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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54293	Mineralogia, or, An account of the preparation, manifold vertues and uses of a mineral salt, both in physick and chyrurgery which is so safe, pleasant and effectual in its operation, that it may be taken by those of all ages and constitutions with great benefit ... to which is added a short discourse of the nature and uses of the sulphurs of minerals and metals ... / by Chr. Packe ...	Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1693 (1693)	Wing P145; ESTC R32971	31,842	68

will free the Tunicles of the Stomach and contract and corroborate them precipitating the offending Particles per inferior a but I add not this to encourage any Body to meddle with such Physick without due Advice but to shew the safety and efficacy of the Medicine N.B. This Salt never leaves the Belly bound as the common Purges do but always soluble and is the best Remedy that I know against a Costive Temper of Body The second Intention is to alter and open Obstructions in the Liver Spleen Pancreas Mesentery Reins Bladder and Womb from which proceed many tedious and stubborn Diseases as the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundies Hypocondriack Melancholy Vapours Green-sickness Rhumatism inveterate Head-ach Restlessness Sleepiness Vertigo Phrenzy Cramps Convulsions Internal Inflammations and Aposthumes Piles Exulcerations of the Kidneys and Bladder Gravel stoppage of Urine c. together with many others arising from Obstructions and Acrimony of the Blood and viral Juices In all which the chief end of this Medicine being to resolve and attenuate the thick and stagnant Juices or Excrements of the several Digestions which lye in the smallest passages to Contemper any excess of quality in the Bile Lympha and Blood by mingling it self with the Chyle and Blood and insinuating it self into the more inward recesses of the Body this method is to be observed First purge the Body with half an Ounce five or six Drams of the Salt according to the Patients are and strength dissolved either in Posset-drink Whey or Water as you please to carry off the gross Excrements of the first passages and to make way for the better Penetration and distribution of the Remedy into all the parts of the Body If the first Dose purge not to your mind take another the next day that the aforesaid end may be answered Then dissolve the same quantity of the Salt you gave to purge in a Quart or three Pints of pure water and let the Patient take a third part of it the same Night after the purge three hours after Supper another third part the next Morning early before he riseth that he may sleep upon it and the remaining third part in the Day-time between Meals and this to be continued for a Week Fortnight or three Weeks c. as occasion shall require But because some Patients cannot drink any considerable quantity of water without nauseating or other inconveniency to their Bodies the Physician may accommodate the quantity of water to his own liking provided he order but enough to dissolve it well that it may not taste too strong This Salt answers all the ends of the Mineral-Waters both purging and Chaly beat besides and beyond which it hath some Advantages one of which is the certainty of its Nature and Operations the which cannot be affirmed of any of the Mineral Springs seeing that there may be a growth or accidental Concourse of various matter in the passages of the Earth which may variously impregnate the waters passing through them and make some Alteration in their Properties Besides the Patient is obliged to drink a large quantity of the Mineral Waters or they will not work which if they do not they cause Gripings Stiches Sleepiness Feverish Dispositions and other inconveniences arising from the Crudity of the Minerals as well as from the quantity of the Water especially the Chalybeat which also require purging besore and after a Course of drinking them to prevent some hurts which otherwise might arise by their use which every one is excused from in the use of this Salt for where a large quantity of water is not convenient for the Patient a Quart a Pint and a half yea even a Pint may serve this being also its own purge Besides it being free from Mineral Crudity and wholly pure and friendly to Nature can never do hurt but always good by being long retain'd in the Body Nor is it to be reckoned amongst the smallest Advantages to those who are confin'd to a place by Business or by the Narrowness of their Fortune that they may take this artificial mineral-Mineral-Water at all times of the year and in all places without loss of time hinderance of business or the charge of Coach-hire to and from the Wells or more chargeable maintaining themselves there If you would use it instead of the purging Waters as Epsome Dulwich Northall c. dissolve six Drams or three quarters of an Ounce of the Salt in the same quantity of pure Spring-water as would be fit for the Patient of any of the purging Waters viz. from three Pints to three Quarts ordering him to drink it by degrees in the Morning in the space of an hour and a half or two hours and to walk or use some Exercise in the open Air provided it be in the Summer time and to order himself as if he were drinking the Mineral purging Waters But if you would have it answer the end of the Chalybeat waters as the German-Spaw Tunbridge Islington c. viz. to purge but little by Stool but to alter and open Obstructions then use it as in the second general Direction already given Now although this Salt be of great use and service in very many diseases yet I have by long Experience observed that in some it is specifically potent as in the Scurvy Jaundies Dropsie Hysterical Suffocations Melancholy Vapours Green-sickness stoppage of the Menses Piles Ghonnorrhaea Collick Diarrhaea Bloody Flux Griping of the Guts Worms of all sorts old Head-achs Inflammations and Rhumes of the Eyes Itch and Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin stoppage and heat of Urine In all which Cases I may truly say it hath signaliz'd it self and often exceeded my Expectations And although from the Directions already given any one may easily collect the way of giving it in those Diseases yet for the publick Good I shall be somewhat more particular In the Scurvy I first purge the Patient with a Dose or two of Sal Solutivum as at the beginning of the second general Direction then I dissolve an Ounce of it in a Quart of pure water by shaking them together in a Bottle till all the Salt is dissolved and then order the Patient to drink half a Pint of the same at night going to Bed and another half Pint early in the Morning so that half an Ounce of the Salt is taken in a day and this I continue daily for a Month or six Weeks according to the age and strength of the Disease ordering the Patient besides to drink a pure and well rectify'd Volatile Spirit of Salt in all his drink as well at meats as at other times ten or twelve Drops at a time or more so that he may drink the quantity of forty or fifty Drops in a day which Spirit of Salt may be had at my House sealed up in Glasses with printed Directions for its use Price of each Glass a Shilling for such as have the Scurvy manifested in their Mouths by Soreness of the Gums and their readiness to bleed

injected by a Syringe twice or thrice a day and a Rag three or sour times double well wetted in the same to be applied outwardly and by this Course the Piles by degrees dwindle and shrink up like dryed Grapes This Course hath never failed me but hath been effectual even when the Piles have been inveterate and fistulated To those who are subject to the Piles I advise the daily use of my Volatile Spirit of Salt in all their Drink to the quantity of thirty or forty Drops a day it is far better in this Disease than any Diet-drink In Virulent Ghennerheas or Claps I give first six Drams of the Salt dissolved in fair water in Summer or in a Pint of warm Posset-drink in Winter ordering the Patient to drink another Pint within an hour after then I give half an Ounce so dissolved every Morning in a Pint of the Vehicle continuing it till all the heat and sharpness is gone and the Gleet fit to be stopt which sometimes will be in a Week sometimes a Fortnight or three Weeks according as it is of shorter or longer standing or the Diseasyfying-power milder or stronger for it pleasantly and effectually educeth the venereal Venome purifyeth the Seed and strengtheneth the Spermatick Vessels But when the Issuing is fit to be stopt I give my Balsamum ad Ghonnorhaeam every night at going to Bed from twenty to forty Drops mixt with a little Sugar and half an Ounce of the Salt every other Morning But where a Ghonnorhaea hath not been taken in time or hath been unduly stopt so that it be turned into an incipient Pox and I find by giving six or seven Doses of the Salt that it cannot reach it then I have recourse to purging and sweating alternately with my Manna Mercurii and Aurum vitae Bezoardicum which usually effects the Cure to satisfaction But in a Chonnorhaea unduly stopt known for the most part at the first by a painful Tumour in the Groyn when it hath not exceeded a Month three four or five Doses of this Salt will set it a running again and aftewards Cure it being used as above with the Balsome but in longer time I have known some who have fallen into the hands of Men either unskilful in this matter or worse who have endeavoured to discuss those Tumours which themselves have made by their unseasonable stopping of a Ghonnorhaea and have sometimes effected it so well as when the Patient hath thought himself cured of a Clap he hath soon after been attacked by the Symptoms of the Pox and so the last Error of the Physician was worse than the first In the Chollick or Griping of the Guts where there is great pain I dissolve six Drams or three quarters of an Ounce of the Salt in a Quart of hot spring water and order the Patient to drink three or four Glasses in the space of half an hour as hot as he can But if there be Vomiting let it be drank more leisurely viz. A quarter of a Pint once in a quarter of an hour till the Vomiting cease then take notice how much of the Medicine hath been vomited up and give so much again that the Patient may have the full Dose If in the water you intend to dissolve the Salt in you first boyl the bruised Seeds of Anise sweet Fennel Carraway and Coriander a Dram or two Drams of each to a Quart of water it will be the better because those Seeds have a peculiar Virtue of pacifying the Exorbitant fury of the Pylorus you may put in the Salt in the boyling which will extract the Vertues of the Seeds sooner and better than water alone can do But beware that you neither boyl infuse or warm any Liquor in which the Salt is in Brass or Copper Vessels but in Silver Tin or Earth lest it attract from the the Metal somewhat disagreeable to the Stomach It usually easeth the pain in two or three hours time sometimes sooner but where the Stomach will not retain it or it doth not overcome and expell the obstructing matter in a few hours time I give a second Dose and if that fail as I have some few times seen in the dry Gripes and Wind Chollick then I have recourse to my Arcanum Universale which Blessed be the Almighty hath not that I remember ever failed me Note that after the Pains are allay'd it is necessary to purge the Body divers times with the Salt dissolved in the aforementioned Decoction of Seeds to carry off the remaining Excrements which otherwise retaining a diseasy Ferment may soon cause a fresh disorder But in a bilious Chollick known by bitterness of the Mouth Vomiting Yellowness of the Skin c. you may leave out the Seeds and give it in water only the Seeds being more precisely adapted to the help of the Wind Chollick Gripes Illiack Passion c. yet they are endowed with a general Vertue of pacifying the Pylorus In a Diarrhaea or common Looseness boyl some Bran in pure water strain the Decoction and in a Pint of it dissolve three Drams of the Salt and drink it up at twice at three or four hours distance do this three or four times over if need be But in a Dysentery or Bloody-Flux I give the Salt dissolved in a Decoction of red Rose leaves half an Ounce a day as long as it is required after both which the Patient must be purged with the whole Dose dissolved in a Quart of the same Decoction in which it was given before to sweeten the Acrimony In the Bloody-Flux I have given six Drams of it Clyster-wise in the foresaid Decoction besides giving it at the Mouth by two Drams at a time twice a day and that with great Success In Headachs Inflammations and Rhumes in the Eyes I give five or six Drams every other day so long as there is need many of which it hath taken away at three or four times taking But as an Auxiliary Topick in Inflammations and Rhumes of the Eyes I order a few drops of my Aqua Opthalmica to be dropt into the Eyes two or three times a day In the Itch Botches Boyls and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin I give half an Ounce or five Drams every day dissolved in a Quart or three Pints of water or New Whey in the Morning as the Mineral-Waters for a Week Fortnight Three weeks or a Month together as the greatness of the Disease requires In those Cases it cannot be enough commended It hath cured some that have been adjudged Leprous In those Diseases I order together with it my Volatile Spirit of Salt to be taken inwardly as in the Scurvy and my Aqua Phagadenica to be used outwardly by washing with it twice a day In Heat or Gravel in the Kidneys or stoppage or heat of Urine first I purge the Body with one whole Dose then dissolve an Ounce in a Quart of water in Summer or warm Posset-drink in Winter and let the Patient drink half a