The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.Glauber, Johann Rudolf
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The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800
If we were good naturalists, and very diligent Chymists, then we need
not to fill Elaboratories with so many pots and boxes, nor spend so
much cost in fetching in so many forreign medicinal species, because
without question the strength and properties of all vegetables,
animals, and minerals, by an easier way may be found in some few
subjects. And as the true tincture of _Sol_ well fixed, is endued
with all the vertues of all vegetables, animals and minerals; so also
deservedly is ascribed to it the force of curing all diseases; but
with a difference. For there are divers kinds of the Gout in hands and
feet, as also of the Stone and Leprosie; which sometimes are inveterate
and uncurable Diseases, sometimes new and curable. Who therefore, not
mad, would promise to cure all and every disease indifferently, by any
certain medicine? Certainly no man, although he had the very stone of
the Philosophers.
For oft-times the Stone of the Bladder is expelled or cut out, most
hard and insoluble by _Aqua-fortis_, which not any medicine not
corrosive could dissolve; which strength, although they ascribe to
their medicine, yet they cannot perform it. Promises therefore do not
suffice, which none can perform: for _Promises become Debts_, which is
observed by few; wherefore by the haters of the Art the truth suffers,
and the hope of good success of Chymical medicines dyeth. _It is best_
therefore _to perform more than promise_, and the work shall praise
the workman. How can a Medicine penetrate to the extream parts of the
body; to wit, the hands and feet, and dissolve the coagulated matter
waxing hard, which out of the Body no corrosive Medicine can dissolve?
It is sufficient if a medicine finding a viscous tartareous and salt
matter, nor yet coagulated, do dissolve and expel it. The like is to
be understood of the stone in the reins, and bladder. In this manner
I will ascribe the curing of the Gout in the hands and feet, the
stone in the kidneys and bladder, to my tincture of _Sol_, as well in
old as young; but so that, if need be, specifical Catharticks may be
administred, and extrinsecally Bathes for promoting the cure, whereby
Nature may the sooner do its office. But above all things, we must not
slight Divine Providence: For ofttimes God smites us with a Disease
incurable by Art, unless Divine wrath be first appeased _by humble
Repentance_, which is the best medicine of all. As also the cure of
all Diseases coming of the corruption of the Blood, as the Leprosie,
the French Disease, and other impurities; which are taken away by this
tincture, if withal Catharticks and Diaphoreticks are administred,
cleansing and renewing the blood above all other medicines. This
Tincture also takes away all the obstructions of the Liver, Spleen,
Kidneys, and other parts, because it warms, attenuates, incides, and
evacuates the original of divers Diseases. It also cures all violent
and acute diseases, as the Epilepsie, Plague, Feavers, _&c._
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