Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ...

CHAP. XV. To cure both sorts of Jaundies.

IN the first place be sure of the Mumie ex∣tracted from the three principall members 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that thereby the whole Mumiall spirit may in some measure be in your power; (for the Jaundies is dispersed through the whole body) let it be implanted into the seed of Line, Nock-weed, Celandine, or into some other that is proper to the Jaundies, let Onysoi (by some called Asselli) or the liquor of them, be given to the Patient; into which they being laid in any vessell in hot water are resolved: Or lastly, the excrements or dung of Geese dissolved in wine, or Juniper-berries; for by meanes of all these that colorated humor is preternaturally voided by the Ʋrine: With this Mumiated urine, water every morning the Magneticall Earth, and the seeds contained in it; Afterward the seeds beginning to grow, the spirit of the Jaundise will be fully transferred into the plant; which with all the Mumiated Earth you may af∣terward cast into a River, or hang it up in a Chimny to be dryed; either of which is to be observed according to the disposition and

constitution of the body, whose health is by his meanes desired; for if the body be ••lethorical (somewhat inclining to a Dropsie) ••e seed is to be hung up in the Smoak; but ••squalid and dry, it must be cast into the water. ••y this Art there is no kind of Jaundies though otherwise incurable) but may here ••d remedy; which may be proved even 〈◊〉〈◊〉 this common experience: It is usuall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 take horses dung, some three or foure clods, ••••on which the patient having made water ••nce before, it is to be tyed in a bladder or ••••nnen cloth, and hung up in a Chimny to ••••y, and afterward cast into the fire: This experience hath oftentimes been found ••ucccessefull in curing the disease afore∣said.

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