Of the Use of this Sal Mirabile in Medicine.
1. This Salt ought to be numbred among Universal Purgers, for by a Magnetick Virtue it extracts all sorts of noxious humours out of the Body.
2. This purging Property is augmented by Metallick or Mineral Bodies dissolved in it.
3. For expelling all depraved humours, the most profitable to be dissolved in it, is Antimony; when the Medicine is to be appropriated to the Heart, Gold; when to the Brain, Silver; to the Liver, Spleen, and Reins, Iron; to the Lungs, Tin and Sulphur; to the Habit of the Body, Copper and Mercury.
4. If purging Vegetables, Minerals, and Animals be boiled in the Water in which this salt is dissolved, and that decoction be used in a Clyster, we know all corrupt humours will be evacuated thereby.
5. In all those Persons, young or old, which cannot or will not take purging Medicaments, either by the mouth, or otherwise, it will be very profitable to free their bodies from corrupt humours, to make suppositories of Honey and this salt mixed.
6. In Head-achs, all Fevers, and the Epilepsie, it will deserve the praises of a suitable Purger.
7. In Catarrhs, when the Head is full of Phlegmatick Humours, half a grane, or a whole grane of this snuffed up the Nostrils early in the morning, or in the day-time, wonderfully evacuates the Phlegm.
8. It is an admirable Remedy in Affects of the Jaws, and parts adjacent, as the Tongue, Tonsils, Cheeks, and Gums, having their original from a sharp Catarrh falling down, and oftentimes conjoined with Ulceration and Corruption, as is frequently known to happen in Scorbutick Diseases. For it extracts the humours causing the Evil, and heals the part vitiated, if it (dissolved in Water) be often used hot as a Gargarism, and the use of Purging not neglected.