The method of chemical philosophie and physick. Being a brief introduction to the one, and a true discovery of the other. namely, of diseases, their qualities, causes, symptoms, and certain cures. The like never before extant in English.

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Title:	The method of chemical philosophie and physick. Being a brief introduction to the one, and a true discovery of the other. namely, of diseases, their qualities, causes, symptoms, and certain cures. The like never before extant in English.
Print source:	The method of chemical philosophie and physick. Being a brief introduction to the one, and a true discovery of the other. namely, of diseases, their qualities, causes, symptoms, and certain cures. The like never before extant in English. Philagathoåu. London: printed by J.G. for Nath: Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1664.
Alternate titles:	Method of chemical physick.
Notes:	The words "Their .. Cures." are bracketed together on title page. Preface signed: Philagathoåu (in Greek characters). With ten preliminary advertisement leaves. Running title reads: The method of chemical physick. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Subject terms:	Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Early works to 1800. Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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The Preface.

Books Printed for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill.

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An Introduction to Chemick Philosophy and Physick.

PART I.

CHAP. I. The assigned Star of the Ancients.

CHAP. II. Of the Philosophy of Hermes and Hippocrates.

CHAP. III. Of the Essential Form.

CHAP. IV. Of the First Matter. Whether the First Matter be the same with the Essential Form.

CHAP. V. Of the Native or In-bred Heat.

CHAP. VI. Of Nature.

CHAP. VII. Of the Soul. What the Soul is, and the substance of it.

PART II.

CHAP. I. Of the Original of Forms.

CHAP. II. Of the difference of Lives, and the varieties of Baulms in the Macrocosm.

CHAP. III. Of the Beginnings of Bodies, and their Original Dif∣ferences and Properties.

Of Generation, Mixtion, and Transplantation.

A true and Philosophical Explana∣tion of all Diseases, both Astral and Material, Acute and Chronical.

CHAP. I. Of the Beginnings of Diseases.

CHAP. II. Of the Spirits and Stars of the Elements.

CHAP. III. Of the visible Stars of the Firmament.

CHAP. IV. Of the Being of Stars.

CHAP. V. Of the Being of Poison in the Visible Stars.

CHAP. VI. Of the differences of Stars, namely, of the Benign, the Mean, and the Extreme hurtful.

CHAP. VII. Of the differences of Stars, of which some Benign some Malicious.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Astral Impression.

CHAP. IX. Of the Anatomy of Astral Diseases.

CHAP. X. Of the Natural Being.

CHAP. XI. How much the Firmament of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm diffrs.

CHAP. XII. How Errours do chance to mans Astronomy, and how from the Being of Nature may be produced the Being of Diseases, or Being of Poison.

CHAP. XIII. Of Curing of Astral Diseases of the Greater and Lesser World.

CHAP. XIV. Of the Being of Poison.

CHAP. XV. What the Being of Poison is.

CHAP. XV. What the Tartar is, which are the kinds, and which are Excrements.

CHAP. XVII. Of the Excrements of the first three.

CHAP. XVIII. Of the twofold Tartar, namely, of Meat and Drink, and what the difference of it is, and how much it differs in the Cure.

CHAP. XIX. Of the Tartar in the more principal Members.

CHAP. XX. Of the Tartar of the Lungs, Brain, Heart, Gall and Spleen.

CHAP. XXI. Of the Tartar of the Bloud, Flesh, and Marrow.

CHAP. XXII. Of the Tartar of the Flesh.

CHAP. XXIII. Of the Tartar of the Marrow.

CHAP. XXIV. Of the Essence of Seed.

PART III.

CHAP. I. Of the unity of the Stars of Generation and Transplan∣tation, and of the Curing of Diseases.

CHAP. II. Of the Causes of the Pain of the Head, and the true Cure of it.

CHAP. III. Of the Diseases which annoy the substance of the Brain, and first of the Phrensie.

The said green Liquor of Silver (being an Excellent Me∣dicine for all Infirmities of the Brain) is thus prepared.

CHAP. IV. Of Out-raging Madness.

The said Laudanum prepared with Pearl.

CHAP. V. Of Melancholy. It is a Sowerness.

Confection of Alchermes (much better than the ordinary one) make thus.

CHAP. VI. Of the Lethargy.

A precious Medicine of Antimony in a Red Oil prepare thus.

CHAP. VII. Of the Falling-sickness and his kinds.

The green Spirit of Vitriol (which cureth all sorts of Fall∣ing-sickness) is thus prepared.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Glewish moisture.

Prepare the true Essence of Gold aforesaid thus.

CHAP. IX. Of the Spasm.

Thus prepare the foresaid Essence of Beaver stone.

CHAP. X. Of the Excrements of the Brain and of Plegm.

CHAP. XI. Of the Diseases and Symptoms of the Eyes and their Causes.

CHAP. XII. Of the Diseases of the Ears, their Symptoms and their Causes.

CHAP. XIII. Of the Diseases of the Nostrils, their Causes and Symptoms.

CHAP. XIV. Of the hurts of the Mouth and Face, and their Causes.

CHAP. XV. Of the Diseases, Causes, and Symptoms of the Tongue and Jaws.

CHAP. XVI. Of the hurts of the Lungs, their Symptoms, causes, and Signs.

The said Silver of Mercury is thus prepared.

CHAP. XVII. Of the diseases of the Breast.

The said Diaphoretick Mercury prepare thus.

CHAP. XVIII. Of the Affections of the Heart.

An Excellent Balsam of Sulphur for the Heart and Lungs.

CHAP. XIX. Of the Diseases of the Ventricle.

CHAP. XX. Of the Hurts, Causes, and Signs of the Liver.

Paracelsus Secret Mercurius vitae (aforesaid) is thus prepared.

CHAP. XXI. Of the diseases in the Receptacles of the Gall.

CHAP. XXII. Of the Diseases of the Milt, and the Causes and Signs of them.

CHAP. XXIII. Of the diseases of the middle of the bowels or Mesenterium of that part which is called Pancreas.

The said true precipitated Mercury prepare thus.

CHAP. XXIV. Of the diseases of the Intestines and their Causes and Signs.

CHAP. XXV. Of the Symptoms of the Intestines, and their Causes and Signs.

CHAP. XXVI. Of the diseases of the Fundament.

The said Oyl of Iron is thus prepared.

CHAP. XXVII. Of the Diseases of the Reins, their causes and signs.

CHAP. XXVIII. Of the diseases of the Bladder, Causes and Signs.

CHAP. XXIX. Of the diseases of the Cods, their Causes and Signs.

CHAP. XXX. Of the affects of the Womb, their Causes and Signs.

The said essence of the Vitriol of Copper is thus prepared.

CHAP. XXXI. Of the Symptoms and Causes of the Womb.

CHAP. XXXII. Of the Arthritis, Chiragra, Gonagra, and Podagra.

The said Armoniacum how to sublime it seven times for the Gout.

CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Plague and the Causes thereof.

CHAP. XXXIV. Of the Leprie and the causes of it.

CHAP. XXXV. Of Lues Venerea, and the causes.

The said Laudanum Mercuriale which radically cureth the French Pocks.

CHAP. XXXVI. Of Feavers and their causes.

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