CHYMIATRIC PRACTICE BY DR. JOHANN HARTMANN

should be applied by touching only the affected area with a small brush, or by washing it away with a gargle; in this way, they easily recede.

In all these cases, the red spirit of Mercury original: "sp. Mercur. rubeus" works wonderfully by eliminating the entire disease of the venereal pox syphilis from the whole body. We will teach its preparation and use below in the section on the venereal pox.

ANGINA

Vomitives, especially Blessed Water Aqua benedicta a medicinal wine made with antimony used to induce vomiting, quickly remove angina severe sore throat or tonsillitis, whether it is just beginning or even well-established, especially if a fever is pressing. In this way, the inflammation recedes, and ulcers or abscesses are broken. In all these matters, one must respect the nature and strength of the patient.

If vomitives cannot be used, one must immediately turn to specific remedies, which can also be used even after vomitives. Such remedies include:

1. A remedy found in Paracelsus’s treatise on the Plague to the people of Sterzing: Take 1 or 8 ounces of live crabs crabs are remarkably cooling and 3 handfuls of great houseleek original: "sedi majoris". These are crushed together in a mortar and then pressed to yield a juice. The tongue and throat should be moistened with this, or the tongue itself scraped with it. Indeed, a very small amount of it—some ounces in a suitable liquid—should be taken internally.

2. An experiment by Anton Aufmans, a citizen of Augsburg: Take 1 pound of great houseleek. Crush it in a mortar and express the juice. To 1 pound of this juice, add 3 ounces of sal ammoniac salis amoniaci ammonium chloride salt. Keep it in a humid place until the salt is dissolved, then distill it through an alembic a distilling apparatus. Wash the tongue frequently with this water, either hot or lukewarm. It is highly proven. See Conradinus on the venereal pox.

3. The gargle mentioned above in the section on the loss or depravation of taste.

NOTE
In this case, something should be added to those plants of the great houseleek.

If the patient cannot gargle, the gargle must be injected with small syringes. After each gargling, take a piece of bacon rind original: "coriuli de lardo (Speckschwarten)" two fingers wide and cut it deeply on the side where the fat remains. Place it against the tongue and hold it there for a while. In this way, the very black crust of the tongue is loosened and finally departs, and a faster cure follows.

Externally, a plaster made from swallows' nests the nests are used whole along with "album graecum," which is processed dog dung from animals that have eaten bones should be applied to the neck, cooked hot with water from a blacksmith's forge.

For a drink, dissolve 1 ounce of vitriol sulfate minerals or salt prunella sal prunell. potassium nitrate fused with sulfur in 1 measure of spring water. (Wine should not be given).

Substances containing a hidden nitrous ammoniac salt are beneficial for angina, such as the dung of a white dog that has been gnawing bones, well-boiled in water and presented with honey.

Other beneficial items include:

• 1 ounce of shavings from a boar’s tooth, with oil of sweet almonds and sugar.
• Ash of burnt crabs.
• Ash of swallows.
• Mid-comfrey, self-heal prunella, stinking goosefoot Vuluaria, figwort cervicaria, curled mint, and raspberry.

SPURIOUS ANGINA

Spurious angina original: "Angina notha" in children is cured with the plaster just mentioned.

A dried viper's head hung around the neck is recommended as an amulet.

7. Burn one owl with its feathers and make a powder. A small amount of this placed in the throat wonderfully opens and breaks an abscess.

Spirit of nitre is very effective both in extinguishing inflammations and in resolving abscesses.

2.5 ounces of this are given in a warm draught of spring water; or mix the water with a half ounce each of spirit of wine and spirit of salt. See Crollius.

1 ounce of water of "ever-living" plant and self-heal, 1 pound each; 1 ounce of sal ammoniac. Mix to make a gargle.

Crystal mineral or "mineral anodyne," as they call it, or Stone of Prunella Lapis Prunellæ a purified form of saltpeter, is uniquely suited to heal inflammation of the tongue and roughness of the throat and neighboring parts. Take as much as you like of the commonly prepared salt of prunella, add an equal amount or more of sugar candy, and grind both into a powder. Boil this mixture with a sufficient quantity of rose water
A treatment for Asthma.

until a drop poured onto a tin plate has a firm consistency. Pour it into a shell and set it aside until it hardens like a stone. Finally, remove it and break it into small pieces, or reduce it to powder; use this frequently.

AFFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS

WINDY LUNGS

For windy lungs—that is, lungs distended by vapors and thus hindering breathing—restore them with essential carminatives herbs that dispel gas that quickly penetrate the affected area.

Balsam of fennel, the description of which is given in Crollius, excels here.

Likewise, salt of stubble original: "fal fipitum" can be skillfully prepared (that is, through calcination, as was said regarding the salt of soda). When used with common salt, it frees one from such a disease, both as a preventative and a cure.

A specific cure is 1 ounce of powdered Arum root radicis Aaronis Cuckoo-pint. Also, Arum starch up to 1 ounce, given in an appropriate water, syrup, or wine. It can also be taken in food. For prevention, take 0.5 to 1.5 ounces daily, but cautiously and rarely; 1 ounce is generally safe.

ASTHMA, ORTHOPNOEA, DYSPNOEA

Asthma, orthopnoea difficulty breathing while lying down, and dyspnoea shortness of breath are easily cured by vomitives, especially Blessed Water. The dry starch of native iris root orris root does the same, especially for thick humors obstructing the bronchial tubes. Give a half ounce at most, though sometimes 2 or 3 ounces in a suitable liquid—especially in Malvatic wine Malmsey—to very quickly expel thick humor.

Confirmed asthma yields to one or two sweetened vomitives. Therefore, use:

I. Flowers of sulfur, or even living sulfur sulphur. Vivi native, unrefined sulfur, with sweet asafoetida benzoin resin in soft-boiled eggs. (Mix 1 ounce of native sulfur and 1 or 2 ounces of benzoin; give 1 ounce of this compound in a soft egg, adding a pinch of salt). Administered for several days, it frees weakened lungs from thick humors.

Milk of sulfur lac fulphur. precipitated sulfur performs the same; see the notes on Crollius regarding this.

The most excellent of all are the very white flowers of sulfur; see their preparation in Tenzelius’s Chymiatric Exegesis.

II. Through the Asthmatic Purging Powder, which is the powder found in Ruland (Century 8, Century 6):

• 2 ounces of leaves of Blessed Thistle Carduus benedicti
• 0.5 ounce of Safflower Carthami
• 1 ounce of long pepper
• 4 ounces each of cleaned senna leaves and dried Arum root
• 0.5 ounce of anise
• 0.5 ounce of Diagridium scammony resin
  Make a very fine powder and divide it into 12 equal parts. For 6 continuous days, give one part in the morning on an empty stomach and another part in the evening around the third hour with white wine, broth, etc. If the disease is more stubborn, stop the treatment for a few days, then repeat it until the disease declines. The dose for one time is roughly a half ounce and 2 grains.

In cases of asthma, distilled water of bramble fruits raspberries or blackberries taken as desired with nut syrup Rob nucum resolves the asthma wonderfully. It works even more powerfully if one teaspoon of a freshly made mixture of white sugar and radish slices is given morning and evening. (Note: if this mixture is kept for an hour or two, it will smell foul).

(See below under dropsy for Bezoardic Spirit of Nitre.
Asthmatics will find great relief from the use of Extract of Elecampane, which you shall prepare thus:

EXTRACT OF ELECAMPANE

Take 2 ounces of coarsely powdered Elecampane root Rad. Helenii. Pour over it in a circulating vessel enough of the best white wine to cover it by four fingers. Digest with gentle heat until the wine is sufficiently imbued with the yellow color, taste, and smell. Pour this off and add fresh wine until all the strength is extracted. Squeeze the residue and mix the liquid with the extract. In a cucurbit a gourd-shaped chemical vessel, separate the spirit using a water bath B. M. Balneum Mariae. Clarify the remainder with egg white according to the art, and let it evaporate in an earthen dish to the consistency of an extract. The dose is from 1 dram to 1 ounce.)

See more on these conditions below under the section on spitting blood.

SUFFOCATING CATARRH

The cure for suffocating catarrh a severe respiratory blockage was handed down above, where it may be seen.

CONSTRICTION OF THE CHEST

For a morbid constriction of the chest, the juice of Bryony wonderfully dilates and excels all other remedies. It is made in this way: A thick Bryony root is hollowed out from the inside (the thicker the root, the better), leaving the outer parts somewhat thick. The hollowed root is covered with its own top and placed in a very cold, damp place during the months of May, June, and July. Within a few hours, the cavity of the root fills with water. Once poured out, the root is covered again and set aside, and the juice is collected as long as it is available. The juice evaporates very easily. Mix 6 or 8 ounces of this water with a half ounce of spirit of vitriol or oil of sulfur by the bell sulfuric acid made by burning sulfur under a glass bell, and keep it well-reserved for use. Taking one spoonful of this compound every day miraculously removes chest constriction. (This water lasts a long time if kept cold, but it is better prepared annually). It also clears lungs filled with impurities. Therefore, its use in asthma is most beneficial. It draws all serum out of the body; thus, it can also be used in Dropsy.

PERIPNEUMONIA

True peripneumonia inflammation of the lungs is treated like Pleurisy. Therefore, vomitives taken from the start are helpful, especially Blessed Water. Afterwards, expectorants are very effective, which we will discuss under pleurisy.

LUNG ABSCESS

To consume a lung abscess pulmonum vomica, Valerian water with spirit of vitriol or oil of sulfur by the bell is praised, tempered to a pleasant acidity and drunk every morning and evening; it is an imperceptible curative.

Likewise, diaphoretic antimony antimony prepared to induce sweating or fixed flowers of antimony, taken five or six times daily in wine at a dose of a half ounce, eventually resolves any internal abscess, wherever it is located, most effectively yet slowly.

HEREDITARY PHTHISIS

Hereditary phthisis tuberculosis is cured with difficulty—indeed, almost never—because the roots of the native (ancestral) constitution are impressed too deeply. These roots accept no cure; they may occasionally allow a truce so they do not afflict the patient too severely, but they never permit a complete cure.

However, because the "breathing out" of transplanted wasting is usually the cause and companion of the disease, experience has proven that the rheumatic root (mentioned above under suffocating catarrh) worn around the neck, along with a good diet, has greatly profited those wasting away. Therefore, from its use, one should not despair of diminishing or at least hindering hereditary wasting. See more on phthisis below under spitting blood.

(In phthisis, Paracelsus says, the patient is under the rule of Saturn. Therefore, if you wish to cure this disease perfectly, you must work so that Saturn is transplanted into a benign star, namely Venus. Thus, Antimony is the perfect cure for hectic fever and phthisis, because it transplants Saturn into Venus. I solemnly swear to the truth of this matter: I have found no remedy more excellent than the following one drawn from that source, which I share candidly—but a word to the wise is sufficient.

Take 1 pound of well-striated Antimony and a half pound or 12 ounces of crude white tartar. Melt them in a crucible and, if a regulus a semi-metallic button at the bottom of the crucible is present, separate it. Then take the liver of Antimony hepar Antimonii and extract a tincture according to the art. Filter it and, by evaporation, reduce the distillate to a powder or golden sulfur of Antimony. This should be sweetened with hot water. Avoid precipitation with vinegar.

Take 2 ounces of this golden sulfur and sublimate it with 8 ounces of sal ammoniac in a low cucurbit over a slow fire. Separate the sublimated Antimony by washing it away from the sal ammoniac. It is not necessary for it to be completely sweetened. Keep it for use. The dose is from 2 to 4 grains at most, and its use should be continued for several days. Even if vomiting follows, it usually happens only incidentally and without distress. It can be given with red coral or prepared sealed earth terra sigillata medicinal clay.

NOTE: If you substitute the Mercury of the Microcosm or its volatile salt, which by itself cures phthisis, the remedy will be even more excellent. In that case, no sweetening is needed, but you must keep it well-sealed in a glass vessel. It will work more powerfully the more recently it was made.)

INCIPIENT WASTING

In incipient wasting tabes incipiens caused by sharp distillations of humors, it can hardly be said how much vomitives excel, especially Blessed Water, provided the brain (as the governing member) is diligently kept in its vigor with its own specific and comforting remedies. Next, one must look to the humors that have fallen into the lungs themselves, so they may be tamed with cleansing expectorants or, if they are thin, with thickening agents. If an ulceration of the lung itself has arisen (which constitutes true phthisis), and if it is recent, vomitives help much in cleansing and relieving the "rubbish" of the chest. Cleansing agents are especially necessary, such as hydromels honey-water composed of expectorants. Other remedies must be learned through daily use and the practice of authors.

Expectorants include lochs lick-medicines or linctuses with flowers of sulfur, also white flowers of sulfur, milk of sulfur, balsam of fennel, and many others.

Regarding the consolidation of lung ulcers, Balsam of Sulfur Balsam of sulfur. belongs among the most excellent. Take white flowers of sulfur and sublimate them again and again from aloe, myrrh, and olibanum frankincense, as Crollius teaches. Extract these flowers with oil of anise (or balsamic spirit of turpentine) without boiling, and make a very red balsam. Taking 6 to 20 grains of this in pectoral decoctions every morning and evening (increasing the dose as the disease progresses) miraculously restores putrid and ulcerated lungs—provided cleansing agents and expectorants were given first. It consolidates ulcers and uniquely prepares the body for a perfect cure.

(You will make a more excellent Very Red Balsam this way: Take steel rods and heat them until they spark brilliantly German: "dafi fie vveis gluent und et fabri vocant" — as the smiths call "white heat". Apply sticks of sulfur to them; it will melt like wax and, when dropped into cold water, will fall in granules. Grind this and extract a tincture according to the art with 4 parts oil of turpentine and 2 parts oil of anise. Furthermore, mix in aloe, myrrh, incense, mastic, and true mummy, and after several hours add spirit of wine...)