A hundred and fourteen Experiments and Cures of the famous Physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus; Translated out of the German tongue into the Latin.  
Whereunto is added certain excellent and profitable Works by B. G. a Portu Aquitano.  
Also certain Secrets of Isacke Hollandus concerning the Vegetal and Animal work.  
Also the Spagericke antidotary for Gunne-shot of josephus Quirsitanus.  
Collected by john Hector.  
LONDON Printed by Valentine Sims dwelling on Adling hill at the sign of the white Swan.  
1596   

that the inquisition of some one part is the occasion of searching out of an other, so ●●finitely, that the bluniest wit cannot 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 to train him on, 〈◊〉 the deepest head of want of variety to entertains him still, so large occasion of subject, or circumstance is 〈◊〉 offered to ●●n●●der of. Of these writers I have made choice of two or three such as in their country (by their deserts) are held very de●re: these, not for their method, which I middle not with, but for their medicines, which I ●sually make, I have translated, for the benefit (I hope) of my 〈◊〉, and as heretofore in some of the translations Printed, I have 〈◊〉 held to cover my rudeness with the authority of other men's countenances, so here I presume (right Worshipful) under the comfortable shield of your favour, to shadow the slenderness of this my simple work, beseeching you of your bountiful 〈…〉 tesie, for the which you are commended of the most, to pardon my rashness, and to accept of this enterprise, proceeding from him that amongst your bound●● well willers is not the least.  
Your Worships in all dutiful service. john Hector.   

An Apologetical Preface of Master Barnard G. Londrada A Portu Aquitanus unto the Book of Experiments of Paracelsus, wherein is proved, that sick bodies stuffed and filled with the seeds of diseases, can hardly be cured without metalline medicines: contrary to the writings of some which deny that Metals (after what sort or manner soever they be prepared) may profit or help the nature of man.  
IN sacred Scripture (gentle Reader) among others we find this law full of Christian Love and Charity: Thou shalt restore again the wandering or straying▪ Ox or 
Deuteron. 22. 〈◊〉.  Ass of thy neighbours unto him: By which law the eternal God would as by an evident argument confirm and establish amongst us mutual love and amity. For if in this sort God's laws do command us to take care of the straying cattle of our enemies: how much more than do they will us to help the miserable ease and great dangers of the bodies of our friends, and to restore their health? Wherefore when as I (together with Theophrastus Paracelsus and other excellent men) understood the errors of many Physicians of our time, I began to devise with myself by what means I might attain to the knowledge of true physic, which is derived out of the light of nature, not out of the dark writings of the heathen. And I judged it to be necessary to travel, and to go unto far places, to seek out learning and knowledge, and not to hope or look for it, sitting at home idly. I prepared myself therefore to my 〈◊〉, and with long travel and labour have searched out and learned those things, which for christian love sake I can no longer keep silent, that I might call back the wandering children into the path of true doctrine, and having declared my journey and labours, they also being excused and defended, which are laid open unto all manner of slanders, by those which so greatly commend the heathenish physic, whose deceits in some part I will endeavour to disclose; I will afterward declare what those that are desirous of true and natural physic, are to look for at my hands, and what Books of true physic I have gathered together in sundry places, being moved with compassion towards those that go astray, I will communicate and set forth for their public profit and commodity. But first the matter so requireth, that to avoid the hatred of the common sort, as well from myself, as from all other favourers of the Art of Separation, I should duly answer unto the adversaries, whose frowardness and malice is such, that they will with proud words annihilate, reject, and condemn others inventions, which they themselves see and perceive they may use with great success and profit. And yet they in the mean season arrogate unto themselves the commendations due unto the Authors, and with a lying kind of stealth rob the inventors of Arts of their due honour; which is a subtle kind of craft, springing out of the deceits of the old serpent. For when as reports are spread of the strange cures of sundry grievous diseases, which are wrought by the benefit of tinctures and vegetal and mineral spirits, by the cunning and labour of those whom the common sort at this day call Chemists or Alchemists: by and by on the contrary part they cry out that those collier physicians can do no good but kill all men that put themselves into their hands with their venomous medicines, so that they ought to be driven out of the commonwealth, and that they are deceivers, and that their extractions and preparations, their subtle and thin spirit will profit nothing, and that the spirit of Vitriol is poison, the essence of Antimony and Mercury is nothing, the extraction of Sulphur is nothing worth, neither the liquor of gold: and to be brief, that all things are contrary to the nature of man, and more to be avoided then the eyes of a basilisk. And yet they in the mean time like cunning and crafty thieves privily, and with fair promises pick out from the poor Chemists the secrets of Physic, and secretly learn those things that they forbidden the common people as poisons, afterwards challenging them for their own practices. And by this wicked injury they derive unto themselves the favour, friendship, praise, gifts and rewards of men, which by good right are altogether due unto those that by their labour, sweat, watching, and diligent search in natural things by Vulcan's art have found out such things, and published them for the common commodity of man. And yet not contented therewith, they also publish great volumes filled with toys, lies, & sophistications; going about as much as in them is, to suppress, overthrow, and utterly to extinguish the light with darkness, and the truth with lies, & practise (the most plain and manifest workemistresse established even by truth itself) with a vain feigned theoric, devised by their own subtle brain. I say to thee (thou notable Doctor, that so backebitest Paracelsus) how canst thou by any means with thy trifling words deface the work itself, or with thy theoric refel the practice? Art thou so great a doctor and knowest not, that thou hast profited so much, as by thy work thou canst bring aught to effect? Paracelsus teacheth that the falling sickness is to be cured with the spirit of Vitriol, and performed it, and the work itself declares it daily: prove thou the contrary, and cure the same disease with thy pills, sirropes, and electuaries, then shalt thou have the victory. It is not sufficient for thee by bringing thy reasons, to prove that metalline medicines are not agreeing for man's nature, neither that metals may be so prepared that they may heal. Why? Thou deniest that which indeed is performed, and openly seen with eyes. It is a foul thing to be ignorant in that that every man knoweth. For out of all doubt you have all heard, that most dangerous diseases have been cured with metaline tinctures, yea, with such as have not been rightly prepared by counterfeit Paracelsians, as with Vitrum Antimonij, which doth pluck up suddenly at once by the roots the impurities of the fever, although not without great weakening of the powers, yet it healeth: And yet we allow not such perilous cures. And so likewise of others. N 〈…〉 Minerals work this, not being rightly prepared, what think you will they do being rightly prepared and purged from their venom and poison?  
And how can you with a safe conscience reject those things whereof you have no knowledge? It is not sufficient to affirm an●e thing except it be confirmed by probable and grounded reasons. Every man will play the Censor of Paracelsus, whom it is more easy to reprehend, then to follow. And whilst every man desireth to seem, or to be thought more learned than other, no man will learn of another. I say every Paracelsian which doth but only carry coals unto the work, can show you by eye three principles of Theophrastus' physic. Have you tasted the most sharp salt? or the most sweet o●le? or the balm that most delicate liquour? All those being hidden in every thing that is created, you have not once perceived. The metalline spirits, in whom physic doth consist, by no means can be found out, neither what force they have or fellowship with man's nature, but only by fire, for as fire did first show that the smoke of Mercury was poison to man's nature without an●e subtle speculation, but thou didst never handle coals, neither canst draw any so small a balm out of the Vegetals therefore being ignorant in metalline physic, thou canst not so much as once guess what it is▪ and therefore dost judge of things unknown, as the blind man doth of colours. Is it not a great folli● to write against a thing, and not to understand it well before? Such as are addicted to Paracelsus doctrine, when they perceive you have no stronger weapons than those you have hitherto gathered, they will conclude that you rather confirm and establish Paracelsus physic, then confute it. It is not enough to say a thing is false, except there be morè probable and better showed. Hereby it appeareth that ye nourish a secret ignorance of natural things in yourselves.  
What, 〈◊〉 you those great physicians and excellent philosophers? How cometh it then to pass that the force of drugs are hidden and unknown unto you? Do you not in this point come ●eere unto the empirics, whom you with great pride and brag of knowledge reject, when as you say; the Chemist, be he never so excellent, is no physician, but he that with judgement and reason hath learned to make and v●e all remedies for diseases: For in those points consisteth the chiefest glory and commendation of a Physician, and the only safety of the sick. How vain is this reasonable physician, which prepareth his medicines with reason and not with the hand? He is the very physician that with his own hand purgeth his medicines from their venom, and being so prepared, with sharp judgement doth apply them to their proper diseases, that the seed of the disease may be pulled up by the roots, and so must the speculation and practice, reason and the work concur and join together, because judgement without practice is barren. Tell me, how cometh it to pass that mercury healeth the French pox and the filthy scab? Why do you command the miserable sick persons to anoint themselves with quicksilver as shepherds grease their sheep? How happeneth it (I say) that mercury is the special best remedy against these diseases▪ Do you d●●●● that metals ●o an●● 〈◊〉, y●● and the greatest p 〈…〉 e cures? Why do you co 〈…〉 such as 〈◊〉 infected with leprosy to swallow gold▪ ●hi● do you boil it in bro●●●● with cap●●●? Why do you mingle 〈◊〉 gold in your 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 rises? You know that the force of the ●epro●●● is of● delayed that it break●●● not out into the upper part of the skin by taking of crude gold● into the stomach: Then if gold that is compact and not resolved do● work this effect, w●at will not the spirit of gold work being ●oosed from his gross substance?  
If you will not believe Paracelsus, that the cure of m●st dangerous diseases 〈…〉eth hidden in metals, at the least, 〈◊〉 those that lived long before him, amongst whom Arnoldus de villa 〈◊〉 is chief, who in his book of the prese●●ation of youth saith th●●: Pearls 〈◊〉 into liquor, comfort the natural heat, help the 〈…〉 embling of the heart, and those that are fearful, and properly they clarify the blood of the heart▪ and many diseases are cured by them. For i● is a salt of the 〈◊〉 which the wise call their Animal stone, and some the Mineral C 〈…〉, and all the mastery in the preparation of it, is, that it may be resolved into a most pure and potable water with such things as do not destroy his nature. This saith Are 〈…〉, who speaketh 〈◊〉 of stamping, but of solution: but to what purpose d●●l allridge thy 〈…〉 Verily, that you may see how with your own swords you cut your own throats, you use pearls, corals, and pr 〈…〉 〈◊〉 in your electuaries and broths, and those you bea●e into powder. You 〈◊〉 as it were a certain medicinal virtue in precious stones, but you deal as naughty cooks and rude country wo●●● do, that when pa 〈…〉 ges o● ha●●s come to their hands, they 〈◊〉 the● 〈◊〉 the po●tage pot, or else seetheth them in water: even so stamp and break your pearls which should rather be dissolved. Albeit you should make powder as subtle as the air, you should nothing profit: for as you put it into the stomach, so shall you see it pass away again, and hereupon of very necessity were the rules of Chi〈…〉 preparations brought into physic, which you do hate worse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serpent●r a dog, with the practisers of their.  
What 〈…〉 ll need many words? If you will not yet grant that 〈◊〉 special 〈◊〉 of diseases consisteth in minerals, hearken what 〈◊〉 Math●●lu● saith in the fourth book of his Epistles: the bodies of 〈◊〉 sick being 〈◊〉 of seeds of diseases, will hardly be healed without m 〈…〉 ●alline medicines. And in his treatise of antimony he saith: A●tymonie doth no less purge the disease's of the bodies, than metals, from super 〈…〉 vities. This did that learned 〈…〉 an understand when as yet he 〈◊〉 not the true prepration of Antymony. Likewise he greatly esteemeth the potable ●olde, the preparation whereof, as the sa●e M 〈…〉 used it, I will de●●a●e unto you. because you shall not be ignorant. Take gold twice or thrice purged with Antymony, make it into thin plates and in a ●it vessel, hang the plates that they touch not one another, and let i● be burned and calcined in a ●●rnace duly 〈◊〉 by the space of half 〈…〉 out and laid open in the air, they do dissolve, and there flow from it a certain oily humour red of colour, and of taste sw●●●ish. He drew out two ounces of oil of gold, but out of that which was not so well burned, the liquor did not so readily run out. Sometimes he used to pour on the spirit of wine rectified, & that so long, and so much, until the whole red colour was drawn out. You shall rectify those spirits or essence of wine very subtly, if you put it into a glass cucurbite under a limbeck with a receiver, and set it in most cold or snowy water, and cover the head round about with a linen cloth steeped in warm water, for then the subtler parts will rise up, leaving the watery substance in the bottom. Gold calcined and often infused with the spirit of wine with many imbibitions, and again distilled by a Limbeck, leaveth in the bottom behind a reddish liquor. That Physician used first to purge the body, and then to shave and heat the crown of the head, and them to pour on a dram of that oil, and to give so much also to be drunk 〈◊〉 malvoisie. The like is to be wrought with fine silver for the diseases of the head, and so likewise of other metals, for being duly prepared, they do dissolve, because they are salts.  
This man hath many other mineral medicines, which were never known, either to Galene, or to Hypocrates, but brought to light by our Theophra●tus Paracelsus, of whom you great Philosophers and Physicians only in name do vndis●reetely write. Do you think all things utterly unpossible unto other men which you yourself know not, or can not do, or that you cannot compass with your divine knowledge? What will you say to this? I know a man that within three, or at the most six days, can heal the French pox with his Turp●tum minerale, not with that which is made with oil of vitriol, but with another far more excellent which shall not come to your hands or knowledge except you lay aside your frowardness, and cease to bring the Paracelsians in suspicion with the common people and noble men, and to defraud them of the fruit of their just labours. You say, What have you brought to pass? what have you found out whereby you should look for praise or profit? Then do we demand of you, What have you found out whereby physic is the better furnished? We have brought into physic, essences, oils, balms, and salts, all which the Alchemists schools have found out. And how great light is come unto physic only by true distillation, it is known unto all men, and daily experience teacheth, how great commodity hath redounded thereby unto the sick. In the mean time, if you so much detest the labour, yet at the least spare our good name. But it is no marvel, doth it not so always happen, that the best labour is worst accepted and recompensed? Every good man ●●clined to virtue, wisdom, and fidelity can witness the same, what reward they have often received for their fidelity and opening of the truth. So so●e men when they can say no more, they object unto the searchers of nature, their poverty, filling the ears of the common people with glorious lies, always chanting upon th●se things which follow upon the abuse and dangerous cures of the sergeant Paracelsians, judging all things by their contempt poverty, vile estate, and baseness, but they will quickly avoid that despised poverty, which willingly they sustain, that the nature of things might daily more & more be known unto men, whereby the unaccustomed cures of most grievous diseases, might at length be found out, with the which such as are diseased, might through your sluggishness all die, if God having compassion upon them now at the end of the world had not provided wholesome medicines, even by most contemned men. The lepers and gouty, the infected with the physic, falling sickness, and French pox, devoured with the canker, fistula, & gteedy wolf, with the dropsy, and palsy, and that with the plague & other diseases, are thrust into their graves. These (I say) and many other more, whom you through ignorance with your naughty and corrupt potions and purgations, like butchers have buried alive, will rise up against you. These (I say) will call you to answer, and accuse you, even the poor, whom you have rob of their goods, will require your blood for the loss of their bodies, and consuming of their money. Then what a madness and cruel foolishness is this, that in the time of any great plague, such as are infected, you shut up in houses, set marks upon them, keep them in prison, strangle them with cares and solitariness, and kill them for hunger: Is the plague so to be cured? Or whether do you not think that all men may be infected from whence the first man was infected? why do you not preserve the whole with your antidotes or defensives being so famous physicians as you are? but you have tried almost all your medicines to be of no force in this disease. Do you in this sort love your neighbour as yourself? or thus spend your life for your fellow, when as at no time (if help be required) there is greater need of fellowship, company, comfort and help than in the time of plague? O what great punishment have you deserved that refuse those that are forsaken of their friends, far from their kindred, and as it were thrust into exile, whose solitariness hath been more violent unto them then the disease, and grief of mind hath killed rather than the sickness? what I pray you is true and christian friendship? doth not this complaint of the sick stir up unto pity? When I was in health thou wer● my friend, thou didst visit me, and help me, but now that I am sick, thou dost abhor●e 〈◊〉, and liest from me, when fortune laughed upon me, thou didst also laugh: but now that with grief and tears I crave comfort, thou dost deny it. What do you call visiting and helping? You will not only not help yourselves, but will persuade princes to stop the passages, that no travelers shall pass unto those places, when as you ought with courage to relieve them of their grief, and willingly to go thither to try your cunning. But when any plague beginneth, you are the first that tremble, are afraid and despair. The sick are committed unto you as children and infants which lack diligent cure, you ought to help them as the father doth his children, and not to rob them of their money. Then would the sick man smile upon you, if you would refresh his languishing life with some gentle balm: then would he rejoice in the sight of you, and call you his father. Every natural physician of necessity ought to make his medicines with his own hands, and not to commit them unto an unskilful Cook, not to fill great volumes with receipts, with the which I see those that are studious in physic are in a manner overwhelmed, that they be ready almost to fall down and die under so heavy a burden of receipts, physic is not so learned but with the labour of the hands, practise being workemistre●●e where Vulcan day by day doth show new and pleasant remedies which nature teacheth the good steward her workman, daily to purge better and better from their superfluities. Do you look for a rich harvest, and do not first plough nor sow? Look for knowledge of the secret natural powers, and do not first seek it out by labour with the fire? for the most part of you all are dainty and slothful, and he that is slack in his works, goeth like a blind man unto his practice. If you did not so much abhor the Chemical Art you would learn to separate the pure from the unpure (which is the cause of the corruption of things) by long digestions, distillations, and imbibitions, whereby you should make your medicines pure and clean before you minister it to the sick, so upon the sudden receiving, the sick nature should be refreshed, whereas the weak stomach cannot concoct, digest, and separate gross matters. But these great doctors will not be scholars, or young soldiers, no more than an old dog will be brought to hunting with whips, and g●aw his line and show his grinning teeth to him that leadeth him, rather than he will be ruled: even so you will rather openly gainsay the truth, and like dog's bark and bite at it, than you will confess your errors. What, ought this to be a reproach unto the Chemists, that for the true preparations of medicines whereof you are ignorant, and for their great labour and pain which you do eschew, they should be accounted beggars, poor, and ragged? do you not think that the common people will at length find out your deceits? You have been sufficiently warned of many doctors of physic, who truly have not allowed your childish cures. Amongst whom Conr●de Gesner is one, and many other ●o, which if they were living most certainly would deny your feigned Art. Likewise john Woz of Cullen which flourished 1510. doth sharply reprove the Physicians of his time, who in his writings upon the plague and labyrinth of Physicians most plainly and excellently entreateth of metaline medicines and quintessences, and showeth their use. What will you answer to those things which that doctor Gorreus hath written in the fift book of the extraction of the Quintessence out of herbs, where in his comments he so excellently extolleth metalline medicines, and did use them, little esteeming your medicines: for he saith the distillations of waters out of herbs and other such like things, wherein the Apothecaries do boast, are almost of no force, for it is nothing else but the sleame of the thing, whose principal liquor consisteth in the oil of salt.  
But that I may stir up in you an earnest desire to know the marvelous property of things, I will repeat unto you the judgement of Fernelius Ambian●● in his second book and eighteenth chapter De Abdi 〈…〉 〈◊〉 causis. When first (saith he) I gave myself unto the study of that sensible and metalline philosophy called Chymia, through long travel (as many other had,) I getting a most perfect master or teacher, did draw out of every plant and other living things very diverse and sundry substances: First water, and that very plentiful if the plant were green●, more scarce if it were dry: then oil, but not that fat and filthy substance, which by press is drawn of our men, but the workmanship of a more excellent Art, which neither easily corrupteth nor ●owreth by age, and that of two sorts, one thin and white, an other drier and red, etc. Then it followeth I will tell you by your leave, not uttering this whole secret, but teaching you upon what true grounds it doth consist. But lest the strange obscurity of the name might offend you, which the fathers have covered under a shadow or dark kind of speech, I will most plainly and openly show it i 〈…〉 his place. And yet you can not away with them that give you good counsel, as also you will not suffer learned and excellent men, neither Gerard Dorne Doctor of Physic, whom, no doubt, God hath raised up unto us. This most excellent man is worthy of eternal memory, because that he by no injury, neither perils could be te 〈…〉 ified, but that by his last writings he hath made paracelsus more famous, who doth excel with a most ancient gravity and authority, that at the least he might help the children or learning, fo● whose defence as a valiant soldier he contendeth by word and deed even to the death, the fellow and companion of that learned physician I●se●hus Quirs●tan●● famous in physic, who hath excellently deserved for physic: and in his books hath uttered many excellent philosophical secrets unto the posterity, and opened many hidden spagyrical medicines, and would have brought to light greater things, if the ingratitude of some had not stopped his willing mind, and specially of a perfumer, which goeth about to reprove many things, and to allow but few in his writing, and yet not able to show better. Whereby it comes to pass, that through one man's ingratitude, all feel loss and lack. Proceed therefore with courage, drive away those drones and sluggish beasts from the ●acke, so shall your head be crowned with perpetual praise. In the mean time, whatsoever we have gotten by many travels, and found out and learned with labour, we will here annex, praying out adversaries, that if they need them not, they will not contemn or slander them, or terrify others, which with willing mind would embrace these our labours: or else, to teach them some better things; considering yet that something in the mean time ought to be given and granted unto him, which for physics sake hath put himself in so many dangers.  
After the great murder and fury of our countrymen the French men, when I went with D. Charles of Chambray, D. of Pansay into Italy, traveling through ●●●ria, Ragusium, Sclavonia. Macedonia and Byzantium, ●i●cessantly applied my whole study to understand and know some certainty touching the philosopher's stone or chemical matters. But I could find no true philosophers, only false Physicians and Chemists every where, which had either altogether none, or else very little knowledge of natural Arts and preparations. At the length (by God's good will) I happened upon a very learned man Daniel Bishop of Dalmatia. Unto this most excellent man I directed my letters, the which together with his answer, a little after sent to me, I will hereafter publish, wherein you shall see many philosophical points delectable to be read and understood.  
At the length, when I had sufficiently searched over the East countries, and could gather no certain point in natural sciences, I determined to take my journey towards Germany with the most courteous prince Cabaneus Vydam of Ch●rtres, still employing my mind to the earnest study of Chemical physic. And there I understood that Kings and Princes were deceived by unskilful practisers, which did utter and sell their sophisticate Chemical arts, which they had begged and scratched together out of all corners, with a pompous show deceiving the princes of their money, whereby it cometh to pass, that daily a great number of sophisters, and sophisticators do daily rise and spring up, through which, not only the most commendable art of Alchemy receiveth great detriment, is oppressed, and adulterate, and the chemists themselves made hateful unto all men, consuming their life, time, and goods upon vain works and practices: but also there redoundeth most great hurt and damage unto the common wealth. For there are many deceivers so crafty, that with a dissembled experience in the Chemical art, and with feigned friendship and great promises they do craftily learn of others their cunning, which they challenge for their own, esteem of great value, and carry them about to be sold. As upon a time certain knaves by craft got from me certain written books, and sold them for a great sum of money. Common wealths and the Chemical art should be very well provided for, if that such knaves might be punished and restrained by the magistrate, so should the studious of the Art be less deceived, and in short space the true and pure Art would appear from those shadows and sophistications. Wherefore to the end that such as be desirous of the Art may have some pledge from me, wherewith they may make this science more plain, I will shortly (God willing) set forth three books of the philosopher's stone, written by divers Authors, whereof the first was drawn out of certain characters by a noble Britain, wherein all the dark speeches of the philosophers are most plainly expounded, whereunto I will annex two hundred certain infallible and true philosophical rules, whereby those that do err and doubt touching the matter of the stone, shall be confirmed. The second book is, I●hannes de ●ouill●sco Pedomonta 〈…〉, which treateth of the philosopher's mercury, and how it is drawn, together with an Epistle of john P 〈…〉 anus of the same argument. But there is a more certain excellent Treatise of an uncertain Author, which doth explain many doubts in that sacred Physic.  
And because that all nations, specially the Germans, have written books in their own language, I will also write two books in the french tongue for the help of such as are studious of Philosophy, wherein I will entreat of many preparations and special medicines tried by me, and others, also of diverse elyxirs of the philosophers, extractions of mercuries and mercurial waters, of many and diverse dissolutions, I will also add the interpretations of sundry Characters wherewith the books both of the old and new writers are written to cover and hide the Art. Also the exposition of a certain Alphabet, without the which the work can hardly be understood. And two treatises, the one of the virtues of the vegetal and mineral oils, the other of the salts and properties of many vegetals and minerals: whereunto I will also join two treatises of philosophical mines, and of making of vinegers, the which my labour and study, if I see it acceptable unto those that are studious of that Art, I will shortly set forth greater things, which many with their whole hearts do wish and desire. In the mean time, take in good part this little work. That which we have hitherto spoken, is spoken only unto those that do so deadly hate the Chemical physic, which think nothing can be well or profitably taught in Physic that the old harp soundeth not. As though that nature were not more than Galen, or that all the learning of Physic were to be drawn from the heathen, or that they alone had published the art, and established it with such sound arguments. Why do you not out of those authors confute those excellent men which are followers of Paracelsus, amongst whom that great Doctor Petrus Seueri●us a Dane is chief, who in his Idea hath opened the invincible foundation of Paracelsus Physic. Why do you not answer to the monarchy of the Trinity of that learned doctor and Physician Gerard Dorne? Why do you not confute the volumes of that famous Physician Turnesser, being confirmed with the truth of practice. But for your sakes which daily call Galens' doctrine unto examination, and with exact judgement do consider of it, giving place unto Paracelsus, acknowledging and exercising his preparations and practice, I do rejoice, and shortly more shall come out against the adversaries, which shall bite them better. In the mean time with your word, deed, and w●iting, defend the truth from injury.  
Farewell.   

B. G. Londrada A Portu Aquitanus unto the gentle Reader, health.  
THis treatise of Paracelsus (friendly reader) came unto my hands by the gift of a certain nobles Prince of Germany, and because it is sufficiently evident to be Paracelsus work, I thought it not good to reserve it to myself, but to publish it abroad, seeing there cometh no commodity or profit of hidden treasure. This therefore such as it is (loving Reader) embrace: and shortly, God willing, look for more and greater matters. But this one thing I would have you understand, that when you do minister those exalted essences of Paracelsus and his precious oils, think not that they are to be ministered by themselves, but with some other mixture to carry or lead them: and they must be used, the stomach first being purged with some special medicine of Paracelsus: as for example, if you will minister oil of Vitriol, mingle five or six drops with an ounce of conscrue of Roses, so shall you safely give it; the like you must judge of other things; use these happily.  
Farewell.   

An hundred and fourteen Experiments and Cures of Philip Theophrastus Paracelsus a great Philosopher, and a most excellent doctor of the one and the other Physic, Written With his own hand in the German tongue, which Conrade Steinberge his servant found among other lose papers and scrolls of Paracelsus.  
A Certain Baron being diseased with a wont grief, By drinking our Quinta essentia Mercuriale, cast out a stone downward, and became whole.  
2 A certain woman was long sick of the Passion of the heart which she called Cardiaca, who was cured by taking twice our Mercurial vomit, which caused her to cast out a worm commonly called Theniam, that was four cubits long.  
3 One Bartholomew, had for two years space a pain in his side, whom I cured by giving him the oil of Vitrial, in a drink comforting the stomach.  
4 A man that had his Navel standing out like to a man's yard, was healed with a third dipped in the oil of Uitriol, by tying the thread hard about it every day. After the same sort I healed a great swelling or overgrowing of the flesh called Parotis, which grew out of a woman's thigh weighing five pound.  
5 A soldier was shot through in the breast to the left shoulder with a two forked arrow, so that the head stuck fast in the bone, the which I drew forth with my two fingers, and powered Kissed into the wound and so he was healed.  
6 A Physician being astonished with a clap of thunder and Lightning, so that he seemed to be sick of the (Apoplexia) or of the disease which they call Syderacio, and of us, blast or taking, was restored to his former health with Oleum auri in aqua Melissa.  
7 A young man which for three year had on his chin a great outward swelling or aposteme, with the often chawing of the herb called Persicarie, was cured.  
8 I cured hard apostumes, swellings, and crusty ulcers, and stinking in the nostrils, with our Medicamentum mu●dificatiuum, and with our Emplastrum Stipticum.  
9 A woman who was in manner consumed with the French Pox, was cured with a drink or potion of Essentie Melissa, and she lived eight years after.  
10 One had his stomach swollen and standing out bigger than a Pomegranad, and that without any pain, whom I cured with a drink or potion of the oil of Vitriol.  
11 A boy of fifteen years old falling down a stone stairs had his arm and leg benumbed and void of moving, whose neck with the hinder part of the head, and all the back bone I anointed with this Unguent, R. of the fat of a Fox, ℥ ij. oil of the earth worms, ℥ j Oleum Philosophorum ℥ ss. I mixed them together and anointed therewith, and in short space no wound nor swelling appeared in him so hurt.  
12 One after an ague fell into such a dead sleep that he felt not himself being pricked, nor could open his eyes, nor speak any thing; he was sick of the Leth●rgi, whom I cured with the oil of Salt.  
13 a woman that gave a child suck, having her terms stayed long before, at the length the menstruous blood ran a pace out of her breasts, whereupon when she felt no grief or pain, I healed her by extracting blood out of the vain of the foot called S●phen●.  
14 A boy having his finger eaten to the bone with a disease called Impetigo or Lichen, I cured in short time with the oil of Lead.  
15 In a place where the bones wrere cankered and consumed, with good success I used Quinta esse●tia serpentum.  
16 A young man had his thigh made filthy with red Pushes of the bigness of Grommell seed, which I cured with the water of Tartar and Theriacle.  
17 The growing out of the flesh in the fundament, as also Any Rhagades, which are certain clefts or chaps in the flesh, I cured by the taking away of those fleshly parts by incision with Filum Arcenicale, and by the unction of Oleum Saturni.  
18 One that spit blood I cured by giving him one scruple of Laudanum Precipitatum in the water of Plantain, and outwardly I applied a linen cloth to his breast, dipped in the decoction of the bark of the roots of Henbane.  
19 One had two Pushes as it were warts upon the yard, which he got by dealing with an unclean woman, so that for six months he was forsaken of all Physicians, as uncurable, the which I cured by giving him Essentia Mercuriale, and then mixed the oil of vitriol, with Aqua sophiae, and laid it on warm with a supositorie or tene four days.  
20 One fifty years old after he was healed of the French pox, had every month the flux of the Hemeroides breaking and flowing out as fast as the terms do in a woman, whom I cured by purging him first with Pillule Pestilentiales Ruffi mixed with our Essentia Mercurial●s, afterward he drunk oftentimes, Aurum Diaphoreticum, but last of all, by giving him Crocus martis in drink he was perfectly cured.  
21 A Goldsmith of Stuburg had his skull perished until the innermost skin, or pellicle, which they call, Meniux tenuis: which also swollen up, whom I cured by opening the skull, and by purging the skin or pelliele, as it commonly falleth out in the wounds of the head with Unguentum Fuscum, and afterward with Bl●samum Hiperici, and with the flowers of herbs appropriate for the head applied to the place painted inform of a plaster. But in the mean time he drank thrice every day of the oil of Vitriol with the water of Basell and Laverder: Note that this disease is called Talparia, or Talpa.  
22 A girl of the age of fifteen years before she had her flowers, was very sore sick, whom I cured with the Oil of Camomile, in the water of Melissa and Ualenian.  
23 I cured a woman that for thirty years had a canker in her breast, by giving her Essentia Mercurialis, with the water of Plantain.  
24 A boy had his face and stones swell whom I cured with the extraction of Rhabarb●.  
25 One jonas falling in love with one Sabian, fell beside himself, whom I holp by giving him in drink Lapidem sive calculum microcosmi.  
26 The daughter of one Oliver being very pale did greedily eat small stones, chauke, lime, dust, and such like, (as they commonly do which have the longing sickness called Pica or Mal●chia) thorough the loathing of the stomach, whom I cured by purging her with Essentia Mercurialis for the first vomit, afterward for certain days I gave her oil of Vitriol to drink with the water of mint.  
27 One was sick of the Lousy evil called (Pthiriasis) whom I cured with these pills. R. Essentia mercurialis, ʒ ss. Aloes Hepatice and Mirha ana. ℥ ss. Saffrana half a scruple, make thereof pills with the oil of Staphisaegriae, afterward he drank a draft of wine of Centuarie or Perficaria.  
28 A boy of eighteen, years old had a tooth drawn, and three months after a certain black bladder appeared in the place of the tooth. The which I daily anointed with oil of Vitriol, and so the bladder was taken away, and the new tooth remained.  
29 A young Gentlewoman, called Ascania had great pain in her head, and was clean over all her body, because she had not the due course of her terms, who after she had often vomited, the pain abated: but when she could not abide any longer to vomit, I cured her by drawing blood out of the vain which is under the ball of the foot, and afterward the terms had their natural course, and she was helped.  
30 I oftentimes cured the falling sickness with Essentia Ueratri Nigri prepared after our order.  
31 One that had the Flux of blood by means of an Arter that was cut, I holp with Kissed Stipticum.  
32 A Knight being in an assembly was suddenly atoned and diseased over all his body, as if he had had the Apoplexy, whom I cured by anointing the hinder part of his head with Balsamum Helenij, and Essentia Mercurialis.  
33 A man of the country being stung with a Viper or adder, fell presently into a cold sweat, to the great danger of his life, who was restored to his health presently by drinking Theriaca Nostra with strong wine.  
34 A woman who had not her natural courses, was troubled with a very sore cough: the which I cured by opening the vain beneath the ball of the foot.  
35 A fat drunken Taverner was in danger of his life by a surfeit, who was restored to his health by letting of blood.  
36 A woman called Sabina had a long time the flux of the belly, by reason of the looseness of the stomach, the which I cured by giving her oil of Vitriol, with conserve of Anthos.  
37 A man that was wounded in the pellicle or tunicle of the heart, was cured with Essentia Solis.  
38 A young man being vexed with a continual and violent cough, I cured by giving him oftentimes the juice of Horehound with our Oximell, and after that he voided a worm upward and was helped.  
39 A young child had after a sickness a swelling in his breast by reason of the abundance of humours, the which I cured only with Theriaca Nostra.  
40 A certain man had a disease called Carcinomate, or ●angrena, the which was cured with Oleum Ueneris.  
41 A certain woman was so troubled with a disease in her secret parts, that what moist or liquid meat she did eat, presently she vomited again, the which was cured with Oleum Margaritarum.  
42 One Eligus had a great pain in his stomach, the which was holp with Essentia Mercurialis Uomitoria, the which shortly after vomited a piece of flesh wherein was h●d a worm.  
43 One Vermundus, was so troubled in his head and brain, that he stagered hither and thither, as though he had been drunk, whom 〈…〉 holp by giving him Pillulas Pestilentiales, with the which I mixed Essentiam Mercurialem, that caused him to vomit a hundred and fifty worms.  
44 A certain man was sick of the spleen, whom I cured with Crocus martis, in the water of Tamaris and Enul● Campane, and by outwardly applying Balsamum gummi ●moniaci.  
45 One was troubled with a corosion or gnawing of the entrails, whom I cured by ministering unto him Flores Veneris in wormwood wine.  
46 One was troubled with pains in the stomach thorough weakness, who took Oleum salis in his drink, and caused him to have many seges or stools, and so was restored to his health, as we have written in our book called Parastenasticon.  
47 A man that was troubled with the headache I purged by the nostrils, casting in the juice of Ciclaminus with a siring.  
48 Against the falling sickness I gave often to drink the juice of the herb called Lanceola, the which is called Herba Uernalis, or the less plantain with an empty stomach for the space of thirty days, mixing it with the extraction of the shavings of ivory, and the blood of a pigeon, for the man, the male, and for the woman, the female, in the Essence or oil of Craneum Humanum.  
49 In diseases of the eyes termed Catharacta or stili●idium and (called in the Greek Epiphora) and in swellings and pains of the eyes, I have used Medicamentum sive Collirium nostrum made of Tutia Magistralis, wherewith we did not only cure watering eyes, but also the great pain of the eye lids, and also where there was flesh growing over the sight of the eye, that it seemed to be past the cure of those common Physicians that profess to be skilful in the eies.  
50 A certain disease called Palipus the which is a stinkng in the nose, I cured with oil of Vitriol and the water of wax.  
51 One falling from a high place pissed blood, the which is short space I cured, giving him to drink ʒ j of a powder of our invention with ℥ iij. of the flowers of Tiliae.  
52 In the great scab I have often used this Unguent, made of Mercury mortified ʒ ij. Ceruse ʒ i. Euphorbium ʒ j Staphisagre, Lita●ge, Sanders, ana ʒ ss. mix them all together with as much grease of a red hog as will suffice.  
53 A certain man being long sick of the pox had two rumours and an ulcer in his nose, at the which every day there came footth great quantity of stinking and filchie matter, in whose nose I cast this decoction with a siring. R. Honey ℥ iiij. the juice of Calendine, Common salt prepared ʒ ij. Aloes washed ℥ ss. mix them together. Inwardly he was purged with Oleum Mercurij.  
54 In hard and knotty impostumes of the gout, I used Amoniacum dissolved in vinegar mixed with ehe oil of Turpentine, also oil of Crystal, only disperseth and consumeth those knots, as I have oftentimes proved, or Crystal calcined with the oil of Turpentine, also the oil of salt doth the same.  
55 In curing of pains in the mouth of the stomach, entrails, and belly, I used the water of the flowers of Camomel ℥ iii. honey of Roses ℥ i.  
56 One joannes Babtista a fair young man was infected with the pox two years through the filthy sin of Sodomites, so that there grew a piece of flesh in the inward part of the neck of the great gut with such extreme pain that he was almost dead, whom I cured by sweeting many days, with a Malgamie made of Mercury and jupiter, and opening his fundament with an instrument called Specillum Ossicularium, and laying on oil of Vitriol, upon the said superfluous flesh, and afterward I cured that flesh eaten away, with a suppository Incarnative.  
57 One called Gallenus had lost his speech by means of a hole that he had in the palate of his mouth coming of the pox, the which I cured with Mercurius Dulcis diaphoreticus cast in by a siring, and so the flesh grew again and was made whole.  
58 One was troubled with great burning of the urine the which I holp in this order R. dry Roses, Pug, semis, Linseede, the seed of Coucumbers, Gourds, Melons, Mallows, Purcelane, Populeon, ana ʒ two of the fruit of Alkekengi, numero x. fair water l. i. fs. make thereof a decoction according to Art: then strain it, and put thereto Troshiscorum Alkekengi ℥ ss. white sugar ℥ ij. Camphire ʒ j mix them and cast it into the yard with a siring or other instrument.  
59 One being sick of a thisicke, which is an ulceration of the lungs, with a consumtion of all the whole body, the which he took by the infection of his own wife. I cured with the oil of Perrelles.  
60 A certain woman had the course of her terms so long, that many times she was ready to give up the ghost, whom I cured with the oil of Vitriol, in Plantain water, and ʒ j of Carniola.  
61 Pustules or Wheels in all parts of the body, and especially in the head coming of the Pox, I cured only with the potion of Lignum Vitae or Gu●icum, and his purgative Salt, without any other outward medicine.  
62 A Fistula being between the testicules and fundament of a certain man troubled with the pox, I healed by applying Oleum Arsenicale fixum.  
63 A Hernia or Rupter which some call Ramex, in the with the bowels fall into the cods, I cured by the extraction of white sanicle, digested in bread, and afterward taken in drink, keeping up the gut or entrails with a truss made fit for the purpose, and laying upon the place offended, the Fesses that remained of the extraction.  
64 Intolerable pains in the legs, Ex morbo Venere●, I cured with the oil of Lignum Vitae, mixed with old Theriacle.  
65 A certain maiden through want of her monthly sickness was so vexed, that sometime thrice a day she seemed to be haunted with an evil spirit, whom I presently cured with the extraction of rheubarb, with the spirit of Tartar in drink, with the water of Melissa arthemisiae and pulegi, in Oleo Uitrioli.  
66 Pains in the teeth I cured by the juice of the nightshade and Persicariae made warm in a Gargarism burying the herbs afterward in a dunghill.  
67 I prepared a powder of the ashes of Rosemary, the which maketh the yellow teeth white, and healeth tumors in the Gums very quickly without blood.  
68 In tumours of the vuule Gums and jaws, I have used Oleum Uitriolli in water of Persicariae.  
69 In tumours of Scrofules, or hard impostumes of the breasts, I have used the oil of turpentine mixed with mistletoe of the Oak in form of a unguent.  
70 At Ingoistad a city of Germany, a certain man had the consumption of the lungs, whom I cured with the extractiou of Consolida maior in bread.  
71 A certain woman the which after childbirth was not well purged of her terms, presently fell beside herself, with other grievous pains in her breast and reins of the back, whom I holp only with the Essence of Antimoni.  
72 A maiden of ten years old after bathing herself fell into an Apoplexia, which proceeded of the Flux of gross humours into the vessels and into the parts of the head wherein consisteth the feeling and moving of the whole body yet she snorted much in her sleep and trembled over all her body whom I cured with Oleum cranij Humani, giving it with the spirit of Vitriol in water of Lavender.  
73 A young sucking child had his palate and lips full of Pustules or wheels called Aphtas, whom I cured by bathing them with a linen cloth wet in this water. R. Consolidae maioris & minoris, ana one handful, white wine ●j ss. boil them together and put thereto Shall Gemae, 〈◊〉 ij. clarified honey l ij. and make thereof a mixture.  
74 A certain woman who wanted her natural courses, was thereby so tormented that she abhorred all men, yea her very companions, whom I cured by opening the inward vain of the arm, because I could not find the vain of the leg called Saphena.  
75 A man of three score years being full of Melancholy humours, had crusty scabs over all his body, the which I cured with the medicine, R. the juice of Plantain, Semperuivi, and nightshade ana Oleum Lithargirij, as much as will suffice, make thereof an unguent wherewith thou shalt anoint all the parts of the body.  
76 One was troubled with a distillation or Cataract of the eyes, whom I cured in this order. R. Tuti● prepared and put into a fine linen cloth, and dip or wet it well in Vino cretico, wherewith wash the eyes oftentimes and they shall be holp.  
77 A certain woman after childbirth was troubled with great pain and chaps in her breast, which I cured washing them often with wine mixed with Oleum saturn●● and afterward the child did suck.  
78 A young maiden being troubled with a grrevous vomiting that she could neither retain meat nor drink that she took, the entrails moreover swelled exceedingly, whom I cured by applying a plaster of the leaven of bread with the juice of mint.  
79 A certain woman that three months after she was conceived, feared abortion or birth of her child afore the time, whom I cured with the Extraction of rheubarb with the spirit of Tartar, and afterward she drunk oftentimes Essentia Melissa with Oleum Solis.  
80 One Gotius, had a bone out of joint for three days, which afterward swollen marvelously, the which swelling I holp with Oleo Uerbasci and Prunella, otherwise Primule with the juice of Camomilla, and agrimony, and Oleum Petroleum, these being mixed together warm, I anointed the place being grieved, and so the bone was restored to his place again: then afterward to strengthen and comfort the joints, I used the said unguent mixed with M●sselto of the Oak, and Consolida Maior, until the cure was perfectly done.  
81 A woman being almost dead of the Colic, I cured with the red oil of Vitriol, drunk in Aniscede water, and a while after that potion, she voided a worm and was cured.  
82 A certain man called Barthelmew, having carnal company with his wife, could void no sperm at his yard but only wind, the which by often using of Oleum Vitrioli with the spirit of Tartar in distilled wine, and afterward the Extraction of Satirion he performed the act very well.  
83 A child of ten years old was troubled with a stone in the bottom of his yard, the which I cured by giving him Oleum Vitrioli to drink in Aqua Aqualiae, and then I applied outwardly oleo cancrorum with the oil of Turpentine, and so within one hours space the stone came forth and he was holp.  
84 A woman of twenty years old being married could have no children, who by the use of taking the extraction of Satirion she conceived, and within nine months she had a strong child, but lest that after her childbirth she should become barren again and dried away with a leanness, I gave her to drink Oleum Margaritarum with Roman coleworts.  
85 A certain woman being troubled with great abundance of her natural sickness had great swelling and pains in her hands and feet, and fell many times into a sound, whom I cured by taking often the Extraction of rheubarb.  
86 To cause nurses to have abundance of milk, I have taken the fresh branches or tops of fennel and boiled in water or wine, and given it to drink at dinner, or supper, and at all times, for it greatly augmenteth the milk.  
87 One had in the a●mepit a sanguine impostume, upon the which impostume I applied a linen cloth wet in man's blood, being warm, and so in short time he recovered his health, not without great admiration.  
88 One called Ambrose, while he yawned, suddenly the lower law remained with great grief and pain, whom I cured with the decoction of Camomel, Uerbascum Perforata, and such like, as before in Number. 80.  
89 One was troubled three years with a dizziness in the head, whom I cured within a month by drinking Oleum Uitrioli, in Betoni water.  
90 A man being vehemently troubled a years space with pains in the head, I cured only by opening of the skull, and in the same manner I cured the trembling of the brain, taking therewithal, Oleum saltis in water of Basell.  
91 A certain maid for want of her monthly sickness, was swollen all the body over, and had red Pustules, which always at certain hours of the day appeared seven times, and vanished away with great pain of the stomach, and sounding, whom I ●ured giving her in drink Essentia Splenis, extracted out of the Spleen of an ox in the water of Melisse and Artemisiae.  
92 I holp one of the pleurisy by drawing away blood of the inward vain of the arm on that side, giving him also in drink Spiritus Tartari, in A 〈…〉 Melissa and anointing the outward par 〈…〉 the mouse of th● mountain.  
93 A certain woman having a coroding ulcer in the left breast with great pains, by means that she had not her natural sickness, she had also in the right breast, neck, and armpit, certain kernels, and hard tumours, and chief the left arm was astonished or taken, to whom I gave sundry times a purgation of the extraction of rheubarb, and the oil of Gold by the space of a month, outwardly I washed the breast with the decoction of the roots of Celandine in wine: also I laid thereon plegetes wet with Oleum Veneris, mixed with honey and rooled it, and afterward I laid it on our common Opodeltoche, and so she was perfectly cured.  
94 One Rosina, was troubled with a quartan Agew the space of twelve months, with induration and swelling of the Spleen, whereof she fell into a kind of dropsy which is called Ascitem, the which I purged first with Essentiae, and Trochiscis Alhandali & Serapionis. The second day I commanded her that she should lick in Diacubebe for the space of a month.  
95 One had a hard swelling in the flesh of his leg caused of (Morbus Hispanicus) whom I cured with Oleum Antimoni, 〈◊〉. Mercury mortified according to our order ʒ i. mixed into an ungent.  
96 A noble woman was troubled with Empiema the which is a spitting forth of filthy matter, whom I cured with Oleum Sulfuris drunk in water of Ciclaminus M●lissa and Betonie.  
97 in grievous pains of the joints I have used, Oleum Uitriolli in water of turpentine, or water of wormwood.  
98 A priest was troubled with the running gout and with great pains in his Kidneys, whom I cured only with oil of turpentine according to our order.  
99 A certain Queen through the Retention of her menstrues, had her tongue so inflamed and swollen that she could not speak, and had a lameness throughout the whole body, and also fell besides herself, whom I cured by drawing blood from the urine called Saphena.  
100 A child of twelve years old had suddenly a great swelling in his head the which was soft, whom I cured in four days with this medicine, R. oil of Camomile, Tapsi Barbati, Hypericon, and mix them, and therewith anoint the tumour.  
101 A young man that was troubled with Spasmus Caninus, so that his mouth was drawn awry, I cured by anointing the reins of the back with Balsamum Helenij & Hederae, and by little and little drawing the place being awry to his form with the gentle rubbing of my hand: Moreover, I gave him in his drink Oleum salis.  
102 One had an impostume behind his ear, the which I cured in purging him with our Essentia Mercurialis, and applying our Apodeliae.  
103 I cured the inflation and hardness of the spleen, with my plaster made of gums, and oleum Philosophorum, with the juice of Ciclaminus.  
104 A certain woman being awake was vexed with Litargia, so that her eyes were always shut, and if any had called her, she could scarce open her eyes, and no man could understand what she said, not yet answer any man, the which woman was brought to her perfect health only by the use of oleum vitrioli.  
105 A noble man in Carinthia was sick of the plague whom I cured by giving him every morning electuariu 〈…〉 i●niperorum, wherewith I mixed one scruple of oil of vitriol.  
106 A Prince in Germany that was troubled with the frenzy, by reason of a sharp fever, whom I cured with giving him five grains of Laudanum nostrum which expelled the fever, and caused him to sleep six hours afterwards.  
107 A Gentlewoman of name was troubled with the suffocation of the matrix, whom I cured with specifico nostro corticis ficus, being laid upon hot coals, and taking the sum thereof at the lower parts, and presently she was holp.  
108 A Lawyer of Augusta was long sick of the colic, and was forsaker of other Physicians, whom I cured by giving him Laudanum nostrum.  
109 A Barber of Argentine was greatly troubled with the headache, to whom I gave the oil of sweet margerome to smell, and put a drop thereof into both ears, and as soon as it was done he was holp.  
110 A certain woman at Colmaria, was troubled with the falling sickness, in whose nose I put the oil of Gargates, and within a little while after she recovered again; then I purged her with Elle●oro nostro, and the next day I gave her certain drops of the oil of Cranei humanae, who afterward was troubled no more.  
111 A certain Baron was sore infected with Morbus Hispanicus and miserably anointed with vigo's unguent, and left off the school doctors, whom I first purged with our Specificum Torpetum, and then I gave him oleum solis & Margaritarum, in aqua guaici rectificate, and so he was perfectly cured.  
112 Many that were troubled with the quartan fever I have cured with our Turpeto, and also those that had the pestilence and pleurisy.  
113 A certain man of fifty years old was vexed with a cramp that his head and neck was drawn down to his breast, and could not lift nor stir it, unto whom I applied Arcanum magnetis & oleum salis, and so he was cured.  
114 One was troubled with a palsy, whom I cured only with the essence of Cheri drawn with the spirit of wine.  
The end of the Experiments of Philip Theophrastus Paraselsus a most excellent Doctor of the one and the other Physic: enjoin thereto the praise of jesus Christ, and farewell.   

B. G. L P. Penotus Londrada a portu santae Mariae Aquitanus, greeting.  
I Thought good (gentle Reader) to publish and make thee partaker of these four particular things, which, if at the first fight they shall not seem to agree with thy work and practise, thou must remember to impute that unto thine error and ignorance; for, a light error doth mar a whole work, which thou must amend by reading of Philosopher's books. For which cause the sayings of Philosophers are much and long to be searched, examined, and thought upon before thou canst get out the hidden meanings of them. If then in reading Philosophers Books thou play the sluggard, thou canst never be perfect in preparing thy matters, and therefore I might not by the authority of the laws of Philosophy, interpret all things openly, word for word to thee. Something are to be left for industrious wits, wherein to excercise themselves by studying and searching. Notwithstanding if thou be not unthankful, all these things shall be opened and declared unto thee in my Galliae portu; where very many workings hitherto known of few, shall faithfully be set forth. In the mean season know thou, that I am not the deviser of these particular things; for some of them I had of gift, and some other for money and rewards came to my hands. To thee I give them freely, which use well. Farewell.   

¶ A Treatise of certain particulars, whereof the first entreateth of the preparation of the Markasite of lead, as well for the transmutation of metals, as for the alteration of man's body, etc.  
THe philosophers Saturn, is properly the markasite of lead, and in deed doth excel Sol and Luna, in so much that Raymond saith, that in this inferior world, there is no greater secret, then that which consisteth in the Markasite of Lead, insomuch that they which have thoroughly sought out the force and nature of it, have bound themselves together by oath never to utter those secrets of nature unto the end of ●heir lives. For so much as his operation is of such kind, as truly it hath many and sundry uses, which being duly prepared, doth not only alter and change the filthy and corrupt humours of our bodies, but also can change and transmute by sundry experiments, Luna into Sol.  
Take of the Mineral markasite of lead xii. pound and grind it into sine powder upon a Marble stone, as they grind colours with vinegar: being well ground and tempered, put it into a strong glass, and put thereon a good quantity of distilled vinegar, and stir it well with a stick. and so let it stand in Balneo Mariae: then set thereon a blind head, and there let it stand eight days together, stirring and moving it every day six or seven times: then let it cool: and the vinegar willbe of a yellow colour, the which ye shall power forth into another glass, taking heed that ye stir not the feces: then put thereon more vinegar, & stir it well with a stick, and s●t on the blind head and set it in Balneo Mariae other viii. days, as ye did afore, than power forth that vinegar being coloured into the other glass. And this order ye shall use so long until you see the vinegar no more coloured, for at the last the feces will remain in a white mass, like white earth.  

Distillation of the coloured Uenigar.  
THen take all that vinigar being coloured, and distill it in Balneo until it will drop no more, and there let thy cucurbit stand three days with the feces that it may dry well, then take it fourth, and thou shalt find in the bottom of the glass a white matter, the which take out, for in that whiteness, the redness of the Markasite is hidden, which being prepared, availeth much to make aquam philosophorum that they call ardentem.   

The preparation of the feces.  
Take the white feces or matter, and put it into a distilling vessel with a great recipient very well luted, that the spirits go not forth, and set it in the hot ashes, and give it a gentle fire, and then increase it according to art a day or two, and there will come forth first a white water, and then a red or golden yellow oil, the which is to be kept close with great care.   

The feces to be taken again.  
Then take those pheses and set them in a calcining furnace eight days, then take them forth and grind them finely, and put them in a glass with a good quantity of distilled vinegar, and stir them well together; that being done, set it again in Balneo for eight days together, and stir it every day seven or eight times, the more the better, then let it wax cold and settle, and power away the clear part from the feces, but take heed that ye stir not the dregs or bottom. Then power on fresh vinegar, and set it in Balneo again, and do as ye did afore, and then power away the vinegar again, and cast away the pheses, for they are nothing worth.   

The distillation of the vinegar.  
Then take the vinegar which you reserved, and distill it with a gentle fire, and in the bottom thou shalt find a salt, in the which remaineth all the force and strength. Then calcine the said salt again in a reverberatorie louvre and twenty hours with a great fire, then take it forth and put it in the glass wherein it was afore, and put thereon fresh viveger and set it in Balneo. And this thou shalt do so often until the salt leave no feces in the bottom: that being done, distill thy vinegar as at the first, and thou shalt find thyself prepared liquid and clear as Crystal.   

Coniunctio spiritus corporis, scilicet olei & salis.  
Take the aforesaid salt, and grind it upon a stone dropping thereon his red oil by little and little: that being do one, put it into a cucurbit luted with Hermes seal, and so set it upon a trevet in an Athanor twenty days, and it will be fixed into a red stone, so that ye have the true government of the fire. Then take it forth and grind it upon a stone, and according to the weight put thereunto as many Letones of the Calex offine gold, and upon all these put on as much of the white water which ye distilled afore the red oil as all the whole doth weigh, and close it up with Hermes seal, and set it in ashes in an Athanor with a soft fire until it be fixed, but after it be fixed there will appear many colours, the which will turn into perfect oil and true Elixir. Rejoice in this, but before ye begin the work, consider of it and pray.   

The second particular that is called Torpetum sive diaphoreticum minerale, purgiug without loathsomeness or difficulty, helping the pleurisy, the plague, and especially the French pox.  
Take Leonis à dracone repurgatissimi one part, aquilae mineralis repurgatissimae twelve parts, mix them together according to Art, than put them into a cucurbit of glass, and put thereon twice so much of the liquor of red Colc●thor without phlegm, as the matter weigheth, and then nourish it in warm sand with a gentle fire three days taking heed that the matter ascend not into the head. That being done, distill it that the feces may remain dry, then increase thy fire that the sand and glass may be red hot the space of three hours: then let it wax cold, and take out the matter and beat i● finely, and wash it with fair distilled water, until it have lost his sharpness, and that thou shalt do divers times till it be well purged: then dry it and put it into a glass, and put thereunto the spirit of wine that it may be covered three fingers high, and set it on fire, and thus thou shalt do three times, and th' 〈…〉 〈…〉 t thou without any doubt a greater secret to heal his proper disease, so that within six da●es he shall be quite whole. The dose is about five grains in conserve of roses drunk with wine or Sacc●ro Ros●to as well in the morning as at night when he goeth to bed, and let the patiented sweat thereon two hours at each time. It is a most sovereign medicine against all contractions, and you use it (as afore) according to the nature of the disease. But the patient must use it six days. If there appear any pustules ye shall cure them by touching them with oil of Sulphur. Moreover those that have the dropsy or such like moist diseases in the body are cured by giving them six grains in water of Cardus Benedictus, letting them sweat thereon as is aforesaid and keeping the order afore set down. Against the Pleurisy, ye shall give four grains in the said water. And against the plague in rose vinegar. Against the falling sickness with water of black chenies or peony. Furthermore, if any have had the same disease by nature, ye shall give them every day a little pill in Aqua Pionia, putting thereon six drops of the spirit of Vitriol. If I would show or express all the virtues, I should write a book there of, but that which remaineth I will show more at large in my book called Portus G●sconicus with the order to draw the spirit of wine.   

The third particular called Laudanum. Anodinum, the which is most excellent of all other secrets in as 〈…〉ging griefs and pains in diverse disease●.  
TAke Liquor is aquae inexpert● & inspissatis ℥ ij & put thereto the spirit of wine, and set it in Balneo to digest, until it have drawn away the Tincture: then power it forth into a clea●e vessel, and put on more, and so set it to digest again so long as it will give any Tincture or colour. Then take the gum of Henbane dried in the ●unn● ℥ j and draw away his Tincture with the spirit of wine, as thou didst out of the liquor aforesaid, then take Diamber ℥ ij. and likewise draw away his Tincture with the spirit of wine, and keep it very close until such time as I shall show thee: then take momia ℥ ss. and draw away his Tincture with the spirit of wine, and when thou hast done mix it with the other, then take Crocus Orientalisʒ iij. and draw forth his tincture and mix it with the rest, and every day stir it, and keep it in a warm place close stopped fifteen days; that being done, distill it in Balneo, and there will remain a little matter in the bottom, then put thereto a little of the Tincture of Di●mbrae, the which ye reserved afore, and so let it stand in digestion until it be thick, stirring it 3. or 4. times a day until the smell of the liquor be in a manner consumed, the which will be in six weeks. Then take these that follow, the liquor of Coral, clear Amber o● Succinum of each ʒjs. Unicorns horn 6. grains, Magisterium Perlarum one scr●ple▪ Ossis de cord C●rui half a scrupple, Aurum Potabile, or his Tincture ʒ ss. All these being finely beaten and mixed in a stone or glass mortar, with the spirit of Diamber, put in with the residue being thick, and so stirring it sundry days afterward distill all the spirit of wine away, then put thereon the residue of the spirit of Diambrae, and when it is almost dry, put thereto Olei succini, olei masi & Cinamoni of each about one scruple. Then take one part and reserve it for women without musk, for it hurteth them. But to the other part for men, put in half a scruple of the extraction of musk made with the spirit of wine, and set it in a warm place that it may dry, and so keep it to thy use. Ye may give it in form of pills or dissolve it in some convenient liquor, inconvenient Dose, as iij. grains or fix grains, for those that are of strong nature. It comforteth much against the colic, the frenzy hot Fevers, Arthritide P●dagra, the weakness of the stomach, the yex, and comforteth against vomiting, provoketh sleep. Against the falling ficknes ye shall give iij. grains with the spirit of Vitriol and Essentia Camphora that is drawn with oil of sweet Almonds, the which is made in this order.   

The order to draw the Essence of Camphor.  
Take Camphor 〈◊〉 oil of sweet Almonds ℥ ss. macerate them in the sun or in Balneo, or in a dry warm furnace four and twenty hours, then draw forth his Tincture or essence with the spirit of wine, and put thereto ʒ j of Laudanum, and ʒ two of the spirit of vitriol, and ℥ six of the water of peony flowers, and stir them together, and give thereof one spoonful at the time of the fit. It is a most excellent remedy against all uncurable diseases.   

The fourth specificum called Panchimagogon, the which doth purge in small dose all noisome spirits that are mingled with the humours.  
Take Specierum Di●rhodon abbatis ℥ two. and draw forth the tincture with the spirit of wine, and keep it by itself. Afterward take the Pulp of Colocinthidesʒ seven. Turbitʒ v. Agariei ℥ i ss. Heleborinigriʒ seven. Dyagrediʒ vi. Foliorum seen ℥ iiii. Rhabarbari ℥ two. El●teri ℥ ss. beat them and mix them together, and put thereon Cinnamon water, the which is made in this order. The Cinnamon ●i. and stamp it grossly, then infuse it in white wine four and twenty hours close stopped, then distill it with a gentle fire being close luted, for with this cinnamon water or spirit of wine, thou mayst draw forth the tincture of all the aforesaid drugs. Always provided, that ye keep them a month in a warm place to macerate, stirring them three or four times in a day, and at the end of the month power forth the liquor, and put the pheses into a Retort, and distill forth the oil and water, the oil ye shall rectify, and reserve. The pheses that remain ye shall calcine, and make thereof a salt, the which ye shall put to the oil that ye rectified. Then take that liquor which ye reserved first, and distill it in Balneo, and in the bottom there will remain a matter thick like honey. Then take the tincture of Di●trodiou Abbatis, and power it upon that thick matter, and stop well thy glass, and set it in a warm place eight days, stirring it every day. That being done, draw it away the spirit in Balne●, until it remain thick like honey, unto the which ye shall put his oil that ye distilled, mix them and let them digest-until it be so thick that ye may make thereof pills, the which ye may do so soon as it feeleth the cold: for in the cold it will wax hard, and in heat it will wax liquid: the dose is from one scruple to two scruples where there shallbe need of purging in the powder of liquors, for so it worketh without pain.   

Four principal diseases whereunto almost all other diseases may be referred.  
THe Leprosy is the first, whose badges all manner of ulcers do bear, as itch, scabs, Alopecia, scurfs, scabs, chops in the skin, foulness, the dead evil, and such like diseases.  
To the gout doth belong the colic, pain in the reins, Orexes pain in the teeth, running gouts, painful flixes▪ pain of the head Cephalea and Himecrania.  
To the dropsy are referred all manner of fevers, apostumes, the jaundice, and evil digestion.  
To the falling sickness belongeth Cathares, beating of the heart, cramps, giddiness of the head, Apoplexis and suffocation of the matrix.  
If any of the principal of those diseases be healed, all the other inferior be also cured.  
For the cure of the gout three things are required, that is, resolving, mitigating and strengthening.  
Wherefore, if thou be of any quick judgement, the four particulars before set down are sufficient for thee.  
The chiefest point of health consisteth in this, not to fill thyself with meat, nor to be slow in labour.   

Barnardus G. Penotus Landrad● a Portu S. Mariae Aquitanu●●nto the singular learned man john Aquill● the hammer of the Ethnics, wisheth much health.  
NOt only in these our days (friend john) but also in the old time amongst the learned, this proverb hath taken place, that ignorance is the mother of marveling. Who in these days would not marvel to see men utterly void of all manner of learning to be preferred before learned men and such as are most skilful in the Latin and Greek tongues, and those are to be embraced of kings and princes, and rewarded with most liberal gifts, & most famous and learned men expert in all the tongues to be rejected and contemned? You which excel in judgement and learning will answer that every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of light. Therefore God doth in these latter days stir up these Idiots and Empirics, to stir up every physician that he should rightly prepare his own medicines with his own hands, and being so prepared, with sharp judgement apply them to their proper diseases, that the seed of the disease may be pulled up by the roots, and not to commit it to an unskilful cook. And therefore of necessity from hence must both the theoric and the practice, the reason and the work concur and join together, because judgement without practice is barren. The greatest number of them will answer, we know not your works and preparations which require so great and hard labour, we are now old and doctors, we will not be made younglings and scholars again. If this answer might take place, the jew, the Pope & the Tu 〈…〉 would not change their superstitions. which notwithstanding we know to be most contrary to the sacred scripture. But we sufficiently and daily prove by calcining, subliming, dissolving, putrefying, distilling, congealing and fixing by this most laudable art of Alchemy, how the pure may be separated from the unpure, and the corruptible from the incorruptible, and that which is venomous and deadly be changed and made wholesome and good, and as Paracelsus saith concerning this art, we shall first consider that all things are created of god, for he created of nothing something, and that something is the seed of all things, and that seed worketh that effect hereunto ordained and appointed. All things notwithstanding are so created that they shall come unto our hands, and begin to be in our power, but so, as things not perfect, but to be made perfect: as things not finished, but to be finished. The matter in them truly is perfect, but the middle and last matters remain to be made perfect. As for example, God created iron, earth, and clay, but not such as they should be, for the clay groweth, yet not like a pot or other earthen vessel: so he created iron lying in a rude mass, and hath given it so rude unto us: therefore we with our labour must make thereof shoes for horses, scythes, and spears. Even so is it in Physic, for that is also created of God, but not so that it should be utterly perfect, but as yet hidden under the earth, not purged from his unclean matter, but that which remaineth to be made perfect in it, is committed to the Chemist, that is, to the physician to be purged and cleansed. For herbs, trees, stones, and iron, and whatsoever is seen with the eyes, is not true medicine, but is rude and impure, wherein as yet the pure part lieth hid. And therefore Alchemy teacheth to purge the medicine to dissolve it, and to separate things of contrary kind from things of the same kind, otherwise rotten things would be mingled with rotten, and the corrupt with the corrupt, and so conspire to one effect, so that of one disease many other should spring or arise. Briefly, every man loveth not that whereof he hath no understanding or knowledge, but flieth from it, contemneth it, and thinketh it not meet to be learned. The body only careth for that which is outward, but the mind worshippeth his God. By how much more the knowledge or understanding of any thing doth increase or grow, so much the more is the love of the fame augmented. For all things consist in the true knowledge of them, and out of that springs all the good fruits that redound to knowledge. Knowledge also brings faith, for he that knoweth God, beginneth straightway to put his trust in him. For such as every man's faith is, such is also his knowledge.  
And contrariwise he that doth otherwise work about nature, worketh like a Painter that painteth an image, in the which is neither life nor strength: wherefore those which you call Empirics shall rise even before your faces, and take in hand and help grievous diseases, the cures whereof are unpossible unto you: and you together with your consolations and reasonings shall be made laughing stocks. As lately B. in Germany it happened of a certain noble and famous woman which was vexed with the pain of the matrix. Some physicians said it was the gravel and the stone; but an Empiric passing by affirmed that it was neither the gravel nor the stone, wherefore he commanded a remedy to be prepared for the matrix, the which being done, she was straightways healed. Oh what a rumour was raised by and by of him! stirring up others also to rumours and tales, saying, that her husband doth contemn us that will rather use the advise and counsel of an Empiric, then ours. Yea and others that seemed wiser did finally regard him that would every hour use the help of an Empiric man most unlearned. Mark I pray you (my friend Aquilla) how the enemies inflamed with envy go about to oppress the truth: but at the last, will they, nill they, they shall be enforced to confess that that cannot be denied. But you may object unto me; He that speaketh all, excludeth nothing. For there be many worthy learned men masters and professors of Physic, that do not deny or refuse this art. In the which number are those most excellent and singular masters and doctors Petrus severinus Danus which hath written marvelous things of this Chemical Art, that worthy and godly man Michael Neander professor of humanity, Theodorus Zuingerus of Basill a man practised in this Art, and also Theodorus Brickmannus a physician of Cullein, which both by word & deed daily excelleth with most deep judgement in these matters, whom I wilnever overpass with silence.   

Hereafter followeth three particular treatises, the first of the sulphur of gold and other metals, then of stones, and the extraction of Coral.  
R. Purged and fine gold made in plates ℥ j the powder of pomise stone ℥ iiij. lay them Stratum Superstratum, and reverberate it with dry wood five days and nights together, then take the powder and keep it in a glass. Then melt the gold again, and make it in plates and lay it Stratum Superstratum as ye did afore, and that ye must do until the gold have lost his yellow colour, after take all thy powders together, and put it in a glass with distilled vinegar, and there let it remain until the vinegar be coloured yellow, then power it forth and put in more, and that thou shalt do so often, until the vinegar be no more coloured, than vapour away the vinegar, and thou shalt find an inpalpable powder in the bottom. If thou be'st wise, look where thou madest an end, there begin; the like is of other metals. But they are not to be reverberated so long; you shall have of silver a bluish colour, ofyron a reddish colour, of copper a darkish colour. There is drawn out of Coral a red tincture. All which things are to be corrected with the spirit of wine being often powered thereon, there cannot be a shorter or profitabler way found out for this. Iron plates for one time are of force, but after the first Cimentation they serve no more. His tincture being rightly prepared is used in stead of gold. If it be drawn out of the best steel, it will fix the mercury of Saturn.   

The second particular is of the marvelous preparation of the markasite of Lead, tincting water or other liquor into his red colour.  
R. Salt common prepared vitriol Roman of each i vi. set them in a fire of calcination ten hours, then take it forth and beat it to powder, than put it into a stone pot unglased, and give it fire 15 hours according to Art, then will distill forth both the oil and the spirit together, the which ye shall rectify in a pelican, then being rectified put thereunto the markasite of lead in powder, being in a strong cucurbit well luted, and then set it in ashes in a furnace, under the which ye shall set a burning lamp for the space of a month, and then the Markasite will dissolve into a red matter: afterward take common fountain water and power thereon, then set it to dissolve in a moist place or cellar, and the flower of the Markasite will turn like to a red crystal: the which take to thy work. It purgeth the leprous blood in pleurisies, the plague, Contractures, the lungs and liver the quantity of one piece in greatness, doth serve to dissolve the same.   

The third particular, and the sum of the whole work.  
R. Album. Albius, Albo as much as ye will, Aqua Soluens vi. times as much, and set them in Balneo three days, then take it forth, filter it, and dry it: then again dissolve it, and that do three times: being dry, dissolve it by itself, of the which solution, take three parts olei permanentis & incombustibile one part, Aeris four parts, shut thy vessel, and in that heat nourish it, and in few days thou shalt have a universal medicine to expel all diseases. Rejoice, and give praise unto jesus Christ.   

A Fragment out of the Theorickes of 〈◊〉. Iscaacus Hollandus.  
Amongst all things that were created of God, water was the first, whereunto God joined his proper earth, and of earth, whatsoever hath essence or life hath his original. Therefore there are two manifest elements, that is, water and earth; in which the two other lie hid, the fire in the earth, and the air in the water: and they are so knit together, that they cannot be separated. Two of them are fixed, as the earth and fire. two are flying, as water and air. Therefore every element doth participate within other elements. Moreover, in every element are two other elements, one decaying, putrefying and combustible, the other eternal and incorruptible as the heaven: beside in these natures lieth hid an other nature which is called by the name of stinking feces, which hinder and take away the strength of the rest, so as they have very little force or none, and thereby make the other element's stinking and subject to putrefaction. There is also two kinds of waters, the one elemental, the other of rain and river waters; as there is also two kinds of earths, one elemental, clear, shining, and white, the other black, stinking, and combustible. Like as also there be two fires, one elemental and natural, the other stinking and combustible: the like is also to be said of the air. The base things are so mingled with the rest, that by and by they corrupt all things, so that nothing can continue long, for they bring death and weaken all nature be it never so noble. This is to be understood of all things both vegetal, animal, and mineral. Therefore it is necessary by Art to separate the elemental nature from the corruptible, that the matter may be brought to a medicinal quality. There be three most subtle spirits in all things, that is, colour, taste, and smell, these fly away invisibly, the Philosophers call them wild spirits, because they are not fixible, yet the industry of the artificer may fix them. They always grow in the bodily substance until they come to perfection and end. The herb therefore is to be taken when it is fully grown, and take heed that you lose none of those three spirits, as the ignorant use to do, with their putrefactions and separations of elements. For none of those spirits consisteth of the three elemental elements: but God hath adorned elements with those three spirits, and of them the fire is animal, the water air elemental, and no man but God can separate them asunder. But the water of the clouds may be separated from them. Also all the feces may be separated from them which are mingled with them, which are the stinking and corruptible elements, and the four elemental elements may be brought to a crystalline shining: but these three elements, fire, air, and earth are unseparable. My son, know this, that Mercury is the first of all things, for before time there was water, and the spirit of the Lord rested upon the water, but what was that water, the water of the clouds, or a moisture which might be powered out? No: but it was a dry dusty water, & God had joined his earth unto it which is his sulphur, and so the earth congealeth the water, and thereof sprung the four elements included in these two by the will of God. Therefore Mercury congealeth sulphur, and sulphur Mercury; neither can one of these be without the other, as also they cannot be without their salt, which is the chiefest mean by whose help nature engendereth and bringeth forth all vegetals, minerals, and animals. Wherefore these three, mercury, salt, and sulphur can not be one without another, for where the one is found, there the other are found also, neither is there any thing in nature wherein these three are not found▪ and of these three whatsoever is in nature hath his original, and are so mingled with the four elements, that they make one body, and the salt is drowned in the bottom of the elements, for it is necessary that the salt should keep them united by his sharpness and dryness, notwithstanding it is a flying spirit, but because it sticketh in the bottom of the mixture, and is overcome of the fatness and combustible oil, in which it is found, as the yolk within the white of the egg, and the combustible oil liveth of the earth with the ●alt and feces, and the salt is buried in the bottom of the feces of the combustible oil and earth, therefore it cannot fly away from the earth, but by great force of fire. These three spirits whereof we have spoken, are said first to be separated from the mixture of the elements which is the soul of all things, or their quintessence, which holdeth together the whole mixture of the elements, for when the spirits are gone cut, than the mixture is dissolved by itself and divided, neither is there need of fire to expel the salt from the earth, when the elements are separated from the feces, then is the salt also separated with it. This salt is unknown to the ignorant. Therefore salt is the mean between the gross earthly parts, and the three flying spirits resting in the natural heat, that is, the taste, moist smell, and colour: which three are the life, soul, and quintessence of every thing, neither can these three spirits be one without the other, as the Father, the Son, and the holyghost are one, yet three persons, and one is not without the other. The ignorant laugh, neither understand they these three spirits, when as they are tied to the gross earthly fixed parts, and are made subtle, and their salt is joined and mingled with them, it must transform them all together, and fix them into a crystalline body Diaphanes and red of colour, whereof we will speak hereafter; he that knoweth not this salt, shall never bring any to pass in Art. The philosophers call this salt a dry water and a lively salt, but the ignorant thought they meant mercury, but the Philosophers called the three spirits Mercury, and the earth Sulphur, which the ignorant understand not. Either of them can not be without the other, neither is there any thing in nature, in which these three are not, and they are so mixed with the four elements that they make one body and mixture. Whatsoever God hath created is in these three stones, wherefore all may be reduced into a crystalline clearness by Art, given by God unto the Philosophers, for in the latter days God will separate all the unclean feces and corruption that is in the elements, and bring them to a crystalline clearness and redness of a carbuncle. Afterward there shall be no more corruption, but they shall endure for ever. Do you think that all things which God hath created in these lower parts, should utterly perish in the latter day? No, not the least hair of those things which God hath created no more than the incorruptible heaven, but God by his will will change all things, and make them crystalline, and the four elements shall be perfect, simple, and fixed in themselves, and they shall be all a quintessence. Demonstration of these things may be made here on earth by Art, for whatsoever God hath created may be brought to a crystalline clearness, and the elements gathered together into a simple fixed substance, which being done, no man can alter them, neither the fire itself burn or change them, but they shall continue perpetually as those things which have attained eternity.   

The order to draw forth the Quint●essence of Sugar, collected out of the vegetable and animal works of Isacke Holander.  
Here will I show thee a great secret, how thou shalt draw forth the quintessence of Sugar, the which truly excelleth all vegetable works, by mean of his temperature like unto the incorruptible heaven, the which is neither hot, cold, nor dry, but most temperate, nevertheless compounded of the four elements, but they strive not one with another, for if they are so joined together, that they can never be separated one from an other, but for ever remain simple and fixed in unity. But this heaven doth distribute and give unto the earth whatsoever is necessary for it, although that itself be neither hot nor cold, moist nor dry, the which like effects hath the quintessence of sugar, the which in itself hath the four elements, as gold hath: as gold is pure, so sugar is impure, gold outwardly is hot and moist, inwardly cold, and dry, and white: sugar is the contrary, for it is outwardly cold and dry; and inwardly hot and moist and red, and fixed both outward and inward. Neither is there any thing wanting, but that the inward quality may be brought, that his redness may appear outwardly, and that his pheses be separated, then is it prepared, and shall not need to be fixed, for it is fixed already, and doth retain with itself all outward and inward spirits, and whatsoever is volatile, it doth retain. Now what his kind is I will tell thee, and from whence he hath his original, that is, even out of the red, but if thou wilt be further satisfied, read the three and thirty chapter of the generation of those things that grow in the seas, and other waters, where we writ largely of the nature thereof. Hear it shall be sufficient for us to show the order how to prepare it, and in what order it should be used in medicine, and also to other things where it may be applied. His nature is to retain or hold all flying spirits, and to fix them into a stone, as shallbe showed hereafter. First ye shall understand that ye cannot separate the feces, except ye bring the inward parts outward, that is to say, that his inward dark golden colour do appear, the which when it is so di 〈…〉 d, his redness is seen, and this fire passing the yellowness of his air, or his incombustible oil, then mayest thou first separate the feces from the quintessence. Take therefore hard and white Sugar, for it is not needful that ye travel much in dissolving and congealing of it, although there be much impurity therein, that hindereth not, but that the inward part may be brought forth, for it must be purged when as the redness doth show itself outward. Take therefore ten or twenty pounds of sugar more or less, as ye shall think good, that being beaten, put it into a cucurbit● of hard stone, and put thereon Aqu● vitae, that it may stand covered viii. fingers, then distill it in Balueo with a strong fire until it will distill no more, then let it wax cold, and power on the said Aqua vitae again and distill it again, and this shalt thou do six or seven times: at the last open the head and take forth the sugar, which thou shalt put in a strong glass, and set it in fine ●ifted ashes, and put thereon the Aqua vitae, and distill it until the half be come forth, then power on again the Aqua vitae which thou distilledst away, first being made warm lest the glass should break: ye shall note that the head would have a hole in the top, by the which ye may power in the Aqua vitae with a funnel; this thou shalt repeat often with a strong fire, that the wine and the sugar may boil in, and because the half part of the wine will come away quickly, ye shall presently put on the other part, for if ye should distill forth all the wine, the sugar would burn through too much heat, because it must continually be boiling in the glass, and it would smell of the burning, for it hath always his combustible sulfur, wherefore ye must always have half the wine in the vessel, and when thou seest the half is distilled forth, make the same warm and put it in again with a funnel, and that thou shalt so often repeat, until the sugar remain as red as blood, the which thou shalt perceive through the glass. Thou mayst bring that to pass in viii or ten days according as thou rulest thy fire. Note, that when thou perceivest the matter to be red let it cool, and take away the vessel with ashes, and set the vessel in Balneo, and with a strong fire distill away the Aqua vite until the Sugar remain dry, and when it will distill no more, yet shalt thou let it stand 4. or 5. days very hot in the said Balneo that the sugar may be perfectly congealed, then let it cool and take out the matter or stone, the which will be black like pitch, that is to be understood when it is congealed, then take the said stone and put it into a great quantity of common water twice distilled and set it in Balneo five or six days, with a great heat slightly covered, stirring it every day five 〈◊〉 six times with a wooden ladle, then let it cool▪ and ●ake it forth and let it settle three or four days, than power of that which is clear into another vessel, and keep it close, than power on those feces the sublimed water as afore, and set it in Balneo to digest three days, stirring it with a ladle as ye did afore, then let it cool and settle, and power of the clearest part, as ye did afore and put it to the roast, than power on more water upon the feces and digest it in Balneo as afore, and this ye must so often repeat until the water be no more coloured, than thou mayest cast away the feces for they are nothing worth, for the Element of the earth is with the Element of fire and water, neither can they be separated any more but are fixed together. Make thereof a trial, for there will remain nothing but a light ashes. It will burn like oil or fat, neither doth there any thing remain more than of oil or fat. Take the glass wherein is all the red of the solution and distill it in Balneo, or let it vapour away if ye have store of distilled water until it be dry, then let it cool & take off the head, and power thereon more sublimed water, and set it in Balneo again, and stir it about with a wooden ladle as ye did afore, then let it settle as afore & power out of the clearest part, and that thou shalt do so long until there remain no more feces, at the length put it in a glass that may abide the fire and boil or vapour it away so long until there appear a certain scum thereon, then take it forth and set it in a cold and dry, or hot and dry place, and it will grow into a great red mass or lump and transpirant like a ruby or other philosopher's stone, the which if thou wile bring to powder, set it in a warm dunghill in a large wide glass open and let it vapour away, until it be come into a yellow powder like unto gold, and so thou shalt have the quintessence of Sugar fixed, the which will retain all flying spirits. Neither is it sweet but a heavenly taste, the which if ye put it in your mouth it will melt without any feeling. If it be winter or cold thou shalt seem to feel a certain natural heat throughout the whole body and shalt seem so temperate and light as though thou couldst fly. If thou be overhot, swallow a little, & presently thou shalt coal easily as though thou goest into a cold bath, and thus it worketh in heat, moist, cold, and dry, by an incredible miracle, when ye will use it, drink it with rectified aqua vitae, or rose water, Endive or Scabiowes, or by itself if ye will▪ and thou shalt see marvels: if any be diseased outwardly with scabs or ulcers, let him drink of this, and wash the ●ores with wine wherein this Quintaesse●●● is dissolved, and he shall presently wax whole, most miraculously. If any be wounded or thrust in with any weapon so that it be not deadly, let him drink ʒ j of this Essence with warmed wine, and wash the wound with wine wherein the quintessence is dissolved he shall be presently cured, so that those which shall hear or see it shall be amazed thereat. It helpeth also the falling sickness, pestilence, and all such diseases as may happen, unto man: if ye have Aurum Potabile ye shall mix lij, with lj● of this quintessence in a glass, and set it on a trevet or in a dry Balneo 30. days in an Athanor and they will be s 〈…〉 together, and then it will work miracles in man's bod 〈…〉 ye may also when ye have drawn the quintessence of any herb, Coagulate and fix it with the same as I said before with Aurum Potabile, and thou shalt see thereof 〈…〉 les. Furthermore if ye will have it to pass the helm ye must put thereon as much vinegar or aqua vitae and distill it, and again power on fresh vinegar or aqua vitae & draw it away again until the quintessence doth ascend in a red golden colour, as we have showed in many places how to distill those matters that are fixed by vinegar or aqua vit●, for when it is distilled by the Limbeck, his virtues are angmented a thousand times, & will work strange cures: keep this as a secret, for it is a great mystery in nature.   

Here beginneth a manuel or handy work, how the quintessence may be drawn out of honey.  
NOw will I open unto you a great secret in the vegetal work of honey, to wit, a marvelous nature, for it is drawn out of the most noble & pure part of the flowers. The nature of Bees is such, that they draw out the best of every thing, as in the Animal work is more at large described, wherein there is taught how to extract the nature of all beasts, and specially in the 84. Chapter. Wherefore (my son) know this, that all that God hath created good in the upper part of the world, are perfect and uncorruptible, as the heaven: but whatsoever in these lower parts, whether it be in beasts, fishes, and all manner of sensible creatures, herbs, or plants, it is endued with a double nature, that is to say, perfect, and unperfect: the perfect nature is called the quintessence, the unperfect the feces or dregs, or the vene 〈…〉ous or combustible oil. Therefore you shall separate the dregs and combustible oil, and then that which remaineth is perfect, and is called the quintessence, which will endure continually even as the heaven, neither can it be dissolved with fire or any other thing. For when God had created all things, and looked upon them, they were all perfect good, there was nothing lacking to any, and therefore for loves sake, I say unto thee, that God hath put a secret nature or influence in every creature, and that to every nature of one sort or kind he hath given one common influence, and to every one of several kinds their several influence, and virtue, whether it be on Physic, or other secret works, which partly are found out by natural work manship. And yet more things are unknown then are apparent to our senses: what, do you not think that an herb that is appointed for one disease which it will cure, doth not contain in it many more virtues than are known unto us? Yes truly many more. This also jadde, that if the feces and combustible oil be taken away from this thing or herb, which in all things is the poison, that should be taken away that brings death unto us, and the elements should be purified, and so burned together by Art, that they shall pass together by a Limbeck, and be joined together, as it were coupled in marriage, that it may root out all manner of disease from every thing, be it herb or living thing, or be drawn from his venom, as in the 14. chapter of the Prologue of this book is declared, and also in the Prologue of the Animal work, whereas the manner of drawing the quintessence out of all venomous beasts, birds, worms, and flies, is plainly declared, that it may help all the griefs of man, but that specially is drawn out of the blood of man, and there is likewise declared, that there is no need of things without man or beast to help such as are infected. For every creature contains in himself the remedy of his disease, which remedy may be drawn without the hurt of man or beast, that the disease may be miraculously cured, as is there most excellently taught in the theoric and in the practice. Therefore I would write this, that thou soon mightest understand what marvelous force is in honey, which is taken out of all flowers, and gathered into one mass, which truly is endued with sundry virtues. For if GOD hath given unto other things the gift of healing, what then is there not in honey, which is gathered out of so many flowers, and every herb endued with his own proper virtue? Truly if it be brought to his height and excellency, it will work marvelously. Now consider what lieth hidden in this quintessence, and esteem it not lightly, but keep it secret as the most excellent thing of all the animal work, the which being obtained, you shall need no other medicines to put away all the accidents of the body.   

The second Chapter.  
NOw I will set in hand with the practice. Take twelve quarts of the best virgin honey, and put it in a great earthen vessel with a Limbeck well luted, and set it in Ealneo, & lute a recipient to the neck of it, and distill that which will distill of it in your Balneo boiling. My son know this, that there is no common water in honey but only Philosophical and Elemental, for the Element of air doth first pass with the Element of fire, in the which the air is contained, and the air when it riseth resembleth the savour of aqua vitae distilled, and at the first can not be known from aqua vitae, neither by sight, neither savour: distill it until there will no more arise. Then leave the vessel in Balneo five days with a Limbeck and receiver, let it boil night and day that the matter may be dried, then let it cool and take it out and take away the receiver and Limbeck, and that which is in the receiver power into the vessel again upon the d●ie matter and set it in Balneo and cover the mouth of the vessel with a clean dish well luted, and let your Balneum be only lukewarm. My son understand that it may thus be done, for it is good that the fire be drawn with his proper air, so as a man would stay so long, for it would be of the greater force. The ancient Philosophers wrought in this sort, but the danger is when the vessels shall be opened lest the water fly away, for it is as subtle as wine. For every time the air is to be drawn away and again to be powered on, making putrefaction in a warm Balneo, but first it must be well luted, and a Limbeck being set on with a receiver, you must reiterate the work until the fire rise like unto red blood. There is another method or rule of working found out in these our days which is in this sort.   

The third Chapter.  
THey are thus drawn out and the matter dried, as is aforesaid, then take common water twice distilled in Balneo and power on as much as is sufficient, and set it in Balneo, cover the mouth of the vessel: but let not the Balne●● boil, and so let it stand three days and three nights, moving it day and night▪ with a spittle of wood: let it cool & be poured out and strained. Then take a clean vessel and pour out that which is clear, and power upon the feces fresh distilled water as you did before, & set the vessel in Balneo, and do as you did before: let it be cleared and put aside with the first water, and put on again fresh water distilled and set it in Balneo as aforesaid, and do this so often until the water be no more coloured, for then have you the fire separated from the earth, but reserve the earth or feces until I tell you further what you shall do with it, for there is yet a combustible oil in it.   

The fourth Chapter.  
TAke the vessel wherein is the coloured water, and set it in Balneo with a Limbeck and receiver well luted, and distill all the water with a boiling Balneo & let the matter be well dried and cool, then take away the Alimbicke & let the vessel remain in Balneo and power on the water again upon the matter and make a fire and set a dish upon the mouth of the vessel and let it stand so in Balneo three days, every day moving it with a spattell of wood 3. or 4. times, then let it cool and be taken out and strained. Then take a clean vessel and softly power out that which is clear into it, and upon the feces straightways pour on fresh distilled water stirring it about with a wooden ladle, and let it stand to clear one day, & the feces which remain put unto the first feces. Then take a vessel and set it in a boiling Balneo until it be dry and reiterate this work until there remain no feces in the bottom of the vessel, so shall you have the pure Element of fire: and the Element of the air also must be so often distilled until there remain nothing in the bottom: and in this sort you shall have the pure Element. Separate than the water from the fire, and let it dry, so shall you have a clear shining matter like to Camphor: keep the fire well in a glass, and the air with the water in another glassy well closed until you have your earth prepared.   

The fift Chapter.  
TAke all the earth with the feces, and draw out the combustible oil by a discensorie that is with two vessels joined and luted together until the combustible oil do pass, which is profitable for all cold diseases and other passions which were too long to rehearse: if you desire not the combustible oil, suffer it to fly away. Then tak● your earth, and calcine it in a furnace of reverberation gently, until it be all white as snow, then take a great earthen or stone vessel, and put your white calcined earth into it, and power out a good quantity of common water distilled, and stir it with a wooden ladle, and set it three days in a boiling bath, and cover it with a dish, and stir it every day ten or twelve times. Let it cool, and the vessel take out, and let it clear one whole day: then take an other clean vessel, and softly pour out that which is clear, and upon the feces power again fresh distilled water, and set it in Bal●●●, and do as you did before. Take it out again, and let it clear one day and night, and that which is uppermost clear power out to the first water: Then put to fresh distilled water the third time unto the feces, and set it in Balneo, and do as you did before, and power out the clear the third time unto the first water, than cast away the feces of the third water, for they are of no value. Then take the vessel into which the water was put, & set it in Balneo with a limbeck, and a receiver: and with a boiling Balneo draw out the water until the matter be made dry. Let it cool, take away the Limbeck and pour in the water again upon the earth, or salt. and set it one day in boiling Balneo. Let it dissolve and clear, and take out that which is clear. And put in a little distilled water upon the feces, and let it stand two or three hours in a warm bath: take it out, let it clear by the space of one hour or two, and power out the upper part to the first water, and cast away the feces, for there is nothing in them. Let the vessel be set again in Balneo with the earth or salt, and distill away the water until all be dry, and do as afore reiterating the work, until that no feces remain in the bottom, then drain away the water from the earth, and you shall find a fair earthlike Crystal: and so you shall have pure elements.   

The sixth Chapter.  
TAke a great glass that will bear the fire, and put into it your earth and your fire, and power your air upon it, and set it to distill in a furnace, in pot or with sand or ashes, with a Limbeck well luted, having a hole in the uppermost knotty part, that a funnel may be put in when there shall be need of infusion: when as the humidity that it hath received be half consumed, then fortify your fire by little and little increasing it until you see the water boil, and keep the fire in that state still, until it be consumed even to a pint. Take away the fire, let it cool, take away your receiver and open the hole of the Limbeck and put in your glass funnel, and pour in all the distilled water in the recipient upon the earth, and stop the hole of the Limbeck, and set the receiver unto the neck thereof well luted and distill again, & observe the manner aforesaid of drawing and making infusion, and do thus ten times. The tenth distillation finished, let all pass together: for then the earth is made flying. So the air, the water, the fire, and the earth will ascend together by the Limbeck, and be brought into one substance which were in four. One together in nature and now simple as the incorruptible heaven, yet are they not fixed: but notwithstanding they are so coupled together between themselves, that by no means they can be separated, but will continue one simple body for ever: even as the crystalline and uncorruptible heaven which notwithstanding is compounded of the four elements. What think you of this my son? Can not this quintessence help every disease that doth infect man through his most excellent temperature whether it be in heat, cold, moist, or dry, for all are in it that he may distribute unto every one that which is necessary, even as the heaven, when need requireth, giveth unto the earth all things, as coldness, heat, or moisture: And yet is neither hot, cold, moist, nor dry, but of one simple essence, and that endued with such a nature that is giveth unto every thing that which is necessary? In like manner doth this quintessence. Therefore my son rejoice, and give the almighty God thanks which hath opened these things unto the Philosophers.   

The seven. Chapter.  
NOw my son, if thou wilt bring this quintessence yet to a greater perfection. Take a great circulatory, or Pelican, that is a glass that hath a great head like to a Limbeck, and in the top of the head a hole by the which the matter may be powered in by a funnel. Let the hole be stopped, out of the head cometh forth ij. arms bending round unto the belly, by the which that which doth ascend up may fall down again, by those arms of glass into the belly of the Pelican. This is the form of the vessels that distill one into an other, or Pelican. Take then your quintessence and put it in a Pelican in ashes, but better in salt prepared and dried, and make your fire like unto the extreme heat in Summer, and the quintessence will rise like unto a red oil, and fall down again by the arms of the Pelican: and by often ascension, the quintessence will wax thick that it will tarry in the bottom and rise no more, then fortify the fire that it may ascend and descend again. Then keep the fire in that heat until it ascend no more, but rest in the bottom. Then make your fire stronger that it may ascend & descend again, and keep the heat in the same degree until it rise no more. Observe this manner in augmenting your fire until the water be fixed, and the glass be red hot four and twenty hours together: if the quintessence do not then ascend, it is fixed and brought unto his highest virtue, & take it out of the glass being yet hot, for if it be cold it will wax hard that you must break the glass. For at the fire it doth wax liquid, and being set open in the air, it doth congeal and pierceth every hard thing, as oil doth any dry leather, and in colour is like unto a rubine, and through shining like a crystal, it giveth light in the dark sufficient to read by. What dost thou think of this my son? are there not many strange bodies created of God? Truly he hath endued the Philosophers with no less gifts: For they that can look into the secrets of nature, shall see it to be of an incredible operation, for this is gathered by the Bees of the subtlest part of all plants, trees, flowers, and fruits, and at that time when flowers break out and trees bud. It is worthily called the Philosopher's stone. for it is fixed and lyquable as wax, and as the mineral stone transmuteth the impure metal, so doth this alter diseases. Hereby it doth appear that this doth bear the bell amongst all vegetals. Whereas it being yet in his grossness and unpure, it is but of small value for any use in Physic by what mean soever it be boiled or scummed, but doth always retain his nature. For it consisteth of all the fruits of the earth, plants and trees. Whereof one herb is hot, another cold, another dry, another moist, one astringent, another laxative, some corrosive, others venomous: and so divers herbs have their divers qualities. Thirdly it cometh to pass if it help one disease, by and by it hindereth an other. For every thing worketh according to his property when as there is separation made in the body. And of this separation it engendereth blood and other humours. And they are likened unto gunpowder, which so long as it lieth still there cometh no hurt of it, but if it be brought unto the fire, it strait uttereth his secret nature, and is kindled with a venomous fire which cannot be quenched with water. For the cold and dry, hot and moist, do strive amongst themselves, a wind is stirred up that breaketh all things that is near unto it. The like happeneth unto honey, that when it cometh to the region of the liver that it should be there separated, than it showeth his nature to pass up and swell with wind, that it is no marvel if that through contention the veins of the liver be broken, as oftentimes it happeneth, whereupon Apostomes are caused in divers places, and bringeth forth such inflammations, that the veins are easily broken. Although many do greatly commend honey: but they are not the children of philosophy, neither do they understand the nature of it. But when it is brought to a simple fixed as wine, then is it the chiefest medicine amongst all the vegetables, neither is the like unto this found in all the world. Give God thanks, and be liberal unto the poor. The dose of this is one grain, and it must be taken every morning with an empty stomach, likewise in the evening, until the end of the disease. For every disease will be cured in short time, even after the same manner, as the Mineral stone maketh his projection upon metals, Praise God and labour diligently.   

The manner and order how to draw the quintessence out of the herb called Rose solis.  
NOw my son, I will teach thee the greatest mystery or secret amongst all vegetable things, whose force and strength hath been kept secret amongst all the ancient workmen, and they have bound themselves one to another by oath, that they should not utter in their books or writings the strength of this herb, which is called Rose solis, and in the German tongue Sindawe. Whosoever therefore hath not the whole vegetable work, he cannot attain to the strength of this herb. For in that work is comprehended all the force of medicinal things, And this work of vegetables is not come to the hands, but only of the ancient sworn artificers which were skilful in the liberal arts. But now my son, I will open it unto thee with ad 〈…〉 ration, that thou shalt keep this hidden knowledge secret. First, my son, you must understand, that this herb is the herb of the sun, upon the which the sun spreads his beams and influences as he doth upon gold in the veins of the mines. And he poureth out his influences more upon this herb then upon any other which is created of God, as it is evidently known of the ancient philosophers, and this herb doth so far surmount all other herbs which spring out of the earth, as the sun doth all other planets in the heaven, and hath greater force and power of influence than any other thing created of God in the firmament. So this herb doth excel all others in virtue, and therefore this herb is decked with another colour, other leaves, and stranger shape than all other herbs. And his nature is such, that the hotter and drier the country is in the time of the year, and the heat of the sun, and the more that the sun doth heat and burn him, this herb is the more moist and filled with dew, insomuch that upon one branch will hang above a thousand drops. Make a trial and strike this herb with a slender twig, that the drops which fall from it may fall into a large glass vessel, and you shall see the vessel filled with a marvelous dew, and if the sun be vehement hot, those branches in short space, that is, within the space of half an hour will be more full of dew then before, and if you strike the dew twenty times with a rod, yet will it again be laden with drops; it were enough if we did see no other miracle then from whence this dewy humour should rise, which in so short space doth so abundantly flow from it, and how much the more the burning sun doth scorch up the other herbs so much the more is this moist and filled with drops even as though it had been sprinkled over with water, hereupon may we gather his marvelous qualities, and judge that there is some secret operation hidden in it; if thou do keep this water thus gathered in a glass, therewith thou shalt cure all the diseases of the eyes, whether they come of ru 〈…〉 es or of inflammation, it helpeth moreover all the pains and diseases of the heart, it cooleth the liver and stomach that is inflamed & doth mitigate all the pain of the head that cometh of heart and driveth away all dreams and fantasies, it is good also to kill the canker & the wolf, against the biting of venomous beasts, against poison drunk, if it be taken by the mouth, it helpeth also the pestilence, it is good for many other diseases which were too long here to rehearse. This herb hath the colour of the sun for his colour is red dark divided with yellow lines, and his shape is like a star and his proportion like a heavenly planet and consisteth of seven branches, in the utter part broad, near the ground narrow, & it is as though it were heavy, of a tender substance, outwardly hot and moist, inwardly cold and dry. The left side of it is cold and moist, the right side hot and dry, and it is most temperate as gold. Wherefore his elements cannot be separated one from another as in other herbs, but it may be purged from his feces, for his fixing letteth that the Elements cannot be separated, for the fire will ascend with the air by the Balneum as we will hereafter teach. The earth may be separated from his feces and the feces likewise from the fire and air, although it hath not many dregs. Some latin writers call it Lingua avis or Birds tongue, some call it Solaria of the sun, of Lunaria is called the moon; the Fleming calls it Sindow. But the old Philosophers have kept secret the qualities as yet for the marvelous effect it worketh. And it is marvel saith Arnold de Villa nou● that a man should die that eateth every day some of it in his gross substance, what will it then work when it is brought unto his fineness and cleansed from his feces? It hath this great virtue in it, that if it be put into a glass wherein there is poison mingled with wine or any other cup that is poisoned, straightways the glass will fly in pieces, but if it be a stone pot of aleblaster or such like, the wine will so boil as though there were a violent fire under it & all the wine will run out until there be nothing left in the vessel: also if any man carry this herb about him & happen on his enemies, they shall have no power to hurt, but contrariwise, to show him all kind of duty. Also if any man be bewitched either in body or in his art, that is, in Cookery, brewing, or Baking, or by any other means, this herb carried about him makes him free from the witchcraft. If it be also tied upon the belly of a woman with child, she shall straightways be delivered although the child were dead and rotten within as it hath been oftentimes proved by experience. This herb carried about one or a little thereof every day eaten as long as it is used, preserveth man from the falling sickness. Moreover, if a man be taken with the Apoplexy, that his mouth be drawn aside, and his speech and senses taken from him, they shall be all restored again if the sick drink the juice of this herb strained, as hath been oftentimes proved. Moreover if it be hanged about the neck of one that is possessed of a spirit, so long as he carrieth that about him, he shall be quiet as a Lamb, and the power of the spirit shall be taken away. Make a proof, and you shall find it true. The bleeding at the nose is by and by stayed, if you hold that herb in your mouth. They that are wearied with travel, if they drink the juice thereof in wine, they are by and by so refreshed, as if they had not laboured or gone no journey, it doth comfort the sinews, muscles, tendons, and all the whole nature. Wounds are also cured therewith, if it be drunk ten days together in wine or ale, if the wound be washed with the same drink, and bound up with a cloth wet in the same. The pain of the teeth is by and by appeased if that herb be laid unto it. All these things have been often proved and found true. If it will do such things whilst it is yet hindered with his gross matter, what will it work when it is brought to his perfection? My son, know this for a truth, that there is no herb that grows upon the earth to be compared unto this in strength and goodness, therefore take heed that you do not neglect it, but diligently remember and keep the secret close from them that are not of the nature of our children, and from the ignorant. For if this herb did not grow so plentifully and the properties thereof were known, it would be more esteemed than gold or precious stones, for the effects of the quintessence are marvelous, as hereafter shall appear. Now there remaineth that we must teach how to bring this herb to his highest degree, and to his quintessence. First it is to be gathered the same having his course in his own house, that is, in the lion, and the moon behold him with a sinister quadrate aspect. It is to be gathered whole with roots, leaves and flowers, so that there be neither earth, dirt, nor other herbs mingled withal. Neither must it by any mean touch any water or be made moist. Therefore you must take heed that you gather it not in rainy wether, or moist wether: but rather when the sun doth shine hottest upon it, gather great store of it, and stamp it well in a mortar of Marble, and put it in a Cucurbite of stone with a head and receiver luted, and set it in balneo, and distill away all the water until it be so dry like powder, and there will rise together with the water of the colour of most fine gold, which only happeneth in this herb, and in none other: and when there remaineth no more liquor, yet leave the cucurbite for three or four days in Balneo, and boil it night and day that all the moisture may be perfectly separated and drawn away, then let it cool and take away the receiver and stop it diligently, then take off the head and take out the matter and beat it in a Marble mortar into most fine powder that it may pass through a thick siue, put this powder again into an earthen cucurbite, and pour on your water and air, and stir it with a wooden ladle, and cover the mouth of the cucurbite close with a tile, and set it in a warm bath by the space of nine days to putrefy, every day stirring it with a wooden ladle four or five times, and cover the cucurbite again with a tile, setting a weight of lead upon it; at the nine days end take your vessel out of the Balneo, and that which is in it strain it into an earthen vessel glazed, and strain it hard until the matter dry. Then take this dry powder and put into his cucurbite and cover it with a tile, and keep it in a warm place until I teach you what you shall do with it. The moist liquor which is drawn from it will be red, for the element of fire is there present with the air & the water, put that liquor into a cucurbite of stone and put on a head and lute it well, and set it in Balneo with a receiver well luted, and distill away all the water with the air severally from the fire in a boiling bath, until there will no more distill, and the fire will pass away in the bottom, then take away the vessel out of the bath & stop it well until I teach thee what is further to be done. Then take again the stone cucurbite wherein your powder is contained, which I bade you before to keep, and pour on the fire and the air, and stir it well with a wooden ladle, and set it in a warm bath nine days more, and cover it with a tile, and stir it four or five times every day with a 〈…〉 addle as you did afore. And when the nine days are past, strain our that which is in the vessel, and pour the liquor in a glazed vessel, the residue of the powder put into another vessel as you did before, and keep it so long until I teach thee how to draw out the combustible oil. Then take again the vessel wherein your fire is, and mingle your liquor with it which you keep in your glazed vessel, where your fire and air is, and set a head upon the vessel wherein your matter is, and lute it, and set it in Balneo, and set a receiver to the bill of the head, then distill out the water and air with a boiling bath until no more will distill, and you shall have in the receiver water and air, take them away, and take the vessel out of Balneo, and you shall find remaining in the bottom like thick Turpentine, and that is the element of fire mingled with many feces. Now the fire is to be separated from the feces on this manner, pour on your water and air upon that from whence you draw it, and stir it with a spoon, and cover it with a tile, and let it settle four days, and the feces will fall into the bottom, and pour out softly that that is clear into a clean cucurbit, that no pheses pass with all stop the vessel wherein the feces are, and set it by. But that vessel that contemet● the water, fire and air, set it in balneo with a head and receiver fitted and well luted, and distill the water and air in that same degree. And when it will distill no more take away the receiver. Let the vessel cool, and you shall find in the bottoms your fire, which keep in his vessel well stopped and pour in your water and air again upon the feces from whence you did draw them● and stir them with a spoon, and let it settle four days, then pour it out softly from his feces into the vessel that holdeth your fire so that no feces be mingled withal, cover your vessel wherein your feces remain and set it up. But your vessel wherein your water air and fire is, set again in B●lneo as I showed you, and distill away the water and air, for they two do always pass away together and the ●ire remaineth in the bottom. Pour on the water and air again upon the feces, and stir it with a spoon, then let it settle four days, (this is now the third repetition, whereby you have separated the water and air from the feces,) and that which is clear power out into the vessel that holdeth you● fire. Then put your feces unto the first which I bade you keep, in the which your combustible oil is. For now yo● have drawn your fire out of your feces: therefore distill your water with the air, and when it will distill no more take away your vessel, and you shall find in the bottom the element of fire not yet pure, but foul and full of dregs, pour on therefore the water and air again, and stir●e it well with a spoon or ladle, cover it, and let it stand and settle sour days, then pour out that which is clear into another clean vessel, and set aside the vessel wherein your feces are. But the vessel where in your fire water and oil are, set in Balneo to distill as long as it will di●●●ll then take it out, and pour the liquor distilled into the vessel where your feces are, and do as 〈◊〉 taught you to work with the feces, until you have your element of fire without any feculent or gross substance. When you have distilled away the water and a●re from the fire, and suffered it to settle four days, and that all be clear without any feces, then shall you have your pure fire. Therefore put all your feces together unto your first feces where your combustible oil is. Afterward take a great cucurbite of glass and put all your three elements into it, and set it in ashes with a Limbeck and a receiver fitted and luted, and kindle a gentle fire, first in your furnace, and increase it more and more, until the fire and air be passed, and that your Limbeck begin to wax red within. Then make the heat of your fire moderate, until all your element of fire be passed, & the head red like blood, and the water and air shall swim upon like oil. By this means these three elements shall be brought to their highest essence, and be perfectly rectified. Take away the receiver and stop it diligently, until your earth be prepared, and know that in the dust and feces there remaineth yet a combustible oil which you may extract by a discensory if you will. It is good against the cold gout, for members benumbed, and sinews too much mollified. If thou be weary of this labour, put this powder or feces into a reverberatory that they may be mingled with a gentle fire until it be as white as snow: which being done, put it into a large cucurbite of stone o● pour on a great quantity of water twice distilled, it is not material how much water you pour on, and sti● it well with a wooden ladle or spoon siue or six times, always cover it diligently with a tile, & after four days suffer it to cool and let it stand four days & settle, then pour out the clear from the feces warily into another clean vessel, and pour on fresh distilled water as afore, stir it with your spoon, and keep it two days in Balneo as before, then suffer it to cool and settle, and pour out the clear from the feces, and put it to the first water: Do this the third time, and then cast away the feces for they are good for nothing. All your waters that you have drawn, distill by Balueum, or for the more speed, by ashes that all the water may rise, and that there remain in the bottom a dusty matter, pour on distilled water again, stir it, and keep it in balneo, by the space of four and twenty hours, then let it cool and settle, and pour out that which is clear gently from the feces. Pour on again more common water upon them, and stir it, set it in balueo ten or twelve hours, take it out, let it settle, & pour the clear unto the first water, and cast away the feces, they are nothing worth. Repeat this work so often until there remain no feces after it hath set ed. Then shall you have your earth rectified from all his feces which you shall congeal and dry, that it may be like powder or dust. Then join that with your other elements in the glass, and it will strait resolve into his element, for the element of water is there present. Set them all together in a furnace upon ashes, put on a head with a receiver well luted, the head must have a hole in the top, that with a funnel the liquor may be poured in & always stopped safely. Make your fire in your furnas, first gentle, afterward greater, until that that is fermented do pass. But all is not to be drawn out, but about half a sextary of the liquor with the water, that the matter may remain moist. For if you should drive out all, it would congeal into an hard mass and break the glass in the furnace. Then open the hole which is in the top of the head, and with a funnel pour in that which is in the receiver. But first it must be made warm, lest by pouring in the cold liquor the glass do break, but if you suffer the glass to cool, you may pour it in without any danger. Repeat this inbibition ten or twenue times, afterward distill out whatsoever will be distilled so long as any thing will pass by the neck of the Limbeck. For after this tenth distillation, the earth will be no more congealed but will rest in the bottom like a red golden oil. Inbibe it again, pouring on the liquor, and distilling it until all the elements pass together by the Limbeck, and that nothing at all do remain in the bottom of the vessel. Then give thanks to God for his marvelous gifts which he hath distributed unto his Philosophers, & hath given them so great knowledge of things as they uttered in this work which is altogether heavenly, & rather divine then human. For it is a great marvel in this life that man's understanding can bring these inferior things to so great perfection, that they have attained even to the highest degree of virtue. Truly it is the work of the holy ghost which hath put it into the minds of men. For I do affirm, that whoso hath this hear● so prepared, that he may help all the iufirmities of man's body, whether they be curable or uncurable, except natural death which is ordained afore unto every man of God. Yea this dare I be bold to say, that if a man do use daily the weight of one scruple of this quintessence, or the quintessence of sugar and potable gold wherein pearls are dissolved, or the quintessence of Selandine. That man by God's help shall not die before the day of the great judgement. For the humours in man's body can by no means predominate one over another, as in the thirty six chapter of Uegetales is taught, where is entreated of the quintessence of all medicinal things, and there it is showed, that by Gods help the life of man may be prolonged even until that day, void and free from all diseases & sickness. And further, that man may be preserved in the state he was in at thirty years of age, and in the same strength and force of wit. And upon that do all the Philosophers agree, that a man may continue in the same state as long as in an earthly paradise. This is so plainly and at large showed in that chapter, that will you, nill you, you shall be enforced to conceive it in your mind, to believe it, and to confess it to be true. Therefore it is not needful to reason much of the force and qualities of this quintessence: but whatsoever disease man be infected withal, give him to drink with wine so much of this quintessence as a nut shell will hold, & in short space he shall be healed as it were miraculously, according as the disease is violent or gentle. But if you give this quintessence to drink mixed with the quintessence of ●●gar with potable gold wherein pearls are dissolved and with the quintessence of Selandine, within one day you shall cure all the diseases whatsoever they be. Hereby it doth appear, that it is rather a divine work then human. Therefore give god the praise, and take heed that you do not utter this secret. For tyrant's would by that mean; prolong their lives that they might bring to pass their wicked purposes, whereof both you and I should be the occasion. Therefore keep it secret, for it is one of the greatest secrets amongst all the vegetals, whereunto no treasure may be compared. Work therefore and distribute liberally unto the poor, and God shall give thee eternal felicity.  

Oft times great force lieth hid in bodies low,  
Of book in few lines, not much, but apt doth show.  
Virtue increaseth by exercise.    

The Spagericke antidotary of the preparation and making of medicines against Gunneshot, taken out of the Chir●●gerie of josephus Quirsitanus.  
IT is an old and true saying of the poer; that there is nothing more imperious than an ignorant man, which thinketh nothing well done, but that he doth himself, which thing as it may be seen in many other arts, yet most specially in this, which is called the Spagericke art. For we see every where certain men, I know not what they be, puffed up with a certain barbarous and foolish pride, which with great scorn inveigh against those medicines which are drawn out of the metalline mines. Which notwithstanding it is apparent were in use and had in great estimation with the chief ancient Physicians, as we have declared in that book which we have set forth of the Spagericke preparation of medicines. And what, I pray you, is the cause of this anger, or rather madness, but that (as they themselves confess) they know not the preparation of them? O happy arts, if only artificers might judge of them, as Fabius is reported sometime to have said. Then are they unhappy of whom the ignorant and unlearned fear not so rashly to give judgement, which never yet understood from whence or why, this is called the Spagericke art, which learned men of two greek words have so named, because by that art a certain subtle and spiritual nature is drawn, gathered, and pressed out, wherein the force and effect of the medicine doth chief consist. The great and incomparable commodity whereof, as it appeareth in many other diseases, so shall it chief be known in curing wounds by gun-shot. As I trust (God willing) it shall much more happily be tried and found out by the preparations of medicines animal: vegetable, and mineral, & by other essences drawn out of 〈◊〉, sulphur, vitriol, arsenic, iron, copper, lead and 〈◊〉, and also out of antimony, and such other minerals, as also out of the gross and fat bodies of simple metals, of whom it is far off, that the force should be so great (although the ancient Physicians have used the 〈◊〉 cure wounds and uleers, as their writings do testify) 〈◊〉 the force of their spirits, which may be called, as it were their souls. But peradventure some of those backbiters will say, why are not we content with those medicines o● remedies which the learned antiquity hath delivered unto us, and that Hypocrates and Galen the ancient pillars of our art & others have set forth in their monuments? why seek we new ways never heard of before, specially unknown to the Apotheearie●● But some of us will answer that the only remedy of Mercury precipitate, is the only remedy (to pass over other) which very lately they have begun to use, in curing of wounds by gun-shot, and other malign vulcers, were sufficient to answer this their question, yea and to reprove their folly joined with intolerable pride. But if authority be asked for. I think Gesner, Guinter, Andernacke, Severine (to pass over a great many other) will be for us great authority with the learned: as these standerers. Specially because the learning of these famous men is confirmed by their learned writings & monuments, that those tongues might count it a great honour unto them to confess themselves their scholars. It were easy for me to bring forth many other arguments, if I did not see the folly of these backbiters to be so great, whereof truly I am ashmed, specially when I behold some of their hooks lately set forth, wherein contrary to the purpose of the treatise, strange things are enforced, that (as the old proverb saith) the ointment seemeth to consist in nothing, as though they pertain to the purposed entreating of curing the gout, certain invective digressions I know not what, of the beginning of things, of the original of metals and Philosophers stone (which of them is called Morosophocus) or did in any point seem to agree with it. Therefore again & again I am enforced to cry out, O happy ar●●s, if only artificers might judge of them. How far unlike was the purpose of many old men, the which if they were ignorant of any thing which they understood, was known of other, even in far distant countries they spared no labour to go see them. Pl●to inflamed with desire to learn those things which he knew not, went into Egypt, and after to Tarentum to Architas, and over all Italy to hear the other Pythagorical philosophers, Apollonius Tyanius traveled through the kingdom of Persia, and passed over the mountain Caucasus, and visited the Albans, Scythithians Massagetes, and all the rich kingdoms of India. Afterwards was carried unto the Brachmanes, and heard jarehas in his chair of gold disputing of the hidden causes of things, and of the hidden mysteries of nature. From thence by the Elamites, Babylonians, Chaldees, Medes, Assyrians, Arabians, and Palestines, he returned to Alexandria, and from thence went into Ethiopia to hear the Gymnosophists, and to learn their secret and hidden arts. This virtue is truly to be followed, and not the sluggishness of those slothful followers, which having scarce once moved their foot from their country fires, yet will disallow this Spagericke art, and think no 〈…〉 there labour to be taken in searching of the truth, when notwithstanding that art doth make open unto us the marvelous and hidden secrets of nature: neither in my judgement are they unworthily con●● 〈◊〉 of those which with their mamfold perils and travels have 〈◊〉 out those secrets of nature. But I pray you, what foolishness is this, to forbid us to use any other medicines than those which were known in old time? As though 〈◊〉, than which 〈◊〉 more in use this day, than were known to the old physicians. Further, to what purpose is it that they object unto us the sulphury 〈◊〉, vene● mou●stinckes (a● they 〈◊〉 them) by whose 〈◊〉 & drawn breath (for these are their contume house words) they be almost 〈…〉 cophants, that the old Physicians made very many medicines of most filthy things, as of the filth of the ears, sweat of the body, of women's menstrues (and that which is horrible to be spoken) of the dung of man and other beasts, spi●tle, urine, fl●es, mice: the ashes of an owls head, the hou●s of goats and asses, the wonnes of a io●ten tree, and the scurf of mules, as may be gathered out of the writings of Galen, Aetij, Aeginet●, Dioscor. Marcel. Plin. Serap. 
Gal. simple. 10. cap. 18. 9, 10, 12, 13. Act. Tetr. 1. ser. 2. cap. 110. Aegin. libr. 7. Dioscorid. libr. 2. cap. 90. Marcel. cap. 4. & 26. Plin. libr. 28. 4. 15. Serap. simple. 〈◊〉. 453. & 466.  to pass the metallines which it is evident they did also use. Truly, when I consider with myself the pride of these fools which disdain this metalline part of Ph●sicke (which after their manner contumeliously they call 〈◊〉, and therefore can neither help their own nor many other diseases. I call to min●e a storle, peradventure known unto them, of Herachto Ephesio, which being sick of a drop 〈…〉, 〈…〉 the help of Fie 〈…〉 on's, anointing himself over with cowdung, set 〈◊〉 in the sun to dry, and falling asleep was torn in pieces of dogs: but these are more than sufficiently answered 〈…〉. Now I will declare what is my purpose and scope in the 〈◊〉: ve●●ly to prescribe plainly hereafter, not those things which are already common, or (as it is commonly said) known to blind men and barber's. lest I might seem to imitate those that use to write ●hapsodias and heaps, but the method and way of preparing medicines by Spagericke a●●e, that pertain unto Gunneshot, which I know are yet unknown unto many Physicians and Surgeons. And this I can truly confess, that I am induced for two causes to do it: first to provoke those that are better learned, if they have any better medicines to utter them, as also that I might specially help my country and mankind: unto the which (the more is the grief) the●e is too much need of those kind of medicines in these most lamb 〈…〉 ble and cruel times wherein it hath so long been bloodied with domestical and civil wars▪ but to encounter with their 〈…〉 aunders which cry out, that these kind of medicines do not only require long & diffic●l● preparation, but also that they are so dear that every one cannot easily use them. I have thought good therefore first to set down common medicines, and then to come to those which I do far more esteem, as indeed they are far more excellent than the other, as by their preparation you may know. Albeit also I have, determined to have consideration of the poor and common soldier and to set down them apart that shall help the rich.  
THerefore the Surgeons are to be admonished that when they go into the wars, that they take with them these things ready prepared which are to be had at most Pothecaries.  

Supp●rantia.  
〈◊〉 ●●sili●um▪ of ●oth s●rt●●▪  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Tetraphramac●m Galen●.  
〈◊〉 Resumptiwm.   
The emplaster of Mucilages which may be dissolved with oil Olive if need be.  

Deterg●nti●▪  
U●guentum diap●mpholyg●s Nicolal.  
Unguen●●●●iride Andr 〈…〉:  
Empla 〈…〉 dissolved with oil of Roses,  
V●gue●●um Apo●●olicum A 〈…〉.  
U●gu●●tum Egyp●iacum of the same.   

Sarcotica.  
Unguentum Aureum.  
Ung 〈…〉 c●r●seos Mes●● utrunque.  
Empla 〈…〉 Grati● De● & de ja 〈…〉.   

C●catricem inducentia.  
U 〈…〉 de Minio.  
Desiccatiwm rubrum.  
Emplastrum de cerusa.   

〈…〉 & res extran●●●.  
〈…〉 ntum 〈◊〉 Nicolai.  
Vnguenta Magistralia of the Physicians of Florence described by 〈◊〉.  
unguentum de calce viva.   

Rep●llentia & aringentia.  
Vuguentum de bolo co 〈…〉 e.  
Vuguentum ●osatum Mesu●.   
OR for the said intentions medicines may be made which need no other than common preparations.  

Suppurantia.  
Take of new Butter and oil Olive, anna, two. ounces, where meal cleansed from his bran, half an ounce, fair water iiii. ounces, boil all together.  
Or take the leaves of Tussilage & Mallows, ana. M. two. ●ost them under ashes and mingle them with butter.  
Or take of the juice of the roots of Lilies first roasted under a●●es, iiii. ounces, of the grease of a hen●● goose or swine, two. ounces, with oil of Linseed or olives, the yolk of an egg and a little wax, make an ointment.   

Detergentia.  
Take of honey three ounces, of bean meal▪ and barley meal ana, two. drams, boil them with wine to the height of an ointment.  
Or take of Plantain leaves and Smalege ana, M. i. red Roses p. two red wine 〈…〉 ces, boil it to half: strain 〈…〉 solve 〈◊〉 two. ounces, Turpentine, i. ounce. Meal of 〈◊〉 and O●obus, ana, i. dram, Aloes and Mirre, ana, half a dram, boil it again, putting to so much wax as shall suffice to bring it into the form of an ointment.  
Or take of the juice of plantain and agrimony ana, two. ounces, Rose ho●●▪ iiii. ounces, of the root of ●●●os and bean meal, ana, half an ounce, mingle them toward the end with Turpentine i. ounce, make thereof▪ an ointment.   

Sarcotica.  
Take of Manna; of Frankinsens' ana, ij. drams of Meal of fenugreek and Orobus ana, ●j. dram let them be wrought with honey and the yolk of an egg.  
Or take of Sarcocollae dissolved in milk, iii drammas, Mastic, Olibanum, ana, i dram, Liquid pitch, and Turpentine ana, i. ounce 〈…〉 le them and make an ointment.   

Epo 〈…〉  
Take of white chalk ij. ounces, of ashes of burned leather iij. drams, work them with oil of Roses.  
Or take of quick Lime so often washed in water until it have lost, all his 〈…〉nesse ij. ounces, of Ter●ae Armeniae i. ounce, boil them with oil of Myrtles.  
Of 〈◊〉 Lead, burnt Stibium 〈◊〉 Pompholyge may also be made medicines most fit for that purpose.   

Ad ven●nata vulnera.  
Take of the juice of A●agallidis purpured, of Cyclaminis, ana, i. 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 Vi●e mingled with man's spittle, half a ounce, 〈…〉 'em.  
Or take of 〈…〉ge, two. ounces▪ Ga' 〈…〉 'em half a ounce, G 〈…〉 h and Turpentine, ana ●i. ounces, oil as much as shall suffice.  
Or take of oil iiii. ounces▪ of Sagapenum, Mumiae and Amber, ana, ●●i. dra●s, Frankinsens, Mastic▪ ana, two. drams of th● best Terrae Sigillatae and red Coral, ana, i. dram, pitch. two. ounces, wax as much as shall suffice to make an 〈…〉ment.  
Or take two. onions, of the leaves of Unicae peruince scabiosae Risini of each a handful, roast them under the ashes, and put thereto of Treacle half an ounce, and with Turpentine make an ointment.   

Ad ambusta.  
Take of the juice of Onions roasted under ashes, two, ounces, oil of Nuts i. ounce mingle them together.  
Or take of the leaves of black juice stamped with plan●ine water M. two. of oil i. pound, boil them together with iiii. ounces of white wine until the wine be consumed, them put to wax as much as shall suffice to make it a salve:  
Or take of lard melted in the flame two, ounces, and pour it into the juice of Beets and Rue, the cream of milk i. ounce, Mucilege of the seed of condonioru● and Tragacanthae ana, half a ounce, mingle them.   

Repellentia, & sanguinem cohibentia.  
Take of the juice of the leaves of Woodbine and of Oaken leaves, ana, i. ounce, red Roses i. dram, Boli Armenae & Sanguis Draconis, ana, two. drams, oil of Roses three ounces, wax as much as shall suffice▪  
Or take of the Pulp of Apples boiled in milk three ounces, of Mucilage, of the seeds of Psillij and Cydones, ana, half a ounce, of the juice of Bursae Pastoris and Poligonum ana, i. ounce, of Acaciae and Sanguinis Dr●conis, ana, three drams, of Terra Sigillate half an ounce▪ oil of Mirtils, iiii. ounces, white wax as much as shall suffice to make an ointment.  
But these medicines following are not so much used among the Apothecaries neither known unto the Surons, yet most profitable for wounds by shot and all other whose fit preparation the Spagericke art doth partly declare.   

Suppurantia:  
Take of the root of holy Oak, and Lilies, ana, iiii. ounces, Beets with the roots. M i. fresh Butter half a pound, worms prepared in wine, three ounces, yolks of eggs 12. the marry of a Calf, of Turpentine, ana, v. ounces, oil Olive cleansed from the Phe●●s i pound stamp those that are to be stamped, mingle all well together and digest them in warm dung, one month after press it out, and with a fire on ashes boil it to the substance of a salve.  
Or take of the juice of the herb Tus●ilage and Oxalidis ana, iij. ounces, fat dry figs, 20. Frankasence, two. ounces Rosen of the La●ixtre, i. ounce and a half, grease of a Goose and a hen, ana, two. ounces, fresh Butter half a pound▪ Olei visci pom●rum compos. i. pound all mingled together, let them boil in a double vessel luted with Luto Sapientiae for the space of six hours and strain it warm & set again in the sun or boil it to a fit substance, these medicines do quickly move matter and are anodina very commodious for wounds by shot.   

Det●rgentia.  
Take of the juice of Centari● and Selandine, ana, iiii. ounces, of honey three ounces, of flowers of Uerbascum p. two. of Frankincense, Myrrh and Mastic, ana half an ounce, oil of Turpentine vi. ounces, good white wine i. pound, putrefy them all in warm dung and boil them as before with a fire of ashes until the wine and juice be consumed and it be brought to the form of an ointment, then put to i. ounce of this ointment, i. dram of mercury precipitate dulcified. If there be need of greater cleansing.  
Or take Visci herbarum s●niculae Pirolae, Aristoloch, and Vincae pervincae, ana, two. ounces, of turpentine washed iiii. ounces, Crocus Veneris half a ounce, Balsami Taertari, two. drams. Sulphuris Antimoni, i dram and a half, set them upon a fire of ashes until it have the substance of a salve.   

Saercotica.  
Take of the Mucilage of the seed● of F●rnigreeke two, ounces, of the juice of hounds tongue Perscicaria and the great comfery ana, i. ounce and a half, oil of Frankincense and myrrh, ana, three drams▪ oil of Hypericon simple two. ounces, Turpentine washed with white wine, two. ounces, let them stand in the sun or at a soft fire until they wax thick.   

Unguentum depaet●.  
Take of the juice of P●●um, i▪ pound. Turpentine v. ounces, of common oil of Hypericon viii. ounces, good white wine half 〈◊〉 pound, digest all viii. days, after seethe them until the wine be consumed, then put to Colopho●iae and wax, ana, three conces: Muni● and Amber ana, two. drams, melt them again at the fire and make an ointment according to art.  
Take of the juice of the Petum and Comferie, ana, iiii. 
Another of 〈◊〉 description.  ounces, oil of Turpentine i. pound, flowers of Hypericon and Verbascus, ana▪ M. two. apples of an elm tree three ounces, the buds of the Popla●trec, iiii. ounces, the spirit of wine i. pound & a half, digest all these in horse dung or in a warm bath in a glass vessel well stopped one whole month, then wring it out and strain it and put to it of Frankincense, Mastic, and Mirre ana, i●▪ ounces, Sanguis Draconis, half a ounce, Muniae, vi. drams, Turpentine half a pound, Benjoini j ounce, circulate them together in a Pelican viii. days, after with a moderate heat distill away the spirit of wine and there will remain in the bottom a most precious balm.   

Cicatricem inducentia.  
Take of burnt Alum i. ounce, Crete Vitrioli three drams, Crocus martis, Crocus U●ncris, ana▪ two. drams, mingle them and make a powder which you may use by itself, or mingled with honey.  
Or take of Bole A●menae prepared after our manner, two. drams, culex of egshels half an ounce, the juice of unripe. Damascens, three ounces. boil them with a soft fire to a perfect substance.   

Ad V●●en●.  
Take of oil of Amber and Turpentine▪ ana, i. ounce oil of juniper, two. drams, ●ettle seed and the root of Gentian, ana, two. drams, oil of Sulphur Vitriolat, i. dram and a half, red. Coral, i. dram, mingle them together.  
Or take of the juice of Pentaphillon, Scabious and Ru● ana, two. ounces. Olei sulphuris Rubei i. ounce, oil of mi●re, 〈◊〉 drams, Colophoni and gum of juice, ana, vi. drams, mingle them,   

Adambusta.  
Take of lard molten and washed in water of nightshad two. ounces, Olei Saturni half an ounce, mingle th' 〈…〉▪  
Or take the juice of the roots of Henbane and flowers of red poppy, ana, i. ounce, Salt Peter. i. dram, Mucilage of Seminis Cidoniorum, three drams, and with oil of Champhire make an ointment.   

Repellenti● & sanguinem cohibenti●.  
Take of Bole Armenae prepared after the Spag 〈…〉 manner two. ounces, Crocus Martis and Crocus Veneris, ana, i. ounce, mix them with oil of Roses.  
Or take of Colcotharis Dulsifieati, ashes of frogs burned, ana, half a ounce, mingle them with the white of an egg.  
There be made other remedies for the foresaid intents, the making whereof we have described in their proper places which I commit to the judgement of the skilful Surgeons to use wisely as the disease and party affected dotis require. Now there remaineth to speak of drinks for wounds before we teach the preparations of medicines.   

De potionibus vulnerarijs.  
THese potions for wounds, although they drive not out the humours downwards, yet prevail they very much to cleanse wounds, because they cleanse superfluous humours and the blood from all filth, and by a certain mar●eious quality where with they excel, they knit the broken bones and help the sinews that are hurt by wounds, & helping nature, they at the last fill the wound with flesh and close them up without using any other remedy: when as I saw in Germany the marvelous and almost incredible effect which came by the use of these potions even in curing desperate Ulcers, I thought it not meet to pass over the mention of them, and that so much the rather, because I knew the use of them in time past was allowed, but now through the negligence of Physicians to be almost grown out of use. Also I have experienced those potions to be taken, not only as medicines, but also as norrishments, and to help all the passions and incommodities whereunto wounds are subject. The simples whereof the medicines are made, are these:  

Cyclaminus.  
Consolida maior.  
Consolida mediae, quam Sophiam nonnulli vocant.  
Sabinae.  
Galangae.  
Vinca peruinc●.  
Centaur●um.  
Ophioglosson.  
Betonica.  
Aristolochia.  
Ueronica.  
Agrimoniae.  
Uerbenae.  
Serp●n●ariae.  
Persicariae.  
Arthemisiae.  
Lilium convallium,  
Zedoariae.  
Pyrola.  
Sperma ceti.  
Cancri fluniatiles.  
Nux vomica,  
Astaci.  
Mumiae.  
Macis.  
Bolus Armena.   
You shall much better draw out the strength of those simples than the common sort, if you put them into a tun of white must, and digest them there two. months, or if you cut the green bearbes very small and wring out the juice of them into a Pelicane or blind Limbeck, or circulate them three or four days in Balne● Mariae. This last way is most convenient for them that are forbidden the use of wine, specially if they be wounded in the head. The distilled waters of them be also good if they be taken driely by themselves morning and evening with dose and manner convenient: Or if white wine be delayed with them (if it be granted to the wounded) here followeth the composition of the vulnerary potions.   

A vulnerary potion to be given the first seven days.  
Take of both Conferies Veronica, Showbread, ana, M. i Astacos purged num, iiii. white wine two measures, circulate them in Balneo, three days, strain it, and give every morning one spoonful.  
Or take of the eyes of Crabs in powder half a ounce, Mumia, two. drams Bole Armenae, i. dram and a half, the herbs of Agrimoni Ophioglosson. Ueronica, & Showbread ana, M. 〈◊〉 Sperma Ceti, i. dram, infuse them in white wine 〈◊〉 a night in Balneo, take of this two. spoonfuls morning and evening if need be, it putteth away the inflammations very much, and helpeth the burning.  
Take of Macis, the eyes of Crabs, zedoary ana, iii 
Potions to be given other timer of the grief.  drams, Mumia, Ga'ingale the less, ana two. drams, Nucis vomicae, i. dram and a half, beat them grossly, and put them in a glass vessel pouring thereto of white wine i. measure and a half, macerate them in a soft heat two. days. The dose is one spoonful in the morning and as much at night. The force of this potion is so great that it cannot be sufficiently commended.  
Take of the flowers of Uinca Peruinca Lilium Co●●alium, 
A potion apt for poisoned wounds by gun-shot.  ana, p. i. Galanga Zedoariae ana two. dams. Mumia and Bole Armenia ana, i. dram, Sperma Ce●●, half a dram, white wine i measures, digest and circulate them in Balneo 4. days the dose is one spoonful morning and evening.   

A potion vulnerary where the bone is broken with gun-shot.  
Take of Aristolochi, Showbread, Adder's grass, both conferies, Geranii ana, M. i Savin▪ M. ss. maces, Zedoariae, the eyes of Crabs ana, half a ounce, Mumia Galingale the less, ana, i. dram and a half, being cut small and bruised and the other things brought into a gross powder boil all in a double vessel four hours with one measure of wine use it morning and evening. This medicine is much better than so many splints wherewith many are tormented.  
R. of flowers of Lilium Conualium, betony ana, p. i. 
〈◊〉 potion f●r the wounds of the he●d.  Galingale Macis, ana, three drams, Persica●ia, Selandine, Vinca Peruinca, Veronica & Centauri, ana, M. ●s. macerate themas before, and reserve them to your use.   

A potion for wounds of the breast.  
Take of the 〈…〉 ice of Veruen, betony Veronica, ana, two. ounces, cinnamon water i. pound macerate them.  
Take of Bole armeniae half an ounce of both the Comferies 
For wounds of the 〈…〉 macke.  ana, M. i. Galingale two. drams, temper them with wine as aforesaid reserve them to use. divers descriptions of ●otions may be made of the foresaid simples which I have to the judgement of the expert physician notwithstanding this one thing I will add, that the use of them hath many opportunities to cure wounds by gun-shot as also the Canker and all malign desperate and eating ulcers, of all which the Physician shall take very great profit if he prepare the potions with the essence of the vulnerary simples spagetically extract as we have taught in another.   

A brief declaration of spagyrical medicines.  
FOr as much as now remaineth to declare the Spagericks preparation of those simples which pertain to the cure of wounds by gun shot, we will use the same method we have before used whereby this our treatise may be the plainer.  
Superantia sunt igitur & Anodyna 


Oleum ovorum.  
Oleum butyri.  
Oleum refinae.  
Ol. visci pomorum compos.  
Oleum hyperisi simple.  
Olea omnium axung.     
Detergentia 


Oleum myrrhae.  
Oleum mastiches.  
Oleum terebinthinae.  
Oleum mellis.  
Viscus centaurij.  
Viscus vincoe petuincoe.  
Viscus aristolochioe.  
Sal foecum aceti.  
Balsamus martis.  
Crocus veneris.  
Mercur. praecipitat. vulgaris  
Mercur praecipit. dulcific.  
Oleum guaiaci.  
Balsamus veneris.  
Balsamus Saturni.  
Balsamus tartari.     
Sarcotica 


Balsamus hyperici.  
Oleum thuris.  
Oleum sarcocollae.  
Ol mannae.  
Viscus consolidae utriusque  
Viscus cynoglossi.     
Epul●tica 


Calx testarum ovorum.  
Calx testarum limacum.  
Bolus armena praeparata.  
Alumen adustum & praepar.  
Crocus Martis.  
Creta vitrioli flava.  
Ol. salis tartari.  
Ol. talci. quae etiam cicatrices decorant.     
Repellentia & sangui 〈…〉 cohibentia. 


Ol. visci pomorum simplex.  
Oleum Martis.  
Crocus Veneris.  
Colcothar simplex.  
Colcothar dulcisicarum.  
Bolus armena praeparata.  
Calx testarum ovorum.  
Calx testarum limacum.     
Ad venena 


Butyrum arsenici fixum.  
Praecipitatus dulcificatus.  
Balsamus tartari.  
Ol. Mercur. corporale.  
Oleum antimonij.  
Oleum sulphuris vitriolatum.     
Ad ambusta 


Oleum ovorum.  
Oleum lardi.  
Oleum butyri.  
Aqua gammarorum.  
Aqua spermatis ranarum.  
Aqua florum papaver. rubri  
Viscus rad. hyoscyami.  
Oleum Saturni, eiusque Sal.  
Oleum lethargy.     
Attrahentia 


Viscus aristolochiae.  
Viscus corticis med. tiliae  
Succinum praeparatum.  
Magnes praeparatus.     
Sunt rursus illorum simplicium singula, quae singulis partibus vulneratis conducunt, ut 



Ossibus corruptis. 


Oleum myrrhae.  
Oleum caryophyllorum.  
Oleum tartari foetens.  
Oleum vitrioli.  
Oleum sulphuris simplex.  
Oleum sulph. vitriolatum.  
Oleum antimonij.  
Sulphur rubjcundum antim.  
Oleum salis.  
Oleum Mercur sublimati.      

Neruis vulneratis. 


Oleum cerae.  
Oleum iuneperi.  
Oleum euphorbij.  
Oleum ovorum.  
Oleum terebinthinae.  
Oleum sulphuris terebinth.      

Carni putridae ac corrupta. 


Sal fuliginis.  
Sal urinae.  
Sal tartari.  
Sal mellis.  
Oleum frumenti.  
Oleum mellis.  
Oleum sulph. acidunt.  
Phlegma vitrioli acidum.  
Phlegma aluminis acidum.  
Balsamus Martis.  
Balsamus Veneris.  
Balsamus Mercurij▪  
Balsamus tartari.         
But because regard is always to be had of the noble part in whose action the life doth consist, there be certain medicines, which being given can defend them.  
Roborant enim. 



C●rebrum. 


Oleum succini.  
Oleum saluiae.  
Oleum caryophyllorum.  
Spiritus vitrioli.      

Cor. 


Aurum vitae.  
Tinctura auri.  
Essentia margaritarum.      

Hepar. 


Tinctura Bals. natural.  
Tinctura corallorum.  
Oleum Martis.           

The spagyrical preparation of medicines before rehearsed.  
THe dregs of wine or crude Tartar brought into 
Oleum Tartar● 〈◊〉.  powder, put into a Retort of glass or earth with his recipient, make fire by degrees as is done to the making of strong water, there will rise great plenty of white spirits which will turn into water and thick stinking oil, separate the oil by a funnel and keep it to your use.  
But the salt of Tartar you shall draw out of the feces 
The Salto Tartar.  (which they call the dead head) which are left in the Retort. Those you shall dissolve in warm water, and after filter that which is dissolved twice or thrice, coagulate it at the fire by vapouring away the water, and the salt will remain in the bottom of the vessel, which if you again dissolve and coagulate diverse times, you shall purge it clear like Crystal.  
This Cristaline salt if you put it into a glass and set it 
Oil of Tartar.  in a wine seller or other moist place, within few days it will resolve into a clear oil very excellent to cleanse the spots and ulcers of the face.  
Take crude Tartar two. pound, salt Peter. Salt of Soot, 
The balm of Tartar.  of the feces of vinegar, ana, iiii. ounces, Calcis V●uae, vi. ounces, all broken very small put into a vessel, not glazed, but well stopped. Calcine it xii. hours, dissolve that is calcined in warm water, & distill it by filter, after coagulate it, and clang it again, repeating three times your calcinations, dissolutions, and coagulations: then put all into a Limbeck and put on distilled vinegar, that it be ●●uered iiii. fingers. distill the vinegar in balneo M. and there will come forth a sweet liquor, then pour on the vinegar again to distill, this do so long until it be no more sweet but sour, as when you poured it on first and so rise in the Limbeck. Then distill all in a strong fire by a Retort, and there will come forth a hot oil, the commodities whereof can scarcely be declared.  
After the same manner if you will you may distill all the salt of Tartar by a Limbeck: whereof you shall make a most excellent and wholesome oil.  
Vinegar being distilled by a Limbeck, the feces remain 
Oil of Vintg●●.  in the bottom of the vessel which first dried, afterward with a violent fire if they be driven out by a Retort, there come forth a very red and sharp oil. Then if you do again dissolve the dead head or feces in 
Salt of Vinegar  warm water, filter, and coagulate it, the salt of Vinegar will rest in the bottom, the which is very profitable for all eating ulcers.  
Soot brought into fine powder, dissolve it in distilled 
Sal● and oil of S 〈…〉.  Vinegar in Balneo, and separating all the mensture, that which remaineth in the bottom dissolve and coagulate again so long till it come to white salt which in a moist place will dissolve into oil, very apt to cure the Gangraenam and all malign ulcers.  
Bole Armonack made into fine powder, dissolve it in the 
The preparation of Bulls Arm 〈…〉.  sour phlegm of Alum, then separate the phlegm by Balneum and pour on other. Do this three times, and then the Bowl will be turned into a very fat oil which with a very soft fire is dried and brought into powder most apt to staunch blood wheresoever it break out.  
Take of Cloves beaten in powder one pound, simple 
Oils of spices 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉.  water, or Aqua Vitae which is better, vi. pound, infuse them to digest in Balneo or dung four days, than put them in Limbeck with his refrigatorie, distill it according to art, and separate the oil from the water by a funnel, and keep it for your use. After the same manner shall you draw the oils of Sage, juniper, Amber, Turpentine, Mirre, Frankinsens, Sarcocolla, Mastic and Euphorbium. We have written another better way to draw oils out of the foresaid things in the Spagericke preparation of medicines.  
Wheat being put into a retort with the spirit of wine, digest it viii. days, then distill it with a violent fire, that 
Oil of wheat●.  which is distilled power again upon the dead head, digest it again and distill it again, if you reiterate this three times there will come forth a most excellent oil of the Gangraena and Carcinomat●.  
Take of the flowers of Hypericon small ●utij. pound 
The s●●ple Bal●e of Hypericon.  oil of Turpentine i. pound, yolks of eggs, 20. Aqua Vitae half a pound, mingle them all together and let it putrefy in hot dung one whole month, then wring it out and set it in the sun two months.  
After the same manner is the Balm of Visci pomorum 
Balls 〈…〉 vised pomorum. The compound b●l●e of hyp●●icon.  made or with oil Olive, first purified in Balneo.  
Take of the flowers of Hypericon, i. pound of the Muslage of the root of the great Conferie, iiii. ounces, flowers of Camomile, Verbascum, ana▪ pug two▪ oil of eggs and turpentine, ana, half a pound, Aqua Vitae one pound, Mirre, Frankincense, Mastic, Mu●iae, ana, two ounces, red sugar vi. ounces, putrify all in dung one month in a vessel diligently stopped, then wring it out and circulate it in Balneo three days, afterward with a soft fire boil it to the substance of a Balm.  
Take of the leaves of the Mysselto of the Apple three 
The 〈◊〉 balm of 〈◊〉 pomorum.  cut small, two. pound, put them into a vessel of gladle, putting thereto buds of the Poplar three half a pound, oil of the grease of a Badger and of Butter, ana, iiii. ounces, turpentine vi. ounces, oil of worms two. pound and a half, good white wine, two. pound, digest all well stopped in very hot dung, two. months, then press it and circulate it, and with a soft fire boil it until the liquors be consumed, there can not be found a more excellent medicine to assuage ache● and pains.  
The juice of the leaves and roots of herbs you shall 
How the flime or ●uslege is drawn out of herbs.  purify until it be clear: pouring to it so much Aqua Vitae and digest it in Balneo in a glass xv, days, then separate that water by distillation, and there remaineth in the bottom the slime or muslage of the herbs.  
Steep the leaves and roots of herbs in common 
Another method.  water filtered or that which is better, in white wine eight days, then let them boil three days with a soft fire under them. Then w●ing them out and purify it, then boil them with a softfire, until they come to the thickness of honey which we call the slime of muslage. By this rule you shall draw out of both Comferies Cynoglosso, Centaurie, Vinca peivinca, Aristolochie, the root of henbane & the middle bark of Tillia their muslage very profitable for the foresaid medicines.  
Out of the flowers of red Poppy or their juice you shall draw a water by a Limbeck very profitable to cool,  
The salt of man's urine hath an excellent quality to 
Salt of ●●ine.  cleanse. It is made thus. First the urine is to be filtered, then, coagulated, after with distilled vinegar dissolved, & again coagulated, these must be reiterated 3. or 4. times.  
Melt wax at the fire and boil it with wine till it be consumed: do it so long until it crack no more. Take i 
Oil of Wax.  pound of wax thus prepared, Alum calcined half a pound, Sage leaves M. i put all into a Limbeck, with his receiver and distill it with a mean fire. First there will come forth a gross oil, thick, hard, & white, which must be distilled again as afore, and three times reiterated, and so you shall make an excellent oil of wax for all griefs of the sinews. In like manner is the oil of Rosen and pitch made.  
Out of honey you shall first draw an excellent water 
The water and oil of honey.  by Balneum, afterward you shall put unto the dead head or feces that are left, sand or flint stones calcined that the matter boil not up, which you shall drive out by a 〈◊〉 of glass giving fire by degrees, and so you shall distill a yellowish clear oil, together with a gross impure oil. Let all digest again 4. or 5. days, after distill it again by a Limbeck in sand, and there will come out a pure red oil swimming upon the water. This water is sour almost like vinegar distilled, and is very good against the Gangrena: but the oil which burneth like Aqua Vitae hath marvellous qualities, specially if it be circulated certain days with the spirit of wine: for the spirit being after separated there remaineth a sweet oil of pleasant savour, good for wounds by gun-shot and eating ulcers.  
Out of the feces which remains is drawn a salt, first 
The salt of honey  being calcined with a fire of reverberation, dissolving it with his proper menstrua or common water distilled, filtering and coagulating it three times. It is good for all▪ rotten ulcers. This salt you shall mingle with his proper burning oil according to art, and you shall reap greater commodity thereof, then is lawful to be spoken.  
Take of honey not separated from his wax two pound, Tartar made into powder i▪ pound, let them putrefy together 
Another oil of honey more precious.  in dung xv. days and distill it by a retort, and there will first come a clear water, than a yellowish. Put these again upon the dead head, and putrefy it again other xv. days, after distill it again, and this do three times, and you shall have an excellent oil of honey.  
Take butter first melted in white wine, and then distill 
Oil of butter 〈◊〉 lard.  it with a mean fire, and there will distill out a oil greatly swaging pains and supplying. So shall you make oil of lard and all greases.  
Take 100 yolks of eggs first sodden hard, put them into a Cucurbite and make fire by degrees, first there will 
●yle of y●lks of Eggs.  come out a water, after a yellowish oil swimming upon the water▪ last a thick oil. The water is good for all spots in the face, the oil to appease all griefs and aches.  
boil C●eue●es in water of Orphine in a double vessel 
Water of 〈…〉▪ ●eses.  well stopped one whole day. After distill it, pouring the water 3. times upon the feces, then let it be kept, it is verie good for inflammations, burnings, & the Carcynomata 
Water of the sperm of frogs   
The sperm of eede of frogs is gathered in the month of March, and i● distilled by a glass Limbeck, and thereof is drawn a water very commodious for inflammations and burnings.  
Eggeshels or the shells of snails are reverberated in a 
●al● of ●gs●el●●nd s●●iles.  sharp fire three days until they be brought into a very white Calce. But if they be sprinkled with vinegar whilst they are calcined, the Calce will be the lighter and apt to work his force.  
Mercury first washed and prepared, according to Gebers 
The common Mercury precipitate.  prescription dissolve with the double weight of common strong water, then distill it 〈◊〉 times and pour it so often again upon the feces; and so it is brought into a very red powder, cut of the which being ●eue●berate at the fire and drawn away, the spirits of the strong water which otherwise would move geeat pain. But it were better if it were washed with the sleame of Alum and vinegar distilled, and the water of Eggs, for by that mean the sharpness is taken away.  
But it is better to prepare Mercury with often sublimations, 
Mercury precipiat fixi & dulcified most profitable for the ●●re of 〈…〉ds.  and to fix it being quickened again and purged from his filthy earth and superfluous humidity with the water which we have described in the book by me published of the Sp●gerick preparation. But if all men do not understand that disc●●ption for the dark words of Art, it shall not be incommodious to fix the Mercury with common strong water three times powered on and drawn away, and to bring it into a red powder, and that with a sufficient violent fire that all the sharpness and venom of the menstrew may be drawn away, which shall much the better be done of this water following be min 〈…〉 led with it, and by often distillation separated.  
Take of distilled vinegar 〈◊〉 pound & a half, the fleam 〈◊〉 Alum, i. pound and a half, calce of eggeshels vi. ounces, distill all till it be dry. Take of this water 〈◊〉 pound, of Mercury precipitate as afore i. pound, mingle all well according to art, distill it by a Limbeck, pouring the water again unto the p●eces three times. Last of all drive all out until it be d 〈…〉 and there will remain a powder in the bottom, which grind upon a marble and put it into a Limbeck, pouring on the water aforesaid, which you shall three times distill from the feces as afore, Lastly the Mercury precipitate must be circulated with a alcool of wine 24. hours. Then distill away the spirit of wine that the matter may dry, then pour on new again and circulate it and distill, as afore and that do 4. or 5. times, and then you have attained the perfect preparation of Mercury, whose qualities cannot be sufficiently commended in curing of sundry diseases, specially of the Pox, whether it be taken by mouth, or applied to the place grieved.  
Make Amalgama with iiii. ounces of Mercury, c●ude, 
oil of Mercury corpo 〈…〉  and i. ounce of the best tin. Spread this upon a plate of Iron, and set it in a moist place, and all will dissolve into oil, it is also made with Mercury alone, and a plate of Tin.  
Mercury, as the manner is, three times sublimed with 
Oil of mercury subblimed  Salt of Vitriol, at the last is mingled with the like portion of sal●▪ Armoniac, & again subblimed three or four times, all that subblimat is dissolved into oil, out of which the spirit of the salt Armoniac is to be drawn away, circulate all with the essence of wine and distill it so long until the oil have lost his heat and sharpness and the armoniac be separated.  
It is also reduced by itself into an oil with a very soft heat of an Athanor by long distance of time.  
Sublime Mercury so often with the simple Calce of 
The balm of Mercury.  eggs well prepared until it be utterly extinct. To this mixture power vinegar distilled alcoole sated that it may cover it 4 fingers, distill the liquor from the feces 4. or 5 times until the Mercury be come into a very red powder which you shall circulate with a alcoole of wine in a pelican 8. days, separate the alcool by a limbeck & there will remain in the bottom the most precious & sweet balm of Mercury. It healeth all desperate ulcers & also ●●r●uculā i●●●sica, & greatly helpeth these wounds by gun-shot. All other preparations of Mercury and the manner of using it you shall gather out of the book which we lately set forth.  
Upon the filings of Iron often washed with salt water, 
〈◊〉 martis  pour sharp vinegar that it may cover it four fingers, set it upon warm ashes 8. days, every day moving the matter and separating the vinegar which will be coloured, & pouring on again new, and that so long till the vinegar be no more coloured, which being vapoured away take the powder that remaineth in the bottom, and subblime it with like portion of armoniac: the same sublimate you shall return again so often upon his feces, and subblime again until there appear the colour of a Rubin: then cast all into scalding water, that the salt may dissolve them, by & by put to cold water, & the balm of Mars will rest in the bottom like the calx of gold. Pour away the water and put to fresh again that the balm may be made sweet.  
Of this with the spirit a wine alcolizat by circulations, 
Oil of Mars.  you shall make a red oil most excellent for all inward hemorrhoids or issues of blood, and to strengthen the bowels, if one drop be mixed with conserve of Roses or Conferie or given with wine.  
The filings of Iron first well washed, you shall calci●● 
●ro●us marti●.  with the flower of Sulphur or dissolve with strong water, then pour on very sharp vinegar, and set it in a warm place certain days, then reverberate it with an open fire, as Art commandeth one wholey day, gathering always the flowers which remain above, until all be converted into a ver●e red and light powder.  
After the same manner you shall make the balm, oil & 
The balm oil, Crocus & Vi●rio●ium Ven●●is.  Crocus of copper, out of the which with the sour flame of Vitriol, circulating all artificially, you shall draw a bleweshing Vitriol whose qualities we have described in another place.  
Out of Saturn calcined is drawn a sweetish salt in balneo with distilled vinegar, pouring it so often upon the 
●alt of saturn.  feces until it draw no more. The menstrew evaporated, the salt remaineth in the bottom, which by often dissolutions and coagulations is made Cristaline: and afterward easily dissolved into oil being set in a moist place. But if 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  you circulate this cristaline salt in a Pelicane with the alcool of wine 15. days, and after take away the menstrew by distillation, & put to new wine & circulate it, putting to a fit dose of cristaline salt of Tartar, you shall make a Balm sweeter than sugar which will marvelously prevail 
Balsamum Saturni.  against all malign ulcers and diseases of the eyes.  
Decoct Antimony made in powder with a capital lie 
Sulphur of antimoni.  prepared of Tartar calcined, and Soap ashes and quicke-lime the space of one hour, then let it cool, pouring upon it a little Vinegar, and there will appear a certain redness swimming upon, which you shall gather: then again let it boil for one hour or two, again let it cool and gather that which swimmeth up. Do this so often until there appear no more redness. For it is the sulphur of antimony which dried at a soft fire, you shall keep it to good uses.  
Mingle Antimony with Sugar and Alum, and put all 
Oil of antimony.  into a Retort of glass, make a soft fire for 4. or 5. hours, afterward increase it, and there will come out an oil red like blood: It is also done with mercury sublimate, but great ●eede is to be taken lest any error be committed in the degree of fire.  
Boil Sulphur prepared with oil of linseed with a very soft fire, and it will be like blood congealed. Let the 
oil of Sulphur  matter cool, put it into a retort and give it fire, and there will distill out a very red oil of Sulphur. It is also done, if you mingle bran with your Sulphur and distill it.  
Take of Sulphur Vinae P. i. with which mingle with a 
oil of Sulph 〈…〉 vitriolate.  soft fire so much pure vitriol melted that it may be one body. Distill this by a discentorie and there will descend a red oil into the receiver.  
If i pound of the flower of sulphur be mixed with two. or three pound of oil of turpentine in a dry heat, the flowers 
oil of Sulphur terebinthinal.  will dissolve into a red oil. Then the menstrew rightly & artificially separate, circulate the rubin of Sulphur, with the Alcoll of wine eight days, and you shall have oil of Sulphur that hath the qualities of the natural Balm.  
The sour oil of Sulphur is made by Sulphur, by setting it on fire, and hanging over it a bell or a large glass 
Sour oil of Sulphur.  head to 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into that 〈…〉.  
Put▪ Vitriol bea●en into powder into a Cucurbite, giving 
The 〈◊〉 of V 〈…〉 jowl.  it a fire of the second degree, and there will issue a sour water which is called the gleam of Vitriol.  
Take the feces which remaineth in the bottom of 
〈◊〉 of Vitriol.  the vessel which is called Colcothar, stamp● that, and if you mingle flyntes withal with a violent fire, there will come out a red oil.  
It is also made with the simple Colcothar driven out 
Another 〈◊〉.  with a violent fire three days space, and there will come forth a very hot oil, which is made sweet by circulation with spirit of wine Tartarizated.  
But if the Colcothar be dissolved in warm water and 
〈◊〉 dulcifis 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉.  the redness in it separated and the water evaporated, the Colcothar will remain sweetish, that which remaineth the redness being taken away is called Creta Uitrioli.  
But if Vitriol be drawn by the ninth, a limbeck pouring on always the liquor upon the dead head, and after 
Spirit of Vi●●i●ll.  circulating all by the space of eight days, you shall have the spirit of Vitriol very profitable for many things.  
The gleam of Alum is made like the phlegm of Vitriol.  
But Alum is prepared if the gleam be 5. times powered 
Tled 〈…〉 of all 〈…〉 and the preparation.  upon the feces out of which it was drawn and distilled, last of all dry out all the phlegm until it be dry.  
Make brine of salt, into which cast hot burning stones that they may be imbibed, those stones so imbibed put 
〈◊〉 of salt.  into a retort, giving fire by degrees, there will come forth a very hot oil of salt.  
I said before that there was great force in Butyro Arse●ici fixo, to cure all v●n●mon● and malign ulcers, it is made 
〈…〉  in this manner. Mingle cristaline Arsenic first subblimed with only colcothar (which doth keep back his poison) with like weight of salt of Tartar and salt Peter, put all into two glasses & fix it, giving fire the space of xxiiii. hour●●▪ first very gentle, then of the highest degree. You shall find the matter very white fixed, resembling the colour of pearls▪ which dissolve in war 〈…〉 water, 〈…〉 may draw the A 〈…〉 lie from it. And the powder which remains imbibe with oil of Tartar or of Talcum which is better, and dry it at the fire, and do this thrice. Again dissolve the matter in warm water that you may take away his salt and there will remain a very white powder and fixed, which will dissolve in a moist place into a fat oil which is 〈◊〉 like Butter.  
Out of Talcum rightly and artificially calcined is 
oil of 〈◊〉  drawn the spirit with distilled vinegar. This is dissolved into a precious oil being set in a moist place.  
Take of the juice of Aristolochia Rotundae, and Savin, 
The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Madge 〈…〉  ana, three ounces, Serpe 〈…〉, two. ounces, spirit of 〈◊〉 i. pound▪ circulate them first the space of xxiiii. hou〈…〉 then distill them, of this water take i. pound of elect Magnes made into powder iiii. ounces▪ circulate them together, & distill away the water from the Ph●ces, 〈◊〉 this three times, and by this means you shall obtain the preparation of Madge 〈…〉.  
But because (●s we have said) the noblest 〈◊〉 are to 
Cordial 〈…〉  be strengthened, and the heart the principal ●●gan of life, must alway be defended, these preparatio 〈…〉 following are to be used.  
Take of The●incae of Alex 〈…〉 〈◊〉 ounces and a half, 
The 〈◊〉 on of 〈◊〉 c●ll 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  the best M●rre i. ounce and a half, Saffron two. drams, the spirit of wine vi. ounces, mingle all these, and in ashes with a very soft fire distill it, circulate that which is distilled in Basilius 〈…〉 o eight days, and then distill it again. The water hath a most excellent quality against the plague and all venomous things, and doth marvelously strengthen the heart.  
We have she 〈…〉ed the 〈…〉 〈…〉 ncture of gold Corals, natural Balm, and the essence, of Pearl in the book which I wrote of preparation now resteth for 〈◊〉 to speak of the gold of life, which 〈◊〉 ●hall know to be the most excellent and extreme 〈◊〉 in curing 〈…〉 do but consider 〈…〉 excellency 〈…〉