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

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

be destilled into a Water put this Water in putresaction for a moneth and destil it by a B. and there will ascend a sweet water the which throw away That which will not ascend set again in Digestion for another moneth and distil it as before and do thus so often till there be no more sweetness perceived for by this way hast thou now the Quintessence of Salt in the bottom from one pound of Burnt or Calcined Salt thou wilt scarce have two ounces Half an ounce of this Salt Extracted on this wise suppose common Salt doth season meats more then half a pound of the other for here is onely the Quintessence present and the Body is abstracted thence-from by the liquid Solution By this way is the Quintessence of all Salts Separated But it is to be extracted from Allum and Vitriol by another way thus They do not admit of a Calcination even to fusion as Salts do and therefore it is Expedient that after their Calcination you burn them and resolve them according to the Rule of Practise and after that they be resolved power on again the Waters that proceeded from them and proceed on according to the Process given of Salts for much of the Essence ascends with the moisture the which doth again thus reside at the bottome in the Composition and Putrefaction and so come together into one Of the Extraction of the Quintessence out of Stones Gems and Pearls THE manner of extracting the Quintessence out of Stones Gems and Pearls the Process of all which is one and the same is the most excellent of all and is as to the Operation thereof very Subtile and Industrious very very little is the quantity of that Quintessence which is to be had out of Gems and by now much the subtiler and purer the Gem is so much the lesser is the Quintessence thereof t is scarce worth while to Extract the Quintessence from gross great vile or base Stones for they have but little virtue in them and therefore also have but very little Quint. to come forth or proceed from them The Processe thereof is this Take Gems or Margarites or Pearls beat them into pretty big pieces not into a Powder and put them in a Glasse and pour thereto the Acetum of the Roote or Radicated Vinegar so as to overtop it the breath of four or five fingers and let them be digested in a hors-belly for a whole moneth which being done the whole matter will appear liquid the which thou shalt extract with other Radicated Vinegar and shake and mix them well together so the Vinegar receives into it self the Colour of the Stone The Coloured Vinegar must be poured out into another Glass and powr on more Vinegar as before so osten as there comes any Colour now in that Colour is the Quintessence contained the residue is the Corporality Take therefore the Colours or tinged Vinegar and boil them very gently even to dryness then afterwards wash it often with distilled Water until it be made sweet as above said Then let this powder be dissolved upon a marble thus shalt thou have the Quintessence of Gems and Pearls but this is to be noted in the Colours of Pearls that they are resolved into the Colour of thick Milk and the Body of them is Sandy and viscous and thereby may the one be known from the other The like is it also with Crystal its Quintessence appears at top a certain Viscous Body remaining by which the sufficiency or compleatnesse of those kind of Extractions may be known Of the Extraction of the Quiutessence out of burning things ALL such things we call burning as are not used for food or drink and do naturally burn and feed the fire in their Bodily Substance The Process of the Extraction of their Quintessence is this Take the Body cut it exceeding small and put it into a Glazed Pot and fill it up and close it firmly with the Seal of Wisdom that so it breath not out burn it in a Circulatory Fire for twenty four hours so as to abide in an equal Heat and the Pot to be glowing like the Coals Then take it out of the Fire and putrefie it in Dung for four Weeks then distil as much as will ascend Let this be put in a Horse-belly to distil off all the moisture therefrom and be set again to putrefie until there come out no more moisture then at length the Quintessence of that which thou hast received and at first tookest in thy Reciver remaines in the bottom after this manner is the Quintessence to be Extracted out of all things that contain in them Oyl or Rosin or Pitch or such like as out of Turpentine Fir-tree Juniper Cypress c. Likewise out of all Seeds Fruits and such like Moreover you are to note that there are also far more waies and kinds of Extracting the Quintessence from them by which it comes forth very Odoriferous Subtile and cleer but those waies are not Extractions of the Quintessence but certain Magisteries of those same things by which some part of the Quintessence doth in the Permixion together ascend upwards But yet it is not a perfect Quintessence for the Essence of Woods is a certain satness or Rosin and thick substance and is not therefore extracted in the form of Magisteries but the cause hereof is this viz. the Quintessence of the Turpentine Tree healeth Wounds but if it shall be extracted after the aforesaid manner of other Magisteries it doth not Cure them because it hath not in it the basis and foundation of the Quintessence For verily Magisteries are on this account distinguished from Quintessences because they only concern and respect the Complexions and Four Elements the which is not the nature of Quintessences Likewise they receive or have it Spiritually and not Materially in its proper Essence as appears in the Chapters Of the Extraction of the Quintessence out of Growing Things SUch we call in this place Growing Things that fall off and grow again as Herbs Leaves and such like And for the Extraction of the Quintessences of them there are various wayes found out by the addition of other things but they ought to be extracted without the mixture of any thing and so as to retain their Taste Colour and Odour and that they may be encreased in them and not diminished So if the Quintessence be extracted out of Musk Ambergreece and Civet their bodies do stink afterwards so that they are worth nothing either in Taste Odour or Nature The like is to be understood of all the rest of that kind as to the Extraction of the Quintessences But we will not discourse of Mask Ambergreece or Civit in this Chapter because we write peculiarly of them elsewhere and we treat at present of Growing Things only a the Lilly Spike Leaves for the Extract on of the Quintessence of which this Process is to be observed Take of Growing Things bruise them exceeding well and put them into

maist without offending me wind about thy intricate thred and search for the Centre of the Labyrinth amongst the dark stars But notwithstanding if thou shalt at any time hap to make use of thy Wisdom and consider what thing the Paracelsian-Art is founded upon and how lame thy hotch-potch-fragments are there would not be that contrariety betwixt thee and Paracelsus For as concerning the things whereof I now do and shall briefly write whereby my Astral Disciples may apprehend and enjoy them and glory of them these things I say may by the diligence of such an one as is not ashamed to learn be well understood there being nothing so difficult but may be known and learned by labour and study The practice therefore of this Work is as follows The preparation of the Matter of the STONE Take the Mineral Electrum filed put it into its own Sperm Others read it thus Take the Immature Mineral Electrum put it into its own Spheare that the desilements and supersluities thereof may be washt away and purge it to the utmost as much as you can with Stibium after a Chymical manner lest that otherwise thou shouldst suffer loss by reason of its impurity Then resolve it in the stomach of the Ostrich which is born in the earth and is comforted and strengthened in its virtue by the sharpness of the Eagle But when the Electrum is consumed and hath after its solution gotten a Marigold-colour be not unmindful of reducing it into a spiritual transparent essence resembling the colour of true Amber then add half so much onely of the extended Eagle as the corporal Electrum afore its preparation weig●ed and oft-times abstract thence-from the stomach of the Ostrich for so thy Electrum will be still more and more spiritual But when the stomach of the Ostrich is wearied or spent with labour 't is needful that thou refreshest or renewest it and from time to time abstractest it Then lastly when it hath again lost its sharpness add the Tartarizated Quintessence yet in such a proportion as to over-top it the height of four singers that so it may be deprived of its redness and may pass or distill over together therewithall this do so long and so often untill it becomes white of it self Now then when 't is enough for thou wilt see with thine eies how it will by little and little ●it it self for sublimation and thou perceivest that sign sublime it and so the Electrum will be converted into the whiteness of the exalted Eagle and 't is brought thus to pass and is transmuted by a little labour This now is that wee seek for for our use in Medicine with the which thou maist make a safe progress in many Diseases which will not yield to vulgar medicines Thou maist likewise convert this same into a water an oil or a red powder and make use thereof in all such medicinal cases as need requires Give me leave to tell thee and that truly that there is not a better foundation for the whole structure of Medicine then what lies hid in the Electrum Albeit I do not deny but that according to what I write in my other Books there lye hid even in other Mineral things great secrets but then they require a longer and greater labour and besides 't is more difficult to use them aright especially for the unskilful sor if such make use of them there accrews more hurt then good thence from For these respects therefore it is not laudable for every Alchymist to exercise the Medicinal Art if he bee ignorant thereof It would be expedient that as to this some let and bar were here instituted that so an inhibition might be imposed on such putatitious imaginary Physicians For my part I 'le not bear their blame not acknowledg them for disciples seeing they follow not the truth but account of them as notorious deceivers and sloathful Loyterers such as snatch the bread out of the true disciples mouths and of set-purpose hurt men esteeming neither Conscience nor Art But in our said Electrum prepared there lies so great a virtue of Curing men that there cannot be sound a more certain and more excellent medicine in the whole world Indeed the Galenical Triacle-selling Doctors do call it Poison and oppose it not knowingly but out of pride and meer foolishness I my self do likewise grant that in its preparation it is a poison and as great or greater then that of the Tyrian Serpent or Adder that is put into Triacle but that it remains poisonous after in preparation that is as yet indemonstrable for though to some blockish brains it be incomprehensible yet doth nature alwaies tend unto its perfection and it may therefore be much rather brought to that pass by convenient Arts then alone But I 'le grant yet farther that after its preparation it is a greater venome and more vehement then afore but yet 't is onely such a venome as is so directed as to seek after its like and to find out fixed and other incurable diseases and expell them not in such wise as to suffer the Disease to be operative and so hurtful but 't is as it were an enemy to the disease and attracts to it self the like matter and radically absumes it and it doth so wash even as Soap scoureth off the spots in soul cloaths and together with the said spots doth it self also go off and leaves the cloaths purified unhurt clean and fair So then this venome as thou callest it hath a far other and better efficacie then thy Axu●gia which thou art wont to make use of in the cure of the French disease and which thou oftner anointest withall then the Currier doth his skins For this Arcanum which lyes hid in this medicanient hath in its self a well proportioned well-prepared and excellent essence such as admits not of any Comparison with other poison unless you apprehend me according as my self said before and it is as much different from thy ●Span which thou anointest with and from thy Precipitate as to virtue and efficacy as the heaven is from the earth 't is therefore called and indeed is a Medicine blessed by God and is not revealed unto all for 't is much better corrected then those mucky dirty medicaments that the slow-paced Doctor hath in his gown or hath sil●red through his double Strainers or Fools-bag Furthermore this blessed Medicine hath thrice greater force and operative virtue in all diseases whatsoever name they are called by then have all the Store-houses and Shops thou ever sawest But now I attained not hereunto by idleness sitting still and ●loth nor did I find it in an Vrinal but by Travelling and as thou termest it ● Wandring I perceived that if I would indeed know and not conjecture onely 't was necessary for me to learn by much diligence and labour But as for thee thou suckest thy Medicine and Artour of the old Mattress or Pallet old Cushion or Couch wherein the Necromantick Old Wife