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Apothecaries, is equal unto it in Effects, and is oftentimes by Experience found to be better, especially in
the Wolf and Cancer, and in the Noli me tangere. But in ordinary Fistula s, and the Herpes the superior Oyl
effects wonders, which were they not confirmed by Experience, could not be believed, and all which I recite
not, lest someone or other should judge me to do it from Ambition, or that thence I hunt after Fame, which
was never by me either sought or desired; nor at this time, as I can holily affirm, is it aimed at by me.
91. [ANOTHER OIL OF ANTIMONY]
Now I will give you the Preparation of another Oil.
Take Mercury mortified (which is sublimed to clearness and Splendor, and sold by Apothecaries) and
Antimony, of each equal parts. Grind them together, and distil them by such a Retort, as will retain the
Spirits thrice, and afterward rectify this Oil with Spirit of Wine. Then the Operation is absolved, and the Oil
becomes red as Blood; but at first it is White, and like Ice or congealed Butter. This Oil effects wonders in
many Affects, where Nature gave no hope of Amendment, and it always mostly shows its force, virtue,
power, and efficacy, in the perfect Emendation of Evil into Good.
92. By Addition may be prepared another Oil very profitable in external Wounds.
Take of Antimony one part, Sulphur one part, Sal-Armoniack, or Salt of Urine purified half a part, and
Calx-vive two parts. Expel the Oil strongly: whatsoever is sublimted, that grind with the Caput-Mortuum,
and thereon again pour the Oil distilled off, and thrice distil it; then the Oil is prepared.
When old Wounds can in no wise be healed, then use this Oil. For it is strong, potent and penetrative: and
lays a good Ground (even as Oil of Vitriol doth) for future Sanation.
93. [BALSOM OF ANTIMONY, AND OTHER INGREDIENTS]
An admirable Balsom of divers Ingredients (among which is Antimony) very useful in old Wounds is thus
prepared.
Take of Sulphur, four ounces, set it over a moderate Fire to melt, and put into it half a pound of Mercury,
and stir the Mixture so long together, as until both become one Mass. [CINNABAR, HOW MADE] This
Mass grind to Powder (for it is made as Cinnabar is wont to be prepared) then grind with it four ounces of
Antimony, of red Arsenick four ounces, of Crocus Martis two ounces and of Powder of Tiles eight ounces.
Put all these into a Glass Cucurbit, and sublime them, as such things are wont to be sublimed; [RUBIES OF
ANTIMONY] and in this Sublimation you will have Rubies in Colour not inferiour to the Oriental, but tehy
are not fixed; for they are volatile, and fly from the Fire. Let the Artificer separate these Rubies from the
Cinnabar, which ascends in the Sublimation, grind them to Powder and extract them with strong Vinegar.
This being done, let him abstract the Vinegar leisurely in B.M. and a Powder will remain; this Powder grind
small as before, and having put it into another glass, extract its Tincture with Spirit of Wine, and separate
the remaining Feces. This Extraction with Spirit of Wine digest in B.M. well closed for one Month. Then
abstract the Spirit of Wine, as you abstracted the Vinegar, and put the remaining Powder into a flat Glass
Dish, and set that dish in a Cellar into a Pail full of Water, that it may Swim upon the Water, as a Boat. So
doing, the Powder which is in the Glass will in a few days resolve it self into a clear nad perlucid Liquor.
This Liquor is salutary in old open Wounds, and is a vulnerary Balsom in like Accidents, if put into them,
and they covered round with a common Stiptick Plaister. In diuturnal open Wounds, it leaves no man
destitute of help, although such, as in the Cure of which all otehr Remedies have been tried in vain. Of open
Ulcers, which have their Original from within, I speak not here; for they cannot perfectly be healed without
internal Remedies, [ROOTS OF DISEASES MINDED BY FEW] which dry up all Fluxions, and radically
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extirpate the Disease: although at this time few are found, who bend their thoughts this way, or take any
Course to touch the Root itself of those Diseases, of which I now treat.
94. If Men would in their Minds well consider the Calamities of Life, into which the Fall of our first Parents
precipited us, and seriously weigh that Original Sin, and the great troop of Evills thence issuing, viz: of
Sadness, Anguish, Diseases and Miseries, they certainly would spend their time better, and employ more
labour to search out the health of their neighbours, so strictly commended to them by the Supreme Ruler of
Heaven, and by him commanded as their proper Duty. [SUCH AS SHUN LABOUR DO NOT WHAT
THEY OUGHT] But how many (with grief be it spoken!) shunning labour, consume their time unprofitably,
and do not what was to be done by them, but what they formerly have done, and still ahve a lust to do, being
afraid to do so much, as will soil their Fingers Ends; as if they did envy the Tradesman, who perhaps gets a
small Gain by selling Soap, which they would not willingly buy, to wash their delicate hands. Are not all we
miserable Mortals, that live here, Strangers in the Earth, possessing nothing, that we can call ours?
[GOODS OF GOD LENT, ONLY FOR TIME OF LIFE] Are not all Things we here use, the Goods of our
Lord, lent to us, whilst we live and no longer? Therefore we ought so to behave our selves in using them,
taht supported with a good Conscience we may be able to stand in that Day, in which an Account is to be
given for them; and be not for our Ingratitude cast into Prison, and utter Darkness where shall be weeping
and gnashing Teeth. If this were the Meditation, and this the Intention of every Man, he would be like a
Monster, if he should think of admitting Sin in himself, or of neglecting his Office; and all Men would, with
a certain Emulation strive to pleasure their Neighbours, with the Gifts received from GOD. But these things
are remote from the thoughts of the World, and Wordly Men; Money, Money, is the Scope of all their
Intentions; this the Potent seek directly or indirectly, and for this the Poor are subservient to them, that they
also may participate of the Mamon of Iniquity.
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