THE SECRETS Of the Famous LAZARUS RIVERIUS, Councillor & Physician To the FRENCH KING, And PROFESSOR of PHYSIC In the UNIVERSITY of MONTPELIER.  
Newly Translated from the Latin, by E. P. M. D.  
LONDON, Printed for Daniel Brown, at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Barr. MDCLXXXV.   

THE PREFACE TO THE READER.  
Reader,  
THou art here presented with the Secrets of that ever renowned Physician, Lazarus Riverius, whose other Works, published first in Latin, and then in our own Language, I believe thou art very sensible that they were like good Wine, needing no Bush; for at the first coming forth of his Practice of Physic in the Latin Language; many eminent Physicians in England, and other parts made it their Cynosura and steered their Practice wholly by it; as the Mariner sails by his Compass: for in those days, before it was translated into English; you might see the Apothecary's files filled with Recipes, transscribed out of his Book almost verbatim, & ad amussim, scarce any alteration at all, or what's worth the taking notice of, being made in their prescriptions; and at this very day I can assure you there are very able Physicians in England and other parts (without making comparisons) that still adhere to, and have a greater esteemation of, and veneration for him, than for Willis, the London Practice of Physic, etc. and other later Books. Now as concerning these his Arcanums, they were published in Latin, as it seems, by an Honest, Ingenious and Conscionable Scholar of his; who was not willing the World should be deprived, of such a rich Cabinet, containing so many precious Jewels; and if any one shall object any thing as to the laboriousness of these, above other operations yet extant; they are desired to consider; that their excellent Virtues and eximious Qualities, will countervale, equally balance and recompense, all that; always remembering the old saying, Dii laborantibus omnia vendunt; & labour improbus omnia vincit. And this is all, Reader I hope I need to say in behalf of this piece; little truly in itself; but  find, without doubt, to be great in its worth; so I bid thee Adieu, as also because I would never have too great Gate made for a little City; and so I say again Farewell.   

THE SECRETS OF Laz. Riverius, etc.  

CHAP. I. His Tincture of GOLD.  
SINCE there are more than a good many Recipés of Aurum potabile extant, in the World, which by some are denominated the Essences of Gold; etc. I have a mind, in like manner, to describe one after my most Honoured and Learned Master Riverius' method and manner, as one of those to whom I doubted not, in the least, to stand by, and trust to, after the example of my aforesaid Master, and also of the very Learned and excellent Artist Peter John Faber; under whose Discipline I first learned my Chemical Operations; and many of his very excellent Secrets.  
Other Artists dissolve Gold, making not, in the least, any preparation, or disposition thereunto before hand; but our method is performed after this manner.  
Take of the purest Plate-Gold, and calcine it thrice with Antimony; always adding thereto Crude Antimony; then separate it from the Cinders which will be very apparent; and being mundisied dissolve them in Aqua regia after the usual manner of dissolutions. Upon the dissolutions sprinkle Oil of Tartar made by deliquium drop by drop; and so the Gold will be precipitated to the bottom; then the water being drawn off by decantation; see you take away the acrimony by often ablutions with clear, sweet, common water: Then dry it either in the Sun, or upon warm Cinders; but be sure you beware of the Fire, for it's now Aurum fulminans. Afterwards dissolve the Powder in Spirit of Salt, and our Spirit of Vitriol, keeping it in a heat for the space of one month; and by that time it will communicate its whole Tincture to the said Spirits. Separate the half, adding a new Spirit till it be tinctured; and to every Ounce of the tinctured Spirit, add a drachm of the volatile Salt of Tartar dissolved, digesting it in a warm place for the space of fifteen days; then add all these again to the Powder, which then remains in the bottom of the Vesel; put it into a Glass-house Furnace for 〈◊〉 sp●ce of two months, with a gentle Fire at first, augmenting the hear by little 〈…〉; for at fifteen days end they will all become of the consistence of a stone; then after two months, let them be put in a moist place, in an Egg, as the custom is, till they be dissolved; thus you have the true, exact and genuine process of our Aurum po●●●●le.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THE Virtues of this our so great a Secret very far excel all others; for it corroborates the Heart, the Brain, the Liver, and all the parts of our Body; but those parts especially whose duty, faculty, and functions are to attract, altar, ●nourish, separate, expel, etc. By this the pture Balsam of life is upheld; by this it's preserved in its Youthful state; its Spirits are augmented, and old Age retarded; and lastly it so orders affairs that the Humours corrupt not one another. So that it's proper in all kind of Diseases, both by reason of the Gold, and also of the six'd Salts, which dissolves all impurities of the Body by transpiration; it's given in certain appropriate Liquors from five drops to eight, for one dose.    

CHAP. II. His Tincture of SILVER.  
BEcause what's written of Gold, challengeth to its self, the First place in Value and Virtue; In the next place, I put our Tincture of Silver; as coming nighest to the other, not only in Price but in Virtue also. It's process is performed after this manner and method following.  
Take of the purest Plate-Silver, and dissolve it in Aqua fortis; and see you precipitate it with Oil of Tartar; then shall you wash it with common Water; then dry it, and extract a Tincture with the aforementioned Liquors after the very same manner and method, as aforegoing in the process of Gold, and at length dissolve it, as abovesaid.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
INnumerable are the Virtues of this Tincture of Silver; especially in Capital Diseases; for it is very effectual in the epilepsy although it be of a long standing, in the Vertigo, in the Megrim, Pally, and all other Diseases proceeding from ●●s●●●●ion of the Brain. For as it the Macrocosm, or great World, Sibver is called ●he Brain of the World; So this Tincture is a true, and powerful remedy against Diseases of the Brain. It more over wonderfully helps Hectical and Pthisical persons, if it be given with other specisies, especially with our potable Gold, before described; it's given in Waters appropriate to the Disease, as for example, in the Falling-sickness, in Swallows Water, from five, to seven drops, etc.    

CHAP. III. His Tincture of Jupirer, or TIN.  
COncerning Tin, many writ of a Salt made thereof; but few have had the happiness to attain to the true and genuine manner and method of its operation: So that in lieu of Salt of Jupiter, or Tin, they'll extract the Salt of Saturn, or Led; as plainly appears in most of our great, boasting Professors at this day; who are not able to produce any substance from Tin; Now our Tincture is made after this manner following.  
Take pure Tin without Lead, and calcine it in the Fire, in an Iron Vessel, continually stirring it with an Iron Spa●hula till it be reduced to a Powder; and it will wax white with the heat of the Furnace, than put it into a Glass-house Furnace for a month, with a very vehement Fire; or into a Reverberatory Fire, for seven days together; afterwards digesting it with a gentle heat, in distilled Vinegar, separate the green Tincture, which will tinge; and this being taken away, put your Vinegar to the calcined Tin into a luted Retort, distilling it seven times; always adding new distilled Vinegar: Digest the distilled part with the same Calx in a warm place for many days together; then siltre and distil it to a dryness; adding 〈◊〉 of Wine well rectified, and alcooli●●ted to that which is sixth mat●●r 〈◊〉 shall dissolve the Tincture; but take notice you shall put only so much of the Spirit, as will dissolve the fixed matter. Afterwards digest it for eight days, for by that time the Spirit being separated, the Tincture will remain in the bottom, which indeed is marvellous.  
Note. You will not find any such clear and sincere Receipts as these; for I lay down nothing, but what I have illustrated by frequent Operations.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis Tincture is wonderfully beneficial for all kinds of Diseases; for as Jupiter derives his Name à juvando, from helping; so that this Tincture helps all Diseases, both inward and outward. Inwardly it obtains the first place in Diseases of the Womb, although incorrigible: For it Comforts, Strengthens and Mundifies it from impure and corrupt Seeds, which produce so many various Diseases; it also succours the Brain, Heart, Liver, and Hypochondria's, and given with Specifies, it much profits Hectical and Pthysical persons. Outwardly it bridles and checks any acrimonious humour in Wounds; and sweetens it; and brings them to their perfect integrity. 'Tis given with Liquors, from a Scruple to half a Drachm, for one dose.    

CHAP. IU. His Tincture, or Essence of MARS.  
THere are already very many Remedies extant from the very many preparations of Mars, or Iron, though a Tincture of the nature of this of ours be in use but by very few; and yet it is one of the most excellent, though it be the most laborious of all others; its process is as follows.  
Take filings of Iron, and being very well fired in a Crucible, extinguish them with distilled Vinegar, and this do more than thirty times, then make them boil in the said Vinegar. And, while 'tis warm, filter them through a Paper; dry your Filings, and siring them again, as before, in Crucible, quench them with distilled Vi●negar, as abovesaid: Which rule after yo● have repeated thrice, you shall then disti●● your siltrated Vinegars to a dryness; an● then add thereto Spirit of Wine; and a● for the rest of the process, you shall observe the same order as in the Tincture of Jupiter.  

Virtues, Uses and Deses.  
THis Tincture is a great Cordial, strengthening the parts, and opening obstructions: For it is excellent above other remedies in all Fluxes, as Dysenteries Diarra'heas, and jaenteries, etc. and all immoderate monthly and white Fluxes in Women; Gonorhaeas, spittings of Blood, Fluxes of Blood, either at Nose, or Hemorrhoides; in all sudden Fluxions in any part of the Body. It suffers no Corruption in any manner of Wounds; and heals them in a very short time; it mundisies and heals Wounds and Ulcers; it is given in specific cordials from a Scruple to half a Drachm.  
Note. After the same manner are made the Tinctures of Lapis Hamatitis, Sanguis Draconis, etc. which are Remedies appropriate to the Blood.    

CHAP. V His ●ssen●● of MERCURY.  
SUblimate your Mercury thrice, according to the common manner, with Vitriol and Nitre; and thence separate a most pure Crystal; which you shall afterwards sublimate again leven times, with common white Salt very well decrepitated; and being very well bruised put it into a Glass Vessel, with Spirit of Salt very well rectisied, which must be six fingers breadth above the Salt: Being sealed, digest in Balneo forty days; then separate the Spirit by decantation; and pouring new Spirit thereon digest again, for forty days more. Then separate as abovesaid; and if all the sublimate be not dissolved, infuse and digest anew, until almost nothing remain in the bottom. All the Spirits being digested, put them into a Retort very well luted; and with a Recipient distil them until white drops ascend; then remove them and cohobate the Spirit four times, always upon the Caput mortuum; making, towards the latter end, a more vehement Fire, till all becomes one: what remains of the fixed matter in the bottom calcine, so long until 〈◊〉 wax white, and become a Salt after the usual manner. Distil the Spirit, and separate until the Tincture remain in the bottom, which you shall join to its Salt, by a gentle Fire, that they may incorporate into one substance, then dulcify it with Spirit of Wine, and digest it in the same, and separate the Spirit; doing thus five times, that it may become dulcified.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis is a difficult Operation; but in recompense it eradicates all almost incurable Diseases; and may be given to all Bodies, Sexes and Ages, in all kinds of Diseases; it mundifies all kinds of corrupt Diseases producing malignancy in any part of the Body: It Operates without any trouble, disturbance, hurt or damage to the Body; it preserves and cherishes the natural Balsam of Life; it expels all impurities by insensible transpiration; it dries up and consumes Catarrhs proceeding from what cause soever: It cures obstructed and cachectic Bodies, caused from depraved, and naughty humours of the Hypochondria's, Womb, or corrupt Blood: It helps both hot and cold hysterical persons, by corroborating the Liver and other viscera: It drives out either new or old infections proceeding from the Lues Venerea: It heals also Schyrrhus', King's Evil, or such pertinacious tumours: 'Tis administered in Broths, or the yolks of Eggs, or Wine, from eight drops to ten, in a morning, fasting.    

CHAP. VI His Essence, or Tincture of CORAL.  
THERE are almost infinite Recipés, which teach how to draw a Tincture from Coral; and how to make its Salt: But for the most part they are deceived: And in lieu of a Tincture of the Coral, there appears a Tincture of other lagredients, (from the Efficacy of the 〈◊〉) which use to be mixed therewith. Ours is this which follows, a very sincere one, if it be artificially performed by an expert Operator.  
Take Coral very smally pounded; and infuse it in a Glass Vessel in Vinegar which hath before extracted the Tincture of Antimony; and was separated therefrom by distribution; for there is nothing more sit than this for Corals, Unions, Crabs-eyes, Eggli●●●●s, B●le-Ar●●me, Lapis hematitis, and the like. Let the Vinegar swim six singers breadth uppermost; and let the Coral be dissolved for some days space in an hot Balneo; and then distil the Vinegar to dryness, then wash the Powder ten or twelve times in Cordial Waters; until all acrimony, and the grosser and carthier parts be taken away, and it become very well du●cisy'd, and as clear as Crystal. Then dry it well and lay it up to be used, as shall be directed hereafter: Then take other Coral, and being mixed with equal quantity of Sal Armeniac, put them into a sublimatory Vessel to be sublimed; and the Shall Armoniac will attract all the redness from the Coral: Then put your Sal Armoniac, being rubisyed, into Spirit of Wine, rectilyed and a●choolizated, in an hot Bath; and in sew days the Spirit of Wine will attract to itself all the Tincture; then separate the Spirit by distillation, and there will remain an Essence; to which you shall add the aforesaid fixed Powder, and this is your true, real and genuine Essence of Coral.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis is a Cordial, and a mundifier of the Blood, as may appear in Leprous persons; 'tis given to all Bodies, and in all kinds of Diseases; 'tis proper for Fluxes as hath been said in the Essence of Mercury: It comforts the Heart and Stomach; restores the natural heat, and fortifies the radical moisture; it dissolves glotted Blood; it helps and cures venomous Wounds, and malignant and solid Ulcers: 'Tis given in Broth, the yelk of an Egg, Wine, Plantane-water; etc. from half a Drachm to a Drachm.    

CHAP. VII. His Essence of PEARLS.  
OUR Essence of Pearls differs somewhat from that which is commonly described by others; and is this which followeth.  
Digest your Pearls in Vinegar of Antimony, as before, and they will very quickly be dissolved; then do as before in the Essence, or Tincture of Coral, until the Salt become white; to wit, after it hath lost its Acrimony by washing; then dissolve it in Alchoolizated Spirit of Wine, and distil it seven times, always upon the Caput mortuum, then separate the Spirit, and there will remain your Essence as in others.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
'TIS a most perfect Cordial; and not in the least inferior to Aurum potabile; for 'tis given to restore weak and languishing Bodies; 'tis proper in malignant Fevers, and the Plague, by reason of its Cordiality: It repels, Syncopes or Swooning Fits, Passions of the Brain, as Apoplexies, Epilepsies, Palsies, and Vertigoes, as also Hysterical passions and Hypochondriacal Fits; it's given in Broth, or the yelk of an Egg, in appropriate Waters, from half a Drachm to a Drachm.    

CHAP. VIII. His Essence of EMERALDS.  
TAke one part of the Fragments of Emeralds finely powdered; of Nitr● and Sulphur three parts; the which being put into a glazed Vessel that will resi● the Fire; you shall calcine it: Afterwards being dulcifyed with warm Waters, cal● cine them twice, after the same manner as before, always with new Nitre and Su●phur. After the third calcination and dulcification put your Powder, into a crucible luted, into a Glass Furnace; or into a Reverberatory Fire, for the space of six days afterwards being put into a Glass Vesse● pour on Spirit of Salt rectified; as much as will overtop it four singer's breadth; an● so digest them in an hot Bath for twenty days; then make a separation by decantation into another Vessel; and, pouring on new Spirit of Salt upon the feceses, digest them again as abovesaid, until all the Powder b● dissolved. Put all the Spirit into a Vesse● very well stopped; and digest it for the space of a month; which being passed, distil it lightly, for the Tincture will remain in the bottom; than you may augment its Virtue by adding Spirit of Wine Alchoolizated; and digesting it, and afterwards by separating it.  
After the same manner is made your Essence of Carbuncles, Hyacynthes, and other precious Stones.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
I Have no need to say any thing of the Virtues of this Essence, good Wine needing no Bush; for it is really a most potent Cordial against Poison, and malignant, pestilential Fevers; and succours all Diseases of the Brain, as Madness, Apoplexies and the like.    

CHAP. IX. His Essence of Auripigmentum.  
'TIS a very dextrous and perfect spaggirical Art, to be able on the o● hand to extract deadly Poison from use precious things; and on the other has to be able to convert Poison itself in● most perfect Antidotes, Alexipharmics a●● true Cordials. As may be seen in Or●ment; which though it be one of the deadly Poisons; yet may be produced from an admirable Essence; by reason of 〈◊〉 Cordiality; and its process is performed ●●ter this manner following.  
Take one part of Auripigmentum, a●● three parts of rectified Nitre, which bei●● put into an unglassed Earthen Vessel th●● will resist the Fire; do as is usual in Cro●● Antimonii; being calcined, than wa● off the Nitre with warm Waters; the● dry it, and do so again as abovesaid wit● new Nitre; than repete this exsiccation after a new ablution; and adding two parts of Nitre, and two of Sulphur Fire it a fresh; and du●c●●y it; but take heed of flame and sum: After the third calcination and dulcification, put your Powder into a crucible well luted 〈◊〉. Furnace or Reverberatory Fire 〈…〉 space of one month. Afterward, proceed with Spirit of Salt, as hath been often said in other foregoing processes, digesting and cohobating it oftentimes; all being dissolved, separate the Spirit, to a dryness; then with Spirit of Wine; etc. proceed as in other before.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis Essence expels all manner of Poison very forcibly; and is of like Virtue with Aurum potabile, Pearls, Corals, and precious Stones; it purifies impure Bodies from all naughty corruption in the Veins: This is the chiefest among other remedies against malignant Ulcers, Gangrenes, or any other corrosions; and roots out Scurffs and Scald-heads being anointed therewith. 'Tis given in Broths or Waters, from a Scruple to a Drachm.    

CHAP. X. His Essence of common Salt.  
FIltrate decrepitated Salt several times through a Paper in rain Water being seven times distilled: Exhale the humidity and from what remains fixed, diligently extract a Spirit with Bole-Armenia according to Art. Then cohobate it four times upon the Caput mortuum, and being rectified from its impurities keep it, for the use hereafter specified; then break your Retort, and make a Salt of the Caput mortuum according to Art; filtrating it well and it will begin to look red; then joining it with the aforesaid, digest it in Balneo, in a Vessel well luted with Mastic and the white of an Egg: Then after a month is past, rectify it again twice or thrice, and adding alchoolizated Spirit of Wine, and making a new digestion, separate the Spirit of Wine, and there will remain your Essence of Salt.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis Essence will preserve as well dead Carcases as living wights from Corruption, and is more effectual for Wounds, than your Balsams; it wonderfully helps Ulcers; it dissolves the Gravel and Stone in the Blader; it mundifies the Veins from any bad, gross quality; and cures Diseases proceeding from Blood; it conglutinates, consolidates and cures Ulcers of the Reins and Blader: It helps obstructions of the Spleen, Liver and visera; it very much prevails against putrid Fevers; it removes infections of the Skin; amongst which are Scabs, Pimples, Shingles, St. Anthony's Fire, Ringworms, etc. it suppurates all sorts of hot Tumours; and dissolves cold ones, although they be schyrrous: It appeases pains in the joints; it defends the radical moisture, keeps back old Age; sharpens the Wit, ' its drank in Liquors from one Drachm to two.    

CHAP. XI. His Essence of Salprunella.  
MIX Salprunella very well clarified with Common Salt decrepitated; ' its done by the same Rule as in Common Salt. This differs not in Virtue from the Common, chief in Fevers.   

CHAP. XII. His Essence of Sulphur.  
FIrst of all rubifie Vitriol, then adding an equal portion of Sulphur; put it into a new pot as the custom is, and let the Sulphur be sublimated four times; then mix with it Common Salt decrepitated, dissolved and coagulated, and sublimeit thrice with the said flower, and then the flower will wax white, and become volatile; and this keep for uses hereafter specified; Afterwards take Spirit of Sulphur drawn ●er Campanam, and rectified: And passing it a fresh through filings of Steel; ●ake away its acrimony; so that it become as sweet as Water; put your flowers, formerly laid by into this dulcified Spirit; so that the Spirit may swim four singers breadth above them, and digest them in Balneo, in a well Glazed Vessel well stopped; where your Spirit will assume a reddish Colour; separate the Spirit by decantation; still adding fresh until it will tinge no more; then separate the Spirit by distillation; and the Tincture will remain at the bottom; to which adding alchoolizated Spirit of Wine, digest them for several days, until they be very well mixed; afterwards separate them by distillation, and in the bottom there will remain an Essence.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis is a most cordial Essence; and nothing is more proper against contusions in Wounds, even when the nerves are cut in two; it cures Punctures, or Poysonons' bitings, of any animal; it extinguishes the Poison, and heals the Wounds. 'Tis a true Balsam in Diseases of the Lungs, even Ulcers thereof; it succours Hectical, Pthysical, Asthmatical People. It conserveses the radical moisture; it eradicates pains of the joints; it comforts the nerves; it consumes new and old impurities in Catarrhs; it restores hearing to the Deaf; 'tis profitable to sordid Ulcers: 'tis to be drank from half a Drachm to a Drachm, in Broths or Waters; and is outwardly used by itself alone, or with proper Unguents.    

CHAP. XIII. His Essence of Vitriol.  
Philosopher's assert Vitriol to be the Blood of the macrocosmical machine; and will needs have the Philosopher's Stone, after which so many inquirers have laboured in vain, to be made of it. In this they affirm the true Force and Virtue of the Universal Secret which is the Soul of minerals doth consist. But, indeed, and in truth, if through genuine spagyric Operations, there emerge so many wonderful Virtues, from all sorts of minerals and seminerals; then certainly not a few marvellous ones are to be extracted from Vitriol; as may appear, from its stopping Fluxes of Blood, it being only calcined in the Sun; and the many also that use it by applying it a distance, to preserve the parts from corruption. Hence it may appear, that it must certainly be of much more efficacy being mundified from its Impurities, and brought to its perfection by an ingenious Artist. Now its process is as followeth.  
Take calcined Vitriol, and, a Spirit being extracted therefrom according to Art, rectify it; and dissolve the feceses that remain in hot Water; then filter and dry them, repeating the said Operations several times, that you may gather from thence a Spirit and Salt, as beforesaid. Afterwards join the Spirit, being thrice rectified, to the Salt; and distil them, cohobating them seven times; but always dissolve the Caput mortuum, and fix it as before. Put your Salt into a Vessel, that will endure the Fire, into a Reverbatory Fire for seven days, until it begin to look red; then add it again to its Spirit well rectified, and, in a Vessel very close stopped, digest it in an hot Balneo Mart●e; After forty days distil it, and rectify the Spirit seven times and dissolve the Salt in aqua vitae, rectified and alchoolizated, and six it; then join the Spirit again, and digest it until it grow red; afterwards separate the Spirit by distillation; in the bottom there will remain a Tincture which you shall add to fresh Spirit of Wine alchoolizated; digest it, and, extracting a Spirit therefrom, there will remain your Essence.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
NO one yet ever communicated a more famous medicine against all Diseases; for it expels all kind of Poison whether vegetable, animal or mineral; it recreats the vital, natural and animal Spirits. This is the Arcanum so long concealed by many which is so wonderful and so universal; and which agrees so well with all Diseases, all Ages and both Sexes; it exceeds your Aurum potabile, Panacea's, or any other medicine under any denomination whatever: 'Tis given from a Scruple to a Drachm, in Broths, yolks of Eggs or other Liquors.    

CHAP. XIV. His Antiepileptic Troches.  
THere are many that affirm these to be your mineral cinabar; whose mother they suppose to be the bowels of the Earth. But they are much mistaken; for that which is called your mineral cinabar, is covered under the shadow of this of ours, lest it should be called Antimony. The cinabar laid down by many Authors against the Epilepsy, called mineral and arti●cial, is made after this manner following.  
Take the Caput mortuum, which remains after making of your compound Butter of Antimony, and add thereto as much Mercury sublimate; then distil it for use in a Glass well luted in an Alymbec. Towards the end make a fierce Fire, so that the Antimony may ascend to the neck of the Glass, just like your clearest cinabar, which will be mineral. Wash th●● until it be dulcified, and then put it into a Crucible, into an open, circulatory Fire for three hours together, and kindle your Spirit of Wine three or four times.  
Of this take one Ounce, Magistry of Pearls and Corals, of each one Drachm and an half. Ambar and Safron, of each one Scruple, Elke's hoof one Drachm; humane Scull prepared without Fire three Drachms; faeculi Peoniae half an Ounce, Oil of Ambar distilled, of the mucilage of hartshorn, and Scull, as much as will be sufficient to form them into Troches; whereof give from a Scruple to half a Drachm, to Epileptics; and you will see Wonders; for this Arcanum hath been confirmed by many experiences.   

CHAP. XV. His magistral Caput mortuum  
TAke the Caput mortuum of Aqua fortis, made of Nitre rectified, and Vitriol well calcined; and make a lixivium thereof with warm, distilled Rain-water, and extract a Salt according to Art. Then the same Salt being dissolved again twice in the said distilled Rain-water, until there appear crystals; take one part of rectified Nitre, and two of the said Salt; and melting the Nitre in a crucible with a Fire of the second degree, add the Salt by degrees; and melt them all with the Fire for the space of three hours. Put this Mass into Aqua fortis, extracted from the aforesaid things; and to every pound add flowers of Antimony from the Regulus of Mars, three Ounces; leaf Gold three Drachms; Coral, Pearls, Eggshells, of each two Drachms; digest all in a warm place for four days together; this done distil to a dryness; powder 〈…〉 which remains, and imbibe it again in Aqua vitae digest for eight days, and distil to a dryness; The Caput mortuum which remain keep in Glasses well stopped: And if you shall give from twelve to eighteen drop thereof, you will consume Hypochondriacal Diseases; for it is one of the most powerful remedies against such Diseases. I expels all kinds of obstructions, an● naughty Fevers; 'tis good for Cachectic Bodies and frees solks from Dropsies.   

CHAP. XVI. His Golden Cathar●●ic.  
TAke of our Aureat, hereafter described half an Ounce; Spirit of Sulphur rectified after the best manner; thre● Ounces; digest them in a warm place At fifteen days end distil them with 〈◊〉 Glass retort with a Fire of Sand; an● then cohobate the said Spirit with the sai● Aureat nine times; and wash the powder very well with Cordial Waters, and dry it. The dose is from four to ten Grains, with Magistery of Mechoacan, Jalap, Seamony, or Extracts; which shall be most convenient.   

CHAP. XVII. His Antivenereal Pills.  
TAke of our Calomelanos, Magistery of Lapis lazuli, extract of Rhubarb, Se●a, Turbith, Buckthorn-berrys, of each two Drachms; Gum Guajaci or Ligni sancti the weight of them all; magistery of Tartar dissolved in Oil of Cinnamon of each one Drachm and an half; Syrup of Fumitery as much as will suffice to form them into Pills.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THese Pills very happily pull up all Venercal humours by the root; yea even ●f the Bones be infected; Their dose ●s from half a Drachm to one Drachm; ●or twenty, thirty or forty days together.    

CHAP. XVIII. His Calomelanos.  
TAke good Mercury, and put it into a Retort, with a double quantity of San● both very well mixed; and put to the Fir● by degrees; and pour it into a Vessel; no● shuting its mouth, that the impure part● may remain in the Sand. Then sublimate it with common Salt decrepitated, according to Art; and throwing away the feceses, add the Salt again to that Mercury being more purely sublimated. Then casting away the parts that remain sublime i● more purely with new Salt; do this seven times, and the feceses being at last separated, place the Retort in a Reverberatory Furnace, with the sublimate of the seventh process, and leave it there for two hours with a most vehement Fire. Then wash it with Cordial waters many times, and imbibe in Juniper Aquae vitae, which must swim a top a finger's breadth, and ●urn it, which you must do thrice.   

CHAP. XIX. His Cathartic of Antimony with Vitriol, called His Catholicon.  
TAke shining Antimony out of the Earth; that which is of a Golden Color, one part, rubifyed Vitriol two parts, being purified and mixed, put them into a Crucible that they all melt together: then ●owder the Mass, and put it into a Re●ort very well luted with distilled Vinegar, ●hat it may be uppermost four fingers breadth; and augment the Fire by little ●nd little, and at last make a most ardent ●ne, that all the Spirit may be exhaled; ●nd it will evaporate with a moderate ●eat, until there remain a sat Tincture. Then take of the Extract of Rhubarb, Se●●a, Jalap, Turbith, black Hellebore, of each one Drachm; Extract of Aloes one Ounce, Essence of Juniper and Citron Pills of each, two Drachms; and adding thereto half an Ounce of the abovesaid Tincture, digest them all with a moderate heat; and so reduce to the consistence of an Extract; and you will have a very excellent Cathartic, marvellous against all kinds of Fevers as well acute as intermittent; excelling a● the ●anchy magogues of other Physicians the dose from eight to fifteen Grains.   

CHAP. XX. His Troches against Gangrenes.  
TAke the feceses of Common Regulu● and put it into a moist place upon a Marble, under a Vessel, and keep it from the rain, that the Air only penetrate it and that it may be dissolved into an Oil which you shall exhale with a gentle Fire and you will have a most pungent Salt whereof take one Ounce, Mercury sublimate one Ounce, Barley and Lentil meal o● each two Ounces; Gum tragaganth, two Drachms; dissolve them in Rose-water, and make Troches of them, which will cure all Gangrenes, and wonderfully corrode peccant flesh.   

CHAP. XXI. His Antihectic Powder.  
TAke of the starryed Regulus of Mars, and English Tin, of each one part; pulverize them and mix them with three parts of rectified Nitre, and calcine them according to Art; then take away all the saltness with hot water, as is usual, and put the white powder again into a Reverberatory Furnace for three days, or in a Glass, or Potters-Furnace; and imbibe ●t again in Aqua vitae rectified, which you shall kindle to burn; and this you shall do thrice. Take one Ounce of this Powder, of Vipers prepared half an Ounce; Sage dried and powdered one Ounce and a half, then throw live Frogs into a pot; shut it close till they be dead; and then put them into an Oven till they be so dry as they may be powdered; and mix three Ounces of these with the ingredients abovesaid; and of this compound give from one Drachm to two; for forty days together.   

CHAP. XXII. His Aqua vitae, against pains of the Joint  
TAke four handfuls of ground Ivy of Cypress leaves, Sage, R●lema●, Spike, Nettles, of each one handful; o● Elm Bark, and leaves, of 〈…〉 Ounces: Dwarf Elder two handfuls; all these being beaten, in a Mortar, infute them in two pounds of Generous Wine; and the● 〈…〉 and extract the forth part. T● 〈…〉 called Aqua vitae, add half o● 〈…〉 the aforesaid green Herbs, and 〈…〉 of Earthworms, which have 〈…〉 washed well with Wine, before; and 〈◊〉 pounds of Dog's grease, and then di●●l them again, extracting the half. Then ●●d the third part again of the aforesaid Herbs, Worms and sat, and distilling them again extract the third part; and so you will have a perfect Aqua vitae, which will be excellent good to comfort and resolve all Diseases of the Joints and Feet-Gout.   

CHAP. XXIII. His Anodine, or Narcotic of Vitri●l.  
TAke of Roman Vitri●l and Tartar of each one pound; filings of Steel half a pound; the Tartar and Vitriol being pulverised put them into a Glass Cucurbit; being first well mixed; then imbibe them in distilled Vinegar, swimming two singer's breadth above; and digest for three days. Which being passed, congeal them with a moderate Fire; and imbibe them in Vinegar as aforesaid; and follow the aforesaid order; After you have congealed them add distilled Vinegar, which must overtop it six singers breadth; and with a mild Fire it will very suddenly take a red colour. Then put fresh Vinegar thereto, until the Tincture be extracled; and to the said Vinegar add Oil of Tartar per deliquium: For so all the Sulphur will descend to the bottom of the Glass: than you shall dry it well; and immerge it in three pounds of rectified Aqua vitae; then place the Vessel, well stopped with Mastic and the white of an Egg, in hot Horse-dung; which you must change every four days; At the fortieth days end distil; and reserve the Tincture remaining in the bottom of the Glass, according to the custom of Tinctures: And here you have a true Narcotic.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis Narcotic was invented chief to chase away away all acute, burning and malignant Fevers, and especially in deliriums; as also against Hysterical passions. Colic, and Nephritic pains; and against all Diseases wherein Laudanum, or Nephenthe is to be given, this Narcotic is safer; the dose is from five Grains to twelve.    

CHAP. XXIV. 〈…〉.  
TAke one Ounce of 〈◊〉 Gold, Crude Antimony four Ounces: mix them and melt them together in a crucible: but with an equal, not a vehement Fire; lest the 〈…〉 separated by too much Fire. Atter you have melted them let them cool; and then powder them finely; after that calcine them by degrees with a gentle Fire after the same manner as done in calcining of Glass; always stirring them with an Iron rod. You shall know them to be calcined enough when the Antimony and Gold shall become very white; and will not cleave together: nor being put upon burning coals will smoak at all. Glass is made from hence by putting the Cal● in a crucible in a vehement Fire of Fusion for an hour; and then ●ts perfect when the Vitrification appears very clear and of the colour of a Carbuncle Stone.  
This truly is somewhat a difficult Operation; and sometimes fails the Artist but you shall have a more clear manner and method for the compounding this Arcanum, in another Work, which I shall expose to light; where I shall explicate the very proper and genuine one to the young Student. This as it is a richer preparation with Gold than that which Crollius, Senertus, Schroderus and others have left us, so 'tis a more Cordial one: Lastly this out Aureatum is of a vomitive and solutive nature; but challengs to itself, the first place among the Vomitives; because the Gold defends the Heart and Viscera. It doth not only equal the Virtues of the Antimonial Cup but excels them: Its dose is from two Grains to five.   

CHAP. XXV. His Catholic Water.  
TAke of the juice of bryony, Buckthorn berries, Celandine, Eglantine berries, of the bark of Elder, dwarf Elder, Germander; of each two Ounces; Spirit of Wine rectified two pounds; digest them for two days space, then distil them and to the distilled water add your Extract of Rhubarb, Agaric, Sena, Hedge Hyssop, of each half an Ounce; Magistery of Mechoacan three Drachms; solutive Magistery of Tartar two Drachms; Cinnamon, Mastic, Ginger and Aniseed of each half a Drachm. Spirit of Vitriol stibiated six Drachms; and digest them in Horse-dung: At twenty four days end strain them and keep them in a Vessel very close stopped: This is called Catholic, because it works truly without any nausconsness, and 〈◊〉 all Diseases wherein purging is requisite, it is very pro●●●●able; and 'tis to be taken either in Bro●●s, Wine or Water; the dose is from one Drachm to three or four at most.   

CHAP. XXVI. His First Alexipharmac Troches.  
TAke of Oriental Bezoar Stone, Hartshorn prepared, Jovial and mineral Bezoar: Of the true Unicorn and Rhinoceros' horn of each two Drachms, Earth of Malta, yellowish Bole-armenia, Bohemian Earth; Terra sigillata, of each half an Ounce; Contrayervae five Drachms; Spodium, all the Fragments of precious Stones, prepared half a Drachm. Magistery of Pearls; of all Corals; of Boars teeth, of each one Drachm; twenty leaves of Gold; let all be powdered and with the Mucilage of Hartshorn make Troches.  

Virtues, Uses and Deses.  
THey free the Diseased from all manner of Poison, malignant and erratic Fevers; and are marvellous good against menstrual Fluxes, spitting and vomiting of Blood; Pleurisy and pain at Heart. And are in a more especial manner profitable to Women with child that fear Abortion; their dose is from half a Scruple to a Scruple in Specifies.    

CHAP. XXVII. The Second Viper Alexipharmic Troches.  
TAke yellow Monks-hood, Swallow-wort, Scorzonora, Contrayervae, Citrion Pills, of each one Drachm. Viper powder half a Drachm; right Unicorn's-horn, true Bezoar Stone, and Rhinoceros's-horn, bone of Harts-heart, of each half a Drachm. Jovial Bezoard, red Crystal prepared, of each one Drachm; let them be powdered, and with mucilage of Hartshorn make them into Troches; which will vanquish Poisons and malignant Fevers, Pustles, Smallpox and Measles, and the like; the dose is from one Scruple to half a Drachm.   

CHAP. XXVIII. His Third 〈◊〉 of Alexipharmic Troches.  
TAke of Tormentil Root, Angelica, Carline, or White thistle, Gentian, Contrayerva, yellow Monks-hood, Swallow-wort, Scorzonora, Master-wort, of each one Drachm; Juniper and Bay-berries of each one Ounce; Ivy, hath an Ounce; Cinnamon, yellow Sanders, Wood of Moes, of each two Scruples. Bone of an Harts-heart half an Ounce; you shall ponder all these, and put them into a G●●s●en Vessel and besprinkle them with Essence of Tartar three Drachms; adding red Crystal prepared, Oriental Bezoar-Stone, Mag●●ery of Pearls, true Unicorns-horn, of each o● Scruple; Magistery of Ambar, Salt of Jupiter, leaf Gold of each twenty five Grains. Of the Mucilage of Heart's horn and gum Tragacanth made with Pome-citron-water, as much as will suffice to make all into Troches according to Art.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THese Troches expel the Plague and Pestilential Diseases, and malignant Fevers; and are profitable and powerful in all Syncoeps or swooning of the Heart; and Arsenical Medicines; and such like Poisons; the dose of them is from a Scruple to half a Drachm.    

CHAP. XXIX. His Cordial, or Balsam of Life.  
TAke of our Universal Panacea with Gold, of the Essence of Gold and Silver, of each two Drachms; of the Essence of Ambargrise, twenty five Grains, of the Essence of Pearls three Drachms; of the Tincture of Viper's half an Ounce; of the Essence of Harts-blood one Ounce; mix them and add to them true Oriental Opobalsmum four Grains; and you have a very great Cordial to comfort Nature with all; the dose of this Balsam is from half a Scruple to a Scruple.   

CHAP. XXX. His Balsamum Salutis.  
TAke of the Essence of Ambargrise made with Spirit of Roses, of the Quintessence of Roses; of the Essence of Juniper-berryes, and Citron peels of each one Scruple; Oil of the flowers of Pome-citrions, half a Scruple; mix them and give it with simple Sugar of Roses, from two drops to six.   

CHAP. XXXI. His Bezordicum minerale.  
OUR Bezoardicum minerale differs but little from that Common one, which the Chemist's compound; but 'tis more correct and safer; because the correction of Antimony and Mercury is while they be purged from all their evil and malignant qualities by the Fire. It's process is as followeth.  
Take Regulus of Antimony; but let it be of that which hath afterwards been purified in a most ardent Fire; for sixteen hours together; and also Mercury sublimate that hath been made of it, as before in our Calomelanos; and distil them by an Alembic; as the custom is, extracting a Butter, as in Bezoardicum minerale, laid down by other Authors: Then dulcify it by washing often with warm Waters, and dry it in a temperate heat; being dried imbibe in Spirit of Nitre, which must overtop it four singer's breadth, and then distil; and after cohobate thrice, and dulcify again as before. Put your dulcification into an Earth Glass'd Vessel, that wi●● endure the Fire; and kindle your Fire for about three days together; for this is its true manner and method of its decoction. Then imbibe the Spirit of Wine; which you shall kindle about five or six times, and then you are certain to have the perfect and best Bezoardicum minerale.  
This is that of my Master's; and i● you take notice of the compositions o● others; you shall not need to be altogether so diligent and exact. He used it in sit sorts of Broths, giving a Scruple 〈◊〉 one dose; as may appear from his, and my, Observations; and because it is well corrected and concocted, so that it will never harm any one, he gave it to all that were troubled, not only with a malignant, acute and pestilential Fever; but also in Cachectic distempers; and in the Smallpox and Measles, and other such like Diseases; the dose is as before, from half a Scruple to one Scruple.   

CHAP. XXXII. His Bezoardicum Joviale.  
THis is composed after the same manner as the former, nothing excepted, but only differs in the Composition; for first ●ou must make a starryed Begulus Martis, ●nd join to ●t by Fire a like quantity of ●he more perfect Tin; and the aforesaid Mercury sublimate, as in the process of our Calomelanos; But be sure you omit nothing of the right ordering and making the aforesaid mineral. For that is it which is so much celebrated by my Master's using 〈◊〉 in his practice; whereof he gave, and to do I, in all desperate Diseases, from half a Scruple to half a Drachm.  
There are other Solar Bezoardies made by adding Gold; and also Lunar ones by adding Silver; as they are described by other Authors: But I think it enough not to departed from the Fire, and manner of ●aking which I have laid down in the●nineral Bezoar. For if you shall do otherwise they shall not obtain their whole Virtue. The Correction of the correct flowers, crocus and auratum, is done after this manner.  
Take, the Flower, Saffron, or Glass, and put it into a Retort with rectified Spirit of Vitriol, to digest, for the space of five days, in a moderate hot place; the● distil to a dryness; and chohobate six times more; always distilling to a dryness; then dulcify with Cordial Waters; and being dry imbibe it in generous Aqua vitae; which you shall kindle thereon five times; for after this manner your Antimony is much corrected; and being so corrected they are to be compounded after this manner.   

An Appendix.  
HAving not a mind to pass by the wonderful prodigy of Bezoardies; I have given thee this Additional one; whereby Reader, thou wilt not disdain to cast thine eye upon a very fair Event which ●hapned at Venice.  
The most Illustrious and most excellent Andreas Donatus the most worthy Senator of this Republic, and to whom I am very much obliged, commanded me to visit, one John Baptist Tola, who was Sick; I went, and found him to be about sixty five years Old, of a dull, melancholic temperature; formerly given to drink much generous Wine; and then at that time labouring under a continual, malignant Fever, for one day past; and troubled in his head with sums, and an obscure delirium; his pulse was tremulent and small; his Urine thick and troubled; his eyes darkish, almost glassy; his faculties very abject: at length, that I may contract much into a little, from all signs that appeared mortal; I gave out that I despaired of his life; which also did a most excellent Physician; who had administered opportunely many remedy's, according to rules of Art: We both concluded that there was no other way left but to succour him with Cordials; and told his Servants there was but a very short period to death. Yet I asked this most excellent Physician, whether he thought best, at la●● to try your Solar and Jovial Bezoardies; for many times good events follow from those in these cases; because these Bezoardies compel nature to expel those things, by Sweat, Urine or Siege, which impel the miserable patient almost to death. He confrmed this my opinion; and commanded presently to be given, six Grains of the Solar, and six of Jovial Bezoar, in Cordial waters; but he sent to the Governor, a very good Spagyric and a perfect operator, that he would allow of the aforesaid advice; The patiented took it; and voided much black choler by siege; but his faculties being exhausted from a Convulsion, which followed, they were almost destitute of strength, and began to express signs of greater debility; whereupon his domestics being affrighted; his Son being a Presbyter comes to me, not only inflamed with anger: But from the Physician's words signifying to him that his death proceeded from that powder of the Bezoardies; who though he know it could not in the least be from that; yet he endeavours to lay the blame upon me, because of that sudden, dangerous motion: His Son, I say, upbraiding me with the heinousness of the fact; threatened to accuse me concerning the death of his Father; But at length such an Evacuation, by the Almighty's permission, carried off the black bile, which nature of itself was not able to do; and so, as it were being dead, recalled him to life. Since which time, always when I am in any Consultation, I never propound any thing contrary to the opinion of others; being assured that the least evil that shall happen will be attributed to me.   

CHAP. XXXIII. His Antipleuretic Extract.  
TAke of the Extract of wild Poppy flowers, two Drachms, red Mallows, of Gum extracted from Wood of Oak; of each one Drachm and an half; of the pleura of a Man, or Boar, two Drachms; of the filings of a Boars Teeth, three Drachms; of the true Unicorn, Magistery of Coral, of the inward Peels of filberts, Box flowers, Salis prunella, of each one Drachm; make a Mass with the aforesaid extracts, and you will have a prodigious composition against a Pleuresy; whose dose is from a Scruple to half a Drachm.   

CHAP. XXXIV. His Hysterical Extract.  
TAke of the Extract of Mugwort, and Mother-wort of each three Drachms; Extract of Savin, and Juniper Berries of each one Drachm; foeculae Aronis, half an Ounce, Foecula of Bryony two Drachms, Extract of Gith, and Assarabacca of each one Drachm, and an half; Magistery of Ambar four Drachms. Salt of Jupiter four Scruples; Seeds of Hart-wort, Nepente, of each two Scruples; Seeds of Bishopsweed, Rue, Caraways, Anise, Cardamomes of each two Drachms; Castor, four Scruples; mix them all according to Art; and give thereof from half a Drachm to two Drachms; for it is greatly profitable in Hysteric passions.   

CHAP. XXXV. His Nephritical Extract.  
TAke dried Rupturewort, three handfuls, Eryngo, Restharrow, Burdock, of each one handful; Juniper and Bay-berryes, of each two Drachms; Seeds of Gromwel, Nettles, Onions, Saxifrage, Anise, Fenil, of each two Ounces; of all these make an Extract according to Art; to which add Magistery of Lapis Judaicus, mountain Crystal, Crabs-eyes, Eggs-shells, Salt of Bean-shells, Salt of Flower of Armoniac; of each one Drachm; ferment all these together, and you have a great Remedy against pains of the Reins; its dose is from a Scruple to half a Drachm.   

CHAP. XXXVI. His Golden Extract.  
TAke of Bay-beryes, Persian Almonds, of each four Ounces; Flowers of Nuts, 〈◊〉 Elder, of wild Grapes; of the 〈…〉, Origanum, , of 〈◊〉 one handful; Carot-seed, Ani-seed, F●●il-seed, Cummin-seed, of each two Ounces; Cinnamon, Cloves, of each half an Ounce; wood of Aloes, one Drachm; make an Extract according to Art; to which add true Balsamof Peru, Oil of Nutmegs; of the Skie-colored Oil of Turpentine; of each half an Ounce; mix and ferment them together; and the dose is from half a Drachm to one Drachm.   

CHAP. XXXVII. His Golden Diaphoretic.  
THis is described by many Authors to be that Sulphur which is in the feceses of the vulgar Regulus; which being beaten and boiled with Vinegar, the Sulphur is precipitated to the lower part; afterwards washing it very often, and drying it, they use it to mundify the Blood, and provoke Sweat. But ours is more correct; because the aforesaid forms being finished; it is again calcined in a Furnace for twenty four hours; or in a circular Fire, till it wax white, together with the fourth part of fulminant Gold. Then ti's digested in ardent Aqua vitae, which is kindled thrice; and so you have a very good Diaphoretic, in Pleuresies and pestilential Fevers; and is given from sixteen Grains to twenty.   

CHAP. XXXVIII. His Common Diaphoretic.  
THis is the Common Regulus, thrice calcined; always with double quantity of Nitre rectified, and then dulcified, and Aqua vitae kindled thereupon; It is given from a Scruple to half a Drachm, or to one Drachm; against all chronic diseases; where it will work upon them by sweat, or insensible transpiration.   

CHAP. XXXIX. His Fixed Diaphoretic.  
IT is the fixed Powder of Father Bazil Valentine, which he proposes for an universal remedy; and sometimes under the name of Bazil's fixed Panacea; described in the Triumphal chariot of Antimony of the same Author.   

CHAP. XL. His universal liquid Panacea, with Gold.  
TAke an Ounce of leaf Gold, and calcine it with Sulphur, in a circulatory Fire for eight hours; adding Sulphur four times; then wash with warm water; and being dried join it to Oil of Antimony, made after this manner.  
Take of the Regulus of Antimony, Mercury sublimate, of each four Ounces; mix them well in a Mortar, and distil them with a Retort; as you use to do in ●●um glaciale, or Butter of Antimony: Add then Fire by degrees, till it be converted into Butter; putting coals also to the neck of the Retort; put that Oil into a Wine Cellar upon a stone, with a Vessel under it, to receive drop by drop; and you have an Oil; to one Ounce of which add one Ounce of Gold calcined by circent, as aforesaid. Then put your Vessel in a warm place, digesting for a month together, for it will be tinged into a Golden colour. Then add rectified Spirit of Wine, and put it into an hot place, as before, and the Aqua vitae will attract all the Gold to itself: strain it, and adding Aqua vitae again until it be tinged, exhale the Oil; and the Powder will remain; you shall put this with eight Ounces of crude Antimony, and twenty Ounces of Oil of Nitre made per deliquium, into a Vessel, which you shall stop very close, to digest. At a months end add a quart of rectified Spirit of Wine; and digest again; and the Tincture will in a short time be robbed of its menstruum, join this Spirit with that of the Gold; and add another Spirit upon the Oil of Nitre; until the colour be detected; for it ought to remain, as it was when it was first placed. Then filtrate these Spirits through a Paper; and distil them with cinders, by degrees; until there remain four Ounces of the Tincture, in the lower part of the Retort: And this is our universal liquid Panacca; which works by transpiration; And gently forces the vital faculties, to do those things which Nature hath need of; without doing any damage. Many Hectical, Phthysical, and Hydropical Patients have been cured and obtained their health by me, with this: And you may give thereof from eight drops to twenty; with Specifies; and it works sooner or later as the strength is.   

CHAP. XLI. His Tincture, or true Oil of Sweet Antimony.  
TAke of your clear Hyacinthine Glass of Antimony, four Ounces; Oil of Nitre made by deliquium, eight Ounces; the Antimony being beaten mix it with the aforesaid Oil, in a glazed Vessel well stopped; and digest for a month with an equal and temperate Fire; and that Oil will become reddish. Then add rectified Spirit of Wine, as you did before in your liquid Panacea, till the Oil be deprived of its Tincture. Then extract the Spirit and Tincture, which rests in the lower part.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
'TIS very precious against all kinds of Diseases, and little inferior to the Panacea aforesaid. 'Tis excellent good in inward Wounds and corrosive Ulcers; and other pernicious Diseases. It's dose is from eight to ten drops, in Wine, or other Specifies.  
Bazilius and others writ that bodies are renewed and made to grow young by this; for it mundifies all impurities of the humours; which pollute the Blood; and is a very great-Cordial. It helps Hydroprical, Cachectical, Hectical, and Phthysical, and all such like infirmities after a wonderful manner.  
Many others have written of this; but not easily to be done, for if you observe the manner of this operation, there is no need of distilling your menstruum; for your Aqua vitae may be removed, and it will serve for other solutions.  
Other Tinctures are made after the same manner, and all good; but these two excel the other; that likewise which is extracted from crude Antimony is marvellous; because the simple Nitre attracts the Tincture; and the Fire consumes nothing thereof; and is called a Panacea. It is extracted from the vulgar Regulus of the third degree; from Ambars, from Regulus of Mars, from Regulus of Jupiter, from Crocus metallorum, from flowers of Antimony; from calcination of the same; and if it be extracted with the said menstruum, it will be much better, than from distilled Vinegars, and other such liquors; its dose is from half a Scruple to one Scruple.  
His Corrosive Oils are of two sorts; to wit, his Oleum glactale, that is the butter, that I speak of to dissolve Gold; and this corrodes all bad flesh: The other is a liquor which is made of the feceses of the vulgar Regulus, by deliquium.  
Those are accounted for Essences by many, which I call by the name of Tinctures or Extracts. But I call those Essences which are made after this manner.  
Take of the Simple from which you will extract an Essence, Flowers, Barks, Peels, Seeds, Roots, if you can have them all; and macerate them in rectified Spirit of Wine, for two days; then distil to a dryness. Then imbibe that Spirit again with the herbs or flowers of the same, and digest them again in a Vessel well stopped; and distil a fresh; and follow the same course twice; then circulate, and you will have a vegetable Essence, for your use. Those which he used for the most part are those of Wormwood, Mint, Rosemary, Sage, Spike, Lilies of the Valley, Marygold-leaves, flowers of the Lentil tree, Peony, Oak, Angelica, Carline, Swallow-wort, Celandine, Eyebright, Bistort, Tormentil, Contrayerva, Jumper and Bay-berryes, Ani-seed and Fenil-seed, and Cummin, Parsnip, and Carots-seeds, Cardamons, Galanga, Citron-peels, and such like.    

CHAP. XLII. QVINTESSENCES.  
THese are made after another manner than your Essences; for you materials must be sermented; as mos● writers direct; and then an Oil separate● by distillation; what's separated is the● true Quintessence; your liquid Tinctured are extracted with Spirit of Wine; by exhaling part thereof. Some Extracts are made with distilled waters by the help 〈◊〉 acid Liquors: They are extracted from minerals and semiminerals, with their preper menstruums; as may more fully appear from our Laboratory.   

CHAP. XLIII. FLINIRS.  
SInce we mentioned these in our Observations, 'tis necessary therefore to explicate some of them. As for your Flixir Proprietatis, I always followed Crellius' way of process; and can testify of its very good effects. And I add, with him, of the Essence of Wormwood and Mint; as for example two Ounces of the Elixir, of the Essence of Wormwood and Mint of each one Ounce; digest them together, and use them, for it is a great stomachie. And so I add to the same, of the Essence of Celandine, Watercresses, Mustardseed, Snails, of each equal parts, and I digest them for a month; of which I give from a Scruple to half a Drachm. Against all atrabiliary distempers, and Scorbutic and Hypochondriac, with very happy success.   

CHAP. XLIV. An Elixir against the Scurry and Hypochondrical effects.  
TAke two pounds of Elixir Propietatis, Essence of Ambar two Ounces, Essence of Capars and Tamarisk-Bark. Essence of the middle bark of Ash, of each half an Ounce; white Dittany roots, Rhapontic, Polypody, Scorzonera, Fern, Sweet root, of each two Drachms; Watercresses, Wall-house-leek, Germander, Celandine, Ceterach, Harts-rongue, Agrimony, Vine leaves with its flowers, Liverwort, Fumatory; flowers of Broom, Centaury, St. John's-wort, of each two handfuls, Broom-seeds, Fenelseed, of each half a Drachm; Lignum sancium raspt, and its bark, of each four Ounces; Salsaparilla, one Ounce and an half, Sassafras four Ounces; Salt of Tartar half an Ounce; ●eat them and infuse them all in well rectified Spirit of Wine, and dephlegmated; as much as will suffice, till they be well imbibed, and it overtop them two fingers breadth, digest them eight days, distil, and in the distilled repote a new composition, ●s before; 'tis marvellous for Hypochondriacs, and for those that are assi●red with cold Rheums; the dose is from one Scruple to half a Drachm in appropriate vehicles.   

CHAP. XLV. Elixir Nephriticum.  
TAke of true Nephritic wood one Ounce and an half; Camomile, Melilot, ground Ivy, Golden-rod, Flewellin, St. John's-wort, with its seed and flowers, Rupture-wort, or the Turkish herb; of each three handfuls, Restharrow root, Pimpernel, Saxifrage, of wild Rose-seeds, and Gromwel of each two Ounces, winter Cherries three Ounces; Juniper and Ivy-berryes, of each one Ounce and an half; being all beaten, put them into a Vessel well stopped, with Spirit of Wine terebinthinated; which must be uppermost the breadth of four singers; then digest for eight days; then distil; and again infusing the same things green, do as before; the dose is of this from a Scruple to half an Ounce: And 'tis an excellent thing for Gravel and the Stone.   

CHAP. XLVI. An Vterine Elixir.  
TAke Mug-wort Rupture-wort, Feverfew, Penyroyal, Catmint, of each three Drachms; Peels of Citrons and Pomecitrons, of each half a Drachm; of the roots of Swallow-wort, Birth-wort, Peony, Madder, Bryony, Oris, white Ditany, Zedoary, Ani-seed and Cardamum-seeds of each half an Ounce; Bazil two Drachms, Bay-berryes, two Ounces; Ginger, Cinnamon, Nutmegs and Saffron, of each one Ounce, being all beaten, digest them in Spirit of Wine, alchoolizated, three pints, in a Vessel close stopped, and in a warm place, to wit, in Horse-dung, or Balneo Martae; at fourteen days end distil in Balneo Mariae; and then add to the feceses, a pint of new Spirit of Wine; and digest again in an hot place. At eight days end separate the tinging Spirit by inclination; and exhale the Tincture with a very gentle Fire, until it be converted into a mellagenous substance. Add this to the first distillation; burn the feceses to ashes; and extract a Salt with water of Mugwort; which you shall join to the aforesaid Elixir, together with an Ounce of Tincture of Tin. It works alter a heavenly manner in diseases of the Womb; and all diseases that draw their origine from the Womb. The dose is from half a Drachm to a Drachm, in proper Liquor; and may be administered during several days, according as necessity requires.   

CHAP. XLVII. His Antiepileptical Extract.  
TAke of the Extract of an humane cranium, made according to Art, half an Ounce; Extract of Box, the root and seed of Peony, Oak-wood, Flowers of Lily of the Valley, and Flowers of Line-tree of each two Drachms; of the mucilage of an Hartshorn of one year old, three Drachms; of true Oriental Bezoar Stone, true Unicorns-horn, true Elks-hoof, of each one Drachm; of the Extract of swallows and Magpies, before they fly out of their nests, Peacocks-dung, of each one Drachm and an half; of our Narcotic Vitriol, Salt of Silver, A●bar, of each two Drachms, Magistery of Pearls, Corals and Saphires, of odoriferous flowers of Sweet-root, the true Balsam of Peru of each half a Drachm; of our sixth Diaphoretic of Antimony, half an Ounce; of our Universal Tincture of Antimony with Gold, three Drachms; mix them and make a compound whereof you shall give either in Pills, or proper Liquor, from half a Scruple to half a Drachm; for a dose, for fifteen days, in the morning in the wain of the moon.  
With this have many Epileptics been wholly freed, though I gave it to some for months together, more or less; and though it be laborious and costly, yet it challenges a place amongst the most powerful. Used after the same manner, 'tis very good against all Migraines, Palsies, Apoplexies, and capital diseases proceeding from a cold distemper.   

CHAP. XLVIII. His Polycrest, or Tincture of many uses.  
TAke of the roots of Angelica, Carline, white Dittany, Bistort, Tormentil, of each three Drachms; Swallow-wort, Gentian, Rhapontic, Scorzonera, true Acorus, of each half an Ounce, of the leaves of Wormwood, Southernwood, ground Ivy, of each half an handful; of the flowers of Rosemary, Centaury the less, Clary, Betony, Pomecitrons of each one pugil, of Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Cloves, of each one Drachm, Myrrh, Mastic, Aloes-Succotrine, of each two Scruples, red Coral prepared, Hartshorn, Mother of Pearl prepared, of each one Drachm and an half; Saffron one Scruple, Assa dulcis, Spikenard, of each one Drachm, Peels of Citron and Pomecitrons, of each one Ounce and an half; of all the sorts of , of each half an Ounce; beat all these, and infuse them in a glassen Vessel well stopped, in nine pints of choice alcoolizated Spirit of Wine, to digest for fifteen days; then separate your Tincture by decantation, and add thereto the Salt made of the feceses according to Art; this Tincture excels in many Virtues; as your Elixir vitae; it recreats the vital Spirits; and expels from them all venomous Vapours; 'tis given in all malignant diseases, in time of the Plague, and against all Poisons, from a Scruple to a Drachm.   

CHAP. LI. His greater Elixir of life.  
TAke of the juice of Baum eight pounds, generous Wine four pounds, shave of crude Hartshorn three pounds; Unicorns-horn Bole-Armeny, of each half a pound; three Vipers the skins taken of, without their heads, tails or entrails, and distil them through an Alymbic well tinned; which hath a great refrigeratory; but let the fragments of the Hartshorn and Unicorns-horn be put in the neck of the Alymbic that they may receive all the sum. After you have distilled add new juice and Wine to the distilings again; and always new Hartshorn, and three Vipers, as abovesaid, do this operation nine times; to every time adding fresh juice, and new Wine. And changing your Vessel according to the capacity; the last time let all things be added to the aforesaid Polycrest Tincture, and let them be digested in Horse-dung, or in a warm Balneo Mariae for a month in capable glazed Vessels, well closed: Then distil to dryness, extracting, not only from all the feceses, but also from the shave of the horns, and earths, a Salt according to Art; which being mixed with the distillation, you shall circulate for two months.  
This Elixir, although disticult, yet 'tis not very chargeable; but I never sound a more precious one, among the many that I have used: for it operates more cordially than that of the most Serene grand Duke of Tuscanie's. It may be given in all diseases wherever the heart and viscera have need of help; and to resist poison and putrefaction, etc. It's dose is from half a Drachm to two Drachms; neither hath it the smell of Aqua vitae, but a most grateful and sweet one.   

CHAP. L. His Tincture of Vipers.  
TAke twenty Vipers, their skins pulled off and imbibe them in Spirit of Salt; and then add white Dittany of Crete, Tormentil, Bistort, Swallow-wort, Scorzonera, of each one Ounces; as much generous White-wine as will serve to imbibe them, which must overtop them two singers breadth; and digest in Balneo Mariae, or Horse-dung; at eight days end boil them in the same glazed Vessel for two hours in B. M. and strain them hard: Burn the dried feceses and extract a Salt from them; what remains is to be twice purified with the white of an Egg, and to be put into a warm B. M. again for three days; with moderate heat; for in this time it will be red like Blood.  
This is Cordial and Alexipharmic; profitable for Hectical, Phthysical, Hydropical, Cachectical, putrid and malignant Fevers, and in time of the Pest; and many use it for a preservative, for they affirm it clears the Blood; the dose is from a Scruple to half a Drachm.   

CHAP. XL. His Antinephritic Extrall.  
TAke Firr-wood rasped and its bark one pound, Nephritic-wood half a pound; seven Ounces of the inward bark of Fil●erds, Saxifrage and Pimpernel, Pelitory of the wall, Pupture-wort, of each one handful; ●iquiris, Restharrow. Burdock, and lovage roots, of each one Ounce and an hal●; ripe Juniper-berryes, Persian Almonds, Cherry stone kernels, of each three Ounces: of the seeds of Carots, Percely, pimpernel, Onions, Nettles, Broom, of each half an Ounce; beat and br●ise them all; then take of the juice of Rupture-wort, ground Ivy, Pellitory, Onions, citrons, Redishes, of each one pound; generous Wine three pints; and with all the aforesaid materials, put it into a capable glazed Vessel, well stopped in Balneo for eight days; then press them strongly, and clarify them with the white of an Egg, and strain them, and exhale by an Al●●●●● in B. M. until they become in form of a liquid Extract. Then you shall add these things following; Magistery of Crabs-eyes, eggshells, Mother of Pearl, mountain Crystal; of each one Drachm and an half; volatile Salt of Beans, Pellitory, Ambar, Urine, of each one Drachm, mix them and keep them for use.  
This is a very great Remedy against all kinds of Stones, Gravel and the like; and excels others in extinguishing pains of the Reins: The dose is from half a Drachm to a Drachm either in Pills, or proper Liquors.   

CHAP. LII. His Antifebrile.  
TAke of China root, bark of Tamarisk, and Ash, of each one Ounce; leaves of Germander, Celandine, Pimpernel, the lesser Turnsoil of each a handful; distilled water of the juice of Turnsoil, and from the juice of tender tops of Ash leaves of each three pounds; Spirit of Vitriol stibiated two Drachms; being all beaten, infuse them in the aforesaid waters, in a Glass Vessel well stopped, in B. M. at twelve days end extract all the moisture by strong expression; and make a Salt of the dried and burnt feceses; make an Extract of the Liquor by the heat of a Balneum, according to Art; then take of this Extract two Ounces, Extract of Rhubarb, Sena, of hedge Hyssop, of each half an Ounce; Magistery of Mechoacan, and Jalap of each one Drachm; of Salt of the abovesaid feceses, Salt of the lesser Centaury, Gentian, and Wormwood vitriolated, of vitriol of Mars, of each one Drachm; Magistery of long small Snails-shells of the Lake, half an Ounce; Magistery of Tartar solutive, two Drachms; all these you must ferment for twelve days; and this is given in all kinds of Fevers, as well intermitting as continual. It stays the Vapours of Fevers, and purges pleasantly; and is one of the most perfect that can be given; and besides it hath never harmed any one; the dose is from half a Drachm to a Drachm and an half.   

CHAP. LIII. His stibiated Spirit of Vitriol, which enters into his Aqua Catholica and Antifebrile Extract.  
TAke Spirit of Vitriol rectified one Ounce, Hyacynthine Glass of Antimony, half an Ounce; digest them in a warm place for a month, and your Spirit will be tinged into a Golden colour; strain it and reserve it for use This Spirit, with other purging Medicines, from twelve to twenty drops, works pleasantly, and without Vomit, and corrects their heat.   

CHAP. LIV. His purging Magistery of Tartar.  
THis is described by many, but they put not that Trust in it which they ought; for Physicians don't mind the way of composition, which is this which follows.  
Take Salt of Tartar made of the Oil of the said Tartar, one part, the strongest distilled Vinegar, two parts; mix them together: after they begin to ferment with an inward murmuring, distil to a dryness; then add new Vinegar, and the aforesaid sublimation beginning again, let them be dulcilyed: ●er the Vinegar puts off the Salt with its 〈◊〉; and the Salt throws off the Vinegar with its Acrimony; then distil again, and this operation you must perform ten 〈◊〉; until the Vinegar reassumes its 〈◊〉; and you must always distil to the fixing of the Tartar. To the fixed matter of the tenth operation add distilled and rectified Aqua vitae, made of the s●eces of Wine; and it will suddenly be tinged into a red colour; then strain the Tincture; and pour on Aqua vita again; till it will tinge no more; then filtrate and distil again to dryness; what remains fixed, will be dissolved into an Oily liquor by the Air; which is then solutive Magistery of Tartar.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THis dissolves gross and tenaceous humours, in the Veins; but 'tis a certain and necessary remedy in all vicious and long Fevers; yea my Master Riverius, at the end of acute and contumacious Fevers, to dissolve the relics of the humours and the ferment, purged his Patients by degrees, after this manner.  
Recipe, of Maiden-hair-Water or the like, proper for the peccant humour, six Ounces; Sena two Scruples, Cinnamon, Rhubarb, of each one Scruple; stibiated or common Spirit of Vitriol three drops; these he infused for a night; and strained them in the morning, and adding fifteen or twenty drops of the said Magistery, he gave four or five times, more or less, as need required; to some every day, to others every other day; to some a less, to others a greater dose; to some in lieu of Rhubarb he gave Mechoacan, or Jalap; to some he gave an Ounce of Roses solutive; and after this manner bodies were freed from infection; and Fevers from becoming erratic. I have used and use this method, as also many Physicians of my acquaintance, have got great Praise thereby.    

CHAP. LV. His Febrifuge.  
TAke flowers of Antimony thrice sublimed with Salarmoniac, and dulcified; very clear Hyacinthine Glass of Antimony, of each half an Ounce; Aqua fortis made with Nitre, and Alum, four Ounces; precipitate the said Antimony in Water, and again take Mercury revivifyed from Cinabar, six Ounces; and, with Aqua fortis made with Nitre, Vitriol and Alum precipitate, till all become precipitated. Then take Gold of Venetian or Hungary Chehiens filled, to one Ounce, and dissolve it Aqua Regia, and put the three menstroums with the materials into a Retort well luted; distil by degrees to dryness; gather the Spirit in a Recipient well stopped, and pour the distilled into a Retort; distil again, twelve times after the same manner, always upon Caput Mortuum. The last time, break the Retort, and wash the Powder five times with Cordial Waters; and being dried put it into a quart of Aqua vitae rectified, and distil again in a new Retort, well luted, cohobating six times upon the Mass; then separate the Aqua vitae, and put the Mass of Calx into a strong Crucible well luted in a circulatory Fire, for three hours: Then take away, and kindle the Aqua vitae upon them.  
This Febrifuge is composed of three Hercules with our Master, the forth Champion the destroyer of quartane Agues, as may appear from innumerable experiments from his, and my observations: The dose is from six Grains to twenty with Resin of Scammony, or Scammony prepared with Sulphur, from twelve Grains to fifteen, according to the strength of the Patient. Many have searched for this; but not by true and legitimate operations, but this is the only sincere one.   

CHAP. LVI. Very good Salts, which he used in pertinaceous and Autumnal Fevers, and to disselve Heterogeneous humours.  
TAke Salt of Gentian, of Centaury the less; Celandine, Wormwood, Carduus Benedictus, , of Vitriol of Mars, slower of Salarmoniae, of each one Ounce; water of Agrimony, or such like, as much as will suffice to dissolve the aforesaid Salts, and make a ●●xivinm; decoct with a gentle Fire, until there arise a skin a top; and put it in a cold and molst place, and they will be crystallized.  

Virtues, Uses and Doses.  
THese consume obstructions and vititious intermitting Fevers; proceeding from impurities, as quartanes, etc. the dose is from one Scruple to half a Drachm, and a Drachm in Broth; or some proper Liquor: They are given to some two hours before the sit; covering the Sick that they may sweat.  
My Master gave a Salt made of Alum and Tartar, which he highly extolled, but I never used it; 'tis this;  
Take Cream of Tartar and Alum, of each equal parts, as much Card●us Water distilled, as will dissolve them; and let them be reduced by a gentle Fire into a form whereby they may be christallived, in a moist and cold place. Of this he gave from one Scruple to half a Drachm, in proper Liquors.  
I also often give Vitriolated Salt of Wormwood, or others; to wit, take Salt, and put it to Spirit of Vitriol, till there be a subbullition, which done evaporate, and it will be the less pungent; and apt to deobstruct, and cooler; of Vitriolated Tartar many write, and 'tis given by Physicians.  
In like manner any of these Salts are joined with Steel; if you take two parts of Salt, which you would chalibeat, and one of Vitriol of Mars, and dissolve with some appropriate distilled water, you may then condense into a Salt, with a gentle Fire, which will truly be chaly beated. After the same manner they are made with Vitriol of Venus, with Salt of Luna, with Salt of Tin; and the like.    

CHAP. LVII. His Famous Antiscorbutic Salt.  
TAke of the white and searsed ashes of Ash-tree, Juniper, Box, Lignum sanctum, crisp Mint, Germander, Agrimony, Centaury, Liver-wort, Cetrach, Heart's tongue; Fumitory, Elder-budds, Water-cresses, Capars, Tamarisc, Broom, St. Johnwort; Sea-Porcelane, sprigs of Vine, of each equal parts; of which with water of Water-cresses, make a Salt according to Art. Then take of this Salt two Ounces, and add two Drachms of Vitriol of Mars, Salt of Tartar aluminated half a Drachm; flowers of Salarmoniac thrice sublimed, two Drachms; twenty leaves of Gold; Common Spirit of Salt, as much as will suffice to imbibe, so that it overtop half a singer's breadth; let the Spirit with the aforesaid materials be dried, and make a Mass, and 'tis called Riverius' Antiscorbutic; which is very exquisite in Hypochondriacs and Cachectics, etc. for it expels all impurities of the attribilious humours, and mundisies the Veins; the dose is from half a Drachm to one Drachm; in proper Liquor.   

CHAP. LVIII. His Extract of Lignum sanctum, for the Lues Venerea.  
THis differs from others because I use the Extract, and menstruum, which is sudorisie; after this manner.  
Take Lignum s●● 〈◊〉 rasped, with 〈◊〉 Bark, Salsaparilla, Cinnamon, of each 〈◊〉 Ounces, Sassafras two Ounces; generous Wine six quarts; digest them in a Vessel well ●●opt; after two days distil, and extract a quart of the Spirit; which put by itself; the other Wine exhale by B. M. till half be wasted; then strain, and siltre, and exhale again by Balneum, until it be of the consistence of Honey; and a little harder. To every Ounce of this extract add two Drachms of Common Antimony diaphoretic, and half a Drachm of Oriental Bezoar; make Pills, of which give one in a morning from one Scruple, to half a Drachm, in half an Ounce of the Aqua vitae spoken of before; and let the Patient be well covered; and in thirty days, more or less, they shall be freed from all evil quality of the aforesaid disease; as I have often experienced, of this composition.   

CHAP. LIX. His potable Turpentine for Gonorrheas.  
TAke four Ounces of clear Terebinthine, and put it into a marble Mortar, with two yolks of Eggs, and mix them with a ●●oden pestle, and they will be converted into a Liquor; adding a pint of water of Agrimony, mix them till it be wholly dissolved. Then put it into a Glass Phiol, in B. M. for a night, and early in the morning strain it through a brown Paper, or a linen Cloth. Then add a pound or more of fine Sugar, with as much juice of ●imons as will suffice for a gratefullness; and of this, you shall give one Ounce or an Ounce and an half, in the morning, to them that cannot take Pills.   

CHAP. LX. His Water against old Gonorrheas.  
TAke Lignum sanctum, Mastie-wood, the bark of Fir, of each four Ounces; beat them and infuse them in four quarts of generous Wine; add Dittany and Oris roots, of each three Ounces; a handful of dried Mint: An handful and half of Vervene; Seeds of Agnus Castus, Rue, Letuce, of each three Ounces; well bruised; clear Terebinthine one pound; mix them and put them into a Glass cucurbit for twenty four hours in a warm place, then distil by B. M. and of this give two or three spoonfuls; in the morning for some days.   

CHAP. LXI. His potion against Gonorrheas and Ulcers of the Reins and Bladder.  
TAke of the herb Prickmadam, two handfuls of the roots of Confound, Tormentil; Ladies Mantle, Solomon's-Seal, Knotgrass, Plantain, of each one Ounce and an half; Seeds of Quinces, Agnus Castus, Bue, Plantain, Roses, of each one Ounce; juice of Lemons one pound; Sanguis, Draconis, Crocus martis astringent, of each one Ounce; water of Mallow flowers three pints; macerate them for two days; then boil with a gentle Fire; and give two spoonful in the morning four hours before meat.   

CHAP. LXII. Concerning Extracts.  
IN my Master's Pharmacope●a many Operations seem to differ from these, but reduced to the form described by him; and are of greater value than those that Quercitan and others use; not that Qu●rcitan and so many others wanted the best; but facile inventis addere; he kept an other a more profitable form; as appears from these Arcan●'s described by me, which are amplified by the addition of Operations and Virtues.  
My manner of Extracting Purges from Vegetables, according to the aforesaid discipline, is thus; I Extract the juice from those Plants, which I had gathered before at proper times; and I digest in B. and clar●●y very well; then I distil by separating the Spirit; and I coagulate what rests into the 〈◊〉 of an Extract. Afterwards I beat the pressed Plant, and the fresh on not pressed, and put them into a sit Vessel to distil by descent; such a Vessel as they use to make Oils of Woods, having placed your Vessel to receive the Oil with a 〈…〉 Fire; which must always ●e more vehemently augmented all the hum●●●●y long extracted, I convert the rest being burnt, into white ashes; but lest the ashes should not be calcined enough, I cal●ine them again. Of this with the Water or Spirit that is first separated, I make a Lixivium; and by siltration a Salt; according to use: The Oil extracted by descent, which exhales an igneous odor, I mix with the aforesaid Salt; and a little clear and pure Salt of Tartar being added to the same, I digest in a warm place; then I distil, always cohobating the Spirit upon the feceses, till the Oil by the strength of the Salt be destitute of an Empyreuma. Then I reduce it into the form of Hony. I then add this mellaginous substance to the extract first made; whereby all the Spirits of the Extract and faculties of the Salt, are united by this means. This is the perfectest process that can be found out for Extractions. In using 'tis given according to strength of the Compound, or the Rules of the Pharmacopoeas, yea rather in a less quantity, because 'tis more Effectual.  
In Herbs, Drugs, or dry Roots, or of little juice, all the strength is extracted with their proper menstruum; and the matter is so accommodated as before, by descent, and an Oil expressed. Then is made a Salt; which is added to the Oil; and being often rectified, as 'tis said, is joined to the Extract; but truly those kind of Extracts are to be kept in Glass Vessels stopped.  
All sorts of Extracts, may be made after this manner as well Alexipharmic as Specific; though they were compounded of divers things; but I shall not stay to describe the way; for one that is versed in the Art, needs no Instruction.  
It is to be noted that your Extracts of Vulnerary Herbs, as Aristolochia, St. John's-wort, Comfry, Star-wort, Veronica, Sanicle, ground Ivy, etc. may not only be used inwardly; but also outwardly in form of Liniments, applied to wounds by itself, or with other like; they work wonderful effects; for they strengthen and contract, and defend the part from corruption; and bring it soon to a cicatrice; ●o also those Plants which are abstersive and Ulcerative will the better perform their operations.  
Concerning Oil of Vegetables for Spagyric use, many spagyric Volumes treat thereof, but I esteem this to be the best way. Dry the Plant that you will have Oil from, and extra●t an Oil by descent, as aforesaid; then make a Salt of the ashes; which join to the Oil; then with a little ●●lx urva rectify the Oil; for the calx dissipates the igneous odor, if you will pour it on, often times as the custom is. Put it then into a Glass Vessel to the Sun; mixing the flowers, or leaves of the proper vegetable for infusion; or of another, if you intent a compound; for it reassumes a greateful odor, and according to the Virtues of the Plants, it receives those degrees of increase; which are an hundred fold: And it is used after the same manner to the aforementioned concerns, by my first Master Letter John Faber, as well inwardly as outwardly.   

CHAP. LXIII. His Chemical Bazilicon.  
TAke distilled Oil of Myrrh, Mastic, Frankincense, of each an Ounce; Oil of Turpentine, Philosophoru●, of wax distilled, of each one Ounce; three yolks of Eggs, mix them well and use them; for you will find wonders.   

CHAP. LXIV. His Balsam of Sulphur.  
TAke one Ounce of flower of Brimstone, three Ounces of Oil of Turpentine, Oil of Violets three Ounces, mix them and let them boil in a glazed Vessel, stirring them with a wooden Spathula, till they become very red; then take them from the Fire, and add Oil of wax, yolks of Eggs, of each half an Ounce; mix them and use it in all cancrous Ulcers, in all Wounds, Convulsions, and bruised and pricked Nerves.   

CHAP. LXV. His mumiated Balsam.  
TAke of the Extract of round Birthwort, the lesser Centaury, of each half an Ounce; of the Extract of St. John's-wort, the greater Comfry, of each one Ounce; Venice Turpentine, and white Honey, of each four Ounces, Myrrh an Ounce and a half; true Mummy three Ounces, Crocus martis, four Ounces; mix all these and infuse them in a glazen Vessel, with three quarts of rectified Aqua vitae; and digest for a month; daily stirring the ingredients that the Spirit of Wine may extract more easily the Tincture of the things; then separate the Tincture diligently by inclination; and distil in Balneo, till there remain, as it were of the consistence of Honey in the Alembie, which is your Balsam; which you may use to agglutinate all sorts of Wounds; the distilled Spirit is also of wonderful Virtue.   

CHAP. LXVI. His Apolectic Baisam.  
TAke of the Essence, or distilled Oil of Spike, Sage, Rosemary, Juniper, of each one Drachm; Rue, Margerum, of each half a Drachm; Cinnamon, Cloves, of each one Scruple; of Ambar one Drachm and an half; of the Extract of Berjoin, Storax calamit. Of the white oriental Balsam of each two Drachms; of Balsam of Peru, liquid oriental Basam, of each half an Ounce, pressed Oil of Nutmegs, three Ounces; Ambar-greese of each one Drachm and an half; sweet Musk, two Drachms; mix them and stir them over a very gentle Fire, until they be united; 'tis a very complete remedy for Epileptics and Apoplecties; it expels Vertigoes; defends the body from contagious corruptions of the Air; recreates the Heart and all the vital and animal functions: 'Tis to be used by anointing the coronal future's, and the Tempills, and by smelling to it.   

CHAP. LXVII. His Spirit of Sulphur, to consolidate Ulcers of the Lungs, and to cure their corrosions.  
TAke of the acid Spirit of Sulphur rectified, and imbibe thereon, by degrees, two or three pounds of filings of Steel; and it will bubble of itself; and from thence become as it were of a saline quality. Then put all into a Retort well luted; and distil according to Art, and extract a Spirit; Imbibe in this again the Caput mortuum, and cohobate five times; in a new Retort every time; to the dulcified Spirit add Magistery of Pearls, Rue, Oriental Balsam, and of Benjoin, of each one Ounce and an half; mix them, and it will be wonderful in the aforesaid diseases; for all Pthysics; whereof many have been cured by me with this.  
Note. Your Magistery of Pearls is made by distilling, your Unions first in Oil of Sulphur, and then being well dulcified with Cordial waters; afterwards exalting them with Spirit of Wine. Your Magistery of Benjoin and Oriental Balsam, are to be dissolved in Spirit of Wine, and precipitated with Cordial waters, and then sublimated after the same manner as Sulphur: That which is sublimated is purer, and best for the Lungs.   

CHAP. LXVIII. His Balsam of a Red-Dog.  
KILL a Red-Dog, and throwing away the entrails, not the Fat, cut its flesh and skin all into pieces, and break his bones small; boil them all in a fit glazed Vessel, with a sufficient quantity of Oil and Wine; adding, Bears, Goose, Hens, Badgers, Foxes, Cats, Horses, Ass' grease, of each one Ounce; four pounds of Earthworms washed in Wine, roots of dwarf Elder, ground Ivy, of each three handfuls Sage, Spike, Rosemary, Wormwood, Southern-wood; leaves of Cypress, bark of Ivy and Elm, Savin, of each one handful: boil all these, until the flesh be consumed, then press them and put them into a strong Retort well luted, with six Ounces of Ivy-Gum; and two pounds of the Worms aforesaid, ground Ivy six handfuls, twenty live Frogs, and digest it in a warm place three days; then distil and extract all the Oil, which you shall keep, for 'tis an Anodine, and consolidates the Nerves, especially in articular diseases.   

CHAP. LXIX. Rulandus 's Emplaster of Sulphur.  
TAke three Ounces of our Oil of Sulphur, three Drachms of Colophony, half an Ounce of wax, of Myrrh the weight of all; the Wax, Colophony and Oil being mixed, sprinkle in the Myrrh by degrees, being very finely powdered, and boil them with a gentle Fire; always stirring them with a Spathula, until they be very well mixed; after a quarter of an hour take them from the Fire, and let them cool by degrees: And so you have a most excellent and infallible Emplaster, for the curing of all kinds of Wounds and Ulcers; as his Experiments in his Centurys describe, which you may always safely trust; and in his ninety fourth cure, he says, that there is a divine, wonderful, and quick Virtue in this Emplaster, of softening, suppurating, breaking, absterging and agglutinating, as by long experience hath been tried.   

CHAP. LXX. His Toad Oil.  
TAke four live Toads, far from any water, and put them into a glazed pot well stopped to purge; then take two pounds of common Oil, wherein boil Sage, Sowthistle, roots of Oris and Gentian of each one handful; and putting one of the Toads therein, set it over a Fire in an open place, in a glazed Vessel covered, but take heed of the smoke; when the first is dry put in another live Toad; and that dried, a third, and so a fourth; and when 'tis boiled ●rain the Oil; and this is very hot, and very good against all cold pains, against Scabs, Morphew and Dropsy; use it hot.   

CHAP. LXXI. His Anti-Apoplectic Balsam.  
TAke rectified Oil of Ambar, oleum petroleum Philosophorum, Rosemary, Sage, Spike, being all distilled) of each half a Ounce; Oil of Nutmegs, by expression, two Ounces; Extract of Castor, Oil of Box. Camphar, of each one Drachm: Balsam of Peru, Occidental Opobalsam; Civet, of the Extract of Benjoin, of each half an Ounce; Musk, Ambargrise, of each one Scruple, mix them all, and with a moderate heat make a Balsam; which is prevalent against diseases of the head by anointing the hinder part thereof, the noistrills, and pulse; against the Apoplexy, Epilepsy, etc. Collic pains and Hysteric passions are removed by anointing the navel.   

CHAP. LXXII. His Pills against pestilential diseases.  
TAke washed Aloes, Saffron, Myrrh, of each half an Ounce, Oriental and Occidental Balsam, of each half a Drachm, six bones of Harts-heart: Unicorns-horn, Emeralds, Oriental Bezoar, Pearls, and Coral prepared, wood of Aloes, of each ten Grains, Ambargrise five Grains; our Tincture of Ambargrise; of Ambar, and Magistry of Tartar, of each, as much as will form a Mass of Pills, where take one of half a Drachm weight; going to bed, twice a week. These mundify the Blood, corroborate the Head and Stomach, help pains of the Heart, comfort all the Spirits, revive youth and retard old age.   

CHAP. LXXIII. His Water breaking the Stone.  
TAke green walnuts in the month of May, bruise them and distil them thrice, always cohobating with the distilled water upon the fresh Nuts bruised; then extract a Salt; from the residue of the Caput mortunm; and 'twill be very powerful.   

CHAP. IXXIV. His Balsam against Asthm●'s  
TAke Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Terebinthine, and his Oil of Sulphur dulcified of each one Ounce; flowers of Sweet root, one Ounce and an half; two pounds of Oil of Sugar made with Spirit of Wine; mix them and make a Balsam; this is very profitable in all diseases of the breast, and lungs, the dose is from half a spoonful to a spoonful.   

CHAP. LXXV. His Pills against all impurities of the blood and humours.  
TAke Extract of black Ellebore, with its sixth ●alt, half an Ounce, of our Calomelanos two Drachms; leaves of particolored Gold half a Drachm; Magistery of Pearls one Drachm; mix them and make a Mass of Pills, the dose is from a Scruple to half a Drachm; If without Calonclanos, it may be given for four or five months twice in a week; but you will mundify the contumacy of the Lues venerea with the said Calomclanos.   

CHAP. LXXVI. His 〈◊〉 against 〈…〉.  
TAke of Persian bitter Almonds four pounds. Cypress Tere inthine three pounds, beat them and mix them well; then take three Ounces of expressed Oil of Nutmegs, ●alsam o● 〈◊〉 one Ounce and an half, Oil of Cloves half an Ounce; mix and distil them according to Art; and cohobate thrice upon the Capat ●●●●tuum; then add Spirit of Vitriol rosated three Drachms; mix them and circulate for fifteen days; for 'tis very profitable against Colic pains; the ●ose is from half a Scruple to one; in proper Li●quors.   

CHAP. LXXVII. His Opthalmic water.  
TAke the juice of Celandine, Eyebright, Verbene of each half a pound; juice of River-Crabs eight Ounces; Aloes Succotrine half an Ounce; crude Tutia, one Ounce; Crocus metallorum, one Ounce and an half; digest them with a gentle Fire for twenty four hours, then distil, and add to the distillation three Drachms of glass of Antimony; and boil them over a gentle Fire for an hour, than strain and keep it; for it is excellent against dimness of sight, Cataracts, etc.   

CHAP. LXXVIII. His Arcanuum against the biting of a mad Dog.  
TAke the Liver of a mad Dog reduced to the form of a Magistery, and the Magistery of River-Crabs, of each one Ounce. Tincture of Oriental Saffron, Gentian, Castor, Myrrh, of each two Drachms; of the Quintessence of Vitriol, of common Salt, Antimony, Silver, of each half a Drachm; of St. John's-wort-leaves, Betony, Yarrow, the lesser Centaury, Mug-wort, Mint, Wormwood, Plantain, Polypody of the Oak, the lesser Sage, Verven, Garden Rue, of each one pugil, of Moon-wort, three pugils, dry and powder them and with a sussicient quantity of Gum draganth dissolved in Scorzonera-water, and with the abovesaid liquors make Troches, and give a Drachm for a dose for four days, with some Cordial water, and you will see wonders.   

CHAP. LXXIX. His Tincture against Dysenteries.  
TAke of Hares-blood dried half a pound rectified Spirit of Wine one pound and an half; digest them in B. M. for three days; then extract a Tincture according to Art; and coagulate to the consistence of Honey; the dose is from half a Scruple to one, with some Emulsion of Sorel-seed.   

CHAP. LXXX. His Balsam of Mastich.  
TAke of the best Mastic, as much as you will, dissolve it in Spirit of Terebinthine, over a warm Fire in B. M. then separate the menstruum from the dissolved body, and then you have a Balsam for all diseases of the body; for outwardly applied to the mouth of the stomach; it stays vomiting; and inwardly you give five drops in Broth, or Wine.   

CHAP. LXXXI. His Arcanum against twisting of the guts and vomiting.  
TAke of the aethereal Oil, or Quintessence of Terebinthine, six Ounces, a Drachm and an half of Balsam of Peru, fine Mastic six Drachms, mix and distil them, then cohobate thrice; and use it in Malago Wine; or Broth of red Cicers, or any other specific liquor, the dose is from six Grains to twelve; your oleum ethereum is good for the same, after the same manner.   

CHAP. LXXXII. His Spirit of fixed Nitre tartarized.  
TAke of Spirit of Nitre rectified one pound, put it into a glass Cucurbit, with a large mouth open; and pour on drop by drop and by degrees as much Oil of Tartar by deliquium; which will raise a froth; and so long pour on, as long as you shall observe no more froth to arise: The Tartared Nitre, will fall to the bottom; then decant, and dulcisy with Rose-water; 'tis given in long diseases with appropriate decoctions, from six drops to eight, in water of Crabs, or Aunts, and 'tis Antifrebrisic.   

CHAP. LXXXIII. His Emplaster against a Pleurisic.  
TAke three Ounces of Line-seed, Onions and new Soap, of each one Ounce and an half; bruise and mix them; then put them over the Fire in a Frying-pan; mixing them till they be incorporated, spread these upon a stupe, and apply it to the Pleuretic part, and opposite pain; and you will see marvellous effects against this disease.   

CHAP. LXXXIV. His Emplaster for broken and disjointed bones.  
THE bone being reduced into its place, take three Ounces of chimney-soot one Ounce of Frankincense, four Ounces of Wheat-flower; as many whites of Eggs as will suffice to bring the materials into a sit consistence; then apply it to the part with fit splinters and bandages; and remove it not till it fall off by help of nature; this may seem improper to some; but truly, I never saw any equal or excel this in such like cases; you may afterwards use Cerats of Oxycroceum, and such like; as occasion requires.   

CHAP. LXXXV. His Antipleuretic Oil.  
TAke four pound of common Salt in the month of May, wherein put humane pleurae, two pounds, three pounds of Camomile and white Lily flowers; for two months' place them in the Sun: Then press them with a press; and weigh the Oil; to which add a Pompion in Summer, the weight of the Oil, cutting away the marrow and peel; and cutting it into pieces make it boil, until the Oil hath extracted all the moisture from the Pompion; to wit, its small pieces become dry. Then you shall have in a readiness twelve pieces of new Iron red hot, every one weighing half a pound, and put them in singly into the Oil; and so twice made hot; you shall twice extinguish in the Oil; and than it will be complete. 'Twill prove wonderful if the pained parts be anointed therewith twice or thrice in a day.   

CHAP. LXXXVI. His Vterine Powder.  
TAke Rupture-wort one handful, Bay-berryes husked, Parsnip-seeds, of each one Ounce; Rue and Agnus Castus and Peony-seeds, grains of Paradise, of each half an Ounce; Calamus Aromaticus, Cassia lignea, Mace, Cinnamon, Cloves, of each three Drachms; Feculae Briontae, sal Jovis, of each two Drachms; mix them and beat them into very sine powder, whereof you shall give from half a Drachm to a Drachm, in Broths, Wine, Conserves, or the like, against all diseases of the Womb.  
We cannot make public all our Arcanaes', at this time, in this small treatise; but if it shall please God to grant us two more years of life and health; I have many observations worth noting to publish; and a Laboratory, wherein shall be expounded most of the mysteries of Art; and cautions for errors, wherein Artists offend. And although there are at this day many new Volumes published in the Italian and Latin, etc. languages concerning the spagyric Art which have been collected from the Ancients; yet I also shall write of the same, but more corectly.  
The Chemical Cup so often nominated in his Observations, and so commonly administered to all people, is not prepared, as some have supposed of the Vulgar Regulus of Antimony; true 'tis prepared from a Regulus, but of the third degree; which dissers much from the Vulgar; although many also use this not without prejudice to the takers. I have been at Rome, Naples, Venice, and other Cities of Italy, and other Provinces, and I sound many that would tell you they knew the secret of the Chemical Cup: But all prepared it of the common Regulus, or of that compounded with Mars; I discoursed many of them to penetrate, whether any of them knew how to separate the Arsenical parts which the Regulus contains, from the same; but they judged, when the Antimony is fired with Tartar and Nitre, that those Sulphurous feceses, which are then separated, contained all the Impurity of the Antimony; and that was the Cup of the ANcients; But truly they are far from the truth; for they will find none of the classic and rational Authors using the simple Regulus, to make the Cup of, but for other preparations. The Vulgar Regulus hath not as yet left its crudity; and made after the manner aforesaid 'tis called Regulus of the first degree; whereof many compositions may be made; as the Starry Regulus, with filings of Iron; as the noble Ambar; which is a Regulus; and so with Gold, Silver, Tin, Iron; the other Regulus is made into an Ambar, with Iron, Brass, Led, Tin, Mercury and the Regulus; but how to attain to the top of the third degree, hic labour, hoc opus; and than it may be granted for perfect; as Clossius and Bazil Valentine celebrate it for the King of purging medicaments; for it only draws so much out of the body as is hurtful to it; mundifies the Blood; and corroborates the uncorrupted humours, as is observed in those that have taken thereof; who although they vomit, yet are they not at all weakened thereby; and in this it differs from other medicines. I celebrate these its praises, because I writ in the Latin language; and so they will not penetrate the ears of the ignorant; for I am not to put weapons into the hands of Children. I tell you truly for twenty two years past no other purging medicine hath entered my body, than Wine of the Chemical Cup; whereof I drink three or four times in a year; and, by the grace of God am perplexed with no infirmity at this time; and if you see it often mentioned in the Observations, this is because it hath gained very great honour.  
Here truly I must not neglect by any means to discover the frauds of some, which they are not a afraid to perpetrate; many of which make these Cups, and distribute them: Yet those cannot attain to fly higher than the first degree; but that their operation may appear very beautiful and shining; they add marchesite of crude Silver, which doth not only augment the beauty, but also multiplies the Regulas to the half; and so being greedy of Gold, they cheat you with a Regulus, and sell you Cups, as of the third degree: But these are most diligently to be avoided; for the Marchesite in lieu of mundisying the Blood, corrodes it; and though it quickly provoks bodies to vomit, it brings no small damages thereto. The way to detect so great cheats, shall be more plainly laid down in our Chirurgery.  
The composition of our Chemical Cup, of our astringent Balsam, and astringent Pills, is not in this treatise, but I reserve it for another; and therein also shall be explicated the more hidden and noble Arcana; and these shall be the most celebrated one's of my most beloved Master; and the three aforesaid shall be the Captains: For I hope therein to lay down rare secrets of nature; to wit, I have accurately investigated, with Virtuoso's and other curious Persons the natural virtues of minerals, semiminerals, stones, animals and vegetables, which work by an occult power; for those are your true specifies; from which I have seen wonders; neither could I know any thing therefrom.  
In this second work I shall put to light public Observations belonging to Chirurgery; which have and shall happen until this work shall come forth; and chief those in the Kingdom of Naples, and at Venice where I now live; although I am not altogether fixed in this City: I am often at the consults of most excellent Physicians; as the most excellent, Bernardus Florius, Bracchus, Bravus, Cornelius and others; who have often been pleased to accept of my advice.  
I have made experience in this City of my astringent Balsam in the house of the most illustrious, and most excellent the Count d' Avaux, Signior de Longueville Ambassador of the Christian King to this most serene Republic: To wit, the jugular veins were cut in a porket by his Chirurgeon; the greater Artery in the thigh of a Dog; and the Artery nigh the jugular, was cut by me in another Dog; and all were healed only with our astringent Balsam; to the admiration of all people, in nine days time. And one Surdus a Bar●ar in St. Vaw●'s was cured of a broken ar●ery with this our Balsam: And a Pilot, whom a Surgeon cutting of an Ulcer in his virile parts, cut an Artery, which could not be clossed with Fire; the flux of Blood was stayed by our Balsam; and he recovered.  
Another experiment was made in the house of the most Illustrious and most Excellent the Marquis of Fuentes, the Spanish Ambassador, in a Dog; who had an Artery cut eight days before, and was cured. The most Excellent Pica, cut a vein quite asunder, and while he called to the standers by to see the Dog, during the space, almost all its Blood slowed out of its body before the Balsam was applied, than the Balsam being applied that little Blood that remained flowed no longer; but the Dog died the day following of an inanition with a terrible convulsion; by reason he could take no nourishment.  
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