CHEMICAL BASILICA

page 107. & 330. 10. Its use is remarkable in enemas original: "Clysteribus"; half a dram a unit of weight, roughly 1/8th of an ounce or one dram is macerated or boiled in a suitable water or wine, and the strained liquid is mixed with a broth or decoction in a sufficient quantity original: "s. q." (quantum satis) so that an enema may be made from it.

See Joseph Quercetanus The Latinized name of Joseph Duchesne (c. 1544–1609), an influential Paracelsian physician on page 345 of the Restored Pharmacopoeia. This Blessed Water original: "aqua benedicta," a common name for an infusion of antimonial saffron used as an emetic is accustomed to produce various operations in various people: it most often purges through the upper parts acting as an emetic to induce vomiting, but sometimes also through the following parts, or even through the bowels alone; indeed, sometimes it acts through sweats appearing at the same time, or alone. Note: in cases of mania, frenzy, and melancholy, it is applied above to the head after sleep has first been induced; otherwise it does not purge, but it relaxes the bowels so that the humors the bodily fluids—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—which early medicine sought to balance may descend. Likewise, if you wish to dissolve saffron here referring to the "Saffron of Metals" previously mentioned in distilled water, then make it boil with them; however, it dissolves freely in spirituous liquids, such as in wine or the spirit of Blessed Thistle original: "spiritu Carduibenedicti," a medicinal plant (Centaura benedicta) used for various ailments. Someone once washed their feet with this "Blessed Water" and the bowels were relaxed. An Ophthalmic Water eye wash is also made from this Saffron, which is applied to the eyes; it also moves the bowels, etc. Let these things suffice concerning the Liver of Antimony original: "Hepate Antimonii," a dark, glass-like substance formed by fusing antimony with saltpeter; more must now be heard regarding the calcination the process of heating a substance to high temperatures in the presence of air to oxidize it or remove volatile components of Antimony.

The Calcination of Antimony is also done thus: Let it be ground into a powder, sifted, and placed over a slow fire in a nearly flat earthen vessel or frying pan; let it be stirred constantly with a wide, curved iron tool toward the end, so that it does not clump together into a ball during the melting of the fire. But if this should happen contrary to expectations, let it be pounded into powder again as before and placed over the fire with the heat gradually increased, repeating the process as many times as necessary until all the smoke has vanished (which some, however, strive to preserve), and the calces the powdery ash remaining after calcination have contracted a whitish, cinder-like color. See Theophrastus Paracelsus, Book 3, On Long Life, Chapter 6, where it appears that its body must be preserved entirely whole in the preparation, etc.

Or it is made thus according to another: Take Antimony or Regulus of Antimony original: "Reguli Antimonii," the metallic form of antimony separated from its ore made by itself, and Saltpeter original: "Salis nitri," potassium nitrate in equal parts; calcine them together, and then calcine them again with an equal amount of saltpeter. Repeat this twice more; finally, let it be dulcified original: "dulcificetur," the process of washing a substance with water to remove bitter or caustic salts with water. The dose is half a dram to a whole dram, or even more, according to the requirements of the disease.

Note: some assert that stibium another name for antimony is masculine and feminine: the masculine is that in which there is no blackness, which is brittle and bright...