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1. IF nevertheless your confidence is so unically fixed on the Virtues of Steel, against opiniatre Obstructions, let your choice be determined in the Salphur of Steel, being a preparation in point of ef∣ficacy and security, over-topping all the rest; but withal let me re∣commend these 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bene's to your
consideration, 1. That Steel in its best shape is the greatest Enemy to some particular Constitutions. 2. That tincture of Tartar is a Medi∣cine universally agreeing with all Temperaments, where resera∣ting Oppilations is the indication. 3. That the want of Success of this Medicine, and others of the great∣est efficacy, is to be attributed to the underdosing of it, in the quan∣tity of six, eight, or ten drops, whereas I seldom give less than half a spoonful, and sometimes more, diluted with a sufficient mea∣sure of a temperate Vehicle, in the imitation of which you shall seldom or never miss of your aim, or be frustrated of your Exspe∣ctance. 4. That the common Tin∣cture of Tartar is an exaltation of the Sulphur of Spirits of Wine re∣ctified, through the adurent par∣ticles of a most forcibly calci∣nated Salt of Tartar, imbibing but very little of the Salin parti∣cles, through want of phleme in
the Spirit. 5. That the Preparati∣on next subscribed, being partly a Tincture, and partly a Solution of Salt of Tartar, is virtuated with an abstersif quality, derived from lixivial, slippery, or soapy parti∣cles of the Salt, whereby it's ren∣der'd a most excelling deobstruent, and ought to be preferred before the other, by as much, as it is of a far easier preparation, that may be finish'd with less toil, and in shorter time, which processes I have ever aimed at upon all other materials, well knowing, that la∣borious and multiplied changes of the form of things by distillation, sublimation, calcination, and other various fiery tortures, doth very oft destroy the nature of the thing, intended to be thereby exalted in Vertues, or corrected in Qualities. 2. Take two or three Ounces of well calcin'd Salt of Tartar, pour on it as much good Cognack Bran∣dy, or spirit of Wine not rectified, as will over-cover it six ••••ngers
breadth, digest it four days in Sand, in a bolt-head, to a yellow Tin∣cture, then decant it, this is all; hereof give a Spoonful, and some∣times more in an apt Vehicle, Mornings and Evenings. 3. The nauseous tast of the Salt, though by this simple is much abated, yet is not entirely taken off, which may be easily performed in the Calcination of the Salt; but it doth somewhat impoverish its Vertue. By such a clean sort of Medicine joyn'd with an Equipollent, can be attained in a very short interval of Time, what can scarce be per∣formed by half yard long Apozems of the opening Roots, capillar Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Spi∣ces, and Syrups, as disgustful, as ineffectual, laborious, and charge∣able, prescribed more for Pomp, than Use, by the famed T-rd-Doctors.