evacuated by sweat the Tartar makes an union with it or the Sulphur and when this is come to pass the Tartar is no more generated but dung and excrement in which Tartar lieth hidden from hence mixt diseases are ingendred for the excrement of Nature namely Sulphur putrefies from whose putrefaction arises the continual rotten Fever and other inflammations This is to be noted that the excrement of bloud viz. Sulphur being commixt with Tartar is expelled by sweat but if for the weakness and debility of the spirits or Ventricle of bloud only the Sulphur be expelled but the Salt or Tartar which is the other kind of excrement remain whether resolved or coagulated and brings infinite diseases with it The bloud in the greater World is nothing else but Wood but there are infinite kinds of Wood therefore there are infinite kinds of bloud and as there are divers fruits of Trees so divers diseases of bloud exist as he speaks in Paragra de Philosophia pag. 27. In another place he saith that the bloud is the Element of Water in the Microcosm How many fruits of the Element of Water are found to be in the Macrocosm so many diseases are found to be in the bloud of the Microcosm CHAP. XXII Of the Tartar of the Flesh THe liquor of the flesh is the Ventricle of the flesh in which the excrements are separated from the liquor of the flesh and from the nourishment of it If the separation be exquisite the excrements are carried unto the veins and pores of the bladder and are expelled together with the Urine but when two excrements concur namely of the flesh or of his liquor and nutriment then the Stone is begot in the bladder and the reins it is called the Generation of the Stone from the Urine of bloud and such little stones are begot not only in the bladder and reins but also in other parts of the body from whence oftentimes arise obstructions and divers chronical diseases in the hips loins sides and other parts These are the most vehement kinds of Tartar or the Stone The Stones which rise from bloud are greater and harder and have more invasions of the fit than those which rise from Urine simply so called CHAP. XXIII Of the Tartar of the Marrow THe liquor of the Marrow is the Ventricle of the Marrow this liquor is fatness but the liquor of the flesh is a thin water the Ventricle of the Marrow hath a fire of digestion for the necessary use of life it can both digest and perfect for it self In other parts and in the Ventricles the excrement and Tartar is separated from the nutriment and so likewise in the Ventricle of the Marrow The Tartar of this Ventricle is not in a coagulated form but in a resolved form because the fatness hindereth as in the 18. Chap. for the same cause is said that butter hinders the Generation of the Tartar whereby it may not be so easily coagulated Though this Tartar be resolved nevertheless it produces The Symptoms whiâ—h follow the Paroxism of the Tartar Fat Ulcers from the Tartar of Marrow many and divers Tartareous diseases which they are wont to call doloriferous fluxes and every Arthetica and Sciatica which is not a perfect Gout rises from this Tartareous liquor which is seated in the joynts sinews and junctures or ligaments which bâ—ings with it the symptoms of the Stone He which can cure the Stone may cure this disease Parâ—â—â—l 3 Param de morb origina ex Tarâ—â—râ— Tract 5. but if not he can never attain unto the perfect curing of it The liquor of the Marrow of the sound is sound when the excrements are consumed by the driness of the bones and do not fall into strange places junctures flesh and ligaments but when they pass over the set limits of their place they produce divers diseases the Podagra the Chiragra the Genugra the Sciatica and the pains of the joynts There is a Ventricle and fire of digestion in the glewish matter of the joynts of â—ans body the fire separates the excrement and Tartar from the nutriment The glew is a most excellent member induced with a most exquisite sense which of all members can suffer the least The Tartareous excrement of it is twofold namely coagulated and dissolved In the beginning of separation before the spirit of Salt come it appears in the substance of the liquor but after the spirit of Salt comes it is coagulated into a solid substance from which the Podagra Chiragra and Genugra are begot The Medicine which reduces resolves and consumes the Tartar cures and removes the Podagra and his kinds and he which cannot reduce resolve and transmute the Tartar cannot remove the Podagra The Cholick â—ises from the Tartar of the Intestines Theophrast Tom. 5. prob 207. The Stone of Paracelsus is called a Tartar of the bladder so also the Urine is called a resolved Salt p. 208. Eodem loco CHAP. XXIV Of the Essence of Seed WE insisting in the steps of Paracelsus hitherto have explained the three Beings of Diseases the Being of Stars the Being of Nature and the Being of Poison though Paracelsus makes five Beings of Diseases yet seeing three only have natural causes and admit explication the other two namely 1. the magical being which is opposed directly against a Christian man 2. and the real being which is an unsearchable secret are left unexplained of us seeing that these three being explained suffice any Physician Perchance some may wonder wherefore we have not made mention in the general explication of Diseases of the three principles to the which Paracelsus ascribes all the causes of diseases I answer that Paracelsus in his book 1. and 2. Param writes that all diseases consist in three beginnings in Salt Sulphur and Mercury but it is not simply to be understood but in his 1. book de origine Morb. ex tribus substantiis in the end of the 2. Chap. he expresses his mind saying that every disease is to be conferred with man through all his parts he proceeds that this is the ground of the knowledge of diseases if a disease must be conferred with man according unto his accident or proper and essential adjuncts for so the four Elements the three Principles or three Substances the four Stars four Earths four Waters four Airs four Fires and all the conditions and properties of man are comprehended without which no disease can be In the greater World we see the sublimation of Mercury in which there are three beginnings essentially for an individual by it self is absolute In the less World such a digestion is wont to be made from too much Fire of digestion This sublimed Mercury is the greatest poison in the Microcosm begets the Epilepsie or Falling sickness But none will perswade himself that this Mercury alone is a beginning but an individual in which not one but three beginnings concur Paracelsus oftentimes calls it Mercurial Salt of Vitriol in which
superiour Globe the vital spirits of the Heart and Brain are moistened kindly of the seeds with showres serenity heat and by the fruitful falling of dew and VVestwinds and by such like fruits of the inferiour Elements which being absent and wanting defect of Radical humour pining and barrenness doth happen Both of these stars do endeavour by the aboundâ—nce of aliments to restore the melting and decayed parts and to recover the sick hastening unto rottenness Again the inferiour stars bring forth Roses Violets Balmmint Valerian Vines Fruits Gold Silver Rubines Saâ— hires continually from aliments unless the cause of sterility shall prevent not that they demonstrate the external signatures in man for they have lost their outmost Vestures by Transplantation but because they produce like properties in the spiritual bodies of mans anatomy from which the superiour stars receive nutriments and all of them are made fit for their offices and actions for transplanted Generation as abovesaid becomes worse and not better and it is hindered whereby the Roots of Generation may less be able to explain their gifts and native sciences for the spirits of Transplantations are more strong and vigorous than of the inbred But how shall the inferiour stars bring forth fruits of soundness and health out of the aliments if that the temperature of the bad properties excel and if the bowels of nourishing be faint and weak whereby they may he less able to separate the pure from the impure and the unfirm from the firm Certainly if the inferiour Heaven be destroyed and coâ—ruâ—ted of necessity the superiour Heaven must be corrupted for how will it give that which it takes not or how will it give that which it hath not From hence it is that the superiour Heaven endeavours dissolution seeing that the strength is consumed and it is destitute of nutriment for we have said that the Transplantations of times what shall I say of times but the prevarications of fruits and the confluences may bring such evils and infinite calamities yea lastly Death it self into mans Commonweal so from the Being of Nature proceeds the Being of Poison and Diseases CHAP. XIII Of Curing of Astral Diseases of the Greater and Lesser World Which rise â—rom the â—irmament of the Maâ—rocosm which rise from the Firmament of the Microcosm THere is required for the preservation of Astral Diseases first an evacuation of impurities by convenient Remedies for there lie divers seeds oftentimes of Diseases in the filthy impurities and if such impressions be contained in the body the astral are more easily admitted when as the bloud shall be impure that impurity is not to be removed by the cutting of the Vein but it is to be expelled by Diaphoretical Veins fetcht from Physical anatomy not that one exhibition or giving will suffice for preservation but every week one Dosis of Diaphoreticks is to be taken by reason of the time In the Curing of the Epidemical Diseases first it is to be respected unto the being of Poison and labour must be taken especially that the Poison be abolished and taken away speedily without deliberation by convenient Remedies No better and more excellent method of curing astral Diâ—eases can be invented of expelling the being of Poison than that which is made by swear In this Cure the chief Remedies are Diaphoretical or sudoriferous Medicines which expel the being of Poison by sweat luckily and take away and disperse the mists and poisoned spirits of the bloud especially diaphoretical or sweating Medicines are to be given which are fetcht from Astronomy and the signed art untill that all the Poison be abolished In the curing of these Diseases the Galenists are mad with reason which make purgations of the belly obstinately when as no body is present with the being of Poison but spirits for in astral Diseases astral and spiritual Concerning this look into the following Treatise cap. 16. at the end de Cura Phthisea Remedies are to be given In the Curing of the Diseases which have their beginnings and originals from the Firmament of the Microcosm first of all a Physician must know and understand Transplantation which in Philosophy is called Regeneration or begetting again for example if some be sick with the Hectick in Phthisis under the Empire or Dominion of Saturn In the Curing of this Disease we must labour with all diligence to transplant Saturn into Venus wherefore the most perfect Cure of Antimony is seen in the Hectick and Malignant are to be tempered with the Benign Phthisâ—s because it transplants Saturn into Venus These are the Mysteries of Cures the secrets of Remedies and the brevities of Manifestations So all the Stars in the Microcosm may be transplanted and made friendly unto mans Nature by the secrets of Remedies and Mysteries of Cures so all deplored and desperate diseases are abolished by this Philosophical Transplantation as the Leprosie the Leprie and all kinds of the Leprie There are the proceedings of many by which Transplantation or Regenerating is perfected is comprehended in the preparations of Antimony CHAP. XIV Of the Being of Poison THus far have we handled of the Astronomy of the greater and less World and of the stars of diseases of the Element of Heaven and the Air and also of the Cuâ—ing of astral diseases Now it is convenient that we descend to the Philosophy and diseases of the inferiour Globe namely of the Element of Earth and VVater All the fruits and effects of the Element of Earth and â—ram in Apolog. reâ—â—t fol. 10. Water have poison admixt not only medicamental and extreme hurtful and noxious but those which are called of Physicians alimental Wherefore seeing we take aliments for the preservation and nourishing of our bodies we also receive poison mixt with our aliment but if all be rightly administred in the frame of the Ventricle this poison by the admixtion of more benign and wholsome meats being tempered resolved and separated is thereby expelled or else this poison remains in the anatomy of the belly and is the cause of many most grievous diseases for the governour and faculty of the Ventricle if it have strength and power of working it separates the pure from the impure and changes the pure into a tincture and gives the tincture to the body for norishment for the conservation of life of the great Heaven in the little World but when this Spagyrian or Separatour doth not rightly execute his Functions and that the poison is separated from the aliment neither by natural nor artificial concoction of the Ventricle it comes to pass that the poison and the aliment conspire and after All the kinds of Poison are in the Tartar the conspiration follows putrefaction and digestion after digestion comes corruption which is the breeder of all diseases CHAP. XV. What the Being of Poison is THe being of Poison which is in all aliments is an excrementitious and Tartareous impurity which hath not an expulsive vertue but rather a
Phthisis of the Ventricle or Consumption is begot in all other parts of the body so likewise in the Ventricle the cause of it is above-mentioned That all things may be made more manifest and clear the Generation in the Ventricle is this when the sides or plaits in the Ventricle are obducted and covered with tartar and the passages and pores of it be obstructed there follows an oppilation of the spirits of life and from the oppilation there insues corruption and putrifaction of the whole member from hence is the Consumption of the Ventricle of which the whole body hath a compassion and feeling and deplores the destruction most vehemently it being destitute of aliment The Convulsive Hicket is a motion of the Hicket is a Convulsive and sounding motion of the Ventricle for to expel the offensive matter contained in it Ventricle which Hippocrates affirmed to be caused either from repletion or emptiness like as the Convulsion of the members from evacuation as from the immoderate flux of bloud and from immoderate purgation from repletion as in Children and those which are addicted to surfetting These are the causes of the Hicket which are wont to be adduced besides which others more grievous do exist for oftentimes spirits or malignant and poisonful vapours cause a worse Hicket of which kind we have seen in malignant and pestilent Fevers and in the inflammation of the Liver and especially when the figure of it is straitned and the heart is overwhelmed with the vehemency and malignity of the disease There is no better remedy for the preservation of the The cure Ventricle in these diseases than the vertue and power of the Vitriol of Copper so that afterward there be made a liquor and spirit from it and this is the hungry acetocity or sowrness of it which excels in so many vertues that it will consume all things which are contained in the Ventricle whether they be tartareous or sulphureous impurities as also it will comfort and corroborate the stomach that it may be able to concoct all things as the Estrich concocts and digests iron Concerning this acetosity of Copper Paracels writ in his book de morb tartareis Chap. 16. where he distinguishes sowr things into natural things and artificial The natural sowr things are hot baths and sowrness The artificial are extracted from metalls minerals and ill juices and it is the salt of them The same is effected almost as well in the preservation as the cure by the spirit of Vitriolum Vngaricum Romanum of which Paracels writes in his book de mineralibus that it is able to cure all tartareous diseases But yet not too much of it must be taken for nimiety or too much of any thing is hurtful and an enemy unto Nature therefore it must be taken with discretion that the mouth of the Ventricle may be shut Take the root of corrected Azon powder of Betony and the sweet Cane burnt into Salt let them be powdered and mixt of which powder let him take after dinner and supper the quantity of two pease but let him drink no more The confection of Anise which is for to shut the mouth of the Ventricle is made with distilled Vinegar put into it by macerating and then exsiccating the Anise for the space of 24. hours and afterward again by macerating and exsiccating it in Vinegar and so it must be done thrice for the dosis there must be given pugillum 1. after dinner and supper for the evacuating of the Ventricle there must be given iiij grains of the slowrs of Antimony in an Electurary In the resolving and consuming of the tartareous and sulphureous matter in the Ventricle Antimony is available which purges by Vomit the Belly of the confection of Urine In the griefs of the stomach the preparation of Mastick is good Take of Mastick of the Alcool of wine of Galingal distil them through an Alembick the dosis must be smal to comfort the stomach The confection of Ginger made of the Quince-apple Diacinnamon Diatrion Pepperwort oil of Wormwood oil of Mastick Balsam of Sulphur the oil of Lawrel-Berries rectified 10. or 12. drops taken in broth looses destroyes the pain and mixeth with the peccant matter c. The Cardiaca or Cardialgia is cured by the oil and magistery of Pearls Barth Anglus lib. 16. cap. 72. so doth the Saphire stone in the same book Chap. 87. waters made of Antimony cure and mitigate this disease so also waters made of Salt Peter Thurnens in Pisone lib. 5. cap. 25. Of Musk Civet Beavers stone Unicorns horn Ivory the horn and bone of the Hart there is made an excellent medicine for the Heart-aches and such other affects Josephus Quercitanus in his answer unto Anbertus pag. 21. saith that there is the same cure of the inflammation of the Ventricle and of the Squincy or Prunella or Pleurisie c. The oil of Anise 5. drops administred in wine or other decoction and the navel being anointed with it expels the hicket Read Phrisius in speculo lib. 2. part 4. tract 2. cap. 11. Barth Anglus lib. 7. cap. 45. Alexander Benedictus lib. 12. cap. 19 20 21 22 23. The magistery of Pearls made with Origanum help the concoction so the waters or subtilties of common Salt Salgemmae and Salmaris Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. The preparation of Salt Gemm that it may strengthen the digestion in the stomach and preserve from putrifaction Take of Salt Peter and common salt which are fusible and of Salgemmae ana of Gallingal let a powder be made of them and the dâ—sis four grains in the morning with a fasting stomach Read Theophrast lib. 1. de praeparatiombus tract 4. Gilliflowrs corroborate the Ventricle and head and provoke and stir up the Appetite they also help the Liver so the water of Mint with the spirit of Vitriol CHAP. XX. Of the Hurts Causes and Signs of the Liver OBstruction is very usual unto the Liver and no The obstruction of the Liver bowel is equally unto it troubled with this disease because vena porta which is dispersed through the substance of the Liver into little branches is obstructed as also other branches not less small come from vena cava unto it by which all aliment should be transported and conveyed The obstruction is caused from tartar which obstructs the veins and hinders the course of the bloud it hath these marks heaviness and distension happeneth to the right Hypochondrium with an obtuse pain and then especially when one goes to exercise presently after meat The obstruction of the Lungs is twofold one is of the veins from whence the Dropsie is the other is of the substance from whence the phthisis and inflammation are The Galenists have left this difference unexplained and have used one for the other Theophrast lib. 1. de tartaro tract 2. cap. 3. fol. 226. when the obstruction is in the Liver then man is discoriated and his colour is changed in a dayes