The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: 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 / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe.

Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.

Date:: 1689

Credit: The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: 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 / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ter in a glazed pot for three or four honrsj and the evaporated water muft be ftill fopplycd with other that the tartar may not burn for want of; ■water and the 'iitYUMt muft be fometimes ftirred about’with a wooden fpatula_ (which the -fiores being light do not need ): This done, the tartar water will be deep red coloured by the Antimony, and leave the remaining Antimony fettled in the bottom, from which pour off the folucion, and af ter having rltred it, evaporate the water from_ it, and then extraft it once inore with fpirit of wine, and you will get a blood-'red ■■ExtrutUm, whereof •1,2,3. to fo-^or 1.2. drops given at once, caufeth gentle vomits and ftools, which may be fafely ufed by old and -young in all difeafes that have need of purging, and you need not tear any danger at ail: Ford know no vomit. Which purgeth more gently than this, and ifyou pleafe, you may make it work only 'C'f'c? irfferiora ) downward, fo that it foall caufe novoinits at all: and you need do nothing elfe but make a toafl: of brown bread, and hold it hot to your nofe and mouth, mnd When this is j almoft cold, have another hot in >readinefs, and! fo ufe one after another by turns, till you feel .no more loathing, and thSt'^the vertue of iAntlmony hath begun to work downward : This its a good fecret for thofe that‘would Ufe* Antimomal'phy-‘ fick, but‘that they are -afFrald of-vomiting, which they are not able to endure. iBut df-dyou will notTpend fo much pains, as to ‘make .Aichmn :Ex- i trad, then do as you was taught’ above to do with the copper, and tak^ ten i or twtlvre .grains of prepared Antimony’for an Mold body , but for a young one 5, 6. grains or'morc'or lefs^according . to the condition of the perfoo, -and ^fs.i or 3 vj. of \ pure tartar,'ah'd togetheri WiEh ^ liij; or-^.^w/of .wa- ; ter put it in a little pipkih, ^ndfJOyl itia quarter of'aii'hbuf, then‘pour^Ke folutibttimlyduto a.iup, and difolve a little fugar in ItA Whereby:^lie iacidicy ; of the Tartar will be fomeyvhat qualified. ^The de- , MriAk'WSrm; aHd^keejo^fyourTelf^qait irfit, , and it wilf work much better,'’Than it if:had been fteeped ' Aydr night in-wine js^hichufiot) every one , can abi'de'-to take'foiling p'butJthis ^fcc^fKm,. be- ’ caufe it taftethTlike^v/arm '-aind Iweet wine/Dis mhch pleafonter to’take. >-'1' N. B- It is tDbe admired,‘thad.weli'-preparedjAn- timony i%iievef‘takei-i In'vain :^i for although it be given -in -a -^ery rfmall iciuailtity, 'fo that it cannot caufe either •■ftbols orivomits, yet it worketh infen- iibly, •'U/^'.'itcleanftth the blood-, and expellech ma¬ lignities’by'Tweat;, To''that mighty-difeafes may be rooted ,out “t.hereby without any -great fenfihle ope¬ ration.''AVhjth many- times hapned unto.me, jand gave me occalibn-to thinly further of dt p .and-thtre* fore 1 fought hbw'to prepare'Antimony-fo,/that it might beufed daily without caul-ing of vomits or ftools, which f put in execution accordingly, and found, it I good, as afterward'fhall-follow. ^ io no;. ! Of the folution above deferibed, 'viz., of the flores of Antimony with tartar Vmake a-good-quantity, I and after the, evaporation of the water diltill a fpi-j l it of it, and’there wijPhlfo comeover-a bkekfoyl,! which muft be^feparated fidrmXheilpirityand soah-j 'fled per/e- • 'and eXternaHy'applV^d itwitflfist b'fiilydbj the fame wot’derful operaAons^ ^Which labove -bavei been afci-ibed to the fmipld fofl-vof tartar, but'i-it| goeth alfo fer' beyohddt, for the bell eflhrice of-An- timony hath joyneddt MfthercUnto-iinttbedilMl- Tiug and fo doubled the verfoefof the Jojll rif Tar¬ tar ; and this oyl may with credit be ufed not on¬ ly for all podagrical tumors to allay them very rea¬ dily, but alfo by reafom of its drynefs it doth con- fume all other tumors in the whole body, whether they be caufed by wind or water: for the vola¬ tile fait by reafon of its fubtlety, conveyeth the vertue of Antimony into the innermoft parts of the body in a marvellous and .incredible way, whereby much good can be performed in Ghyrurgery. As for the fpirit, you may not only ufe it very fuccefsfully, in the Plague, Pox, Scurvy, Melancho¬ lia Bypochondriacay Feavots, and other obftrudlions and corruptions of blood, but alfo if you )put fome of it into new wine or beer, and let it -work with it, the wine or beer comes to be fo vertuous there¬ by , that if it be daily ufed, it doth flay and keep off all difeafes proceeding from fuperfluous humors and corrupted blood, fo that neither Plague, Scur¬ vy, ‘Melancholia BypothQndriaca, or any Other di- feafe of that kind can take root in thole that dai¬ ly ufe it, wherein no metal or mineral (except gold^ can be paralleled with it.: but in cafe you have no eonveniency to make that fpirit, and yet you would willingly have fuoh a medicinal drink made of Antimony, then take but of the,folution made with tartar, before ,it be diili]]ed,j and put tbj. or tb j fs. of it into 18. or 20. gallons of -.new wine of beer, and let it work together, and the vertue of the Antimony,by the fermentation ofithe wine will grow.the more volatile and efficacious to work. And if you cannot have new wine (in regard, that it doth not grow every where) y.ou may -make an artifici¬ al wine of Honey, Sugar, Pears, Bigs, Cherries, or the like fruit, as in the following, third part fliall be taught, which may Hand in Head) of natural Wine. Thefe medicinal wines ferve for a fure .and fafe prefervative, not only (to. prevent many .difeafes,! but ^Ifo'if they have poffelfod the body;already,^effeau+ ally I to oppofe .and. ejapQl-them. Alfo. all external openj fores (which: by daubing and pldiftering could not 1 be remedied; by daily drinking thereof may be .^erfecilly .cured. For not only Ea/iims Valenti- wis, and E'heofhrajhfps /Paracelfus^[bnt (many;raore be¬ fore mid fofter them knew it very.well, and.have yvritten many good things of it, which few dfo en¬ tertain,) and ^becaufp their defeription was;£bme^ what dark; moft defpifed and defamed them for untruthsr. 5 s fn like manner,.;andt much more may this :my vvri'- tingrbe lightly efteemeffof, .becaufed do notfet down long and coftly proceffes., but only. acicording ;to truth, ^ndiin fmipUcicy dojlabour to,ferve niy neigh¬ bour;, which doth notifound well.in the. ears of the proud world, whichnJather-tickle andnlqad Jthemr .ielves ■ with vain and mnprofttable proceffes, than harkeh riiiito the jtrtithr,-land it is noiwonder, that God-3fufiercthTuch men, .which only^look after high things, andidefpifeifmall)things, to,be;held in.Er- ror>2 .j.:-. . .. i ; ; Why do we look to get our Medicines by trou¬ bling our brains, & by fubtle and tedious works,where* as God.'.thfdugh fimpie nature doth, teach us other- wife- Were it not better to letfimple nature inftru(ft us ? fixfwe.'would be in.iove withifmia 11.things, we flianld find^greationes., fBut>becaufeall men do ftrive onlyffod^eat andi high thinags, therefore the fmall al¬ fo. aresh^tlfrom them jiiand: therefore /it would be ■weill vthdtjweilcould fancyithis maxirn.,.’that alfo ;things dfsfmall account'.can . do foraeduDg, as we may$

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