in some appropriate Liquor or other Medicine Oxysaccharum Emeticum or a Vomit of Vinegar and Sugar Take Crocus Metallorum absinthiated half an ounce Cassia lignea two drams Lignum Aloes Roots of Angelica of each one dram red Roses half a dram Let them be infused in fifteen ounces of Vinegar of Clove-gilly-flowers let them stand in infusion for 24 hours in a gentle heat and afterwards filter them and add of white Sugar Candy as much as will make it like a Syrup and then keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in pains of the Head in Melancholy Epilepsie of what sort soever Quinsie Plague Pleurisie Cough Asthma in all affections of the Stomach in the Dysentery Pox Coagulation of blood c. it is good for those who have taken poisonous draughts it preserves from the Gout The Dose is from half an ounce to six drams in specifick Liquors or given by it self Catharticum Argenteum or the Silver Cathartick TAke of pure Silver an ounce Aqua fortis distilled from the Salt of Nitre and Vitriol and in a Retort in Sand over a gentle fire first rectified six ounces Dissolve the Moon in this water and to the solution add of fresh Aqua fortis four ounces of purified Nitre half an ounce mix them well and distil it in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae or in Sand three times still pouring on again the distilled Liquor on the Faeces according to art then put the Cucurbit into Sand that is higher than it is luted that so all the Aqua fortis may be drawn off till it be throughly dry Then break the Glass and take out the coagulated Medicine in the bottom which is black without-side but white within break this into small pieces and then dissolve it in about four ounces of Aqua fortis before drawn off till the Powder grow black and then you have the true Philosophical Moon take this clear Liquor and put it into a cold place and it will shoot into Crystals Take these Crystals and dry them by the fire not in the Sun if you do they will grow black and unprofitable and when they are sufficiently dried keep them for your use without edulcoration Virtue Use and Dose 'T is a most powerful Cathartick with which the most skilful Chymists purge in the Cachexy and Dropsie c. it also purges all serous and watry Humors and cures external Tumors of the Body in the strongest Constitutions it expels the watrish humors in the sides which cause various Symptoms and Diseases and it relieves any parts of the body overprest with humors The Dose is from four to five grains in a morning in a good draught of warm Wine It is most proper to use it in the decrease of the Moon about her last Quarter unless urgent occasion require otherwise Turpethum Minerale verum or the true Turbith Mineral THE true and genuine Turbith Mineral is not by the best Chymists prepared from crude Mercury with Aqua fortis but from sublimate in the following manner Take of the best sublimate Mercury what quantity you please dissolve it in Aqua coelestis warm filter the solution often which being done put the filtred Liquor into a Glass and pour upon it by drops so much Oyl of the Salt of Tartar as is requisite till you see a red Powder in the bottom of the Glass then pour off the Liquor and keep the red Powder edulcorate that with common water till it hath lost all its sharpness and saltness then pour upon it Aqua Mellis six or seven times well rectified and let this be repeated as many times at last take the Powder being dry and pour upon it Alkohol of Wine that it may be well moistned set the humidity on fire and keep it stirring with an Iron Spatula till all the Wine be consumed and so you have Turbith Mineral truly prepared whose excellent virtue is known almost to all neither shall I enlarge further upon it The Dose is from four or five grains to six and seven in some convenient Vehicle Mercurius Dulcis or Sweet Mercury MErcurius dulcis by the best of Spagyrists is thus prepared Take of Mercury sublimate six ounces of crude Mercury four ounces Mix them well that the crude Mercury may be no more seen sublime it the common way and this sublimation repeat five or six times till the Mercury becomes insipid or sweet The red Powder in the bottom and the white which is sublimated into the neck of the Glass is to be thrown away and that in the middle only reserved and so you have Mercurius dulcis truly prepared break the Glass and take it out pulverize it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in the Dropsie Plague Pleurisie Gout yellow Jaundice c. for by purifying the blood and rectifying the marrow in the bones it radically drives out all noxious humors from the body it is also an excellent Cathartick and by right deserves to be called a Panacea In all desperate diseases caused by a putrefaction of humors it is of singular use for it draws forth all poisonous and vitious humors and doth not move Vomiting but only by stool it gently purgeth and performs all its operations without trouble It kills Worms heals all Venereal Ulcers yea the Pox it self and it powerfully dries and radically takes away the defluxions of the Brain The Dose from one scruple to half a dram and in strong bodies two scruples Mercurius Vitae Corrected LET Mercurius vitae vitrified by the benefit of common Borax be finely powdered pour upon it distilled Vinegar first strongly impregnated with Spirit of Salt of Nitre and again well dryed in Sand so shall you have after due edulcoration a Powder which is safer to be taken and whose desired operations are performed with less trouble than by that of other preparations Virtue Use and Dose It is good in Quartan and other intermitting Feavers in most diseases of the Head in the Plague Dropsie Leprosie Pox malignant Ulcers and the like grievous affects it works wonders Dose in weak bodies from two grains to three in strong bodies from four to five either by it self or in Conserve of Roses or Violets or so many grains may be infused in Wine or other convenient Liquor all night in the morning let it be strained through a Cloth and drunk The Aperitive Magistery of Mars TAke of the Juyce of Sorrel depurated three pound pour it upon eight ounces of the best Tamarinds rub them well together either with your hands or with a wooden Pestle in an earthen Bason not a Pewter one that it may be all like Pulp or thick Pottage then take out all the husks and little stringy fibres boil it a little and clarifie it with the whites of two Eggs then strain it through a woollen Cloth and being clear put it into a glass Cucurbit to which add filings of Steel well cleansed from all its filth four ounces Let them
exceed all other Preparations yea the very Rosin of Scammony it self For it dissipates its tough viscous and poisonous malignity and doth correct it and doth certainly purge which doth not always follow from the taking of the Rosin only Magistery of Scammony THE true and Spagyrick Preparation and Correction of Scammony which is used as a Secret by Physicians is this Take a sufficient quantity of select Scammony which dissolve in Philosophical Spirit of Wine after due filtration draw it off again in an Alembick at least to half then pour upon it Rose-water as much as shall seem necessary for precipitation and the pure Rosin of Scammony will be precipitated void of all its poisonous quality and freed from its nauseous smell and taste which when the humidity is separated from it reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the body of both sorts of Choler and divers other diseases without any offence to the body neither can there be a more mild sweet and noble Cathartick found in the whole bosom of Nature The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles Magistery of Gum Guttemaw or Gambogia BY the forementioned Method may a Magistery or Flowers be prepared of this Peruvian Gum which is an incomparable Cathartick to purge serous and thick humors let it be prepared carefully and reserved for use The Dose is from ten twelve or fifteen grains to a scruple especially in robust bodies Gum of Peru Rosated Take Gum of Peru or Guttemaw well pulverized an ounce Chicory-water half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram These being well mixed put it into a Glass or a well glazed Vessel and in a warm place but if it be too hot it will grow black and be spoiled let it evaporate and grow dry till it looks of an earthy colour Afterward pulverize this and add to it powder of red Roses an ounce of red Sanders two drams and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine and let it circulate for twenty four hours and when it is grown cold again filter it through a Paper and by degrees let it evaporate till it is dry and so you have a red Extract of valid and excellent efficacy and in aspect fair and lovely though the Gum by it self or the Magistery of it is of an unpleasant yellow colour and doth easily nauseate Hitherto it is revealed and communicated to none but to the ingenious and worthy for which end it was found Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth serous humors without danger and difficulty from all parts of the body for which reason it is used with excellent success in all ill habits of body Dropsie Gouts of all sorts and such kind of diseases also in the Scurvy and Greensickness it is found excellent by Experience The Dose is from fifteen grains to twenty one especially in robust strong bodies Amber Muskified Take of the best pure Amber an ounce of the most odorate Musk a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons half a dram Mix them and bring the mass into a most subtile Powder which moisten with Spirit of Roses hot and let it dry again and this labour repeat certain times and afterward let it be again finely powdered and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and drys It comforts the Brain it roborates and succours it in all its affects it helps the continual pain of the Head it cleanseth the Eyes of white specks and consumes the moist defluxions thereof It wonderfully gives help to old people and to those who are naturally cold it hastens drunkenness being infused in Wine The Dose is from four to six and eight grains at the most in Sack or other proper Vehicle Regal Diacinamon Take of the best Cinamon four ounces three Nutmegs of our Syrup of Cinamon as much as will suffice Make it into an Electuary to which add Confectio Alkermes an ounce Oyl of Cinamon half an ounce Amber Muskified Troches of Pearls of each a dram Leaves of Hungarian Gold thirty one Mix them and so make a Royal magnificent Medicine which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a hot quality It comforts the Brain and Heart above measure it discusseth the vitious humors of the Stomach and helps Concoction it helps the Syncope and Palpitation of the Heart it resists the inflation and swelling of the Stomach and dissipates wind It allays the Colick-pains proceeding from a cold Cause and it sweetens the Breath It resists all putrefaction It is very agreeable to old people who are cold and debilitated and in whom the native Balsam and natural heat are lessened and impaired It doth wonderfully recover strength increase Seed and promotes the strength of Procreation it excites to Venery and much sweetens the pleasure thereof and safely increaseth the motion thereunto The Dose in the morning fasting and in the evening at going to bed is the quantity of a Hazel-nut more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Pearls Trochiscated TAke white Salt of the Oriental Pearls and free from all its acetosity what quantity you please dissolve it in water made of May-dew gathered from the standing Wheat or in some Cordial liquor to this solution add by drops of Spirit of Vitriol rectified as much as shall seem requisite for precipitation and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which the flegm being removed edulcorate and dry it according to art and you have the true Magistery of Pearls Then take of this Magistery an ounce the true Oyl of Roses and Oyl of Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in equal parts of Rose-water and Cinamon-water let little Troches be made according to art which lay by for use and reserve it like a Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Comfortative in all affects of the Heart as Pain Sorrow Trembling Pulsation Palpitation defects of the Mind c. Also in pains of the Head Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Contractures resolution of the Nerves Convulsion Phrensie Melancholy Madness Gout and Gouty pains in the Joynts Consumption Blasting the numbness and decay by Age Stone Dropsie Scurvy French Pox and Feavers c. It purifies the Blood it comforts all the Senses Brain Memory and Heart and preserves the whole body sound It fortifies Nature within also the Child in the Womb it roborates the Spirits repairs the strength and increaseth the humane Seed it amends Milk in Women takes away the spots of the Eyes and consumes Catarrhs c. And these Troches of Pearls thus made by our ordination have been highly approved by many Great and Noble men and by them esteemed as a great Secret and equal in effect to the Aurum Potabile The Dose according to the nature of the infirm and the Judgment of the Physician is from six grains to eight in appropriate Vehicles Elaeosaccharum of Citrons Take of Rose-water sixteen pound the exterior bark
all other hot Cholerick distempers proceeding from mixt and complicated causes and is used by Kings and Princes It purgeth both kinds of Choler without trouble or any offence to the Stomach and kindly draws out the other offending humors even from the Joynts and Limbs and carries off the tartarous humors that oppress the Reins and Bladder It refrigerates the Heart mundifies the Blood and addeth strength to all the principal Members The dose is from a dram to four scruples Annotation For the ordinary and common sort of people you may instead of Confectio Alkermes substitute Conserve of Violets vitriolated and the Composition will be equally efficacious Catharticum Rosatum or a Purge compounded with Roses Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated seven ounce Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol an ounce Nitre prepared a dram and a half Oyl of Cinamon a scruple With a little Syrup of Roses solutive vitriolated mix them into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It expels yellow Choler without trouble and purgeth a hot Liver It is a worthy Remedy for all distempers of the Joynts proceeding from a hot Cause and for Tertian Feavers and is also of a good and grateful taste and therefore pleasant to the Stomach and Bowels It is an appropriate and suitable Purge for tender Virgins Children and Old people that are oppressed with Choler and cholerick Nauseating The dose is from two drams to three given with great profit and no trouble nor disturbance to the sick Catharticum Violatum or a Purge compounded of Violets Take new Conserve of Violets vitriolated four drams true Hermodactyls cleansed from their busks three ounces Magistery of Scammony ten drams Tartar vitriolated six drams Cinamon Cloves white Ginger of each a dram Oyl of Cummin seeds a scruple With Syrup of the Juyce of Violets vitriolated mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose This Confection of Hermodactyls is of admirable virtue and forde in the Gout Sciatica and such like pains of the Joynts for it safely purges all gouty humors we have also seen many Patients languishing with that tormenting pain and rouling in their beds to have been so restored by the use of this Medicine twice thrice or more and the help of external Unctions that they have soon returned to their former business And they would do wisely not to use it only under the impending pain but for their preservation to use it twice every year that is Spring and Fall The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Caryophyllatum or a Purge of Clovegilly-flowers Take Conserve of Clovegilly-flowers vitriolated seven ounces white and gummy Turbith two ounces Scammony rosated ten drams of the best Cloves an ounce Cream of Tartar six drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram and a half Oyl of Oranges a scruple And with Syrup of Citron peels muskified mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It doth pleasantly and plentifully purge all cold Humors but chiefly Flegm from the Head Breast Stomach Joynts Guts and other principal Members and also from those deputed for nutrition It is good for complicated and continual Feavers and is very useful in the Colick coming of a cold Cause and for all other Diseases that proceed from frigid humors It is a good Remedy for those who are troubled with sour Belchings they being constantly troubled with Loathings and do generally abound with Spittle The dose is from a dram and a half to three drams especially in strong bodies more or less according to the age strength and season Zingiber Purgans or Purging Ginger Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers four ounces condited Ginger of Bengal three ounces Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram Cardamoms the less Cloves of each two scruples yellow Orange peels and Citron peels of each half a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple And with Syrup of the before-mentioned candied Ginger make all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It safely purgeth the whole body of Flegm and all other vicious Humors It draws away Choler of both kinds from the Stomach gives a sweet Breath comforts the Intestines being too cold and removes all Frigidity It dissolves thick flatulent Humors and clarifies the Blood neither hath it any ungrateful smell or taste It is very profitable in all kind of Feavers and in all other Diseases proceeding from a cold Cause also in the Colick Wind and pain of the Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Reins and Back The dose is from two drams to three in the morning early Cinamomum Laxativum or Laxative Cinamon Take white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water four ounces Scammony rosated six drams species of Diacinamon half an ounce Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy from the Head Thorax Stomach Liver and Joynts c. and that without any trouble And this Composition may be also made into a solid form The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Cholagogum or a Choler-purging Medicine Take juyce of red Roses exprest white Sugar of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon vitriolated nine drams Magistery of Scammony an ounce Spodium a dram and a half Gallia Moschata a scruple Let the Sugar be boiled to a consistence with the Juyce of Roses and then let the Species being pulverized be added so make all into an Electuary of the Juyce of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it to purge hot and cholerick Humors in all hot and cholerick Diseases and Affects The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Vitae or the Purge of Life Take Venice Treacle three ounces our species of Diaesula an ounce and a half Mercurius vitae a dram Mix them and with our Pectoral Syrup make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Feavers Plague diseases of the Head Pox Leprosie ill habit of Body Dropsie fetid Ulcers c. and is a Secret in Quartan Agues for it leaves no impurity behind it in the body The dose is from a dram to two But let it not be given before meat but after it and so the sick do vomit sooner and easier Diaturbith Minerale Take Mithridate of Damocratis four ounces true Turbith Mineral species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce our species of Diavitrioli and our Carminative Oyl of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Jujubes bring them into the form of a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Purge in all desperate Diseases as the Dropsie Pox Gout and Jaundice and by its expulsive force nothing is more excellent and noble in Fistula's malignant Ulcers Plague and most kind of Feavers c. The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half drinking after it a little white Wine Confectio Passulata or a
of Liverwort and golden Stoechas of each a dram and a half All being faithfully bruised and mixed put them into six pound of generous Wine and let them digest eight days afterward add waters of lesser Centaury Succory Fluellin Maiden-hair Chamomil Fumitory Horehound Harts-tongne and Liverwort of each half a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is happily given in all cold diseases of the Liver and the obstructions thereof It is good in ill habits of body and Dropsie It also eradicates the old chronical distempers both of Liver and Spleen and is a good remedy against their cold and moist affects For it cuts and attenuates thick and viscous humors collected in those parts The dose is from one ounce to two or three by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua Splenetica or a Water for the Spleen Take roots of both sorts of Fern of Polypody and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of round Birthwort water-Acorus sweet Reed and Lovage of each an ounce Rhubarb Cappar bark and Tamarisk of each six drams Pontick Wormwood Mugwort Agrimony Fumitory Harts-tongue Dodder and Spleenwort of each half an ounce seeds of Lovage Fenil Anise and Caraway of each two drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into ten pints of Rhenish Wine and after eight days digestion distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates and mollifies thick matter and melancholy Juyce collected in the Spleen and Mesaraick Veins and opens their obstructions It dissolves Wind and Tumors and cures the black Jaundice Hypochondriack Melancholy and Quartan Agues The dose is morning and evening from one ounce to three Aqua Antihydropica or a Water against the Dropsie Take seeds of Rocket half a pound Ash Cummin and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of Acorus Avens Swallow-wort Turmerick bitter Costus dwarff Elder Carduus and Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Rhubarb the lesser Galangal Nutmegs and Cloves of each six drams Cappar bark the middle bark of Elder and Tamarisk of each half an ounce Agrimony and Bindweed the tops of green Iuniper of each half an ounce flowers of Liverwort and Elder of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine and after fourteen days digestion in a warm place the Vessel being shaken often every day then add water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each half a pound of both sorts of Liverwort Mugwort Carduus and Mother of Thyme of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is a most proper Remedy for the Dropsie For it heats and comforts a cold Liver opens its obstructions and restores it to its faculties It dissipates thick flatulent Humors consumes the cause of ill Habits and Dropsies and expels it by its Diaphoretick force The dose is from one ounce to two or three Aqua Antiscorbutica or an Antiscorbutick Water Take wild Radishes cut into small pieces a pound roots of Polypody two ounces Masterwort Angelica and Zedoary of each an ounce and a half chips of Guajacam and Sassafras sweet Reed the lesser Galangal of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron Fenil seeds bark of Cappars and Tamarick of each six drams Let them be cut and bruised and put them into six pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days shaking the Vessel often and then add water of Scurvy-grass of the lesser Nettle of Water-cresses of Stone-crop of Celandine of Money-wort and Fumitory of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose It properly cures in these Northern maritime Regions that disease which they call the Scorbute or Scurvy for it opens obstructions of the Spleen mollifies and attenuates the feculent melancholy humor It also rectifies the blood through the whole body and comforts the Spleen exceedingly It is to be given for divers mornings successively from one ounce to two or three Aqua Anticolica seu Carminativa or a Carminative against the Colick Take the rind of yellow Oranges six ounces roots of Zedoary three ounces Bay-berries husked and Iuniper-berries of each an ounce and a half sweet Reed lesser Galangal Cinamon of each an ounce of the four greater and lesser hot Seeds seeds of Chervil Nigella and Dill of each three drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the juyce of Chamomil thrice distilled of Mother of Thyme distilled with Wine of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo distil them Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Colick to a Miracle which hath its Original from a cold and moist matter with wind universal Medicines being premised The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from one ounce to two or three Aqua Benedicta Serpilli or Aqua Benedicta of Mother of Thyme Take Mother of Thyme with its flowers and gather it in the morning before Sun-rising the Moon decreasing eight ounces Roman Chamomil two ounces Savory and Thyme of each an ounce Put them into eight pound of the best Rhenish Wine and let them infuse certain days and distil them and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Mother of Thyme with its flowers eight ounces Cassia lignea an ounce wood of Aloes and Mace of each half an ounce Cut them small and after due digestion distil them again in an Alembick in Balneo and so it is truly prepared Virtue Use and Dose It stops all Catarrhs and Defluxions and preserves the Head from them It roborates the Brain Stomach and all the Intestines being vitiated with Cold. It stirs an Appetite provokes Urine expels the Stone mitigates the pains of the Belly but chiefly the Colick It dissipates wind from the Bowels and Hypochonders It allays Pains and Hiccup stays Vomiting provokes Womens Courses brings forth the Birth After-birth and dead Child It dissolves concreted Blood It is a good Remedy for those oppressed with a Compression of the Lungs difficulty of Breathing or any Rupture in those parts The dose is from half an ounce to two Aqua Castitatis or the Chast Water Take sealed Earth four ounces seeds of Agnus castus an ounce and a half seeds of Rue water-Lily Lettice and white Poppy of each an ounce seeds of Hemp Sorrel Purslain Gromel Endive Cummin and Coriander prepared of each six drams roots of white Diptamus Hounds-tongue Bistort and Florentine Flower de luce of each half an ounce of all the sorts of Sanders Magistery of Saturn and Camphire of each three drams Pontick Wormwood water-Mints Shepherds-purse Sowthistle Vervain and leaves of Willow of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into ten pound of red Stiptick Wine let them digest eight days and then digest them in Balneo
Unguentum Pectorale or a Pectoral Oyntment Take Oyl of Pistick Nuts exprest oyl of Pine-nuts exprest and oyl of sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half May Butter unsalted Capons grease and Goats Suet of each an ounce These being mixed add to it three ounces of our Pectoral water and boil them together to the consumption of the water then add Essence of Oriental Saffron two drams distilled oyl of Chamomil oyl of Fenil Mace Dill and Aniseeds of each a dram Mix them and with white Wax make an Unguent according to Art Virtue and Use. It is properly applied to the pains of the Breast for by anointing it therewith it dissolves flegm in it and heals all imperfections there it warms moistens and mollifies c. Use it morning and evening before a gentle fire Unguentum Pleuriticum or an Unguent for the Pleurisie Take the Fat of Field-Mice four ounces May Butter without salt two ounces oyl of Walnuts sweet Almonds of Poppy by expression and oyl of Bays of each an ounce juyce of wild Poppy flowers six ounces Mix them and boil all to the consumption of the Juyce afterward add Oyl of distilled Chamomil and Dill of each a dram and a half oyl of Bricks and Cummin seed of each a dram Again mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Unguent Virtue and Use. After the beginning of its violence and in allaying the pain of the Pleurisie and dissolving the Imposthume this Unguent is of wonderful use which is applied to the part grieved not ceasing from anointing till the pain desists And know for your credit that this Remedy is effectually prevalent used to any other strong pain in the whole body to the great profit of the Patient Note That Plasters and Unguents in all Pectoral diseases ought to be laid upon the Breast before and upon the Back behind but in the Pleurisie they must be applied more upon the Sides Unguentum Anodynum or an Anodyne Oyntment Take our Anodyne oyl of the seven Flowers six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds oyl of Henbane and Poppy exprest oyl of Earth-worms and St. Iohns-wort of each an ounce Fat of a Goose and wild Cat of each six drams juyce of Tabaco depurated juyce of Germander and Vervain of each four ounces Mix all and boil them to the consumption of the Juyces afterward with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. It mitigates pain in any part of the body from whence indeed it hath its name But in a case where excessive cold is the cause add to two ounces of the Oyntment Oyl of Peter Juniper and Bricks of each a scruple and mix them for use Unguentum Spleneticum or an Oyntment for the Spleen Take Oyl of Capers three ounces oyl of Rocket seeds exprest of Nigella exprest of Hemp exprest of sweet Almonds of each an ounce oyl of Iuniper half an ounce All being mixed pour upon them four ounces of Juyce of Harts-tongue exprest and boil them to the consumption of the Juyce then add distilled Oyl of Mastich Cummin and Myrrh of each a dram oyl of Ammoniacum Chamomil and Wormwood of each half a dâ—am Extract of Saffron two scruples Again mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. The Region of the Spleen being bathed with this Oyntment before a fire opens and comforts it and preserves it from scirrhous Tumors it also easeth the pains and discusseth the flatulency thereof Unguentum Spasmaticum or an Unguent for Convulsions Take Oyl of Snails distilled per descensum oyl of Earth-worms and Sesamus of each an ounce and a half the Fat of a gelded Ram Hedge hog and Fox of each an ounce May Butter without salt Stags marrow of each half an ounce Spirit of Iuniper three ounces Mix them and boil them to the consumption of the Spirit then add distilled oyl of white Amber three draâ—s oyl of Chamomil and Bays of each a dram and a half oyl of Rosemary and Sage of each a dram Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. It is chiefly useful in Convulsions after due Evacuation for it being applied to the grieved part and the Nerves with their Originals being anointed doth mollifie resolve and refresh the Nerves c. Let the part grieved be anointed morning and evening warm and you will quickly find ease Unguentum Renale or an Unguent for the Reins Take our Anodyne oyl of the seven Flowers four ounces oyl of white Poppy seeds exprest two ounces Oyntment of fresh Roses and Populeon of each an ounce Capons grease and the marrow of a Stag of each half an ounce red Sanders and Nitre prepared of each two drams juyce of the flowers of red Marsh-mallows six ounces Mix these and boil them to the consumption of the Juyces after with yellow Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. It hath an excellent faculty in cooling and moistning for wheresoever there is need of humectation and refrigeration this may safely be used But first the Back Loins c. anointed with it cures all heat inflammation of the Reins and Stone nay it allays and mitigates pain coming of a hot Cause in any part of the body Unguentum Nephriticum Take simple oyl of Scorpions six ounces oyl of flowers of Mullein Chamomil Poplar and Dill of each an ounce oyl of Cherry kernels exprest and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and a half fat of a Hen Goose and Duck of each six drams Butter made red with Crabs Oyntment of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces Balsam of Turpentine three drams juyce of Pellitory of the Wall exprest a pound Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the Juyce and then with Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. Let the Reins Loins and Back downwards as far as the Privy parts be often in the day anointed with this Unguent for being so anointed it wonderfully dilates and opens the passages that the stones and sand may pass downward with the more ease It lenifies the pains in the Kidneys relaxeth the Ureters and makes the stone and tartarous matter soft Unguentum ad Ambusta or an Oyntment for Burns Take Whites of Eggs two parts Sallet oyl one part Let them be wrought diligently together and exactly mixed that they may be made into a white Oyntment Virtue and Use. This Liniment is of most excellent use although it seems to be but of little worth or esteem yet I tell you That there hath not been found hitherto a more secret and present Remedy for all Burns than this is For it quickly safely and perfectly takes out the fire lenifies and stops the pain and cures all Ulcers by fire let them be made of what matter they will and leaves no Scar behind it so that it may be deservedly reckoned among the domestick Arcana's and communicated to Posterity And this is the way of using it Let the
Wine rectified extract a Tincture from it and when it will give no more Tincture add all the tinged Spirit together and put to it the same quantity of our Pectoral water and set them for some days in a warm place that they may digest afterward draw off the Spirit of Wine in B. M. with a gentle fire and so the Tincture of Sulphur will remain in the Pectoral water This take off by inclination to the quantity of half evaporate the rest till it be like Oyl what remains filter through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture doth not only free the Breast from all thick humors that obstruct the Organs of Respiration and cause the Cough and shortness of breathing but it cleanseth the Thorax Lungs and neighbouring parts of all putrid and imposthumous Tumors and hastens their Cure and gives freedom and ease in breathing It succours drys and roborates a cold Brain in such as are falling into a Consumption It also allays the pains of the Colick and resists Putrefaction It is likewise given with great success in the Plague proceeding from a moist Cause but especially to the Common people who by feeding upon gross and bad food fill their blood with moist crude humors and therefore more proper for this kind of infection than to the others The ordinary Dose is from five six or seven to ten drops in a proper Vehicle Tincture of Tartar TAke Salt of Tartar well depurated by frequent solution and coagulation what quantity you will pour upon it the best Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated to the eminence of three or four fingers set it in digestion for certain days and every day as often as it is convenient shake it but take heed lest the Spirit of Wine should break the Glass let it stand so till it is tinged of a most red colour This Spirit being tinctured pour it off and pour on more that is fresh and this work repeat so often till it can receive no more Tincture from the Tartar Lastly the Spirit of Wine thus tinctured mix together filter it through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder it breaks the Stone and brings it away like Bran it works by Urine and preserves Health It is excellent to remove Obstructions and Putrefactions and for penetrating and roborating it doth almost exceed all other Medicines and Arcana's It preserves from the Palsie and Gout if it be taken constantly morning and evening either by it self or in specifick Liquors Moreover in rectifying the blood it is of admirable use and cannot be sufficiently praised for its effects as well in that as in the Head-ach Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice both black and yellow Colick Leprosie Pox Scabs Itch Tetters Pimples the Terms retained Pleurisie prickings in the Sides Feavers Contractures Gout and in other tartarous and venenate Diseases The Dose is half a spoonful at the most by it self or in some appropriate Liquor but the Dose is to be increased or diminished according to the Age Sex Complexion c. of the Patient Tincture of Lacca Take Gumm Lacca finely powdered half an ounce burnt Alum two drams Mix them and pour upon them water made of Lapis Medicamentosus with water of Sage and Roses three pound Let them stand in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which being done filter it and keep the red Tincture for use Virtue and Use. It is experimented in the Scurvy and cures the laxity and rottenness of the Gums and takes away the stink thence arising it repairs the decayed flesh about the Teeth the way of using this Tincture is to wash and rub those parts often Tinctura Proprietatis Take Spirit of Wine prepared with Aniseeds sixteen ounces Elixir Proprietatis an ounce Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Clove-gilli-flowers a dram Let them stand in digestion till the Spirit be perfectly tinged then filter the tinctured Spirit sweeten it with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Melancholy Hemicrania Vertigo Palsie Catarrh Asthma Cough weakness of the Stomach passion of the Heart Quartan Ague and Stone Moreover it comforts the Heart keeps back baldness and makes the Patient merry and joyful c The Dose is from one dram to two in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Iuniper-berries Take of fresh Iuniper-berries grosly powdered a pound Aniseed bruised four ounces Angelica-roots an ounce Nephritick wood half an ounce of the best Mace two drams Mix them and infuse them in four quarts of Spanish Wine let them infuse fourteen days and every day let them be stirred or shaken afterward distil them in B. M. and with this Liquor distilled extract the Tincture of Juniper-berries according to art which afterward filter and a little edulcorate and preserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens attenuates and discusseth and is good for the Stomach It is effectually taken in all distempers of the Breast Cough Wind Gripings and the biting of Serpents and is very profitable in the Plague it expels the Stone provokes Urine and helps the Convulsion and Suffocation of the Matrix The Dose is from one spoonful to three in the morning fasting Tincture of wild Poppy Take the Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy an ounce flowers of wild Poppies moistned with Spirit of Vitriol a dram Mix them and with water distilled from the juyce of the before-mentioned flowers thirty ounces draw a most red Tincture which filter and then add of the Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies a little vitriolated eight ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable in hot thin and sharp Defluxions that trouble the rough Artery and Jaws and it procures sleep it helps the Cough Catarrh and Phthisick it is an admirable remedy in Pleurisies and prickings in the Sides it mitigates Pain removes Inflammations and causeth Sweat gently moreover it is very profitable in Fluxes of the Belly and Dysenteries stirred up by the efflux of Choler and sharp Humors The Dose is from one ounce to two by it self or in any convenient Liquor Tincture of Cassia Lignea Take Cinamon-water made with Spanish Wine one pound good Cassia Lignea six drams Let them stand so long in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which filter and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is fit for all cold Distempers it strengthens the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves and also sharpens the sight It is good against Poisons and poisonous bitings or stingings c. It sweetens the Breath provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Vomiting and loathing at the Stomach it gives ease in all diseases where we are willing to heat open attenuate digest and strengthen yet they who are of a hot Constitution or are troubled with inflammations must for bear the use of this Medicine Tincture of St. Iohns-wort Take Iuyce of the Herbs and flowers of
vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cloves of Cinamon Nutmegs of each a scruple Mix them all carefully and make an Extract according to art Virtue Use and Dose This is a specifick Vomit and works variously by Vomit and Stool and is of great force and virtue in all Feavers pains of the Head and Joynts Gout Jaundice Dropsie and in obstructions of the Liver and Spleen yea in the Appetite depraved and the Stomach debilitated for it leaves nothing of a depraved nature in it but radically casts forth all the impure and peccant humors nor doth it do any injury The Dose is to be regulated according to the Age Sex and Complexion c. from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor or in the form of a Pill c. having eaten something convenient before for then it works with the most ease and the least trouble Extractum Specificum Colicum or a Specifick Extract for the Colick Take of the yellow rind of Oranges six ounces specieâ— of Diacymini Iuniper-berries of each three ounces roots of Elicampane Pimpernel Cloves Zedoary of each an ounce and a half seeds of Chervil Bay-berries dryed Mother of Time Marjoram juyce of Liquorish of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron of each six drams Mix them and with Spirit of Wine draw a Tincture which afterward in Balneo abstract to the thickness of Honey and add of Nitre vitriolated thra drams Harts-horn Hermetically calcined Swines and Hares Cockal-bones calcined of each two drams white Amber prepared Magistery of Corals the Carp-stone of each a dram and a half Diaphoretick Mineral Iovial Bezoar the Bezoar stone Lac Sulphuris of each a dram Spirit of Salt rectified half a dram Mix them all together and make of it a Mass like an Extract to which add of our Carminative Oyl two drams the Oyls of Angelica Cloves white Amber Mastich Mace Cinamon Citrons of each a scruple All being well incorporated make an Extract and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a Specifick in the Colick and is properly applied to the Colick and Iliack Passion rising from a cold moist and flatuous Cause and the Excrements of the Guts being evacuated it is a Secret in allaying the vehement and mosâ— grievous pains of the Intestines for it dissolves and attenuates the thick and viscous humors and dissipates wind It helps the distension and windiness of the Hypochonders and Stomach and wonderfully relieves the coldness of the Stomach and the weakness of the Bowels It is also profitable for old Folks and those who have the Quartan Age c. It repairs Concoction and effectually expels the Tartar that is dissolved and loosned in the Guts The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Water against the Colick or in any other appropriate Extractum Specificum Uterinum or a Specifick Extract for the Womb. Take Elder-berries dryed dwarff Elder-berries of each four ounces roots of Piony duly gathered red Mugwort white Dictamnus Briony of each two ounces Misleto of the Oak Climmin seeds Pennyroyal Balm new dryed Cassia lignea of each an ounce Oriental Saffron true Castor of each half an ounce Mix them and draw a Tincture with Spirit of Wine which being done separate the Spirit and the Extract will remain in the bottom to which add the blood of a Hog dryed in an Oven and prepared with the Hysterical water half an ounce Iovial Bezoar two drams Magistery of English Tin of Mother of Pearls and Coral of each a dram and a half Oyl of Cloves of Angelica white Amber Oranges of each a dram Let them be all well mixed and made into the form of an Extract which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose We have not a greater Secret for the Womb than this is for in the suffocations of the Matrix where all things are irritated and as it were desperate it is a most salubrious Medicine for it takes away the cause of these most cruel effects and all or at least-wise the most deplorable fits and strangulations of the Womb caused by a retention of the Seed and it resisteth many other things of the same nature it also perfectly quiets the motion of the Matrix The Dose is from a scruple to half a dram three or four mornings together in our Hysterical water or any other appropriate as those of Mugwort Balm Motherwort Pennyroyal c. Laudanum Opiatum Take of Thebane Opium Spagyrically prepared two ounces juyce of wild Poppy-flowers made thick an ounce roots of Hounds-tongue transmarine Mummy Styrax calamitis juyce of Liquorish Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce With Spirit of Wine draw the Tincture of each of them apart except the Opium which is to be drawn in distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Citrons then abstract the Spirit of all the Extractions in gentle heat of Balneo to the thickness of Honey and add to it the Extract of Bezoar stone Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol of each two drams Salt of Oriental Pearls red Coral of each a dram Elks hoofs Hermetically calcined bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each half a dram Ambergriese a scruple Musk half a scruple These being all well incorporate and mixt add of our Aurum potabile a dram and a half Oyls of Chamomil Dill Wormwood Oyl of Oranges Cloves Nutmegs of Citrons rectified of Aniseeds and Caraway seeds of each half a scruple Let all be well mixed and brought into a Mass or Extract Virtue Use and Dose It is an admirable Medicine in stopping all fluxes of Humors and Catarrhs and all excretions of Blood and Terms in unreasonable watchings and want of rest in Feavers of all kinds and in sudden weakness In Phrensie Madness Melancholy Vomiting Epilepsie Heart-passions Hiccupping Colick weakness of the Stomach Pleurisie pains of the Joynts Gouts of all kinds Sciatica Stone Nephritick pains c. For in allaying all vehement and sharp pains it is really a Divine help and as it were our last refuge there being not a Medicine to be found in the Spagyrick Republick more excellent speedy safe and secret than this is witness the very Mother and Nurse of Physick Experience therefore use this Divine Medicine only to the Glory of the most high God and the Health of your sick Neighbour and with me give thanks for the same The Dose is from two or three to four five or six grains which is given at bed time the body being empty for when the Patient takes it he should omit his Supper that evening lest his food should obstruct the Medicine And because the use of Laudanum Opiatum is grown so famous and frequent I will here subjoyn the various use thereof In Affects of the Head A Draught Take Laudanum Opiatum three four five or six grains Marjoram-water half an ounce Syrup of Betony two drams Confection of Smaragdus a scruple oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops oyl of Fenil one drop spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to make it
dram to a dram in the morning fasting and before dinner and supper in two or three ounces of Plantane water Pulvis Polychrestus Imperialis or an Imperial Powder good for many things Take white Sugar Candy six ounces Crocus Martis prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce and an half seeds of Fenil shavings of Ivory the Ankle-bone of a Hare Pikes eyes Cardamoms the less white Ginger Nutmegs roots of Liquorish of each an ounce Cinamon Cubebs Cassia lignea Spicknard roots and seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak acid Tartar of each an ounce and a half Magistery of the Carp-stone of Crabs eyes of the Pearch-stone Oriental Saffron seeds of Parsly and Smallage true Castor Cloves red Myrrh wood of Aloes Hysop Oyl of Aniseeds each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Coral the best Mace of each a dram leaves of Hungarian Gold forty three Mix them and make them all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It expels wind flatulencies and all peccant humors from the Stomach and Intestines and also comforts those parts it preserves from putrefaction and roborates the Brain it increaseth Memory and is excellent in the Epilepsie in the trembling and debility of the Heart difficulty and straitness of the Breast Cough Asthma c. It sweetens grief exhilarates sorrow removes timidity and opens all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen It cures the Tympany coming of a cold cause and many other long and confirmed diseases It stops the running of the Piles purifies the blood procures a fresh colour it warms a frigid Matrix and amends a corrupt intemperature of the Womb it purgeth the Reins and Bladder of stones sand c. It opens the Urinary passage and gives ease in the Strangury The dose every morning is the quantity of a Chestnut either by it self or in some Liquor respecting the disease Pulvis Dysentericus or a Dysenterick Powder Take Harts horn Spagyrically calcined an ounce and a half seeds of Bloodwort and Plantane of each an ounce Chalk prepared Nutmegs Misleto of the Oak Nitre prepared of each half an ounce Mix them and make a fine Powder which is effectually given in all Fluxes of the Belly The dose is one dram in some specifick Vehicle Species Dialauri or a compound Powder of Bay-berries Take Bay-berries dryed in an Oven in paste and pulverize an ounce flowers of Centaury the less three drams Madder red Myrrh Oriental Saffron of each a dram round Birthwort Cardamoms the less Galangal the less of each two scruples salt of Cinamon and Savin of each half a dram Mix them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully open obstructions of the Womb and as wonderfully stir suppressed Terms and bring them down in a large quantity too The dose is from half a dram to a dram in decoction of Savin with Saffron or in Beer Ale or Wine twice a day in the morning fasting or at night going to bed and to continue it till the Courses are produced Species Diajalapiae or a compound Powder of Ialap Take the best and resinous roots of Ialap two ounces acid Tartar eleven scruples Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It purges by stool without any trouble and mundifies the blood It draws away Flegm Choler and â—ll other impurities from the whole body and removes obstructions For that reason it is given in pains of the Joynts and Hypochonders Dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diaesulae or a compound Powder of Spurge Take the lesser Spurge prepared Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis of each an ounce and a half white Hellebore prepared salt of white Vitriol of each three drams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Sanders of each a dram Cinamon Flower de-luce white Ginger of each two scruples Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cloves Nutmegs Mastich of each half a scruple Mix them and make a Powder according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given in all Quotidian Feavers also in all Tertian and burning Feavers and all other infirmities of the Stomach in salt Defluxions Worms pains of the Back Plague Epidemical diseases in poisonous draughts and carries off the slimy matter from the Joynts that causeth the Gout it works both upwards and downwards but without any trouble or molestation The dose is from half a dram to a dram Species Stomachicae or a Powder compounded for the Stomach Take acid Tartar three ounces Galangal the less white Ginger long Pepper of each a dram and a half Cardamoms the less Nutmegs Cloves Zedoary of each a dram roots of Liquorish leaves of Sage seeds of Rue and Caraways Olibanum of each half a dram Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Water-mint of Oranges and Aniseeds of each ten grains white Sugar Candy eight ounces Mix them and make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It stirs up lost Appetite takes away pains Vomiting and Hiccup it helps the Asthma prevents surfeiting and other disorders by excess it expels flatuosity and roborates the Stomach And lastly it hastens the distribution of Aliment The dose morning and evening is from half a dram to a dram in Sack or other Cordial Wine Pulvis Stomachicus or a Stomachical Powder Take the Cream of white Tartar oftentimes moistned with spirit of Vitriol and dryed again two ounces Harts-horn Spagyrically calcined half an ounce salt of Pearch-stones and Crabs eyes of each two drams Magistery of Pearls and red Corals of each a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar Candy eight ounces Make of all a Powder Virtue Use and Dose As the Medicine is noble so it nobly comforts the Heart the Stomach and all the rest of the members of nutrition it corrects the niceness and crudities of the Stomach and prevents putrefaction and flegm It wonderfully helps those troubled with the Gravel Spleen or vomiting their food also those who by continual and Chronical diseases are utterly extenuated and by that means are grown very weak it roborates and strengthens Dose from half a dram to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Pleuriticae or a Pleuritick Powder Take Sulphur sublimate two drams Carduus seeds Bay-berries husked Misleto of the Oak roots of Zedoary Olibanum of each a dram and a half teeth of a wild Boar and of a Pike flowers of wild Poppy of each a dram Make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a great Secret against all Pleuritick pains and punctures of the sides where the sick by reason of their violence is almost dead The dose is from half a dram to a dram in water of Hysop and Fenil or in wild Poppy-flower-water morning noon and night or be sure at the least five hours between every dose It is also given in Scabious water and God assisting it certainly cures Pulvis Pleuriticus secretissimus or a secret Powder for the Pleurisie Take
habits of body Dropsie pains of the Joynts Scabs or Scald Jaundice obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and also in Quotidian and Tertian Feavers in all which diseases we happily use it as an experienced Medicine The dose is from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples especially in strong bodies Pilulae Terebinthinae or Pills of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in juyce of Lemmons an ounce and a half juyce of Purslain made thick six drams Extract of the roots of Liquorish and Rhubarb Tartar vitriolated of each three drams the spongy brush that grows upon sweet Bryars the stones of Medlars of each a dram and a half Salt of white Amber Nitre prepared of each a dram Magistery of the Peach stone Crabs eyes of each half a dram Mix them and make a mass according to Art from which afterward with rectified Oyl of Citrons make Pills Virtue Use and Dose They are admirably good to break the stone in the Reins and provoke Urine and this chiefly to those of a hot Constitution for they expel the Tartar and Sand even to a miracle They cure the Running of the Reins and such like Fluxes and open the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from half a dram to a dram taken a good distance of time before and after meat Pilulae Stipticae or the Stiptick Pills Take Extract of the juyce of Liquorish half an ounce species of Diaplantaginis and Diamartis of each three drams Laudanum Opiate two drams Birch-fungus Runnet of a Hare Camphire of each half a dram Horse hoofs burnt Sandarac Olibanum of each a scruple Mix them and with Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Pomegranate-wine make a mass from which afterward with Oyls of Nutmegs and Cloves make Pills of the bigness of small Pease and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It stays all Fluxes of the Belly from what cause soever and stops blood flowing from any part of the body it stays the Courses in Women mitigates pain and procures sleep The dose from a scruple to half a dram at bed-time Cicera Tartari Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water and in the same water boiled to a just consistence two ounces acid Tartar an ounce species of Diaireos simple two drams Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and keep your hands wetted in cold Violet-water and so make Pills the bigness of a Pease Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in all diseases proceeding from a thick tartarous matter And it is known by Experience that some by the use of this Pill have so cured and prevented the Gout that it hath not returned again for many years or else it returned more slowly but in others it hath been more mild and went off sooner They are also commendable in all obstructions of the Bowels and Veins in the Hemicrania Jaundice Contractures Dropsie Feavers retention of the Terms c. It fortifies the Reins and expels the Stones from the Kidneys and Bladder and doth not only relieve the Ventricle and parts about it but strengthens them also The use of these Pills is excellent in the Asthma Phthisick Cough c. and in all other Pectoral diseases They sometimes work by Sweat and sometimes by Urine according as the sick is propense to this or that The dose in preservation at the Quarters of the Moon is from half a dram to a dram but in curing every morning from a dram to a dram and a half Pilulae de Sandaraca Take of the best Sandarac half an ounce Extract of Polypody white Tartar of each two drams white Amber prepared black Pepper Roch-Alum red Sarcocol of each half a dram Lacca washed Nitre prepared round Birthwort seeds of wild Rue and Parsley of each a scruple Mix them and with the Juyce of the lesser Centaury made thick make a mass according to Art and of every scruple make two Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It extenuates fat and makes people lean and attenuates all preternatural Carnosities in the humane body It is given every morning one Pill gilded Pilulae de Sabina or Pills of Savin Take salt of Savin two parts Oyl stilled from Savin one part They being mixed seal them Hermetically and set them in a Philosophical fire so long till they are hard like a stone afterwards Take of our Pil. Aloephanginae an ounce and a half of this Stone prepared an ounce Venetian Borax three drams Extract of our species Dialauri flowers of the lesser Centaury the herb Savin of each half a dram Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Juniper make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Cinamon and Mace make Pills Virtue Use and Dose These Pills do so happily open the obstructions of the Womb and so plentifully move the Terms retained that they deservedly claim the first place among Physical Arcana's that move the Courses The dose morning and evening is from a scruple to half a dram Pilulae Uterinae or Pills for the Womb. Take Pilulae Aloephanginae an ounce Faecula Bryoniae a dram salt of English Tin salt of Mother of Pearl salt of red Coral of each half a dram Extracts of Castor and the Callus of Mares of each a scruple Oyl of Angelica ten grains Mix them and make a mass according to Art of which when need requires with Oyl of Amber make Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It is a peculiar and specifick Medicine for the suffocation of the Womb for it happily raiseth women that are as it were suffocated by Hysterical passion The dose is from a scruple to half a dram continued for certain mornings successively SECT VII Of Rotula's or little Rowls or Cakes Rotulae Imperiales TAke Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Troches of Pearls a dram Ambergriese a scruple the best Musk half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain and Memory to admiration It also roborates the Heart afflicted with cold and trembling and affords great help in all its other affects It gently draws away the continued pains of the Head discusseth the Vertigo sharpens the Sight drys up moist defluxions of the Eyes it prevents baldness and prolongs life shortned by bad diet c. The dose is one two or three at a time often in the day Rotulae Smaragdinae or Rowls of Emerauld Take of Emerauld prepared two drams Elks horn Spagirically calcined a dram and a half seeds of male Peony gathered the Moon decreasing Citron seeds huskt of each a dram roots of white Diptamus grains of Kermes the lesser Galangal Oriental Saffron prepared Cubebs Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Nutmegs Mace and Cinamon of each ten grains Oyl of Rosemary and Lavender of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in an equal quantity of our
Epileptick and Apoplectick Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make of all little Rowls or Cakes Virtue and Use. They wonderfully preserve from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Palsie c. They correct the Vertigo and take away the debility of the Brain sharpen the Memory and Sense comfort the Head refresh the Spirits support and relieve the Faculties of the Mind debilitated by study and continual cares which are dangerous to the Animal Faculties Rotulae Hyacinthinae or Rowls of Hyacinth Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigidum of each half an ounce Hyacinth prepared two drams flowers of Nitre a dram Magistery of red Coral a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses ten grains white Sugar dissolved in Water-lily-flower water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gives relief to the heat and inflammation of the whole body and repairs the imbecillity of the virile force They help the Syncope and wonderfully refresh refrigerate and strengthen those who have long been dejected and afflicted with a long tedious disease They do wonders in Asthma's Heart-passions Epatick diseases Jaundice Consumptions Coughs and malignant Feavers The dose is two three four or five often in the day Rotulae Cordiales or Cordial Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Mace of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water eight ounces Mix them and make a Confection in little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They are great Fortifiers of the Heart and preserve it safe from all corruption and putrefaction that it cannot be vitiated by the malignant Air. The dose is two three or four for one time Rotulae Pectorales albae or white Pectoral Rowls Take species Diatragacanth frigidum and Diaireos simple of each half an ounce Lac Sulphuris two drams powder of Benjamin a dram Oyl of Fenil a scruple the whitest Sugar dissolved in milk of the seeds of white Poppy and Violet water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are good for the asperity of the Tongue and Jaws and alleviate the hardness and compression of the Breast and Thorax They give ease to those troubled with the Cough Phthisick Consumption and wasting and to those who are obnoxious to defluxions and destillations from the Head The dose every hour one two or three at a time Rotulae Pectorales Citrinae or yellow Pectoral Rowls Take Lohoch sanum expertum species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each two scruples Extract of Oriental Saffron Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Fenil water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Lungs lenifie the Breast facilitate the Spittle and therefore give ease in a wonderful manner to those troubled with the Cough Pleurisie difficulty of breathing c. The dose often in the day from one or two to three or four at a time Rotulae Pectorales rubrae or red Pectoral Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lohoch sanum expertum half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each half a dram Oyl of Anisceds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Hyssop water first tinctured with red Sanders sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Thorax and Lungs and strengthen them to expectorate the thick and gross matter there lodged Hence they give ease in tedious Coughs Asthma's and Pleurisies The dose is one two three or four at a time Rotulae Lac provocantes or Rowls provoking Milk Take Crystals prepared half an ounce red Corals prepared a dram Pearls prepared long Pepper of each half a dram Oyl of Fenil seeds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Nutmegs three ounces Mix them and make Confectionary Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in provoking Milk and is therefore given to Nurses every day morning noon and night The dose is four or five at a time Rotulae refectivae Take Troches of Pearls a dram Magistery of red Coral Ambergriese of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved and extracted in milk of sweet Almonds with Rose-water four ounces Mix them and make little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They nourish and give strength in Chronical diseases they restore health and strength to those who despair of Cure they conserve Nature by roboration and help to recover pristine strength The dose is as necessity requires two or three being taken and by degrees rubbed upon the tongue and afterward swallowed Rotulae stimulantes Take Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys a dram Boletus Cervinus flesh of Skinks of each half a dram long Pepper a scruple the bodies of Cantharides Oyl of Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers six ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully irritate and excite Venery and are very effectual to repair that kind of impotence and lost virility The dose is at going to bed from three four or five to six more or less according as the Patient requires They may also be taken after the first digestion that is after midnight Rotulae Aromaticae Take Galangal the less a dram and a half Calamus aromaticus grains of Paradise white Ginger of each a dram Cloves Cassia lignea Zedoary Burnet long Pepper Caraway seeds of each half a dram Cubebs Nutmegs Oriental Saffron Mace of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mint Oranges and Rosemary of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Stomach-water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They calefie corroborate and preserve from pain all the principal members the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Guts c. They prevent the Colick stay Vomiting coming of a phlegmatick cause excite Appetite discuss the Flatulencies that distend the Ventricle and cure all that hurts the body coming of a cold cause The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae refrigerantes or cooling Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons flowers of Nitre of each two drams Crystals prepared a dram Tinctures of red Coral and grains of Kermes Sanders of each half a dram Magistery of Saturn a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses four grains white Sugar dissolved in juyce of Barberries and Goosberries equal in quantity sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They are very cooling and of excellent use to allay thirst in acute Diseases and burning Feavers They comfort the Stomach and its natural heat and relieve the Heart
cervinus two drams Cinamon and long Pepper of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half adram Gallia Moschata and Oyl â—f Cloves of each a scruple leaves of pure Gold fifteen Mix all and with Syrup of preserved Ginger make â—n Electuary according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It hath a great force to provoke the desire of Coition and doth egregiously excite â—oth Sexes thereunto it doth wonderfully increase Sperm and singularly restore those that are consumed and emaciated The dose is morning and evening from two drams to three with old rich Wine Confectio Stiptica or a Stiptick Electuary Take Tinctures of Crocus Martis of Celandine Rhubarb and dryed Nuts of each an ounce Tormentil Zedoary Gum Arabick Cloves white Ginger torrefied Nutmegs of each six drams sealed Earth white Amâ—er prepared Calamus aromaticus the lesser Galangal â—oth sorts of Cardamoms Cinamon of each half an â—unce shells of River-crabs boiled in Vinegar seeds of Bloodwort Plantane and black Poppy Orange peel â—f each three drams leaves of Sage Burnet and Mint of each two drams Bulls pizle Coriander prepared Acatia of each a dram and a half Cypress-nuts burnt Frogs calcined Talk of each a dram Let all be subtilly powdered and mixed and with Miva of Quinces make an Electuary according to Art to which add of our Carminative Oyl three drams and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath been wonderfully experimented in all fluxes of the Belly as Dysenteries Diarrhoea's Hepatick Fluxes bleeding at the Nose and Terms and also in other desperate ruptures of Blood For it comforts the Guts and internal Bowels and refresheth Nature by Constipation The dose is from a dram to half an ounce in Sack or other generous Wine either in the morning fasting or at any other time the Stomach being empty Confectio Terebinthinata or an Electuary of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Rhenish Wine two ounces white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half powder of Liquorish six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Nitre prepared a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Violets make a mixture Virtue Use and Dose It is proper for those troubled with a Cough or Consumption It cleanseth the Breast and provokes Urine It helps the Strangury purgeth the Reins and easeth the pains of them It digesteth crude Humors loosens the Belly c. The dose is from a dram to two Theriaca Mulierum or a Treacle for Women Take Venice Treacle three ounces Iovial Bezoar half an ounce Elks horn and Harts horn of each Spagirically calcined a dram and a half Extract of roots of Angelica and Elicampane of each a dram Essence of Castor half a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber half a scruple Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Diseases in Women by Sweat as well hot as cold by a certain occult property and for that Sex there is not a more excellent and noble Diaphoretick given The dose is from a scruple to a dram in waters appropriate to the Disease yet where the Disease is of a hot Cause we give it in cold Vehicles Theriaca Saxonica or the Saxonick Treacle Take Rob of Elder-berries and dwarff Elder-berries of each two ounces Harts horn Spagirically calcined an ounce juyce of Fumitory made thick simple Syrup of Poppies Spirit of Iuniper of each half an ounce Oriental rod Bole two drams Oyl of the seeds of Angelica Oyl of Zedoary of each a dram Mix them and over a gentle clear fire make them into the form of an Opiate Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble Antidote powerfully working by Sweat and insensible Transpiration it defends men from and cures many and grievous Diseases It profligates and extinguisheth Feavers of all kinds whether intermitting continual or malignant Also the Dropsie Erysipelas Scurvy Jaundice Plague suffocation of the Matrix and other affects of the Womb the Pox Scab Itch Leprosie c. nay it deserves its praise so justly that no man is sufficiently able to proclaim its virtues The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg according to the Sex Age and Constitution of the Patient and the urgency of the Disease it is given in any fit and congruous Liquor especially such as is appropriate to the Disease I give it in many affects the body being first purged in the evening at going to bed four or five hours after supper with a sufficient quantity of our Harts-horn water and toward morning it doth use to sweat powerfully Theriaca Febrilis or an Electuary for Feavers Take species of our Febrifuge three ounces Conserve of Pontick Wormwood Conserve of Carduus and the lesser Centaury of each two ounces Venice Treacle an ounce and a half Harts-horn calcined without fire Mineral Diaphoretick white Ginger of each three drams species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Camphire dissolved in Spirit of Angelica half a dram Mix them and with Rob of Elder-berries make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It cures almost all Feavers and is very profitable also in the Plague The dose is from a dram to two in our Aqua Febrifuge or in Carduus Scabious or Marigold-water c. let the Patient drink it two hours before the Fit and being in bed let him sweat for by this means it cures the Feaver Electuarium Opticum or an Electuary for the Eyes Take preserved Elicampane roots and preserved Chebul Myrobalans of each two ounces long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mace the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Cubebs of each half an ounce Sea-Beans prepared Pikes eyes Eyebright Pennyroyal Germander Clovegilly-flowers Rosemary of each three drams seeds of the Mountain Osier and Fenil of each two drams seeds of Parsley Anise Smallage Dill and white Saxifrage of each a dram and a half All being pulverized mix them then with twenty four ounces of white Sugar Candy dissolved in Spirit of Juniper and the depurated Juyces of Sage Rue Celandine and Hyssop of each a sufficient quantity and then boiled to a just consistence make an Electuary to which add Oyl of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each a dram And then again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Stomach consumes superfluous Humors cleanseth the Reins and is good to expel all flatulent Humors But it chiefly restores a weak Sight and hath been wonderfully experimented in weakness of the Eyes Suffusions c. let the cause be what it will The dose is constantly in the morning fasting and at night going to bed the quantity of a Chestnut And by so using of it the Patient shall be able to read a small print by a clear and free sight without Spectacles even to his life's end Electuarium Stomachicum or an Electuary for the Stomach Take sweet Almonds eight ounces aromatical Reed white
Wine and in the morning distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous accidents sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and natural Spirits and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cordialis frigida or a cooling Cordial Water Take Conserve of red Roses a pound and a half Rasberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and a half seeds of Docks an ounce Sanders red white and yellow of each half an ounce the Cordial Flowers of each two drams Mix them and infuse them in these Waters following water of Sorrel water-Lily Strawberries Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a pound Mix them and digest them for some days and then again add Cinamon water buglossated a pound and a half juyce of Quinces depurated juyce of Lemmons and Citrons of each half a pound Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It doth sweetly and effectually refresh and strengthen the Heart in all burning Feavers and all other hot and corrosive Diseases by which means it removes imbecillity and fortifies strength through the whole body It also helps those who are disturbed in Mind whether it takes its Original from the Heart or Stomach it discusseth and throws off all Poyson and poysonous qualities that offend the Vitals and it restores the Spirits that languish with weakness from an excessive heat to their pristine state and strength The dose is from one ounce to two Aqua Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Water Take Cinamon four ounces roots of Avens three ounces Cloves sealed Earth of each an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms Galangal the less Mace Zedoary the peels of yellow Oranges Citron peels seeds of Basil of each half an ounce odoriferous wood of Aloes Oriental Saffron Spicknard Pennyroyal dryed of each three drams flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed let them infuse eight days in four pound of Spanish Wine then add Cinamon water distilled with Wine Clove gillyflowers of each a pound and a half flowers of Rosemary Lavender Balm and Sage of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo let it be distilled Virtue Use and Dose It doth help wonderfully in all cold affects of the Heart and is a good Remedy for its palpitation and the defect of the Mind It cureth the Syncope and Swooning refresheth the vital Spirits it takes away a sorrowful heaviness and the cause thereof and exhilarates the Heart It also restores those to health who are weak by the continuance of a lingering Disease and is an excellent Roborative It renders the whole body lively retards Baldness For whosoever is old and useth this Medicine will need no other Conservation for his Health The dose is from one spoonful to two or three at a time Aqua acetosa Stomachalis or a tart Stomach-water Take white Sugar a pound Conserve of Roses and Rose-water of each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified half an ounce Make a Mixture and when it is strained keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This tart Stomach-water is good in any intemperance as well cold as hot and is very effectual in the loss of Appetite or Loathing which is caused by the vitriolated Juyce that is vitiated in the bottom of the Stomach and for this property it cannot be sufficiently praised For it doth most excellently restore Concoction whether it be lost impaired or vitiated and fortifies the Stomach It is to be given in some proper Vehicle two hours before meat without exercise or an hour before meat with exercise after it respecting the disease for in a hot distemper it may be given in Pomegranate-wine or Syrup of Lemmons or of the Juyce of Citrons or Tincture of Roses c. but in a cold defect with our hot Cordial or Stomach-water Wormwood-wine Malmsy or other generous Wine c. The dose of it is so much as will make the Liquor it is taken in tart and sharp Aqua Stomachica calida or a hot Stomach-water Take lesser Galangal an ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon white Ginger Mastich roots of Burnet Elicampane water-Acorus of each an ounce water-Mints six drams Rosemary Sage and Wormwood of each half an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms sweet Reed Mace long Pepper Cummin seeds of each three drams Squinanth Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drams Bruise and mix them and macerate them in eight pound of Malmsy Wine and of Balm and Pennyroyal water of each a pound let them digest eight days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It warms the Ventricle and rectifies the coldness thereof It allays the Gripes pains and punctures of it It also digests and concocts Flegm and crude Humors collected there It stays Vomiting and Loathing and is a present Remedy for sour Belching It is a Divine help in Leanness and the disposition of Old age and to excite appetite and heat in old people to expel thick ventose humors to open obstructions and to resolve moist humors and corrupt superfluities The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Epatica frigida or a cold Epatick Water Take ripe Strawberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis four ounces roots of Succory Agrimony Scorzonera and Eryngo of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Liverwort Borage and red Roses of each half an ounce Rhubarb three drams Sanders three sorts of each two drams the four greater and lesser cold Seeds Dock seeds of each a dram and a half Let them be cut and bruised and infused in four pound of red Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the flowers of Liverwort Purslain Sorrel Endive Melons Succory Rasberries and Dodder of each a pound Mix them and distil by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Water is most safe and happy in its success in all Feavers as burning Tertians Quotidians Quartans and other noxious distempers rising from the heat of body in which the Liver suffers Moreover it corrects and amends the intolerable and corrosive heat of the Stomach Lungs and Spleen The dose is every other hour from one ounce to two or three by it self or with some specifick Syrup Aqua Epatica calida or a hot Epatick Water Take species Diacubeba three ounces roots of bitter Costus roots of Smallage Turmerick and Fenil Iuniper-berries seeds of Anise Cummin and Carrots of each an ounce sweet Reed Rhubarb Cassia lignea of each six drams Spicknard Oriental Saffron and Squinanth of each three drams Southernwood Wormwood Agrimony Mother of Thyme and water-Germander of each half an ounce flowers
a dram Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine in Balneo for five or six days till the Vinegar be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose The smell and odor of the Fume upon hot Coals immediately raiseth Women that are suffocated c. it is also good in the Vertigo's Lethargies and other sleepy diseases And if it be taken inwardly it also performs the same The dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Acetum Vomitorium or a Vomiting Vinegar Take bark of the roots of Thapsia four ounces â—oots of fresh dryed Asarabacca two ounces seeds of Cart aâ—us or bastard Saffron an ounce Cinamon half an ounce All being bruised and mixed infuse them in four pound of the best Wine Vinegar Let them digest in a Glass close shut for a month often shaking them in the time after distil them in Sand in a Copper body with a Leaden top to it And so you shall have distilled Vinegar impregnated with Saturn and a little sweet all which keep for use not rejecting the flegm Virtue Use and Dose It is a sweet and pleasant Vomit and purgeth all Humors as well cold as hot and is given in Quotidian and Tertian as well true as bastard both which it cures it takes away debility and loathing caused by super fluous sharp humors it is also an approved Medicine in renewed Feavers after seven Fits The dose is from two ounces to three more or less And to delicate bodies it is given in Syrup of Vinegar SECT XXIV Of Epithems Epithema generale or a general Epithem GOod in Melancholy Madness Phrensies immoderate Watchings pain and disorder of the Head in general from any cause Take water of wild Poppy Lettice and Roses of each four ounces of our Troches of Radice Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem Another of the same efficacy Take water of Henbane Sage and Vervain of each four ounces our Troches of roots of Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem and when there is a necessity of using it wet a double linen Rag therein and press it gently and apply it warm to the Temples and Forehead and this direction is also to be observed in the following Epithems An Epithem for the pain in the Head coming of a cold Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Betony Rosemary and Vervain of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce Cubebs three drams Nutmegs and Sandarack of each a dram roots of Mandrakes half a dram Mix them and make an Epithem and apply it warm Another in a hot Cause Take water of Chamomil Sage and Rosemary of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce the best Olibanum two drams Cloves Mace and wood of Aloes of each a dram roots of Zedoary half a dram Mix them for an Epithem An Epithem for pains of the Head coming of a hoâ— Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Roses Violets and common Mallows of each three ounces all the Sanders of each a dram and a half white Amber prepared a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Vervain of each half a dram Camphire a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Head Another in the same Case Take water of wild Poppy and Roses of each three ounces mans Skull calcined without fire a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Mix them for an Epithem for the Head which operates wonderfully Epithema Hypnoticum or a Sleep-bringing Epithem Take water of Roses and Lettice of each four ounces Opium Spagirically prepared a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram of the spongy knot growing on wild Roses a scruple Mix them and dissolve them faithfully the mixture being prepared wet a linen Cloth in it and apply it warm to the Temples and moisten the Nostrils with it also and presently they begin to sleep Another to procure Sleep Take water of Nutmegs Lettice and Night shade of each four ounces seeds of white Poppy half an ounce seeds of Henbane and Dill of each two drams roots of Hounds-tongue a dram and a half flowers of Elicampane yellow water-Lily and Violets of each a scruple Bruise the Seeds in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then mix them and press them and so make an Epithem for the Head An experienced warming Cordial Epithem Take water of Cinamon Balm and Bugloss of each three ounces Elks horn Spagirically calcined Cloves Nutmegs and Citron peels of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes a dram Pearls prepared red Coral prepared of each half a dram seeds of Marjoram and Basil of each a scruple Oriental Saffron and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the same Case Take water of Roses Basil and Clove-gillyflowers of each three ounces species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Dianthos and Gems calcined of each a dram Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Heart A cooling Epithem in the Syncope and other Affects of the Heart Take water of red Roses four ounces water of Sarrel and water-Lily of each four ounces Vinegar violated an ounce red Coral prepared all the Sanders of each a dram sealed Earth and Bole Armeniack of each two scruples of the five precious Stones prepared bone of a Stags heart Pearls prepared Mace Cinamon Camphire of each ten grains Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart A most noble Epithem in the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Marjoram Basil Balm Roses and Malmsey Wine of each three ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species de Gemmis calid of Diambra and Diamoschu dulce of each a dram wood of Aloes and Mace of each two scruples Cinamon and Rosemary of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls and red Coral prepared Citron peel of each a scruple the five precious Stones prepared a scruple Mix all for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Roses Sage and Borage of each three ounces odoriferous Wine an ounce Vinegar violated half an ounce species Diathameron and Diamargariton frigid of each a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Cassia lignea yellow Sanders Cardamoms the less of each half a dram Oriental Saffron flowers of Cloves and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem to be applied to the Breast An Epithem for the Weakness and Inflammation of the Liver Take water of Water-Lilies Wormwood Endive Roses and Succory of each two ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species Diatrion santalon half an ounce Crystals of Saturn two drams Rhubarb a dram and a half red Coral prepared two scruples seeds of Purslain and Sorrel of each a scruple Camphire Mace and Spike of each ten grains Mix them and make an Epithem according to Art Another in the same Case Take water of white Epatick flowers Rasberries Strawberries and the lesser Centaury of each three
seeds of Roses of each two drams dead Nettles with their red flowers a dram and a half Nutmegs Cinamon the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Sebestens nine Boil these according to Art in three pound of Plantane to the consumption of one third and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve one dram of Camphire and if you please edulcorate it also with Miya of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is an experienced Medicine in Dysenteries and other Fluxes of the Belly and it also cures divers Haemorrhages The dose is a good draught in a morning fasting Decoctum Polypodii purgans or a purging Decoction of Polypody Take roots of Polypody of the Oak and Raisons stoned of each two ounces Carthamus seeds and Barley of each an ounce and a half Liquorish half an ounce Hyssop Scabious Coltsfoot and Germander of each a dram Iujubes fifteen fat Figs six and Dates cleansed from their skin four Boil them in so much Whey that there may remain about twenty one ounces and about the end of the Decoction add Leaves of Sena three ounces Troches of Agarick three drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Let them stand over the fire a while but not boil much then make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in the Asthma Phthisick Pleurisie and other Pectoral diseases The dose is from four ounces to five and the body being purged let the Patient drink our Pectoral Decoction called Subacidum or Subdulce as occasion serves Decoctum Galli antiqui farcinati or a Decoction of an old Cock stuffed Take Polypody an ounce and a half Carthamus seeds an ounce Cinamon three drams leaves of Sena white Turbith and Orange peel of each two drams white Ginger the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram species Diacymini and Dianisi of each half a dram and one Bay-berry The Species being mixed and put in a linen Rag let them be put in when the Cock is almost boiled enough Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in the Colick when it proceeds from a thick flatulent and flegmatick Cause Decoctum Sanguinem mundificans or a Decoction to cleanse the Blood Take Citrine Myrobalans an ounce flowers of Violets dryed a dram Prunes nineteen Sebestens and Iujubes of each eight Boil them in water of the flowers of Acatia to three ounces in which dissolve of our potable Scammony a scruple Oyl of Cinamon and Aniseeds of each a drop Mix them and make a draught for one dose Virtue and Use. It purgeth Choler of both kinds Flegm and other Humors It also mundifies the Blood and keeps the body laxative in Feavers Decoctum Senae or a Decoction of Sena Take elect Sena three drams acid Tartar a dram Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little yet so as that the Tartar may be throughly dissolved and in the strained Liquor while it is warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose to be given warm Virtue and Use. It is a good Purge for the whole Body for it opens the obstructions of all the Bowels and mundifies the blood But in the first place it purgeth Choler both black and yellow and Flegm also It cleanseth and strengthens the Head Brain Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and all the Senses of the Body and carrieth off all that offends them It retardes Age increaseth Youth Moreover it is an excellent Medicine in all chronical tartarous and melancholy diseases as the Epilepsie Dotage Deliria's Heach-ach Gout Elephantiasis Scabs Pustles Itch and all other vices of the Skin It is also profitably given to Women with Child and to Children and Men of all ages for it purgeth modestly without any molestation But for Children and young Patients half or a third part of it is sufficient Decoctum Senae cum Rhabarbaro or a Decoction of Sena with Rhubarb Take elect Sena two drams the best Rhubarb and acid Tartar of each a dram of Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little enough to dissolve the Tartar afterward the expression being made and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose which is to be taken warm Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Flegm and both kinds of Choler chiefly from the Stomach Liver and Spleen c. It mundifies the Blood opens all Obstructions and cures all Affects thence proceeding as Jaundice Dropsie Tumor of the Spleen putrid and continual Feavers pains of the Hypochonders c. Let no man wonder at the small dose of Sena in this Prescript for four drams of Sena infused in four ounces of Fumitory water do not purge more than two drams macerated in the like quantity because the water doth extract as much as it can and leaves the rest therefore two drams of Sena are sufficient to quicken other things in four ounces of Water Decoctum Rhabarbari or a Decoction of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb a dram and a half red Roses dryed half a dram roots of Liquorish sliced and flowers of Marsh-mallows of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused all night in three ounces of Plantane water warm in the morning strain it in the strained Liquor dissolve of the best Manna half an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Spirit of Vitriol four drops Mix them for one dose and give it warm in the morning for a draught Virtue and Use. It is very effectual in all Fluxes of the Belly it gives one or two motions and by those it expels the cause of the bloody Flux Annotation Many use Rhubarb torrefied which is an evil practice because it consumes the virtue of it and the terrene part only remains and so makes it more stiptick Decoctum Violatum purgans or a purging Decoction of Violets Take leaves of Sena two ounces Fenil seeds and acid Tartar of each half an ounce dryed Violet flowers and the best Rhubarb of each a dram and a half white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram Galangal the less and Cloves of each half a dram Let them infuse all night in Fumitory water warm in the morning boil them a little and afterward strain it and take of the clear strained Liquor ten ounces Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb and Syrup of the juyce of Violets Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel and Oxysaccharum simple of each an ounce Mix them and make a Potion which divide into four equal parts for four doses Virtue and Use. It is good in Tertian and Quotidian Feavers c. and gently purgeth all humors that offend
Dill Oranges and Chamomil of each half a dram Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a true Anodyne Medicine for it discusseth Wind and cureth the pain of the Belly and Matrix and all other diseases arising from Wind. Sometimes also it lenifies and allays the pains of the Breast Stomach Spleen Guts Reins and Bladder It is also a present help for flatulent and Hypochondriack Melancholy The dose is from four drops to five in appropriate Vehicles Oleum Nephriticum or an Oyl good in the Stone Take Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Turpentine and Iuniper of each four ounces Leaven of coarse Bread common Salt and white Tartar of each two ounces water of Ground-Ivy Parsley and Restharrow of each three pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick afterward separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It potently breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder and expels it by Urine And moreover it allays the pains of the Colick It roborates the Womb and makes the Birth easie if it be drunk in water of Vervain And being taken in Teil-tree-flower-water it helps in diseases of the Head and Nerves as the Falling-sickness Stupefaction c. and the Nostrils anointed with it preserves from all Poison and pestilential Air. The dose is from five drops to six in specisick Vehicles Oleum septem Florum or an Oyl of the seven Flowers It is prepared of Oyl Olive by many repeated Infusions of the flowers of Violets Elder Roses Chamomil white Lilies Mullein and red Marsh-mallows Let the flowers be infused apart in Oyl every sort in its season so that they may be fresh let them digest in the Sun and after due maceration let every sort by themselves be strongly pressed and this labour with other fresh flowers is often to be repeated c. And at last you shall have a true Balsamick and Anodyne Oyl appropriate to all pains as well cold as hot and this Oyl keep for use Virtue and Use. It is truly Anodyne and mitigates the pains of the Head and Cephalalgia and being laid to the Forehead and Temples of those in a Phrensie and watching induceth sleep It easeth the distension of the Hypochonders and allays the pains of the Thorax Ventricle Colon Womb and nervous parts It is a present remedy for Pleuritick Consumptive and Hectical persons and soon allays the intolerable heat of burning Feavers and the immoderate heat of the Liver and Reins In short it extinguisheth all intemperate heat It mollifies the hardness of the Womb and composeth many other accidents of those parts It ripens all hot Tumors and discusseth Lassitudes It is also effectually used with the White of an Egg or the Mucilage of Quince seeds for Burns and Scalds Lastly given in Clysters it allayeth the pain of the Belly moves to stool and carries off serous Excrements Oleum Sabinae Crocinum or Oyl of Savin with Saffron Take distilled Oyl of Savin four ounces Oyl of Oriental Saffron three drams Mix them and put to it two ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine impregnate with Mugwort lesser Centaury and Cinamon Boil it to the consumption of the Spirit then separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is approved in moving the Courses in Women The dose is morning and evening from five drops to six or seven in water of Mugwort or Pennyroyal Also in Malmsey or other generous strong Wine or in our Decoction against the Terms suppressed it is profitably given But is most usually given at the time when the Courses use to come down that Nature assisting the Medicine may work with more force and efficacy Oleum Balsami or the Oyl of Balsam Take Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bay-berries of each an ounce Oyl of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Rhodium and Spike of each two drams Oyl of Angelica seeds and Aniseeds of each a dram Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water half a pound Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Roots of Alkanet make according to Art an Oyl or red Balsam Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens discusseth attenuates and penetrates Hence it helps in all cold distempers and dissipates wind wonderfully It is of excellent use in the Palsie the Original of the Nerves being anointed with it It cures deafness singing and pain of the Ears coming of a cold Cause The Spine of the Back being anointed with it it takes away the pain and shivering cold of the Reins in Agues It drives away Feavers resists Putrefaction and the Plague It breaks the Stone and expels it It provokes Sweat and is an excellent Remedy used internally and externally in the Convulsions Colick Dropsie Tympany Contractures Suffocation of the Matrix debility of the Stomach c. The dose is from a scruple to a dram in Vehicles respecting the disease Oleum Formicarum or Oyl of Piâ—â—ures Take Pismires alive and seeds of Rocket of each what quantity you please Mix them and bruise them and make as it were a Paste Put this into a Glass and expose it so long to the Sun and Air till it becomes Oyl which separate by expression and keep for use for our Venereal Balsam Virtue and Use. If the soles of the Feet Privy parts and Perinaeum be anointed with this Oyl it wonderfully raiseth and revives those who are stupefied and benum'd and is good in other such kind of cases Oleum Lignorum or Oyl of Woods Take Lignum sanctum three pound Sassafras and Rhodium of each eight ounces Mix and distil them according to Art and you shall have an Oyl and Spirit which often rectifie apart and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose This Spirit hath a Diaphoretick force and expels by Sweat whatsoever is noxious to the body The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick Vehicles but the Oyl is experimentally found good in a Gonorrhoea and doth powerfully resist Contagion and Putrefaction and for that reason is of great use in the French Pox for pocky Ulcers Pustles Crusts Tetters and Scabs by anointing them with Oyl only are cured The dose internally is from three drops to six in some convenient and appropriate Liquor SECT XXXIV Of Balsams and odoriferous Medicines Balsamum Polychrestum TAke Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bays of each an ounce Oyl of white Amber rectified of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Nutmegs Oranges and Rosemary of each a dram Oyl of Chamomil and Cummin of each half a dram Mix them and add a pound of well rectified Spirit of Wine in which for eight days Frankincense Mastich Benjamin Styrax Calamitis Mumy Cochinel flowers of lesser Centaury great Comfry Roses and Violets also the Roots of Alkanet have been all infused Then add Cyprus Turpentine well washed in Rose-water half a pound our Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds six drams
Earth of Vitriol and Gum Lacca of each three drams Boil them to the consistence of a Balsam then add red Coral prepared Dragons blood of each two drams Sarcocol red Myrrh and Mastich of each a dram oyl of Rhodium Nutmegs and Savin of each a scruple Mix them and make them into a Balsam of a just consistence Virtue and Use. It is of good use to the Gums when they are putrid swelled over-grown and black for it preserves them from putrefaction and cures them Moreover it fastens loose Teeth and covers them with new flesh and amends other vices of the Mouth It perfectly and suddenly heals the Cancer Noli me tangere Scurvy Imposthume Ulcers Corrosion c. and takes away all impurities of the Gums Use it morning and evening or often in the day by rubbing the part affected and let the Mouth be washed with Sage water or any other appropriate Liquor Balsamum Stipticum or a Stiptick Balsam Take of our Stiptick Plaster four ounces oyl of the Yolks of Eggs so much as is sufficient to make it into a Balsam to which add Oyl of Cloves Nutmegs and Sage of each a scruple Mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It roborates the Stomach and strengthens the whole lower Belly anointed therewith it helps Digestion stays Vomiting cures the disease Cholera Lientery Diarrhoea and bloody Flux It also strengthens the Womb restrains the Courses when immoderate prevents Abortion and roborates the Reins Balsamum Venereum or a Venereal Balsam Take roots of Pellitory of Spain and Euphorbium of each an ounce Cantharides half an ounce Boil them in two pound of Malmsey Wine to the consumption of half and to the strained Decoction add Sallet Oyl four ounces Again boil it till the humidity be consumed and to the remaining Oyl add Oyl of Nutmegs exprest an ounce of our oyl of Pismires half an ounce oyl of Indian Nuts and Castor of each a dram and a half Oleum Moschatellinum oyl of Cloves Mace and Spike of each a dram pure and true Civet the best Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Caput mortuum of Oyl of Nutmegs exprest or in defect thereof a sufficient quantity of white Wax make a Balsam of a just consistence Virtue and Use. If the Yard and parts adjacent to wit the Region between the Anus and the Scrotum where the body of the Yard lies also the great Toe of the right Foot are bathed with this Balsam it provokes Lust. It is an excellent enticement of the Womb and causeth a wonderful erection by stimulating the parts and that constantly neither doth it suffer erection to cease but when you are willing it should cease wash the parts which were before anointed Balsamum Uterinum or a Balsam for the Womb. Take May Butter without salt an ounce oyl of English Tin oyl of yellow Amber and Turpentine of each a dram and a half Gum Tacamahacca Assa foetida Galbanum and Savin of each a dâ—am true Castor half a dram Goats Suet a sufficient quantity to make all into the consistence of a Balsam Virtue and Use. If the Navil be anointed with this Balsam warm and a piece of Walnut-tree rind laid thereon it mitigates all the pains of the Womb and brings it into its proper place but let the Woman abstain from sweet things and instead thereof anoint her Nostrils and Breast with Oyl of white Amber and Oyl of Castor Balsamum Podagricum or a Balsam for the Gout Take juyces of Housleek Rosemary Gourd Tabaco Henbane Germander and Vervain of each six ounces Vitriol calcined till it be yellow white Tartar Sea-salt calcined of each three ounces the Fat of a wild Cat of a Goose and Fox the Marrow of a Stag of each an ounce and a half oyl of Turpentine Bricks Iuniper and Sope of each an ounce oyl of the lower Iaw-bone of a Horse oyl of Saturn and Spike of each a dram Gum Ammoniack Opopanax Sagapen Mastich Olibanum and Foreign Mumy of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them to the consumption of the humidity and reserve all the fatty part for use Virtue and Use. Bathe the parts grieved with this Balsam warm morning and evening and lay Linen Cloaths upon the part affected after bathing and 〈◊〉 doth to a miracle allay the pains of the Gout for it doth quickly by altering and penetrating dissolve the tartarous and knotty Concretions and takes away at once almost all gouty and cramp-like pains proceeding from a cold Cause Balsamum Saponis or a Balsam of Sope. Take Venice Sope dissolved in juyce of Lemmons a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces Mercurial Cosmetick white Sugar Candy and roots of Florentine Flower-de luce of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar white Sperma Ceti Alum saccharated Venetian Borax of each half an ounce odoriferous Balsam of Pâ—â—â—â— two drams Gallia Moschata a dram oyl of Rhodiuâ—â—â—â—â—amon Cloves and Lavender of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a Mixture like Balsam Virtue and Use. Use it in washing and rubbing the Hands which it makes white as Snow and renders the Skin neat and soft SECT XXXV Of Oyntments Unguentum Paralyticum or an Oyntment for the Palsie TAke Oyl of Amber rectified oyl of Bricks of each an ounce and a half oyl of Iuniper Templinum and Turpentine of each an ounce oyl of Bays Peter and Spike of each half an ounce oyl of Castor and Pepper of each two drams All being mixed pour upon it four ounces of our Paralytick Spirit â—â—d boil it to the consumption of the Spirit afterward add Alum prepared an ounce distilled oyl of Rosemary Nutmegs Cloves Origanum Wormwood Lavender Angelica and Sage of each a dram Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of yellow Wax make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. It powerfully restores paralytick Members and by digestion consumes the peccant matter sticking to the Nerves Muscles and Tendons it comforts the nervous parts with heat and restores them to their pristine motion and is of good use in the Gout proceeding of a cold Cause and in the Hip-gout called the Sciatica it is most excellent Let the Patient be anointed morning and evening in a warm place universal Medicines being before used Unguentum Ophthalmicum or an Oyntment for the Eyes Take May Butter not salted and washed in Eyebright water four ounces true Dragons blood finely powdered half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Tutty prepared of each two drams Pearls prepared and Sarcocol of each half a dram Camphire ten grains Opium Spagirically prepared four grains Mix them and make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. If a little of this Oyntment universal Medicines being premised be applied to the corners of the Eyes and to the edges of the Eye-brows it takes away all defluxions of Rheum by temperating the heat allaying the pain removing the redness mitigating the sharpness and stopping and drying the Rheum and it also wonderfully strengthens the Eyes
Diet and eat only thick viscid and adstringent Aliment the quantity of which ought to be small for hunger helps forward the Cure Emplastrum Diachylon Anodynum or an Anodyne Diachylon Plaster Take the Anodyne Oyl prepared from the seven Flowers four and twenty ounces Litharge well cleansed twelve ounces Mucilage of the seed of Henbane and Fleabane of Quinces and Flax the middle bark of the Teil tree roots of Marsh-mallows extracted with water of Nightshade four ounces Let the Litharge be finely powdered and prepared and then put to the Anodyne Oyl then let them boil over a gentle fire always stirring them till they are well mixed Remove them from the fire and let it cool a little theâ— put in the Mucilages and mix them all well together and bring them all to a just consistence c. Virtue and Use. It mollifies allays pain dissolves humors gathered in any part it digests and ripens hard Inflammations and hot Tumors and cures all things that are inflamed Moreover it gives ease in the Gout and is an excellent Medicine to bring down and abate a hot intemperature Emplastrum de Spermate Ceti or a Plaster of Sperma Ceti Take white Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti two ounces Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce Mix them and make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It being laid to the Breast of Women after their Delivery that do not give suck and there worn for certain days heals and removes all the pain caused by the Milk and all hard Tumors and swellings in those parts The Milk also coagulated or concreted it dissolves and also consumes the abundance of it SECT XXXVII Of Cataplasms Cataplasma de Fermento or a Cataplasm of Leaven TAke old Leaven an ounce and a half yellow Amber three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each half a dram water-Mints and Cloves of each a scruple Castor and wood of Aloes of each ten grains Mix them and with a little simple Spirit of Wine and Wine Vinegar of each alike bring all into the form of a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. Let it be applied warm to the top of the Head and repeat it often it curiously discusseth the cause of the Palsie of the Tongue and doth so consume and evacuate the matter from the superiour parts that always not without admiration the motion and speech returns and indeed it is a Secret in recovering the Speech and drying Catarrhs Cataplasma Febrile or a Cataplaesm for Feavers Take Gun-powder pulverized common Salt melted of each an ounce Spiders web Nutmegs and Olibanum of each two drams the herb Wormwood Shepherds-purse small Nettles and Rue of each a handful white Turpentine a sufficient quantity to make a Cataplasm for the Pulses Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm being put between two Cloths and laid to both the Wrists two hours before the Fit cures all Feavers in Children but especially bastard or spurious Tertians and wonderfully allays the violence of the Fit Cataplasma Scorbuticum contra Tumores Pedum or a Scorbutick Cataplasm against the Swelling of the Feet Take Wheat-bran well powdered half a pound Meal of Barley and Beans of each three ounces Meal of Lupines and Lentils of each an ounce and a half Venice Sope two ounces flowers of Chamomil two ounces of Marsh-mallows an ounce Litharge of Silver and red Bole Armeniack of each half an ounce roots of China and Rhubarb of each three drams Fungus of Elder-tree I suppose he means Jews Ears seven Boil them in Juyce of Elder exprest to such a thickness as may make a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm in the Scurvy is applied warm to the Feet at night so that the whole Tumor be covered with it and there lye all night the next night let it be renewed and again applied and this continue and repeat so long till the Tumor be dissolved which by the use of this Cataplasm and the Blessing of God will soon succeed and the parts be corroborated Cataplasma de Cineribus or a Cataplasm of Ashes Take the Ashes of Hermodactyls roots of Asphodel Bean stalks Elder wood Figs Cutting of Vines dwarff Elder of each alike Mix them and with white Wine make a Lixivium Take of this Lixivium four pound of brown houshold Bread a sufficient quantity Boil them to a thickness and then add sharp Wine Vinegar half a pound Lapis medicamentosus three ounces powder of Cummin seed Bay-berries and Cloves of each an ounce Boil them gently and make a Cataplasm according to Art Virtue and Use. It is spread upon Linen Cloths and applied to Dropsical Tumors and Swellings Evacuation being first made there let it lye for certain hours and when it begins to raise the skin apply it lower toward the Knees and so by degrees still downwards till you come to the Feet Cataplasma de Nido Hirundinis or a Cataplasm of a Swallows Nest. Take a Swallows Nest Album Graecum an ounce and a half roots of Marsh-mallows and white Lilies of each an ounce Figs and Dates of each three Boil them in common water to the form of a thin Pultis then add Oyl of Violets meal of Chamomil Foenugreek Flax and Wheat of each six drams the brain of a Cat half an ounce of an Owl and Swallow burnt of each two drams the Yolk of an Egg Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and make a Cataplasm for the Neck Virtue and Use. It is often applied warm to the Neck in a desperate Quinsie and is indeed a Secret But the Album Graecum should be gathered from the Dog when the Sun is in Leo and the Dog should be shut up and fed with nothing but bones of a Calf gelt or otherwise and give him not much water and the first three days what the Dog voids throw away but what comes afterward gather for use Cataplasma contra Singultum or a Cataplasm against Hiccupping Take Leaven three ounces Iuniper-berries red Roses and water-Mints of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs and Mace of each half a dram strong Wine Vinegar a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm with which mix Oyl of Cummin and Caraway of each half a scruple Virtue and Use. This is only useful in the Hiccup which being put between two Cloths and laid to the Stomach warm gives ease especially if it be often applied and it is a singular Medicine Pannus Linteus Crocatus or a Linen Cloth prepared with Saffron Take a coarse Linen hempen Cloth wash it five or six times in Frog Spawn gathered in March and filtred so that the little black things like Eyes may be separated and dry this Cloth by it self in the shade not in the Sun or by any other heat Then take Vinegar of Elder-flowers and Oriental Saffron a sufficient quantity and make a Tincture in which boil that coarse hempen Cloth till it hath imbibed a deep Saffron-colour this being done remove them from the fire and let them cool together then take the Linen Cloth thus saffronized dry it in the shade and keep it for