Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...

The Calcination and Preparation of Harts-horn, Elks hoofs, Mans Skull, &c. Spagyrically or without Fire.

THis Calcination is effectually performed in a Bladder by continual boiling or digesting in

fair water, by which vapor the Horn hanging in the neck of the Bladder, in which place it may be best wrought and penetrated, by a pleasant and wonder∣ful manner is calcined to a perfect whiteness, without those violent flames which otherwise consume its vir∣tues (as is used to be done in the vulgar Calcination) but let the fourth part of the Bladder be empty: And if in boiling the water should consume, pour on more scalding hot, and this do until this fumigatory Cal∣cination (for whatsoever is calcined by this method, is not undeservedly said to be calcined by Suffumiga∣tion) be absolutely finished.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. Harts-horn thus prepared, is equal to the Unicorns horn in its Diaphoretick force; for it is profitable in all affects of the Heart, and wonderfully excellent in all kind of Poison. More∣over it is very effectual in the yellow Jaundice, Dy∣senteries, pains of the Guts, voiding of blood either upwards or downwards, pains in the Bladder, Fluxes of blood in Women, &c. The Elks hoof also of the same Preparation is of great efficacy, being a noble Cordial in malignant Feavers, and a Secret in many other diseases, likewise mans Skull wonderfully cures the Epilepsie, Apoplexy, Vertigo, &c. The Dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in some appro∣priate Vehicle.