The universall medicine: or the virtues of my magneticall or antimoniall cup / [John Evans].

  • John Evans
Date:
1642
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Credit: The universall medicine: or the virtues of my magneticall or antimoniall cup / [John Evans]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    humours that are within the body of man, leaving no impuricy to remain in the fame. : Bafilius Valentinus Afonachus, compareth it to a Ring withouc beginning,without ending , for that his medicinall and naturall virtues are infcrurable and patt finding out. Many are che Medicines that are prepared of this Minerall both againtt inward and outward infirmities, but I freely and willingly difclaim from them all,(efpecially for inward caufes) faving only the Regulus,and what may be conveniently prepared by help of che fame, faying with learned and con{cionable Dancanss,Cetera {Ciens omitto, tangquam pernitiofs medicamenta, Fatroch. Born, pag. 91. Con- tenting my felf with chat, which by authority and te{timony of the learned , and the experiments of my worchy friends , and by com. mon practice and experience fhall be (by Godsgrace ) invincibly confirmed. The firft cornerftone of my building fhall be thatof Dancanus, confirmed alfo by laborius and learned Adilius , Hic Regulus eft femmum auri examen, ac vera omnium foram, & tinu- rarum medicinalium , in Antimonio exiftentinm materia, thatis, this Regulus is the chiefeft examination of gold, and the true fubje& ‘and matter ofall medicinall virtues , contained within the body of Antimony. Tothisagreeth the teftimony of Bufilius V akentinus Monachus, calling it Regulus, five Dominus medicine. Divine Authoriry,Nature,and Experience confirmerh this truth for as life is hid in man, fo inall things whether Animal, Vegitable, or Minerall, itisinvifibly incentred, and {o panually indifcer- nable, that according ro the learned Philofopher Adich. Sengivedi« us Polonus, the living {park is only the 8200. part ofany fubje&, admire then the effectuall power of that {park of life mentioned in the refembled muttard feed , and thisto the underftanding reader, may give fome touch , both for the univerfality, penetration, and perpetuation of this divine medicine. And row having difcovered my AZasieria prima, I will produce fuch workmen for the ereGtion of this little Fabrick » fo well ex- perienced in their profound knowledge, that though by malice and ignorance, they have been often blamed, they could never be {hae sed, nor jaftly reproved , and the firft fhall he thar Orientall Scar of Narurall,Spagiticall,and Magnetical] lighe and knowledge T beopbrafins Paracelfus. Heinthe txth book, T#. De viza longa ae b>?