Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature.: Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.

CHAP. VI. Against the Stone and Sand in the Reins.

THe Money against the Stone, consists of 4 Metals: to wit, of Gold, Silver, Tynne, and Lead: As followeth.

℞ of Gold, ʒ iii. of Silver, ʒ iii. of Tynne, ʒ i. of Lead, ʒ i. ss.

Let all these Metals be melted together in a new Melting-pot for Gold, on Saturday at 10 of the Clock before noon, ☽ increasing; which be∣ing melted, cast in Saltpeter mixed with Tartar, for this cause only, to make them the more tractable, and easie to be molten and wrought upon. Afterwards, let them be poured out and cast into the form of a Lamen, and let it be cut, and polished, and filed in the hour of ♂ and day of ♀; but as yet, let nothing be engraven there∣on. Also, the Ring is not to be forged, that it come not into the fire any more after the mel∣ting, but is to be formed with a File: wherefore the Lamen is to be poured out, and cast the larger and broader, that the Ring and Lamen may be both one piece. And if it can be, let the La∣men be so poured out after the melting, that by the mixture of divers Metals, especially of the Lead and Tynne, the brittle matter may evade;

and the substance remain hard, that it may not be wrought with the Hammer, nor cut with Scis∣sers. This being done, then look for the Moon; and in the point of the New Moon, then begin the Sculpture: and make haste, that one side of the Lamen may be finished in that hour, which is marked with the Letter A. Afterwards, let this Money be safely kept until some day of ♃, when ☽ is in Aspect with some good Planet, as ♃, ♀, or ☿; then let the Words and Characters be engra∣ven on the other-side, marked with B, in the hour of ☿, as you see them in the following Figure. Then let the Lamen be hanged about the Neck of the Patient that hath the Stone, when the Moon is decreased, on the day and hour of ☽. The Ring ought to be made of Iron, to which the La∣men is hanged. Let the Patient also drink Wine every morning, wherein the said Seal hath been steeped all night, and afterwards hang it about his Neck again. This doth wonderfully expel the Stone, and Sand or Gravel out of the Reins; for which thing also Spirit of Roman Vitriol is good to drink.

[illustration] lamen etchings

For the Stone in the Reins.