Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals,: containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos.

HALOLOGIA. Of Salts.

A.

Alum. Alumen.

• P. In Spain, Aegypt, Macedonia, Africa, & Germany.
• M. The roch is of the salt of a mineral saturnine earth, having an acid spirit and earthly caustick salt.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Ruspeum. glaciale. Arab. Sceb. Chym. ☉.

ALum. Schrod. K. as the roche, plumose, cleaving, saccharine, and catine. T. it dryeth, bindeth, and incrassats. V. when crude it's chiefely used outwardly, especially in the quinsey; and laxate uvula, putrefaction of the gums, and oedematose tu∣mours of the feet, &c. inwardly it's used by empiricks against agues: and some use it in dysenteries, and in stead of a suppositorie. if bur∣ned, it consumes excrescencies in wounds, and resists putrefaction, &c. The sweet spirit of Alum, used inwardly is duretick, expels the stone, opens obstructions of the spleen, and helpeth the heat in agues: outwardly, it cures diseases of the mouth, sc. inflammations, and the aphthae &c. the D. is g. 4 or 5. in wine, or some other conveni∣ent liquour. The phlegma mundifieth wounds, and bindeth, &c. The magisterie, or magisteriate spirit of Alum, is an excellent styptick, equall to the essence of iron, bole, or sperniol &c. almost. The su∣g••r helps disseases of the breast, especially arising from the vapors of minerals. at helps the toothach, applied to the gums: the D. is gr. 5. to 8. The extract or magistery provokes sweat, helps the scurvy; it being taken once or twice a week, and tertian agues taken severall times before the fit. the D. is g. 8. to 20. Caes. aluminous waters doe mightily bind, strengthen the stomach weakened by vomiting, stop fluxes of the womb, prevent abortion, help ulcers of the mouth, blad∣der, and inflammations of the gums, as a gargarisme, as also distilla∣tions:

so the bath thereof, and helps all exulcerated outward parts, especially if troubled with defluxions. it helps spitting of bloud, blee∣ding at the fundament, and superfluous sweating; but both waies hurts those that are obstructed and feaverish. The alum helps ulcers of the mouth, privities and eyes. The saccharine cleareth and whitens the face. Plin. Alum helps the itch, bleeding, dropsie, kibes, phagedens, burnings, and leprosy, &c. Alum. Caes. maketh black, helps roughnesse of the eyes, and the epiphora burnt, after evulsion. with vineger it mollifieth the haire. with fat it helps fluxions of bloud, ulcers of in∣fants and putrifying ulcers, and vices of the eares with the juyce of pine apples, also roughnesse of the nailes, hard cicatrices, nits, & the dysentery. Diosc. it purgeth, cleareth the eyes, helps moist gums, ulcers of the mouth, aphthae, distillations of the eares, scurfe, lice, smell of the arme holes, and bringeth out the foetus. Fernel, it consumeth dead flesh and helps putrifying ulcers. Cardan Roch alum pre∣serveth wine. The plumose causeth itching: Agric. it serveth to pre∣pare for colouring and hardeneth iron, with atrament: and makes it yellow.

Amoniack. Ammoniacum.

• P. It is to be had at Venice, and Antwerp. &c.
• M. Of sand, salt of soute, common, or gemine, &c.
• N. Sal solare. Mercurialis philos. Aquila C. Chym.

{sal armoniac}. ARmoniack. T. is diaphoretick. V. Schrod. it's used in Agues, espe∣cially the quartain, and resists putrefaction, &c. the D is scrup. sem. outwardly it consumeth the putrid flesh in gangreens. in gar∣garismes it helps the quinsey; hereof also barbers make their C••ru∣lious water to take away the albuginous distemper of the eye. The flowers of salt armoniack, are better than the Chrystal, and therefore used in quartans: also they perfectly cure crudities of the stomach, being drunk for certaine daies, in wormwood wine or the decoction of sassafras, with sweating after it: the D. is g. 3. to sorup. sem. and more: so Hartm. in pract. Tentzel. Exeg. if calcined it serveth to make a liquor. Rhenan. Chymiotech. The spirit is diaphoretick, incisive, and diu∣retick: the D. is gr. 3. That of Helvic. Dieter. being powred upon metallick solutions made with water, and then abstracted by an alem∣bick

transports other corrosive waters along with it. The same also is good in quartans, obstructions, and breaketh the stone: the D. is g. 3. to 10. outwardly being mixed with the spirit of wine, and anoin∣ted severall times on a gouty al••eing place with a feather, it doth mi∣raculously appease the paine, especially if a little camphire be dis∣solved therein. So Senn. Inst. Hart. in prax. Tentzel. The acid spirit of S. Closs. is very subtile and piercing by reason of the mixture of the volatil salt of urine; therefore is very diaphoretick, and helps the col∣lick. the D. is 6. 7. or 8. drops in wine. The fugacious spirit; it good in ma∣ny diseases especially those of the head, as the epilepsie, apoplexie, deafe∣nesse, and those of the womb; as retention of the menses, and difficultie of conception, being applied. Bras. Caes. it serveth to make supposito∣ries of, for derivation in difficult diseases, and is of an unpleasant taste.

C.

Common Salt. Sal communis.

• P. It is made in England, as at Witch, &c.
• M. Of a salt water inspissat by the evaporation of the humidity.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Melich. Melha. optimum aroma. Basil.

COmmon Salt. Schrod. K. as the marine, and fountaine. T. it war∣meth, dryeth, abstergeth, dissolves, purges, gently binds, con∣sumes superfluities, penetrats, digests, opens, and incideth, pro∣voketh venus, and resists putrefaction and poyson: therefore it ser∣veth inwardly in crudities of the stomach, appetite lost, obstructions of the belly, and urine and collick, &c. outwardly it serveth in the mundifying of putrified and creeping ulcers, in the discussing of sim∣ple and pestilentiall tumors, in extracting the fire in combustions, in the itch and drying up of the scab, in bruises, and resolution, and discussion of extravasate bloud, in the paine of the teeth, head, collick, arthritick paine, &c. and consumeth the skinne growing over the corner of the eye. The spirit of common Salt, is diuretick and lithontriptick, and strongly resolves a tartareous mucilage; and may therefore be given profitably in obstructions of the liver, and spleen, &c. & in the dropsie and jaundise. it wonderfully quenches thirst, and corrodeth without paine whatsoever is corrupted in wounds

or other affections mixed with the oile of turpentine, wax, camo∣mile, mullein, &c. it ••aseth the paine of the gout, and discusseth hard swellings, &c. also it cureth shrinking of the joints, and blasting. Untz. Agric. The compounded spirit of salt, is very good in the drop∣sie, given both inwardly and used outwardly: also it helpeth fi∣stulous wounds. The corallate spirit is good in affections of the heart, as the palpitation thereof, &c. the D. is scrup. sem. Hartm. in pract. Senn. in Inst. Tentzel. Gluckr. The sweet spirit, may be taken with white sugar in the forme of an electuary, every day fasting, and is a very good preservative in the plague, for it resisteth all putrefaction, and preserveth the stomach and other intrals in a good disposition. That of Agricola besides this, yeelds a good men∣struum, for to draw out all tinctures, and cureth the carnose hernia, being thrice applied every day, and taken morning and evening, the D. is x. drops. Hartm. in Crol. Tentzel. Ʋntz. The compound sweet spirit, doth so quench thirst, that by the use thereof for some certaine time, the drouth of the hydropick is quenched, also it helps the jaundise, and powerfully expels wormes. outwardly it helps the gout being cautelously applied, yea whatsoever is contained in Paracelsus or moderne authors, concerning the oile or spirit of salt, is chiefely to be ascribed unto this: the D. is g. 6. to scrup. sem. in wine or some other liquor. S. Closs. G. Horst. The diuretick spirit of vitriolated salt, is to be given in the morning with broth of the decoction of stone parsly. S. Closs. The essentiall spirit is said to draw a tincture of gold without dilaceration of the body: also it stops vomiting in a mo∣ment, and that indifferently and in all diseases▪ the D. is 3 drops in some syrup, broth or wine. The sweet chrystall of salt, or coagu∣lated spirit thereof is sudorifick, and no lesse quencheth the thirst of the hydropicall, than the compound sweet spirit, and helpeth the essentiall humidity exhausted; also it strengthneth the stomach, and other bowels, and powerfully discusseth malignity in the pestilence, and pestilentiall feavers: the D. is gr. 5. to 20. The flowers of salt, are of various use, to incide thick phlegme, and to recover corrupt humours from putrefaction. The sweet Christals being mixed in a due proportion with their oile; or by themselves a part, dissolve and are a true menstruum of Sol. augmenting and exacuating its proper∣ties, and vitall and vegetating virtues. The tincture of sa••t is an ex∣cellent sudorifick and diuretick remedie, it incideth tartareous muci∣lages, resists all kind of putrefaction, and therefore strengthneth the naturall balsame, and so is to be used chiefely in the plague, fe∣vers, dropsie, stone by wasting it, obstructions of the liver and spleen,

&c. also it cleanseth the bloud, and so helps the itch, and arthritrick paines, &c. the D. is scrup. 1. to drach. 1. Caes. Diosc. Matth. salt. is mix∣ed in things that smooth the skinne, with oile it helps lassitude, and intercutaneous water. it helps ringwormes, and the leprosie. with honey vineger and oyle it helps the quinsey, the tonsills with honey, and moist gums with barley flower. it helps S. Anthonies fire ap∣plied with vinegar, or hyssop. it easeth paine being applied hot in a bag. Caes. the salt waters, purge phlegme, dissolve bloud, extenuate, help the dropsie, hurt the stomach corrode the intrals, and cause the itch. in clysters they cut phlegme, purge it, and paines thereby: in baths it helps the dropsie, cold griefe and moist heavinesse of the head, and paines of the eares, and bruised salt helps against the bitings of serpents. Salt. Caes. extenuates, represseth, and helps the stingings of insects with fa••; in water it troubles the stomach. Plin. it dryeth and bindeth the body, and causeth appetite, with calves fat it helps ulcers and pustules of the head. it helps swellings of the gums, and rough∣nesse of the tongue, it preserveth the teeth, it helps the itch, with wine it looseneth the belly. it helps kibes and warts: the jaundise, dropsies, and luxations with meale and honey. Midwives use it to young children, to make their bodies dry, and more firme, and lesse tender.

G.

Gemme Salt. Sal Gemmae.

• P. It is to be had in Hungary, in abundance.
• M. It's a kind of common salt found in quarrios.
• N. Sal fossile, Gemmeum, Indum, Chym. ♉.

GEmme Salt. T. it hath the same vertue with common salt, and may be substituted thereunto; yet it's more seldome used in the practice of Physick: oftner in Chymistry, excelling the common salt in the solution of mettals, yet it's commended peculiarly by the experience of Forrest, to loosen hard excrements, and to ease collick griefes, used inwardly and outwardly. The balsame or liquour of Sal gemme is a great arcanum in ruptures, being used inwardly and out∣wardly: the D. is 3. 4. or 5 drops. Caes. it is a great consumer of thick humours.

N.

Nitre. Nitrum.

• P. It is to be had in Nitria, a region of Egypt.
• M. It's sulphurious, bitterish, and out of a fat earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Cerberus Chym. infernalis. Sulphureus. Hermes. Anatron.

NItre. Diosc. T. it hath the strength and heat of salt, so its spume. V. it brings forth humours, that stick in the belly, and easeth the paine thereof; if pounded and drunk with cummin seed, in hydromel, sapes, or other things which may discusse inflations, as rue, or anet. It's used outwardly in intermitting feavers, before the comming of the fit. It's mixed in plaisters which draw and discusse, extenuate and cleanse the leprosie. being infused in hot water or wine, it cureth inflations, purulent eares and soundings of the same, and purgeth forth filth being dropped in with vineger. with the fat of an asse or hogge, it cureth the bitings of doggs. Being mixed with turpentine it opens fellons. applied with sigs it helps the dropsie. with hony it cleares the eyes, and helps the poyson of toad-stooles drunk in posca; or of buprestes biting in water, or with laser∣wort against buls bloud drunk, and may be used outwardly in pinings. it helps the more remisse opisthotonos and luxations, in cerots. with bread it helps the resolution of the tongue. C. the best is the red, or white, light and spongious. Schrod. T. some count it hot, others cold. V. it resists putrefaction, and quenches thirst, it incideth a tartarious fulnesse, resolveth coagulated bloud, and easeth paine (which is chiefely attributed to the lapis prunellae.) it's used commonly both inwardly and outwardly. Inwardly it's dissolved in liquours, and chiefely in spring water, drach. 1. or drach. 1. sem. being added to a pint there∣of, and is so given in burning putrid feavers, especially the Hunga∣rick, in the pleuresie, peripneumonie, stone of the reines and bladder, and obstructions of the liver, and mesaraeum. if the belly be too loose or stomach weak, the use thereof will not be so convenient. Outwardly it's commonly used in the inflammations of the jawes and quinsey, being dissolved in gargarismes. It's to be applied with lint in anodyne, and refrigerating topicks, being dissolved in some appro∣priate liquour, so in combustions. the D. is the same with that of lapis prunellae, which is of the same vertue, or more effectuall. scrup. 4.

being dissolved in a pint of water, for to drink in feavers, yet it a little weakens the stomach, and some times causeth fluxes, otherwise it may be taken from drach. sem. to drach. 1. without hurt, especially taken with sugar which mitigates its bitternesse, so Senn. Inst. Begu. Querc. Pharm. rest. and alexicc. The other fixed nitre makes mettals mal∣liable. Wirtz. the mineral saccharate chrystall is an arcanum in the haemorrhage of wounds. The perlate nitre is an excellent cordiall, and mitigates the heat in feavers. The corallate nitre is of the same use with the former, in feavers, and restauration of the strength. The saturnisate nitre helps the asthma: the D. is g. 6. or 7. in some con∣venient water. The chrystall of nitre or the fortified dragon of S. Closs. expelleth tarrareous matter, and provoketh sweat, the stoole and u∣rine. the D. is scrup. 1. in an appropriate water. The Terra foliata of nitre S. Closs. opens obstructions of the mesenterie and spleen, and gently purgeth with the extract of rhubarb and Senne, to increase their vertue: the D. is drach. sem. with the aperitive rootes. Langel. The vitriolate nitre, sweet salt Hols. panacaea duplicata, or duplicate arcanum, hath been often tried in melancholick affections, feavers continuall and intermitting, the stone, and scurvie, &c. also it provokes sleep, especially in the melancholick: the D. is scrup. 1. or 2. it's called arcanum duplicatum by Mynsicht. The chalybeat cachectick salt hereof, as also of that of Holsatia is excellent in the decay of appe∣tite, cachexie, feavers, nephritick passion, catarrhes, scurvie, french pocks, contractions, palsey, and wheresoever there is need of the emen∣dation of bloud, it povokes sleep, and serveth for many other purposes; therefore for the most part, it doth this by insensible transpiration, and sometimes by sweat without trouble, in some it gently causeth vomit, but seldome: in others it gently openeth the belly: the D. is g. 6. to scrup. 1. in some appropriate liquour. Langel. The flowers of nitre are good in a tertian feaver or ague, and other inquietudes. The spirit of nitre represseth and quencheth the effervescencie of the spirit of the microcosmick salt, by discussing and resolving the ma∣lignant, crude, nitrose, and tartareous vapours: it openeth the bow∣els, infringeth preternaturall hea••, and causeth sweat: therefore it's of excellent use in the collick, pleurisie, prunel, and feavers especially the maligne: the D. is scrup. 1. to scrup. ij. &c. it may be used both inwardly and outwardly, sc. in gargarismes, &c. in the collick it's mixed q. an. with the spirit of wine, to make a mixture, scrup. ij. or drach. 1. which may be taken in a draught of spring water: also it may be anointed on the navil with the oile of nutmeg and a little civet. The bezoardick spirit, is a fit menstruum for the solution

and volatisation of Sol. The common aqua fortis dissolveth Luna and Venus. The aqua regia, stygia, chrysulca Basilii; dissolveth Gold, and transports it selfe with it through the alembick. So Basil. •••• Clav. Tentzel. The tincture of nitre, is an excellent corroborative and diaphoretick remedie Caes. Nitrous waters, being drunk, trouble the belly, make women fruitfull and asswage tumours: the baths there∣of helpe the cache••ie by phlegme, vices of the nerves, catarrhes, and have the same vertue as the salt, but more effectuall; yet they do not bind, but cleanse; therefore they help the skinne, and scab; also being dropped in, they help purulent eares, soundings thereof, and discusse tumours. Agric. Nitre dryeth digesteth and cleanseth, its spume is stron∣ger, which is light, soft and purplish. Fallop. Niter attenuateth, cleanseth the womb, and causeth sneezing. Plin: it causeth sweat. being anointed with oile, it helps ulcers: applied with figs it helps cicatrices of the eyes, and roughnesse of the cheeks: with wine and pepper it helps the toothach, kils nits, and helps singings of the cares, fellons, venemous bitings, & paines of the belly. Plin. it heateth, ex∣tenuates, bites, chickens, drieth, and exulcerates, and is usefull to evocate, and discusse, &c. with green oile it stops sweating with dry iris, with honey it cleareth the eyes, if burned and used in a dentifrice it whitens the teeth, with the earth of Samos and oile it killeth nits: with wine it helps purulent eares, and cleanseth them with vineger. with fullers earth, an. and vineger it helps the viti∣ligines. with rosin it helps fellons. it helps the inflammations of the testicles, and eruptions of phlegme in the whole body with axunge. it helps the bitings of serpents, phagedens, and ulcers with lime and vineger. drach. 1. being decoct with rue, anet, or cumin, and drunk, discusseth the tormina; anointed with oile and vineger it helps las∣situde, and it helps against honours, rubbed on the hands or feet with oile. taken with vineger it helps chollerick itch, with hony and cows milk it helps ulcers in the face, tosted, till black and stam∣ped it helps burnings, it helps the paines of the belly, reines, and nerves, with ptisan it helps shortnesse of breath, and the cough with galbanum, and turpentine, with tarre in helps the quinsey, taken, the flower with cyprine oile helps paines of the joints, drunk in wine it helps the jaundise, and discusseth inflations, the vapour taken in hot water helps bleeding at the nose. with alum it helps the itch. with water it helps the stinck of the arme-holes. with wax it helps pituitous ulcers and the nerves: it helps the collick taken, with oile it helps the leprosie: applied, in baths it helps the podagrick and a trophy. Gal, burned it drieth and digesteth; and taken, is stronger

than salt, and betwixt it and aphronitrum, Agric. which is strongest, S. Hieron. Nitre it sprinkled with vineger groweth hot, and it crackles in the water.

V.

Vitriol. Vitriolum.

• P. It is to be found neere mettals, especially Copper.
• M. Of a minerall salt, or humour corroding pyrites.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Calcantum. Alcalcadis. Atramentum sui.

VIttiol. Schrod. K. as the caeruleous, greenish, and white. T. hea∣teth, drieth, mightily bindeth, constipats, causeth vomiting, and killeth wormes. V. used outwardly, as an errhine, it causeth sneezing. C. the best is the greenish, and of that, that which participates more of copper than iron, which rubbed on a knife, colours it red; avoi∣ding the subceruleous, pale, aquose, and that which moistens the hands when touched. Que. in Tetr. vitriol is of so excellent use, that Paracelsus counts it the third part in naturals, and Phoedro So in Physick, yea almost the whole shop. Diosc. it causeth crusts, and killeth broad wormes in the belly, drach. 1. being taken alone or in honey, taken in water it re∣sists the poyson of toad-stooles, the same purgeth the head, being in∣jected into the nostrils. The white emetick or vomitive vitriol, causeth vomiting gently, and worketh well in feavers, distempers of the stomack, catarrhes, plague, and the epilepsie; also it killeth wormes, &c. the D. is scrup. 1. to drach. 1. in wine, broth, or some other liquor. Croll. Begu. the water of centorie doth mightily promote its emetick vertue. The rest of the Gillae also provoke vomiting. Sala. Gluck••. in Begu. The Hermetick purging vitriol, evacuates by vomit and stoole, and is an excellent remedie in pestilentiall feavers: the D. is gr. 20 to 31. or more in liquor, or an appropriate water. The Co∣agulum of vitriol of S. Closs. purgeth and is not so emetick: the D. is drach. sem. to drach. 1. in feavers intermitting, and to purge out melancholy. When defecated, it serveth for many preparations. The nitrate salt of vitriol of S. Closs. helps the cachexie, dropsie, stone, suffocation of the matrice, and stoppage of the menses: the D. is scrup. 1. to drach. 1. Sala. The ros of vitriol, helps hot paines of

the head, adustion of the bloud, and strengthens the bowels: the D. is drach. ij. being continued certain dayes. Sala, The second wa∣ter of vitriol, purgeth the reines, easeth internall corrosions and pro∣voketh urine and sweat. being a little heated, it helpeth the inflam∣mation of corroding wounds or sores. it asswageth and mitigates the griefe, and helps towards consolidation, one or two drops of the oile of tartar, being put in; that it may be more biting, it helps the dry itch, and makes the flesh more solid. Hartm. in Croll. The acid phlegme of vitriol, is an arcanum against paine of the head, and the epilepsie. The volatil spirit of vitriol, being mixed with raine water is very penetrating, and useth to work most effectually in the hun∣garick feaver, and others that are burning. Hartm. in Croll. Senn. Inst. Tentzel. it cureth the epilepsie. That of Glauber, with the sweet oile, opens mightily the liver and spleen. it helps burning feavers: the D. is scrup. 1. in a draught of beer, also it sixeth Mercurie. The spirit of vitriol distilled after the common manner is diuretick, dia∣phoretick, inciding, attenuating; and resisteth putrefaction, &c. so is usefull in burning feavers, obstruction of the liver, spleen, and mesenterie; it helps decayed appetites, &c. also mixed with wine, or some other liquour it helps the toothach being applied to the gums, so the tinea of the head, and other kinds of the scab and itch, being mixed with the water of celandine: the D. is g. 3. to scrup. 1. in some li∣quour, or so much as may cause a pleasant acidity. Tentzel. Kest. the sweet spirit of vitriol, or sweet oile thereof, helps the stone, and tartareous diseases, and catarrhes, &c. the D. is scrup. 1. in some con∣venient liquour. Hartm. in Croll. Kest. The philosophick spirit of vitriol called Cohob antimonii, is of greater vertue, than that made after the common manner, it cureth feavers, and mitigateth the french disease, it opens the spleen and meseraicks. it comforts the weak stomach, and when stuffed with thick phlegme. it's very effectuall in hypochondriacall melancholy, the epilepsie, and all affe∣ctions of the head, thereby may the•• tincture of minerals be drawn forth, and pearle and corall be dissolved, the same also be∣ing acuated by the spirit of common salt dissolveth gold: the D. is g. 3. to 8. in a small draught of wine, or other convenient liquour. Tentzel. The tartarised spirit of vitriol, or liquor Di••nae, is very good to cause sweat, in all inward obstructions, against clotted bloud, and itch, and to cleanse and smooth the skinne: the D. is drach. 1. to unc. sem. w••th broth, or a little sack, being continued three mornings together: Senn. Inst. The spirit or opening water of P••∣notus, is of excellent use in obstructions of the liver, spleen, and

mesentery, the D. is scrup. t. to drach. iij. in wine or some other fit li∣quour: So Hartm. in pract. it's also called Muffets antihydropicum, being excellent against the dropsie, the cause of which, it ex∣pels by urine and siege, even the spirit before alcalised: one spoon∣full being given fasting; every one or two houres, in a convenient water: So Horning. in Cist. med. Med. dest. The mellisate spirit of vitriol, asswageth the paine of the gout: and if there be inflamma∣tions, it's to be mixed with vineger, else with wine. Sala, The diaphoretick spirit purifieth the bloud, and cures the itch, and scabs; it opens obstructions, provoketh sweat in the plague, poyson, dropsie, jaundise, and contractions, &c. Also it's very good in cleansing the lungs: the D. is scrup. 1. to drach. sem. and the use thereof may be continued according to pleasure, without danger. The antepilep∣tick spirit of Hartman for children, cureth them effectually of the falling sicknesse: so also the oile, made of the salt of urine, dissolved in the spirit of vitriol, and distilled through sand. Tentzel. The antepileptick spirit of Basil, doth not only cure the falling sicknesse, but is also good against the stone: the D. is scrup. 1. in peony or fennell water, &c. The antepileptick spirit of Quercetan, called the green spirit of vitriol, in his Tetras, is most penetrating: the D. is 15, or 16 drops. The antepileptick spirit of Paracelsus, may be given in and before the paroxisme: the D. is scrup. sem. with some con∣venient liquour. See Querc. in Tetr. The sweet oile of vitriol, is an excellent diaphoretick, and gently bindeth; the D. is 1, 2, or 3 drops. Gluckr. The red oile, is used more about mettals, than me∣dicine, yet it may also be given inwardly, see the spirit of Penot, be∣fore. That of calcined vitriol distilled with Lytharge, helpeth the gout. That of the earth of vitriol. D. is given from 6 to 10 drops, and is very usefull in diseases of the head. Tentz. 15. or 20 drops thereof, as some observe, cause vomiting. The oile of the sulphur of vitriol, is good, but more effectuall in the same affections, in which the sulphur of vitriol is used. Sala, The cupreous substance of vi∣triol, helpeth putrid wounds, also it incarnates, and cicatrizeth. Hartm. in Croll. Sala, Tentzel. Kest. The sweet sulphur or brimstone of vitriol, helpeth affections of the lungs, cleanseth putrid wounds or ulcers, and cicatrizeth. Kest. The fixed or martial sulphur of vi∣triol, D. is given from g. 5 to 10. The fixed or martial sulphur of vitriol, serveth to make anodynes of, called by the name of lauda∣num. Sala, Querc. in Tetr. & Pharm. rest. Senn. Inst. Begu. The salt of vitriol, is commended by Sala even to the heavens, as a vomi∣torie, in the epilepsie, and other symptomes of the brain, arising

from corrupt and sharpe vapours, ascending from the stomach; also in the pleuresie, pestilentiall feavers, lipothymie from the repletion of corrupted humours, and boiling of choller about the mouth of the stomach, and in obstructions of the liver, spleen and reines: also the salt blown up into the nostrils, doth mightily cause sneezing, and without force cleanseth the brain from it's serous excrements: the D. is scrup. sem. to scrup. ij. The remaining earth is very good in the diarrhoea and dysentery, Hartm. in Croll. The salt of vitriol, out of the caput mortuum, from which the flowers of sulphur, are elevated given from scrup. sem. to scrup. ij. in fennel water or wine doth easily cause vomiting, and sometimes stoole and sweating. Sala, The narcotick anodyne extract of vitriol, serveth to stupifie and ease paine, and in vertue is not inferiour to opium; yet without danger it doth represse and coagulate, thinne venemous vapours, causing the epi∣lepsie; and that specifically: the D. is 6 drops to 12. with a con∣venient liquour. Hartm. in pract. Tentz. Kesl. The essence of the sulphur of vitriol, is equall in vertue, to the tincture of antimonie, and worketh wonderfull effects in bawm water, it expels all noxious humours of the whole body by insensible transpiration, it provoketh venery, strengthneth the womb, and stops its inordinate motions; and in both sexes it worketh a prolifick vertue, in the sperm, for the generation of children: it doth the same also almost, in the water of stone parsly, and besides cures the dropsie, all which it doth being used for some convenient time together: the D. is g. 1. to 4. So is the tincture or manna of vitriol, in operation. Querc. in Tetr. the tincture is of admirable vertue against all griefe, residing in thick matter. Querc. in Tetr. the magisteriate tincture or magisterie of vitriol, is a remedy that cannot be too much commended, and that chiefely, if gold philosophically dissolved be added thereto: for it's good against the epilepsie, all astrall affections, the apoplexie, palsey; disinesse, madnesse, exstasie, syncope, cochexie, dropsie, and stone: the D. is one or two drops: So the other, and is an universall extraor∣dinary penetrating medicine. Caes. The vitriol or atramentose waters, from vitriol, misy, sory, or melanteria, being all of the same faculty, are very like to the aluminous, but these are more strong having besides the astringent facultie, a certain sharp juyce, wherefore they are good against ulcers that spread; but if too sharp, they hurt them. Bras. The oile of vitriol is caustick, and used for a potentiall fire. it easily takes off parts, it helps against the plague, being taken in rose water. Bov. it kils wormes in children, and helps the plague 6 drops being taken in aqua ardens. 6. in unc. ij. of sorreil water taken in the

morning for 6 or 8 dayes helps the hectick, and the quartain ague in aqua-vitae, also it helps the canker of the mouth, paine of the side, rotten teeth, dropsies, beating of the heart, memorie, and sound of the eares. Fallop. Vitriol burned is sharp and catheretick: if wash∣ed it's epulotick used in cerots. Agric. drach. 1. looseth the belly. it stops bleeding, applied. Gal. vitriol preserveth moist flesh. Plin. it helps the roughnesse of the eyes, paines, dimnesse, and ulcers of the mouth; with the seed of henbane it draweth out broken bones, used to the forehead it helps epiphora's, in plaisters, it purgeth wounds, and excrescencies in ulcers. put upon plaisters with line seed it easeth pain, the white blown into the eares helps deafenesse. Agric. the oile looseneth the belly. Schrod. it's a minerall salt, found neere unto mettals, especially copper. C. the kinds thereof are diverse, according to the nature of the minerall, which they do contain, but those of the best account, are the ceruleous, like sapphir, compact, white as su∣gar, dry in touch, and is called the Hungarick; the second is subvirid, of the colour of herbs, more granulate, grumous like salt, a little unctu∣ous, and sticking to the fingers; the third is white and dry.