PRACTICAL CHYMIATRY | BY DR. JOHANN HARTMANN.

V. A Panacea a universal remedy or Sulfur of Antimony. The dose is 10 to 15 grains. It is an excellent diaphoretic sweat-inducing medicine, especially for malignant and epidemic diseases, when taken in appropriate sweat-inducing waters. It is given in some preserve, or mithridatum a complex semi-liquid herbal tonic used as an antitoxin, or with a decoction of Hartshorn shavings from deer antlers.

VI. Theriacal Water of Croll, specifically for the plague. The dose is from half to one spoonful.

VII. Paracelsus’s diaphoretic for very acute illnesses, or the Simple Mixture. Dose is 1 dram.

VIII. Alcoholized Spirit of Tartar, described in Croll. Dose is 1 to 2 drams.

IX. Bezoar Stone a stony mass found in the stomachs of animals, prized as an antidote. The dose is 6 to 7 grains. If used daily, as in long-lasting diseases like heart palpitations, use 2 to 3 grains in suitable waters.

X. Cinnabar mercury sulfide of antimony mixed with equal parts Magistery a precipitate or fine powder of Coral and Pearls. Dose is from 12 to 13 grains. If an equal weight of Magistery of Human Skull is added to this mixture, it becomes an excellent diaphoretic for Epilepsy. The dose of this latter version is 16 to 20 grains.

XI. Arcanum a secret or powerful remedy of Carduus benedictus Blessed Thistle. Dose is 5, 6, or 7 grains. Also, the Salt of Blessed Thistle dissolved in spirit of saltpeter potassium nitrate and reduced again into crystals. A dose of 1 dram is highly recommended for quartan fever a form of malaria where fever recurs every fourth day.

XII. English Potable Gold gold dissolved in a liquid form for ingestion. Dose is 1 drop dissolved in 1 ounce of Malmsey a sweet fortified wine.

Hartmann's Sweat Box XIII. The Laconicum a dry sweat bath or box of Dr. Hartmann is as follows: Let a square tub be made of boards, 5 feet high, 2 feet wide, and 4 or 5 feet long. In the upper cover, let there be a hole through which the head can be extended, using small boards that are movable on either side. In the bottom, let there be a wooden grate, and in the middle, a seat with a footstool reaching to the grate to support the feet. In the front part, let there be a small door with a glass window that can be opened and closed. On the outer parts, let there be iron handles by which it can be moved and carried. Beneath the grate on all four sides, let there be movable wooden sliding windows, through which vinegar or burning wine (spirit of wine) can be placed in iron dishes (for tin ones are consumed by vinegar). The vapor of the burning or ignited liquid can then strike the whole body of the patient placed within, except for the head. Sometimes a decoction of herbs or even aromatics, according to the needs of the disease, is placed inside while still boiling through a wooden pipe. These vapors can be better stimulated toward the sweating patient by the burning spirit of wine. The work is continued as long as necessary and as reason dictates.

A technical diagram depicts a "Laconicum" or sweat box. It is a tall wooden cabinet with a seat inside. A hole at the top allows the patient's head to remain outside. Small windows at the base allow for the insertion of heating elements or trays of medicinal vapors.

a. The hole through which the head can be extended.
b. b. Movable small boards.
c. c. Wooden grate.
d. d. The seat.
e. The footstool.
f. The small door.
g. g. Glass windows.
h. h. Movable boxes in which the dishes are placed.

XIV. Flowers of Antimony. Let 17 parts of Calcined Antimony and half a pound of Salt of Tartar Flowers (1 dram) be sublimated, so that the flowers of antimony are raised once with the salt of tartar, and a second and third time. Finally, they should be washed in seven parts of simple water and two parts of rose water. Thus you will have diaphoretic flowers.

(The Rubies of Arsenic drive out sweats excellently. You shall complete them thus:
Take as much Arsenic as you wish. Sublimate it in a cucurbit a gourd-shaped glass vessel used in distillation without addition for a third time, so that the volatile sulfur, the worst part of the arsenic, ascends better like a very fine powder; reject this. Grind the hard and crystalline part with an equal portion of Flowers of Sulfur on a marble stone and sublimate in a sand bath. You will receive crystals red like rubies; collect these and keep them in a well-sealed glass. They are given in doses of 3 to 8 grains in diseases of the chest and where the lungs are filled with tartareous hard, stony, phlegmatic, and viscous matter, given with some pectoral conserve. In malignant diseases, give them with Theriac a famous multi-ingredient herbal jam used as a panacea. However, I advise you to beware of the smoke during sublimation, lest you undergo danger. I would prefer to use these Antimonials.)

XV. Take Prepared Hartshorn (half an ounce), Magistery of Pearls (1 dram), Bezoar Stone (5 grains). Mix to make a powder, to be taken with 1 ounce of Blessed Thistle water.

XVI. A most useful diaphoretic for all malignant diseases is made from the fresh velvet the soft skin covering growing antlers or horns of deer still stiff with blood. If these are cut into very thin slices and distilled in a retort by a water bath original: "MB", stands for Mary's Bath or a dew bath original: "Roris", a gentle heat, either by themselves or with a little noble wine, until all the liquor comes out. The dose is half a spoonful, either by itself or with some opiate or conserve of Citron flowers. It is excellent for malignant and epidemic fevers.

XVII. Theriacal Water.
Take roots of birthwort (both types), angelica, snakeweed, cyperus, tormentil, and scorzonera; elecampane, cinquefoil, valerian, and white dittany (half an ounce of each). Zedoary and pimpernel (2 drams each). Fresh laurel berries (2 drams) and juniper (6 drams). Citron seeds (half an ounce). Blessed Thistle and mountain calamint (1 dram). Galangal, aloe wood, and yellow sandalwood (2 drams each). Orange and citron peel (1 dram each). Citron flowers (6 drams). Leaves of water germander (1 handful). Leaves of devil's bit, speedwell, blessed thistle, and scabious (half a handful each). Flowers of borage, bugloss, and St. John's wort (half a handful each). Sorrel juice (1 and a half pounds). Salts of scabious and borage (half a pound each). Best wine (3 pounds). Camphor (1 and a half drams). Best Mithridatum (1 and a half drams). Theriac of Andromachus (half an ounce). Pomegranate wine (1 and a half pounds). Wine (2 ounces).
Once cut and crushed, infuse them together and digest in a warm place for 8 days, then distill in a water bath.

XVIII. Theriacal Vinegar:
Take roots of bistort, gentian, pimpernel, angelica, and tormentil (10 drams each). Laurel and juniper berries (1 dram each). Nutmeg (5 drams). Shavings of sassafras wood (5 drams). Zedoary (half an ounce). White sandalwood (1 dram). Leaves of rue, wormwood, and water germander (half a handful each). Flowers of carnation and bugloss (1 and a half handfuls each). Theriac of Andromachus and Mithridatum (6 drams each).
After crushing what needs to be crushed, let an infusion of everything be made in wine vinegar for 8 days, then distill through a water bath.

DIURETICS.

Diuretics are substances that promote the production of urine.

I. Water from peach kernels macerated with Malmsey or another noble wine for 5 or 6 days and distilled through a water bath or ashes. One spoonful of this is most effective.

II. Very white flints collected from a river are heated in fire and extinguished in noble wine repeatedly until they are reduced entirely to powder. One draught of the wine, passed through a filter, suddenly drives out urine because of the Salt of Flints. For the salt of urine stagnating in the body is cured by another salt.

III. Oil of Wax, 2 or 3 drops in water of the roots of the greater nettle, strongly drives out urine. At the same time, the region of the kidneys should be anointed with oil of bricks, oil of scorpions, and oil of wax. Likewise, let the peritoneum the lining of the abdominal cavity be anointed with the same oil.

OIL OF WAX.

Take 1 pound of wax and 3 ounces of washed ashes. Distill in a low cucurbit or retort in ashes with a slow fire. That which distills first coagulates like butter, which often blocks the opening of the alembic the cap of a still or the neck of the retort; this must be melted using a coal so that it descends into the receiver. It is later rectified once or twice through the retort with added common water.

IV. Volatile Salt of Amber by Croll. See the notes on Croll.

SALT OF AMBER.

Fixed Salt of Amber is made from the caput mortuum dead head, the useless residue left after distillation after the distillation of the oil, calcined in a potter's furnace, and the salt is extracted from the lime. The dose is 1 dram to half an ounce in a suitable liquid.

V. Spirit of Salt, especially sea salt, with urine-moving waters, 3 to 6 or 10 drops with spring water, or parsley water, or winter cherry water.

VI. Spirit of Vitriol, just like Vitriol itself. The dose is the same, with two parts of vinegar.

VII. One spoonful of Aqua Vitae Water of Life, or concentrated alcohol.

VIII. Tincture or Sulfur of Tartar. 4 to 8 drops of this given with wine or another liquid powerfully drives the diseases of the lower organs out through the urine. Remarkably, it wonderfully restores sluggishness of the bowels, whether contracted by the use of medicines or by nature. It is most suitable for the elderly. See the notes to Croll.

IX. Diuretic Julep.
Take Salt of Prunella purified saltpeter (half a dram to 1 dram). Water of restharrow and parsley (3 to 4 ounces). Syrup prepared from restharrow flowers, or simply of violets, or from borage juice, or Lemon.

X. Diuretic Oxymel a mixture of honey and vinegar is very frequently used among some physicians.
Take roots of valerian, swallow-wort, and sea holly (half an ounce each). Herbs of oregano, hyssop, speedwell, scabious, and horehound (1 handful each). Roots of fennel and parsley (6 drams each). Seeds of anise and fennel (1 dram each). Flowers of broom and elder (3 portions each). Clarified honey (1 pound). Vinegar of squill (half a pound). Spring water (3 pounds).
Mix and let it boil slowly, then stand in a warm place, covered, for 8 days. Boil and press out. Make an oxymel. The dose is 2 to 4 or 6 ounces when necessity urges.

RESTORATIVES.

I. Salt of Pearls and Magistery. Dose from 6, 10, to 20 grains. (Note: in the notes to Croll, do not exceed 15 grains.)

II. Syrup of Pearls. Prepared according to Quercetanus’s syrup of corals, which is also considered a restorative. In imitation of this, a syrup of pearls can be made if the pearls are digested and dissolved with purified lemon juice according to the author’s mind, and a syrup is made from the solution, just as he teaches regarding the syrup of corals.

III. Arcanum of Pearls. Dose 15 to 20 grains. (Because of the Spirit of Guaiacum a medicinal wood from the Caribbean with which it is prepared, it purifies the blood excellently in the venereal plague syphilis.) See below under Venereal Cures.

IV. Salt of Corals.
V. Magistery of Corals.

VI. Tincture of Corals. Dose from 6 to 15 grains. See the notes to Croll.

VII. Elixir of Property by Paracelsus, from 6 to 25 drops in a suitable vehicle. See notes to Croll.

VIII. Oil of Cinnamon. Dose from 3 to 4 grains.

IX. Restorative Balms, for which see the Crollian notes. Balm of Cinnamon: Take as much oil of nutmeg by expression as you wish. Extract a tincture with spirit of wine until the oil remains at the bottom white and almost odorless. Take this and add 6 drams of extract of cinnamon. Let it sit in warm ashes until it unites into one body. When this is done, add 2 drams of distilled oil of cinnamon. Mix very well and keep. The dose is 6 grains in melissa water or another cordial, or in a cordial preserve or opiate. All these restorative principles strengthen the limbs, especially a cold stomach, the heart, and the brain. It is a singular remedy in fainting spells, where the heart can also be anointed with it.

X. English Potable Gold.

XI. Transparent Sun, about which Rhenanus writes in his book The Sun Emerging from the Well.

XII. Restorative Water.

XIII. Water of Magnanimity, about which see the Marrow of Distillers, Book 2, Treatise 8.

XIV. Rectified Ambergris. Rectified Ambergris, which they say the Emperor Rudolph used very often. He received its composition from Queen Elizabeth of England, which is as follows:
Take 8 parts of pure and proven gray ambergris.
1 part of most fragrant musk.
6 parts of the whitest sugar.
Let all be powdered and ground very well with burning spirit of roses, frequently pouring on some spirit of roses, tempering it, and gradually letting it settle again until it is nearly dry. Then let it be ground again as before and kept for use. The dose is the size of a small pea in wine or another suitable liquid. It is the greatest restorative for all the internal organs and especially promotes the power of procreation.

XV. Spirit of Soot. Spirit of Soot with its oil: Take Spirit of Soot from elegant and shining chimneys, like black amber (Spiegelerus says the closer it adheres to the furnace, the better). Fill a glass retort, well-coated with clay or even of earth, up to the neck. With a very large receiver attached, distill with degrees of open fire, slow at the beginning, later stronger, so that the phlegm, all the white spirits, and the oil (first yellow, finally red) pass over together with the phlegm.