Magni Sylvii SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM, radiis solaribus impregnatum.  
That Great MEDICINE; showing Its Inventor, and promoters Sr. Theodor My-Hearn and Franciscus de le boe silvius the two great Physitians OF EUROPE.  
{αβγδ},  
{αβγδ}—  Hip. 
Numinis instar venerandum sit medicamen, quo, non Corporis said& Animi redintegratur lapsus; quip a se invicem ita pendent ut unius, inimicus, alterius fit hostis.  Sdn. 
LONDON. Printed in the Year, 1674.   

To the READER.  
SEneca blames Aristotle, for complaining that Nature had granted a longer Life to Bruits than Man. But Epictetus end's his querulencie when he said prout moderati sumus ita& atavi fimus nam poculis pars maxima perit. And we daily see that Vita, and Vinum, are not long lasting Neighbours; Ceres and Bacchus, like Fire and Water are good Servants but ill Masters, and can number skulls, with Sword, and Famine, cast thy Eye back: O Reader! but to the end of a seven years thought, and tell me then how many lusty young Men that thou hast known have died Martyr's to the Pip and Pot: short words but sure death's, consider this before the silver cord be broken, and the keepers of the House tremble; we must one day shut up our Shop windows for Eternity, draw the curtain, put out the candle, and bid good-night to all the World, for if Iron, Steel, and Stones, wears out and decays, know, that Flesh and Blood cannot last always, remember the Epigrammist puts Salubre Corpus among those things that makes up jucundissima Vita, God grant we may all consider this whilst it is called to Day, before the evil ones come, wherein we shall say we have no pleasure in them, yet a little while and all our heads must come to the could Tomb; we must all into our wainscot parlour, the Coffin, and in a close hole underground sleep the sleep of all the World; how then doth it concern thee to mind thy Health, thy Body and Soul being all thy charge? Long Life is a great Blessing, God grant thou mayst consider it, and live to see thy Childrens children, and peace upon Israel.  
 
licenced  
Aug. 22. Roger L' Estrange.   

SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM: That Great MEDICINE.  
Ο Βίοσ ἥ δὲ τέχνη μακρὴ, &c. says the Divine hippocrates, not that Nature hath given us so short a life; but by Sin and disorder we have made it so. And Solomon the wisest of Men, in his Exhortations to Temperance, and long life, puts the question; For why shouldst thou die before thy time? And indeed the great business of all ages( both of Philosophers and Physicians) hath been to propagate Medicine, and Morality; Health of Body, and tranquillity of Mind, being the two great hinges on which all human content is turned. Hence came the answer of that great Master of reason, and pious stoic Seneca, who being demanded why he took such pains in his Study, replied, Ut mentem sanam in Corpore sano habeamus. Health being the true honeycomb that sweetens all our worldly comforts, was well considered on by Joannes Panphylomus, that Divine and Learned Hermit, the first Inventor of this Medicine, being a hundred forty and seven years old, when he presented a Bottle of this read liquour to the Emperor( having then received extreme Unction, being in the agony of death, and given over by all his Physicians) with this Inscription, {αβγδ}, for your Preservation Sir, and so it proved. This Preservative of Nature, was afterwards( though by what means we know not) attained, by one Guil. Bizalman, a Monk; and either by himself or some of his Friends, Sold unto Sir Theodor. My-hearn a Smiss, and chief Physician to His late Majesty King Charles the First, for 3000 Crowns at Sknesburg, a small Village in Germany, on the Frontiers of Bavaria, and was the only Medicine by which he performed such admirable and stupendious Cures in this Kingdom, as at leaving this world, he confessed to a dear bofome Friend of his, who dying at Amsterdam, not by a less strange than sudden accident, left Dr. silvius, then famous for his Bractice there, as Heir to his Estate, and Successor to this Secret.  
This Franciscus De le boe silvius proving famous for his great Knowledge in physic, and excellent Cures, was invited by the States of Holland, to be chief Professor of Medicine in the University of Leyden, being for Learning and Eminency in his faculty, not less beloved, than admired by the world, confessed to me, and Dr. J. his intimate friends, then assaulted by a furious paroxysm of the Gout:( though soon eased) what miraculous Cures in the same Disease, a certain empiric of Amsterdam had performed, by this Tincture, which he bought privately, and in great quantity from him, the which empiric I find noted, by the truly deserving and Honourable Mr. Robert boil, as you may see Pag. 76. and 77. Part 2. of that most useful and excellent piece of Experimental Philosophy, where you may red the Story at large; But to our purpose.  
Dr. silvius through the goodness of Providence taking a kindness to me, more than the rest of Mortals, was Pleased to Communicate this Secret, with a juramental promise, never, either to divulge this Secret without his Perssimion, or make it public during his life; neither have I till now, seeing it hath Pleased God to remove him, even in the Crepusculum and evening of his age, rendering his Soul to him that gave it, and restoring the Elements their own. And sooner had this most excellent secret come to the help of the world, but that the tedious, and long Preparations, necessary to its Perfection, consumes a great deal of time, besides, my distance from England, I being then in the remotest Parts of Italy, when the News of his death was brought to my Ears. I intend, God willing, to Publish a Book of the wonderful Virtues, and strange Cures, this liquour hath wrought, and some of them almost incredible, with the Persons Names and Places.  
But the saying is as true, as old, that where God hath a Church, the Devil hath a chapel; and such hath been the activeness and subtlety of the Arch-fiend to led up his most Hellish and best disciplined mischiefs into the Van of his destruous and wicked designs, bending all his insernal Machinations, to dispoliate, ruin, and undo, whatsoever kind Nature, and a kinder God hath produced for the help of Man, to restore the labifactions and breaches of battered Nature, one Emissary whereof Dr. Beton, alias Bethune, at Naishrough near the SPAWS in YORKSHIRE, whom he taught to say after his Father the Old liar, that he had from silvius this secret, which before the Almighty, I profess to be most notoriously false, and since his death set to Sale by an Apothecary there, it being a strange Hodg-podg with a precipitated Salt at the bottom, and when jumbled, it looks like an Emulsion, a spurious liquour, bad enough to show the poor chemistry of the Composer, &c. but none digs after Pebbles, but Gold, and we must expect what they can't do by counterfeit, they'l endeavour by calumny. As among the rest has lately, one R. G. a man not worth naming, only to prevent a blank, and brought in here to fill up room,( as Boys and Beggars crowd in at Changetime;) whose confidence I rather blushy at than condemn, it being the Nature of the Creature to do nothing else, but what may become a Nihilo sciente. red but the Note of Directions to his admired Gallimophry, and you may easily judge of his abilities, but of him more hereafter, if John Tradeskin begs not his Brains, to accompany the rest of his Nut-shel Rarities; for the Ass that will take on the Lyon's Skin, deserves to have his Ears pared, for a nearer resemblance. said si haec non suffic●at virgula, certius expecietur flagellum.  

Scurvy.  
The Scurvy( a Mortal Disease, killing not so soon, yet as sure as a Gun; and like the Indian poisons works our ruins insensibly) known to all men to be so raging and mischievous a Malady, that very few or none, especially in our Parts of the world, escapes the vengeance of its virulency; for such is the subtle insinuations of this Evil, that like the Febris Hectica, first hard to be known, and easy to be cured, but at last easy to be known, and hard to be cured; and because many may have it, though not known what it is: I think it necessary to acquaint them of some of its chief Symptoms, though to number all, would be a Herculian Labour; neither do all of them appear in one and the same person, some complaining of a general indisposition of the whole Body, removing from place to place, with its sometimes wandring, and sometimes settled Pains, as doth the Arthritis Vaga, or Running Gout.  
Others have pricking pains, with heaviness and pain in the Head, and especially after dinner, not a few are troubled with Palpitations of the heart, straightness of the Breast and Stomach, loathing, and a bad digestion, sometimes seeming to be very hungry, yet forthwith satiated and cloyed, often reachings to Vomit, and casting nothing up, but Phlegm or Salt water, longing after divers things, and when had, not caring for it, weakness in the Legs and Knees, with a cracking of the joints; some Bodies spotted, some scabbed and ulcerated, faintness, short breath, wasting of the Gums, rotting of the Teeth, stinking Breath, the mouth filling itself constantly with water, and discharging it again in continual rheums on the Breast and Lungs; being the fore-runner and certain cause of innumerable Consumptions: Some Bodies swell, and are extended chiefly after meat, counterfeiting the dropsy, to which it too often really turns; as likewise to Convulsions, gripping of the Guts, doings, and in the end Death, which many times is sudden. Who then but one deprived of sense and reason, would neglect the means of securing his Body from such a Legion of mushroom Companions, and fatal Diseases, against which Nature as a most certain, safe, and sovereign Remedy, hath ordained this Medicine, a few drops in all liquours that you drink, and in the morning from 15 to twice its number in a small glass of fair water, and by the Blessing of God, you will bless the time that e're you saw this Paper.   

Debauch.  
12 or 15 drops taken in the Morning, each hour, during three hours, appeases all those disturbances of Body and Brain, which the overnights excess had caused, takes away thirst, and the bitter clamminess of the mouth, pleasantly reducing the Stomach to its pristine temperature and proper office of fermentation; take it either in a glass of Rhenish, or White wine mixed with water.   

Sweet breath, Coughs, Consumptions, &c.  
The same Dose taken three or four times in a day, in a spoonful or two of Angelica or Orange water, causeth a sweet breath to admiration, excitates the Sense of Smelling, though languishing and seemingly lost; preserves the Gums and Teeth clean from being either putrefied or discoloured, curing those unsavoury fetid breathings, which arise from exulcerated Lungs, which by continuance it also effectually helps, together with all Tabes, Pthisis, and all Consumptions whatever, old and troublesome Coughs, want of sleep, and turbulent Dreams.   

ston and Gravel.  
Twenty drops taken in water of Saxifrage, wild Time, or which excels that of Persicaria, or Arsmart wonderfully cureth the Gravel in the Kidneys and Ureters; profiting much to the ston in the Bladder, which if not confirmed, it mouldreth and carrieth off by Urine.   

Ill Airs, Youth and Beauty.  
From Contagious and ill Airs, 'tis the true Prophylaciick, preserving the Body in vigour and beauty, even unto extreme old Age, by depressing those unnatural fumes and heats which prey upon the fat, appointed by Nature to fill up the furrows and untimely wrinkles of the Skin, which not seldom, in youth, counterfeit decrepit age.  
From 20 to 30 drops in a glass of your own Urine, or Juice of tansy and Rhenish wine mixed, killeth and destroyeth all manner of worms in Men, Women, and Children, a Plague( though too much neglected) bringing a thousand inconveniences on Mortals, and seldom leaving them till they leave the world, except by powerful Medicines, for which to amazement this hath been innumerable times proved.   

Evils of the Head and Memory.  
All Dizziness with pains of the Head, whether recent of inveterate, it availeth beyond belief, takng each morning about 20 drops or more in a glass of fair water, cleareth the Brain of all dull and muddy fumes, helping the memory beyond all things in Nature, the very smell of it in all fits and distempers of the head, being a sovereign Remedy.   

Small Pox and Measles.  
In the Small Pox, and Measles, a few drops of it, either in a spoonful of Carduus, or Butter burr water, frequently given; defendeth the Vitals, powerfully casting forth the Disease with wonderful safety.   

dropsy.  
The dropsy in all its Species, if taken any way in time, whether Ascites, Tympanites, or Anasarca, it perfectly cureth, the Dose being from 20 to 30 drops, in a few spoonfuls of Elder, Juniper, or cinnamon water, divers times reiterated, and some few drops taken in all their Drink, &c.   

Melancholy, and its followers.  
For all kinds of hypochondriac Melancholy, Winds, Pains in the side, Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver, I do confidently affirm from my heart that Nature hath never bestowed its fellow on Man, it being taken continually each morning fasting, from 25 to 30 drops in a glass-full of good fair water, and so fasting till 12 a Clock.   

Women's Distempers.  
Convulsions, fainting fits, the Green Sickness, and in a word for all Womens Diseases, it is so appropriated and certain relief, that I intend to writ particularly in behalf of that Sex, what advantages some Ladies of my acquaintance have most miraculously found, as well in the breeding as bearing of their Children, it being the true Anodine, and safe Curer of all Womb illnesses, adding a Spur to the dullness, as well as a Bridle to the freeness of their Monthly Visits; and indeed I do pity the Gentlewomen of this City, how they are deluded and cheated by a crew of half-Chirurgions, called Men-Midwifes, Fellows of more Ribbons than Brains, shunning the Company of Physicians and Learned Men, as Owls do the light.   

Chilly Venus, want of Issue.  
Never yet was a parallel unto this Medicine known, for restoring not only vigour, but delectation to languishing Venus, and without urging the least inconveniency unto Nature, doth convoy Courage rather by cherishing, than by stimulation; as all Satyrians do.  
And some hundreds, amongst which, not a few of my acquaintance, that hath been long wed and despairing of ever having Issue, have by the help of this Medicine, been not only safely restored to their juvenal embraces, but blessed with a happy off-spring; the end that God hath ordained them for, being only to warm the chillines of the chased bed, but not to bring the Boar and the Goat into the Chamber, it being an ill piece of Architecture to build the Sty above stairs; a peccancy to modish, nought but Grace or old Age being able to stem the tide of youthful Torrents.   

Epsom, Dullage, Tunbridge, Ruffum, &c.  
I would advice those Ladies and Gentlemen, who are used to Drink the Spaws or purging Waters, whether Naisbrugh, Tunbridge, Epsom, Dullage, or Ruffum:( which last excels them all, the Water though less in quantity yet purgeth more than any of the rest, being far lighter, and doubtless its rise proceeding from some more noble mineral, bursting forth from a hard stony and mountainous Rock. In Cartmel beyond the Sands in the remotest part of Lancashire: to drop some drops of this liquour into their Waters, for it doth not only take off the Crudities of such Waters, but by precipitation quickens its passage through the body, increasing its virtue some degrees; preventing nauseatness and Vomiting, as by divers Persons each year is largely experimented at the Spaw in Germany, and likewise by some Persons of worth in this Kingdom who have been furnished with it, though at a large rate from Dr. silvius.   

A general Rule to be observed in this Medicine in all Diseases.  
Now the Almighty God grant a blessing to what hath been said, I conclude with this admonishment, that great temperance be used, especially in all acute Diseases, and in all chronic and old distempers, let the Dose be daily increased for 3 days and then descend gradually for 3 days again to their first Dose, this caution being observed, that about an hour after dinner let their Dose be doubled, and a gentle convenient Purgation each week administered to keep the Body open; the Patient may move any where, keeping his Body no otherways than accustomend, for it works not as other physic, forcing nature many times to an extreme, but by gradual and gentle accessions, operating in our Body, as the Sun on Fire, extinguishing and extirpating without noise, all those miseries, which a debauch or corrupt habit hath imposed upon poor Nature. The Dose is from 5 to 25 drops or more, according to the contumacy of the Disease and constitution of the Sick, which must be continued and taken 3 or 4 times daily in all distempers, and in Acute Diseases oftener.   

To be sold by Mr. Humphrey Grinsell Grocer, in Kings-street, the Post-House, a corner House very near St. Margarets Church, Westminster.  
Mr. Thomas Eldred Milliner, at the Golden Ball in Chancery-Lane, near Serjeants-Inn.  
Mr. Samuel Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in Paul's Church-yard, Bookseller.  
Mr. Robert bolter, at the Turks Head in cornhill, over against the Royal-Exchange, Bookseller.  
At these four places, and no other in the world is this Excellent Medicine to be had. Sold in 2 Ounce, and 1 Ounce Bottles, at 10 s. the greater, and 5 the less; Sealed with a Coat of Arms, the wounded Heart crowned.