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.

GEOLOGIA. Of Earths.

A.

Alanian Earth. Alana terra.

• Place. In Alania, a place which lieth neere to Scythia.
• Matter. It seemeth to be a species of Oker.
• Name. Tripolis. Tripela, Aldrov. Exhebenus Plin.

ALanian Earth. Schrod. T.V. it serveth for the distillation of saline spirits, being mixed with the salts, that they may flow the lesse. Aldrovand. it's used in stead of Lapis Samius, by Goldsmiths, to cleanse their Gold and Silver, being of a very extersive na∣ture.

Ampelite Earth. Ampelitis terra.

• P. In Seleucia, being counted to be a place of Syria.
• M. Of a Bituminous Earth, So Aldrovandus.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Pharmacitis.

Ampelite Earth. Caes. T. dissipateth, refrigerats, and honestats the eyebrowes, V. Gal. used to vines it preventeth wormes. Diosc-Wock. it serveth to colour the haire. the best is the black,

equally shining, and that which is easily dissolved in liquors: which is also a triall for the rest: Aet. its mixed with remedies to dry and dis∣cusse, So Avic. Aldrovand. it digesteth and helpeth malignant ulcers, and mollifieth: which are all its vertues. So Plin. Matth. Agricola. and others.

B.

Black Earth. Pnigites.

• P. In Pnigeum, a village of Libya.
• M. Of a fat, glutinous, and aereall matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Suffocativa terra.

BLack earth. Agric. T. is somewhat sharp, partly astringent, abster∣sive, and refrigerating. Gal. V. it's in facultie, like the fullers earth in all things. So Diosc. and weck. yet weaker. C. it's almost like the Eretria in colour, and sticketh to the tongue. Aldrovand. its fat and glutinous, something aereall and so heating; yet some parrs coole.

Bole Armoniack. Bolus Armenus.

• P. It's brought out of Armenia, and Germany, &c.
• M. Of Earth impregnate by the vapors of Mars.
• N. Bolus Armena, & orientalis. Gleba. Lutum Arm.

Bole Armoniack. Schrod. K. as the Armenian and Germane. T. it's very dry, astringent, and strengthening. V. it serveth to stop fluxes, and to thicken, humours, to resist putrefaction, and to expel poyson, &c. therefore it is excellent in the diarrhoea, dysenterie, and flux of the termes: as also in catarrhes, spitting of bloud, bleeding

at the nose, and wounds, &c. its often used outwardly also, in cata∣plasmes, and astringent powders, &c. C. The best is the clean, smooth, and that which being tasted seemeth to melt like butter. Note, the goodnesse of earths is known by their sticking to the tongue and bubling being moistened: as also that they all bind and resist putrefaction. Gal. the differences thereof are, according to levity, and gravity, asperity, and lenity, tenacity, and abstersion: their coldnesse is known by astriction; heat by acrimonie, and this by lightnesse; and simplicity by weight. Gal. bole helpeth putrifying ulcers of the mouth, ulcers in the tabes, and pestilent diseases, being drunk in white wine. So Aet. Avic. it helps catarrhes. Aldrovand. it helps Fistulaes in the fundament, and all kinds of distillations. Caes. Agric. and pains of the belly, with the tabes.

C.

Chalke. Creta.

• P. It's brought from Crete, and to be had in England.
• M. Of Lime-stone, dissolved with water. So Agric.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Terra Cretica. Acida Martialis.

CHalke Schrod. T. it's dry, abstersive, and emplastick. V. it is some∣times used inwardly for the heat of the stomack: outwardly if serveth to dry up wounds and ulcers, &c. Gal. it's of an aereous substance, and abstersive without biting. So Aet. by which also it clean∣seth silver: it's in some measure like unto the Samia, &c. but very weak. So Avic. it helpeth ulcers and inflammations of the eyes: and facilitates the birth, being used as a perlapt. Aldrovand. it a little bindeth, and is alexipharmick, and serveth for all things that require extersion without biting, used in milk it killeth wormes in chil∣dren.

Clay. Lutum.

• P. Almost every where, in England, &c.
• M. Of earth without fatnesse.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Argilla. Terra figulina.

Clay. Avic. T. all sorts hereof are cold, drying, abstersive, and astringent. Aet. Note, all earths before burnt are good against ulcers: after they gently dry, and are of more thinne parts, sharp and discu∣tient: if washed they loose their acrimonie; but retaining the tenuity of parts, dry more, and are therefore better to incarnate and cicatrize. Barth. Ang. applied to the temples with vineger it stops ble∣ding at the nose. Aldrovand. it attracts, and helps bruises. Caes. Earths may be judged of by their drinesse, acrimonie, and fatnesse, and as glutinous, astringent, and sharp.

E.

Earth of Chios. Terra Chia.

• P. In the Isle Chios, in the Aegean Sea.
• M. Of a fat, sharpish earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Tinbalad almastichi. Arab.

EArth of Chios. Diosc. T. V. as Eretria: also it extendeth the face, and taketh away wrinkles, causing it to shine, being deter∣sive. So Gal. Diosc. Weck. it's of the vertue of the Samia: it mendeth the colour of the face and whol body, and in baths is used for detersion, in stead of nitre. C. the best is the white, somewhat ash-coloured. Aet. it's of the same vertue as the Selinusia is. So Aldrovand, and serveth to cleanse the haire. Caes. Agric. it's more abstersive than the Samia; yet lesse effectuall in curing inflammations, of the dugs, groine, or testicles.

Earth of Eretria. Eretria terra.

• P. In Eretria, a citie of Euboea in the Aegean Sea.
• M. Of a fat and sweet matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Creta Eretria Aldrov.

Earth of Eretria. Diosc. T. V. as the Samia. Gal. it's more astrin∣gent than the Lemnia, yet not biting: and may be washed once or twice, (as also the Fullers.) that it may be more gentle: some also burn it, that it may be more subtile, sharp, and digesting; after which if it be washed, it's much more effectuall, to fill and cicatrize wounds. C. the best is that of an ash colour, the other is white. So Weck. Diosc. it cooleth, bindeth, and gently mollifieth. it filleth hollow parts, and conglutina∣teth bloudy wounds. Aldrovand. it coloureth the haire black, and helps pains of the head from heat. Hippoc. applied to the breast in the empyema, it showeth the place for Section, by drying first there.

Earth of Lemnos. Terra Lemnia.

• P. In the Isle Lemnos, or Salimine, in the Aegean sea.
• M. Of a fenny earth and goats bloud.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sigillum Lemnium, & Sphragis. Milton lemnia.

Earth of Lemnos. Diosc. T. it's drying, and alexipharmick. V. it's an antidote against poyson, and helpeth against poysonsome wounds: also it stoppeth fluxes, and cureth the dysentery. Gal. it helpeth pu∣trifying ulcers being injected with the juice of plantaine, and drunk in aquose oxycrate: and then with brine. Aet. washed in wine it glew∣eth fresh wounds: and drunk stoppeth spitting of bloud and vomi∣ting of the same. Given in clisters with the juyce of plantaine it helpeth the dysentery. Caes. it helps the pains of the intestines, Aldrov. it cureth the bitings of a mad dog, and helps malignity in pestilen∣tiall feavers, and is used in the rest, it kils wormes in trees.

Earth of Melos. Terra Melia.

• P. In Melos, an Isle nere Creet, or Candy.
• M. Of an aluminous and earthly matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Terra melitensis, Aldrovand. Melina Theoph.

Earth of Melos. Diosc. T. is aluminous abstersive, and extenuates. V. Week. it gently drieth the tongue, and cleanseth the body, and causeth a good colour: it extenuates the haire, and cleanseth the leprosie and freckles: Painters use it to preserve their colours, and chirurgions to put into their green plaisters. C. the best is the fresh, soft, friable, cleane, and easily resoluble being touched with water: so the rest. Al∣drovand. some equalize it to that of Samos and Lemnos, in fevers, fluxes, and against wormes, the D. is. drach. 1.

Earth of Samos. Terra Samia.

• P. In the Isle Samos, in the Ionian Sea.
• M. Of much aëry substance, so Aldrovand.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Stella Samia. Syropicon. Collyrion. Caes.

Earth of Samos. Diosc. T. is cold, stopping, and repressive. V. it ope∣rateth as Eretria. Gal. it's more aëreous than the Lemnia: of which the Samius after is most used, against spitting of bloud, and fluxes of women, and dysenteries, with oile of roses it helps hot phlegmons, new buboe's, running gouts, and others requiring mitigation and cooling. Week. Diosc. with oile of roses, and water, it helpeth the in∣flammation of the testicles, &c. and preventeth sweating: drunk in wa∣ter it helpeth the bitings of serpents, and poyson. C. the best is the white, light, so••t, juycie, and crumbling, Aet. with the juice of plan∣tain, it cures noma's, and ulcers with inflammation. Avic. and paroti∣des. Aldrovand, and the coeliack.

F.

Fullers Earth. Cimolia.

• P. In the Isle Cimolus, or Cicandro in the Sea of Creet.
• M. Of a meanly sat earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Terra saponaria Aldrov. Creta cimolia. Smectis.

FUllers earth. Caes. T. it's abstersive, and dis••utient. Gal. it partly refrigerateth and partly gently digesteth, and worketh according to the nature of those things with which it is mixed; but it is very good in burnings (as also all other earths) being applied with oxycrate or vinegar, preventing the rising. Diosc. Week. both the white and purplish with vineger help swellings behind the ea••es, and other knobs, it helps the hardnesse of the testicles, and collections of the whole body are restrained thereby; as also St Anthonies fire, it be∣ing applied. C. the best is the cold, and fat. At if washed it discusseth not. So Avic. Aldrovand. it operates as chalk but is stronger. it helps the gout, achores, and falling of the haire. Caes. applied it hinders sweat, so Plin.

I.

Japonian Earth. Japponica terra.

• P. In Japonia, or Japan.
• M. The originall matter thereof is not much observ'd.
• N. Catechu: terra Japoniae.

JAponian earth. Schrod. T. is drying. V. held in the mouth it stops catarrhes, and strengtheneth the head, as for its tast it's a little au∣stere and sweetish.

M.

Marie. Marga.

• P. Almost every where, in England, &c.
• M. Of the fat, and marrow of the earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Creta fossitia, Minsh.

MArle. Schrod. T. it dryeth, bindeth, consolidates & is sarcotick. V. taken inwardly it dissolveth tartar, & coagulated bloud. Aldrov. Gesn. that which is called lac lunae, is very good to dry ulcers, drach. 1. thereof taken in any liquor, increaseth milk in nurses: also it stoppeth haemorrhages.

O.

Oker. Ochra.

• P. In Asia, Hungary, Germany, and Bavaria.
• M. Of the harder parts of Earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sil, Vitruv. Plin. Aldrov. Agric.

OKer. Schrod. T. drieth, bindeth, discusseth, & represseth excrescen∣cies. V. it's used outwardly, chiefely in stroakes, and bruises, & to discusse hard tumours. Diosc. Weck. it corrodes, in cerots, fills up hollow parts, and breakes the tophi of the joints. C. the best is the light & muddie. So Aldrovand, and is used by Painters. Caes. Fallop. it is deter∣sive; and that which is taken out of Brasse mines, is caustick. Agrie. the factitious is most used by painters, and is made of lead.

R.

Rubrick. Rubrica.

• P. In Cappadocia, Egypt, and Germany.
• M. It's generated of Oker.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sinopis. Miltos. Barb. Magra.

RUbrick Schrod. T drieth and bindeth. V. it's used chiefely in vul∣nerary and drying plaisters, Weck. Diosc. it bindeth the belly ta∣ken

in an egge, or clyster: it's also given to those that are troubled with the distemper of the liver. C. the best is the heavy, thick, one co∣loured, and that without stones: the Fabrile is weaker. Aet. drunk, it ex∣pelleth wormes. Aldrovand. it's used by Painters, and is detersive. Hippoc. it helps against burnings, and according to signature is good for the liver, as appeares by the colour. So Aldrov.

S.

Sand. Arena.

• P. Almost every where, in England, &c.
• M. Of a most dry earth, and stones.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Chol. Sabulum.

SAnd. Diosc. Gal. T. that of the sea-shore is abstersive. V. it helpeth the dropsie being covered therewith. Barth. Ang. it's cold, and dry, & asswageth swellings, by its repulsion. Note, Caes. waters infected by the earth, if much, they stop the bowels, & cause the stone of the blad∣der, else are not so bad.

Sealed Earth. Terra Sigillata.

• P. In Turkey, Maltha, and Germany.
• M. Of the sulphur of Sol, and Luna.
• N. Arab. Terimachtim. Silesiaca. Offic: Sphragis.

Sealed earth, Schrod. K. as the Turkish, Melitean or of St Paul, and Germane strigensis and lignicensis. T. it drieth, bindeth, resisteth pu∣trefaction and poyson, dissolveth congealed bloud, comforteth and strengthneth the heart and head, dilateth the blood, and provoketh sweat. V. it's used chiefely in the plague, malignant feavers, bitings of venimous beasts, diarrhoea's, & dysenteries. Used outwardly, it cureth venimous bitings, and mundifieth malignant wounds. C. the best is the red. The strigensis, or axungia solis, helpeth the diseases of the heart, and epilepsies, and resisteth philtron's being taken crude, the Dose is from drach. sem. to drach ij. The ash-coloured, lignicensis, or axungia lunae, helpeth diseases of the head and liver, neer also unto the nature of the first, is the Labacinsis, being astringent and provo∣king

sweat. The D. of the Magisterie of sealed earth is from scrup. sem. to drach. scm. of the spirit. scrup. sem. of the alcalisate, lesse, which be∣sides the former vertues, easeth the gout, cureth the itch, and dissol∣veth gold, the D. of the strigoniense oile is gut. 6. in some convenient vehicle, against the stone, pocks, and malignant feavers. Barth. Aug. the powder of sealed earth with the white of an egge stops bleeding at the nose, as also swellings in the feet, and gout applied plaisterwise. Avic. it cures wounds and ulcers, bruises, and corrosions: it stops catar∣rhes, and spitting of blood, and helps extenuation. Aldrovand. Florent. it kills wormes in trees, and helps ulcers, the salt resists poyson, plagues, and troublesome agues.

Selenuntine earth. Selinusia terra.

• P. In Selinunta, a towne of Sicilie.
• M. Of a white f••••able matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Creta Selinusia. Aldrov.

Selenuntine earth. Diosc. T. V. as the Chian. Gal. it's moderatly abster∣sive: and therefore diverse women use it to cleanse the face. Weck. Diosc. C. the best is the white, shining, and crumbling. At. it gently drieth and cleanseth, and is therefore good against ulcers in the superficies of the body: So that of Chios. Aldrovand. it's alexipharmick as the Lemnian, and equal to the same.

METALLOLOGIA. Of Mettalls.

C.

Copper. Cuprum.

• P. In Cyprus, and Corinth, &c. and other places.
• M. Of purple sulphur, red salt, & citrine ☿.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Aes. Venus. Chym. ♀. Orichalcum Val.

COpper. Schrod. or brasse. T. V. it strengthneth the generative parts, and is of excellent use in physick. The spirit is ex∣cellent against the falling sicknesse by sympathie: after pur∣gation with the red flowers of ♁. the D. is from 8 drops to 10. in broth made acid, that it cause not vomiting▪ The flowers are excellent to mundifie wounds, and are therefore put into the plaister Oppodeldoch. so the crocus. The tincture is very good against the epilepsie, and many other diseases, being taken in some conve∣nient liquor. S. Closs. The quintescence is very effectuall against disea∣ses of the braine, all feavers continuall and intermitting, and purifi∣eth the bloud. Thold. ex Basil. The salt is hotter, than those of other mettals, it strengthneth the stomach, and helpeth the crudities there∣of, therefore it's used against the collick, flatulencies, and distempers thence arising: also it warmeth a cold womb, helpeth its suffoca∣tion, provoketh the termes, and helpeth the diseases of the reines: the D. is from 3 gr. to 8. there may also be thence made one, serving in∣stead of vitriol. Note, mettals are hard bodies, that may be melted, and begotten of a saline juice or Mercury, coagulated in the earth by the vertue of their own sulphur; both which are founded in vitriola∣ted salt. S. Closs. The green caustick oile of brasse, cureth venereous pushes, and consumeth warts. Note, Verdegrease is made by the vaporose calcination thereof. Aldrovand. brasse is hot and dry: initio 4ti. and so poysonsome. H. causing paine of the stomack and belly, vomiting, and fluxes, ulcers and difficultie of breath, and is worse if

burnt, but is to be helped, by warme water, oile, or butter and clysters: Rhas. and Avic. use those remedies against arsenick, and the Concili∣ator, the juyce of mints, or acorus, drach: ij. being taken in wine, or drach. 1. of sealed earth, or red corall pp. yet it's good for the eyes, therefore burnt, together with the floures rust and squamms it's kept by apothecaries to dry and bind. Diosc. the flouers bind, represse excrescencies, and cleare the eyes, so the squamme, and helpes their flux, and asperity of the eyebrowes, the rust is sharp and digesting, there∣fore mixed with oile and wax it cicatrizeth ulcers: when burnt it mightily bindeth, drieth, and easily cureth ulcers. Caes. aeruginous wa∣ters, drunk, cause vomiting, and their baths help creeping ulcers. Those of brasse help ulcers of the mouth and genitals, as also di∣stillations to the eyes and jawes. Aldrov. T. brasse is hot and dry 3^o. and very hurtfull to man.

G.

Gold. Aurum.

• P. In India, Scythia, Spaine, Italy, Asia, &c.
• M. Of principles exactly digested and fixed.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sol. Chym. ☉. Rex metallorum.

GOld. Schrod. K. as the Arabian. Hungarick and Rhenish. T. is cor∣diall, and mundifying. V. it doth very much strengthen the heart, and naturall balsame, or heat, and is therefore given with good successe in all diseases, in which the strength is to be repaired: it doth also cleanse the bloud, discussing humours, and being diaphoretick. The Aurum Fulminans, is used to provoke sweat: the D. is from gr. 3. to 4. The Diaphoreticum, is given with malmesey or some other li∣quor against sundry diseases, especially such as arise from obstruction: it is also very cordiall. H. yet naught for women troubled with the fits of the mother, by reason of the musk and amber in it. The aurum potabile, by the spirit of wine, acuated with the salt of urine. D. is gi∣ven from 3 gr. to 8. or more. So Hart. Senn. Kest•• Gluckr. in Beg. That by the glaciale oile of antimonie, from 3 drops to 5: and is an excellent diaphoretick: also the oile of antimonie coming from the Gold in the first distillation, doth gently purge, and open obstructi∣ons,

&c. so Hart. in Crol: The aurum potabile by the oile of Sa∣turne, doth resist poyson. D. and given from 4 drops to 8 in wine, doth revive those that are even at deaths doore: it is also very good against the falling sicknesse, apoplexie, palsie, and other diseases of the head. So Hart. in Crol. Kesl. The compounded aurum diaphoreti∣cum of Poppius, helpeth the shrinking of the limbs: the D. is g. 8. so Popp. in Thesaur. The aurum potabile by the spirit of manna, ex∣pelleth sweat, and is most prevalent to carry forth the seminarie of any malignant and poysonsome disease: so Cl. Helv. the D. is a few drops. The D. of that of Dr. Antonie of London, is g. 6, 7, 8, &c. The aurum vitae of Quercetane, is of incredible vertue, against a mul∣titude of diseases. The D. of the mercuriale laudanum of Bayer, is from gr. 2. to 5. Unicornu solare or manna solaris, D. is given from gr. 1. to 5. and the Flores solis, from 6 gr. to 9. The Salt from 2 gr. to 4. and is an excellent diaphoretick remedie: that of Basil, from 2 gr. to 4 &c. Aldrovand. T. gold is hot and moist 2^o. having antipathie to lead; yet others count it cold and dry. V. it hinders ill exhalations, and resists putrefaction: held in the mouth it helpeth the breath, boiled with meats it resists putrefaction, Plates thereof be∣ing heated hot and often quenched in wine help the splenetick and obstructions. Lemn. and its good against the plague: and also good mixed with tartar, against blemishes of the face. Lang. the pla••e thereof held upon the tongue quencheth thirst in feavers: Mizald. and the same applied to the reines helps the paine thereof. Villanov. and on the head strengthens it, and on the heart it causeth mirth. Alex. Ped. used hot it prevents the grouth of haire. Mizald the leaves stee∣ped 24 houres in the juyce of limmons with white-wine, and powder of angelica, cure the plague: also the leaves applied to ulcers, con∣sume the flesh without biting, and cauteries are best made by gold. The Scobs thereof Diosc. helps those that are hurt by quicksilver, ta∣ken inwardly, or used outwardly, it attracting it to it selfe. Renod. the filings thereof help the evill colours of maides, as steel. Matth. the scobs helpeth the eye-sight, as an alcohol. Gold being applied helps the pocks in Children: the powder helps the alopecia, drying the same, and the elephantiasis, scab, or leprosie, in electuaries: some use it against melancholy, the ointment thereof, helps the hurts of quicksilver. The oile helps the elephantiasis, phagedens and canc∣rous ulcers, and the leprosie, strengthning the heart, refreshing the vitall spirits, and expelling all kinds of sicknesses, and it preserveth youth; notwithstanding these Chimists scarce outlived the same. Caes. the powder blowed into the eyes strengthneth them: it helps and consolidates the complexion.

I.

Iron. Ferrum.

• P. Almost in all countries, in England, &c.
• M. Of sulphur and salt mixed with the cruder parts of earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Mars. Chym. ♂. if purified, Chalybs.

IRon. Schrod. T. it's both astringent, and opening. V. its opening quality resideth chiefely in the more volatile part, and therefore in the salt: the astrictive in that which is more fixed, sc. in the earth: Querc. Sena. The Crocus martis obstructivus, is drying, and there∣fore helpeth the dysenterie, lienterie, and gonorrhoea, &c. outwardly it's used to dry up ulcers and wounds. Querc. Begu. The aperitivus doth reserate, open, and attenuate. Note, the first is made by re∣verberatory calcination, and the second by fusorie. Querc. The crocus made by calcination of illinition, is a very great opener, and excellent against the cachexie: the D. is gr. 3. or 4. The white oile of Mars, openeth obstructions, but chiefly of the liver, spleen, mesera∣ick veines, and womb: the D. is some few graines. Helvic. Dieter. The red oile of Mars, doth gently bind and strengthen, and therefore is Very good in the dysenterie, loosnesse of the belly, and other fluxes: the D. is gr. 3. or 4. and more: Kell. The sulphureous oile of Mars, is very fat and fragrant, and is very excellent in obstructions, and weaknesse of the spleen. That of J. C. Facis. is very obstructive. The D. is gr. 4. or 5 &c. Hart. in pract. the D. of the tincture is from unc. sem. to unc. ij. in broth or a draught of succorie water. Finck. the tincture helpeth all diseases of the spleen, also the menses, both to provoke them and correct them when inordinate: the D. is from unc. sem. to unc. ij. Senn. Inst. the D. of the tincture of Mars crude is to scrup. 1. of that of Quercitan of crocus martis, 9 or 10 drops in the decocti∣on of Juniper, against the dropsie, being taken morning and eve∣ning, after universall remedies. So Hart. in pract. That made of the caeruleous drosse, is stronger then the common crocus made by rever∣beration, and serveth to stop all fluxes, as the menses, gonorrhoea, dy∣senterie, diarrhoea, and haemorrhage. &c. S. Closs. The Sal Saccha∣rinum and yellow tincture of Mars, strengthneth the liver, therefore it helpeth those that are hydropicall, and have running ulcers in their legs, it drieth up the superfluous menses, and haemorrhoides.

taken with fresh treacle it helpeth the dysenterie and openeth the spleen: the D. of the Salt is scrup. sem. with the oyle of nutmeg: and of the tincture, 6 or 8 drops in wine: of the red tincture, drach. sem. in white wine against the ischurie. Joel. Langel. The white magisterie of Mars helpeth those that are hepatick and hypochon∣driacall, &c. Kesl. The Flowers of the chrystall of Mars are excellent in the obstruction of the spleen and mesenterie: Horst. Epist. The sweetish salt of Mars doth incide and open obstructions (though great) of the bowels and womb. The D. of that of Basil is gr. 6, 7, 8, &c. of the purging salt, scrup. sem. or scrup. 1. in one or two spoonfulls of the syrup of violets laxative, &c. Note, steele is made of Iron, by grada∣torie purgation: and the vitrioll of Mars, by cementatorie calcination. Caes. waters running through iron mines, help the vices of the sto∣mack, and spleen, flux of the sperme, and whites: it helps the reines, collick, paines of the joynts, and exulcerations of the bladder. Note, all waters are of the faculty of the mineralls by and through which they passe. The water in which steele hath been quenched, helps the dysentery, so Plia. Myl. it helps the collerick, lienose, coeliack distempers, and resolutions of the stomack: also all iron strengthens, extenuates, and resolveth what is dry. Myl. The iron baths, help hot and moist diseases, as the asthma, gout, paine of the joints, weaknesse of the sto∣mack, tendernesse, filth of the eares, flux of the stomack, dropsie, collick, menses, and urines flux, hemorrhoids, falling out of the fundament, and poysons, Diosc. The rust bindeth, stops the termes, and hinders concep∣tion: applied with vineger it helps S. Anthonies fire, and pushes, whitlowes, rough nailes & eyebrowes, and the alopecia, so the drosse Caes. drach. sem of steel with the sugar of roses, prevents the putrefaction of evill humours, strengthens the stomach, opens obstructions of the bow∣els, and helps the cachexie, and obstructions.

L.

Lead. Plumbum.

• P. In Lusitania, Biscay, Spain, France, Brittain.
• M. Of indigested sulphur, aluminouse salt and ☿, emulating ♁.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Saturnus. chym. ♄. Plumbum nigrum.

LEad. Schrod. T. it's cold, bindeth and incrassats, &c. V. it represseth lust, filleth ulcers with flesh, cicatrizeth, removeth excre∣lencies,

and helpeth cheronious ulcers; as also the malignant, can∣crous, and putrifying, both used alone, and mixed with other things. Note, hereof is made the minium or red lead of the shops, by reverbera∣torie calcination, and the burnt lead by the cementatorie. The su∣gar or salt and magisterie of Saturne, are of the same vertue, so either of them being taken into the body, by reason of its coldnesse, doth extinguish venery: the D. is from gr. 4. to 6. used outwardly it hin∣dereth lust, the navil and genital being anointed therewith. (Note also, the same may be helped againe, by a Laconick bath, anointing the navil with the distilled oile of nutmegs,) it is also of excellent vertue in the curing of cancrose, malignant, and corrosive ulcers, ringwormes, burnings, and inflammations. it dissolveth hard and scir∣rhous tumours, it's very usefull in bruises, being applied, and in in∣flammations and rednesse of the eyes, being used in rose or euphrage water, or applied to the eye-lids. So Crol. Beg. Senn. The salt with that of nitre an. crystalizeth, and helpeth the asthma. S. Closs. The milkie Liquour of Saturne for ulcers, helpeth those that are dyse∣pulotick, and quickly cicatrizeth the same, being applied twice or thrice in a day with cloaths wet therein, being first warmed. Note, ceruse is made hereof by vaporose calcination. Tentzel. The spiritus ar∣dens of Saturne is sudorifick and usefull in the plague, hypochon∣driacall melancholy, and burning feavers, as also in the french pocks, &c. the D. is 2. or 3 drops, it hindreth venery: and is used to dis∣solve pearles, The yellow oile dissolveth gold. The red mundifieth and cureth wounds, being put thereon: so the caput mortuum: see Begu. Hart. in Crol. Senn. Inst. Kesl. The balsamick oile of Saturne, is very excellent in cancrous, eating, and other malignant ulcers, Kell. the sulphur of Saturne, or supernatant oile, is very effectuall in the phthi∣sick and diseases of the lungs. the D. of the Tincture is g. 2. or 3. the more elaborate is very effectuall in madnesse, melancholy, the quar∣tane ague, phthisick, & hypochondriacal melancholy, and openeth the spleen. The stone helpeth saturnine diseases. Basil. Thold. The true salt of Saturne, doth exceedingly coole and dry, and therefore extin∣guisheth sperme; the D. is g. 4. outwardly it helpeth rednesse of the eyes, and ulcers of the whole body. Diosc. washed lead, doth coole, bind, soften, fill with flesh, and stop fluxes of the eyes, and blood: it removes excrescencies in ulcers, and helps ulcers of the fundament, haemor∣rhoides, and inflammations, with oile of roses: also it cicatrizeth those sores that are hardly cured; and is in all things like Spodium; but onely that it doth not cause crusts. and by the rubbing thereof it hepls the wounds of the Sea scorpion and dragon. Of the same

effect is burnt lead, but much sharper: so the drosse, but is more astrin∣gent. Caes. waters running by lead, harden the nerves, contract them, trouble, and fill them with phlegme. The plates of lead being bound to the loines and reines resist Venus by their coldnesse; so Plin. Albert. Oribas. it hindereth the flux of sperme. Hereof with vineger is made ceruse: which used outwardly helps ulcers. Diosc. it cooleth, filleth, mollifieth, gently extenuates, represseth excrescencies, and ci∣catrizeth, it's used in gentle cerots and plaisters; C. the best is that which is first sifted, and serveth for the eyes. Being taken inwardly it is deadly, causing a white colour in the parts it toucheth; a cough, drinesse, and sluggishnesse, as also shortnesse of breath. It's used by women as a fucus; so Caes. Diosc. the Antidote is honied water, the decoction of figs or mallowes, buttermilk, oile of flower deluce, or mar∣ierom, pigeons egges with frankincense, or the decoction of barley, warm water and vomiting. Aldrovand. the oile helps the hemorrhoids, the plate helps tumours of the ganglion. the headpice helps the head∣ach. Caes. Of ceruse burned is made sandix, which dryeth without heat or cold: if washed it dryeth and cooleth.

S.

Silver. Argentum.

• P. Almost in all countries, Spaine, and the Indies, &c.
• M. Of Sulphur and quicksilver. So Albert. Myl. &c.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Cerebrum. Luna. Chym. ☽.

SIlver. Abert. Mag. T. is cold and somewhat moist. Schrod. V. it doth specifically strengthen the head, and cherish the animal spirits, and is therefore good in all diseases of the head; as in the apo∣plexie, epilepsie, &c. Gluck. The Luna potabilis by the simple spirit of wine, D. is given from 3 graines to 6. to more, if acuated by the salt of urine. That by the vitriolate spirit of wine exceedeth the rest, in curing the epilepsie: Thold. the salt cureth diseases of the head, especially the epilepsie; and dryeth up hydropick water: the D. is gr. 4. or 5. S Closs. the Lunarie spirit, is very effectuall in curing the idi∣opathetick falling sicknesse. Caes. waters running through silver mines, are thought to be cordiall, so if by Gold. Caes. Albert. Mag. Myl. silver is cold, and dry, yet not without a certaine temperate

moisture. It helpeth the trembling of the heart, in some measure it operates as Gold, and is given by physicians in the same diseases, especially against madnesse, and all melancholick distempers; and to comfort and strengthen the braine, it is put into diverse remedies, with which gold also is mixed: it helpeth the palpitation of the heart, strengthneth the heart and braine, begetteth good bloud, consumeth the putrified flesh of wounds, glueth the same, and with the oile of tartar, cureth the troublesome scab; so Myl. The excrement or drosse of silver, is used in black plaisters, and those that cicatrize; and that for its astringent, and attracting nature; so Diosc. The spume there∣of, or Litharge, doth thicken, soften, fill hollow ulcers, represse the ex∣crescencies of the flesh, cicatrize, refrigerate, and stop, being washed it's used in collyries for the eyes, to take away the unseemlynesse of cicatrices, the wrinkles, scratchings, and spots of the face. H. Being drunk it loadeth and tormenteth the stomach, belly, and intrals, and sometimes woundeth them by its weight. It suppresseth the urine, and maketh the body swell, and to be deformed, and of a leadish co∣lour. The Antidote is the seed of wild clary drunk, drach. VIII. of myrrhe, wormwood, hyssop, parsley-seed, or pepper, and the dry dung of Ringdoves, with spicknard and wine. Aldrovand. the filings of silver with quicksilver helpe the hemorrhoids. The oile helps diseases of the brain, as the epilepsie, 3 or 4 drops being drunk in the water of betony, sage, or bawme, so the salt. The salt taken from gr. 4 to 5. in Juniper water helps a weak stomach, and the dropsie.

T.

Tinne. Stannum.

• P. In Germany, and Brittain or England.
• M. Os more soft mercurie, fugacious: and white, crude sulphur.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Plumbum album. Jupiter. Chym. ♃. Plumbum candidum.

TInne. Serap. T. is cold and drying. Schrod. V. it's appropriated to the liver, and also helpeth diseases of the womb. The salt of Jupiter is an excellent and present help in the suffocation of the womb, which it doth miraculously ease, both inwardly and out∣wardly used: it is also commended outwardly against all stinking ul∣cers,

phagedens, fistula's, and cancers: the D. is from g. 2. to 4. &c. at severall times. The magisterie hath the same vertues with the salt. Begu. the D. of Jupiter diaphoreticus is from g. 4. to 6. The sulphur ser∣veth onely outwardly. The spirit cureth gangreens by the very touch. So S. Closs. The crystall of Jupiter, cures ulcers that are scrophulous and cancrouse, by causing a deep escharre, which being removed, they may be cicatrized by the balsame of sulphur. Thold. The true salt, helpeth the falling sicknesse, melancholy, vertigoes or dissinesse in the head, and dryeth up catarrhes, especially such as fall down unto the eyes: the D. is from g. 6. to scrup. 1. or scrup. ij. Aldrovand. the fine powder of tinne helpeth the wounds of scorpions. The Arabians use the ceruse thereof in wounds made by the sea scorpion; many also a∣ffirme that tinne helps old ulcers, and eating, in short▪ time cicatri∣zing the same. The salt helpeth the falling sicknesse, melancholy, and vertigo, as also catarrhes troubling the head, and dryeth those that come from the eyes, also gr. 6. thereof being taken do wonder∣fully strengthen the memory.

HEMIMETALLOLOGIA. Of Semi-mettals.

A.

Antimonie. Antimonium.

• P. In Germany, Hungary, and Transilvania. &c.
• M. Of minerall sulphur partly pure, partly combustible, much ☿ crude & litle sait
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Zadadah. Arab. Aitmad. Stibium. Chym. ♁.

ANtimonie. Card. T. its cold 3^o and aqueous astringent and dry∣ing. Schrod. it obstructeth the passages of the body being crude, wasts excrescencies of the flesh, and cicatrizeth. V. it cleanseth the ulcers and filth of the eyes, and is therefore much used in collyries: some also give it in the fitt, against the falling sicknesse. Querc. in Tet. there are various, innumerable and excellent properties herein, sc. to prepare, purge, and cause vomiting, &c. inso∣much that it cannot have its due commendation. Hereof is made the vitrum or glasse of antimonie, which by vomit and purgation bring∣eth forth thick viscid and superfluous humours, out of the stomach and parts nigh thereunto. It also resisteth the poyson and infection of the plague: especially if taken with vineger, it hereby causing sweat: furthermore it is usefull in the dropsie, putrid and malignant feavers, &c. D. it's given from. g. 2. to 4. in infusion from 3. to 6. as afterwards, sc. the white, so the Hyacinthine: the pouder to g. 8. being infused in wine, and taken with the juice of marygolds, to cause sweat, and to preserve from the plague. The black of S. Closse serveth for the pu∣rification of mettals. The Regulinum may be given in a greater quantity than the former. That of the Regulus causeth sweat, and is given from gr. 3. to 6. P. de Spin. The vitrum or glasse of anti∣monie corrected, is given from g. 2. to 6. The purging from 3 to 5. of which are made pils against agues: So Hart. in Crol. The purging spirit of Vitriol. D. is from 6 drops to 10. The common crocus me∣tallorum is used in paines of the head, caused by the foulenesse of the stomach (from which they often arise.) in the falling sicknesse, pleu∣risie,

hypochondriacall melancholy, feavers, both continuall, especially the hungarick, and intermitting, as also against the plague, coagu∣lation of blood, and to preserve from the gout: in all which being given in some convenient water, it purgeth by vomit, and sometimes by stoole: the inward D. is from gr. 3. to x. yet 6 are seldome to be exceeded: it also is sometimes used in clisters, against the collick drach. sem. or drach. 1. being boiled in some convenient water or wine, and the colature mixed with broth or the decoction of emollient sim∣ples; and so used it is a most excellent remedie for the same. The same vertues also hath that of Rula••dus. Greg. Horst. The Crocus Regulatus worketh lesse upwards, and more downwards: the D. is gr. x. with raisins. The common Antimonium diaphoreticum, or diaphore∣tick antimonie, resisteth corruption, cleanseth the bloud, and removeth all obstructions though inveterate, both of the liver, spleen, mesen∣terie, and of the other inward parts, ••••t helpeth the retention of the menses, and green sicknesse or cachexi•• in maides. it cureth the dropsie, hypochondriacall melancholy, french pocks, itch, and ulcers inward and outward. it is excellent good in malignant feavers, the small pocks, and breakings out. it breaketh inward impostumes, yet it wor∣keth not suddainly; but by degrees: the D. is from g. x. to 25. Basil. the Flowers of fixed Antimonie, help inward impostumes, and the french disease., g. 15. being given in the spirit of pockwood, foure or five times in a day. The tartarised F.F. is given from g. 5. to 10. Tentzel. the martiall Regulus, worketh gently both upwards and downwards, the D. is gr. 2. or 3. The antimoniale ceruse taken inwardly is very good to cure old ulcers, scabs, and troublesome breakings forth, being ta∣ken every day, for 3. 4. or more weeks together; but it worketh vari∣ously, for in some for the 2 or 3 first dayes, it causeth a certaine nauseousnesse, with a frequent spitting, and afterwards worketh in sensibly: in others it gently looseneth the body; in some it causeth sweating, and in diverse it worketh altogether insensibly, and not manifestly, till at last: outwardy it drieth, bindeth, moderately clean∣seth and openeth: the D. inwardly is from scrup sem. to drach. scm. four or five houres before dinner. The diaphoretick ceruse of antimonie produceth the same effects, yet without nauseating, and more effectu∣ally in the same q. See Sala's Anat. Ant. The Solar ceruse thereof, provoketh sweat. The red fixed antimonie, purgeth equally, both up∣wards, and downwards, and that not so much by its own nature, as the bilious humour remaining about the stomach, also in some it worketh as a diaphoretick: the D. is from g. 2. to 4. and more. That of Basil is very good to resolve congealed bloud, break apostumes,

and cure the french pocks. The diaphoretick precipitate of antimonie, D. is given from g. 4. to 12. so Sala. The compounded flowers cause vomiting; but more gently than the simple: the D. is from g. 4. to 6. Horst. Epist. they cure quartane agues and those that are mad, or me∣lancholick. Two gr. hereof being mixed with 12 of mercurius dulcis, purge serous and bilious humours, scarce causing vomiting. The flowers of the Regulus being impregnate by the spirit of Mars and Venus, do gently purge and cure all intermitting agues: the D. is a few gr. So Querc. in Tetr. Basil. the Liquor hereof is excellent in wounds. Note, in generall, the flowers of antimonie doe cause violently to vomit, yet neverthelesse some give 2. 3. or 4. g. there∣of. The flowers of antimonie corrected, cure diseases arising from black choller, purging forth coplously, both upwards and downwards, what is hurtfull: the D. is from g. 5. to 10. S. Closs. the fixed flowers, purge more gently, and provoke much sweating: the D. is gr. 8. to scrup. sem. The powder diaphoretick made of the cinnabaris antimonii, is very good in the epilepsie. The vineger of antimonie, serveth to ex∣tract the tincture thereof, it powerfully cooleth the bloud, especially in the malignant and hungarick feaver, being mixed with lapis pru∣vellae and some convenient distilled water: it cureth the inflamma∣tion caused by gunpowder, being mixed with saccharum Saturni. Po∣ter. The oile, is a great dissolver. Begu. the Saccharate oile, cureth diseases both inward and outward, of which may be made pils, against a quartain ague: That of Senn. gently purgeth and helpeth the dropsie: the D. is g. 2. to 6. The white liquor of that of Querc. helpeth cancrous ulcers, and outward diseases: the yellow purgeth up∣wards and downwards: the reddish, being rectified by 2 or 3 cohoba∣tions and washed in some cordiall water, is most excellent, to cure the leprosie, morphew, apoplexie, epilepsie, and plague, being given in some appropriate water. Querc. in Tetr. the D. is from g. 3. to 6. of that of Faus. g. 8. to scrup. sem. in fluid diseases: of that of Basil in curr. triumph. a few drops, a∣gainst the falling sicknesse. Sala. the oile, or honied liquor of antimo∣nie, is corrosive and penetrating, and very mundifying, especially in ulcers, consuming excrescencies, &c. it's also very good against gan∣greens, and may be used alone, or mixed with rosate honey, unguents, powders, or waters, &c. it may be used in stead of the philosophick vineger, in the preparation of the tincture of antimonie, called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Kesl. The Magisterie of antimonie purgeth kindly by vomit: the D. is g. 3. The glaciale oile of antimonie or butter thereof, is a most excellent and precious remedie, for the cure of many and great

griefes: as tertian, quotidian, and chiefely quartaine agues: for in many it gently causeth vomit, in others it purgeth, and is of that strength, that it quite eradicateth, and expels the seminaries of the evil. Hart. in Crol. Senn. Inst. The chrystaline oile of the flowers, is the same almost with the former: and serveth for the solution of Sol, and is the basis of the purging precipitate, as also of the vomito∣rie: the D. is g. 1. to 4. Basil, The compounded oile for wounds doth mightily mundifie the same, though old. The balsame of antimonie, is of great vertue in old ulcers. The vulnerarie balsame of Basil, is excellent in inveterate wounds. The spirit of the Regulus, is good in all intermitting fevers, and quartane agues, it cleanseth the bloud as a diaphoretick, consumeth the stone of the reines and bladder, discusseth the matter of the gout, and appeaseth the paine being out∣wardly applied: the D. is g. 3. to 5. The antepileptick water of Quercetane, of crocus metallorum is most excellent in curing the falling sicknesse. The sulphureous water of Stibium, or Clyssus, doth attenu∣ate the thick, tartareous and mucilaginous matter lying in any part of the body; and expelleth the same by convenient emunctories, sc. by the belly, urine, sweat, and spittle: therefore it's a very good reme∣die in the obstruction of the liver, spleen, mesenterie, and womb, in the hypocondriack melancholy, and chollick, &c. especially if acua∣ted with the crystals of Mars. it's to be mixed with spring water or some other convenient liquor, to a pleasant sharpnesse, and so drunk as often as one listeth. The tartareous water thereof is also good in obstructions, but it chiefly expelleth by sweat, matter lying in the habit of the body. S. Closs. The compounded spirit of antimonie serveth to fix Mercurie & Cinnabar. The liquor or balsame of the drosse of the Regulus is of excellent use in chirurgy, especially in fistula's and foetid ulcers. The liquor of the salt of the glasse of antimonie, being taken inwardly doth effectually stay defluxions of the gout, and pa∣roxismes: outwardly, it keepeth wounds and fistula's from putrefaction, and cureth the same; yet without mordacitie: the D. is scrup. sem. or scrup. 1. Hart. in pract. Kesl. The sulphur of crude antimonie serveth to draw forth a tincture, and purgeth upwards and down∣wards: the D. is g. 2. to 5. That of Begu. and Querc. is a more safe vomit, than crocus metallorum: and of the same D. The nix diapho∣retica S. Closs. is very good to cause sweat, and killeth wormes. The sulphur of antimonie calcined, serveth to purge, the D. is g. 4. to 8. The sulphur auratum, causeth vomit, and sometimes purgeth: the D. is g. 6. Hart. in Crol. in pract. Agric. The panacaea of the sulphur of antimonie, is like a panacaea, having a diaphoretick facultie, and

cleansing the blood; therefore it may serve in all diseases, curable by sweat, especially the french pocks, and foulenesse of the skinne, the D. is gr. x. to 20. and is often to be repeated in diseases, especially in the epidemick, and malignant. Fab. Monsp. The tincture of crude antimonie, is an excellent balsame for to cure wounds inward or out∣ward: it causeth sweat, and sometimes vomit, and purgation: it cureth the symptomes of the leprosie. Basil. the balsame of life, is of great vertue, it cleanseth the bloud, cureth the morphew and scab, and ex∣hilerateth the spirits. The tincture of the glasse of antimonie, the bezoartick thence, the Magisterie of Sala, and Basils oile of the glasse thereof, helpeth all old obstructions of the liver, spleen, lungs, &c. also against the retention of the menses, green sicknesse, black jaun∣dise, dropsie, phthisick, asthma, pleurisie. cachexie, hypochondriack me∣lancholy, inward and outward ulcers, all sorts of scabs and itch, french pocks, and continuall, putrid, and pestilentiall feavers, &c. & pocks and measles: it expelleth what is hurtfull, by sweat, urine, and spittle, the use thereof being continued. So Tentzel. the D. of the tincture is g 3. to 9. in malmesey or some other liquour: of the bezoartick from 4. to 12. &c. The tincture of the solar glasse of antimonie, causeth sweat, with∣out vomiting or nauseousnesse, and cleanseth the bloud from all impu∣rities, and tartareous seculencies. it coagulates the microcosmick salt, which being dissolved, causeth the dropsie, and purgeth noxious phlegme out of the body: it cureth the gout, especially if taken with the arcanum of fearne. it easeth the paine of the joints caused by the french disease, and the disease it selfe, with convenient decoctions. it cureth ulcers, and is very good in the pestilence and other epide∣mick diseases: the D. is drach. 2. 3. or more. That of Basil, is an ex∣cellent diaphoretick, and purgeth well with the extract of rheubarb: so Hartm. Tentzel. Bicker: The tincture of crocus metallorum, pur∣geth, and vehemently moveth sweat: the D. is g. 6. to 12. of the febrifuge and antiphleuritick oile of antimonie of S. Closs. gr. 4. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the regulus of mars or ♀, or antidotos pan∣tagogos, purgeth the bloud, helpeth the appetite, strengthneth the bowels, cureth the cachexie, hypochondriack melancholy, jaundise, and dropsie, and that by gentle purgation: the D. is a few drops. 2 or. 3. &c. of the precipitate gr. 3. or 4. The balsame of the Regulus, and tincture thence, is a very excellent remedie in the diseases of the lungs; as the ph••hisick, asthma, and cough being often taken: the D. is g. 3. or 4. Kesl. The tincture of antimonie calcined with the lapis pru∣nellae purgeth downwards, and by sweat: the. D. is g. 2. 3. 4. &c. of the earth thereof remaining in the extraction with distilled viniger, if

dulcorated; g. 8. or 10. and stoppeth all fluxes of the belly. Basil. in curr. triumph. Baco de antimon. The tincture of red fixed antimonie, is of excellent vertue in dissolving bloud, breaking apostumes, and cu∣ring the french pocks, &c. the D. is g. 3. or 4. Bacon extols it for a pa∣nacaea. Paracels. in chirurg. mag. Basil. in curr. triumph. Hartm. in disp. Chym. Querc. Poter. Sala. The tincture of the flowers of antimonie, or Lilium Paracelsi, is a medicine restorative to the whole body, acting only by the correction of humours: it cleanseth the body of man more than any arcana: it's also usefull in obstructions of the liver, dropsie, morphew, leprosie, and in diseases of the spleen, as the scur∣vey, &c. it provoketh the termes, and if we may believe Basil, it gently purgeth downwards, with the extract of rheubarb and tincture of corall: the D. is g. 3. to 8. Basil's arcanum antimonii, strengthneth the stomach, consuming hurtfull humours, it causeth appetite, hel∣peth hypochondriack melancholy, suffocation of the womb, and col∣lick, &c. the D. is g. 1. or 2. The Solar Elixir of antimonie, or electrum & lili Parac. is an excellent remedie in the black jaundise, gout, and dropsie: the D. is the q. of a coriander seed in syrups, twice in a day for curation, and once in a month for preservation. The tincture of Basil, purgeth gently, and cureth feavers tertian and quar∣tans. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the flowers, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Querc. is a true balsame of life, that cannot be sufficiently commended: it's given with things appropriate, in the epilepsie, a∣poplexie, palsey, pestilent diseases, leprosie, morphew; and to cleanse the whole bloud: the D. is a few drops. Querc. in Tetr. The tin∣cture of the vitriolated flowers, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. is a true antidote against all sorts of feavers, even the pestilent: the D. is 4 or 5 drops in some convenient liquour. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the flowers of the Regulus, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. hel∣peth the whole masse of blood, the morphew, leprosie, kings evill, and french pocks, it restoreth and increaseth the naturall heat, consu∣meth the viscidities of the stomach, and cleanseth the body from all excrements, it's a very good medicine against the chollick, and suf∣focation of the matrix. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the precipi∣tated flowers of the regulus of mars, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. it's of most admirable vertues, and may be compared to the aurum po∣tabile it selfe. it openeth and cureth all inward impostumes, it dissol∣veth congealed bloud, and purifieth that which is corrupted, it's good against the leprosie, schrophula's, the french pocks, plague, and many other diseases; the D. is from 6 drops to 10. Gluckr. The tincture of the saccharate oile, purgeth downwards, the D. is g. 3. Hartm.

in pract. The tincture of the sulphur of antimonie is a great strength∣ner, provoketh sweat, and preserveth from the gout, the D. is g. 1. to 4. it also cures the spasme. The tincture of the aurate sulphur pro∣voketh sweat, and purgeth chiefely by the belly, without trouble, yet not the first, but 3d day. the D. is g. 4. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the sulphur, of the Joviale Regulus, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. is of equall vertue with balsame in curing all affections of the lungs, it helpeth the phthisick, difficulty of breathing, asthma, pleuresie, and peripneumonie, &c. to be short, it cureth very many dangerous diseases: the D. is g. 3. to 6 or more. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the Mercurie of antimonie with sol, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. is extraordinarie good against the plague, leprosie, morphew, &c. the D. is 3. 4. or 5 drops, in treacle water. Basil. in C. triumph. The magisteriate tincture, hath the vertues of ☉ Basil. Poter. in Pharmac. The infusion of crude antimonie purgeth both upwards and down∣wards. Hartm. in Croll. The infusion of the glasse of antimonie, is em∣etick with good effect, especially in those diseases, that are cured by vomiting, as coughs, pleuresies, quinsies, want of appetite, belchings, and many other of the first region: the D. is scrup. 1. to scrup. v. some also take a piece of the vitrum q. drach. ij. to unc. sem. without pou∣dering, and steep it in some beer or wine certaine houres, according as they desire it more or lesse strong and so straine, and use it▪ it is also to be admired, in the infusion thereof, that the emetick vertue is not exhausted, but it may be infused almost in infinitum, and that scarce any of the strength, or very little thereof will be lost: as also, that the same, if it be at all weakened; by new fusion doth recover its former vertue. The infusion of crocus metallorum, or aqua bene∣dicta. Querc. is given to unc sem. or more, and is thus made. ♃. croc. metal. Ungar. unc. 1. Aq. card. b. lib. ij. vel. 3. cinam. unc. sem. steep it two or three daies, then strain it, and keep it for use. That of Rulan∣dus is given from unc sem. to unc. ij. or use this, Take of crocus me∣tallorum, (either the common, or that of Hartm.) from gr. 3. to x. of sack, malmesey, hydromel, beere, or any other convenient liquor, from unc. sem. to ij. steep it, if necessity require boile it, and straine it through a paper: both these aq. benedictae, are usefull in the head∣ach, caused by the foulenesse of the stomach, which is often so, as also in the epilepsie, pleurisie, hypochondriack melancholy, feavers, plague gout, and coagulation of the bloud, &c. in all which they are to be given with an appropriate liquour: besides it's excellent good to give them in clysters, for the collic••••, sc. drach. sem. or drach. 1. being boiled in some convenient water or wine and the colature mixed

with broth, or the decoction of mollifying simples. Thold. in Halogr. Horst. The salt of antimonie, is equall in vertue to that of Sol, clean∣seth the bloud, purgeth the body from all excrements, cures the french pocks, gout, and feavers, breaketh apostumes, and outwardly cleanseth malignant ulcers: the D. is gr. 4. Basil. So the spirit of the crystals, and breaks the stone. Agric. The crystals open obstructions, arising from a viscous and tartareous mucilage, and purge downwards, there∣fore are of chiefe use in the hypochondriack melancholy, pleurisie, and tertian fever, &c. the D. is gr. 4. or 5. Note, antimonie is called by the Barbareans, Antistini. Alcosol Othi. enigmatically, Lupus, consu∣ming all mettals except Sol. Proteus, shewing all colours by the help of vulcaine. Radix metallorum, being their minerall or lying neere them. Saturnus philosophorum, for its devouring, and being some∣thing of his nature, and the Philosophers stone being thence made: and for the same reason it's called Magnesia Saturni. C. the best is the Hungarian and Transilvanian, having the purest sulphur, and being endowed with the minerall of Gold: and is found having more shining and long streaks, with an obscure rednesse (which sheweth its goodnesse, by reason of the abundance of brimstone) of which Paracelsus makes mention under the title of, rubens leo and Basil the monke in Curr. triumph. by the name of orientall: and this is most fit for the elaboration of medicines, it may be known also by its red line being drawn upon a sad coloured paper, smoothed with a boares tooth. Caes. waters running by antimonie, harden the nerves, contract, and fill them with phlegme. Fallop. The oile or bloud of anti∣monie is good against eating and malignant ulcers. The substance helpeth diseases of the eyes, and stoppeth bloud, issuing from the membrans of the braine, by a wound: it hath some sharp and sul∣phureous parts: it is used by women, as a fucus for the eyes, dilating them. The aether helps all externall ulcers. So Cardan. Erast. it doth also participate of quicksilver, tending upwards, working so quickly and violently, and purging forth both by vomit and stoole so many, so thick, so various, and tough humours: it serveth also to purge mettals, especially gold, it destroying the rest. Grevin. it par∣taketh of a plumbeous nature, its the matter thereof, and hath its faculties, being a forth kind of lead. It is used by b••lfou••de••s to help the sound of bells, a little thereof being added to the mettal, also it causeth it to meet sooner, Agric. being found in veines, it is a signe of silver. Plin. Stibium helps fluxes of the eyes, and exulcerations with frankincense, as also bloud flowing from the bra••ne it helps green wounds and old bitings of dogs, the powder being strewed thereon;

as also burning with fire with fat, litharge, ceruse, and wax. it is also mixed with plaisters, and collyries. Diosc. it's of the nature of burned lead. Fernel. it doth not corrode; but helps creeping ul∣cers, being used with oile of roses, myrrhe, mastick, omphacine, or meline. Fallop. it helps bleared eyes, and fluxes, and is a platyophthalmon. Aldrovand. it helps putrid ulcers, long feavers, the asthma, melan∣choly, paines of the belly, and many other dangerous diseases of the body. Note, H. it's not to be used in children, women great with child, effeminate men, as those that have a narrow breast, or vo∣mit with difficulty, and are subject to fainting. Caes. or to those that are slender or leane, or troubled with the mouth of the stomach or wringings in the belly or guts: In others, it is to be used, in disea∣ses that have their seat in the stomach, intestines, mesentery, and first passages only; its vertues not passing beyond the liver, therefore its counted excellent against the hypochondriacall melancholy, and long feavers, which arise from great obstructions, and thick and cold humours; as also against many other chronicall and dangerous di∣seases arising from phlegme, melancholy, or both mixed together, being used twice or thrice, or oftner, intermitting some dayes: after preparation of the body. As for the D. of stibium it is diverse, ac∣cording to the diversity of strength, temperaments, habit, age, diseases, and times of the yeare, therefore to those that are strong, and in inve∣terate diseases gr. 6. may be given in substance, and 3 to the weak, and 4 to those of indifferent strength, adding alwaies sugar of roses, and a little mastick, or some other thing: or it may be infused in ma∣lago wine, some water or cordiall decoction, with some thing that may take away acrimony. Fren. the purging and sweating water of antimony, almost without smell or tast, if taken to 20 drops will purge, else cause sweat. The essence is equall to aurum potabile; he D. is gr. 5. or. 6.

M.

Mercurie. Mercurius.

• P. In Spain, and Hungary, sc. the best: and other places.
• M. Of much earthy matter with water.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Zaibar. Barb. Azock. Chym. ☿.

MErcurie. Schrod. or Quicksilver. K. as the naturall and artificiall. T. Albert. is cold and moist 2^o. so Caes. V. inwardly it clean∣seth the bloud from its filth, especially the venerious, it expel∣leth wormes, and the difficult birth, &c. anointed outwardly, it helps all kinds of itch, killeth lice, and dissolveth hard tumours. being hung about the neck, it preserveth from the plague, (and as some would have it) from inchauntments and fascination: and as for its preparations, there is nothing in the shops except Antimonie, that will yeild greater variety of remedies than this: serving to purge, cause sweat, cleanse wounds, and appease acrimonie, especially in the running of the reins as appears in the forms of remedies thence made. The use of crude Mercury is both inward and outward, but oftener outwardly, seldomer inwardly, and then in pils: outwardly, in unguents, in which it sheweth not it selfe, and in plaisters for the itch, to be applied to the joints, but it's carefully and sparingly to be used: for being any where applied it causeth putrefaction by salivation, so also the precipitate. C. the best is that which lieth in mines neere gold or silver, and hath least of an ar∣senicall, antimonial, saturnine, or cadmiose commixture, and leaves no excrement in the retort, or leaves a yellow or white spot, and not dimme or black, being evaporated in a silver spoone. Mercurie precipi∣tate per se, doth strongly cause sweating, and given 6 or 7 times, doth eradicate the french disease. it cures all agues, and expels wormes: also for the most part it strongly causeth vomiting: See S••nn. Inst. Hart. in Crol. Tentz. Begu: Kest. The precipitate per silices, is of the same. D. and V. sc. from g. 4. to 6. Fixed Mercury, panacaea, doth dry up all noxious humours, and as a diaphoretick expelleth the same: the D. is scrup. sem. scrup. 1. or drach. sem. Crol. Senn. in Just. Begu. untz. The precipi∣tate by the oile of sulphur, purgeth all vitous humours, resolveth ca∣tarrhes, helpeth infirmities arising from the putrifaction of humours: and in dangerous diseases, there is scarce a more present remedie:

hence it's usefull in the dropsie, gout, french pocks, poyson, plague, feavers, malignant ulcers, and the itch: the D. is g. 3. to 8. Croll. Hartm. in Croll. Mercurius corallatus, as to the use, it's of the same with coralline. Ʋntz. The precipitate by the water of egges, cureth ulcers of the neck of the bladder, though counted almost incurable. It cureth wounds, and externall ulcers. Begu. Gluckr. Kest. The precipitate by the tincture of smiris, called the miraculous, purgeth upwards and down∣wards: the D. is gr. 3. or 4. Begu. Hartm. in pract. The common preci∣pitate purgeth both waies: the D. is g. 6. to 12. The white vomitivoca∣thartick of S. Closs. D. is given from scrup. sem. to gr. 12. with drach. ij. of confectio hamech, in the siphylis, leprosie, tinea and schrophula's; as also in the erysipelas, the venereous chiefely. The D. of the rectified precipitate, is from g. 4. to 6. So Ʋntz. Hartm. in Croll. it purgeth down∣wards, especially febrile matter, it's usefull in the plague, and epide∣micall diseases, being given in treacle before the fit. The incarnate pre∣cipitate also is given to work downwards, D. from gr. 6. to x. so the Lu∣teous. The precipitate of Senn. in Inst. D. is given from. gr. 1. to 6. Hartm. in Croll. The solar precipitate doth mightily cleanse the bloud, and the whole body from the french pocks. It's also very effectuall in the dropsie, expelling the water by urine and drying up the foun∣taine thereof. It helpeth the falling sicknesse, collick, quartain ague, & malignant and cancrous ulcers. The solar reguline or diaphorctick preci∣pitate, is most excellent in all diseases that require sweating: the D. is gr. 3 or 4. That of Hercules Bovius (as he saith) excels all other cathar∣ticks; and killeth wormes. it helpeth the french pocks, spotted feavers, plague, quartane agues, and other dangerous diseases: the D. is gr. 3 to 8. with sugar of roses, an egge, broth, or pils. Hartm. The aurum vitae, helpeth the plague, and many other diseases. That of S. Closs. pur∣geth gently, and causeth much sweat. the D. is gr. 8. or 12. That of Senn. in Inst. Hartm. in pract. purgeth gently by stoole, without vomiting, ex∣cept the stomach be very foule. it's a great arcanum in the dropsie, french pocks, all affections of the skinne and defluxions; also when the body is full of pituitous diseases, and humiditie. the D. is g. 3. to 8. with a little turpentine or some extract. Hartm. in Croll. The virid or venereous precipitate, is specificall in the virulent gonorrhoea, which if excessive it removeth, and promoveth if insufficient: there∣fore its use is to be continued every day untill the flux be quite stop∣ped: the D. is g. 2. to 8. The reguline sublimate serveth to the pre∣paration of Mercurius dulcis: and other remedies made by it selfe. The common Mercurius dulcis, draco mitigatus, doth gently purge forth all noxious humours without trouble, insomuch that it may be given to infants; D. it may be given to drach. sem. but that it may

worke the sooner, and not abide in the body, it may be acuated with diagridium, or the trochisci alhandal &c. and is given with the same from 8. gr. to 15. and more. So Hartm. in Croll. Senn. in Jnst. Tentzel. The water hence made, aq aluminis Fallop. helpeth inflammations, fistula's and malignant ulcers, cleansing and cicatri∣zing, especially in the french disease, and itch. The sweet talcose sublimate of S. Closs. doth pleasantly purge without vomiting, opens obstrustions, and cooleth, and is very safe in intermitting fevers. The lanugo perlata or silver flowers of Mercurie of S. Closs. D. are given to gr. 6. in the forme of pils, with a little of the extract of liquorish, and gently bring forth vitious humours, in the quotidian feaver, itch, and leprosie. Croll. The red sublimate mercurie not corrosive. arca∣num corallinum, purgeth chiefely by stoole, and is a great secret in the dropsie, french pocks, gout, itch, ulcers, cancers, &c. so the Mercuriall. So Hart. in Croll. Tentzel: The manna mercurii, or solar mercurius dulcis, is of admirable vertue in the falling sicknesse and venerious diseases, being thus brought to the highest degree of medicine. The corrected coralline arcanum of S. Closs. D. is given from gr. 5. to x. with a pan∣chymagogon. or gr. 8. with pils of washed aloes. C. Faus. The purging panacaea of mercurie. D. is given from gr. 5. to 8. The mercuriale oile of antimonie, or butter, Liquor gummosus, is used alone onely outwardly, in the gangreen and sphacelus, in which if the dead part be here∣with anointed, the putrefaction creepeth no further, and it's more fit for section: it also killeth the pestilentiall carbuncle, and fits it for other plaisters. Chirurgions often use it as a corrosive: and hereof is made the mercurius vitae, and minerall bezoardick. Croll. Senn. in I••st. Beg. Sala. Kest. Tentzel. Mercurie of life, pulvis angelicus or aquila alba, cleanseth by stoole and vomit, the whole body, especially the first re∣gion, from noxious humours. It's of excellent use in the plague, di∣seases of the head, french pocks, malignant ulcers, feavers, joynt ach, and dropsie, in which for the most part it works strongly without vo∣miting: the D. is gr. 2. to 4. or 2. 3. or 4. gr. may be steeped in a draught of wine, and so taken being filtrated, or take mercurius vitae scrup. 1. sem. of sack unc. 18. the D. is unc. 1. Note the purging vertue here∣of is never exhausted, being like the vitrum antimonii: as also that it's not to be used too much, it then causing a falling of the fundament. The Mercurie of life corrected purgeth very well by stool, and bring∣eth forth any impuritie: the D. is g. 4. to 6. Hartm. Senn. Tentzel. Agric. The cathartick purgeth onely downwards. The mineral lax∣ative. D. is given from g. 6. to 12. Querc. in pharm. Croll. Senn. Iust. Kest. Hartm, in pract. & in Croll. The mineral bezoardick, is a great

alexiterie, and very whole some medicine for provoking sweat••it is of great effect in all pestilentiall and venenate affections: the D. is g. 6. to 12. and more. The compound solar bezoardick doth migh∣tily provoke sweat, and is good therefore in the apoplexie, palsey, gout, joint ach, and trembling of the limbs: the D. is g. 4. to 8. The solar bezoardick of Croll. is good in the french pocks, plague, gout, dropsie, feaver, and obstructions of the spleen: the D. is g. 3. to 8. yet that of Hartm. in Croll. & Senn. in Inst. is more effectuall. The Lu∣nar bezoardick, helpeth the distempers of the head, especially the ••ry∣sipelas in the heads of women, the D. is g. 6. to 12. Scheun. in hydro∣mant. The martiall bezoardic••, is specificall in all fluxes of the belly, especially such as proceed from the liver. The Joviall bezo∣ardick, doth strongly provoke sweat, and is a polychreston against ob∣structions of the liver: the D. is g. 2. to 8. The Saturnine helpeth di∣seases of the spleen▪ the D. is g. 6. The spirit, or white diaphoretick oile of mercurie, serveth to cause sweat: the D. is g. 1. or 2. so Rhenan: chy∣motech. Hartm. in pract: The spirit or red oile thereof, as the other spirit, expelleth by sweat whatsoever is hurtfull to the body, and hardly overcome by other remedies, it cureth the pustuls and knots of the french pocks, easeth paine, exsiccates, and consolidates stinking and running ulcers: the D. is g. 1. or 2. &c. in treacle water, the spirit of pockwood, or some decoction, &c. The sweet diaphoretick oile, cureth malignant and cancrous ulcers, especially of the reines, and bladder, it may be used both inwardly and outwardly. Basil, The sweet oile called astrum, is diaphoretick, and a specifick remedie in the french disease: and of the same vertue, with the salt of mer∣curie, made of the residue. That also of Quere. in Tetr. is diapho∣retick. The saccharate oile and spirit of mercurie, is excellent good in ulcers of the bladder, or other affects proceeding from the French disease. the D. of the spirit is 3 or 4 drops. The sulphur or Tincture of mercurie, aquila caelestis, Parac. is excellent to cure the gout, falling sicknesse, and french pocks &c. the radix whereof it expelleth by sweat: the D. is g. 3 or 4. Basil. The oile of mercurie antimoniale, strengthens the braine, cureth the apoplexie, and may be used in stead of a panacaea. The liquour of mercurie, cureth wounds, and malig∣nant ulcers, being dropped into them. That of Ʋntz. helpeth the gout, and those that are infected with the french pocks. it cures the canker, fistula's, and all foule ulcers, putrid and inveterate being used inwardly or outwardly: the wh••te sweet oil hereof used inwardly hel∣peth exulcerated reines and the stone, and ulcers being applied. Hartm. in pract. The sweet diaphoretick oile, D. is given from g. 2. to 6.

So the joviall liquour and may be used both inwardly and outwardly. Thold. ex Basil. The salt of mercurie is a great and most effectuall ar∣canum in the extirpation of the french disease though radicated and inveterate, it clenseth the bloud, and there∣fore cureth all kinds of ulcers, with and without malignity, itch, and ringwormes: the D. is g. 1. 2. or 3. Caes. Waters running by mercurie, if drunk, are carried to the head, and fill the same, and thence fall to the gummes, hurting them and the limbs, as appeares by the oint∣ments of quicksilver. Isid. being taken in too great a q. it breaketh the intrals by its weight. Bras. given to infants it kils wormes. scrup. 1. facilitats delivery. it is very cold and moist and causeth congelation of the bloud; so Matth. it is to be kept in glazen vessels, it consu∣ming other matter, except glazed vessels. all things swimme therein, except gold which it attracts, and purifieth. it serveth to guild with being mixed with Gold, so laid on, and put to the fire, which disper∣ses the quicksilver; and it may after be seperated by aqua fortis. it looseneth the teeth. The water whitens the face. The sublimat in three houres, corrodes the body. Anon. Mercurius dulcis is excellent against the wormes: and it's used by some against the french disease also. Fren. the purgative and diaphoretick water of quick∣silver causeth vomit also. The fragrant oile helps the filth of the bloud, the D. is 4 drops. The outward sudorifick water used to the wrists causeth sweat.

S.

Sinople. Cinnabaris.

• P. It is to be had in Hungary, and Germany.
• M. Of Sulphur and quicksilver with a terrestriall matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Minium Diosc. & Cinnabari.

SInople. Schrod. K. as the naturall and artificiall. T. Diosc. it's of the nature of haematites. V. it's sometimes used inwardly, being mixed with antepileptick remedies: outwardly it cureth the french pocks, and itch, in suffiments &c. C. the best is that which is heavy, and therefore that of Hungary, being of a solar nature, and having the best sulphur and Mercurie. Hartm. The diaphoretick precipitate hereof, is an universall remedie, fit to be given in any desease, hel∣ping

the inward balsam to expell what is offensive, either by vomit, stoole, or sweating: the D. is g. 1. or. 2. Diosc. Cinnabaris is usefull against diseases of the eyes, as the haematite: but is more effectuall, being more astringent, and stopping the bloud; in cerots: it helpeth burnings with fire; and breakings out of pushes, being used in cerots, also Caes. Matth. it helps the fluxes of women, dysentery, and spit∣tings of bloud; it fastneth the teeth, and strengthneth the gummes; but this as also that of Diosc. agreeth rather to the lachrimose cinna∣baris, or sanguis draconis, than to the metallick. Aldrovand. minium both fossile and factitious, are seldome used in physick inwardly; yet some chymists use it in pils, in the old french disease, and the fume with wood of aloes, and myrrh. &c.

Mettalls naturall Excrements.

C.

Chalcite. Chalcitis.

• P. It is to be found in the Isle so called, neer Bithynia.
• M. Os sory in continuance of time.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So Calep. Gal. Plin. &c.

CHalcite. Diosc. T. is hot, abstersive obstructive or stopping; corrosive, and maketh escharres. Schrod. it burneth, and doth something bind. it's of thinner parts than Sory, but of thick∣er than Misy. Caes. Diosc. it exulcerates, and cleanseth what is in the eyes, or corners thereof. it gently eateth, it helps S. Anthonies fire, and creeping ulcers. with the juyce of leeks, it stops the flux of bloud out of the nostrils, and wounds. it helps vices of the gumms, and eating ulcers of the tonsils, sc. its powder, burnt and mixt with hony, it helps callous and rough eye browes, and fistula's. Psoricum helpe the itch.

Cobalt. Cobaltum.

• P. It's to be sound neere Goslaria, and to be had there:
• M. It's generated of brasse or silver.
• N. Cadmia nativa, fossilis, metallica.

CObalt. Schrod. T. is caustick and corrosive, in so much that it exulcerates the hands and feet of those that digge it: and there∣fore it's reckoned amongst poysons, it killing whatsoever creature ta∣keth the same.

M.

Marcasite. Marcasita.

• P. It's found in Mines, and to be digged there.
• M. Of matter not fit for the generation of mettal.
• N. Bismuth••m. Marchasita librariorum, Aldrov.

MArcasite. T.V. Schrod. the vertues thereof answer those of leads excrement; but it is very seldome used, and only outwardly. Begu. The magisterie thereof helpeth the vices of the skinne, sc. ringwormes, lichens, and roughnesse of the hands, &c. Parac. The oile or liquour and salt of marcasite, are very effectuall in cancrous ulcers, fistula's, and other malignant affections. The water thereof, is said to draw out the vertue of Gold, leaving a white body, and to revive any dry plant, the root being put therein: as also to shew the forme of any plant, it being mixed with the distilled water, and a little of the salt of any herbe. The same water with it's own salt (of the caput mortuum) alcalised is said miraculously to dissolve Gold, but the credit hereof may be left to experience. Andr. Orthel. in Lum. Chym. also this water kept in a close vessel, is said to increase in the new of the moon, and decrease in the full thereof. The extractum marcasitae aureae of S. Closs. being knea∣ded with crumms of bread, and made into pils of the bignesse of pease, purgeth the body, in intermitting agues; the D. is one pill, of gr: VI. The other extract of the same author doth mightily purge serous humours, and miraculously help the dropsie.

Misy. Misy.

• P. It is to be had in, and brought from Cyprus.
• M. Of and upon chalcitis, melanteria, and vitriol.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So Diosc. Gal. Calep. &c.

MIsy. Aet. T. is very astringent, burning, and of thinner parts than chaleitis. So Schrod. Caes. it's of the same vertue with Chalcitis, Diosc. but differing in degree. C. the Aegyptians is the best, being most effectuall; but much inferiour in occular remedies. Fer∣nel. This as also sory, chalcitis; and vitriol, burned and washed, doth mightily cleanse fistula's, and malignant ulcers: So Caes.

S.

Sory. Sory.

• P. It's to be had in Egypt, Lybia, Spaine, and Cyprus.
• M. It's of the same kind as Melanteria.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So Gal. Diosc. Aldrov. &c.

SOry. Diosc. the Aegyptian is astringent. V. it helpeth the teeth be∣ing put therein. Schrod. it burneth and causeth escharres, and is of thick parts. Diosc. it is in vertue like the former, and causeth vomiting, it fixeth the teeth, infused in wine, it helpeth the sciati∣ca, applied with water it helps spots in the face. it's used also in medicines that make the haire black: but these and other things that are not burned, are stronger than after, except salt, the dreggs or wine, nitre, and lime, &c. C. the best is the Egyptian, hollow, fattish, and stinking.

Mettals Artificiall Excrements.

C.

Cadmia. Cadmia.

• P. It's made in furnaces when the brasse is tried.
• M. Of the soute of brasse, when made.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. cl••mia.

CAdmia. Schrod. K. as the botritis, ostracitis, & placites. T. it gently dryeth, and cleanseth▪ V. it cureth moist, & putrifying ulcers, and cicatrizeth the same: but the botritis and placitis are used chiefe∣ly in the affections of the eyes, the rest in ulcers, in other parts. The native metallick, see in cobaltum. That without mettall. in lopis cala∣minris C. the best is the botritis, thick, moderately heavy, smooth, of a racemose superficies, which being broken is cinerulent. Diosc. it bin∣deth, filleth hollow ulcers, purgeth forth filth, and stoppe••h the pores of the body. it restraineth excrescencies in the flesh, and causeth crusts.

D.

Diphryges. Diphruges.

• P. It's made of brasse w••en in the surnace.
• M. Of brasse settling by cold water.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So called by the Ancients.

DIphriges. T. hath a mixed facultie, being meanly astringent and sharp. V. therefore it's most excellent against foule ulcers; yet it's seldome used in the shops. Diosc. it purgeth and clean∣seth, drieth, and consumeth excrescencies: it cicatrizeth creeping ul∣cers. being used with turpentine, or in a cerot, it discusseth suppu∣rations. C. the best is that which hath the cast of brasse, or the rust thereof, being astringent, and mightily drying the tongue.

L.

Litharge. Lithargyrium.

• P. In Asia, Spain, Cicily and Campania, &c.
• M. Its a spumous excrement of silver.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lithargyros. Lithargyrium.

LItharge. Schrod. K. as the white and yellow. T. drieth, cooleth moderately, bindeth, represseth, shutteth, filleth up hollow places, detergeth, and is sarcotick: so the salt and is like that of Sa∣turne: Inwardly it helps diarrhoea's, dysenteries, and other diseases of solution. it cureth and consolidates the intestines; hurt, and exulce∣rated, and refrigerates the blood when hot: the D: is drach. sem. with treacle, or any other sudorisick or anodyne electuary. The red oile of litharge, cureth wounds of the eyes. The caput nigrum is to be cast upon wounds. The terebinthine tincture or balsame thereof, is of excellent use in chirurgy, old ulcers, tumours, and wounds, preser∣ving them from accidents, especially unc. sem. of camphire being ad∣ded; also it helps fistula's, cancers, and the morphew, &c. The bal∣ame or unguent helps inflamations, burnings, and the hot gout, &c. •••• Silver.

P.

Plumbage. Plumbago.

• P. It sticks to the furnace in the purifying of Silver or Gold.
• M. Of Silver or Gold purified, with lead.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Molybdaena.

PLumbage. T. it's like litharge in vertue, a little inclining to cold, and no abstersive. V. Diosc. it hath the vertue of the spume of silver, or excrement of lead, and is burned and washed after the same manner. It's fitly mixed with soft plaisters, and such as are not biting. it causeth flesh, and cicatrizeth ulcers; but it agreeth not with glewing or abstersive remedies.

T.

Tuttie. Tutia.

• P. In the upper part of the furnace, when the brasse is melted.
• M. Of the thinne and volatile part of brasse.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Pompholyx. spodium. bulla. nil. Nihili album: et spodiū grise••••.

TUttie. T. is the best of almost all, remedies that dry without bi∣ting, when washed. V. therefore it's good against cancrous ulcers, and others malignant, it's put into collyries against fluxions to the eyes, and against pushes and swellings. The greek spodium, or nil gryscum is of the same vertue: in stead of which sometimes cad∣mia is used. Renod. Horst. Pompholix is like volatile meale, and white, and so is elevated upwards; but that which falleth downwards is called spodium, and is more heavy: they are both made in the same furnace, and are so neere in nature; that the one may be a substi∣tute for the other▪ as for Tuttie, some is neerer the colour of brasse, and fattish; the other is more white and light, yet lesse usefull for the Cyprian, is counted best, which with vineger yeelds the fu••e of brasse, and is of a kind of pitch colour, but of the tast of mud. before it may be used, it must be prepared, that is washed, after this man∣ner: the pompholix is to be wrapped up in an indifferent fine white cloth, and bound up, and so moved about in a vessel full of cleane water, so that the more usefull and finer part may passe into the wa∣ter, and the excrementitious way be left behind, and the other may be left to residence. There are other waies of washing it; but this may suffice, and is like that in the London Dispensatory; in which also, their is an unguent hereof made.

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.

THEIOLOGIA. Of Sulphurs.

A.

Agath. Gagales.

• P. It's found in Germany, and Cilicia, and other places.
• M. Of a black, stony earth, full of bitumen.
• N. Obsidianus, Thracius, Agric. Caes.

AGath. Diosc. mollifieth and discusseth. V. the suffumigation sheweth the falling sicknesse, and helpeth the strangula∣tion of the womb, it driveth away serpents by its savour, it's also used in podagrick medicines, and such as ease paine or wearisomnesse. Schrod. it's said to cure the collick drach. 1. being taken powdered seven dayes together. Aet. being heated red hot and quenched in wine it helps the cardiack passion. The oile helpeth the epilepsie, madnesse, palsey, spasme, cramp, joint-ach, and suffocation of the matrice, being anointed on the nostrils. Plin. Caes. being boiled in wine the Agath helps the teeth, and botches being mixed with wax. Isid. the sume sheweth virginity, it is kindled by water, and quenched by oile; so Maiol. Caus. Zanard. Aldrovand. being worne it helps the ephialtes, and night feares. it helps old troublesome cold flatuous swellings of the knees, and dryeth with the barbarum plaister; with wax it helpeth botches, and is very good in the cold gout, and all cold affections; it's of the nature of bitumen, the powder with wine helps the tooth∣ach, it's diuretick and causeth delivery, it helps the dropsie and liver, the oile helps the epilepsie, palsey, cramp, and suffocation of the womb.

Amber. Succinum.

• P. It is to be found in the Sea in Italy, and the Ocean.
• M. Of a bituminous juice, and rosin of the earth well digested.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Ambra citrina. Electrum. Chrysolectrum. Ca∣rabe. Glessum. Resina terrae, Paracelsi.

Amber. Schrod. K. as the yellow, white, and black. T. it hea∣teth, dryeth, strenghneth, gently bindeth, and is appropriated chiefly to the head and womb. V. therefore it's profitably used in ca∣tarrhes, the epilepsie, apoplexie, lethargy, vertigo, suffocation and in∣flation of the matrix, in the flux of bloud, and sperme which it re∣duceth to it's naturall state, also it helps the whites in women, but the globuls are excellent against defluxions to the eyes, being used to the hinder part of the head; and applied to the neck, hinder distilla∣tions to the throat. so Bapt. Port. and Matth. The white is most used, and that both inwardly and outwardly. the D. is to drach. 1. some commend it for an amulet against the plague, the pulses being often rubbed with the same. C. the white is the best, and most digested and fragrant: the next is the yellow, pellucid, and sweet when rubbed. the black is worse. The prepared amber is of the same vertue with the first. The magisterie, being the more pure and resinous part is more strong. That made hereof when powdered, a little tosted, ha∣ving distilled vineger poured thereon, and so extracted, and precipitated with the spirit of vitriol, is sudorifick and diuretick. The sweet fixed magisterie of amber is an excellent sudorifick and very usefull in the measles, and pleuresie, and comforteth the heart, &c. the D. is g. 6. to 12. the pills and troches thereof may be seen in the London Dis∣pensatory. Callist. Caes. being drunk it helps the difficulty of urine, hung about the neck it helps feavers. powdered, with honey and oile of ro∣ses it helps the vices of the eares: and of the eyes, with attick honey; as also of the stomach being drunk in water; so Plin: Ru. it's used as an amulet for children, against phantasies. it helps fluxes of the stomach and belly. Agric it strengthens the bowels, and other parts of the body, if there be not a plenitude of humours; being drunk with wine it prevents the epilepsie, resolution, convulsion, and di∣stension of the nerves, and helpes the paines of the stomach, especally the o••le, and helps the trembling of the heart. the fume dryeth the phlegme of the head, and helps parturition, and infection of the

aire; so Cardan. Aldrov. the magisterie helps cicatrices and virtigoes. so the oile.

Amber-griece. Ambra grysea.

• P. It's brought from the Septentrional region.
• M. It's a kind of bitumen cast from the Sea.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Ambarum. ambara.

Amber-griece. Schrod. T. heateth, dryeth, resolveth, strengthens the heart and braine, and restores the vital and animal spirits, by its sulphureous and sweet exhalation. V. therfore its often used in balls, to correct infected aire, and to preserve the spirits from infe∣ction, which balls are therefore called vulgarly poma ambrae, or Po∣manders. The essence of amber-griece is given in the q. of a few g. Hartm. in pract. & in Croll. Essentificated amber-griece is an excel∣lent strengthner of all the bowels, especially it provokes procreation: the D. is the q. of a small pease, in wine or some other liquour. C. The best is the amber-griece, and that of an ash colour, clean, sweet, light, & which sends forth a fat juyce, being pricked with a needle; the black and very white are bad. the factitious is known by odour shewing the materials, as also by colour commonly black, and quickly is disolved in water, it's made of musk, civet, wood of aloes, siorax, and lada∣num.

Arsnick. Arsenicum.

• P. In Mysia, Pontus & Cappadocia.
• M. Of a mineral sout, or juice, fat, and combustible.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Auripigmentum. Arab. Harnet.

Arsnick. Schrod. K. as the white or crystall••ne, citrine or yellow, called orpine, and red called sandaracha. Diosc. T. it's astrin∣gent and corrosive. V. it causeth crusts, by it's vehement burning, and violent biting, it represseth excrescencies, and eradicates the haire. Sandaracha, helps the alopecia, (being used with rosin••) with pitch it helps rough nailes, with oile it helps the phthiriasis or

lousiness, with fat, it discusseth knots, with oile of roses, it helps the ulcers of the mouth, and nostrils, and other breakings forth of pushes, and swellings in the fundament. with honied wine it helps spitting of purulent matter. the fume taken with rosin, through a funnel, helpeth an old cough. it cleares the voice taken with honey, and shortness of breath, made into a pill with rosin. Schrod. arsnick is not the least among poysons, being sharp and adverse to the balsame of life, insomuch that not only inwardly, but used outwardly it of∣ten produceth horrid symptomes. H. sc: convulsions, stupidity in the hands and feet, cold sweats, palpitations and faintings of the heart, vomiting, corrosions and paines in the intestines, thirst, and unquiet∣ness; yet it hath some usefull faculties inwardly in the curing of the plague, and other poysonsome affections, as also of the malignant itch or scab, and cancrose evils, being rightly prepared and used. outwardly, it's used in cauteries, and amulets. as for orpine and sanda∣racha, they are almost of the same vertue. note the sandaracha of the Arabians is only the gumme of juniper. (the white arsnick is the best, & oftenest used, the yellow seldome, and the red less often, of the white crystaline, the best is heavy, hard, pure, tending to a milkie colour R. the remedie against orpine, and sandaracha which is more concocted in the earth is whatsoever dulleth its ac••imonie, and looseneth the belly, as the juyce of mallows, decoction of lineseed, rice, honied water, fat broth, much milk, and good juyces: so Diosc. Querc. in Alexicac: The sweet arsnick, is so farre from hurting those that take it; as that it will gently, and without any perturbation, expell those poy∣sons, which will not yeeld to other catharticks. D. the sublimate thereof may be given in substance, in infusion to 5, 6, 7. or 8 graines: also per deliquium, it may be reduced into an oile, usefull in ulcers. The diaphoretick Rubinus of arsnick, is specifick in affections of the lungs from thick catarrhes; also it may be used to provoke sweat, in mal••gnant and venenate d••seases: used outwardly it cureth all mali∣gnant ulcers hard to be cured the D. is from 5 gr. to 8 Tentzel. Querc. arsenick thus prepared may be given to scrup. 1. after the same man∣ner may be made the rubinus of orpine, used in an equal dose, and for the same affections. The oile of orpine, as also the fixed is a sudorifick. Mull. in mirac. chym. Querc. in spag. The fixed arsnick for sudori∣ficks, moveth sweat, given with triacle: the D. is g, 3, 4, or 5. The anodyne oile, butter or liquour of orpine, cureth venemous ulcers, in the french pocks, the cancer, tetter, fistula's of the fundament, and bitings of a mad dogge, used in plantain water, so mixed that it may not offend the tongue, and so used to the wound. S. Closs. as for the

spirit of arsnick it dissolveth iron radically, and affords an ingresse in∣to metallick bodies: but the butter of arsnick, is a violent septick, it eradicates exulcerated cancers, yet an equall q. of opium ought to be added to take away the feeling of paine, and it's to be applied with lint, and convenient defensives. Caes. waters flowing amongst orpine or sandaracha, heat, and bind; but they clarifie the voice, and help shortnesse of breath. Caes. The oile is caustick. Albert. Mag. arsnick is of a sulphurious nature, burning, more hot than dry, and there∣fore putrefactive and biting, and if burned it's of more thinne parts; Agric. orpine wrapped in a cloath and applyed to the heart freeth a man from the plague. Aldrovand. the oile of the luteous arsnick ap∣plied to the pulses, expelleth poyson by vomit stool and sweat. it's used in plaisters with sulphur lime and sope to cure fistula's, by pu∣rifying and cleansing them, so Schol. Salern: some use the oile in stead thereof.

Asphalte. Asphaltos.

• P. In Judaea, being a Country in Asia.
• M. Of the bitumen of the macrocosme.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Bitumen. Sevum. Resina.

Asphalt. Plin. T. Bitumen is of the nature of sulpur: it discusseth, stopps, contracts, and gleweth V. Agric. drunk it dissolves clotted bloud, and causeth the termes. applied it helpes the scab in cattle, the Babilonian helps wefts and spotts in the eyes, leprosies, tetters, itch, and gouts. the fume drives away serpents, and discovers the epilepsie. it's hot and dry 2^o, the black dryeth and digesteth. Perer: it bin∣deth wounds, and gleweth the nerves Caes. bituminose waters, mol∣lifie the nerves, and heat them; but fill the head, and dull the sen∣ses, especially the eyes. Diosc. C. That of Judea is the best, which shineth like purple, and that is ponderous and of a strong smell; but the black and sordid is bad. It is adulterated by pitch: and Pissas∣phalt is used in its steed.

B.

Brimstone. Sulphur.

• P. It is to be had in Italy. Bohemia. and Melos.
• M. Of the resin and fat of the earth, full of a vitriolat acidity.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Cibur. Rabrick. Chym. Akiboth. Ahusal. Tin.

BRimstone. K. as the naturall, and factitious. T. Diosc. sulphur heateth, discusseth, and quickly concocts. V. it helps coughs, shortness of breath, spitting of purulent matter, taken in an egge, or by fume; and so expels the birth; with turpentine it helps the leprosie, ringworme, and scabbed nailes. applied with vineger it helps the leprosie; and with rosin helps the wounds by scorpions; so with vineger, and those of the sea-dragon, with nitre it helpes the itch breaking out in the whole body, it cureth the jaundice; a spoonefull thereof being put upon the forehead, or taken in a soft egge. it cures heaviness of the head, and destillations: applied it hindereth sweating. it cureth the gout being anointed with water and nitre. the fume thereof taken in a funnell helpeth deafness, and the lethargy, it stops bloud flowing out of any part, and helps the eares bruised, being applied with wine or honey. Schrod. it dryeth, and is appropriated to the breast. so it openeth, incideth, & resists poy∣son, and the bitings of venemous beasts, provoking sweat, &c: there∣fore it helps the phthis••ck, plague, and pestilentiall feavers; outward∣ly it helps hard tumours, &c. C. the best is the purest, greenish, that easily inflamed; burning bright, and yeelding a more skie co∣loured smoake. The vitriolat Flowers of brimstone, resist putrefaction, provoke sweat, and dry, &c. therefore are good in the plague, and pestilentiall feavers, either by way of preservation or curation. they are also very profitably used in catarrhes, diseases of the lungs, and coughs, &c the D. is drach. 1. to the strong, drach. sem. to the young, and scrup. sem. for preservation, with the extract of elicampane. The gummmate or myrrhate flowers, are stronger than the simple, both in drying, and resisting putrefaction. Querc. in Pharm. rest. The sac∣charate, are better also than the former against the asthma, and other diseases of the lungs. Senn. Jnst. Tentzel. The white flowers of sulphur, are in vertue aad operation equall to the milk of brimstone. The corallate, are better than the common, and a balsam made

hereof is an excellent balsame for the lungs. The benzoinate, are preserved as smelling better, and of more vertue. Milke of brimstone, is a balsam for the lungs, and is therefore given against catarrhes, the flux of the head, asthma, phthisick, cough, collick, &c: it helps expectoration, intercepts defluxions to the joynts, and prevents and discusseth the windiness of the stomach and intestines. D. so much of the powder must bee mixed as may colour the vehickle white, and one spoonfull thereof may be given morning and evening: note the vehi∣cle must be some appropriate liquor; as the water of cinamon, bawm, or spirit of wine, &c. Quercetan giveth drach. 1. as a cathartick. The milke thereof of S. Closs. operates as that of Crollius; but because that it sometimes failes, or is but little precipitated, this infallible kind was invented. The spirit of sulphur, as it is scarce any thing else than the spirit of vitriol, so also it hath the same vertues, further∣more, it serveth against the plague, and asthma, &c. and is profita∣bly used outwardly in the falling down of the fundament; a little thereof being mixed with plantine water, and so applied with a spunge to the place affected: see Senn. Jnst. Begu. Gluckr. Tentzel. The acid water, acidity, or phlegme of brimstone works as the former spirit; but is less effectuall, and seldomer used. Croll. The water, or ens of the balsam of sulphur, is of the same use with the flowers, in the plague feavers, collick, obstructions, and other affections of the lungs. The linate oile of sulphur helps ulcers, and ripens pestilentiall botches. Tile∣man. The golden oile of brimstone, is given with good success in ca∣chexies, and obstructions of the bowels, and preserveth from the plague. The red oile is of great use in ripening pestilentiall buboes. The true oile of sulphur of S. Closs. is an excellent vulnerary remedy, taken inwardly, it cureth inward ulcers, resisteth the suffocation of the matrix, plague, collick, catarrhs, the asthma, empyema, and provo∣keth urine: the D. is 3 drops in some convenient syrup, or the yolk of an egge. Querc. in pharm. rest. Hartm. in pract. Senn. Jnst. Begu. and others. The turpentined balsam of sulphur, or rubinus thereof, is most excellent against the phthisick, for it's good to consolidate the ulcers of the lungs, it preserveth from the plague, and other con∣tagious diseases, also it serveth for the tincture of sulphur: the D. is g. 4. to 7. sc. separated from its solver, or 20. therewith. The compound balsame of sulphur, or balsame of life, worketh more strong∣ly than the simple. That of Rulandus to be used outwardly, is used in diverse griefes. The tincture of brimstone is more effectuall than the balsame. That of S. Closs. is used in the plague, feavers, the scurvey, obstructions of the liver, and diseases of the lungs: the D. is

8 drops. The crystals of the tincture of sulphur are given to g. 4. in some appropriate liquour. The salt of brimstone is very effectuall a∣gainst wormes. The essence of sulphur, is of great vertue to resist pu∣trefaction, the D. is 8 drops: in which essence if myrrhe, aloes, or spices are infused, and the tincture be, extracted by B. M. it's called the dead man's balsam. so Basil. in rep. lap. ph. Caes. Sulphureous wa∣ters heat, and greatly mollifie the nerves; therefore help resolutions, convulsions, tremblings, stupidity, and contractions; also they di∣scusse the swelling of the ioints, and ease paines of the hip, feet, or hands used in a bath; they cure the scab, ulcers, leprosie, and mor∣phew, paines of the liver, spleen, and womb, and wonderfully re∣solve tumours therein, but they laxe and weaken the stomach. Fal∣loo. the oile operates, as that of brimstone. Agric. brimstone is of a drawing nature: Cardan. being drunk or applied it helps the french pocks; but the oile is most effectuall. Plin. it helps the running at the nose, and distillations to the inferiour parts. applied with water it helps the gout. Gal. it's hot, and of thinne parts.

L

Lithanthrax. Lithanthrax.

• P. The place is not much observed.
• M. It is a kind of a terrene bitumen.
• N. Carbo petrae, & carbo fossilis.

LIthanthrax. Schrod. T. V. it's not as yet used in physick, but it's probable there may thence be drawn an oile, to ripen ulcers, and soften tumours It is a fossile kind of terrene bitumen, stony, fri∣able, and black; it's cald carbo, because in diverse places in England and Germany, it is used to nourish fire with all.

N.

Naphth. Naphtha.

• P. It is to be found in Austagen of Parthia.
• M Of a bituminous matter, and fiery.
• N. Medeae oleum. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

NAphtha. Diosc. T. V. it helps suffusions and spotts of the eyes, it's easily sired, and leapeth therein though at a distance, it's a kind of bitumen, all which discusse, glew, soften, defend from inflam∣mation, and help the falling down and strangling of the womb, being either smelled to, applied, or suffumigated. the fume discovereth the falling sicknesse, after the manner of the Agath-stone. drunk with wine and castor it draweth the purgations of women. it cureth the old cough, and shortness of breath. it helps the bitings of serpents, and paines of the hipps and sides. it's given against the coeliack in pills. drunk with vineger it discusseth congealed bloud. melted with ptisan it's injected against the dysentery. the fumes help distillations. ap∣plied it helps the tooth-ach: dry, it causeth the haire to curle being applied. being heated and applied with barly meale, nitre, and wax, it helps the gout, paine of the joynts, and lethargy. pissasphalt doth the same, that pitch and bitumen doe being mixed. Maiol. Naphtha being once inflamed, burneth more when water is powred thereon, but is quenched by dirt, vineger or alume. Aldrovand. it extenuats, penetrats, digests, dryeth and consumeth moisture. so helps the pal∣sey and joynts. Diosc. some call it the colamen of bitumen, and it's white in colour; yet there is some that is black also; diverse use pe∣trolaeum in the steed thereof.

O.

Oile of peter. Petrolaeum.

• P. It is to be had in diverse places of Insubria.
• M. I'ts generated of the fat of the macrocosme.
• N. Oleum petrae. oleum saxeum. Axungia macrocosmi.

Oile of peter. Schrod. T. it's hot and dry, of thinne parts, dige∣sting, and resolving. V. it's good for the nerves, and braine. The spirit thereof, helpeth ulcerated kibes or chilblaines, and strength∣neth the nerves being laid on with the spirit of wine, the ver∣nice is good to consolidate wounds: neere unto this is the oile of the earth, but more pleasant, brought out of India, which being applied to the running gout, is a very good remedie. Caes. it's very hot. it consumeth all cold matter in any part of the body, it helps the epilepsie, palsey, spasme of the nerves, and joynts, paines of the spleene, reines, bladder, and cold distempers of the womb, Aldro∣vand. it's thought to have all the faculties and properties of naph∣tha.

P.

Parmaceti. Sperma ceti.

• P. It is to be had in Egypt, at the river Nilus.
• M. Of a kind of bitumen, of sulphureous earth and salt.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Ambra subalbida. flos maris vel salis veterum.

Parmaceti. Schrod. T. it resolveth, moistens, and is anodyne. V. therefore it's commonly used in the resolution of coagulated bloud, caused by fals or otherwise. it appeaseth the pain of the collick, and in the bellies of infants: also it helps the cough, and tartar of the lungs: the D. is scr. 1. to drach. 2. some use it outwardly, upon the cicatrices of the small pocks, to fill them with flesh. note also some give it to women after delivery, to strengthen the laxate parts. C. the best is the white, sat, wen, and not unsavory, &c,

LITHOLOGIA. Of Stones.

1. Stones or jewels more pretious.

A.

Achates. Achates.

• P. It is found in Achates, a river of Sicilie, and in Crete, &c.
• M. It's of thinner juyce, and like the Iasper.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Passhachates. Cerachates. Sardochates. Haemachates.

ACates. Caes. K. as the black, coral like, Indian, and that of Crete. T. V. Plin. it helps against the stinging of scorpions: so Matth. Ru. Myl. as also the bitings of spiders. Myl. it helps the bitings of serpents. Ru. Albert. it resisteth pestiferous poyson. Plin. Matth. Albert. Ru. the sight thereof helpeth the eyes, and held in the mouth it quencheth thirst. Plin. Matth. That of one colour causeth audacity. Albert. Mag. Myl. being layed under the head, it causeth variety of dreames. Ru. it animates to overcome dangers. Myl. the powder thereof drunk or applied helpeth the bitings of serpents. being hung about the neck it maketh prudent: Ru. Albert. and eloquent, it refresheth the heart. Albert. it strengthneth the body, and causeth a good colour. Plin. Isid. Matth. the suffumigation thereof ceaseth tempests, &c. most of which as being phantasticall, is here mentio∣ned to shew the opinions of authors, and the rest left to experience.

Amethist. Amethystus.

• P. In India. Arabia. Armenia. Egypt. &c.
• M. It's generated of the Corneol: so Alcasar.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Gemma Veneris Plin. Caes.

Amethist. T. Alcas. is of an attracting nature. V. Arist. applied to the navill, it first draweth the vapours of wine unto it selfe, and then discusseth them, and therefore defendeth those that use it from drunkenness and surfeiting; also it's good against out∣ward injuries, and others say that it driveth away evill cogitations, and whetteth the wit, and that it causeth vigilance and amity, it's used for many other superstitious uses not worthy to be related: so Rueus: C. The best are the purple, shining, and sparkling. Myl. it causeth quietness in him that useth it. it resisteth poyson and is an amulet, driveth vapours from the head, and hindreth sleep: it helps against raging, and makes fruitfull.

B.

Berill. Berillus.

• P. In India chiefly: so Plin. Ru. Isid. Myl. Solin. &c.
• M. Of grosse crystall, of cold aire and water hardned.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Joshpeh.

BErill. Ru. K. as the common, and golden. Myl. it's of a forti∣fying enlivening nature. V. it helps against moistness of the eyes. belchings, shortness of breath, and evils of the liver, being infu∣sed in water: some also say it's good against the danger by enemies, & that it prevents sloth, causeth wit, and is profitable for the conju∣gate, all which may be left to every ones censure. C. the best are those of the sea green colour, next the golden coloured. Albert. Mag. Alcas. Ru. Myl. it maketh unconquerable, Vieg. Co••••. à L••p.

if held it burneth the hand. Albert. Alcas. Ru. Myl. it helps deflu∣ctions to the throate.

Bezoarstone. Bezoar.

• P. In Persia, India & Peru: out of the Capricerve.
• M. Of poyson and a certaine herb: of a crass terren matter.
• N. Bezaar. Belzaar. Begaar. Bezard. Lapis ther. Bauh.

Bezoarstone. Bauh. K. is orientall, or occidentall, &c. T. Sarr. it's unpleasant and stinking, Rich. or rather not tasting, some ac∣count it temperate, others cold and dry, others say it works by it's whole substance, or occult quality. V. Richard. 5. graines help a∣gainst napellus: the same q. in borage water causeth sweat in a conti∣nuall ague, or feaver. Ruland. 6 graines with sudorificks help the hungarick disease. 24. taken often help the plague, so Diomed. Portus 12. gr. with sugar of roses help against poyson: Arnold. and cause sweat. some give it to drach. 1. but it's to be proportioned according to the occasion: and is to be given at any time against poyson, so in pu∣trid feavers, except in the declination, in a time of quiet, the stomach being emptie, 3 or 4 houres before meat, after universall purgation, and that in any forme, with things appropriate. Fragos. the powder applied helps bitings, and carbuncles, it's taken inwardly either to preserve health, and youth, or for prevention of diseases, some use 10 or more graines for 4, or 5 dayes together after purgation, note the o∣rientall causeth sweat most, and the occidentall loosens the belly, it's good against dangerous griefes, chronicall, and long: also to increase strength and flesh: some say it may be used in any disease without hurt. Monard. Caesalp. it helpeth the vertigo it cures the epilepsie: so Monard. Lacun. Caesalp. Brud. Boet. both in children and in men given to them with milk; and to the elder, in the water of lillies, or piony: in the q. of 2. gr. to children, 8 or 12 men, according to the disease and constitu∣tion. Solenand. it mightily strengthens the heart, therefore the orientall, exceeding the occidentall: by having more vertue and influence from the aspect of the sun, hath excellent faculties in diseases of the heart, and helpeth all diseases thereof, being taken from. gr. 5. to 10 in some convenient liquour. so Boet. therefore it's given in the syncope in the paroxisme, or a little before, in rosewater, if there be-

a feaver, if not in that of carduus benedictus, bawme, vipers grasse, or of the flowers of gilloflowers in the q. of gr. 4. or gr. 3. in bor∣rage water: so Lonic. Caesalp. Monard. Chain. and that by comforting the spirits of the heart, and strengthning its substance by an acute property, or bezoardick quality: and helpeth the palpitation of the heart, yet not by reason of the tenuity of it's parts; but by a certaine property respecting the heart, being found in the heart of the Capri∣cerva, and it being manifest, that some parts of bruites, are good for like parts in man, by reason of similitude. Manl. it roborats the vi∣tall vertue, and by helping the expulsive facultie of the heart, cau∣seth sweat, therefore Heurnius useth it amongst things that strengthen the heart, and alter it when moist with Jacinth: so Horst. and to drive filthie vapours from the heart. Rod. à Cast. giveth it to women that are troubled with the leaping of the heart, melancholy or corru∣ption of the sperme, sc. gr. 5. or 6. every morning being powdered, and disolved in some opening or fitt water, or mixed with the con∣serve of maidens haire, or borrage a litle of the water being drunk after it: also it may be added to chalybeat electuaries, or cordiall and opening troches. Brud. it helps the pleurisie & peripneumonie. Amat. it cures the paine of the side though violent, and with a malignant quality, being taken with the water of scabious or blessed thistle, so Gebelch. Lo••ic. it cureth the pleurisie though desperate. Avenz. it cureth the jaundise, yellow, Crat. and black, C. Acost. cholerick passions, as also the loss of appetite. Caesalp. therefore it helps the troubles of the stomach; so the skin of the beast, as Thevet re∣ports. Lonic. it helps the collick and paines in the belly. Sarrac. it helps the dysentery though epidemick. C. Acost. Montan. Amat. it kil∣leth wormes, both expelling them, and freeing from their symptomes: and is to be given with wine if there be no feaver, else with the wa∣ter of porcelain, so Monard, Amat. Frag. or with the juyce of limons, citron, or syrup thereof, so Ryff. 3. graines being taken by children. Boet. prescribeth it in the water of grass or blessed thistle. Brud. it expels the stone of the reines, and breaketh it if in the bladder drunk in wine, so Lacun. C. Acost. therefore it expels the urine out of the reines and bladder, and viscid matter there. Caesalp. those of Lusi∣tania use it against troubles of the matrice. Monard. so it helps the ob∣structions of the menses, and strangulation of the womb: 6 graines being taken. Rod. à Cast. the orientall bezoar taken in mugwort wa∣ter facilitates the birth, and expels the secundine. C Acost. Gebelch. 3 graines hereof being taken with the water of white lillies, betony, or pennyroyall doe the same, Garz. Jordan. it helpeth all melancho∣ly

diseases, Ruff. though they affect the head, braine, or heart. Abrah∣med. lus. drach. 1. hereof, is used by the Indians to purge. Brud. so by those of Lusitania. Monard. 3 graines taken in bugloss water, help sadness, melancholy, and fainting thereby: so Boet. also it helps against me∣lancholick humours in the whole body, or part thereof, and diseases of the skinne caused thereby: so Solenand. Gebelch, it exhilerates: so Heurn. also it cleanseth the bloud, with mytobalans, or jacinth; and to conclude it helps all long, and strong diseases, and the flatuous, being like a panacaea, given diverse dayes together, after purgation. Amat. given in feavers it causeth sweat and cureth the same, Manl. it's not to be given in malignant feavers, till after universall purgers, and openers. Augen. it's not to be used in putrid feavers. Garz. it helpeth quartans: so Ryff. Caesalp. Boet. however, it removeth the sym∣ptomes thereof, sc. sadness & anxiety, &c. Crat. it helps the catarrhose feaver, Manard. Acost. Lacun. it helps malignant and epidemick feavers, Caesalp. and the Portugals use it in sorrel water: so Fragos. Amat. and that to exstinguish the malignity thereof: Manard: so the water wherein it hath been infused, and helpeth the malignity of all feavers. Montan. Amat. it cureth the pestilentiall and malignant. Matth. it preserveth from the pestilentiall, as also triacle, and m••thri∣date. Mercat. each time 4 or 5 gr. thereof are to be given, in some water, syrup, or broth, Monard. it's good in the spotted feaver, and pustulous, so Boet. though Syluaticus denieth it. Port. it preserveth from, and cureth the plague, as also pearles, and the bone of a stag's heart: Monard. therefore many then carry it in their mouth, For∣ness. some use it in the water of roses or violets, with Unicorns horne, whereof, Andern. and Gebelch. may be made troches, so Lacun. Lonic. Fallop. Wittich. Rulandus giveth it with the red powder of Cae∣sar, and harts horne in scabious or carduus water. Mercurialis ad∣deth bole, unicorns horne dittany of Creet, and red corall thereto a∣gainst poyson: and giveth drach. 1. thereof in wine, and Gallen, with bole in feavers. Manl. yet it's to be given only in the beginning of pestilentiall feavers: but Saxonia attributes little vertue to it. Garz. used outwardly to plague sores, it sucketh out the poyson thereof, being used also inwardly with the conserve of sorrell, powder of pearle, and harts horne, so Wittich. and Fallop. Ruland. it cureth the Hungarian disease, yet he attributeth more to harts horne, and useth it with other alexipharmick remedies. Par. it helps against pushes, pocks, and measles, and St. Anthonies fire, 1 or 2 graines being given every day in rose wa∣ter, Garz. others give it in sorrell water, carduus, or brook-lime water, in the juice of limons, & citrons, or syrup thereof; yet Crato mai••es no great

Caesalp. Outwardly it's used in troublesome scabs, the leprosie, itch, and ringwormes: so Garz. Acost. therefore the Portugals use it often with bugloss-water. Boet. it's also a present remedie against the crysipelas, and other vices of the skinne. Acost. it helps the Kings-evill being opened. Arnold. it helps hard collections in the side, a small. q. being taken daily, for 2 or 3 weeks: Acost. Fragos. the Indians use it in old ulcers. Rod. à Castr. the powder helps an ulcerated cancer. Agric. it helps the bitings of poyson some beasts: Garz. as of vipers and ser∣pents, Acost. Cardan. with treacle. Fabric. it helpes the bitings of a mad dog being applied, & Jordan. Ryff, also it cureth the same without da∣mage. Monard. it helpeth wounds made by poysoned arrowes, and against toxicum. Garc. it helps exceedingly against poyson, in so much that other remedies for that purpose, are called by its name: so Matth. Jordan. Par. Forest. Ardoyn. Acost. Amat. Rauwolf. Crat. Lacun. Ryff. Montu. Rhas. Avenz. Conciliat. Augen. Diomed. and Serapio being either taken by the mouth, hung about the neck, or the infu∣sion in water being taken, or applied; it resisteth all poyson, both hot and cold, and all bitings, and wounds of venimous beasts. Amat. gi∣veth it against all poyson q. gr. 3. in the distilled water of orange flowers, and Gebelch. in that of vipers grasse, Caesalp. in that of o∣range flowers, & Portus tox gr. with the sugar of roses: Caesalpinus addeth also Bole-armoniack. Amat. and Mercurialis use it also in vomits, with other alexipharmick remedies, as harts horne, emeralds, sealed earth, and bole; that by the emplastick and alexiterie vertue it may impaire the strength of the poyson. Boet. Sarr. Card. Augen. Garz. also it may be used as an amulet, some further, affirme it expels all putrid matter out of the body, insomuch, that it's of more worth than Unicorns horne. Bauh. yet though it be alexipharmick, it is not sufficient against all poyson; but chiefely napellus, and a••snick, or sublimate. Ryff. and Lin∣scot. preferre it before unicorns horne; though Valesius contemnes it, and Jordan preferres Earth of Lemnos, and others; and therefore the rest is left to experience. Thus of the orientall bezoar: now followes the occidentall, or that of Peru. which some say is taken from all beasts there; but Baccius saith from the Capricerve, Acost. out of the stomach or belly thereof, containing 3 or 4 thereof, and are ge∣nerated of the same principles, and matter as the first, and of the same laminate forme, they also for the most part are of an ash colour, with a certaine blacknesse, being lesse elaborated by heat, and com∣pacted than the orientall. As for tast, they have almost none. Bacc. T. they are temperate, and not drying as other stones, and antidotes, and are rather eccoprotick than d••aphoretick. Monard, saith that

the occidentall of Peru is equall to the orientall: so Salmuth. in Pan∣cirol. Pet. de Osma, & Wittich. As for the D. Alvar. Torres, and Baccius give seven graines in wine, when there is no feaver, else with an ounce of sorrell water. Saxonia giveth twice as much as of the orien∣tall. V. The occidentall bezar also, Monard. hath excellent faculties, especially in diseases of the heart, as the syncope being drunke in the paroxisme, or a little before, in the morning, the stomach being emptie, and then in rose water, if there be a feaver, or else in the water of orange flowers, being powdered, to the q. of gr. 4. each time. Note also its more effectuall in women, than in men. It resists poy∣sons by bitings, wounds, water, or the like, being taken twice or thrice. It helps pestilentiall feavers, and spotted, the quartan agues symp∣tomes, melancholy humours, in the whole body, or part thereof, as also the leprosie, scab, itch, St Anthonies fire, and other vices of the skin, having a peculiar faculty against the same. It helps long di∣seases, especially where there is suspicion of poyson, or flatulency, being appropriate, therefore it's good to put some grains thereof into purging remedies, to correct, strengthen, and facilitate dejection. It killeth wormes, especially in children and young people, with other elmintick remedies, giving it in the morning, and afterwards a clyster of milk and sugar: it helps the epilepsie in children with milk, or with other things in the aged: in short we use this stone in all long and difficult diseases, in which vulgar remedies do little good, and that with great profit, or however without hurt, thus Monardes. Pet. de Osma, also used▪ outwardly it resists poyson and in∣toxication, as also wounds made by venomed arrowes, all which both affirme out of their own experience: it's to be given pouderod in some liquour, as wine, vinegar, and destilled water of borrage, buglosse, or other, according to the disease and pleasure of the Phy∣sitian. Note the Spanish are lesse effectuall. C. The true orientall may be known, by their forme not smooth: shels, diverse: inward hollownesse: weight, light: mixture with chalk, tincture, and bur∣ning being layed on coles: blowing in it, friability, liquation, and dissolution in water: blacking of the teeth: clearnesse of sound, when struck to the teeth: a needle heated, being fastned to it: frag∣ments, crusty: magnitude, little: vomiting, being given after poyson: and by experiments on beasts: these are the signes whereby to know the true from the adulterate; though found salt with by Sylvaticus. If any desire the whole History thereof they may read Bauhinus, though this is the summe thereof. He also reckons other Bezoar stones, as the Paxar, that of the Aspe, Toad, gall of a Porsupine, the minerall

of Serapio, Rabbi Moyses, and Caesalpinus, that of Hercules Saxonia, that of the Staggs teares, heart, that in a Calfes maw, in the Roch goat, or Germanebezoar. that in a Horse, and the Arabians, and American. Much also may be seen in Aldrovandus, who hath been as serviceable as some of the Authors aforesaid. Schrod. The orientall stone is of diverse figures, ovall, round, and hollow within, containing a chaffe, or haire, or the like. it's of a diverse colour, (most commonly a blackish green) green, paleish, ash, or yellowish, &c. without smel, of a diverse magnitude; but most commonly lesse than a walnut The adulterated are made of the fragments of the stone and pitch, or of chalk; ashes of shels, and dry bloud, or of cinabaris antimony and qu••cksilve••, united by the, help of the fire: all which are not only uselesse; but hurtfull to the body the D. of the orientall is from gr. 3. to 12. of the occidentall from gr. 6. to 20. Myl. Scal. Matth. Caes. against all sorts of poy∣son, &c. and other malignant diseases.

C.

Calcedonie. Calcidonius.

• P. The place is not much observed, where it's found.
• M. It's between berill and jacinth, so Lapidar.
• N. Carchedonius, Chalcedonius lapis.

CAlcedonie, Ru. K. as the male and female, T. V. it's commended against symptomes from black choller, &c. some promise victorie to those that have them: being hot it draweth motes unto it. C. the best are the males which shine more bright, shewing shining starrs within, which are witnesses of its excellent vertues. Campeg. those of Lotharingia, helpe hoarsness and clarifie the voice.

Chrysolite. Chrysolithos.

• P Often in Bohemia, in India, Arabia, and Ethiopia.
• M. It's of a solar nature.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Topasius Germ. mod. Heb Tharsis.

Chrysolite. Schrod. K. as the orientall and European. T. its judged to be of a solar nature, according to its signature. V. therefore it's thought good to lesson night griefes, and melancholy, to strengthen the intel∣lect, and to prevent troublesome dreames, being hung about the neck or arme. some commend the taking of it against the falling sicknesse. Ru. it helps the parts for respiration and asthma, as also against pusila∣nimity, and stupidity: so Alcas. Myl. Ru. Myl Albert. Mag. it removeth folly and causeth constancy of mind. Alcas. Abuleaf. it seemeth of a golden colour in the day, and fiery in the night Plin. Alcas. Ru. the best is of agolden colour; and that makes gold look like silver ilaid together.

Chrysoprase. Chrysoprasus.

• P. In India: so Plin. Albert. Mag. Isid: Anselm. Rib.
• M. Of certaine drops of gold, so Lapidar.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis Chrysoprasinus.

Chrysoprase. Ru. K. as the prasoide, and chrysopteron: V. Ru. it strengthneth the heart, and helpeth weaknesse of the eyes: some count it also good against the desire of covetousnesse, and say that it sheweth it selfe onely in the dark. Caes. Alcas. Arnold. and Berchor, and others, it helpeth the eyes to fix upon an object. Alcas. it causeth generosity. its reported to be of a pale colour in the day, and fiery in the night: So Isid. Caus. Alcas. Maiol. though Pliny Alcasar and Solinus doubt thereof.

Coral. Corallium.

• P. The red in India, and the Tyrrhene sea, the black in Spain.
• M. Of an arboreous. stone, hardened by aire: So Ru. Caes.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Bassad, Morgen, besd. Corallum.

Coral. Schrod. K. as the male or red, female or pale, white, black, green, yellowish, ash-coloured, and dusk coloured. T. all corall dry∣eth, cooleth, and bindeth. V. it strengthneth chiefely the heart, then the stomach and liver. it purifieth the bloud, and therefore resisteth the plague, poyson, and malignant feavers; also it maketh a man merry; but the black maketh melancholy. it stoppeth all fluxes of the belly, womb, and yard. It prevents the gonorrhoea, and epilepsie in children, 10 gr. thereof being given to the infant in the mothers milk, before the taking of any other thing, as soone as it is borne. Out∣wardly it helps ulcers, filling them with flesh. it extenuates cicatri∣ces; it helps the eyes, and stoppeth the weeping of the same; in colly∣ries it recreates the sight: the D. is scrup. 1. to drach. 1. Paracels. the bright and shining helps against feares, fascinations, inchauntments, poysons, the epilepsie, melancholy, & as some say against the insults of evill spirits, and lightnings, (which every one may censure) the white hanged to the breast helpeth the hemorrage of women. C. the best is the red or masculine, which is to be understood as often as it is prescribed without mention of the colour, the next is the pale, then the white, last the black: that of other colours is neither used, nor commonly accounted for true corall. Diosc. it meanly cooleth, restrai∣neth

excrescencies: it helps the cicatrices of the eyes, cleansing the same, it stops the evacuation of bloud, helps the difficulty of urine, and lessens the spleen being drunk in water. That called antipa∣thes, being black, hath the same vertues. Caes. corall exhilerates the heart, helps the formina, evils of the bladder and stone, being pow∣dered by the help of fire, and drunk in water, so Matth. Plin. Myl. and Ru. some say it resisteth tempests, as Ru. Myl. drunk in water it causeth sleep. Plin. Ru. it preventeth danger. Plin. Ru. Bras. it helpeth children. Myl. hanged to the neck or armes it prevents fascination and poysons: Bras. as also melancholy, the epilepsie, and apoplexie. Myl. Matth. it helps the falling sicknesse being taken. Matth. Myl. it restraineth the menses, fastens the teeth, rectifieth the gummes, and helps ulcers of the mouth, drunk it helps the dysentery, flux of sperme, night pollutions, and stops the whites in women. Myl. being ta∣ken with harts horne, and raine water, it helps diverse diseases of the body, especially the wormes. Myl. Ru. being powdered and put into hollow teeth, it draweth them forth, without pain. Myl. the Chy∣micall oile of corall taken in the q. of scrup. 1. in sack, helpeth all diseases of the parts, both inward and outward; in 5 weeks space. it cureth the falling sicknesse both in children and young people, as also all fluxes, of the belly, womb, or bloud, in any part. Ru. white corall hanged to the breast, so that it may touch the stomach stoppeth bloud flowing out of the nostrils; also it strengthens the heart and stomach, either being taken inwardly or applyed. Ru. the powder of corall makes bitter water sweet. some say also that it helpeth fruits; but it's censured by Rueus. Plin. Matth. Bras. Ru. also many use it by way of ornament, &c. Schrod. Hartm. in Pract. The salt of corall, made by the spirit or acid liquour of pockwood, doth mightily purify the blood in the french pocks: the D. is gr. 6. to 20. the vertues are to be seen before. The magisterie of corall, differs not from the salt in sub∣stance, vertues, or dose. The oile or liquour of corall, besides the foremen∣tioned vertue of corall, doth also help the stone: the D. is gr. 4. to 15. The essence and tincture, as they are of a more operose preparation, than the salt or magistery, so also are they of more excellent vertue: the D. is 6 drops to 15. and more. The tincture of Basil, cureth those that are mad, or melancholick. Hartm. in Croll. That of Hartman, is of such vertue, that after the repeated use thereof, it will be impossible, that any impurity should remain in the bloud of the whole body: D. it's given in fit vehicles, from 3 drops to 10. this tincture de∣serveth to be well esteemed of by the practitioner, by reason of its excellent vertues, as agreeing very well with the spirits of mans,

body. Hartm. in Croll. That by the spirit or water of honey, D. is given from 4 gr. to 12. Agric. That by the phlegme of Saturne, is an excellent cordiall, and doth mightily exalt the native balsame; and is of chiefe use in the feares of infants, and the epilepsie, &c. the D. is gr. 3 to 5. Langel. the Holsatick tincture of corall, is good in all affections ari∣sing from the impurity of bloud. The tincture of S. Closs. is good against contractures: the D. is drach. sem. alone. The succinate oile of corall, is good in the epilepsie and apoplexie, the D. is 4 drops to 8. The compounded syrup of corall, of Sr. Th. Mayerne, which is thence made, D. is given to one spoonefull morning, and evening, long from meales: the vertues thereof may be conjectured from those of corall and juyce of barberries: it's greatly commended in the diarrhoea, dysentery. hepatick, flux, and the restauration of the naturall faculties. hereof is made the diacorallion Pharm. Lond.

Corneol. Sardius.

• P. In Sardinia, Epirus and Aegypt, Bohemia and Silesia.
• M. It's the originall of the Amethist, so Alcas.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sarda. Carnerina. Cornerina. Heb. Adam. Corneolus.

Corneol. Caes. S. Epiphan. Riber. Alcas. T. V. it cureth wounds that are made by iron, and tumours. Vieg. Alcas. Riber. Aret. it causeth feare in wild beasts. Abulens. Alcas. it causeth joy. Ru. it expelleth feare, causeth audacity, prevents dangers, stoppeth bloud flowing out of the nostrils, and sharpneth the wit. Albert. Meg. it sticketh to bords, as the iron to the load-stone. Alcas. it is as it were, the mo∣ther and originall of the amethist. Schrod. the powder being drunk stoppeth all fluxes of bloud, and defendeth the body against all poy∣son: but it chiefely stoppeth bloud, and applied preserveth the birth. Aldrov. applied it helps hot tumours, the powder whiteneth the teeth.

E.

Emerald. Smaragdus.

• P. In Scythia, Egypt, and Cyprus.
• M. It's begotten of the green Jasper.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Zamarrut. Prasinus.

EMerald. Schrod. K. as the orientall and occidentall. T. is astrin∣gent. V. being drunk it stoppeth all fluxes of the belly, and bloud, especially the dysentery, either arising from a sharp humour, or

poyson: also it cureth venemous bitings, the plague, and pestilentiall feavers: the D. is gr. 6. to 10. amongst amulets, it's commended chiefely against the epilepsie, applied to the hip it accelerates the birth, and retaineth the same of to the belly, held in the mouth it stops the he∣morrhage, applied to the belly it doth undoubtedly stop all dysen∣teries, and flux of the hemorrhoides. Guain. it driveth away feares, and the haemitrite ague being hung about the neck. Plin. Isid. Alcas. Riber. Ru. Caes. it doth mightily recreate the eyes. Epiphan. Alcas. it's of an acerb and bitter tast. Albert. Mag. it hath an antipathie to venery, and if neer, it breaketh thereby: so Pier. Caus. Myl. Alcas. Ru. it is a most present remedy against all poysons. Albert. Ru. Alcas Myl. it's said to cause riches, and facundity to those that keep it. Ru. it dazels the eyes of serpents. Albert. Ru. Myl. it strengthens the me∣mory, and helpeth the epilepsie, and vertigo, being worne about the neck, or in a ring. Myl. gr. 8 therefore taken expel poyson, and hin∣der the falling off of the hair. also it causeth good manners, and expelleth vaine feares. Myl. held under the tongue, it helpeth towards divination. Plin. Isid. Albert. it hath the greenest colour of all things, which is so constant and firme, that it's not changed by the shade, light, or sun. Schrod. the salt or tincture of the emerauld, helps the dy∣sentery, and other fluxes, also diseases of the head and heart, as it's panting, swimming, and the Paraphrentis, and melancholy. the D. is gr. 10.

G.

Granate. Granatus.

• P. It is to be had and found in Ethiopia.
• M. The matter is not much observed.
• N. Or variety of names.

GRanate. Caes. K. as the orientall and occidentall. Myl. T. it's of a terrene and fiery substance. V. it strengthens the heart, H. it hurteth the braine, and moveth the bloud, and anger, Albert. it's hot and dry, and expelleth sadnesse, being hung about the neck, or drunk, so Myl. and gteatly hindreth sleep. C. Schrod. the best are the orientall. it helpeth the palpitation of the heart, resisteth me∣lancholy and poyson, stoppeth the spitting of bloud, and resolveth tartar in the body: so worne about the neck.

I.

Jacinth. Hyacinthus.

• P. It is to be had in Ethiopia, Lufitania, and the Indies.
• M. Its of a purple matter. Lapis Hyacinthinus.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis hyacinthinus.

IAcinth. Schrod. K. as the orientall and european. T. V. Myl. drunk or carried about it strengthneth the heart, and is therefore used in venenate diseases, hereof is made the confection in the London dispen∣satory. Ru. Alcas. Albert. it's a most present remedie against poyson, and the plague, and is therefore worne over against the heart, as an amulet. it being cold strengthneth the body of him, that carri∣eth ••t, Albert. Alcas. Ru. Myl. it causeth sleep. Myl. it's said to cause favour and prudence, Albert. Ru. Alcas. and riches, wit, and mirth. Albert. Alcas. also to cause acceptablenesse to straingers. Myl. if any one infected with the plague hath it, it looseth its colour and de∣fendeth from the same. Solin. Isid. Alcas. Maiol. Riber. put into the mouth it growes more cold, so seemeth more to coole the heat there∣of. Solin. Isidor. Anselm. Alcas. Maiol. Caus. Ru. Vieg. Riber. its clear in faire weather and dul if it be foul, Ru. Myl. Alcas. it defends from thunder. it strengthens the sight, expels feare, removes enmity, and stops the flux of bloud: so Abulens. Schrod. it hath a singular faculty against spasmes, and contractions. Querc. in ph. rest. and as an amulet helps against the plague. The D. of the salt and magisterie, is scrup. sem. to scrup. 1. Aldrov. being worne it prevents putrefaction in wounds, it's used in pestilentiall feavers.

Jasper. Jaspis.

• P. In India, Cyprus, Persia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia.
• M. Of a more impure and terrestriall matter than Achates.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Jaholom. It. Jaspide.

Jasper. Plin. Alcas. K. as the green, skie coloured, white and red, &c. and grammatias. T. V. Myl. Ru. S. Hieron. its said to drive away

all phantasmes. Diosc. Ru. Plin. Alcas. it's used as an amulet. Alcas. it strengthens the stomach, and diverse count it doth resist witch∣craft, the former is attested by Gal. Ru. Myl. also, being worne about the neck over against the stomach, sc. the green. Isid. Albert. Matth. Pier. some say that it causeth amity, and preventeth dangers, all which is magicall and superstitious. Albert. Matth. Myl. Ru. Alcas. it stops the flux of bloud, and of the menses. Ru. Myl. it stoppeth swea∣ting. Albert. Ru. Matth. M••l. Alcas. being worne it rep••••sseth venery; and luxurie. Diosc. Ru. Matth. Albert. Myl. Oribas. tied to the thigh of those that are great, it hastens the birth. Albert. Ru. Matth. Myl. it helps the dropsie and feavers. Ru. Myl. by its greennesse it recreates the eyes, and cleanseth them from their filth. Myl. it strengthens the heart. There are also diverse other fabulous reports made hereof by the Antients, as also of the rest of the stones, which as not worth writing, may be omitted. C. the best is the grammatias. Aldrov. it helps the epilepsie worne on the brest, and paine of the stomach, collick, and nephritick paine.

L.

Ligurius. Ligurius.

• P. The place is not much observed.
• M. Some say it is the matter of Lincurius.
• N. The Various names are not much noted.

LIgurius. Caes. Riber. taketh it for a species of carbuncle, others for the lynxes stone. Corn. à Lap. for the jacinth. Alcasar, for amber, of which the two last opinions are most probable, yet neither certain. As for the vertues therefore, they are to be sought there, whereto it shall be reduced. See, Isid. Albert. Mag. Riber. Corn. à Lap. Alcas. Maiol.

N.

Nephritick-stone. Nephriticus.

• P. It's to he had in new Spaine, and Bohemia.
• M. The matter is not much observed.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis nephriticus.

NEphritick-stone. Myl. T. it expelleth the stone and gravel being tyed to the arme. Schrod. it's commended against the paine of

the stomach, but especially against the nephritick griefe, as also the stone, and gravel, being hung about the hip or neck: wherefore diverse have bracelets made thereof for this purpose.

P.

Pearle. Margarita:

• P. In the shell fishes of the Sea, or ocean in persia.
• M. Of the celestiall dew, as some: others say as the stone in the reines.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Unio. Perla. Arab. Lulu. Erythraeus Lapis: Gall. perle:

PEarles. Caes. Aldrovand. T. they are cold and dry. V. they dry up moisture; so Ru. Bras. Ru. Myl. Aldrovand. they strengthen and confirme the heart. Ru. Aldrovand. Myl. Albert. Mag. they cherish the spirits, and principall parts of the body. Ru. Myl. Aldrovand. be∣ing put into collyries they cleanse weafts of the eyes, and dry up the water thereof, help their filth, and strengthen the nerves by which moisture floweth into them. Ru. Aldrovand: they are very good a∣gainst melancholick griefes. Ru. Albert. Aldrovand. they helpe those that are subject to cardiack passions. Ru. they defend against pesti∣lent diseases; Myl. and are mixed with cordiall remedies. Albert. Aldrovand. they are good against the lienterie, that is, the flux of the belly, proceeding from the sliperinesse of the intestines, insomuch that they cannot retaine the meat, but let it passe undigested. Albert. Aldrovand. they are good against swounings. Myl. they help the trembling of the heart, and giddinesse of the head. Myl. they are mixed with the Manus Christi, against fainting, (called Manus Christi perlata in the London Pharmacopoea.) Myl. they are put into anti∣dotes, or corroborating powders. Myl. Aldrovand. they help the flux of bloud. Myl they stop the termes, and cleanse the teeth. Aldrovand. they are put into antidotes for the bowels, and increase their ver∣tue, make the bloud more thin, and clarify that which is more thick and feculent. Aldrovand. they help feavers, and make the teeth white. Aldrovand. Myl. The oile of Pearles or unions helpeth the resolution of the nerves, convulsion, decay of old age, phrensie, keepeth the body sound, and recovereth it when out of order. it rectifieth womens milk, and increaseth it, corrects the vices of the naturall parts, and

seed. it cureth abscesses, eating ulcers, the cancer, and hemorrhoides. Plin. Alcas. Maiol. they ate soft in the water, and harder after. Solin. Plin. Alcas. their whitenesse decayes by age: Plin. Solin: they wax red by the sun. Myl. those taken before the full of the moon, never decay. Schrod. they are either orientall or occidentall. C. the best are the first sort, especially the Persian, they are an excellent cordiall, by which the oppressed balsame of life, and decayed strength are re∣created, and strengthned, therefore they resist poyson, the plague, and putrefaction, and exhilerate, and therefore they are used as the last remedie in sick persons. The salt thereof D. is given from gr. 6. to scrup. sem. in the water of May dew, distilled with manna, or in cinamon and rose water, so Hartm. in Pract. to which Paracelsus at∣tributes extraordinary vertues. The salt or magisterie of Pearles of Riverius, besides the former vertues, is an excellent preservative in the joynt ach. Hartm. in Pract. the D. is scrup. 1. at the most. The ver∣tues of the magisterie of pearles, may be known by the properties of Pearles themselves: the D. is from gr. 6. to 15. The essence, tincture or arcanum thereof is also thence known, as to its vertues; but it is of exceeding strength by reason of its great subtilty. Hartm. in Croll. the D. is gr. 6. to 14. Hartm. in Croll. The arcanum by the spirit of Guajacum, or pockwood, doth mightily cleanse the bloud and is of excellent vertue in the french pocks: the D. is the same. The perlate spi∣rit, is an excellent secret in the gout. C. the best are the greatest, and perforated, being shining.

R.

Ruby. Rubinus:

• P. In Zeilan, Calecut, and Bisnagar: with the sapphir:
• M. Of matter neere the sapphir.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Carbunculus. Pyropus. Apyrotus. Jacut. Ar.

RUby. Caes. K. as the white, amethistizont, sirtite, and li∣thizont, T. V. Albert. Mag. Myl. Ru. it resisteth acre∣ous and vaporose poyson. Myl. drunk it restraineth lust, preserveth the body, removes ill cogitations, strengthneth the vitall spirits; resisteth putrefaction, and makes man prompt and cheerfull.

Ru. Ruby is an amulet against fearfull dreames Rueus & Causin affirme it makes it own figure on other stones, and none on it. Albert. C. if good it shineth in the dark: so Isid. Ru. Maiol. August. some say it will not be heated by the fire▪ Alcas. wax sealed therewith melteth. Plin. warmed by the sun or hand, it draweth chaffe to it. Plin. it shineth most when lifted upwards: and more out a dore, than in the house. Schrod. being carried about one, or drunk, it resisteth poyson, and the plague, and driveth away sadnesse: he also saith that if a man be in danger, it changeth its colour, and becomes more dimme, and when it's past recovereth the same again.

S.

Sapphire. Sapphirus.

• P. In Calecut, Zeilan, and neere Bohemia.
• M. It's the mother of the carbuncles, as some think.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Sapphir. Gemma gemmarum.

SApphire Schrod. K. as the orientall and occidentall, male and female: skie coloured and white. T. it's cold and dry, astringent, consolidating, alexipharmick, cordiall, and ophthalmick. V. there∣fore it dryeth up the moisture of the eyes, helps and extinguisheth inflammations, being applied in collyries to the upper eyelids, or with washed butter. it helps all fluxes of the belly, the dysentery hepatick flux, hemorrhoides, and spitting of bloud, being taken with the water of plantain or tormentill. it cureth inward ulcers, or wounds, strengthens the heart, exhilerates, resisteth the plague, all poyson, and malignant feavers. it helps all cardiack and melan∣cholick diseases, being taken inwardly. The whole stone being applied to the forehead stoppeth the hemorrhage, and inflammations. being made up into a ball of the bignesse of a pease, and put unto the eye it removeth dust, gnats, or whatsoever falleth therein: also it defendeth the eyes from the pocks, and other diseases. it may be dissolved in distilled vineger and juyce of limons, and so used with any other cordiall. Sapphire drunk helps against the bitings of the scorpion: So Diosc. Gal. Matth. Ru. Alcas. and others. Diosc. Matth. Ru. it is profitably drunk against inward exulcerations, and

represseth any excrescencies, haws, or pushes in the eyes, and gle∣weth the broken tunicles thereof: Greg. Nyss. by reason of its ceruleous colour it refresheth wearied eyes. Albert. Mag. it makes a man chast, refrigerates the inward heat, represseth sweat, and cureth the paine of the forehead and tongue. Albert. Myl. it comforteth and strengthneth the body, cureth diseases of the skin, as the scab, or itch and causeth a good colour, removes vaine feare, resists melan∣choly, and is used in antidotes and cordials. Ru. it resists witch-craft, and agues being applied to the pulses. it stops bloud. Albert. Ru. Myl. it helps plague sores. Albert. Mag. Ru. it causeth peaceablenesse, and vertuousnesse. Ru. it helps against anger, envy, fraud, and sadnesse. Myl. it opens locks, Vieg. and being wrought on by the sun beames, sendeth forth a hot lightning. there are also other fictitious and superstitious things, mentioned hereof, which as they are not pleasant to the writer, so neither would they be usefull to the reader hereof, and therefore are left to the further search, of those that fancy, such fruitlesse curiosities.

Sardonyx. Sardonyx.

• P. In Arabia and the Indies, so Barth. Aug.
• M. Of the corneoll, and onyx stone.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis Sardonicus:

SArdonyx: Albert. K. as the black, white, raine bow-like, and fecu∣lent. T.V. Albert. Myl. Ru. it resisteth venery, and makes chast.

Alcas. Myl. Ru. it taketh away the heavinesse of mind. Alcas. it's very healthfull, and maketh cheerfull. Alcas. Abulens. Albert. Myl. it hindreth the effects of the onyx-stone, causing sadnesse; feare, hatred, warrs, contentions, and terrible dreames, all which proceed from melancholy, which this stone causeth, being worne about the neck, or on the finger.

T.

Topaz. Topasius.

• P. It is to he had in, and brought from Arabia, and Zeiland.
• M. It's of the kind of the Rubie and the Sapphir.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Pitdah. Gall. Topasse. Ital. Topatio.

TOpas. Pli••. K. as the prasoide, and chrysopter. T.V. Ru. Myl. Alcas. it helps against the lunatick passion, and varieth its ver∣tues according to the variation of the moon. Alcas. Abulens. Berchor. Ru. it appeaseth anger, represseth luxurie, and restraineth ve∣nery. Alcas: it's good against sadnesse. Alcas. Vincent. Arnold. it's good universally against noxious motions, that is, the perturbations of evill appetites. Myl. Ru. it's reported to drive away folly and mad∣nesse, and divert suddain death. It's good against the eruptions of bloud, therefore being applied to a wound, it presently stoppeth the bloud. Myl. it's good against the dropsy and tabes. Plin. Alcas. it's the biggest of all jewels. Albert Ru. Alcas. being cast into seething water it hindreth the boiling thereof, and so tempereth the fleat thereof, that the bare hand may be presently put therein, without any hurt. Alcas. Strab. Eustach. it is of such excellent splendor, that in the day time, it cannot be looked upon, Vincent. Berchor. Abulens. exceeding all jewels in brightnesse. So Ambros. Alcas. Myl. Vieg. Myl. Paracels. it shineth in the night: some say that being rubbed upon a whetstone of Cyprus, it produceth an oile which will cure diseases in the eyes. Aldrov. it's of a solar nature, and so strength∣ens the vitall faculty, and helps night feares and melancholy, as also the fluxes of bloud: it helps the asthma and pestilence, so the Chry∣solite.

Stones lesse Pretious.

A.

Alabaster. Alabastrites.

• P. The best is said to be brought out of the Indies.
• M. Of unconcocted and imperfect marble.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Alabastrum. Onyx. Unguis.

ALabaster. Diosc. T. discusseth. V. Gal. being drunk it helps those that are stomachick. Caes. being burned into ashes, and mixed with rosin and pitch, it presently discusseth hard swel∣lings▪ with wax it easeth the paines of the stomach and represseth the gummes: So Schrod. outwardly it's used in the alabaster oint∣ment.

Amianth. Amianthus.

• P. It is to be found and had in Cyprus, so Diosc.
• M. Some confound it with scissil alum.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Alumen plumosum.

Amianth. Schrod. T. is cleansing. V. it cureth the scab; and being dissolved in aqua vitae and sugar, and a little thereof taken every day, it cures the whites in women: it's also said to resist witchcraft. it's used in the citrine ointment, and some commend it mightily aga∣inst wormes in children, and ulcers in the leggs. Isid. Plin. Diosc. Matth. Brasav. Zanard. Myl. Caus. Maiol. some say that clothes made thereof, will not burne in the fire, but become more white. Aldrov. it drieth and bindeth.

Armenian-stone. Armenus L.

• P. In silver mines, in Armenia, and Germany.
• M. Of the same matter, as the Azurestone. Fallop.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Hager, & Hagiar. Melochites.

Armenian-stone. Schrod. T. it moderately drieth, and cleanseth with a little acrimonie, and light astriction. V. taken inwardly it purgeth melancholy without hurt: so Myl. both upwards and down∣wards; but if it be washed 12 times or oftner, it purgeth onely downwards; therefore it is good in madnesse, melancholy, and the falling sicknesse, &c. The D. in substance is drach. 1. to scrup. iiii. outwardly it is mixed, in ocular remedies, and Psilothrons for the eye lids. Caes. being cast upon the eyelids, it increaseth the haire thereof.

Azure-stone. Lazuli L.

• P. In the veines of Gold, silver and brasse.
• M. Of a salt and acid humour corroding mettals.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Cyaneus. Caeruleus. Stellans. Azurus.

Azure-stone. K. as the fixed, and not fixed. T. Myl. it represseth, moderately corrodeth, exulcerates, and causeth crusts. V. it exhilera∣teth, Ru. Myl. it purgeth melancholy, refresheth the sight, and hung about the necks of children, it driveth away night-feares: and if about the necks of women that are great, it preserveth from abor∣tion, and is therefore to be removed at the time of delivery. Myl. some say, that it maketh a man fortunate and rich: and is used in bracelets for women. Schrod. in vertue it agreeth with the Ar∣menian stone; but is weaker. it purgeth, but chiefely melancholick diseases: therefore it's used against quartan agues, the apoplexie, epilepsie, vices of the spleen, and many other diseases arising from melancholick juyce: the D. is drach. 1. in an alcohol, or fine pow∣der. Boet. it's used as an amulet to prevent swounings in women that are great. Schrod. the D. of the magistery is scrup. 1. Fierovant. the E∣lixir made hereof being calcined and dissolved in aqua vitae, cureth

many diseases, and malignant feavers: also it reduceth the most troublesome ulcers, almost miraculously, into a good order. The oile or liquour being applied easeth the gout, and inflammations. Hartm. in Pract. The D. of the essence or extract thereof, is from scrup. sem. to scrup. 1. The purging Crystals, salt, or flower hereof will increase the vertues of a panchymagogon, or other extracts, being mix∣ed therewith.

B.

Bloud-stone. Haematites.

• P. In Germany and Bohemia: in iron mines.
• M. It is the matter of Iron, by concoction.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Scedenigi.

BLoud-stone Diosc. T. it bindeth, gently heateth, and exte∣nuates. V. with hony it remooveth the cicatrices and roughnesse of the eyes, with womans milk it helpeth bleere eyes, rup∣tures, and bloudy surfusions in the eyes. drunk in wine it helpeth against the retention of urine. Plin. drunk it stoppeth the fluxes of women, and spitting of bloud, with the juyce of pomegranates: also it is good in diseases of the bladder, and wounds of serpents drunk in wine. in womens milk it helps the weeping of the eyes. Myl. cast into hot water it cooleth it. some say that those that carry it, will not be hurt by the sun, and that it keepeth fruits from grashoppers and haile, which is fond: and that being held in the hand, it stops bleeding at the nose. Maiolus affirms that of Pliny. Schrod. it cooleth, drieth, gleweth, and therefore helpeth the ulcers of the eyes and lungs, and stoppeth fluxes of the womb, and belly, &c. D. the powder is given inwardly from scrup. 1. to scrup. iiij. outwardly it's used diverse waies. Lang••l. the powder with a diaphoretick water is given with good successe in gouts. C. the best is friable, blackish, hard, equall, and without filth, chiefely the Spanish. Caes. waters flowing rom bloudstones, bind, and stop fluxes of bloud.

Borax. Borax.

• P. In Armenia, Macedonia, & Cyprus in mines.
• M. Of a boyes urine and nitre. sc. the factitious.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Chrysocolla. Auri gluten, Jun.

Borax. T.V. Fallop. scrup. 1. thereof being taken in the decoction of some heating herb, as of feaverfew, savin or the like, by women that cannot be delivered; is a most present remedie, to bring forth the birth either alive or dead: So Caes. The naturall Borax. Diosc. purgeth cicatrices, restraineth proud flesh, and gently wasteth the body by its biting quality, it's counted amongst remedies, which cause vomi∣ting, and may be lethal, so Weck.

C.

Calaminare. Calaminaris L.

• P. It is to be had and found in the mines of mettals.
• M. It's generated of Cadmia without the mettall.
• N. Cadmia Lapidosa. Climia. Cathimia.

CAlaminare. Schrod. T. it gently drieth, cleanseth, bindeth, cicatri∣zeth, and incarnates. V. it filleth ulcers with flesh; it is used only outwardly, and often in the excoriacions of children, being sprinkled thereon to dry them. It is used also by copper smiths to make lattin, it causing the copper to wax pale. S. Closs. the magisterie hereof, evacuates by vomit and stoole more gently than prepared antimonie.

Chrystall. Chrystallus.

• P. In India, & Asia, Scythia, Germany, and Spain.
• M. Of the same humour, as the Berill and Diamond.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Zechuchith. Ital. Christallo. Gall. Crist. l.

Chrystall. Matth. T. is astringent. V. therefore it is given being

finely powdered against the dysentery in austere wine, it stoppeth the whites, and encreaseth milk in nurses: hereof may be made burning glasses serving for cauteries. Albert. Mag. being held under the tongue. it quencheth thirst; being powdered, mixed with honey, and applied it causeth milk in women: so Vincent. Bell. Agric. it's used by witch∣es: Brasav. it resisteth poyson. Solin. it serveth to make cups of, as also the triangulous serving for recreation, so Cardan. Schrod. it hel∣peth the diarrhoea, colick, choller, flux of the matrix, breaketh the stone in any part of the body, and helps the gout. Boet. Matth. scrup. ij. or drach. 1. of the powder thereof being given in the the oile of sweet almonds cureth those that have drunk quicksilver. Hereof is made a nephritick salt by ebullition in the great nettle water, being fortified with its own salt and unc. ij. of the spirit of sea salt; sc. of the calx thereof: the D. is gr. 6. to 20. of the oile or liquour of Chrystall gr. 15. to 20. Horst. the D. of the cremor of chrystall is scrup. sem. to scrup. 1. alone, or with that of tartar, in the dropsie, and stone. C. the best for chymicall use is the most pure and pellucid.

Cleaving-stone. Schistus.

• P. In Iberia, Germany, and Bohemia. Agric.
• M. Some count it a species of talch.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Iscistus Isidori.

Cleaving-stone. Diosc. T. is of the nature of the bloud stone, but lesse effectuall. V. with womens milk it filleth up hollow ulcers. Plin. it helps against the hemorrhoids: so Caes. Aldrovand. it helpeth against ruptures, thicknesse of the cheeks, and affections of the eyes. Pliny maketh hereof with gold a remedy against lichens, Agric. the nodes thereof serve to polish silver withall, and bracelets.

Cocks-gizard-stone. Alectorius.

• P. It is often found in the ventricle of cocks.
• M. It's like dimme christall.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. It is also called Alectoria. Alectorias.

Cocks-gizard-stone. Ru. Albert. T.V. is said to provoke venery, and

cause agreement betwixt the sexes: so Myl. as also that it resisteth dangers, makes unconquerable, pleasant, eloquent, constant, and that being held in the mouth it quencheth thirst. So Weck.

E.

Eagle-stone. Aetites.

• P. It is found in the Eagles nest, in Germany.
• M. It's made like the Bezoar-stone.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis aquilae. Gall. Pièrre d'aìgle.

EAgle-stone. Plin. K. as the soft containing a white clay in it, the male or hard, having a hard stone, that of Cyprus contai∣ning sand, and the Taphiusus. T. V. Diosc. bound to the left arme it helpeth against the slipperinesse of the matrix and retaineth the child in the womb: the same being tied to the thigh facilitates childbirth. Being shaken it causeth a sound, having an other stone in it: so Plin. Isid. there are two thereof found in the nest, sc. a male and a female, without which they bring not forth. Ru. be∣ing powdered and used in a cerot it helps the falling sicknesse, he saith also that a thiefe cannot devoure any thing in which it is, Bras. those in use are the white and black or ashcoloured. Mylius reports that the eagle bringeth them into her nest to temper the heat of her egges, least they should be too hot when sate upon. There are also diverse other frivelous things, reported of it by diverse authors. Schrod. it is presently to be removed after the birth, least it draw the womb unto it. Albert. Mag. it being present, meat suspected of poyson cannot be swallowed down, untill it be removed again. Aldrovand. hung about the neck, it helps affections of the heart, melancholy, and paines, fluxes, pleurisies, and ruptures.

F.

Fier-stone. Pyrites.

• P. It is to be found in Cyprus. & Goslaria.
• M. It is generated of an aeriall quality.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis aerarius. Lapis luminis.

FIer-stone. Caes. Plin. K. as the golden, and silver coloured. T. both of them heat, dry, discusse, extenuate humours, and soften hard swellings. V. S. August. Albert. being held hard in the hand it burneth it, sc. the Persick. Diosc. it purgeth away things hindering the eye sight, also it softens and discusseth hardnesses. Zanard. it serveth to strike fire with C. the best is that which is like brasse. Aldr. with the gumme of the pine tree it dissipats tumours, and helps fellons. it helps the morphew, lentils and moistnesse of the skin with vine∣ger. it stops womens fluxes. Cardan. it lessens the spleen.

Flint. Silex.

• P. It is to be had and found almost every where.
• M. It's generated of earth and much sulphur.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis vivus, & Siliceus Caton.

Flint. Schrod. K. as the fusile, hard, white, and diaphanous. T. V. the common may be used inwardly to incide a tartareous mucilage, dissolve the stone, and open obstuctions: outwardly it is often used in dentifrices The D. of the Salt thereof is from. gr. 6. to 20. Of the ••ile scrup. 1. Caes. waters flowing by flints, and other stones caused by cold, are for the most part too cold and crude, and slowly descend being drunk.

G.

Geodes. Geodes.

• P. It's to be had in Misnia & Saxonie, so Weck.
• M. Some count it a third species of Aetites.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis geodes.

Geodes. Caes. Diosc. T. it bindeth and drieth. V. it cleareth and removeth whatsoever offendeth the sight: it being applied with water helpeth the inflammations of the dugs and genitals. So Weck. Galen. Aldrovand. Some also affirme that it preserveth the conception, and accellerates the birth being of the matter of the Eagle stone, and being found in a glutinous earth, notwithstan∣ding it is denied by many.

I.

Irish-slat. Hybernicus.

• P. It's brought out of Ireland, and is much used.
• M. It's matter is not much observed.
• N. Lapis hyberniae. Lapis hybernicus.

JRish-slat. T.V. it's often used against bruises, and after the travail in women, in steed of sperma ceti, called parmacity: It's much com∣mended by some, as very effectuall against quartam agues: as for the way of taking it, it may be in posset drink, or some other convenient liquour.

Jewes-stone. Judaicus.

• P. It is to be had in Judea, and Silesia.
• M. Of a friable and striate matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Hager alieudi. Tecolithos, Phenicites. Syriacus Aet.

Jewes-stone. Diosc. T.V. The quantity of a cich pease being grated by a whetstone put into unc. iiiij. of warme water, and drunk, ope∣neth the stoppages by the stone▪ and breaketh the stone of the blad∣der;

yet as to this Galen saith it doth little; but is very effectu∣all as to the other, so Bras. Caes, & Myl. Schrod. Some distinguish the sex hereof, and call the lesse females, serving against the stone in the bladder; and the greater males of which some are long, and about the bignesse of the little finger, serving to expell the stone of the reines, and difficulty of urine. Qu••rc. ph. R. the D. of the magistery is a few gr. Caes. waters flowing from it help the stone.

L.

Lime-stone. Calcarius.

• P. It is found and had in diverse places in England.
• M. It is almost like marble.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Herach, Nure. Gall. Chaux.

LIme-stone. Schrod. T. is fiery, biting, burning, and in progresse of time causeth crusts, sc. the quick. V. being washed it dryeth without biting, and is therefore good against troublesome ul∣cers, sc. the venereous; as also against burnings, and other sores, that will not be easily cured. The lie thereof serveth to wash pu∣trid wounds withall, and to make ophthalmick waters of. The spirit is a great arcanum, in wasting and eradicating the stone, of whatso∣ever kind, or in whatsoever place it be: it is also used by apothe∣caries to dissolve crystall, crabs eyes, and the most hard stones: so Kesl. Basil. in Rep. l. p. it fixeth minerall volatil spirits. Caes. waters flowing by lime stones, do not a little corrode, and dry, yet without biting. Aldrovand. being mixed with vineger and oile of roses it ci∣catrizeth ulcers: the powder with hogs grease, rosin, and honey helps the kings evill, when washed it looseth its biting, but yet dryeth, and is used with oile and wax to cicatrize. with vineger and oile of roses it cureth burnings. when alive mixed with sope it's used as a potentiall cauterie. the water thereof helps fistula's, cancers, and rednesse of the eyes with raine water, and armoniack salt.

Load-stone. Magnes.

• P. About Iron mines, in Germany, Italy, and Norway.
• M. Of all mixtures of stones with a metallick matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heracleus, Herculeus, Nauticus lapis, Sideritis.

Load-stone. Caes. T. is attractive. V. Port. Ru. it draweth out the iron of arrowes sticking in wounds, Albert. Mag. Port. Ru. Myl. it be∣ing drunk draweth all humidity out of the body, causing a dropsie. Port. being applied to the head it helpeth all griefes thereof. Myl. being drunk it looseneth the belly, and thick humours: also some think that being taken in a small quantity, it preserveth youth. Plin. Ru. it's used in remedies for the eyes, helping the watering thereof. being burned and powdered it helps adustions. Gal. it hath the vertue of the Haematite: Diosc. therefore some boile it, and sell it for the same. Schrod. it bindeth and stoppeth thick and melancholick hu∣mours; yet it's seldome used. Some make a plaister thereof burnt, and wax, and commend it mightily as helping the paine of the gout. it may be corroborated, being cemented with live lime, and a gentle fire, if often quenched in the solution or oile of Mars. C. The best is that of the colour of iron. Barth. Ang. it's hot and dry 30. Aldrov. it helps the gonorrhaea in women. applied it helps those that are wounded by poysonsome weapons, it's used in the weapon salve.

Lynx-stone Lyncis L.

• P. In Germany, Borussia, Pomerania, and Helvetia.
• M. It is generated of the Lynxes urine.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Belemnites. Dactylus Idaeus. Lyncurius.

Lynx-stone. Caes. T. V. it helpeth the paine of the reines, and cureth the jaundise. Plin. it helps the stone. Diosc. drunk in water it helps the stomach, and flux of the belly. Schrod. it helps against the stone, as that of the Jewes, cureth wounds, and helpeth against the pleurisie. some think, that being drunk it helpeth against the night mare, and fascinations. as for the smell it is unpleasant, some say it helps the travail in women.

M.

Mans bladder-stone. Humanus L.

• P. In the bladder of man, sometimes in the reines.
• M. Of a tartareous, salt, terrene, and feculent matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Ludus. Lapis vesicae. Arenulae.

MAns bladder-stone. Schrod. T. V. it is very good against the tartar in all parts of the body; and to dissolve the greater stones, expell them, and to remove obstructions thence arising. Hartm. in pract. Senn. Inst. the D. of the essence is gr. 5. to 12. every day in some convenient liquour.

Marble. Marmor.

• P. In Italy, and Germany: and other places.
• M. Of a well concocted matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Ophites. Serpentinus. Gall: Marbre.

Marble. Schrod. K. as the white, red, black, and various coloured. T. V. the ophite applied helps pains of the head, and wounds of ser∣pents. those that have lines help the lethargy and paines of the head, as also the spotted feaver. Gal. (according to signature) taken inwardly it is lithontriptick: some say that a cup thereof, having wine there∣in that is poysoned sheweth it by sweat. it helps the collick, pleurisie, paines of the belly, and cold stomach, paine of the gout, and nephri∣tick paine; being applied to the part affected. the cup thereof helpeth tertian and quartan agues, the phthisicall and hepatick, being dayly used. Gal. Caes. it hath a breaking and extersive faculty, as also glasse. Aldrovand. their waters are cold, keepe in the naturall heat, and helpe sterility that is caused by the laxity of the womb, globes of the serpentine marble help the heat of feavers being handled, and brea∣kings forth, by heat.

O.

Ostiocolla. Ostiocolla.

• P. In the Palatinat, Saxonie, and Silesia, like corall.
• M. It groweth on the sand like corall.
• N. Ossifragus, Sabulosus, Ostrites, Osteolithos, Holosteus, Morochtus Matth.

OStiocolla Schrod. T. is glutinative. V. it speedily gleweth bro∣ken bones, presently yeelding matter, fit for a callus and so ha∣stens conglutination: the D. is drach. 1. to drach. 1. sem. outwardly it's used in cataplasmes, and plaisters, &c. Aldrovand. broken bones be∣ing put into their places, and tied up, it healeth them, using outward∣ly the ointment made of the roots of cranes bill with axunge, some also use it with red wine, also it drieth and bindeth without acrimo∣ny. it helps poyson and the plague.

P.

Phrygian-stone. Phrygins.

• P. It is to be found and had in Phrygia, and Arabia.
• M. It's generated of a pumicose earth.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis Phrygiae.

PHrygian-stone. Diosc. T. is very astringent and purgeth. V. it causeth crusts after the manner of fire. with wax it helpeth bur∣nings. Plin. Isid. Maiol. it serveth for the dying of garments. Gal. it dryeth mightily; and is profitable against putrid ulcers, and for the eyes. It's washed as Cadmia.

Plaster. Gypsum.

• P. Almost every wherein Hetruria, and other places.
• M. It's of a crustaceous matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Gepsim, seu giepsin. Gall. Plastre du gips.

Plaster. Caes. T.V. waters comming therefrom, are like those of lime∣stone, and if much thereof be therein, it causeth death, Agric. Theo∣phrast.

fullers use it in stead of fullers earth. in physick it drieth and is emplastick, therefore applied it stoppeth bleeding with the white of an egge: when burnt it drieth more, and is lesse emplastick. Aldrov. it stops sweat and bloud.

Pumeise-stone. Pumex.

• P. It is found and to be had in Germany.
• M. It's generated of earth torrified.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Tanech. Lapis bibulus. It. Pumice.

Pumeise-stone. Schrod. T. cooleth, drieth, and extenuateth. V. it gently cleanseth ulcers, filleth and helpeth cicatrices. the powder is often used in remedies for the eyes, and privities: it is used also in dentifrices, or powders to cleanse the teeth, and sternutatories, or those that provoke sneezing. C. the best are the white and lightest, most spongious, and dry, easily poudered, and not sandie, when rubbed. Aldrovand. it's used to extirpate haires, and in remedies that help ringwormes. Theophrast. the powder being taken hindereth drun∣kennesse except a very great quantity of beere be taken after it. when burnt it's to be washed as cadmia.

S.

Samos-stone. Samius lapis.

• P. It is brought from the Isle of Samos.
• M. It's found in the earth of Samos.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis Insulae Samos.

SAmos-stone. Diosc. T. is cold and astringent. V. being drunk it helpeth those that cannot containe their meat in their stomach; yet it dulleth the sense. with milk it helps the fluxions of the eyes, and ulcers with milk, being applied it hastens the birth, and preserveth the conception. Plin. it helps the vertigo, and commotion of the mind: some also use it against the falling sicknesse, and difficultie of urine: Isid. it serveth to polish-gold with, Myl. C. the best is hard, and white: so Caes.

Smyris. Smyris:

• P. It's found where the earth of Samos is.
• M. It's found in the earth of Samos.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Ital. Smeriglio. Hisp. Esmeril.

Smyris. Caes. Diosc. T. wasteth and consumeth. V. it's therefore used in plaisters for the same purpose. it helps the moisture of the gums, and is used in dentifrices. Matth. the powder thereof serveth to po∣lish gemmes withall, and all sorts of armes: it is so hard also that it serveth to cut glasse, as the diamond doth. Gal. it is abstersive, as ap∣peareth by its cleansing of the teeth.

Spectacle-stone. Specularis.

• P. In Muscovie, Spain, Turing, and Misnia.
• M. It's neere unto gypsum.
• N. Selenites, Alumen Scaiolae, Matth.

Spectacle-stone. Schrod. T. V. it is very seldome used, and then, to whiten womens faces, and take away wrincles. Caes. before burned it's used with commendation, against the dysentery, being drunk in au∣stere wine: being burned it is like gypsum, and choaketh those that take it. Aldrovand. the powder helps the epilepsie, dysentery, hemor∣rhoids, and fluxes of urine; the powder helps fistula's, and is used in den∣tifrices.

Spunge-stone. Spongites.

• P. It is to be had in the places where sponges are.
• M. Of the concrescency of the sea-water.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis spongiae. Cysteolithos.

Spunge-stone. Schrod. T. extenuates without much heat. V. it is good to break the stone of the reines and bladder, it serveth also to discusse the kings evill, sc. a draught of a mans own urine being drunk every morning, and afterwards in the last quadrature of the moone, it being taken every day in wine, with common salt, sal gemme, and tartar.

T.

Talch. Talcum.

• P. It is to be had in, and brought from Venice, and Muscovie.
• M. It's generated of a pellucid matter.
• N. Stella terrae. Phengites, Constant.

TAlch. T.V. it's most used outwardly, as in cosmeticks; yet it can∣not be used, unlesse freed from its vinculum, being prepared, and reduced into liquour. C. the best is the greenish, and that of Venice, or Moscovie. Hartm. in Crol. The distilled or cosmetick oile thereof, serveth to annoint the hands with, after washing in vineger: some say that if the face be very well washed, that the fucus thereof will last a month. The liquour of S. Closs. consumeth the freckles and spots of the face, and whiteneth the skin, but it must not long re∣maine thereon least it corrode the epidermis, or outward skinne. S. Closs. The cremor thereof serveth also to whiten the face. The tincture is a preservative against the plague: D. gr. 6. being taken every day. Aldrov. Aver the stone is cold, and temperately dry; but lesse than other earths or lutes. Matth. it strangles like gypsum, it bindeth, stoppeth bleeding, fluxes, the homerrhoids, and abscesses, and helps the itch, and ulcers.

Unicorne-stone. Unicornu sos.

• P. In Germany, Moravia, Silesia, and Saxonie.
• M. Of marle irrigated by a subterraneous petrifying water.
• N. Cornu fossile. Ebur fossile. Ceretites lapis.

VNicorne-stone. Schrod. T. for the most part they dry, and bind. V. therefore they stop fluxes of the belly, gonorrhoea's, whites, the bleeding at the nose, and hemorrhoides: and if the smell be sweet, they are pleasant to the heart, strengthen it, and help the falling sicknesse. used outwardly they cicatrize ulcers, and in col∣lyries stop the watering of the eyes. Aldrovand. it helps against all poysons, drach. 1. or scrup. iiij. of the powder being taken in cardiack water, or in wine if there be no feaver, it causing sweat, and driving the poyson outwards: also it helps the syncope and other affections of the heart, scrup. 1. being taken, having the vertue of the earth of Lemnos.

W.

Whetstone. Cos.

• P. In Germany, Saxonie, Cyprus, and Misnia. so Encel.
• M. Its matter is not much observed.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Lapis naxius. Coticula. Acone.

VVHetstone. Weck. T. that which comes off from it by whet∣ting, T. is styptick. V. it stops the falling off of the haire, and causeth it. to grow when fallen off. it keeps downe the breasts of women, or virgins: being, drunk with vineger it con∣sumes the spleen and cureth the epilepsie; so Dioscorides, and Wecker. Aldrovand. the powder is cooling: that of the oleary whetstone, is of an extersive vertue, therefore it is counted good against the alopecia, it's used also by smiths, mowers, barbers, and by all men to sharpen tooles withall, as it's sufficiently known.

Stones lesse used in Physick.

STones lesse used in Physick. Caes. are the Antachates, which being burned smels like myrrhe: so the Aromatites, and Myr∣rhites. The Zanthena smelleth sweet: so the Baptes, and A∣tizoe. The Libanochron is bituminous. The Catochites, stick∣eth to the hand, and draweth all beasts after it, being bur∣ned: all these are bituminouse. Asbestes, being once fiered cannot be extinguished: so Isid. August. Maiol. Zanard. Myl. Selenites increa∣seth in its candor according to the moone. So Plin. August, Isid. Diosc. Matth. Zanard. Maiol. Caus. Myl. Dionysius, being powdered and drunk in water causeth a tast of wine, and resisteth drunken∣nesse: So Plin. Maiol. Caus. Thracius, is kindled by water, and ex∣tinguished by oile; so Plin. Diosc. Myl. Plin. Gal. the stinck thereof driveth away wild beasts. Scyrus, swimmeth being whole, and sink∣eth when broken, so Isid. Plin. Caus. Maiol. Albert. Mag. Arabicus, be∣ing burned is used in dentifrices, and helps the hemorrhoids so Plin. Myl. Diosc. Gal. it dryeth and cleanseth. Memphites, being pow∣dered and applied with vineger to places that are to be cut or bur∣ned, maketh them to be so stupid, that they cannot perceive the paine;

so Isid. Diosc. Myl. Sarcophagus, consumeth dead bodies within eleven daies, being, layed therein, sc. all but the teeth: so Plin: Isid. Albert. Mag. Androdamas, restraineth the wrath and rage of men; so Plin. Albert. Mag. and draweth silver or brasse to it, so Isid. Galactites, being powdered yeelds a kind of milkie juyce, it causeth milk in nur∣ses, being worne by children it causeth spittle; so Plin. Maiol. it helps distillations of the eyes, and ulcers being applied; but by reason of it's glutinosnesse, it is to be kept when powdered in water in a leaden vessel; so Diosc. being worne it helpeth the birth; so Myl. Mytridas, being shined on by the sunne, shineth with variety of co∣lours. Phengites is used as the specular stone, so Plin. Isid. Caus. Cher∣nites. preserveth bodies from corruption, contrary to that of the Asian stone, consuming all things, and reducing them into ashes; so Caus. Ostracites, serveth in stead of the pumis-stone to smooth the skin, being drunk it stoppeth bloud; and applied with hony, cureth ulcers, & paines of the dugs; so Plin. as also inflammations, & eating ulcers, & causeth sterility, being drunk 4 daies after the birth, so Diosc. Myl. Gal. it is very drying, Smyris is used in plaisters, to consume and eat; it helps moist gumms, & is used in dentifrices, so Diosc. The powder serveth to polish Jewels with, and armes, also it serveth to cut glasse, as the ada∣mant, so Matth. it is very abstersive; so Gal. Tusculanus, breaketh being in the fire, so Isid. Sabinus yeeldeth a light with, oile, so Isid. Sifnius, being heated with oile, waxeth black and hardeneth. Plin. Thebaicus is used in collyries; so Plin. Asius, is salt, it helps the gout of the legs being held in a vessel thereof, mixed with copper it helps vices of the dugs, and botches with pitch or rosin, also it discusseth waxing kernels, and helps the bitings of beasts; so Plin. it gently biteth and bindeth, the powder eateth flesh, and extenuates, being used in baths, in stead of nitre; so Diosc. Melitites, operates as the Lactarius; so Diosc. Myl. be∣ing powdered it yeeldeth a sweet and hony-like juyce, and being mix∣ed with wax, it helps eruptions of phlegme, spots of the body, and ex∣ulcerations of the jawes, so Plin. Morochthus, is used by linnen dra∣pers to whiten garments; also it stops spitting of bloud: with water it helps paines of the bladder, and stops destillations. Thyites, is very corrosive, and it chiefely purgeth, those humours that hurt the eyes, so Diosc. Gal. Assyrius, is used for an amulet, and being tied to the thighes of those that are great, it facilitates childbirth, so Diosc. Tiburones, powdered, helpe the difficultie of urine, and stone of the reines and bladder, the tast is insipid, so Myl. Caymanus, helps the quartain ague, being bound to the temples; so Myl. Myexis, or that of the toad, being worne helps the paines of the reines, inflamations

of the dugs, and generation of the stone; also it helpes diseases of the stomach, and feavers, and venemous wounds, so Myl. Chelidonius, being worne under the left at me, helps old diseases, lunacie, epilepsies, madnesse, and languishing, so drunk; also it makes pleasant and grate∣full, sc. the red. The black helps against hurtfull humours, anger, and feavers, also it causeth good successe, and helps the paines of the eyes, being powdered and used in water: so Myl. Ru. Malauar, held in the mouth in a certain leafe helps hunger; so Maiol. Glasse, is pleasant for the sight; so Maiol. Turchois, strengthens and preser∣veth the sight; so Ru. Myl. is defendeth from hurt, so Ru. Myl. Albert. it strengthneth and comforts the heart; so Myl. Ru. and cau∣seth mirth and prosperity. used by the unchast it looseth its colour and vertue, so Myl. there are also other fabulous relations made here∣of. Anthracites is quenched by fire, and burnes with water, so Isid. Caus. Hexecontalithus, hurts the nerves, and weake eyes: so Albert. Liparia, being burned, draweth all beasts to it, so Plin. Caus. Mynda••, driveth away wild beasts, and defends from them, so Caus. Spinus, Smarillus and Maritha, being togeather and sprinkled with water, doe burne; so Aristot. Maiol. Nymphaeus is kindled by water, so Plin. Maiol. Zanard. Droselitus, sweateth, being put to the fire. Ephestites, by the sun fireth a dry matter, worne before the heart it hinders sedition, and the furie of wild beasts, and being cast into boiling wa∣ter it makes it cold; so Isid. Plin. Maiol. Albert. Mag. Absicthus, being once heated, continueth so 7 daies, so Plin. Isid. Maiol. Zanard. Albert. Jonis, being heated draweth chaffe, &c. to it: so the Charchedonius; so Plin. Maiol. Enhydros, sweateth as if there was a fountain in it, so Isid. Maiol. Solin. Thyrrhaeus, swimmeth being whole, and sinketh when broken: so Plin. Maiol Sagda, swimmeth on the top of the wa∣ter, so Plin. Solin. Isid. Maiol. Catochites is glutinous; so Solin. Plin. Ma∣iol. Cinaedia, sheweth the change of the sea, by its cloudie colour, or tranquilitie, so Plin. Isid. Ceraunia is said to help against lightning, so Solin. Isid. Zanard. Plin. Phlegontis, seemeth to have a flame within it: so Plin. Isid. Chrysolampis, seemeth to be of a golden colour in the day, and fiery in the night, so Isid. Solin, Plin. Chrysocolla, is said to attract Gold; so Isid. Plin. Siderites, causeth discord; so Plin. Isid. E∣umeces, layed under the head, causeth many apparitions in the night, so Plin. Gasidanes conceiveth, in three moneths space, so Plin. Judica, yeeldeth a purple sweat, so Plin. Paeantides, are great, bring forth, and help women to be delivered; so Plin. Diacodos, being layed on a dead man, doth so loose its vertue, that it seemeth to feare death▪ so Albert. Mag. Galaricides, is of the nature of galactites. Garachides,

maketh amiable. so Albert. Gecolitus being powdered and drunk in water, breaketh the stone, and brinketh it out of the reines and blad∣der, so Albert. Kacabres, is said to cause eloquence, and help the dropsie; so Albert. Medius helps the gout, so Albert. Nuse found in the head of a toad, if held in the hand, burneth it when poyson is present; so Albert, Peranites is said to conceive and bring forth at a certain time, and therefore helpeth those that are great, so Albert. Quiritia, found in the nest of a lapwing, is said to discover secrets, being layed upon the breast, when a sleep: So Albert. Quandros, causeth milk, and helps against dainger, so Albert. Mag. Suetinus be∣ing rubbed draweth chaffe, if worne, it causeth chastity, driveth a∣way serpents, and facilitates the birth, so Albert. Virites, if not gently handled, it burneth the hand: So Albert. Mag. But these are the fri••olous and superstitious vertues, that many of the Antients attri∣bute to stones, which are not here related, as if credited; but rather to satisfy the curious reader by way of Syntagmaticall Hystory. Toad-stone, by gentle stroaking or touching taketh away, the swelling, in∣flammation, or paine from any wound, made by venimous crea∣tures, and presently draweth out the poyson. The same if true, and held neere unto a toad, she will presently proffer to take it, so Weck. it may be got, by putting a toad into a perforated purse, and so lea∣ving her in an emmet hill, to be devoured. Snakes-stone, Holler, being bound to the belly of one that hath the dropsie, it drieth and drin∣keth up the water thereof, it is got by hanging a water snake up by the taile over a vessel of water, and after some houres or dayes he is reported to vomit a stone for that purpose. Diamond, is the hardest of all stones, it helpeth against feares in the night, melancholy, and adust choller, it is reported to strengthen the heart, and make those un∣daunted that weare it; yet unfortunate. Milstone, Aldrovand. Hip∣poc. is used to cause conception, it hindereth the violence of milk, be∣ing powdered and mixed with rosin, it's used as a cataplasme, and it's used against hard choerades, Paulus substituteth it, in the stead of the fire stone; who against the dysentery, heated a piece of a milstone, put∣ting the baked leaves of leeks thereon with vineger for use. Glossopetra, Aldrovand. diverse authors commend it for diverse purposes, some against witchcraft, others against poyson, which they affirme sweateth in the presence thereof, though Boetius denieth it. Gesner commen∣deth it against intoxications, others compare the vertues thereof to those of bolus, and burned ivory, it being found in a very dry earth, and for the most part in the mines of bole; as also to those of the Rhinoceros, and it's much commended against dangerous feavers, and to expell the

small-pocks. furthermore it helpeth against wormes, more than bezoar, there being nothing that more resisteth putrefaction, it be∣ing of a most dry nature. Chelonites, is of the nature of toad-stone, so Aldrov. as also of the belemnites and snakes eggs, therefore some say that it helps against lightning, and poyson, the first being said to sweat when poyson is present, and the other causing sleep and vi∣ctory, &c. Encel. it hath the same vertue, as ostracites, Marbod. the magicians thought that being held under the tongue it caused them to foretell things to come. Trochites, Agric. Aldrov. as also Entro∣chos, have great affinity to the loadstone, and being poudered, and taken with warm water helpeth the difficulty of urine, and breaketh the stone of the bladder and reins, and performeth the other effects of the Jewes-stone. Ammites, Aldrov. it being bound to the arme on the grieved side, doth not only ease the paine of the reines, but breaketh and expelleth the stone also, being of the nature of the nephritick stone. Ammochrysus, Aldrov. being powdered serveth only to dry up ink in writings, and is therefore called writers dust. Sand-stone, is very dry saith Aldrovand, sticking to the tongue like Armenian earth, and may be used in stead thereof, therefore Erastus saith it was much used in Germany. it's commended against fractures, being made into a plaister, with oile of roses, myrtles, or mastick with a little wax, taking drach. 1. of the powder morning and evening in some liquour, it so used, curing in few daies. Astroites, Aldrov. Ficin. being every day moistned with vineger and worne, it will preserve from poysons, and mightily exhilerate the vitall spirits, others say that being worne it defendeth from wild beasts, driveth away pestilent feavers; and spiders out of the room. Plin. it causeth secundity. Bapt. Port. being worne it driveth away night feares, others say, that being worne about the neck it greatly helpeth the epilepsie and apoplexie, and may then also be used inwardly. the powder being drunk by those that are melancholick, strengthneth the principall parts, and helps the vertigo▪ also gr. 4. thereof taken prevent the infection of the plague, and kill wormes. Crucifer, Aldrov. some affirme, that being worne upon the grieved part, it helps the nephritick griefe, and iliack passion, being as a most precious amulet. Boet. being worne upon the skinne it stoppeth bleeding in any part, and causeth much milk, also it cureth all agues, and is by some commended against phantasmes. Variolatus, Aldrov. Patrit. being worne about the neck, so that it may touch the skinne, it draweth out the ichor of the small pocks to the skinne, and presently freeth from the danger thereof, which some say it doth by signature: also applied to the eyes, or other parts it defendeth them

from the hurt thereof. Prasius, Aldrov. is commended against dim∣nesse of the eyes, Albert. Mag. it hath the vertues of the Jasper, and Emerald. some say it recreates the vitall spirits. Mercat. it looseth it's greennesse when poyson is present, which cannot be restored, ex∣cept by much washing. Malachites, Aldrov. some report that be∣ing used it keepeth from lightning, petturbation of the mind, contagion, feares, and witchcraft, and it's therefore hung about the necks of children, also it's used as an amulet against the syncope, paines, rupture, and falls; the powder drunk with milk helps the col∣lick, heart-ach, by purging, gr. 6. thereof serving in stead of antimonie, so Boet. the same drunk with a little honey provoketh the termes, and cureth spasmes being applied with a moist linnen cloth. mixed with aqua vitae it cureth virulent ulcers. Crat. being applied to the stomach, it strengthneth it, and agreeth therein with jasper, so used. Heliotropium, Aldrov. it hath very great affinity to the Jasper, and is therefore thought to have the vertues of the same, it resisteth poy∣son, and stoppeth bleeding in any part. Boet. being worne, it hinde∣reth the generation of the stone, helps the concoction of the stomach, and epilepsie. Marbod. it was thought formerly to help to foretell things, and make invisible him that wore it, which is both supersti∣tious and fabulous. Ageratus, Aldrov. Gal. it was formerly used by Carriers, being of an astringent and digestive facultie. Alaban∣dina, Aldrov. is used in the making of glasse. Aphroselinus, Aldrov. is corrupted by showers, it shineth like Christall, and may be cleft thinner than writing paper. Adarce, Gal. is very sharp and hot, and is to be used outwardly only mixed with other things, that may cor∣rect its violence, and so it helps the leprosie, morphew, and other cutaneous affections. So Plin. Camphora. Aldrov. some count it cold and dry 3^o, others hot and dry 2^o, and some of a mixt qua∣lity, and therefore extoll it both in hot and cold diseases. Rhasis counteth it of cold, moist, and thin parts: but Platearius cold and dry 4^o, therefore the very smell thereof is thought to hinder ve∣nery, and to provoke sleepe; but it's rather hot, sharp, and aeriall, and bitter, Gal. and easily taketh fire, therefore Mauritanus counteth it hot and dry 2^o. yet it cureth burnings by attracting the hot and fiery attoms. V. Avic. it helps the concoction of the stomach and li∣ver, cutteth phlegme, discusseth flatulencies, and causeth watching; but other authors attribute the contrary faculties unto it. Aldrov. it helps hot head aches, inflamations, the crysipelas, and burnings, sc. by drawing out the heat by the tenuity of it's parts, therefore Fuchsius substitutes the flowers of water lillies, plaintain, or semper vive. also

taken with succinum it helps the gonorrhoea and flux of the womb, and used to the forehead it stops bleeding with the water of plantain. it's used in collyries also against lippitude, and causeth sleep used both inwardly and outwardly, and whitenesse of the face: so the oile chiefely. Jodoc. also it helps the heat of the liver, headach, poysons, pestilence, and prevents putrefaction. Fren. the oile helps against putrefaction, fits of the mother, passions of the heart, &c. a few drops being taken in any liquour, & anointed on the breast, or the fume may be taken at the mouth. Merul. with a like q. of pure powder of brimstone, and wax; it maketh a candle that will not be put out by any weather. Lapi•• Vulturis, see in my Panzoology, so Lapis Cancrorum. Carpionis. Aldr. the powder helps the hemmorhage, having an astringent faculty. Melan∣teria, Aldrov. is astringent as mysy: exceeding all astringent reme∣dies by its tenuity. Load-stone, Kirch. hath the same faculty as I∣ron, helps the spleen, and dropsie in mulse: worne about the neck, it helps the spasme, and paines of the nerves: held in the hand it's said to accelerate the birth. It is to be kept being hanged up, that it may have its naturall position, and to be fed with steele filings, it's to be preserved from things that are greasie, being wrapped in a purple cloth. There are diverse other nautick and mechanick uses thereof, but as not belonging to this purpose they are here o∣mitted, and the rest may be seene amongst the rest of the stones, in the precedent Alphabet.

FINIS.