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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49991	A discourse upon Sr Walter Rawleigh's great cordial by N. le Febure ... ; rendred into English by Peter Belon ...; Discours sur le grand cordial de Sr Walter Rawleigh. English	Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. Confectio Raleghana.; Belon, P. (Peter)	1664 (1664)	Wing L928; ESTC R8971	35,851	126

portion of Metalls which are the fruits of the Mineral predestination It is doubtless the most perfect of those Children of the Earth It is most solid yellow compact and close in it self and is compounded with principles that are digested in the most sovereign degree and which are by consequence fix'd and permanent as its Incorruptibility proves The Chymists give it the name of the Sun because that they believe it hath some correspondency and harmonical relation not onely with the Celestial Sun of the Great world but also by reason that it has a sympathetical affinity with the Sun of the Little world which is the Heart of Man They call it also the King of Metalls because it is their Prince as that which is the most pure and most fix as also that which possesses the most eminent and most necessary virtues since that it is wholly dedicated to the Heart which is the King of the noblest Functions of Life For Gold is held for the most sovereign Cordial because it re-establishes and augments the radical Moisture and the natural Heat which have their principal seat in the Heart which is the reason that it may be given with success in all diseases in which the Spirits are dissipated and the strength weakned It purifies also the mass of the Bloud since that it dissipates and drives out by sensible and insensible Inspiration that which there was of naught and corrupted in that which is called the Humours and which are to speak properly nothing else but those things which result from the diversity of the alterations of the Bloud that tends by this ill disposition to Corruption and Rottenness and by consequence to the destruction of the Subject which it nourishes and vivifies But this noble Metall must be so prepared and decorporated that it may doe the Emanation of the rays of the virtue of its Central Sulphur as we shall reason upon it when we shall discourse of the Preparation The last we are to treat of is the Unicornu Minerale otherwise called White Load-stone and some would have it to be the Unicorn's Horn. But we must speak but merely of its generation and virtues in no wise medling with that diversity of opinions that the most eminent Authors have had concerning this Subject For the most skilfull and best knowing have thought it fit that this Mineral production should be added to the Great Cordial though it was not inserted in the first Descriptions notwithstanding those wonderful properties it is endow'd with render it most worthy This wonderful Mineral Drug is nothing else but the Concretion or Petrifaction of a fluid milky substance which contains in it self the congealing and lapidifying ferment which slides and insinuates it self in the Cavities of the womb of the Earth where it invests it self with the figure odour colour and consistence according to the nature of the things that it finds there as it is proved by the Collections that the most curious observers of Nature have made of it as also by the experience of its rare virtues which are equal with those of the Oriental Bole and those of the Sealed Earth since the Grandees are agreed that it resists Poisons the Plague and malignant Fevers insomuch that a Physician of this Age did make the pouder of this mixt pass for a Specifick against all Fevers and got repute in the City of Paris by several rare effects We shall speak no more of it to prevent tedious repetitions and so pass from the description of all the Ingredients of our Remedy to what we have promised to say concerning its General and Particular Preparation If we have had hitherto just cause to praise Sir Walter Rawleigh for having caus'd so many good things and which possess so many virtues to enter into his Cordial we must nevertheless confess that we have far more reason to augment his Elogies by reason of the Science and Experience which he hath shewn in the Preparation and perfecting of this grand Remedy But considering that it is composed of things which are of different natures and that are more or less fix or volatil it has been necessary to work with a great deal of Art and with a most exact reflexion upon all that composes this Remedy to preserve that which ought to be of good in the most subtil and withall to extract the essential virtue which was concentred in the grossest Now we have said heretofore that there were three Classes in this Composition which contain the Animal the Vegetable and the Mineral We must also now make appear those reasons which have oblig'd our celebrated Author to prepare them in that manner to which we shall adde also the Meditations and Thoughts that we have had on this Subject for the better preserving the volatil and to open the most fix that the union of the virtue of the productions of these three Families should be made with all the exactness therein required according to his Majesty's Command and the Intentions of those Illustrious Persons which we have formerly named Whereas no intire Animals do enter into our Cordial therefore we shall not speak here but of the parts of those Animals which contribute to this brave and sovereign Composition We shall treat therefore of the preparation of Harts-horns of that of Vipers of that of Musk and Pearls and in fine of that of Amber-griece We shall not say any thing concerning the Bezoar-stone since we have already said that it is a Magisterium perfected in the Ventricle of that Animal which produces it and that besides this Stone has no need of any other preparation then to be reduced into an impalpable Pouder for this Operation Now whereas the Receipt of this Remedy requires Harts-Horn burn'd or calcin'd to whiteness we cannot wonder enough at this way of proceeding since that those of the least capacity know that the Calcination carrieth away the volatil Salt from the calcined body and that by consequence it strips it from all its cordial virtue which cannot be contain'd but in this Sulphureous and volatil Salt For the most skilful Naturalists and the most experienced of all Artists who have grown old in the meditation and in the labour to make the Anatomy of Natural things thereby to know the better the virtue say all with one voice That the Soul and Virtue of all these sublunary Mixts resides properly and perfectly in what they contain of volatil Salt and that it is particularly and chiefly in the Animals that this is found since the proof of it is clearly evident in their Distillations which furnish a great abundance of Spirit Oil and volatil Salt and which leave behind nothing in the bottom of the Retort after the last action of Fire but that which may be called legitimately a mere Caput mortuum or dead Earth since that this calcined body contains nothing that participates of the Saline nature which is the Foundation and the Centre of all the powers and virtues by reason

in themselves a small Treacle and are replenished with many rare virtues which adorn our Cordial and augment its forces and Operation The fifth Classis of Vegetables contains the Barks of which there is but that of Sassafras wood required in the Receipt We have been counselled to adde to it the Cinnamon the Limon-pill and that of Oranges by reason that there is nothing that doth so suddenly rejoyce the Heart and the Brains and that more resists Poisons and Corruption then these noble Barks or Rinds when they are well chosen and employ'd before they have lost that excellent smell which resides in their superficial skin which is nothing but an Oil and a volatil Salt glewed together with a little moisture in the Limon and Orange but the Cinnamon has nothing but its pure aethereal Spirit animated with a Sulphur and a Salt that have not their like amongst all the Aromaticks by reason of their subtilty and sphear of activity of their odour and virtue which has with justice acquired to them the right of entring in this Great Cordial since that the Author himself wills that the Syrup of Juice of Limons be added to it to help its preservation and consistence As for what concerns the Sassafras and its Bark I am of opinion to put its Wood in also by reason that the Bark furnishes not sufficiently alone for I have made the anatomy of this Wood by distillation and found that the Wood did yield a spirituous Water and an Oil far more abounding and more excellent then the Bark alone which has lost upon the Sea that which it had of most subtil and best in lieu that the rest of the virtue hath preserved and concentred it self in the Wood. The sixth Classis yields us the Woods of Aloes and of Sassafras which we have newly mentioned we shall have but two words to say in this place in praise of the virtues of the Wood of Aloes by reason of its scarcity since there are many hundreds of Apothecaries which have never handled any and that know it but by hear-say and by the reading of their Dispensatory But I confess that it is more common here in London then in many other places and that it is had here a great deal better and better qualified and especially at Mr. Box's a Drugster in Cheapside in whose Shop I have always found what there is of most rare and most precious in Druggistry The Arabians and the Germans call it Paradise-wood by reason of its Excellency It grows in Zeilan Malaca Sumatra and through all the Coast of Choromandel where the Indians prize it and rate it equal with Gold and Silver according to its divers degrees of goodness This Wood abounds in an oleaginous and gummy substance which is almost of the same nature with a sort of Benzamin but much more Cordial Stomachical Cephalick for it generally strengthens all the Viscera and especially the Brain it rejoices and re-animates the spirits of the Heart and those of the Womb it remedies the Syncopes and Languishings and has the property of killing all sorts of Worms which engender in the body by the abundance of its bitter volatil Salt It is put in the Cephalick powders to be applied outwardly and in the Epithemes that are applied upon the Heart and upon the Pulses of the Temple-Arteries and those of the Arms because that it recreates the Senses by the excellency of its smell which is the reason that our Excellent Author hath put it in good quantity in his Cordial by the knowledge he had of its rare properties and admirable virtues We have as yet two other matters to speak of which are taken from the Vegetables that enter in our Remedy and help toward its preparation which are Sugar and the Spirit of Wine The first serves as a body to receive and retain the dry things and the extractions which compose this Cordial and to preserve its virtue as we shall say hereafter and the second serves for that Liquor that the Chymists call Menstruum to extract the virtue of all the parts of the Vegetables which compound it We shall not speak of it in this place but in general terms because that we reserve to speak of it with more advantage when we shall treat of the Preparation Sugar is come to be at present one of the greatest delights of the Table and truly it is not without reason since that this sweet Salt which doth so suddenly vegetate and that is found shut up in its time and place within a Reed or Cane participates of abundance of rare Proprieties for we daily experiment that this Indian Salt is capable of receiving in its self the odor the taste and the colour of Fruits and of preserving them from one year to another and longer as is very well known by those that excel in the Art of Preserving But if the Sugar produces so rare an effect for pleasure what doth it not doe also in the Pharmacie for the useful part whenas the Apothecary cannot make any Conserves Syrups Trochisks Electuaries Confections and many other things which are most necessary for the sick without that pleasant Medium which preserves and receives the virtue of all the species that Art entrusts to its custody The choice is of that which is the most purified and that retains less of the greaziness and gross viscosity which does accompany it in its origine before its preparation Therefore our Author hath commanded to take the white Sugar-candy whose lucid and clear Crystallization proves evidently the purity thereof It is of an incisive attenuating detersive virtue it lenifies the harshness of the Throat and of the Trache-artery gently consumes the slimes and viscosities of the Stomach cleanses the Breast and the Lungs and appeases the painful insultations of the Cough These are the Motives which have driven Sir Walter Rawleigh to render this delightful Salt the depository of the substance and virtue of that which makes the making up of his Great Cordial The Aqua-vitae or Spirit of Wine is nothing else but the spirituous and aethereal part of that charming Liquor which is prest from the Grapes of the Vine and that has been exalted by the means of fermentation There have been several names given to this admirable Spirit by reason of its excellency and wonderful effects for it has been dignified with that of most Subtil and Incorruptible Essence not forgetting that of Water of Life that all the world attributes to it of Spirit of Wine Celestial Sulphur Bezoardical vegetable Sulphur The Celestial Menstruum Heavenly Water The Heaven of Raymondus Lully The Key of the Philosophers An Aethereal Body compounded of Fire and Water Universal Balsam or Liquor The Life of the great Vegetable and different other Nominations which sufficiently prove with those we have already named that this Spirit is the fittest Liquor of all those which are either Natural or Artificial that is capable of extracting the virtues of that which