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Book II.

There are two Things obfervable, Firft,That in making this Gilla Vitrioli all the Li-quor may be evaporated away without anyChryftallization, fo the Gi/la will remain atthe Bottom in a white Powder. Next, Thatafter taking this Vomit the Sick fometimesvoids by Stool a black Matter, like Ink, be-caufe it often happens that fome Part of theGi/la dcfcending into the Guts meets witha S'.yptick Matter, almoft of the fame Na-ture as Galls, which caufes that Blacknefs.

The Sympathetick Powder is White Vi-triol opcn'd and prepar'd ; it ought to bepiac'd upcn a Stone fo as to receive theBeams of the Sun reflexively, from a largeBurning Glafs, by which it will be foonerdone than by any Furnace whatfoever, andthe calcin'd Powder is to be kept in a Glafsclofe ftopt for Ufe : It is us'd in the magne-tick Cure of Wounds; diflblv'd in Water, andus'd outwardly , it dries, binds, and heatsmuch, and has the Virtue of the Gilla.

The Aqua Styptica Compofita, or the Com-pound St\ ptick Water, is made of this Vitriol.Take purified white Vitriol, Roch Alum, ofeach an Ounce ; Saccharum Saturni, half anOunce ; Spring Water, two Quarts ; mixand diflblve ever a gentle Heat, digeft clofeftopt, ten Days; decant the Clear, filtrateand keep it for Ufe. This is an eafy Pre-paration, and of few and fimple Ingredients,but of no mean Ufe. It is a good Injection( Univerfals being firft premis'd ) againft theWhites in Women, and the Gonorrhea inMen, though of never fo long ftanding, andpofllbly may do more in two, three, or fourDays Time, being injected, than all otherMedicines could do in as many Years: Icflops Bleeding in any Parr, heals Ulcers,and infallibly cures all Sorts of Tetters,Ringworms, Scabs, Scurf, Morphew, andinveterate Herpes in any Part of the Body,if daily waih'd therewith, two or threeTimes a Day, for,half an Hour at a Time,and as hot as can be endured; injected as aClyfter, it kills the Worms call'd Afcarides.

There are feveral Sorts of Green Vitriol,as the German or Hungarian Vitriol, theEnglifri Vitriol, and the fyman Vitriol.

As for the Green or Hungarian Vitriol, theNative is found in Mines like Copper; theFactitious is made of the Marcafite, call'dPyrites, or the Fire-Stone, with or without

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Additions of Copper, and is brought to usfrom Dant^icl^, out of German)', Hungary,&c. The beft is the greenifh, and of that, thatwhich participates more of Copper than ofIron, which rub'd on a Knife colours it red ;that which is fubceruleous, pale, aquofe,and moiftens the Hands, is not fo good.

The Factitious is that which is made eitherof \Vater coming from vitriolick Springsevaporated and chryftalliz'd, or elfe madefrom vitriolick Marcafires, the Pyrites, or FireStone, ( with Additions of Copper) which isfound in Grounds abounding with metallickSeeds, and inclin'd naturally to the Genera-tion of Sulphur ; it is known by burn-ing, for it yields a fulphureous Fume, not un-like Brimftone: This powder'd and expos'd tothe Air, yields on its Superficies, a little whiteand fharp Salt melting in the Mouth, at firftfweetiflj, then ending in a vitriolick Harih-nefs. From this Powder Vitriol is thus ex-tracted ; it is diflblv'd in Rain Water, byboiling in a flow Heat, then filtrated, eva-porated, and chryftalliz'd, fo you have anexcellent greenifh Vitriol.

Out of any of thefe three Kinds of green-ifh Vitriols all the great and fam'd Medicinesare made; it goes fometimes by the Name ofDant%icl( Vitriol; it may be purified after thefame Manner as the White, and the Gilla ofit has all the Virtues as the other, but is muchftronger, and ought to be given with Cau-tion and Difcretion, and only to ftrong Per-fons ; and if given to the Sick, they ought tobe provok'd to Vomit, leaft by Reafon of itsQuality itfhould ulcerate the Tunicles of th«Stomach and Bowels.

The Sympathetick Powder is much betterto be made with this than with white Vitriol,as being much more powerful to all the fameIntentions of curing Wounds, and the like :And as to the Compound Styptick Water ofwhite Vitriol, the fame may be done withthe Hungarian, only the Proportion of icmuft be fomething lefs. It is fuperior in Vir-tue, and may do Wonders, if in a wifeMan's Hand, but for vulgar UCe the for-mer is better, becaufe it may be trufted withPerfons that are lefs skilful, and therewill be no Danger of their doing Mifchicfwith it.

The Styptick Water of Monlieur Faveur

is made after this Manner: Take of Vi-

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