neither is it to be suspected that one may be weakned by the long frequent use of them for they contrary to other purging Concretes make one more lusty and vigorous as I have found in my having taken many thousands of them with an advancement of my strength They reform the Spleen help to cure Feavers prevent relapses and long Maladies They may be swallowed at any time of the day or night neither will they cause injury but rather benefit if they loosen not the body in twenty four hours which is rare for usually they give a stool or two in that space The Dose is two or three Pills a little before Supper or early in the Morning The Patient proceeding thus for three or four days and resting a day or two and then repeating them Tinct nost Emetica is profitable in all Malignant Feavers in the griping or loosness of the Belly difficulty of Breathing pain of the Sides Headach Diseases of the Stomach Spleen It leaves the Vitals more cheerful and active It matters not whether it work or no by vomit or stool however it will do good by Sweat or causing Urine If the party be capable it may be given a week together at any time of the day or night I often give it in bed Pul. Emeto Catharticus is profitable in many Diseases as Emetica Tinctur It searches out the Morbifick matter leaving wholesome Juyces untouched when other Vomits are given in vain this Profiteth Pil. Emeto Cathart are useful for the same Diseases as Pulvis Emeto Cathar Polyacea Tinctura Solaris or Balsamica are great supporters of Nature the tamers of Malignant Feavers they go into all parts illuminate and augment the Archeus or Vitals They carry off by Sweat Urine and Expectoration There are few Diseases which will not somewhat yield to these Cordials if exhibited in a just proportion Elixi Proprietat nost resists Putrifaction opens the Spleen helps Digestion purifies the Blood It is very cordial expels Menf●r●a stopped and gives a check to them flowing excessively It is most efficacious to cause an easie and speedy delivery in difficult labour of Women Its Dose is from ten to an hundred drops or more in strong Liquor With several other salutary Remedies could I acquaint the World but now I must desist hoping God may spare my life till the Edition of my Physical Observations the history