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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 339
The medical and other recipes which are given; on the
authority of the Fraternity may be judged
from the follow-
ing specimens :
The Eosie Crucians say pearl helpeth swoundings, and
withstands the plague of poysons ;
and smarge and jacinth
help the plague, and heale the wounds of venomous stings.
The water of Nile makes the women of Egypt quick of
conceite and fruitful :
at a birth, and this is salt-peter-water.
sometimes they bear seven children
There is a wonder-
ful vertue in the oyl of tobacco, in the tincture of saffron,
in the flower of brimston, in quicksilver, in common salt ;
and coppress, molten and made a water, kills the poyson of
the toadstool. Juyce of poppy and amber, which is no
stone but a hard, clammy juyce, called bitumen,
easeth the
labour of women and the falling-sickness in children.
Now for mettals, if it be true, which all men grant, that
precious stones show such power and vertue of healing,
what shall the mixtures of all these mettals under a fortun-
ate constellation, made in the conversion of their own
planets, do. This mixture they call electrum, sigil, telesme,
saying it will cure the cramp, benumming, palsie, falling-
sickness, gout, leprosie, dropsie, if it be worn on the heart-
finger. Others they make to cause beauty in ladies, &c.
A perfume of E. C. is compounded of the saphirick
earth and the sether. If it be brought to its full exaltation,
it will shine like the day-star in her fresh eastern glories.
It hath a fascinating, attractive quality, for if you expose it
to the open air, it will draw to it birds and beasts, and
drive away evil spirits.
Astrum Solis, or the E. C. mineral
sun, is compounded of the aether, and a bloody, fiery-
spirited earth ; it appears in a gummy consistency,
but with
a fiery, hot, glowing complexion. It is substantially a cer-