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 ...

Bezoardicum Joviale, or the Iovial Bezoar.

THis Secret the true and skilful Chymists do with me prepare after this manner. Take Regulus of Antimony three ounces, the best English Tin purified two ounces. Let them be melted together, and afterwards brought into a most fine Powder, then add of sublimate Mer∣cury ten ounces. All which being well mixed and put into a Retort, let them be distilled, and there will appear a white matter, which Artists call Butter of Antimony. Put this into a Cu∣curbit, and draw off all this humidity, and then add to it so much Spirit of Sal Nitre as the Pow∣der, being taken out, shall require in weight, and in Sand distil it dry; then take it out again,

and reduce it into fine Powder, and pour upon it the Liquor before drawn off with an addition of two ounces of fresh Spirit of Sal Nitre, and as before draw it off; take out the white Powder again, and powder it finely, and put it in again with the last Liquor drawn off, and add to it again two ounces more of fresh Spirit of Sal Nitre, and draw it off again the third time. Lastly, take it out again, and reduce it into powder, and lay it upon a smooth board before a hot fire for two or three hours, that it may dry, and afterwards keep it for your use. In this method I did first prepare it in the Year 1610. and found it strong and powerful in ope∣ration.

Virtue, Use, and Dose.

IT is a wonderful Diaphoretick, and a most powerful Secret in all Distempers of the Womb, and in many other Diseases belonging to Women: 'Tis very good in the Plague, Fea∣vers, Seurvy, and all Epidemical Diseases; 'tis a present Remedy against Poyson of any kind that is drunk; also in all Falls where Bezoardick and Sudorifick Medicines are useful. The Dose from three grains to five and six in Treacle-wa∣ter, or in our water of Harts-horn, or in any other convenient Liquor.