SAL
VOLATILE
OLEOSUM
:
That
Great
MEDICINE
.
Ο
Βίοσ
ἥ
δὲ
τέχνη
μακρὴ
,
&c.
says
the
Divine
Hypocrates
,
not
that
Nature
hath
given
us
so
short
a
life
;
but
by
Sin
and
disorder
we
have
made
it
so
.
And
Solomon
the
wisest
of
Men
,
in
his
Exhortations
to
Temperance
,
and
long
life
,
puts
the
question
;
For
why
shouldst
thou
die
before
thy
time
?
And
indeed
the
great
business
of
all
ages
(
both
of
Philosophers
and
Physicians
)
hath
been
to
propagate
Medicine
,
and
Morality
;
Health
of
Body
,
and
tranquility
of
Mind
,
being
the
two
great
hinges
on
which
all
humane
content
is
turned
.
Hence
came
the
answer
of
that
great
Master
of
reason
,
and
pious
Stoick
Seneca
,
who
being
demanded
why
he
took
such
pains
in
his
Study
,
replyed
,
Ut
mentem
sanam
in
Corpore
sano
habeamus
.
Health
being
the
true
Hony-comb
that
sweetens
all
our
worldly
comforts
,
was
well
considered
on
by
Joannes
Panphylomus
,
that
Divine
and
Learned
Hermit
,
the
first
Inventor
of
this
Medicine
,
being
a
hundred
forty
and
seven
years
old
,
when
he
presented
a
Bottle
of
this
red
Liquor
to
the
Emperor
(
having
then
received
extream
Unction
,
being
in
the
Agonie
of
death
,
and
given
over
by
all
his
Physicians
)
with
this
Inscription
,
{αβγδ}
,
for
your
Preservation
Sir
,
and
so
it
proved
.
This
Preservative
of
Nature
,
was
afterwards
(
though
by
what
means
we
know
not
)
attained
,
by
one
Guil
.
Bizalman
,
a
Monk
;
and
either
by
himself
or
some
of
his
Friends
,
Sold
unto
Sir
Theodor
.
My-hearn
a
Smiss
,
and
chief
Physician
to
His
late
Majesty
King
Charles
the
First
,
for
3000
Crowns
at
Sknesburg
,
a
small
Village
in
Germany
,
on
the
Frontiers
of
Bavaria
,
and
was
the
only
Medicine
by
which
he
performed
such
admirable
and
stupendious
Cures
in
this
Kingdom
,
as
at
leaving
this
world
,
he
confessed
to
a
dear
bofome
Friend
of
his
,
who
dying
at
Amsterdam
,
not
by
a
less
strange
than
sudden
accident
,
left
Dr.
Sylvius
,
then
famous
for
his
Bractice
there
,
as
Heir
to
his
Estate
,
and
Successor
to
this
Secret
.
This
Franciscus
De
le
boe
Sylvius
proving
famous
for
his
great
Knowledge
in
Physick
,
and
excellent
Cures
,
was
invited
by
the
States
of
Holland
,
to
be
chief
Professor
of
Medicine
in
the
University
of
Leyden
,
being
for
Learning
and
Eminency
in
his
faculty
,
not
less
beloved
,
than
admired
by
the
world
,
confessed
to
me
,
and
Dr.
J.
his
intimate
friends
,
then
assaulted
by
a
furious
Paroxism
of
the
Gout
:
(
though
soon
eased
)
what
miraculous
Cures
in
the
same
Disease
,
a
certain
Emperick
of
Amsterdam
had
performed
,
by
this
Tincture
,
which
he
bought
privately
,
and
in
great
quantity
from
him
,
the
which
Emperick
I
find
noted
,
by
the
truly
deserving
and
Honourable
Mr.
Robert
Boyle
,
as
you
may
see
Pag
.
76.
and
77.
Part
2.
of
that
most
useful
and
excellent
piece
of
Experimental
Philosophy
,
where
you
may
read
the
Story
at
large
;
But
to
our
purpose
.
Dr.
Sylvius
through
the
goodness
of
Providence
taking
a
kindness
to
me
,
more
than
the
rest
of
Mortals
,
was
Pleased
to
Communicate
this
Secret
,
with
a
juramental
promise
,
never
,
either
to
divulge
this
Secret
without
his
Perssimion
,
or
make
it
Publick
during
his
life
;
neither
have
I
till
now
,
seeing
it
hath
Pleased
God
to
remove
him
,
even
in
the
Crepusculum
and
evening
of
his
age
,
rendring
his
Soul
to
him
that
gave
it
,
and
restoring
the
Elements
their
own
.
And
sooner
had
this
most
excellent
secret
come
to
the
help
of
the
world
,
but
that
the
tedious
,
and
long
Preparations
,
necessary
to
its
Perfection
,
consumes
a
great
deal
of
time
,
besides
,
my
distance
from
England
,
I
being
then
in
the
remotest
Parts
of
Italy
,
when
the
News
of
his
death
was
brought
to
my
Ears
.
I
intend
,
God
willing
,
to
Publish
a
Book
of
the
wonderful
Virtues
,
and
strange
Cures
,
this
Liquor
hath
wrought
,
and
some
of
them
almost
incredible
,
with
the
Persons
Names
and
Places
.
But
the
saying
is
as
true
,
as
old
,
that
where
God
hath
a
Church
,
the
Devil
hath
a
Chappel
;
and
such
hath
been
the
activeness
and
subtlety
of
the
Arch-fiend
to
lead
up
his
most
Hellish
and
best
Disciplin'd
mischiefs
into
the
Van
of
his
destruous
and
wicked
designs
,
bending
all
his
insernal
Machinations
,
to
dispoliate
,
ruine
,
and
undo
,
whatsoever
kind
Nature
,
and
a
kinder
God
hath
produced
for
the
help
of
Man
,
to
restore
the
labifactions
and
breaches
of
battered
Nature
,
one
Emissary
whereof
Dr.
Beton
,
alias
Bethune
,
at
Naishrough
near
the
SPAWS
in
YORKSHIRE
,
whom
he
taught
to
say
after
his
Father
the
Old
Lyar
,
that
he
had
from
Sylvius
this
secret
,
which
before
the
Almighty
,
I
profess
to
be
most
notoriously
false
,
and
since
his
death
set
to
Sale
by
an
Apothecary
there
,
it
being
a
strange
Hodg-podg
with
a
praecipitated
Salt
at
the
bottom
,
and
when
jumbled
,
it
looks
like
an
Emulsion
,
a
spurious
Liquor
,
bad
enough
to
shew
the
poor
Chymistry
of
the
Composer
,
&c.
but
none
digs
after
Pebbles
,
but
Gold
,
and
we
must
expect
what
they
can't
do
by
counterfeit
,
they
'l
endeavour
by
calumny
.
As
among
the
rest
has
lately
,
one
R.
G.
a
man
not
worth
naming
,
only
to
prevent
a
blank
,
and
brought
in
here
to
fill
up
room
,
(
as
Boys
and
Beggars
croud
in
at
Changetime
;
)
whose
confidence
I
rather
blush
at
than
condemn
,
it
being
the
Nature
of
the
Creature
to
do
nothing
else
,
but
what
may
become
a
Nihilo
sciente
.
Read
but
the
Note
of
Directions
to
his
admired
Gallimophry
,
and
you
may
easily
judge
of
his
abilities
,
but
of
him
more
hereafter
,
if
John
Tradeskin
begs
not
his
Brains
,
to
accompany
the
rest
of
his
Nut-shel
Rarities
;
for
the
Ass
that
will
take
on
the
Lyon's
Skin
,
deserves
to
have
his
Ears
par'd
,
for
a
nearer
resemblance
.
Sed
si
haec
non
suffic●at
virgula
,
certius
expecietur
flagellum
.
Scurvy
.
The
Scurvy
(
a
Mortal
Disease
,
killing
not
so
soon
,
yet
as
sure
as
a
Gun
;
and
like
the
Indian
poysons
works
our
ruines
insensibly
)
known
to
all
men
to
be
so
raging
and
mischievous
a
Malady
,
that
very
few
or
none
,
especially
in
our
Parts
of
the
world
,
escapes
the
vengeance
of
its
virulency
;
for
such
is
the
subtle
insinuations
of
this
Evil
,
that
like
the
Febris
Hectica
,
first
hard
to
be
known
,
and
easie
to
be
cured
,
but
at
last
easie
to
be
known
,
and
hard
to
be
cured
;
and
because
many
may
have
it
,
though
not
known
what
it
is
:
I
think
it
necessary
to
acquaint
them
of
some
of
its
chief
Symptoms
,
though
to
number
all
,
would
be
a
Herculian
Labour
;
neither
do
all
of
them
appear
in
one
and
the
same
person
,
some
complaining
of
a
general
indisposition
of
the
whole
Body
,
removing
from
place
to
place
,
with
its
sometimes
wandring
,
and
sometimes
setled
Pains
,
as
doth
the
Arthritis
Vaga
,
or
Running
Gout
.
Others
have
pricking
pains
,
with
heaviness
and
pain
in
the
Head
,
and
especially
after
dinner
,
not
a
few
are
troubled
with
Palpitations
of
the
heart
,
straitness
of
the
Breast
and
Stomach
,
loathing
,
and
a
bad
digestion
,
sometimes
seeming
to
be
very
hungry
,
yet
forthwith
satiated
and
cloyed
,
often
reachings
to
Vomit
,
and
casting
nothing
up
,
but
Phlegm
or
Salt
water
,
longing
after
divers
things
,
and
when
had
,
not
caring
for
it
,
weakness
in
the
Legs
and
Knees
,
with
a
cracking
of
the
Joynts
;
some
Bodies
spotted
,
some
scab'd
and
ulcerated
,
faintness
,
short
breath
,
wasting
of
the
Gums
,
rotting
of
the
Teeth
,
stinking
Breath
,
the
mouth
filling
it self
constantly
with
water
,
and
discharging
it
again
in
continuall
Rhumes
on
the
Breast
and
Lungs
;
being
the
fore-runner
and
certain
cause
of
innumerable
Consumptions
:
Some
Bodies
swell
,
and
are
extended
chiefly
after
meat
,
counterfeiting
the
Dropsie
,
to
which
it
too
often
really
turns
;
as
likewise
to
Convulsions
,
Griping
of
the
Guts
,
Swounings
,
and
in
the
end
Death
,
which
many
times
is
sudden
.
Who
then
but
one
deprived
of
sense
and
reason
,
would
neglect
the
means
of
securing
his
Body
from
such
a
Legion
of
unwelcom
Companions
,
and
fatal
Diseases
,
against
which
Nature
as
a
most
certain
,
safe
,
and
soveraign
Remedy
,
hath
ordained
this
Medicine
,
a
few
drops
in
all
Liquors
that
you
drink
,
and
in
the
morning
from
15
to
twice
its
number
in
a
small
glass
of
fair
water
,
and
by
the
Blessing
of
God
,
you
will
bless
the
time
that
e're
you
saw
this
Paper
.
Debauch
.
12
or
15
drops
taken
in
the
Morning
,
each
hour
,
during
three
hours
,
appeases
all
those
disturbances
of
Body
and
Brain
,
which
the
overnights
excess
had
caused
,
takes
away
thirst
,
and
the
bitter
clamminess
of
the
mouth
,
pleasantly
reducing
the
Stomach
to
its
pristine
temperature
and
proper
office
of
fermentation
;
take
it
either
in
a
glass
of
Rhenish
,
or
White
wine
mixt
with
water
.
Sweet
breath
,
Coughs
,
Consumptions
,
&c.
The
same
Dose
taken
three
or
four
times
in
a
day
,
in
a
spoonful
or
two
of
Angelica
or
Orange
water
,
causeth
a
sweet
breath
to
admiration
,
excitates
the
Sense
of
Smelling
,
though
languishing
and
seemingly
lost
;
preserves
the
Gums
and
Teeth
clean
from
being
either
putrifyed
or
discoloured
,
curing
those
unsavory
fetid
breathings
,
which
arise
from
exulcerated
Lungs
,
which
by
continuance
it
also
effectually
helps
,
together
with
all
Tabes
,
Pthisis
,
and
all
Consumptions
whatever
,
old
and
troublesom
Coughs
,
want
of
sleep
,
and
turbulent
Dreams
.
Stone
and
Gravel
.
Twenty
drops
taken
in
water
of
Saxifrage
,
wild
Time
,
or
which
excels
that
of
Persicaria
,
or
Arsmart
wonderfully
cureth
the
Gravel
in
the
Kidneys
and
Ureters
;
profiting
much
to
the
Stone
in
the
Bladder
,
which
if
not
confirmed
,
it
mouldreth
and
carrieth
off
by
Urine
.
Ill
Airs
,
Youth
and
Beauty
.
From
Contagious
and
ill
Airs
,
't
is
the
true
Prophylaciick
,
preserving
the
Body
in
vigour
and
beauty
,
even
unto
extream
old
Age
,
by
depressing
those
unnatural
fumes
and
heats
which
prey
upon
the
fat
,
appointed
by
Nature
to
fill
up
the
furrows
and
untimely
wrinkles
of
the
Skin
,
which
not
seldom
,
in
youth
,
counterfeit
decrepit
age
.
From
20
to
30
drops
in
a
glass
of
your
own
Urine
,
or
Juice
of
Tansie
and
Rhenish
wine
mix'd
,
killeth
and
destroyeth
all
manner
of
worms
in
Men
,
Women
,
and
Children
,
a
Plague
(
though
too
much
neglected
)
bringing
a
thousand
inconveniences
on
Mortals
,
and
seldom
leaving
them
till
they
leave
the
world
,
except
by
powerful
Medicines
,
for
which
to
amazement
this
hath
been
innumerable
times
proved
.
Evils
of
the
Head
and
Memory
.
All
Dizziness
with
pains
of
the
Head
,
whether
recent
of
inveterate
,
it
availeth
beyond
belief
,
takng
each
morning
about
20
drops
or
more
in
a
glass
of
fair
water
,
cleareth
the
Brain
of
all
dull
and
muddy
fumes
,
helping
the
memory
beyond
all
things
in
Nature
,
the
very
smell
of
it
in
all
fits
and
distempers
of
the
head
,
being
a
soveraign
Remedy
.
Small
Pox
and
Measles
.
In
the
Small
Pox
,
and
Measles
,
a
few
drops
of
it
,
either
in
a
spoonful
of
Carduus
,
or
Butter
bur
water
,
frequently
given
;
defendeth
the
Vitals
,
powerfully
casting
forth
the
Disease
with
wonderful
safety
.
Dropsie
.
The
Dropsie
in
all
its
Species
,
if
taken
any
way
in
time
,
whether
Ascites
,
Tympanites
,
or
Anasarca
,
it
perfectly
cureth
,
the
Dose
being
from
20
to
30
drops
,
in
a
few
spoonfuls
of
Elder
,
Juniper
,
or
Cinamon
water
,
divers
times
reiterated
,
and
some
few
drops
taken
in
all
their
Drink
,
&c.
Melancholy
,
and
its
followers
.
For
all
kinds
of
Hypocondriack
Melancholy
,
Winds
,
Pains
in
the
side
,
Obstructions
of
the
Spleen
and
Liver
,
I
do
confidently
affirm
from
my
heart
that
Nature
hath
never
bestowed
its
fellow
on
Man
,
it
being
taken
continually
each
morning
fasting
,
from
25
to
30
drops
in
a
glass-full
of
good
fair
water
,
and
so
fasting
till
12
a
Clock
.
Women's
Distempers
.
Convulsions
,
fainting
fits
,
the
Green
Sickness
,
and
in
a
word
for
all
Womens
Diseases
,
it
is
so
appropriated
and
certain
relief
,
that
I
intend
to
write
particularly
in
behalf
of
that
Sex
,
what
advantages
some
Ladies
of
my
acquaintance
have
most
miraculously
found
,
as
well
in
the
breeding
as
bearing
of
their
Children
,
it
being
the
true
Anodine
,
and
safe
Curer
of
all
Womb
illnesses
,
adding
a
Spur
to
the
dulness
,
as
well
as
a
Bridle
to
the
freeness
of
their
Monthly
Visits
;
and
indeed
I
do
pity
the
Gentlewomen
of
this
City
,
how
they
are
deluded
and
cheated
by
a
crew
of
half-Chirurgions
,
called
Men-Midwifes
,
Fellows
of
more
Ribbons
than
Brains
,
shunning
the
Company
of
Physicians
and
Learned
Men
,
as
Owls
do
the
light
.
Chilly
Venus
,
want
of
Issue
.
Never
yet
was
a
parallel
unto
this
Medicine
known
,
for
restoring
not
only
vigor
,
but
delectation
to
languishing
Venus
,
and
without
urging
the
least
inconveniency
unto
Nature
,
doth
convoy
Courage
rather
by
cherishing
,
than
by
stimulation
;
as
all
Satyrians
do
.
And
some
hundreds
,
amongst
which
,
not
a
few
of
my
acquaintance
,
that
hath
been
long
wed
and
dispairing
of
ever
having
Issue
,
have
by
the
help
of
this
Medicine
,
been
not
only
safely
restored
to
their
juvenal
imbraces
,
but
blessed
with
a
happy
off-spring
;
the
end
that
God
hath
ordained
them
for
,
being
only
to
warm
the
chillines
of
the
chaste
bed
,
but
not
to
bring
the
Boar
and
the
Goat
into
the
Chamber
,
it
being
an
ill
peice
of
Architecture
to
build
the
Sty
above
stairs
;
a
peccancy
to
modish
,
nought
but
Grace
or
old
Age
being
able
to
stem
the
tide
of
youthful
Torrents
.
Epsom
,
Dullage
,
Tunbridge
,
Ruffum
,
&c.
I
would
advise
those
Ladies
and
Gentlemen
,
who
are
used
to
Drink
the
Spaws
or
purging
Waters
,
whether
Naisbrugh
,
Tunbridge
,
Epsom
,
Dullage
,
or
Ruffum
:
(
which
last
excels
them
all
,
the
Water
though
less
in
quantity
yet
purgeth
more
than
any
of
the
rest
,
being
far
lighter
,
and
doubtless
its
rise
proceeding
from
some
more
noble
mineral
,
bursting
forth
from
a
hard
stony
and
mountainous
Rock
.
In
Cartmel
beyond
the
Sands
in
the
remotest
part
of
Lancashire
:
to
drop
some
drops
of
this
Liquor
into
their
Waters
,
for
it
doth
not
only
take
off
the
Crudities
of
such
Waters
,
but
by
precipitation
quickens
its
passage
through
the
body
,
increasing
its
virtue
some
degrees
;
preventing
nauseatness
and
Vomiting
,
as
by
diverse
Persons
each
year
is
largely
experimented
at
the
Spaw
in
Germany
,
and
likewise
by
some
Persons
of
worth
in
this
Kingdom
who
have
been
furnished
with
it
,
though
at
a
large
rate
from
Dr.
Sylvius
.
A
general
Rule
to
be
observed
in
this
Medicine
in
all
Diseases
.
Now
the
Almighty
God
grant
a
blessing
to
what
hath
been
said
,
I
conclude
with
this
admonishment
,
that
great
temperance
be
used
,
especially
in
all
acute
Diseases
,
and
in
all
Chronick
and
old
distempers
,
let
the
Dose
be
daily
increased
for
3
days
and
then
descend
gradually
for
3
days
again
to
their
first
Dose
,
this
caution
being
observed
,
that
about
an
hour
after
dinner
let
their
Dose
be
doubled
,
and
a
gentle
convenient
Purgation
each
week
administred
to
keep
the
Body
open
;
the
Patient
may
move
any
where
,
keeping
his
Body
no
otherways
than
accustomed
,
for
it
works
not
as
other
Physick
,
forcing
nature
many
times
to
an
extream
,
but
by
gradual
and
gentle
accessions
,
operating
in
our
Body
,
as
the
Sun
on
Fire
,
extinguishing
and
extirpating
without
noise
,
all
those
miseries
,
which
a
debauch
or
corrupt
habite
hath
imposed
upon
poor
Nature
.
The
Dose
is
from
5
to
25
drops
or
more
,
according
to
the
contumacy
of
the
Disease
and
constitution
of
the
Sick
,
which
must
be
continued
and
taken
3
or
4
times
dayly
in
all
distempers
,
and
in
Acute
Diseases
oftner
.
To
be
sold
by
Mr.
Humphrey
Grinsell
Grocer
,
in
Kings-street
,
the
Post-House
,
a
corner
House
very
near
St.
Margarets
Church
,
Westminster
.
Mr.
Thomas
Eldred
Milliner
,
at
the
Golden
Ball
in
Chancery-Lane
,
near
Serjeants-Inn
.
Mr.
Samuel
Gellibrand
at
the
Golden
Ball
in
Paul's
Church-yard
,
Bookseller
.
Mr.
Robert
Boulter
,
at
the
Turks
Head
in
Cornhil
,
over
against
the
Royal-Exchange
,
Bookseller
.
At
these
four
places
,
and
no
other
in
the
world
is
this
Excellent
Medicine
to
be
had
.
Sold
in
2
Ounce
,
and
1
Ounce
Bottles
,
at
10
s
.
the
greater
,
and
5
the
less
;
Sealed
with
a
Coat
of
Arms
,
the
wounded
Heart
Crown'd
.