A vindication of chymistry, and chymical medicines Courteous and candid reader, chymistry, is an art that doth both teach and inable us (for our exceeding good and benefit) to seperate purity from impurity; ...
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A vindication of chymistry, and chymical medicines Courteous and candid reader, chymistry, is an art that doth both teach and inable us (for our exceeding good and benefit) to seperate purity from impurity; ...
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A
VINDICATION
OF
CHYMISTRY
,
AND
Chymical
Medicines
.
Courteous
and
Candid
Reader
,
CHYMISTRY
,
is
an
ART
that
doth
both
teach
and
inable
us
(
for
our
exceeding
good
and
benefit
)
to
seperate
Purity
from
Impurity
;
Exalt
and
advance
what
God
and
Nature
hath
given
us
,
to
a
farther
and
higher
Perfection
than
we
receive
it
indewed
with
.
For
all
Bodyes
,
more
or
less
,
partake
of
the
Grossness
and
Terrestriety
of
their
Matrixes
:
But
after
their
essential
purities
are
seperated
from
that
Terrestriety
adhering
,
which
they
drew
from
their
Matrixes
,
they
make
it
plain
enough
by
their
powerful
effects
,
that
it
is
to
this
state
they
ought
to
be
reduced
,
before
they
work
with
Efficacy
;
and
yet
they
still
retain
their
Character
and
Internal
Idea
.
Now
if
we
shall
well
and
truly
consider
it
;
what
have
we
in
this
curious
Nice
Age
,
either
for
Back
or
Belly
,
Pleasure
or
Necessity
,
that
hath
not
in
some
kind
or
other
been
oblidged
to
Chymistry
,
and
its
beneficial
Operations
,
for
that
perfection
we
receive
it
in
?
What
Calling
may
be
said
to
have
attained
to
the
perfection
and
hight
it
now
Glories
in
,
without
its
help
in
some
one
or
other
of
its
(
more
sublime
or
trivial
Operation
.
Consider
our
Bread
our
Beer
,
Wine
,
Meat
,
&c.
Or
whatever
can
render
our
lives
happy
or
satisfactory
:
And
you
will
find
it
in
one
degree
or
other
to
pass
under
the
hand
of
Chymistry
,
and
its
various
Operations
,
or
Preparations
.
And
can
we
then
be
thus
Insensibly
led
to
admit
its
dayly
help
and
assistance
in
things
of
smallest
value
;
and
can
we
be
so
stupid
,
dull
,
ignorant
and
blind
,
as
to
neglect
its
assistance
in
things
of
greater
moment
and
concern
?
And
not
only
neglect
its
friendly
advice
,
but
deny
its
profitable
hand
in
those
things
,
which
above
all
others
we
most
need
its
help
in
?
Nay
,
we
do
not
only
deny
it
makes
us
happy
;
but
we
seek
by
all
means
possible
to
disgrace
,
slander
,
and
make
it
(
and
its
Professors
)
contemptible
and
odious
to
the
whole
world
.
Doubtless
these
are
great
follies
,
and
we
declare
our selves
either
very
ignorant
,
or
else
very
Malitious
and
self-ended
.
Can
we
with
ease
and
content
,
admit
and
allow
its
favours
,
(
and
greedily
seek
after
them
)
to
improve
and
maintain
our
Purses
and
Pleasure
,
and
cannot
we
admit
and
embrace
its
help
for
the
preservation
of
our
Health
;
without
which
the
other
will
be
of
little
benefit
,
and
less
pleasure
?
Consider
,
if
Nature
be
weakned
and
oppressed
,
that
she
cannot
accept
of
her
usual
and
accostomed
Food
;
so
as
she
would
,
and
ought
to
dispose
of
it
for
the
supply
of
her
Spirits
,
and
maintaining
of
her
Habitation
;
and
if
she
cannot
in
her
ordinary
course
,
so
play
the
Chymist
,
as
usual
:
Doubtless
,
she
is
less
able
to
do
it
,
in
that
which
the
very
name
,
as
well
as
the
nature
of
it
,
makes
her
utterly
to
abhor
,
and
reject
;
and
if
she
be
not
strong
enough
to
seperate
the
Essenses
of
her
dayly
and
accustomed
Food
,
how
shall
she
Extract
any
thing
from
her
Physick
(
if
given
gross
)
that
may
give
her
that
rerelief
,
which
her
present
condition
requires
and
calls
for
?
She
[
viz.
Nature
]
hath
a
double
work
to
perform
:
First
,
to
Extract
the
Essential
part
(
and
to
make
use
of
it
)
and
secondly
to
cast
off
the
Gross
as
an
enemy
.
It
would
doubtless
,
therefore
(
in
this
ease
)
be
far
better
to
save
her
the
labour
of
seperation
in
this
her
weakned
condition
:
For
although
Nature
her self
when
in
health
,
can
digest
her
Food
(
when
Dressed
)
and
seperate
the
Alimental
parts
to
her self
,
(
and
make
use
of
it
for
Sustentation
)
and
cast
off
the
Gross
as
useless
:
Yet
her
Medicines
must
be
Pure
,
Digested
and
seperated
,
and
fited
for
her
use
:
for
if
she
cannot
Digest
her
Food
,
then
not
Gross
Medicines
;
her
Food
when
in
health
may
be
Gross
,
because
she
can
dispose
of
it
to
advantage
;
but
when
Diseased
,
her
Physick
must
be
pure
,
seperated
and
fit
for
her
use
,
viz.
To
Joyn
with
the
Spirit
,
or
Natural
life
in
man.
And
in
this
the
Physician
is
rightly
stiled
,
Natures
Handmaid
;
but
not
for
loading
her
with
more
Impurities
,
but
in
assistng
and
helping
her
to
cast
off
Impurities
,
by
that
which
is
Pure
.
For
of
Necessity
,
either
the
Physician
or
Nature
must
officiate
,
or
act
as
Chymist
,
before
she
can
have
,
or
receive
what
she
calls
for
,
and
requires
for
her
help
and
assistance
.
Who
therefore
not
drowned
in
Ignorance
and
Envy
,
would
so
strongly
oppose
so
great
a
Good
as
Chymistry
is
Author
of
?
For
this
is
the
only
Art
(
which
by
supplying
us
out
of
the
light
of
Nature
,
with
Convenient
means
and
particular
Natures
to
seperate
the
pure
from
the
impure
)
will
teach
us
:
First
,
to
heal
all
Diseases
of
the
Macrocosmical
substances
,
and
afterwards
by
examples
and
experiments
deduced
from
those
exteriour
Cures
,
will
shew
us
the
right
and
infallible
Cure
of
Diseases
in
our
own
Bodies
.
He
that
knows
not
how
to
purge
and
heal
Metals
,
how
can
he
restore
the
decay'd
,
or
weakned
Radical
Balsom
in
Man
,
and
repair
it
by
Comfortable
and
Concordant
Medicines
,
to
perform
perfectly
all
its
appointed
functions
;
which
must
necessarily
be
put
into
action
,
before
any
Disease
can
be
expelled
:
He
that
knew
not
what
that
is
in
♁
,
which
purges
Gold
,
how
can
be
come
by
an
effectual
and
Wholsome
Medicine
that
will
purge
and
cast
out
those
Extrarious
peccant
causes
that
afflict
and
destroy
the
Body
of
Man
?
He
that
knows
not
how
to
fix
Arsenick
,
or
to
take
away
the
Corrosive
nature
of
a
Sublimate
,
or
to
Coagulate
Sulphureons
Spirits
;
and
by
a
convenient
Specifical
Medium
to
break
and
dissolve
Stones
in
the
greater
World
,
will
never
in
the
body
of
man
allay
and
tame
the
Arsenical
Spirits
of
the
Microcosmic
Salt
,
nor
take
away
the
Venimous
indispositions
of
Sulphur
,
nor
dissolve
the
Stone
in
the
Bladder
,
and
drive
it
out
being
dissolved
.
Now
as
the
Antient
Phylosophers
;
who
knew
Nature
indeed
,
obtained
their
noble
Medicines
by
the
strict
and
exact
observation
of
Nature
in
her
own
path
;
how
that
kind
was
multiplied
by
kind
,
and
without
putrifaction
there
could
be
no
Generation
:
And
as
they
found
excellent
Medicines
,
by
doing
all
things
in
the
Metallick
Kingdom
according
to
the
possibility
of
Nature
:
So
if
you
would
have
a
Medicine
indeed
,
although
inferiour
to
theirs
,
whether
of
the
Mineral
,
Animal
,
or
vegetable
kingdom
,
you
must
proceed
in
the
same
method
;
for
as
kind
is
multiplyed
by
kind
,
and
not
without
putrefaction
;
so
if
you
will
exalt
any
concrete
to
make
it
a
friendly
Medicine
,
it
must
be
in
Natures
path
;
Kind
with
kind
,
and
that
by
putrifaction
.
For
the
absolute
things
requisite
to
one
that
would
conscionably
undertake
the
Sick
;
are
first
to
know
how
to
unlock
those
Medicinal
Bodies
which
the
Almighty
hath
created
,
and
how
to
prepare
them
,
and
when
,
and
to
whom
to
apply
them
;
and
also
how
to
order
and
dispose
the
Patient
,
so
as
that
he
may
reap
that
good
from
them
,
which
by
carefull
administration
of
them
is
expected
.
And
thus
will
a
little
quantity
of
such
a
well
prepared
Medicine
,
manifest
it self
in
the
powerful
operating
and
friendly
assisting
of
Nature
,
to
cast
off
her
Enemies
(
viz.
Diseases
)
with
speed
and
safety
.
But
on
the
contrary
,
how
loathsome
is
the
very
name
of
(
gross
and
ill
prepared
Physick
unto
debilitated
Nature
!
And
what
's
the
reason
?
Doubtless
,
the
hard
task
she
hath
had
put
upon
her
by
it
,
and
even
when
she
is
least
able
to
perform
it
,
and
hath
more
need
of
succour
,
than
of
a
farther
trouble
.
Alas
,
how
shall
she
receive
so
great
a
portion
of
loathsom
Medicines
,
being
weak
when
even
in
the
greatest
of
her
strength
she
would
(
not
only
)
be
troubled
to
take
(
but
also
at
the
sight
of
)
it
!
and
this
from
a
secret
sense
and
antipathy
,
her
natural
life
or
spirit
hath
against
its
nausceating
,
and
dull
Quality
,
as
well
as
the
greatness
of
its
Quantity
.
Then
certainly
Nature
hath
no
greater
help
,
nor
better
remedy
,
then
that
true
and
friendly
Spagerick
Art
or
seperater
of
the
Impure
,
from
the
Pure
and
Medicinal
part
,
that
so
renders
it
apt
,
and
fit
,
for
her
more
easie
and
friendly
Reception
.
Why
then
should
any
so
Obstinately
oppose
so
clear
a
truth
,
and
so
great
a
Good
as
this
Excellent
Art
of
Chymistry
,
in
the
preparation
of
Medicines
(
if
compared
with
the
other
gross
,
sluggish
and
ineffectual
foundation
of
Physick
)
or
why
do
the
Galenists
cry
out
against
others
in
things
they
understand
not
?
Or
why
do
they
Envy
us
,
and
speak
against
our
Art
,
(
by
which
we
prepare
Pure
and
harmless
Medicines
)
and
yet
make
use
of
those
unnatural
Chymical
Medicines
,
prepared
by
the
power
of
violent
corrosive
Fires
,
Destructive
to
Nature
.
Our
way
of
preparing
vegetable
specificks
,
is
by
friendly
Dissolvents
as
are
in
themselves
agreeable
to
the
Nature
of
the
thing
acted
upon
,
so
that
in
seperation
the
whole
Essence
of
the
Concrete
is
preserved
both
volatile
and
fixed
,
in
Odour
,
Taste
and
Collour
,
and
the
Drossy
gross
part
cast
away
.
I
say
why
do
they
make
use
of
Oyl
of
Vitrial
Salt
Brimstone
,
and
that
dangerous
Vomit
♀
Vitae
prepared
of
that
high
Exalted
Poyson
,
viz.
Oyle
,
or
Butter
of
♁
also
why
do
they
use
,
Crocus
Metallorum
,
prepared
Steel
,
Crocus
Martis
,
Flos
Sulph
.
Lapis
Infernalis
,
☿
Dulcis
(
falsly
so
called
)
Sacharum
♄
,
Tarbith
Minerals
(
that
hellish
fluxing
Preparation
of
Mercury
)
with
many
other
of
those
churlish
unnatural
℞
in
the
London
Dispensatory
:
Also
why
do
they
use
Chymical
Oyls
,
and
Salts
of
Herbs
,
Seeds
,
Berries
,
Spices
,
Barke
,
Woods
,
Wax
,
Rozins
,
Minerals
and
Stones
▪
with
their
Compound
and
simple
Distilled
Waters
,
all
unnaturally
seperated
from
their
other
parts
,
or
principles
,
as
their
late
learned
unlearned
W.
calls
them
.
Doth
Nature
use
these
Fires
in
producting
these
Natural
subjects
they
thus
work
upon
?
(
No
)
Neither
must
her
Children
in
their
Art
of
Melioration
.
She
uses
Fire
't
is
true
,
but
't
is
her
own
,
and
it
is
she
that
furnishes
the
true
Son
of
Art
with
his
Fire
,
which
is
Gentle.
Does
she
seperate
the
Salt
Sulphur
and
Mercury
,
(
in
her
Acts
of
Generation
)
and
afterwards
joyn
them
again
.
No
,
she
Ferments
,
Putrifies
,
Digests
,
Vivifies
and
performs
all
her
work
and
acts
of
Generation
,
with
one
only
Fire
which
Varies
the
Species
according
to
the
Matrix
,
&c.
What
can
you
Gentlemen
say
for
your selves
,
that
have
followed
the
subtile
Doctrine
of
the
Athenians
,
rather
then
the
plain
path
of
Nature
,
but
do
you
glory
in
the
Art
of
your
Masters
.
We
will
rejoyce
in
the
works
of
our
Tutress
Nature
,
whose
Excellency
will
appear
as
well
by
reason
,
as
dayly
Experience
.
Consider
,
what
is
it
that
gives
Eminency
and
Perfection
,
to
any
one
thing
we
esteem
as
Excellent
;
we
shall
find
that
it
is
the
Purity
of
it
,
and
that
either
in
the
Animal
,
Vegetable
,
or
Mineral
Nature
:
If
we
consider
then
what
we
are
speaking
of
,
viz.
Medicines
prepared
Chymically
;
we
must
also
conclude
its
Efficacy
and
Excellency
to
proceed
from
its
Purity
,
or
Purified
Nature
.
Let
us
(
I
say
)
consider
what
it
is
for
,
it
is
to
help
and
restore
decayed
Nature
and
her
languishing
Spirit
.
Now
this
Spirit
is
the
most
subtile
part
of
Man
(
I
mean
not
the
Rational
Soul
)
therefore
no
way
to
be
assisted
,
but
by
that
which
is
of
Purity
and
likeness
with
it
(
viz.
Medicines
of
a
subtile
penetrating
Nature
.
)
The
Consideration
of
Nature
will
tell
you
,
what
her
Medicines
ought
to
be
,
and
a
true
consideration
of
such
Medicines
,
will
teach
and
tell
you
,
what
Nature
is
,
so
that
the
quality
of
the
one
will
inform
you
what
the
Nature
and
Essence
of
the
other
ought
to
be
;
for
the
Physician
must
(
if
he
will
Cure
a
Disease
)
Administer
his
Medicines
to
the
Spirit
,
because
the
Spirit
is
the
sole
Dispencer
of
Guifts
to
all
the
parts
and
faculties
of
the
body
;
now
as
to
the
Quality
of
the
Midicines
you
ought
to
use
for
Natures
relief
,
and
assistance
,
is
,
that
they
ought
to
be
of
most
subtile
and
thin
parts
.
Therein
lyes
the
excellency
of
Chymical
Medicines
,
above
others
,
this
Art
being
able
to
Exalt
the
most
dull
and
inactive
Medicines
,
to
the
greatest
of
subtility
,
and
far
beyond
what
nature
presents
them
to
us
in
.
Nor
doth
it
thus
Exalt
their
Purity
and
Efficacy
,
as
to
Cure
all
Diseases
both
inward
and
outward
only
,
but
Renders
the
Medicine
it self
Incorruptible
also
:
whilst
the
best
of
Galenical
(
Mixtures
)
will
hardly
keep
a
year
.
How
then
should
these
poor
Dirty
,
Drossy
Medlies
,
answer
those
great
Ends
they
Administer
them
for
?
And
how
shall
they
root
out
inveterate
,
fixed
and
Chronick
Diseases
?
How
shall
they
purifie
the
Impure
,
or
help
the
Infirm
,
who
are
not
Cured
of
their
own
Crude
,
corrupt
and
infirm
condition
?
If
any
shall
here
object
,
that
the
Galenick
Medicines
are
safe
and
the
Chymical
quickly
Cure
,
or
quickly
Kill
:
Let
such
objecters
know
,
that
they
grant
,
and
add
more
to
the
praise
of
Chymistry
and
Chymical
Medicines
then
they
are
aware
of
;
for
nothing
can
quickly
Cure
but
what
is
Efficacious
,
and
fitted
for
so
great
a
good
,
which
nothing
can
be
,
that
is
not
in
some
measure
pure
and
like
unto
the
nature
it
shall
so
assist
.
Herein
do
they
unawares
affirm
the
Excellency
of
such
Medicines
:
and
then
to
those
that
suggest
,
they
as
suddainly
Kill
,
I
must
thus
answer
them
,
that
they
cannot
Kill
,
if
administred
by
skilful
Operators
(
as
those
must
be
that
know
their
true
preparation
)
for
as
Fire
will
warm
at
a
fit
distance
;
yet
if
any
man
shall
(
to
warm
another
)
apply
a
red
hot
Iron
to
his
flesh
,
it
will
burn
him
▪
So
water
will
wash
a
man
clean
,
(
if
dirtied
)
and
he
therefore
unadvisedly
leap
into
a
deep
Well
,
he
may
be
Drowned
.
Wine
will
cheer
the
heart
,
if
moderately
taken
,
yet
many
by
excess
have
Killed
themselves
;
but
this
cannot
be
attributed
to
the
dangerous
,
or
Killing
quality
of
the
Wine
,
as
Wine
.
So
these
Medicines
we
know
,
use
and
extoll
,
if
administred
,
or
taken
by
Pints
,
may
destroy
Life
:
But
if
taken
by
Drops
,
Drams
,
or
Spoonfulls
,
in
their
Vehicles
,
they
Enliven
and
help
nature
to
Conquer
her
Enemies
,
viz.
Diseases
.
When
other
Gross
,
Sluggish
and
ill
prepared
Nauseating
Mixtures
,
serve
only
to
stuff
up
the
body
(
already
too
much
obstructed
)
with
such
quantities
,
which
rather
hinder
then
further
her
own
operation
,
and
also
to
rob
Nature
of
that
praise
due
to
her
(
and
the
Author
ofher
)
when
she
hath
overcome
,
both
the
evil
of
the
Disease
,
and
such
Medicines
.
Now
having
briefly
(
and
I
hope
to
the
satisfaction
of
every
unbyased
and
candid
Reader
)
vindicated
Chymistry
,
and
true
Chymical
Medicines
;
I
shall
also
with
the
like
brevity
,
give
the
Reader
an
account
of
some
Excellent
Useful
Chymical
Medicines
prepared
by
me
;
which
may
be
of
great
benefit
to
all
Honest
Physicians
,
Chyrurgions
,
Apothecaries
,
Midwives
,
and
others
who
design
good
,
and
desire
to
be
serviceable
to
their
Generation
.
A
Catalogue
of
Chymical
Medicines
prepared
by
Richard
Fletcher
,
Living
at
the
Sun
in
Gutter-lane
near
Cheap-side
London
.
Essence
of
Southernwood
,
resists
Poyson
,
kills
Worms
,
provokes
Urine
,
strengthens
the
Stomack
,
and
Cures
Surfets
.
Essence
of
Wormwood
doth
the
same
.
Essence
of
Agrimony
,
helps
infirmities
of
the
Liver
,
Pissing
of
Blood
,
and
Inward
Wounds
.
Essence
of
M.
Mallows
,
easeth
pains
of
the
Store
.
Essence
of
Marjoram
,
Cures
Diseases
of
the
Brain
.
Essence
of
Angelica
,
resists
Poyson
,
cheers
the
Heart
.
Essence
of
Dill
and
Fenel
,
Breeds
Milk
,
stays
Vomiting
.
Essence
of
Magwort
,
appropriated
to
Women
;
as
also
,
is
Essence
of
Arrach
,
Germander
,
and
Peneroyal
.
Essence
of
Betony
,
Dissolves
the
Stone
.
Essence
of
Briony
,
Cures
Dropsies
,
and
Falling-sickness
:
so
doth
Dwarf
Elder
.
Essence
of
Centaury
,
Cures
the
Yellow
Jaundice
;
the
same
doth
Succory
and
Endive
.
Essence
of
Comfry
,
and
Clery
,
Strengthens
Weak
Backs
.
Essence
of
Couslip-flowers
,
Cures
Palsies
.
Essence
of
Arsmart
,
is
wonderful
in
the
Stone
.
Essence
of
of
Hysop
,
Cures
Coughs
and
Soar-throats
.
Essence
of
St.
Johns
Wort
,
Cures
all
Cureable
Wounds
,
both
Inward
and
Outward
to
Admiration
.
Essence
of
Lavender
,
Cures
Falling-sickness
,
and
easeth
all
Pains
in
the
Head
,
Cures
Deafness
.
Essence
of
Laurel
and
Bay-Berries
,
Cures
Diseases
of
the
Womb
and
Bladder
,
Expels
Wind
,
Cures
Plurisies
.
Essence
of
Featherfew
,
is
a
singular
Womb
Remedy
.
Essence
of
Melilot
,
a
wonderful
friendly
Dissolver
of
the
Stone
,
and
Cleanser
of
the
Reins
and
Bladder
.
Essence
of
Bame
,
Mints
,
and
Rosemary
,
are
wonderful
renovating
Medicines
.
Essence
of
Tobacco
,
is
excellent
to
Cure
old
Soars
.
Essence
of
Rue
and
Savin
,
Kills
Worms
,
Cures
Pleurisies
,
Expels
Birth
,
and
After-birth
.
Essence
of
Sage
,
is
an
excellent
Medicine
for
Women
to
help
them
to
go
out
their
full
time
.
Also
Essence
of
Tansie
is
the
same
.
Essence
of
Colts-Foot
,
Cures
Coughs
,
Shortness
of
Breath
.
Essence
of
Scurvy-Grass
,
Horse-Redish
,
Water-Cresses
,
and
Broom
,
Cures
the
Scurvy
and
Dropsie
.
Essence
of
Chamomel
,
Cures
Pleurisies
and
Stone
.
Essence
of
Saffron
,
powerfully
corrects
and
expels
Poyson
,
Cures
Feavers
,
Consumptions
,
and
drives
out
all
offensive
matter
by
Sweat
and
Urine
;
and
is
excellent
in
the
Small-pox
,
Measles
,
and
all
Pestilential
Diseases
,
and
is
a
very
great
Cordial
.
The
same
is
Essence
of
Clove-Gilliflowers
.
Essence
of
Elder-flowers
,
Cures
Dropsies
,
the
Stone
,
and
opens
Obstructions
of
the
Liver
,
Spleen
and
Womb.
Essence
of
Walnuts
,
kills
Worms
,
resists
the
Pestilence
,
Cures
Convulsions
.
Essence
of
Nutmegs
,
Cloves
,
Mace
,
and
Cinamon
,
Strengthens
the
Brain
.
Essence
of
Barberries
,
Quench
Thirst.
Essence
of
Corriander
,
Gramwell
,
Cardamom-seeds
,
kills
Worms
,
expels
Wind
,
provokes
Urine
.
Essence
of
Benjamin
,
and
Stirax
,
helps
Coughs
,
Hoarseness
and
want
of
Voice
,
and
clears
the
Skin
.
Essence
of
Pearl
,
Coral
,
Amber
,
and
Amber-grees
,
are
wonderful
Restoratives
;
and
Cures
all
Diseases
incident
in
Women
.
Antiscorbutick
Powder
and
Essence
.
Antivenerial
Powder
and
Essence
.
Stone
Dissolving
Powder
and
Essence
.
A
Powder
which
causes
Speedy
Delivery
in
VVomen
,
a
VVomb
Essence
.
These
Excellent
Specificks
,
are
all
prepared
by
proper
Dissolvents
,
by
which
the
Volatile
and
fixed
parts
are
presverved
with
their
Odour
,
Tincture
and
Colour
,
so
that
what
Nature
is
best
pleased
with
,
is
here
fitted
for
her
reception
,
that
she
may
dispose
of
them
,
for
those
great
uses
and
ends
they
were
designed
,
&c.
Reader
,
I
have
not
given
you
a
full
relation
of
the
uses
and
Vertues
of
those
before
mentioned
Essences
.
Therefore
I
add
this
;
Whatever
is
,
or
may
be
attributed
to
any
Vegetable
,
the
same
and
more
may
be
attributed
to
the
Essence
of
that
Vegetable
,
for
by
how
much
it
is
exalted
in
Purity
;
by
so
much
it
ecceeds
in
Vertue
and
Excellency
.
And
as
these
noble
Remedies
are
Purer
,
(
then
the
other
common
Gross
Mixtures
,
which
are
usually
given
in
great
quantities
)
so
must
their
Dose
,
viz.
5.
10.
15.
or
20
Drops
in
VVine
,
Beer
,
Ale
,
Sider
.
Tee
,
Coffee
,
or
Broth
,
3
or
4
times
a
day
,
that
the
active
penetrating
subtile
parts
of
the
Medicine
,
may
expel
the
Evil
,
Obnoxious
Diseasy
Matter
,
and
so
restore
decayed
strength
,
and
bring
Nature
again
into
her
true
Path
,
by
which
she
may
preserve
the
whole
man
in
health
.
Thus
having
hinted
unto
you
the
Excellencies
of
true
prepared
Vegetable
Essences
,
and
their
safety
above
others
:
I
shall
also
speak
a
little
to
Mineral
Preparation
,
and
so
conclude
the
first
part
.
Mineral
Medicines
have
a
more
universal
tendency
then
Vegetables
,
they
being
higher
graduated
in
Nature
,
and
more
fixed
,
and
more
locked
up
,
and
harder
to
come
at
,
for
prudent
Nature
hath
put
Bolts
and
Bars
upon
her
best
Jewels
,
and
hath
made
strong
Fences
about
them
lest
strangers
should
espay
them
,
and
steal
them
away
,
and
make
an
ill
use
of
them
,
and
cry
they
are
ours
,
and
Nature
shall
obey
us
,
she
is
our
servant
,
and
we
will
do
what
we
please
with
her
.
Therefore
she
keeps
the
Keys
of
her
Treasuries
her self
,
but
she
will
vouchsafe
to
lend
them
to
such
of
her
Children
as
are
willing
to
be
instructed
by
her
,
and
will
promise
alwayes
to
walk
in
her
path
,
and
perform
whatever
she
commands
;
I
say
,
such
a
one
,
and
no
other
,
will
she
fet
into
her
Chambers
of
Beauty
and
Riches
,
but
he
that
hath
her
Keys
,
which
are
friendly
Adjuncts
,
may
open
Mineral
bodyes
,
and
extract
that
solar
tincture
,
which
she
hath
planted
in
them
;
for
it
is
this
solar
Tincture
,
which
is
so
amicable
to
Nature
;
and
Cures
the
most
Radicated
Diseases
,
by
Enlightning
and
Enlivening
the
natural
spirit
,
by
which
Nature
comes
both
to
see
her
Errours
,
and
amend
her
Wayes
;
being
thus
enabled
,
not
only
to
cast
off
all
offending
Matter
formed
in
the
body
,
but
also
changing
those
Venoms
,
the
cause
of
such
Matter●
,
and
wiping
off
the
Character
of
the
same
.
And
such
a
Medicine
as
this
,
is
my
well
known
and
often
tryed
Powder
,
called
the
Eagle
of
Metals
:
As
also
my
little
Powder
viz.
the
Solar
Dove
,
with
which
Medicines
I
have
Cured
many
Diseases
,
accounted
by
the
Proud
Persecuting
Colledge
Incurable
,
as
hundreds
can
witness
(
for
me
)
in
this
City
that
I
have
Cured
for
Nothing
;
when
they
had
Spent
all
they
had
to
satisfie
the
unreasonable
demands
of
those
Physitians
they
then
had
made
use
of
(
by
whom
they
were
rendered
more
miserable
then
before
)
A
further
account
of
which
I
shall
give
you
in
my
Bock
of
Cures
,
which
God
willing
will
speedily
be
Printed
.
Now
having
attained
to
the
Knowledge
and
Preparation
of
such
Medicines
;
is
it
not
good
reason
I
should
have
the
liberty
to
use
them
(
without
Molestation
)
for
the
good
of
the
Poor
,
and
the
Glory
of
God
,
the
giver
of
every
good
and
perfect
Guift
,
to
whom
be
Glory
,
Amen
.
VVhatever
I
administer
to
another
,
I
dare
be
oblidged
to
take
the
same
Dose
every
day
for
a
year
,
to
prove
the
safety
of
my
Medicines
,
and
let
every
Physician
do
the
like
,
if
he
dare
trust
to
the
safety
of
his
,
&c.
POSTSCRIPT
To
the
READER
.
Courteous
Reader
,
SUch
is
the
Envy
,
Ignorance
and
Clandestine
Art
,
and
Subtile
practice
of
many
of
the
Professors
of
Physick
,
Apothecaries
,
Chyrurgions
and
others
of
their
friends
and
fond
lovers
of
the
blind
Galenical
Tribe
,
to
instill
into
the
minds
of
men
a
more
then
ordinary
prejudice
against
Chymistry
,
and
the
Professors
thereof
:
Exclaiming
against
the
Art
(
because
they
understand
it
not
)
and
branding
the
Artists
with
such
marks
of
Infamy
,
(
as
if
right
took
place
)
they
themselves
ought
to
bear
;
and
only
because
they
are
Painfull
,
Studious
and
Industrious
men
,
who
labour
in
the
field
of
Medicine
with
admirable
Success
:
Hence
it
is
,
that
they
persecute
us
,
and
consulting
with
Demetrius
,
find
cause
thus
to
reason
.
If
this
Sect
prevail
,
our
Craft
by
which
we
get
our
VVealth
,
will
come
to
nothing
;
here
lyes
the
stress
of
the
matter
:
VVealth
is
that
which
they
seek
;
and
the
Health
of
the
Sick
is
sought
by
Chymical
Physicians
.
Thus
Friendly
Reader
have
I
in
brief
stated
the
difference
between
a
Mercenary
Doctor
,
and
a
true
Son
of
Art
;
that
people
may
no
longer
mistake
Shadows
for
Substances
,
and
through
that
errour
may
no
longer
be
rendered
willing
to
be
deceived
.
I
was
willing
to
sustain
this
Labour
and
Charge
;
not
in
the
least
doubting
,
but
that
these
Lines
(
if
read
without
prejudice
)
may
be
of
good
effect
to
clear
the
understandings
of
most
men
:
So
,
as
henceforth
they
will
be
able
better
to
judge
of
the
common
practice
of
Galenical
Physicians
,
and
consequently
for
the
future
be
less
prejudiced
against
Chymical
Practicioners
,
then
heretofore
they
have
been
,
&c.
I
intend
(
God
willing
)
hereafter
to
publish
more
small
Peices
of
the
same
Subject
.
From
my
house
at
the
Sun
in
Gutter-lane
near
Cheap-side
London
,
Octob.
29.
1676.
FINIS
.