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 ...

The first manner of Extraction of Mumie: Or, Of the Tincture of the Microcosme.

COrporeall Mumie is to be taken when as the substance adhering to every mem∣ber, (viz.) the liver, lungs, or the whole body, (by which is understood the flesh and bloud) do putrefie during the time of a Philosophicall moneth in a viall Hermetically closed, that it may have (as it were) a mucilaginous form: the Muccago or filthy matter being wrung or drained from it, must be laid in dung to putrefie a Philosophicall moneth, that so it may be reduced into a Spagiricall Embryon; let the water be separated from this Embryon matter in Balneo Mariae, and the aire in Ashes; The water being again powred on the residue, and the signature duly interposited, let it pu∣trefie another moneth in Balneo Mariae; then must the Water and Fire being extracted to∣gether by Ashes, the Water being separated from the Fire through Balneo Mariae, and rectifying the Fire apart by Ashes: This will so separate the Elements (though the aforesaid Embryonian Earth may yet require another purgation) as if they were resolved into their three principles. After which let

that Foeculent and drossie Earth be reverbe∣rated or boiled in a close vessell for four daies; then let the Element of Water be di∣stilled by a Balneall temper, that it may only consume the heterogeneous humidity; the resi∣due is to be perfected by Ashes.

The water that floweth upon the rever∣berated Earth boyling in Ashes, must three or four times by a strong fire be repelled and forced out, so shall it appear more pel∣lucide and clear, and will be rectified with the proper Earth by the same work.

In like manner perfect the Aire upon the Earth by cohobating it to a purity and reaso∣nable sapor.

Then proceeding to the Fire; let that mixed with the Water, be put into a place fit for putrefaction for some few daies, so shal the Empyreuma (or drosse of the Fire) be abstracted from the water by an Arenari∣ous or sandy kind of distillation; then se∣parate again the Water from thence in Balneo Mariae, afterward place it to putrefie for some three daies mixed with the Earth; then distill it by the Sand in a strong fire, and the fire will rise up together with the Sand, which is to be separated from the Water, the fire remaining in the bot∣tome.

Pursue the same Infusion, Distillation, and

Separation from this Element of the Earth, untill nothing of that Fire remain in the bottome; the Water at length being sepa∣rated (after it hath been divided from the clear Fire remaining three dayes) must be abstracted from it throughly by Balneo Ma∣riae; the Fire at last being reduced to the Calor of Ashes; this will sublimate this laborious rectification being of a more weakly operation: For thus by cohoba∣tion the Airy Balsame from the Water and Aire, will be conciliated to the Fire, and the Fiery Balsame by Fire to the Water; so that the last Liquors will be respondent to the two first Principles, Mercury and Sulphur; which afterward being rectified by a circular motion will return into their proper Center, (viz.) the Mercuriall Li∣quor with the Sal, but the Sulphur cir∣culating by its self will passe into its own Center.

The third Principle must be perfected according to the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or operation fol∣lowing, viz. the reverberated Earth bea∣ten upon Marble must be steeped in four times as much of the Water separated in the first distillation by the Balneo, and must again be coagulated by Ashes, and so to be continued untill the Earth shall have throughly sucked up the Fire, (for it will

be sublimated to the likenesse of Snow) so the more impure part, as the Tares sowed in the field of Nature, hindering the juncture of familiarity and concord, shall be wholly relinquished and left re∣jected.

Which earth being refined by sublimation, will truely make the third principle (viz.) Sol, which is the Mater into which the other two (Mercury and Sulphur) are to be perfectly received as the procreating Spermate of Man and Woman, being appointed and approved for a new and admirable increase, containing in it self the Portracture and Nature of the whole World: (I mean of the Tincture ex∣tracted out of the Microcosme) and therefore called by the name of the Microcosme or little World, but rather by the title of the Micro∣cosmicall stone of Philosophers, seeing it a Medi∣cine for all diseases.