Horae Subsecivae: OR, Some Long-Vacation Hours Redeemed, For the Discovery of the True SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM OF THE Ancient Philosophers.  
Now happily regained to the MATERIA MEDICA: AND Distinguished from all other Preparations, partly by the Senses; but more effectually by its Medicinal Performances, totally extirpating the Saline Stem of Acids (the Root of most Diseases) and inferring the Volatile Oleose Temper, The Standard of Health in Humane Bodies.  
By T. Bysield, M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians in DUBLIN.  
LONDON, Printed: And are to be Sold by J. Whitlook near Stationers-Hall. M DC XC V.   

THE VOLATILE OLEOSE TEMPER, THE Standard of Health IN HUMANE BODIES.  
MAN, the accomplished Draught of the Universe, Prince of all Creatures and of the Lower World; for his super-celestial and divine Soul has an immortal Ray of the Divine Light, reflected to the same, by the sharp Sight and soaring Contemplations of his Mind, which show he is a dependent Spirit on the Father of the Spirits of all Flesh.  
And for his Body he has a beautified Composure of the Elements, a perfect mixture in Life, illuminated with an undiscernible Spark of Celestial Fire, the Form of a mixed Body, first surrounded with a Radical Moisture, then bound to an Elementary Body, by the Mediation of the Spirit, giving it individual Being. And Life thus derived is the most supreme and complete Act of Nature.  
For the Souls of Living Creatures are vastly distant from the dark and earthy Matter of their Bodies, till by this subtle mean of an Aetherial Spirit they are fastened to 'em by the strictest Tie in Nature.  
The former of these two Souls I leave to the Conduct of Divines; the latter falling within my Sphere, I'll endeavour to direct into an harmonious Union with the Body, by the help of the Spirit, which is a small portion of the purest Air, a middle Nature betwixt the Body and Soul; light and invisible, tempered with Fire, Volatile, and a most pure Substance, begetting Vital Spirits. Its first Clothing is with an Universal Sperm begot on Sulphureo-Saline Exhalations drawn up into the Air, rolling up and down in the Belly of the Wind, till it takes up its proper Residence in the Seeds of Things. And thus descending to the Lower Region, it assumes the Moisture of a watery Vapour, and by degrees the Element of Water, which is a mean betwixt the Air and Earth; a passive yielding Nature, assuming multiplied Shapes, apt to mix with things, delighted much in motion; fit to receive and preserve every thing that's subtle; capable of the heavenly Influences, and to convey 'em through the Pores of our Earth, which is an empty place, into which all the other Elements project their Virtues, a proper Receptacle for the Spiritual Elements, a convenient hiding place to conceal the Principles and Operations of Nature. Here I may take notice, how the four Elements, which upholds the Fabric of the World, continually acting one upon the other, beget and bring to light the fundamental Principles of Nature and Philosophy.  
The Fire acting on the Air produces Sulphur: The Air acting on the Water brings forth Mercury: The Water acting on the Earth brings forth Salt: The Earth having nothing to work upon, brings forth nothing: So that we must take up with three Principles out of the four Elements. But I must not enter into so large a Field, since I design but a short Lecture, not so much for Theory, as to demonstrate a rational Practice from my Sal Volatile sulphureum, which is the most sensible and beneficial Performance.  
I shall therefore consider, that the joining of the Principles well or ill together makes up a perfect or imperfect Body. And that the prime Agent is the Fire that is placed in mixed Bodies, and hath chosen the Radical Moisture as its proper seat, the principal residence of which (in Man) is in the Heart, the Centre of the little World, the prime Organ of Life, altho' it be diffused through all the parts of the Body. But there commanding from its Castle, doth move concordantly all the Faculties and Organs, and breath Life into the Spirits, Humours, and the whole elementary Mass. It's Food is a vivifical Spirit flowing down from the Superior Natures through the Air, which becomes a natural oleose ferment and food of Life, without which, neither Man, nor any living Creature, could subsist: for Man lives not by Bread alone, but by the heavenly Food of Air. Yet the Lamp must be fed with the nutritious Juices of corruptible Bodies, which have in 'em a fixed Fire: But the less we partake of those Meats and Drinks which have lost their supple nourishing Particles, the more evenly we feed our vital flame: For salt Meats, sour Drinks, fiery Wines, and strong Drams, are like so many fireworks thrown into the Magazeen of the Heart, which will blow up the Man. 'Tis of dangerous consequence to enrage our Calidum innatum, making flushings of Wildfire to run about our Bodies, like flashes of Lightning from the Heavens.  
As the Sun is the Centre amongst the Spheres of the Planets, and scatters its beams downward by its motion; so is the Heart the Centre of the Body, which by its perpetual Motion (in Conjunction with the Air in circulating the Blood) sends heat to the Superficies of the Body, which we alloy from day to day with Liquids that penetrate our Pores, and cool it: In imitation of the Air and Clouds, which flying round the World, temper and mitigate the heat of the heavenly Sun. For as the heat of the Sun would destroy all things, and nothing produced in Nature, if the Air and Clouds did not intervene: so would the invisible central fire of Bodies consume 'em, if balmy Sulphurs and watery Vapours coming betwixt did not prevent it.  
'Tis the universal Fire through the medium of the Air that governs all the subordinate sixth Fires of Bodies: for Air hath ingress into Air, and they join themselves together, Nature being delighted in Nature. And by how much the greater are the Pores, by so much the better the Body may be purified. Thus beams of Light encircled with radical moisture are our spiritual Nourishment: But that will not support us without corporeal Nutriment; the former will avail but little without the latter. We stand in need therefore of Food, that the natural Spirits may be recruited, which do continually slide forth through the Pores; for thus we must maintain a successive repair of the loss of Nature. Our nourishing Juices are made by the more succulent substance of our Meat, whereby the Parts and Humours of the Body are reinforced. The radical Moisture is renewed out of the purer Particles of Blood, with the celestial Influences intermingling with 'em by Respiration. Thus the natural Ferment of Man's Body, as well from his spiritual as his corporeal Diet, seems to consist in a Sulphureo-Saline Temperament, which Vital Union becomes more embodied in oleose Salts, and then assumes a greater Corporeity.  
The spiritual Sulphurs are exalted with the Volatile Salts, and beget a mild and easy Ferment in the happy Concentration of the Principles; from whence the fixed parts receive their vivid Impregnations, and the insite Fire is fed with its proper Pabulum, and kept from rebelling.  
In all things, near the Principle of Life, is a smooth, supple, oily Substance: in all Seeds we find it more or less, therefore from so small Bodies as Seeds, Oils are drawn. The Substance of all animal Sperms, that of Eggs, and many other things, will help to demonstrate that 'tis an oleose Body that early covers the Principles of Life, till they are clothed with our Bodies, as our Bodies are covered with clothes.  
But when the inbred fire is harsh and enraged, thro' defect of this Balsam and Union, and by the contrary abounding of Acids; then the Spirits are inflamed, the Oil burns, the Stamina Vitae shake: At length the purer Flements fly the Texture, the mixed Body dissolves, and the Corruption of the frail Elements come to a loss: The Aetherial Nature returns to its native home, and there is nothing left in the Carcase, but a perturbation and confusion of the corruptible Elements, having lost their Governor. Then reigns Corruption, Death, and Darkness, in the deprived Matter; until the virtue of Heaven does again slow down into it, and summoning the wand'ring Elements re-inkindles the weak light of a new Form, and reassumes the Elements into the methodical composure of a new mixture.  
Life is an harmonious Copulation of Matter and Form, constituting the perfect Being of an individual Nature; the Health of that Life is a regular Assumption of the Principles into magnetic Love, wherein our natural Fire, retained by spiritual Sulphurs, lies well beded in Oleity, rightly seasoned with Nitro-aereal Salts; not locked up, depressed, or drawn out beyond its Centre. And this I call the Salino-sulphureous Temperament, which to preserve or restore, is the Scope of Medicine, the Design of Physic and Physicians.  
I am warranted in this rational Conjecture from some experimental Observations, which is as near as humane sight can penetrate. 'Tis true, these things in their own nature, are invisible and transacted in secret, which makes 'em not understood by the generality of Men, who know not the occuls, much less to make it manifest; and are altogether unaccustomed to such Contemplations and Experiments. Nevertheless they are not to be looked upon as Dreams and Fancies; no more than the Spirit of Life which animates 'em. For altho' Nature is not visible, yet she acts visibly from a volatile sulphureous Spirit, which executes her Office in Bodies.  
'Tis generally granted, that Life lies eminently in the Blood; and so I say, and that from its abounding with a pure Sulphur and a volatile Salt, which are demonstrable. Sulphur illuminates, gives Tincture and Centrality; What Red more beautiful and more vivid than in good Blood? and what a sibrous Consistence has it? That there is plenty of volatile Salts appears to an Artist, who can extract 'em; besides, 'tis evident to all, by Sweat and Urine, both which abound with volatile Salts. But some may say, the Ingesta of Meats and Drinks may supply those: no, it cannot be, for these Discharges are larger than they amount to. Be pleased to make the Experiment of living with Bread and Water for one Week, and use hard Labour, yet you'll find your Sweat and Urine well impregnated with Salts; very few of which proceeded from your Diet. The great Repairer of these is the ambient Air in which both are eminently, and therefore plentifully conveyed in breathing thro' the Lungs to the Blood, helping it to sanguisie the new Access of Chyle, in bestowing vital Ferment and a vivid Colour.  
I'll take it for grant, that by this time we are agreed on the Point, viz. That the healthful juvenile Temper of our Bodies consists in the Harmony of our spiritual Sulphurs and volatile Salts, which magnetical lie join to the subjected Natures, and gives 'em their proper seasoning: These tuned with vital Air rarisie and illuminate our Bodies, still preserving a due Regimen of our inbred Fire, and a healthful Government of the whole Oeconomy.  
This Temperament preseryed, is an Antidote against all Diseases and Decay. 'Tis true, 'tis very nice to hit and keep it, because we deal so low in the corruptible World, and depend so much on corporeal Supplies for our Subsistance, and are liable to so many changes of Seasons, Wether, and Chance, that 'tis no wonder so few make up a competent number of Years: Yet 'tis good to know the Standard of Health, that we may still be aiming at that Mark, some near Approaches to which, will preserve Life, altho' it is not acted with that Satisfaction and Pleasure the completely healthy do enjoy. But to lie under riveling Acids, scorbutic Wildfires, Stones in wrong places, Tartar in Joints, rambling and fixed Pains, and forty more troublesome Distempers, which make the Body such a Clog to the Soul, that to a generous mind 'tis the greatest Punishment in the World to attend upon it, in blowing its Nose, wiping its Breech, dressing, undressing, washing, combing, cleaning, and colouring it, in order only to the eating of Water-gruel and drinking Small beer with him. Who would not rather be at some Pains, and Cost too, to make him a little better Company for himself and his Friends, by introducing that smooth, oleose Temper I have already described. And where that does bear sway, the Saline Stem of Acids cannot set up to play its Pranks. The inbred Fire is kept so truly delighted and entertained with those Solar Guests, that it can't turn sour or ill-natured. For the Sharpness of all Salts arises from the insite Fire of Mixts: And the more the fixed Fire is urged, the greater the Sharpness; from both the Blood's corrupted, and many Diseases are derived throughout the whole Body, which exercise the utmost Skill of Physicians, and notwithstanding all their Cunning, they are often buffled by 'em.  
So great is the Energy of Acids, that it preys upon all the Sulphureity in the Blood, till it has devoured its whole Tincture, and left it sizy, or turned it into Matter, at least several Colours; but robbed it of its Life; and transmuted the other Juices into a Vitriolic Tartness. Such Acids will corrode Metals, eat Holes in Iron, and make the Sulphurs putrid and stink, to the offending of your Nose.  
But I'll show in particular Distempers some of the many Mischiefs that arise from this Root of Acids. the grand Enemy of Man's Health. Our natural Fire divested of its vital Alloy grows burning and scorching; and being fed with the Fires of mixed and disturbed Elements, at length puts on a raging Fit and sharpens all the Humours; and when 'tis more intense, enkindles the Aetherial Spirit, and becomes a strong Fever, more difficult to cure than putrid ones, and when it becomes mortiferous, usually ends in Convulsions: if it be not timely understood, and supplied with proper Alkalis in the method, and often enough repeated to correct the Acids. But when by good Conduct you get it to a Remission and then an Intermission, it is like to issue well. For in the Intervals you have time to apply Alkalis, which abate the Fire by absorbing the acid Fuel: for Acids commonly cause this Fire, and this Fire creates Acids. This seems to be the Reason of the use of Jesuits Powder: 'tis freely given in Intermissions, serving to good Purposes, because imposed so long, till it shall do something. Not but that other Alkalis may do as well, nay, it may be better in some Cases, if administered in as large Doses, as often repeated, and as long continued, and I doubt not to say, with less injurious Consequences.  
But Jesuits Bark at present is got in fashion, and must be so, because it sometimes does the Feat, though seldom considered how it comes about; but reverently looked upon among the occult Qualities, which to examine is reckoned unmannerly, because difficult. In continued Fevers of pure accension, Blood-letting is proper in the beginning, and a close Application of Alkalis, and there are of such sort as may be securely given, although the Fever neither intermit or remit. But the Jesuit must not be so used, he plays Tricks in a Paroxysm: for besides his Alkalisate absorbing Quality, he has a churlish Roughness and Stipticity, which at sometimes recommends him, but at other times makes him very ill Company. Where the Fever comes Aguishly, or intermittingly, with Cold and Heat by turns, through the abundance of indigested roapy Humours; here Jesuits Powder, by its Astringency, Roughness, and Bitterness Sutgeneris, besides its Alkalious Quality, becomes a very good common Remedy, if well applied. But in all Fevers arising from fetid Sulphurs, which are to determine in seasonable Separations to the Supersicies, there Jesuits Powder is altogether improper: but the Variety in these sort of Fevers is so great, that 'tis not at present to be meddled with.  
The Rise of the Scurvy proceeds from the Blood impoverished and separated; for when the lively vinous Spirits are exhuled, what remains divides into two parts, a wateny and a thick Substance; which latter being of a Tartarous Nature, is impower'd with a faculty of turning the Juices into Acids. The watery part conveys to the Glands, and by them to the Superficies a fiery, sharp, thin Humour, which stets and corrodes the Gums and Skin, sometimes breaking out on the Hands and Legs, and will run a great quantity of clear and limpid, but sharp Water: and from the Tantarous Fund this is supplied, which still transmutes the thinner parts of your Aliment into this sort of Acid Liquor. Until the Blood shall be again brought to its due Mixture, by the Addition of a sweet Sulphureous Spirit, the Jively Principle that gives Tincture and keeps it in a just Consistence, and makes it perfect. And thus it becomes a Mediclnal Fountain from which all parts are supplied, according as they differ, each by its attractive quality drawing Nourishment peculiar to its kind. From this decay of lively Principles, and Separation of the Blood, tho' with some Alteration, where the slegmatick Humour more abounds, and the Tartarous Body less, proceeds those Overflowings and inundations of the Dropsy, which tho' of fatal consequence, if confirmed, yet taken in time, by proper Medicines and Methods, may be prevented.  
The Gout is a Distemper that owes its Original to Tartar, which in the extraordinary undue Ferment of the Blood is worked off into the extreme parts, thro'▪ small Meandets, and lodged in the Interstices of Joints, from whence it can't return: and by repeated Ferments increases its Mass to a visible chalky Substance, which is of a dry styptic Nature, that by degrees drinks up the Joint-water, and loading the Socket, renders the part crooked and useless: tho▪ in all it does not come to this height; nor needs it, if timely care be taken. The Stone differs but little from it, unless in Situation. Many other Diseases are derived too from this general Root. But because the Mischiefs from Acids and sick Blood are more obvious than their Remedies, I shall therefore betake myself to the Description of a Universal Noble Medicine, abundantly qualified to bring about the great Design of Health, and rescue Life from the innumerable Dangers wherewith it is surrounded.   

The True SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM OF THE Ancient Philosophers.  
FRom what I have said already it may appear that the Volatile Oleose Temper is the most natural to our Bodies, and governs best our Calidum innatum; contrary to the Saline Stem of Acids, which divides and precipitates, enraging the insite Fire, scattering it up and down, scorching the Body, till it has one way or other ruin'd it; like slashes of unbounded consuming Fire from the Heavens.  
In order therefore to the preventing of such Destruction, I have laid my Design in Physic, and liberally expended in preparing two general noble Remedies; a Panacea, which I formerly treated of, and this Shall Volatile Oleosum; for extraordinary Directors whereby lesler or greater Aberrations may be reclaimed to a due state of Health.  
For although▪ all Persons that are declined from a just Temper, are not immediately turned out of their Being's; yet so many live in pain, decaying, and wasting away, that 'tis grievous to a Physician, besides a great Reproach to Art, to hear 'em complaining and crying out their very Lives are burdensome.  
There are indeed some wonderful strong Bodies that will hold out through courses of Excess to great Ages. But hundreds, for one such, go early to the Grave; and they too, with such hail Constitutions (in all probability) might have lived much longer with Temperance: I'm sure they ought to have lived to much better purposes. But 'tis not my business to disturb such tranquil Souls, who risk their Lives in a perpetual Tickle of Sensuality, aways stimulated with the wild fires of Wines and Drams, to the committing of very odd Actions. Thus the glare of borrowed ●ights present fantastical Ideas which to represent in Figures to the view of others require the nicest Artifice of the Sensual Man for their Equipment. Then appearing very taking with such as are led by the snares of their Senses, no wonder so many dance after these Ignes fatui, willing rather (than to be at the pains of serious Thinking) to run secundo flumine, with the Crowd, chafed and heated with Desires: As tho▪ the Fall of Man had been their Happiness, and 'twere a Divine Blessing thus to be brutifyed. But I'll betake myself to the assistance of the Infirm, and such as through the want of bodily Health know how to value that. And here, if persons will but contribute one quarter of that Care about themselves, which I have done faithfully to preserve and serve 'em, abundance of complaints would soon be remedied on very easy terms.  
I appeal to every one, whether 'tis not a fair design in Medicine, to aim at the right Amendment of the Spirit of Life, which animates the mighty lump of Matter, the Body. Alas! what are We without it? and by what small invisible Power is so great a mass of Matter lightly moved about at pleasure? When the Spirits are rich and well united, how supple, gay, and vivid, are all the Senses and Organs of the Body, how concordantly, do they move in all their just Dependencies? no one grieved on a●●●icted to abait the Harmony.  
Now a true Sal 〈◊〉 O●●●sum is the fairest Medicine to lay down for these purposes: Because every one may be a Judge of what he takes, and of what is true from false: And to help 'em in this Discovery, and a little elucidate this Universal Remedy, is my present Business▪  
But first 'twill be necessary to preamble the great Difference there is between Comp●s●●● and M●st●●, the one being a Conjunction of Bodies in place, the other in quality and consent; the one imperfect mista, a Confusion, the other a Union.  
Compositio is the joining of Bodies without a new Form, Mistio is the joining or putting together of Bodies under a new Form. For the new Form is Commune Vinculum.  
Natural Philosophers know that Compositio is Opus hominis, and Mistio, Opus Naturae. Man makes a fit Application of Bodies together; but the perfect Fermentation and Incorporation of 'em must be left to Nature, to make that Continuum which otherwise is but Contiguum.  
'Tis therefore a great turn of Thought, to find out the Art of compounding in Life; so that Mixtures at first troubled, may grow after clear and settled, by the benefit of Rest, Time, etc.  
The due Contemplation of Nature, as well above as below, and some competent Knowledge how the superior act on inferior Bodies, seems to me altogether needful. For the Heavens do not enrich themselves by the Earth and Seas; nor keep no dead stock, nor untouched Treasures of that they draw from below: but what they do take up, they return and spend in Dew and Showers impregnated with Life and Power.  
This Consent in Nature, and some other luckey Hints, have proved sufficient to beget my Sal Volatile Oleosum, which is a Nitro-aereal volatile Salt magnetically tied (by the Knot of Love in Nature) to a luminous Sulphur. 'Tis more Philosophical to call it Shall Volatile Sulphureum. But to speak it at once, 'tis Spirit of Air, and the best seasoning in the whole World of Animal Bodies in Life. For by Philosophic Management, the truest, purest, and most wholesome Volatile Salt may be extracted from the Air; and the first begotten Oleity in the World; which transparent radical Moisture (prior to all specific Lives) has some portion of the universal Form that animates it: And this may properly be called a luminous Sulphur, which is the root of all Oleity; for I would have it take the Name Oleose when the Sulphurs are clothed upon more bodily; and thus you may descend to the more gross Bodies of Oils and Fats. But to comply with the common Meanings of Men, I'll call my Medicine no more than Shall Volatile Oleosum, but than it must be considered as perfectionate. And without doubt 'twas some quondam great Philosopher (favoured with a propitious Birth) that first discovered this Union in Nature: And some learned Doctor searching into Sacred Remains, an Admirer of the Disguised Learning of the Ancients, that robbed the Philosopher of the Name, but not the Secret, and handed it down to our Age. How could else so many agree in the name, and not understand the reason or truth of the Medicine. Yet every one can talk of a Shall Volatile Oleosum, and every little Processmonger can make it. That I expect in a little while to hear it cried about the Streets like Elixirs made of Brandy, Jalop, Seeds, and Liquorish. Whenas by the name Elixir, the Philosophers of old mentioned their most Venerable Secret; but now 'tis profaned and affixed to a parcel of murdering Trash. And the World finding such sorry Stuff under the highest Titles in Philosophy, have of late damned and ridiculed the whole Science. But I admire the Wisdom of the Ancients in vailing such glorious Knowledge under their Hieroglyphical Figures and Enigmatical Expressions, to secure it from barbarous and profane hands. No, let all their Followers, the true Sons of Art, become worthy of useful Rarities, by imitating their Piety and Honesty: then I wish they may find Ariadne's Thread to conduct 'em through the delusive Windings of this intricate Philosophy.  
'Tis one of the greatest Misfortunes of latter times, that all Medicinal Experiments are put out to making. The Physician must by no means nowadays know more than half of his Art, having nothing to show but multitudo librorum. The compleatest Medicine would stigmatize him with Quackery, altho' it is the Accomplishment of all his Learning.  
Nothing's more difficult than to hit a Curiosity aright, which the best of Authors have difficultly enough discovered: And he's a very sensible person that can correct twenty mistakes in a Preparation, and by them grow wise enough to bring about his end. And 'tis not a low educated person can thus improve, he will take quid pro quo, and if the Physician is not experimentally skilful he must be put upon, and consequently his Patients: Thus we become full of Medicines but no Remedies.  
For if any one can but raise a Volatile Salt from Horns or Bones, and join therewith some Aromatic Oils, which for Odour and Thinness couple to the best advantage with his Salt, than he cries out presently, 'tis a Sal Volatile Oleosum, although 'tis no more a Medicine than a gilt Shilling is a Guinea. And Mistakes herein are of fatal consequence to them that rely on such Preparations: for they are at once bantered out of their money, the time of helping themselves, and thus by delay out of Life too sometimes.  
〈◊〉 affirm, 'tis not from Horns, Hoofs, nor Bones, which abound with Salts; no, nor from Sal Armoniac that this Remedy can be drawn. For altho' there be plenty of Volatile Salts, which Chemists call so, that by the force of Fire will come over the Helm; yet they bring with 'em somewhat of Fixity, petrifying Dispositions, and caustic Qualities. And as for Horns and Bones, they are endowed with very fetid, corporal Oils: so that from these they borrow only a little pungent Salt dilated in a Phlegm, which is so poor a Vehicle, that the Salts will drop through to the bottom of the Glass. Now having made a shift for his Salt, the Chemist is to seek for the Spiritual Sulphurs or oleose part, which constitutes the Medicine. Here he's at a loss in Philosophy, and bluntly takes an oily body to join to his Salt; and because he finds the grosser bodies of Oil are greasy, and want mix well, he wittily turns one Thought to the purer Oils of Seeds or Aromaticks, and there he gets a Scent too, and finding they will hang about his Salts, he than pronounces o'er rotundo that 'tis the right Sal Volatile Oleosum of Silvius de le Boe, or of some other cried-up Doctor, whose Reputation can support it; not regarding Science, or the Medicinal Virtues, so long as 'twill pass for a Commodity in Trade.  
I must confess, 'tis very difficult, and a great piece of Art, to prepare this Medicine, so as to answer learned Tests and Physical Intentions. For the Salts, as well as the Sulphurs, are deeply concealed in Nature, and their Union is a great mystery, as nice as the Subtle mixtions in Life; not to be received into one another by the Philosophers adjoining, altho' he must have a hand in the business, till his Design is wrought about by Art.  
The Sulphurs must be spiritualised that mix with Volatile Salts, and be united by the mean of an Aetherial Spirit, and held to view illuminated and perfectly united. As in sine fermented Ale the Water, Malt, and Hop, are so entirely one, that Art can never more show the Ingredients apart; all three make up one thing, called Ale.  
I have well considered the Vegetable nature, and in the Mineral Kingdom have much pleased myself with fine Sulphurs, difficultly enough obtained from Antimony; but yet am disappointed in both. Animals methinks should seem to yield the best Sulphureous Volatile, as nearest of kin to our Natures: but so subtle are the Spiritual Elements, that they wing away with Life in one quintessential form to the Aereal Mansions, and leave you only their corruptible Natures to work upon.  
I cannot imagine where to apply myself in Nature for a very wholesome Salino-Sulphureous Volatile, unless it be from the Atmospherical Air, where Nature forms the Universal Sperm of the World by her heavenly fire on the gentle and soft Sublimations of the purer Elements, and incorporates 'em to your hand, beyond the profoundest skill of the most inquisitive Philosopher, altho' he have laminated the greatest part of Nature on Vulcan's Anvil.  
For amidst all the Variety of Salts and Sulphurs in the World, which are as many as there be Species of things, none can be more agreeable than what's drawn from this general Bank of Nature; whence I borrow not only my Matter, but therewith some portion of the Universal Form, and that's a lively Touch indeed.  
And since I can find here what I want, why need I look any farther. I have roved and searched as well as others, but reckon I have anchored well at last, considering I had no Pilot. And he will prove a luckey man that hits my Knack, or rather discovers such a Terra incognita in Philosophy, altho' I give him here that aim which I never received. But should he find my Bait, yet one half of the Skill does not lie in catching my starry Volatiles: for I do assure him, he must well understand, and have long laboured in Experimental Philosophy, before he shall be Master of this Rarity in Nature. Dii omnia laboribus vendunt.  
However, 'tis curious to know the Operation of Nature, and how she produceth things by her Workings which requires subtilness and quickness of Mind; for she is not perceived by vulgar eyes. 'Tis necessary to learn first with the Brain and Imagination, if 'twere but to save labour and charges in Fires and Glasses. Besides, there is no pleasure in the dull composition of things. Give me vital Principles wreathed together by a magnetic Virtue, whence they become a sure food of Life, and security from the hasty separation by Death, which is nothing else but Life separating itself, by its self, from a Corruptible Body. But if any petulant Sophister, stiff in his Opinion, shall oppose these Experiments, let him know, that what he assumes on Trust, I make good by Trial.  
Now in describing more particularly the Virtues and Use of this Remedy, I'll begin from its first entrance into the Body. In the Stomach these Sulphureo-Saline Volatiles do loosen and cleanse away all viscid clammy Humours and ill Digestions; they correct the austere and acid Ferment, which gives Heart-burn, Sourness, Pains in the Stomach, Flatulencies, colics, Convulsions, and ill Vapours offending the Head. And they bring in that Oleose Volatile Temper, which causes a good Digestion, well governed Bowels, and a right nutritious Chyle wherewith the Body is supplied throughout with wholesome Juices. The food precipitated and hardened by Acids' sticks to the folds of the Stomach like Glue, and being too long detained, turns putrilaginous and austere, becoming a Load on Nature, to the great disturbance of the Spirit of Life and Temperies of the part; from whence great Oppressions, Struggle, Faintings, Flushings of Heat, Palpitations, and sometimes very dangerous and sudden Mischiefs ensue● but if they do not arise to such hasty destruction, yet these Acids will by degrees so debauch the true design of the Stomach, and corrupt all your Aliment, that instead of a well-digested wholesome Nourishment, you must be supplied with sharp, corrosive Juices throughout the whole Body. Till at length you'll find the Blood and all things spoiled, and all the Bowels and Organs grieved. And then supply your Bodies with the softest things in Nature, and the greatest Art in Cookery, all is presently spoilt in this vitiated Stomach.  
But here you may again remedy these contrary Ferments and abounding Acids, and vanquish the Root of 'em: and not only so, but in lieu thereof regain a well-conditioned Stomach, oily Bowels, a true natural Ferment; and a Supply of Oleose Volatile Particles, which mixing with the Chyle renders it not barely nutritious, but medicinal and balsamic. And this is not all, for they give a lasting Vigour and Strength to all the nervous Texture, causing a round Ability of the whole Body. Besides, pleasing Gas' ascend the Brain and recreate the Senses, instead of cloudy noxious Fumes.  
And because so many Diseases are to be remedied in the first Digestion, from a well-governed Stomach. And that it is the most sociable and entertaining Organ: I must have one 'Bout at him more; but first show, that the Glandules glutted with these Sulphureous Volatiles, convey in chewing a very wholesome Saliva into the Stomach with your Food, instead of a Scorbutic, Vitriolic Phlegm. And that these subtle Particles enable the Stomach to such pleasant agreeable Actions, that he plays the Wanton with all his Pabulum.  
This Medicine keeps the Orifice of the Stomach clean, and as tight as that of the Anus, folds up all the expanded Wrinkles, reimpregnates remaining Food, and gives a thousand pretty pleasing Touches (besides substantial Services) to the whole Body. It suffers no canine Appetite which ravenously devours what it can't concoct, sometimes to disgorging; but gives a well-bred Desire, which will equip you for all the Dainties of a Luxurious Table, and warrant the decent carrying off thr Largesses of Friendship.  
The Lungs, and all its Pipes, are herewith cleansed of tough foul Spittings, thickened by a preternatural Heat, which causes Consumptive P●hisical Coughs, Asthmatick Weasings, and straitness of the Chest, not to be reached by Syrups, Oils, Licks, Slops, or Lozenges, which offend the Stomach, and feed the unnatural Fire. But this Sal Volatile Oleosum subtly and sweetly insinuates itself by the Blood, and thro' the Pores, into the minutest Passages, and there nobly and evidently displays its Virtues.  
'Tis the greatest Antiscorbutic yet discovered, which is obvious to every one that considers how it deals with the Saline Stem, and all its Productions. It meets with it in every Form, by its powerful penetrating Nature, closely pursuing the most malign Atoms, clipping the wings of all fiery flying Acids, which sting the Body, and deface it. But my Paper will not admit of enlarging on every Distemper.  
In all Fluxes of Blood by the Nose, Lungs, or downwards, occasioned from Acids, 'tis the most prevailing Medicine. 'Tis a powerful Dissolvent of petrified tartarous Salts, therefore of singular benefit to such as are afflicted with Goul and Stone; for herewith they may (at least) prevent the Increase of either, and keep off the Fits of both. And I have reason to believe, waste away the petrified Matter already lodged.  
For that teizing Distemper called Vapours among the Ladies, and Hypocondriac Flatus and Stretchings among the Gentlemen, 'tis a non pareil in their Claret, Cider, Ale, or other Liquors drank ad libitum.  
'Tis a great Restorative of Age, from Rheums and Wind, Decay, and Wear and Tear.  
'Twou'd save a thousand Children in a Year from dying of Convulsion-Fits.  
'Twill secure from, or cure all the Diseases of the Brain, as Coma, Lethargy, Carus, Apoplexy, Palsy, Falling-sickness, Vertigo, Madness, Catarihs etc.  
All Aguish Distempers, Rheumatisms, Dropsies, Jaundice, etc. are Remedied herewith. But I hate to enumerate Diseases at this rate: 'Tis so rank Quackish. I need not here mention the many Cases in Chirurgery that are derived from such an unwholesome Fountain, not to be cured by the Plaister-box only, without eradicating this Saline Stock, and renovating the Blood, by some such balmy Medicine, that disposes all the dependent Juices, Flesh and Organs to healing. I shall only say in general, that to restore the Vital Sulphurs of the Blood is absolutely necessary to a sound and speedy Cure of Wounds, Ulcers, and other sharp Eruptions on any parts of the body, of whatsoever Name or Nature they be. And if I suggest this Sal Volatile Oleosum as a prime Remedy for such internal Services, it may be taken by the by, for a friendly Item.  
For all the Drinkers of Bath, Tunbridge, or Epsom waters, or any others, 'tis a worthy Companion. And so it is for all engaged in long Journeys or Voyages, aptly suiting every Climate. Useful to all the World of whatsoever Language, Nation, or Country, provided they are Animal Bodies, and not Stooks or Stones, or condensed Air.  
'Tis useful from the birth to a hundred years of Age, to cherish and uphold that vital Congruity we desire to maintain with the Superior Natures. All chagrin Constitutions and Tendencies to Corrutpion, à qua●●●●que causa, may be relieved hereby.  
In the great variety of acute cases, it manifestly shows its power in its homogeneal Virtues, standing by Life in all the Attacks of mortiferous Diseases. But 'tis impossible I should here, at a random guests, prescibe the proper Seasons, Doses and Repetitions of the Medicine, altho' I may pronounce it the most effectual Remedy: I protest, I know not what to Substiute in its place. And I may be thought as competent a Judge of good Medicine as any other, having been many Years very curious in the Materia Medica. After all, I care not Ninepences for the Opinion of those that decry what they cannot understand. I shall content myself to be the sole Possessor of so excellent a Remedy. Farewell. Excuse him however, who desires to deserve well. And so, long may ye enjoy these my Labours to the Glory of God.  
From my House in Great Carter-Lane near St. Paul's.  
FINIS.