of the Sun Tamarinds Liquoris of each half an ounce Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms in Summer time ad of the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms of each of three of the cordial Flowers a pugil and an half boyl these in two pints of water till half be consumed A. This was Guainerius his recept whose works I neither have nor know where to borrow and therefore I can give you no other vertues of this Medicine than what the title affords it is a composition which with addition of other Medicines is fit for every thing but in it self is good for little A Decoction of Epithimum Mesue Take of Indian Myrabolans Stoechas of Arabia Raisons of the Sun Epithimum or Doddar of time of each an ounce Myrabolans chebs Fumitory of each half an ounce Senna an ounce Polypodium of the Oak six drachms White Turbith half an ounce Eupatorium five drachms Whey made of Goats or Heifers milk three pints let them all the Epithimum excepted boyl to the consumption of two pints then ad the Epithimum let it boyl a little together and having taken it from the fire ad to it black Hellebore a drachm Agrick half a drachm Sal Indi a drachm and an half let it stand close stopped in infusion eight or ten hours then strain it for your use A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust Choller It resisteth madnesse and all diseases coming of melancholly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a Jewel A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and Sebestens of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Buglos of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half a handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring water to the consumption of the third part A. It strengthens the lungues and opens obstructions A Pectoral Decoction Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten Jujubes of each 15. Dates 6. Figs 4. French-Barly an ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden hair Hysop Scabious Coltsfoot of each half a handful cut them and boyl them in three pints of spring water till one pint be consumed A. The Medicine is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voyce a long wind resisteth Coughs hoarsness Asthmaes c. A Decoction of Senna Take of Senna two ounces an half Ginger a drachm The flowers of Borrage Violets red Roses Rosemary-flowers of each 2. drams Polipodium of the Oak half an ounce Sebesten Prunes of each 12. Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces make a decoction of them in four pints of spring water till half be consumed yet so as the Senna may boyl but little let it stand off from the fire close stopped six hours after it is boyled then strain it out for your use A. It is a common decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humour you would have purged yet in it self it chiefly purgeth melancholly Lac Virgineum Take of Allum four ounces boyl it in a quart of spring water to the third part Afterwards Take of Litharge half a pound white wine Vineger a pint and an half boyl it to a pint strain both the waters then mix them together and stir them about till they are white A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men Take of Crabs of the river calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Aristolochiah and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each a drachm ty them all up in a linnen cloath and boyl them in three pints of white Wine till the third part be consumed adding about the middle of the decoction one pugil of Perewincles then strain it for your use This decoction must be prepared only for the present when the Physitian appoints it as also must almost all the rest of the decoctions A. And therefore least my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an angel to fee a Physitian or if he have it before the Physitian which in some places is very remote can come at him I have taken the pains to write the recept in his own mother tongue he may get any friend to make it SYRVPS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPOVND WHICH ARE IN USE Syrup of Vineger Simple of London TAke of white Sugar five pound White-Wine-Vineger a quart melt them into a Syrup according to art A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vineger over the fire scum it but boyle it not Syrup of Vineger Simple of Mesue Take of White Sugar five pound Cleer Water sour pints boyl it into a Syrup scumming it well then put a quart of Vineger to it and boyl it again to a Syrup A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best the difference is but little I hold the last to be the best of the two and would give my reasons for it but that I fear the Book will swell too big They both of them cut flegm as also tough hard viscous humours in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and prepare the stomach before the taking of a vomit Syrup of Vineger Compound Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Smallage Fennel Annis of each one ounce Endive seeds half an ounce Clear Water six pints boyl them in a vessel well glazed over a gentle fire till half the water be consumed then strain it and ad to it three pound of Sugar clarify it and then ad a pint and an half of white-wine-Vinegar to it and boyl it to a syrup A. This in my opinion is a gallant syrup for such whose bodees are stuffed either with flegm or tough 〈◊〉 for it opens obstructions or stoppings both of the stomach liver spleen and reins it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a stuffing at their stomach Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Mesue Take of the juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clarified a pint Sugar two pound and an half melt it into a syrup over the fire A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from choller or heat of blood feavers both pestilential and not pestilential it resisteth poyson cools the blood quencheth thirst cureth the vertigo or dissines in the head After the same manner is made syrup of sour Grapes Cherries Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Wood-Sorrel Sorrel English Currance and other sour juyces clarified A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach syrup of Quinces staies vomiting so doth also
scoria ferri Rhasis Take of the flakes of Iron infused in Vineger seven daies and dried three drachms Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Cyperus Ginger Pepper Bishops Weed Frankinsence of each half an ounce Myrobalans Indian Bellericks and Emblicks Honey boiled with the decoction of Emblicks sixteen ounces mix them together and make of them an Electuary A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care labour pains and industry of the honorable Society the Authors of that book or the vigilancy of the vapouring Printer Rhasis an Arabian Physitian the Author of the recept appoints a drachm of each the medicine heats the spleen gently purgeth melancholly easeth pains in the stomach and spleen and strengthens digestion Diacidonium Simple Take of the pulp of Quinces boyled in fresh water to a sufficient thickness eight pound white Sugar scummed and boyled to its just thickness six pounds boyl them both together to a just thickness Diacydonium with Pouders Gallen Take of the juyce of Quinces and white Sugar of each two pound white-wine Vinegar half a pound added in the end of the decoction let them boil over a gentle fire and let the scum be taken off then ad Ginger two ounces white Pepper ten drachms and two scruples boil them again over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey A. Is not this then more like a syrup than an Electuary Surely either the Colledge or I dote Diacydonium Compound of London Take of white Sugar six pound spring water four pound clarifie it with the white of an Egg and scum it dilligently then take of ripe Quinces the outward pill and the seeds being taken away and cut in four parts eight pound boil them in the said syrup till they be tender then strain the syrup through a Boulter boil them again in it to the consistence of a gelly adding towards the latter end four ounces of whit wine Vineger the syrup being removed from the fire put in these pouders following being but grosly bruised viz. Ginger an ounce white Pepper Cinnamon Nutmegs of each two drachms keep it in diverse boxs. After the same manner may you make Diacydonium Simple A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former recept together he would find but little difference between them only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added A. The vertues of all these three are they comfort the stomach help digestion stay vomiting belching c. stop fluxes and the terms in women Confectio De Hyacintho Take of Jacinth red Corral bole Armenick earth of lemons of each half an ounce the berries of Kermes the roots of Tormentil and Dictamni Citron seeds husked the seeds of Sorrel Purslain Saffron Mirrh red Roses all the sorts of Sanders Bone of a Stags heart Hartshorn lvory of each four scruples Saphire Emerald Topas Pearls arw Silk the leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples Camphire Musk Amber greece of each five grains with syrup of Lemmons make them into a Confection according to art A. It is a great cordial and cool exceeding good in acute feavers and pestilences it mightily strengtheneth and cherrisheth the heart Confectio Humain Mesue Take of Eyebright two ounces Fennel seeds five drachms Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs long Pepper Mace of each one drachm beat them all into pouder and with clarified Honey a pound in which boil juyce of Fennel an ounce juyce of Chelondine and Rue of each half an ounce and with the pouders make it up into an Electuary A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart quickens the sences especially the sight and resisteth the pestilence Antidoum Haemagogum Rom. Take of Lupines two drachms black Pepper five scruples and fix grains Liquoris four scruples long Birthwort Mugwort Cassia lignea the seeds of Macedonian Parsly Pellitory of Spain the seeds of Rue Spicknard Mirrh Penyroyal of each two scruples and fourteen grains the seeds of Smallage Savin of each two scruples thirteen grains Centaury the greater Carrots of Creet Nigella Caraway Annis Cloves Alum of each two scruples Bay leaves one scruple one half scruple and three grains wood of Aloes one scruple and fourteen grains Schoenanth one scruple and thirteen grains Asarabacca Acorus that is common Calamus Aromacicus Amomus Peony Centaury the less the seeds of Arrach and Fennel of each one scruple and six grains Cyperus Elicampane Ginger Capper roots Cummin Orobus of each one scruple beat them all into very fine pouder and with four times their waight of Honey make them up into an Electuary according to art A. It provokes the terms brings away both birth and afterbirth the dead child purgeth such as are not sufficiently purged after travail it provokes urine breaks the stone in the bladder helps the strangury dysury iskury c. helps indigestion the chollick opens any stoppings in the body it heats the stomach purgeth the liver and spleen consumes wind staies vomiting but let it not be taken by women with child nor such people as have the Hemorrhoyds A. Nicholaus I take to be the Author of this fantastical medicine though the Colledg give it a more general term and the vertues allo are quoted from him Diaireos Salomonis Nicholaus Take of Orris roots an ounce Penyroyal Hysop Liquoris of each six drachms Traganth white Starch bitter Almonds Pinenuts Cinnamon Ginger Pepper of each three drachms fat Figs the pulp of Raisons of the sun and Dates of each three drachms and an half Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half Sugar dissoved in Hysop water and clarified Honey of each twice the weight of all the rest make them into an Electuary according to art A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and helps cold infirmities of them as Asthmaes Coughs difficulty of breathing c. Diasatyrion Nicholaus Take of the roots of Satyrion fresh and sound Garden-Parsnips Eringo Pine-Nuts Indian-Nuts or if Indian Nuts be wanting take the double quantity of Pine Nuts Fistick-Nuts of each one ounce and an half Cloves Ginger the seeds of Annis Rocket Ash keys of each five drachms Cinnamon the tayls and loins of Scincus the seeds of Bulbus Nettles of each two drachms and an half Musk seven grains of the best Sugar dissolved in Malaga Wine three pounds make it into an Electuary according to art A. Either the Colledge or the Printer left out Cicer roots seven drachms which I think are proper to the recept they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds and in so doing they did well A. It helps weaknesse of the reins and bladder and such as make water with difficulty it provokes lust exceedingly and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus being indeed compiled to that end Diasatyrion more pleasant Coloniens Take of Satyrion roots three ounces the pulp of Dates sweet Almonds Indian Nuts Pine Nuts Fistick Nuts green Ginger Eringo roots preserved of each one ounce Ginger Cloves
immoderate flowing of the terms and Hemorrhoids falling out of the fundament and womb finally for every occasion that requires binding I would if I were Eloquent commend it in the superlative degree Unguentum ad 〈◊〉 Norimberg Take of white starch Ceruss washed Litharge prepared Lead burnt Gum Traganth of each a drachm and an half Thebane Opium Camphire of each a scruple the white of one Egg oyl of Roses and Violets of each an ounce aud an half Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an oyntment A. It is apropriated to the Hemorrhoids as the title shews Unguentum Hemorrhoidale Saxoniae Take of mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort and Quinces drawn in the water of Nightshade of each an ounce oyl of Roses compleat an ounce the yolk of one Egg let them be stirred together in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel adding a little melted Wax mix them together and make of them an oyntment according to art A. Its use is the same with the former Common oyntment of Baies Take of Bay leaves a pound Bay berries half a pound Cabbage leaves four 〈◊〉 Neats foot oyl five pound 〈◊〉 suet two pound the leaves and berries being bruised and boyled with the oyl and suet till their juyce be consumed let it be strained and kept A. It heats and expels wind it profitable for old aches and sprains but what good it should do in the itch for which simple people buy it I cannot imagin Unguentum Martiatum Nichol. Take of the leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces Rue seven ounces Tamaris six 〈◊〉 the leaves of Dwarf-Elder Marjoram Savin Costmary or else Water-mints Sage Bazil Poley mountain Calaminth Mugwort Elicampane Bettony Brank-Ursine Goose grasse or Cleavers Anemone or Wind flower or for want of it Pellitory of the wall Burnet Agrimony Wormwood Cowslips garden Costus Elders Orphine the greater 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser Yarrow Germander Centaury the less Plantain Strawberries Tetrahit or for want of it Golden-rod Cvnkfoyl of each four ounces and an half the roots of 〈◊〉 the seeds of Cummin 〈◊〉 of each three ounces 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half the seeds of the greater Nettles of Violets red or errattick Poppies cōmonly called Corn-roses Garden Mints 〈◊〉 wild Mints Maiden-hair Carduus Benedictus Woodbind or Honey suckles Va lerian the greater sweet Cranebill or Muschata wood Sor rel Harts-tongue Ox-eye Southern wood Marrow of a Stag Styrax Calamitys of each half an ounce Butter ten drachms Bears and Hens 〈◊〉 Mastich Frankinsence of each one ounce Nard oyl two ounces Wax two pound let the herbs being green be cut and infused in eight pounds of oyl with wine for seven daies on the eighth day let them be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine then being removed from the fire let it be strained and the oyl put into the pan again to which being a little warmed 〈◊〉 the butter marrow fat nard oyl and wax then the styrax dissolved in wine and mixed with a little turpentine but let the Mastich Mirrh and Frankinsence being beaten into pouder be put in last of al and when they are all well mixed together keep the oyntment in a vessel A. This long recept of Nich Myrepsus is held to be profitaagainst cold afflictions of the brain nerves and joynts as shaking palsie dead palsie Convuliions c. it helps numbness of the joynts the gout and hard tumors of the spleen Mundificativum ex 〈◊〉 Take of the juyce of Smallage a pound Honey nine ounces Wheat flower three ounces boyl them over the fire to the thickness of an oyntment according to art A. It is a fine gentle cleansing oyntment Unguentum Neapolitanum Renodaeus Take of Sows grease washed with juyce of Sage one pound quicksilver strained through a cloath and well killed with falling spittle four ounces oyl of Bays Chamomel Earth-worm of each two ounces oyl of Spike an ounce and an half Aqua vitae an ounce yellow wax two ounces Turpentine washed in juyce of Elicampane three ounces pouder of Camaepitys and Sage of each two drachms make them into an oyntment according to art Unguentum Resinum Take of Per-rozin Turpentine yellow Wax pure Oyl of each equal parts mix them together A. It is as pretty a Careoloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Unguentum Nervinum Take of the leaves and flowers of Cowslips Sage Camaepytis Rosemary Lavender Bay with the berries Chamomel Rue Smallage Melilot with the flowers Wormwood of each a handful Mints Bettony Penyroyal Parsly Centaury the less St. Johns wort of each half a handful Neats or sheeps foot Oyl five pound Sheep or Ox suet or else their marrow two pound Oyl of Spike half an ounce bruise the herbs and boyl them with the oyls and suet and make an oyntment of them according to art A. It is apropriated to the nerves and helps their infirmities coming of cold which you may find often enough related I do not love alwaies to harp upon the same string as also old bruises Unguentum Pactorale Nich. Take of fresh butter often washed in Violet water six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces oyl of Chamomel and Violets of each three ounces Goose and Ducks grease of each three ounces Orris roots two drachms Saflron half a dram white Wax three ounces let the Wax and fats be melted together in the oyl then often washed either in Barly or Hysop water add the Orris and Saffron being brought into fine pouder then bring them into an Oyntment according to art A. If you let the Butter boyl it will stink but the Colledge never thought of that having forgotten the old Grammer phraze 〈◊〉 est c. A. It strengthens the breast and stomach easeth the pains thereof helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungues Unguentum Populneum Nich. Take of the buds of Poplar fresh gathered a pound and an half fresh Hogs grease three pound let the Poplar-buds be beaten and mixed with the grease till these following herbs can be gotten Take of the leaves of black Poppies and Mandrakes the tender branches of Maddir the leaves of Henbane Nightshade Lettice Sengreen the lesser and greater Violets Penywort or Kidneywort Burs of each three ounces let all of them being bruised be mixed with the grease and Poplar buds after ten daies put to them a pound of Rose water and boil them with a gentle fire till the water and all the liquor be consumed strain it and press it out and if need be boyl it again till it come to the consistence of an oyntment A. It is exceeding good in burnings scaldings and inflamations it aswageth the heat of the head and kidneyes the temple being anointed with it it provokes sleep Unguantum Resumptivum Nicholaus Take of fresh Hogs grease three ounces Hens Goose and Ducks grease of each two ounces Oesypus an ounce oyl of Violets Chamomel and Dill of each two ounces fresh Butter a pound
white Wax six ounces mussilage of Gum Traganth the seeds of Quinces and Linseeds the roots of Marsh-mallows and Gum Arabick of each half an ounce let the mussilages be made in Rose water and the rest added and so made into an ointment according to art A. It mightily molllfies without any manifest heat and is therefore a fit ointment for such as have agues asthmaes hectick feavers or consumptions Unguentum splenicum Take of Oyl of Capers an ounce oyl of Lillies and Chamomel fresh Butter juyce of Briony and Sowbread of each half an ounce let the oyl boyl to the consumption of the juyces adding Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger two drachms and an half Hens grease the marrow of the leg of a Calf Oesypus of each half an ounce the bark of the roots of Tamaris and Cappars Cetrach the roots of Fearn of each one dram pouder of the seeds of Agnus Castus and Broom of each one scruple Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into the form of an Oyntment Unguentum aliud splenicum Magistrale Take of the barks of Cappar roots six drachms Briony roots Crris Florentine Fennel seed in pouder Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger of each half an ounce the tops of Wormwood the flowers of Chamomel of each one drachm Vng è succis aperitiois Foesius viz. the second description Oyntment of Orrenge flowers of each six drachms oyl of Oris and Cappars of each an ounce and an half let the things to be beaten being beaten and sifted and the rest added let it be made into an oyntment in a hot mortar There are some that cannot abide oyntments yet can easily bear plaisters therefore when occasion is given you may make up the oyntment in form of a plaister by adding a little Wax Ship Pitch Cyperus Turpentine A. Both these oyntments are apropriated to the spleen and ease the pains thereof the sides being anointed with them Valentia Scabiosa John Ardern of Newark Take of the juyce of Scabious in the Summer time strained through a Linnen cloath and with Hogs grease cleared from the skins let them be beaten in a mortar not ground alwaies pouring in the juyce by little and little that the grease may drink it in well and be green which done put it in some vessel and so much juyce to it that it may cover the grease let it stand so nine daies after the ninth day take the said grease with the juyce and beat it again and pour off the thin watry substance which hath lost its colour and so let it stand five daies after the 〈◊〉 day take new juyce of Scabious and beat again with the aforesaid juyce let it stand in some vessel fiften other daies which being ended beat it again and purge it from the watry substance as before then putting fresh juyce to it let it stand other fifteen daies and if it be green enough after it is well beaten keep it in an earthen or glass vessel for your use A. Thus the Author now comes the Colledges animadversions upon it Of the quantity both of the Hogs grease and juyce you need not doubt every Apothecary may use what quantity he pleaseth let it be done in that proportion and so often till he see the Oyntment look very green Only thus much we would warn him of that so much the more green it is so much the more effectual it is Also if the Scabious be gathered a day or two before it be beaten that so it may loose some of its watriness Also if it be set in the sun so many or more daies than the Author appointed provided that the 〈◊〉 swim above the grease the bredth of two fingers and the vessel be well stopped we protest we are taught by experience the oyntment will be the greener and the vertues the greater Tapsivalentia Of the same Author Take of Tapsus Barbatus or Mullen and with Hogs suet cleansed from the skin let it be well beaten in a mortar till the grease be well mixed with the juyce which when you have done let it stand nine daies or more till the grease look green which when 〈◊〉 doth let it be beaten with new juyce and 〈◊〉 it is well coloured with the juyce powr off the juyce which is superfluous and beat it again with other juyce and keep it for your use in an earthen vessel but you must note this medicine ought to be beaten once a month and in beating of it put in a little oyl of Roses Violets and Chamomel that the oyntment may drink it in and if you add a little Populeon it will be the stronger A. It is no more than looking the Simples viz. Scabious and Mullen and then you have the vertues of both these ointments But here follows another strange one of the same Author how true it is I know not which is Tapsimel Take of the juyce of Sullondine and Mullen of each a like clarified Honey so much as is of the juyces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then take them from the fire and keep them for your use and when you would use it for the itch take of it and mix it with burnt vitriol and burnt Allum in pouder and if there be necessity boyl it till it be 〈◊〉 then put a little of it up in your fundament and certainly the itch will cease in every part of the body and this Oyntmet is called Tapsimel from Tapsus Barbatus and Mell and is for certain a noble Oyntment This is word for word from the old Manuscript quoth the Colledge Let the Apothecary take heed he burn not the Honey in boiling it A Stomach Oyntment Norimberg Take of Oyl of Wormwood Mastick Spicknard of each an ounce red Roses red Corral Cloves Cinnamon wood of Aloes Mastich Mints Schoenanth of each a drachm Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oynmtent according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver provokes appetite and help digestion An Oyntment for the Worms Foesius Take of Oyl of Rue Savin Mints Wormwood and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and an half juyce of the flowers or leaves of Peaches and Wormwood of each half an ounce pouder of Rue Mints Gentian Centaury the less Tormentil of each a drachm the seeds of Coleworts the pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms Aloes Hepatick three drachms the meal of Lupines half an ounce Mirrh washed in grass-water a drachm and an half Bulls gall an ounce and an half with juyce of Lemmons so much as is sufficient and an ounce and an half of Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art A. The belly being anointed with it kills the Worms PLAISTERS AND CERECLOATHS A Plaister of Ammoniacum Take of Ammoniacum an ounce Oyntment of Marshmallows and Melilot plaister of each half an ounce Bran or as we in Sussex call it Cheezel of corn well fiefted an ounce the pouder of Briony and Orris root of each half an ounce the fat of
rest being mixed in a hot mortar let them be made into a Plaister according to art If you would have it stronger add of the pouders of Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain and black Pepper of each two scruples A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repell such vapours as anoy it and those pouders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture thereof and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapours that anoy them Emplastrum Ceroma or Ceroneum Nich. Alex. Take of pitch scraped from a Ship that hath been a long time at Sea yellow Wax of each seven drachms Sagapenum six drachms Ammoniacum Turpentine Colophonia Saffron of each four drachms Aloes Olibanum Mirrh of each three drachms Styrax Calamitis Mastich Opopanax Galbanum Allum the seeds of Faenugreek of each two drachms the settlings or feces of Liquid Styrax Bdellium of each one drachm Litharge half a drachm A. It is of a gentle emollient nature prevails against stoppings of the stomach coming of cold hardness of the spleen coldness of the liver and matrix A Plaister of Hemlock with Ammoniacum Take of Hemlock four handfuls Ammoniacum half a pound infuse them in sharp Vineger eight daies then boyl them till the Ammoniacum be dissolved then strain out the liquor strongly afterwards let it boyl awhile then with Wax and Oyl of sweet Almonds make it into a Plaister according to art A. I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extream pains and allay the inflamations of wounds for which it is very good Emplasirum de Crusta Panis Take of Mastich Mints Spodium red Corral all the three sorts of Sanders of each one drachm a Crust of bread to asted and infused in Rose Vineger for half an hour two ounces oyl of Mastich and Quinces of each an ounce Wax two ounces Liquid styrax Ladanum of each three drachms Barly meal so much as is sufficient to make it into an Emplaster according to art A. I shall commend this for as gallant a plaister to strengthen the brain as any is in the Dispensatory the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown also being applied to the stomach it strengthens it helps digestion staies vomiting and putrifaction of the meat there Montagnana was the Authour of it not the Colledge Emplastrum de 〈◊〉 Take of Cummin seeds Bayberries of each a pound Per-Rozin two pound common Rozin three pound oyl of Dill half a pound Wax a pound make a plaister of them according to art A. I am of opinion here is not half oyl enough to make it into a plaister they that make of it know better than I I judge but by reason they know by experience A. It asswageth swellings takes away old aches coming of bruises and applyed to the belly is an excellent remedy for the wind chollick Diachylon simplex Mesue Take of Mussilage of Foenugreek seed Linseed and Mirshmallow roots of each a pound old Oyl three pound Litharge one pound and an half let the Litharge be ground very 〈◊〉 and boyled with the oyl over a gentle fire alwaies stirring it till it be well mixed then being removed from the fire let it cool a little afterwards put in the Mussilages mix them and boyl them to their just thickness according to art A. It is an exceeding good remedy for all swellings without pain it softens hardness of the liver and spleen it is very gentle like the Author of it Mesue and very moderate and harmless and it may be therefore neglected by the Phantastical Chyrurgians of our age Diachilon Ireatum Ad an ounce of pouder of Orris to every pound of Diachylon simplex Diachylon magnum Mesue Take of 〈◊〉 of Gold very finely ground one pound Oyl of Orris 〈◊〉 and Chamomel of each eight ounces mussilage of 〈◊〉 roots Linseeds and Foenugreek seeds 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fat figs 〈◊〉 grass the juyce of Orris and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or oyl of sheeps feet of each twelve drams and an half 〈◊〉 three ounces Per-rozen yellow Wax of each two onces make them into a plaister according to art A. It dissolves hardnesse and inflamations Diachylon magnum cum gummi Renodaeus Take of Bdellium Sagapenum Ammoniacum of each an ounce being dissolved in white Wine let them be added to the mass of Diachylon magnun being first strained and boyled to the thickness of Honey so will it be Diachylon with gams A. This is the best to dissolve hard swellings of all the three Diachylon Compound or a Plaister of Mussilages Mesue Take of Mussilages of Marshmallow rooes Linseeds Foenugreek seeds the middle barks of Elm of each four ounces and an half oyl of Chamomel Lillies and Dill of each one ounce and an half Ammoniacnm Galbanum Opopanax Sagapenum of each half an ounce new Wax twenty ounces Turpentine two ounces Saffron 2. drachms let the gums be dissolved in Wine make of them a plaister according to art A. It ripens swellings and breaks them and cleanseth them when they are broken Diapalma or Diachalciteas Gallen Take of old Hogs-grease cleansed from the skin 2. pound old Oyl Litharge of silver ground very small of each three pound 〈◊〉 burnt or else white 〈◊〉 iol burnt and beaten into pouder 4. ounces It is made in this manner first let the Litharpe boyl with the oyl grease along time continually sttirring it w th the branch of a Palm or other tree of a binding nature as Oak Box or Medler which is new cut that so the vertue of the Spatula may be mixed with the plaister cutting off the top and the rind even to the wood it self the mixture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made thick by boyling and stirring and removed from the fire put in white Copperis for want of true 〈◊〉 in pouder and so make it into a laudable mass for an 〈◊〉 A. It is a very drying binding plaister profitable in green wounds to hinder putrifaction as also in pestilential sores after they are broken and ruptures as also in burnings scaldings Emplastrum Diaphoenicon Calidum Mesue Take of Wax two ounces oyl of Roses and Spicknard of each four ounces melt them together then take of dry dates by number fourty white bread an ounce steep them in Wine two daies then take of the pulp of Quinces boyled in red Wine an ounce bruise it and mix it with the former then ad these things that follow beaten into fine pouder take of Mastich Frankinsence Roman Wormwood of each two drams and an half wood of Aloes Mace Mirrh Aloes washed Spicknard Acacia Gallia Moschata Trochisci Ramich Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Ladanum two drachms mix them together and make them into a plaister according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver exceedingly helps fluxes Diaphoenicon Frigidum Mesue Take of ripe Dates boyled in austere Wine five ounces white Bread an ounce the flesh of Quinces boyled in Austere Wine an ounce and an half Styrax Calamitis Mastick Ladanum Acacia the juyce of sour Grapes the flowers of a Vine
one ounce boyl them again with the Oyls to the consumption of the decoction strain it and then add Litharge of Gold and Silver of each three ounces Bole Armenick earth of Lemnos of each two ounces red Lead ten drachms boyl it with a gentle fire alwaies stirring it and with a sufficient quantity of wax make it into a plaister according to art A. Surely the Colledge quoted this recept which more properly might be called Vign his nonsense for Apothecaries to laugh at not to make the way of making of it up being almost as childish as the title it dries and binds Emplastrum de Ranis Vigo Take of oyl of 〈◊〉 Dil Spicknard Lillies of each two ounces oyl of Saffron see page an ounce Hogs grease a pound the fat of a Calf half a pound Euphorbium five drachms Frankinsence ten drachms oyl of Eaies an ounce and an half Vipers fat or for want of it take a Snakes two ounces and an half live Frogs by number six earth worms washed in Wine three ounces and an half the juyce of the roots of Walwort and Elicampane of each two ounces Schoenanth Stoechas Mugwort of each a handful Wine a quart Litharge of Gold a pound Turpentine two ounces yellow wax so much as is sufficient Liquid Styrax an ounce and an half Quick-Silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lēmons four ounces This is the manner of making it let the frogs worms herbs with their juyces the oyls of Dil Chāmomel Lillies grease and suet be boyled in a pound an half of Wine strain it then ad the Litharge Wax 4. ounces and the remainder of the Wine then boyl it till all the Wine be consumed and it stick not to your fingers then ad the oyl of Baies Saffron and Spike and the fat afterward the Euphorbium and Frankinsence last of all the quick Silver well mixed 〈◊〉 the liquid Styrax and Turpentine stir them all 〈◊〉 till they be incorporated take heed you put not in the quick Silver while the mass is too hot lest it fly out A. I have known it applied to the swelling in the throat called the Kings Evill but for my part I fancy not the recept neither for that nor any thing else Emplastrum Sanctum Andr. è Cruce Take of per-Rozin twelve ounces oyl of Baies Turpentine of each two ounces Gum Elemni four ounces let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass instrument then add the oyl of Baies and Turpentine boyl it a little then put it in a linnen bag and that which drops through keep in a glazed pot for your use A. The vertues are of the same with Arceus his Liniment Sparadrapum seu Tela. Gualt de Renod. Take of oyl of Roses half a pound Rams suet four ounces Wax ten ounces Litharge Per-Rozin Frankinsence Mastich of each two ounces Bole Armenick fine flower of each an ounce boyl the Oyl Suet and Litharge together till the Litharge be well incorporated in which being warm you may dip your tents Emplastrum Stephaniaion Take of Ladanum half an ounce Styrax Calamitis Juniper Gum of each two drachms Amber Cypress Turpentine of each one drachm red Coral Mastich of each half a dram the flowers of Sage red Roses Orris Florentine of each one scruple Rozin washed in Rose water half an ounce let the Rozin Ladanum and Mastich the Styrax Juniper Gum and Turpentine be lightly beaten with a hot pestel in a hot mortar according to art so long putting in a little red Wine the while till you see them well incorporated then put in the pouders and make them up being well mixed into an Emplaster Emplastrum sine Pari. Take of Frankinsence Bdellium Styrax of each 〈◊〉 drachms Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Ship Pitch six drachms the marrow of a Stag 〈◊〉 Hens and Geese of each two drachms Sulphur vivum 〈◊〉 in milk Hermodactils in pouder of each a drachm and an half let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine not in Vine ger because that is inimical to the nerves and with two parts of oyl of Roses compleat and one part of oyl of Egs and little oyl of Turpentine make it into a plaister according to art Slicticum Paracelsus Take of oyl of Olives six ounces Wax one ounce and an half Litharge four ounces and an half Ammoniacum Bdellium of each half an ounce Galbanum Opopanax 〈◊〉 Calaminarius oyl of Bayes both sorts of birthwort Mirrh Frankinsence of each two drachms pure Turpentine one ounce let the Oyl Wax and Litharge be boyled together till it will not stick to your fingers then being removed from the fire let it cool a little adding the gums dissolved in white-Wine Vineger which evaporate away by boyling then strain them last of all ad the pouders turpentine and oyl of bayes make them into a plaister according to art A. Both this and the former strengthen the nerves draw out corruption take away pains and aches restore strength to members that have lost it the last is most effectual A Plaister for the Stomach Mesue Take of wood of Aloes Wormwood Gum Arabick Mastick Cyperus Costus Ginger of each half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus Olibanum Aloes of each three drachms Cloves Mace Cinnamon Spicknard Nutmegs Gallia Moschata Schaenanthus of each one drachm and an half with 〈◊〉 of Quinces make it into an Emplaster and when you have spread it upon a cloath perfume it with wood of Aloes and apply it to your stomach Another plaister for the Stomach Take of Mints Wormwood Stoechas Bay leaves of each one drachm Marjoram red Roses yellow Sanders of each two drachms Calamus Aromaticus wood of Aloes Lavender flowers Nutmegs Cubebs Galanga long Pepper Mace of each a drachm Mastich three drachms Cloves two drachms and an half oyl of Mints an ounce and an half 〈◊〉 oyl an ounce oyl of Spike one drachm Rozin Wax of each four ounces Ladanum three ounces liquid styrax half an ounce make them into a plaister according to art A. Both this and the former strengthen the stomach exceedingly help digestion and stay vomiting CERECLOATHS A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger an ounce Vnguentum de 〈◊〉 Melilot plaister of each half an ounce Bran an ounce pouder of the roots of Briony and Orris of each half an ounce the grease of Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms oyl of Orris one ounce and an half let them boyl gently in the mussilages of Lin and Foenugreek seeds so much as is sufficient by adding Wax four ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art A. It assawageth swellings or ripens and breaks them and easeth pains thereby coming A Cerecloath of Galbanum Take of Galbanum prepared one ounce and an half Affa foetida half an ounce Carrot seeds one scruple Mirrh two drachms Bdellium one dhachm Featherfew Mugwort of each half a drachm let the Gums
syrup of Grapes Syrup of Betony Simple Take of the juyce of Betony clarified three pound white Sugar three pound boyl them to a Syrup After the same manner is made syrup of the juyces of Borrage Bugloss Carduns benedictus Chamomel Endive Succory Strawberries Fumitory Alehoof St. Johns Wort Hops Mercury Plantane Apples Scabious Coltsfoot 〈◊〉 or Pauls Bettony A. Reader before we passe any further I thought good to advertise thee of these few things which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the surups had I not forgotten it A. 1. A syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body compounded of decoction infusion or juyce with Sugar or hony and brought by the heat of the fire into the thicknesse of hony A. 2. Because all hony is not of a thicknesse understand new hony which of all other is thinnest A. 3. The reason why decoctions infusions and juyces are thus used is because thereby 1. They will keep the longer 2. They will tast the better A. 4 In boyling syrups have a great care of their just consistence for if you boyl them too much they will candy if too little they will sour A. 5. All Simple syrups have the vertues of the simples they are made of and are far more convenient for weak people and queazy stomachs Syrup of Bettony compound Take of Betony three handfuls Marjoram a handful and an half Time Roses of each a handful Violets Staechas Sage of each half a handful the seeds of Fennel Annis Bishopsweed of each half an ouuce the roots of Peony Polipodium and Fennel of each five drachms boyl them in six pints of water till half be consumed strain it and ad to the decoction Juyce of Bettony a quart Sugar three pound and an half boyl them into a syrup according to art A. It helps diseases coming of cold both in the head and stomach as also such as come of wind vertigoes madness it concocts melancholly it provokes the terms in women and so doth the Simple syrup more than the Compound A. This composition was borrowed word for word from the Augustan Physitians though our Physitians absconded it contrary to their promise in the epistle to the reader Syrupus Bizantinus Simple Mesue Take of the juyce of Endive and Smallage of each a quart Juyce of Hops and Buglosse of each a pint boyl them and clarifie them then to four pound of Juyces remaining ad four pound of the best Sugar boyling it to a syrup over agentle fire Syrupus Bizantinus Compound Mesue In four pound of the same Juyces as they are set down in the Simple syrup boyl red Rose leaves two ounces Liquoris half an ounce the seeds of Annis Fennel Smallage of each three drachms Spicknard two drachms strain it and ad to the decoction a quart of Vineger Sugar four pound boyl it to a syrup according to art A. They both of them viz. both Simple and Compound opens stopping in the stomach cuts and brings away tough flegm and helps the yellow Jaundice Mesue saith the Compound syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses Syrup of Quinces Mesue Take of the Juyce of Quinces six pound boyl it over a gentle fire till half be consumed scumming it well then add to it three pints of red Wines four pound of Sugar boyl it again to the consistence of a syrup into which put a drachm and an half of Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples tied up in a fine linnen cloath and hung into the syrup A. It strengthens the stomach and retains the food in it It staies vomiting it stops the loosness of the belly and helps the bloody flux it stoppeth the immoderate flux of the terms in women and is a gallant astringent medicine no lesse pleasant then profitable Syrup of Fumitory the Compund Fernelius Take of Endive Roman Wormwood Hops Dodder Harts tongue of each a handful Epithimum or Dodder of Time an ounce and an half boyl them in four pints of water till half be consumed to the liquor being strained out ad of the juyce of Fumitory clarified a pint and an half of the juyce of both sorts of Buglosse of each half a pint white Sugar four pound boyl it into a syrup according to art A. The recept is a pretty concocter of melancholly and therefore a rational help for diseases 〈◊〉 thence both internal and external It helps diseases of the skin as Leprosies Cancers Warts Corns Itch Tetters Ringworms Scabs c. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness for in my experience I could never find a violent medicine do good but ever harm in a melancholly disease It also strengthens the stomach and liver opens obstructions and is a soveraign remedy for Hypochondriack melancholly Syrup of Purslain Mesue Take of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised half a pound of the juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound Sugar two pound Vinegar nine ounces infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four hours afterwards boyl it half away with a gentle fire then strain it and boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a syrnp adding the Vineger towards the latter end of the decoction A. It is a pretty cooling syrup fit for any hot diseases incident to the stomach reins bladder matrix or liver it thickens flegm cools the blood and provokes sleep Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot Renodaeus Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot two handfuls of Maiden-hair one handful of Hysop and two ounces of Liquoris boyl them in four pints either of rain or spring water till the fourth part be consumed then strain it and clarifie it to which ad three pound of white Sugar boyl it to the perfect consistence of a syrup A. The composition is apropriated to the lungues and therefore helps the infirmities weaknesses or failings thereof as want of voyce difficulty of breathing coughs hoarsness cathars c. Julep of Alexandria Take of red Rose water four pints Sugar two pound make a Julep of them according to art Julep of Roses Mesue Ad three pound of Rose water to three pound of Sugar and boyl them to a Julep according to art Julep of Violets is made after the same manner A It is confessed both Arabian and Graecian Physitians have written of these Juleps they are fine cooling drinks in the heat of Summer for such as are rich and have nothing else to do with their mony Oxysaxccharum symplex Nicholaus Take of white Sugar a pound of the juyce of Pomegranates eight ounces white wine Vineger four ounces boyl them into a syrup with a gentle fire A. Whether it were Nicholaus Monardus or Nicholaus Myrepsus that wrote this recept or any other Nicholas I know not neither have I time to look but if you would know the vertues of it look the vertues of Pomegranates amongst the Simples and you have it Syrup of Maiden-hair Mesue Take of Liquoris two ounces
It restoreth such as are in consumptions comforts the heart cherisheth drooping spirits and is of an opening quality thereby carrying away those vapours which might otherwise anoy the brain SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY AND VINEGER AND HONEY Diacaryon Or Dianucum Gallen Take of the juyce of green Walnuts two pound clarifie it and with a pound of Hony boyl it into a syrup A. It is an excellent preservative in pestilential times Diacodium Gallen Take of the heads of white Poppies neither too green nor too ripe by number twenty rain or spring water three pints infuse them twenty four hours then boil them till the vertue be out of the heads then strain it and with two pound of Hony boyl it to the consistence of a syrup some ad to it Sapa two pound juyce of Liquoris two ounces A. It works the same effects with the former syrups of Poppie Diamoron Nicholaus Take of the juyce of Mulberries and Blackberries neither of them being fully ripe of each a pound and an half boyl them with two pound of Hony over a gentle fire into a syrup A. It is vulgarly known to be good for sore mouths as also to cool inflamations there Hony of Rosemary flowers Mesue Take of Rosemary flowers a pound clarified Hony three pound put them together in a glasse that hath not a very wide mouth set them in the Sun to digest and being digested keep it for your use A. It hath the same vertues with Rosemary flowers to which I refer you only by reason of the hony it may be somewhat cleansing Honey of Mercury Take of the juyce of Herb Mercury three pound with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is used as an Emollient in Clisters Honey of Raisons Nicholaus Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned two pounds infuse them 24. hours in fix pints of warm water then boyl them till half the water be consumed strain them and with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is a pretty pleasing medicine for such as are in consumptions and are bound in body Honey of Roses Common Mesue Take of red Rose buds picked two pound Honey fix pound digest them in the sun like the Honey of Rosemary flowers Honey of Roses Nicholaus Take of the best Honey clarified ten pounds the Juyce of fresh red Roses one pound put them in a pan over the fire and when they begin to boyl ad four pound of fresh red Roses the whites being cut off let it boil till the juyce be consumed continually stirring it and so keep it for your use being strained A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth Honey Roses Solutive Take of the infusion of Damask Roses as you have formerly been shewed to make it five pounds clarified Honey four pounds boil it into the consistence of a syrup A. It is used as a laxative in Clisters and some Chyrurgians use it to cleanse wounds In the same manner may be prepared Honey of red Roses Honey of Violets is made in the same manner Oximel Simple Mesue Take of the best clarified honey three pound pure water and of the best Vineger of each two pound boyl them into the consistence of a syrup A. Your best way is to boyl the water and honey first into a syrup and add the Vineger afterwards and then boil it again into a syrup A. It cuts flegm and is a good preparative before a vomit Oximel Compound Mesue Take of the bark of the roots of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces The seeds of Smallage Parsly Fennel Annis of each one ounce and with six pound of water one pound and an half of vineger and three pound of Honey make it into a syrup A. First having bruised the roots and seeds boil them in the water till half be consumed then strain it and ad the honey and when it is almost boyled enough add the vineger A. It cuts thick and grosse humors and cleanseth the body of them it opens the stoppings both of the liver and spleen it purgeth the reins provokes urine and sweat Heleborated Oximel the greater Gesner Take of Rue true Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horehound Carduus Benedictus the roots of Spicknard Celtick without leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful Mountain Nepp two pugils The seeds of Annis Fennel Basil Roman Nettles Dill of each two drachmas the roots of Angelica marsh Mallows Aron Squils prepared Aristolochiah or Birth wort long round and climing Turpeth our Orris Costus smelling like Violets or else Zedoary Polypodium Lemmon pills of each an ounce of the strings of the roots of Black Hellebore Spurge of each two drachms the bark of the root of white Hellebore half an ounce Agrick two drachms which you must put in towards the latter end of the decoction let all of them being dried and bruised be infused in eight pints of Posca viz. equal parts of water and vineger Sapa two ounces either in the Sun or in a Furnace either in a glasse or earthen vessel then boyl it either in an earthen or stone vessel till almost half be consumed strain it out but gently and ad to it hony roses in which two ounces of Citron pills have been infused a pound and an half then boil it till the Posca be consumed and so it come to the body of a syrup the which perfume with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga and Mace of each a a drachm tied in a rag keep it either in a glasse or a pot for your use A. It is such a mess of altogether that a man scarce knows what to do with it here are many Simples very cordial many provoke the terms some purge gently some violently and some cause vomiting being all put together I verily think if warily given it may be a fit purge in some cases for madness coming of melancholly provided they be not Phrenitick or as the vulgar say frantick for then purges are not fitting Oximel Julianizans Take of the bark of Cappar roots Orris roots the roots of Fennel Parsly Bruscus Succory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the leaves of Hartstongue Schoenanth Tamaris of each a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce first infuse-them and then boyl them in three pints of sharp Posca to a pint and an half which boyl into the body of a syrup with Honey and course Sugar of each half a pound Posca is made of water and vineger and is either more or less sharp according to the intention of the Physician A. This medicine is very opening very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly and as fit a medicine as can be for that disease in Children called the Rickets Oximel of Squils Simple Nicholaus Take of clarified Honey three pound Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them into a syrup according to art A. They say they borrowed this receit of
rather by the Transcriber which is an easie thing together with want of a careful Corrector to be done I weigh not the vaporing of the Printer at the latter end of the book being confident if a thing were left out he knew it no more than a Hog knows how to fiddle A. It restores Consumptions and Hectick-feavers strength lost it nourisheth much and restores radical moisture opens the pores resists Choller takes away coughs quencheth thirst and resisteth feavers Confectio Alkermes Mesue Take of the juyce of sweet-sented Apples sweet Rosewater of each a pound and an half in which infuse the space of 24. hours raw Silk four ounces strain it out strongly and to the former juyces ad of the juyce of the berries of Kermes brought over to us a pound Sugar two pounds boyl it to the thickness of Honey then it being removed from the fire whilst it is yet hot ad to it half an ounce of Amber greece cut very small which being well melted put in these following things beaten into pouder choice Cinnamon wood of Aloes of the best Lapis lazuli burnt in a Crucible then beaten into pouder and washed first of all in common water then in Rose or Borrage water and that very often drying of it and washing of it again and let this be so often repeated till the water remain cleer after the washing of each six drachms Pearls prepared three drachms Leaves of Gold of the best Musk of each one drachm make them all up into an Electuary according to art A. Questionlesse this is a great Cordial and a mighty strengthener of the heart and spirit vital a restorer of such as are in Consumptions a resister of Pestilences and Poyson a great releef to languishing nature it is given with good successe in feavers but give not too much of it at a time lest it prove too hot for the body and too heavy for the purse Electuary of Bay-Berries Rhasis Take of dried Rue ten drachms the seeds of Bishops-weed Cummin Lovage Origanum Nigella Carrawaies Carrots Parsly of bitter Almonds Pepper black and long Hors-Mints Calamu Aromaticus Bay berries Castorium of each two drachms Sagapenum half an ounce Opopanax three drachms Clarified honey one pound and an half the things which are to be bruised being bruised let them al be made into an Electuary according to art the Gums being dissolved in Wine and added to it A. It is exceeding good either in the Chollick or Iliack passion or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind it generally easeth pains in the bowels Athanasia Mithridatis Gallen Take of Cinnamon Cassia Schaenanth of each an ounce and an half Saffron Mirrh of each one ounce Costus Spignel Acorus Agrick Scordium Carrots Parsly of each half an ounce white Pepper eleven grains Honey so much as is sufficient to make it up into an Electuary according to art A. It prevails against poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomachs staies vomiting of blood helps old coughs and cold diseases in the liver Spleen bladder and matrix The Colledge hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples but not worth the speaking of Diacapparis Gilbert of England Take of Capers four ounces the roots of Agrimony Nigella seeds Squills Asarbacca Centaury Pellitory of Spain black Pepper Smallage Time of each one ounce Honey so much as is sufficient make it into an Electuary according to art A. They say it helps infirmities of the Spleen and indeed the name seems to promise so much it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of Nature in them me thinks 't is but odly composed the next looks more lovely in my eyes which is Diacinnamomu Mesue Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms Cassia lignea Elicampane roots of each half an ounce Galanga seven drachms Cloves long Pepper both sorts of Cardamom Ginger Mace Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each three drachms Saffron a drachm Sugar Candy five drachms Musk two scruples with clarified Honey two pound and eight ounces boyl it and make it into an Electuary according to art A. There is in the recept of Mesue Cummin seeds half an ounce which is here left out whether wittingly or unwittingly I neither know nor care out of question the recept is better they being in than being out also I can give no reason why it should be boyled if the Musk and Saffron be boyled they will be spoyled you had ten times better not boil them at all it may do harm cannot do good if there be too much Honey to make it up take less I cannot stand calculating the due proportion in every recept A. Diacinnamomum or in plain English a composition of Cinnamon heats the stomach causeth digestion provokes the terms in women strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies such as are subject to dropsies and diseases of flegm or wind for it comforts and strengthens nature much Diacorallion Coloniens Take of Corral both white and red Bole Armenick Dragons blood of each a drachm Pearls half a drachm wood of Aloes red Roses Gum Traganth Cinnamon of each two scruple white and red Sanders of each a scruple beat them at into pouder and when you have so done you may make them into an Electuary according to art with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar dissolved in small Cinnamon water A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly and restores such as are in consumptions it is cooling therefore good in Hectick feavers very binding and therefore stops tuxes neither do I know a better medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption accompanied with a loosness It stops the terms and whites in women if administred by one whose wits are not a woolgathering Diacorum Mesue Take of the roots of Sicers Calamus Aromaticus Pine-nuts of each a pound and an half let them all be cleansed boiled and beaten till they be like a Pultis then put to them Honey being clarified ten pounds boyl them continually stirring them till it be come to the just thickness then ad the roots of Acorns beaten and the Pinenuts chopped small and when you have well mixed them together ad to them these pouders following Take of black Pepper an ounce long Pepper Cloves Ginger Mace of each half an ounce Nutmegs Galanga Cardamoms of each three drachms mix them with the roots Honey so much is sufficient stirring it left the ingredients stick to the bottom and make them into an Electuary according to art A. The Electuary provokes lust heats the brain strengthens the nerves quickens the sences causeth an acute wit easeth pains in the head helps the falling sicknesse and convulsions Coughs Catharres and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the brain Electuarium è
youthful A. Nard oyl doth heat digest and strengthen resists all cold and windy diseases throughout the body Oyl of water Lillies cools and asswageth the violent heat especially of the head reins and bladder thereby mitigating frenzies procuring sleep and is a good preservative against the stone and helps such women their backs being anointed with it as are subject to miscarry through heat of their reins which they may easily know by continual pains in their backs and swelling of their legs Also oyl of Poppies have the same vertue A. Oyl of Rue heats and makes thin gross humors expelleth wind helps palsies cramps coldness of the womb and bladder A. Oyl of Violets cools inflamations easeth the pleuresie and pains of the breast A. Oyl of Nightshade hath the same effects with that of water Lillies A. Then remember that these oyls must not be given inwardly as men take drink but outwardly applied or cast in as injections or Clysters COMPOUND OYLS Oleum Aparicii Benedictum Hier. Fab. ab Aq. Take of old oyl three ounces pure Turpentine eight ounces pure wheat flower an ounce and an half of the flowers of St. Johns wort two ounces the roots of Carduus Benedictus and Valerian of each an ounce Frankinsence in pouder two ounces let the roots and herbs be grosly bruised and put into a pot and so much white Wine put into them that it may cover them all let them stand in infusion three daies then add the oyl and the flower boyl them all to the comsumption of the Wine then having strongly strained it out add the Turpentine and Frankinsence let it boyl a little and so keep it in a glass for your use A. It is apropriated to cleanse and consolidate wounds especially in the head Oyl of Cappers Take of the bark of Cappar roots an ounce the bark of Tamaris the leaves of Tamaris the seeds of Agnus Castus Ceterah Cyperus roots of each two drachms Rue one dram oyl of ripe Olives one pound strong wine Vineger and white Wine of each two ounces the things to be bruised being bruised let them be all infused together a while then boyled in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine and Vineger then strained pressed out and kept for your use A. The oyl is opening and heating absolutely apropriated to the spleen hardness and pains thereof and diseases coming of stoppings there as Hypocondriack melancholly the rickets c. Oyl of Castorium Jacobus de Manliis Take of Castorinm Styrax Calamitis Galbanum Euphorbium Cassia lignea Saffron Opopanax Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Spicknard Costus of each two drachms Cyperus Schoenanthus Pepper long and black Savin Pellitory of Spain of each two drachms and an half Oyl three pound Spanish Wine two pound let the Galbanum and Opopanax be dissolved by themselves in the Wine then let all the rest being bruised be boyled with the oyl and Wine and strained then the Opopanax and Galbanum dissolved in oyl and strained let them be mixed with the oyl and boiled again often stirring it that the Opopanax and Galbanum which is subject to settle to the bottom may be mixed with the oyl let the Styrax be dissolved by it self in Wine afterwards add a drachm and an half of Turpentine that so the Styrax may the better mingle with the oyl A. The vertues are the same with the Simple only it is held to be more effectual in the premises Oleum Costinum Mesue Take of bitter Costus two ounces Cassia lignea one ounce the tops of Marjoram eight ounces being bruised let them be infused two daies in a sufficient quantity of Wine then boil them with two pound of oyl of Olives wash'd in Wine in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine according to art A. It heats opens obstructions strengthens the nerves and all nervous parts as muscles tendons ligaments the ventricle besides these it strengthens the liver it keeps the hairs from turning gray and gives a good colour to the body Oleum Crocinum Mesue Take of Saffron an ounce pure Mirrh half an ounce Cardamoms nine drachms Calamus Aromaticus one ounce let them all be infused in Vineger except the Cardamoms for five daies the sixth day put in the Cardamoms and let them strand one day longer the morning following add a pound and an half of oyl to them and boil them with a gentle fire till the Vineger be consumed according to art Some put in Wine instead of Vineger A. It helps pains in the nerves and strengthens them mollifies their hardness helps pains in the matrix and causeth a good colour Oyl of Euphorbium the Compound Nicholaus Take of Stavesager Sopewort of each half an ounce Pellitory of Spain six drachms Mountain Calaminth dried an ounce and an half Costus ten drams Costorium five drams being bruised and three daies steeped in three pound and an half of Wine let them be boiled with one pound and an half of oyl of Walflowers till the Wine be almost consumed then put in half an ounce of Euphorbium fresh and white in fine pouder mix them together and boyl it to perfection A. It hath the same vertue only is something more effectuall than the Simple Oleum Excestrense Commonly called Oyl of Exceter Take of the leaves of Wormwood Centaury the less Eupatorium Fennel Hysop Bay leaves Marjoram Bawm Nep Penyroyal Savin Sage Time the flowers of Chamomel Broom white Lillies Elders the seeds of Cummin and Foenugreek the roots of white and black Hellebore the bark of Ash and Lemmon tree of each four ounces the leaves of Southernwood Eettony Chamepitys Lavendar of each six ounces Rosemary a pound Euphorbium Mustard seed Gastorium Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce Oyl sixteen pound Wine three pound the herbs seeds and Euphorbium being bruised and the roots bark and Castorium cut the Wine and Oyl being put to them let them stand in a warm bath twelve hours afterwards boyled over a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine and humidity of the herbs then strain out the Oyl and keep it for your use Oyl of Swallows Take sixteen Swallows whol and alive Chamomel Rue Plantane the greater and lesser the leaves of Bay Penyroyal Dill Hysop Rosemary Sage St. Johns wort Costmary of each a handfull common Oyl four pound Spanish Wine one pound make it up according to art but if instead of Oyl you will put so much May Butter to it as here is appointed Oyl and boyl it with the foregoing Simples then will it have both the name and consistence of an ointment A. Both this and the former are apropriated to old bruises and pains thereof coming as also to Sprains Oyl of St. Johns wort Compound or A Magisterial Balsam Florent Take of strong white Wine three pound the tops of St. Johns wort being ripe four handfuls bruise the St. Johns wort and infuse it in the Wine in a glass close stopped two daies then boil it in a double vessel a
a double vessel til the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then presse out the oyl and keep it A. It is a fine cool oyl but the ointment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better Oyl of Foxes Mesue Take a fat Fox of a middle age wearied with hunting and new killed the skin and bowels being taken away and the bones broken cut into many parts boyl him in white Wine and Conduit water of each six pound till almost half be consumed scumming it dilligently then mix with it four pound of old sweet Oyl common Salt three ounces the flowers of Sage Time of each a pound let it boyl till almost all the water be consumed then ad water wherein a handful of Dill and Time have been boyled eight pound boyl it again over a gentle fire to the consumption of the water then press out the Oyl and if any watry substance remain amongst it seperate it with a Funnel and keep the Oyl for your use A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joints gouts pains in the back and reins OYNTMENTS OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum album Rhasis TAKE of oyl of Roses nine ounces good Ceruss washed in Rose water three ounces white Wax two ounces make them into an Ointment according to art and if you ad two drachms of Camphire then will it be camphorated A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Ointment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of oyl of Roses they ad so much Hogs grease and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Ointment without the help of the fire A. It is a fine cooling drying Ointment easeth pains and itching in wounds and ulcers and is a hundred times better with Camphire than without it Unguentum Aegiptiacum Mesue Take of Vert-de-greece five drachms Honey fourteen drachms sharp Vineger seven drachms boyl them all together till they come to be a thick Ointment of a reddish colour A. It cleanseth filthy ulcers and fistulaes forcibly and not without pain it takes away dead or proud flesh and dries the Chyrurgian of our daies use it commonly instead of Apostolorum to cleanse wounds it cleanseth more potently indeed and therefore may be sitter in sanious ulcers but it strengthens not so much Unguentum Anodinum Take of oyl of white Lillies six ounces oyl of Dill and Chamomel of each two ounces sweet Almonds one ounce Ducks grease and Hens grease of each two ounces white Wax three ounces mix them together according to art A. I take the Augustan Physitians to be the Authors of this for there it is to be found verbatim only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax its use is to aswage pains in any part of the body especially such as come by inflamations whether in wounds or tumours and for that it is admirable Unguentum sive Linimentum Arceus Take of Gum Elenni Turpentine of the firr tree of each an ounce and an half sheep Suit tried two ounces hogs grease tried two ounces mix them together and make them into an Ointment according to art A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers if not too sanious in any part of the body though in the feet and they are at the greatest distance from the head it gently cleanseth and filleth up an ulcer with flesh it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body Unguentum Aureum Mesue Take of yellow Wax half a pound oyl two pound and an half Turpentine two ounces Rozin of the Pine tree cōmonly called Perrozin Colophonia of each an ounce a half Frankinsence Mastich of each an ounce Saffron a drachm make them up according to art A. If you remember the Colledg commends this Ointment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds page 79. and indeed it doth so but if you please to take counsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE he will tell you that the former is worth two of it for that use Unguentum Basilicon majus Mesue Take of white wax Per-rozin Heifers Suit greek pitch Turpentine Olibanum Mirrh of each an ounce Oyl a pound or else a sufficient quantity to make it up into an Ointment Unguentum Basilicon minus Or Tetrapharmacum Mesue Take of yellow Wax Rozin greek Pitch of each half a pound Oyl two pound and four ounces only melt them that so they may be mixed together into the consistence of an Ointment A. Both this and the former heat moisten and digest procure matter in wounds I mean bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds they cleanse and ease pain Ointment of Bdellium Mesue Take of Bdellium six drachms Euphorbium Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium three drachms Wax fifteen drachms Oyl of Elder or Walflower ten drachms the Bdellium and 〈◊〉 being dissolved in the water of wild Rue let the rest be united with warm water and made into an Ointment according to art A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner I do not well know whether it be possible or not If not it may be done with the oyl A. It is exceeding good against palsies wry-mouths falling sickness and other cold of afflictions of the nerves Unguentum de Calce Foesius Take of Chalk at least seven times washed half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound 〈◊〉 them about well in a leaden mortar then ad to them three ounces of Wax A. It is exceeding good in burnings and scaldings Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Simple Nicholaus Take of Marsh mallow roots fresh and bruised two pound Linseed and Fenagreek seed bruised of each a pound steep them in eight pound of Water then boyl them a little gently and press out their mussilage of which take two pound and oyl four pound boyl them together till the mussilage be consumed then ad Wax a pound Rozin half a pound Turpentwo ounces boyl them into the consistence of an Ointment Oyntment of Marshmallows Compound Nichol. Take of Marshmallow roots two pound the seeds of Flax and Fenugreek of each one pound pulp of Squils half a pound Oyl four pound Wax one pound Turpentine Gum of 〈◊〉 Galbanum of each two ounces Colophonia Rozin of each half a pound let the roots be well washed and bruised as also the Linseed Foenugreek seed and Squils then steep them three daies in eight pints of water the fourth day boyl them a little upon the fire draw out the Mussilage of which take two pound and boyl it with the oyl to the consumption of the juyce afterwards ad the Wax Rozin and Colophonia when they are melted ad the Turpentine afterwards the Galbanum and gum of lvy dissolved in Vineger boyl them a little and having removed them from the fire 〈◊〉 them til they are cold that so they may be
by number eight let the fat 's being cleansed from their skins be washed in white Wine then put them into an earthen vessel glazed which is half full of Rose water let it boyl gently till almost all the water be consumed strain it into another earthen vessel sprinkled with Rose water and ad to it oyl of sweet Almonds six ounces white Wax four ounces melt it again by the fire and having strained it and washed it with Rose water keep it for your use A. I have seen many other receits to make Pomatum and all better than this which is very difficult if not impossible to be gotten in many places of this Nation but I have not that Latitude given me to quote any receits that are not in the Dispensatory only take notice that its general use is to soften and supple the roughness of the skin and take away the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Foesius Take of fresh Butter whithout Salt a pound and in half Maddir Castorium Sperma Caeti Tormentil roots of each half an ounce let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Wine til the Wine be consumed and so made into an Oyntment An Oyntment against Scabs and Itch. Renodaeus Take of Sows grease often washed in juyce of Scabious half a pound the roots of sharp-pointed Dock boyled very soft in Vineger and pulped through a sieve Brimstone washed in the juyce of Lemmons of each an ounce and an half Vnguentum Populeon washed in juyce of Elicampane half an ounce mix them all together in a mortar unto an Oyntment according to art A. It is a wholsom though troublesom medicine for what the Title specifies Oyntment of Roses Mesue Take of Hogs grease well cleansed from the skins a pound wash it 9. times in warm water then as often in cold water fresh red Roses a pound mix them together and so let them stand seven daies then boil them over a gentle fire and strain out the Roses then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses and then let them stand together as many daies then strain them out having first boiled them at the last add juyce of red Roses six ounces boil them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make of it an Oyntment according to art A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is an Oyntment alone without any further making A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding useful in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humours angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of heat as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver Unguentum Rubrum Desiccativum Nicholaus Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half white Wax five ounces melt them together and put them into a leaden mortar then put to them earth of Lemnos or else Bole Armenick Lapis Calaminaris exquisitely beaten into pouder of each four ounces Litharge of Gold Ceruss of each two ounces Camphire a drachm make them into an Oyntment according to art A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humours and is as gallant an oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Common Oyntment of Tutty Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often heat red hot and as often quenched in Plantane water an ounce let them be beaten into very fine pouder and with Hogs grease often washed in Rose water a pound and an half let it be made into an Oyntment according to art Also you may prepare it with Oyntment of Roses instead of Hogs grease A. It is a cooling drying Oyntmet apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humours that flow down thither the eye lids being anointed with it OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND A Binding Oyntment Fernelius Take of Oyl of Roses often times washed in Allum water a pound and an half white Wax four ounces unripe Galls Cypress nuts Mirtle berries Balaustins Pomegranate pills Acorn cups Acacia Sumach Mastich of each an ounce let all of them being exactly beaten into pouder be steeped in the juyces of unripe Medlars and Services for four daies then dried by a gentle fire so with the oyl and wax let them be made into an Oyntment according to art A. Me thinks these are but wooden directions you had best as I suppose after they have been infused to boil the Oyl and Juyces till the Juyces be consumed then put in the Wax A. It bindeth and bringeth together the open parts of the body and compacteth the pores it stops fluxes staies issues of blood the falling out of the womb and fundament Unguentum Agrippe Nicholaus Take of Briony roots two pound wild Cucumer roots one pound Squills half a pound fresh Orris roots three ounces male Fearn roots dwarf Elder Water Caltrop or Aron of each 2. ounces let all of them being bruised be infused for six or eight daies in four pounds of sweet oyl then boyled over a gentle fire till the roots begin to be crisp then pressed out and in the Oyl melt fifteen ounces of white Wax and so bring it into the form of an Oyntment A. It purgeth exceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humour of 〈◊〉 in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not two tender you may anoint it with this Unguentum de Alabastro Ben. Vict. Favent Take of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces the juyce of red Roses two ounces the juyce of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half the juyce of Marsh mallow roots two ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half pure Alablaster beaten into fine pouder three ounces infuse them all night then boyl them to the consumption of the juyce and with six ounces of white Wax make it an oyntment according to art Unguentum Apostolorum Avicenna Take of Turpentine Rozin white Wax 〈◊〉 of each fourteen drachms long Birthwort roots Olibanum Bdellium of each six drachms Mirrh Galbanum of each half an ounce Opopanax Vert-de-greece of each two drams Litharge nine drachms Oyl if in summer time two pound if in winter three pound Vineger so much as is sufficient to dissolve the Amoniacum Opopanax and Galbanum make it up into an oyntment according to art A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh and makes flesh soft which is hard it cleanseth wounds ulcers fistulaes and restore flesh where it is wanting Unguentum Aregon Adjutorium Nicholaus Take of Rosemary Marjoram Mother of Time Rue Aron-roots the roots of wild Cucumers of each four ounces and an half the leaves of Bay Sage Savin the roots of Briony a Fleabane the greater and lesser or in defect of the lesser take the double quantity of the greater of each four ounces Laurel nine ouunces the
that bears sour Grapes red Roses Yellow Sanders Trochisci Ramich Mirrh Wood of Aloes of each half an ounce Wax four ounces Turpentine washed with Rose water an ounce and an half oyl of Roses ten ounces Austere Wine so much as is sufficient make it into a plaister according to art It strengthens the belly and liver helps concoction in those parts and distribution of humours staies vomiting fluxes Emplastrum Divinum Nich. Take of Loadstone four ounces Ammoniacum three ounces and three drachms Bdellium two ounces Galbanum 〈◊〉 of each ten drachms Olibanum nine drachms Opopanax Mastich long Birthwort Vert-de-greece of each an ounce Litharge a pound and an half common Oyl a pound and an half new Wax eight ounces mix them according to art first let the Litharge be stirred with the Oyl a long time then boiled to a thickness then let the Wax be added that being melted let it be taken from the fire and put in the Gums dissolved either in Wine or Vineger boyled and strained then the pouder of the Mastich Mirrh Frankinsence Birthwort and Loadstone last of all the Vert-de-greece lest that being too much boyled make the plaister black thus make it into a Plaister according to art A. It is of a cleansing nature exceeding good against malignant ulcers it consumes corruption engenders new flesh and brings them to a scar. Emplastrum de gummi Elemni Take of Gum Elemni three ounces Per-Rozin pure Wax Ammoniacum of each two ounces Turpentine three ounces and an half Malaga Wine so much as is sufficient boyl the rest to the consumption of the Wine then ad the Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger A. The operation is the same with Linimentum Arceus before mentioned Emplastrum Gracia Dei Nicholaus Take of Turpentine half a pound Rozin a pound white Wax four ounces Mastich an ounce fresh Bettony Vervain and Burnet of each a handful let the herbs being bruised be sufficiently boyled in white Wine the liquor pressed out in which let the Wax and Rozin be boyled to the consumption of the liquor being taken from the fire let the Turpentine be mixed with it lastly the Mastich in pouder and so make of them a plaister according to art A. It is excellent good in wounds and green ulcers for it keeps back inflamations cleanseth and joyneth wounds fills up ulcers with flesh Emplastrum Griseum of Lapis Calaminarie Take of Lapis Calaminaris an ounce Litharge two ounces Ceruss half an ounce Tutty a drachm Turpentine six drams white Wax an ounce and an half Stags Suet two ounces Frankinsence five drachms Mastich three drachms Mirrh two drachms Camphire a drachm and an half Wax and Stags suet so much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister according to art A. I wonder of thirty four Physicians the compiler of this book not one of them could see Stags suet was set down twice would not a sober man think they minded much what they were about A. It dries fils and skins ulcers Emplastrum ad Hirniam Fernclius Take of Galls Cypress nuts Pomegranate pils Balaustins Acacia the seeds of Plantane Fleawort and water-Cresses Acorn cups Beans roasted long and round Birthwort Mirtle Berries of each half an ounce let all these being poudered be steeped four daies in Rose Vineger then dried then take Comfry the greater and lesser Hors-tail Woad Cetrach Osmond royal fearn of each an ounce Frankinsence Mirrh Aloes Mastich Mummy of each two ounces Bole Armenick washed in Vineger Lapis Calaminaris prepared Litharge of Gold Dragons blood of each three ounces Ship pitch two pound Turpentine six ounces or so much as is sufficient to make it up into a plaister according to art A. The plaister is very binding and knitting apropriated to ruptures or burstness as the title of it specifies it strengthens the reins and womb and stayes abortion or miscariage in women it consolidates wounds and helps all diseases coming of cold and moisture Emplastrum Hystericum Nichol. Praep. according to Renod. Take of Bistort roots a pound wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Nutmegs Barberry kernels Anthera of each an ounce Cinnamon Cloves Schoenanthus Chamomel flowers of each half an ounce Frankinsence Mastich Alipta Moschata Gallia moschata Styrax Calamitis of each a drachm of the best 〈◊〉 half a drachm Wax a pound and an half Turpentine half a pound Oleum Moschelinum four ounces Ladanum four pound Ship pitch three pound let the Wax and pitch be melted the Ladanum and Turpentine added to them then the Styrax and last of al the rest beaten into pouder and so made into a plaister according to art A. I know not justly what they mean by that word Anthera in the recept unless they mean the hairy threeds in the middle of the Rose which usually country people call though falsly Rose seeds as I take it Apothecaries call them by an apish name Anthera Rosarum of the Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the flowers of Roses But indeed the Ancients as Galen c. gave the word Anthera to many compound medicines that had no roses at all in them but I cannot stand to dispute the story here The plaister being applied to the navil 〈◊〉 a means to withstand the fits of the mother in such women as are subject to them Emplastrum de Janua or of Bettony Nicholaus Take of the Juyce of Bettony Plantane and Smallage of each a pound Wax Pitch Rozin Turpentine of each half a pound boyl the Wax and Rozin in the Juyces with a gentle fire continually stirring them till the juyce be consumed then add the Turpentine and Pitch continually stirring it till it be brought into the consistence of a plaister according to art A. I take Mesue indeed to be the Author of it or else I am mistaken it matters not much which it is a gallant plaister for pains in the head and to recruit an addle brain helps green wounds ceaseth inflamations strengthens the liver A Plaister of Mastich Renodaeus Take of Mastich three ounces Bole Armenick washed in red Wine an ounce and an half red Roses six drachms Ivory red Corral of each half an ounce Turpentine two ounces Wax oyl of Mirtles of each half a pound make of them a plaister according to art by adding Colophonia or else Tacamahaca Ladanum of each two ounces A. It is a binding Plaister strengthens the stomach A. Plaister of Melilot Mesue Take of Melilot flowers six ounces Chamomel flowers 〈◊〉 seed Marsh-mallow roots Bayberries Marjoram tops of Wormwood of each three drachms Smallage seed Cardamoms Orris Cyperus Spicknard Cassia lignea the seeds of Bishops weed of each a drachm and an half Ammoniacum ten drachms Styrax Calamitis 〈◊〉 of each five drachms Turpentine one ounce and an half fat Figgs by number twelve Goats suet Rozin of each two ounces and an half Wax six ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 and Spicknard of each so much as is sufficient then take of fresh Melilot Foenugreek and Chamomel of each so much as
Maiden-hair five ounces infuse them in four pints of spring water boyl them gently strain the decoction strongly and with a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl it unto a syrup according to art A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the 〈◊〉 and helps the infirmities of them Syrup of Cinnamon Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces infuse it in a pint of white wine for three daies in a glasse by a gentle heat then having strained out the Cinnamon ad to it a pound and an half of white sugar boyl it gently to a syrup A. It hath the same vertues with Cinnamon water and being not so hot must needs be far better for hot bodies After the same manner may be made syrup of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ginger Cloves Nutmegs c. A. If any will be so nice to make such 't is but veiwing the Simples and there you have the vertues of them Syrup of Corrall Simple Take of Red Corral finely poudered as much as you will dissolve it in a glasse in Balneo Mariae in such a quantity of the clarified juyce of Barberries that the juyce may swim above it the breath of four fingers stopping the glasse cloose with cork or wax when it hath stood in the glasse three daies pour off what is dissolved and pour in fresh juyce of Barberries clarified set it in the bath again till all the Correl be dissolved Then to one pound of this juyce ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it to the consistence of a syrup but in the Preparation of this Syrup it requireth a great deal of skill and dexterity lest you er Syrup of Corral Compound Take of Red Corral six ounces bring it into a pouder by grinding it upon a marble with a little rose water Then add to it Juyce of Lemmons clarified from the flegm in Balneo Mariae sixteen ounces juyce of Barberries clarified eight ounces sharp wine Vineger juyce of wood Sorrel clarified of each six ounces digest them in a bath or else in horsedung eight daies in a large glasse stopped close with cork and bladder shaking it every day then let it run through a brown paper of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces mix them all together and with the gentle heat of a bath draw off the superfluous liquor till it be left of the consistence of a Syrup to which ad Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers sixteen ounces together with half a drachm of Amber greece and four grains of Musk tied up in a cloath and hung into the glasse by a string A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and compound restore such as are in consumptions are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last and very cordial special good for Hectick feavers it stops fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit blood and such as have the falling sicknesse it staies the terms in women and indeed it had need be good for something for it is exceeding costly Syrup of the Infusion of Clove-Gilliflowers Take a pound of Clove-Gilliflowers the white being cut off infuse them at 3. times in three pints of spring water al night afterwards with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. Which if you do it will be scarce worth your labour but will lose both colour and tast and by consequence vertue in boyling and then the Colledg themselves would say 't is naught for in all syrups which you would have keep colour of which this is one add two pound of Sugar to each pint of insusion and only melt it over the fire in a peuter vessel and I assure you if in prescribing this and many other medicines the Colledg did make use of the ablest Apothecaries for the manner of composition of the medicines either the ablest were very weak or very negligent but enough of this A. The Syrup is a fine temperate syrup it strengthens the heart liver and stomach it refresheth the vital spirits and is a good cordial in feavers Syrup of Citron pills Mesue Take of the thin outward pills of Citrons dried five ounces of the berries of Kermes or the juyce of them brought over from beyond sea two drachms spring water four pints set them in infufiou all night and the next morning boyl it till half be consumed strain it and add to the decoction two pound and an half of very good sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art which perfume with six grains of the best Musk wrapped up in fine linnen and hung into the syrup by a string A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and refists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings It strengthens the vital spirit restores such as are in consumptions and hectick feavers and strengthens nature much Syrup of Water-Lillie-flowers Simple Nicholaus Take of the whitest part of White-water-Lilly-flowers a pound infuse them for seven hours in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it and add the like quantity of fresh flowers use them in like manner as you did the former repeat this infusion three times then clarifie the infusion and having added the like quantity of sugar to it boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrup of Water-lillie-flowers the Compound Fernelius Take of Water-lillie-flowers half a pound the flowers of Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Gourds of each half an ounce boyl all these in four pints of water to the consumption of one pint and having strained it ad to the decoction Red Rose Water half a pint White Sugar four pound boyl it to a Syrup according to art A. They both are fine cooling Syrups they allay the heat of choller and provoke sleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either Syrup of Meconium Mesue A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispice is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled til it be thick as I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of Poppies growing in hotter countries and therefore in al reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these Syrups though they be no edge-tools yet t is ill jesting with them Take of the heads of white Poppies meanly ripe and green eight ounces of the heads of black Poppies meanly ripe and green six ounces Rain-water four pints boyl them in the water til half of it be consumed then strain it and with fixteen ounces of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art and when you have done so you may use it if you please for Diacodium Syrup of 〈◊〉 the lesser Composition Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of
them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the liquor to a Syrup Syrup of Popplyes the greater Composition Mesue Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each 50. drachms Maiden-hair 15. drachms Liquoris 5. drachms Jujubies 30. by number Lettice seeds 40. drachms of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each a drachm and an an half boyl these in eight pints of water til five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining add to them Penidies and White Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remēber my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled w th hot sharp Rheums you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungus whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep Syrups of Red or Erratick Poppies A. by many called Corn-Roses Tak of flowers of red Poppies two pound infuse them 24. hours in four pints of spring water and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. Some are of opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other beleeve them that list I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderatly taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot agues Syrup of Peach flowers Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound infuse them in three pints of warm water for the space of twelve hours then let them boyl a little and presse them out adding the like quantity of Peach-flowers and use them as the former do so five times at last to three pound of the infusion add two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. It is a gentle purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose recept all things considered differs little from this Syrup of dried Roses Mesue Take four pound of spring water in which being warm infuse a pound of dried red Rose leaves for the space of twenfour hours then presse them out and with two pound of white sugar boyl the infusion to a syrup A. I pray take a caution or two a long with you concerning this syrup and there is need enough unlesse it were penned more wisely than it is A. 1. You cannot infuse all the rose leaves at one time because there will not be water enough to wet them hardly you must then infuse them at diverse A man had need have a head as deep as a Colepit to reach their meaning in some of their recepts A. 2. If you boyl it it will lose both color and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with noting this in every receit therefore be pleased to accept of this one general rule It is not best to boyl any syrup made of infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of Sugar to each pint of Infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting Syrup of Roses Solutive Mesue Take of the infusions of Rofes made with fresh Damask Roses let the infusion be repeated nine times let it be made in that proportion that one pound of Rose flowers may be infused in four pints of water and those being taken out infuse as many more in the same water do so nine times six pound with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm Syrup of Roses with Agrick Take of choice Agrick sliced thin an ounce Ginger sliced two drachms Sal gem one drachm Polipodium grosly bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white Wine then infuse them two daies in such infusion of damask Roses as you were taught to make the former receit a pound and an half warm by the fire then presse it out and with one pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. You had better ad twice so much Sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head releeves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women It purgeth the stomach and liver and provoketh urine Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore Montanus Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and infuse them in twelve pints of the infusion of Roses before prescribed 24. hours adding of Senna Epithimum and Polipodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds liquoris of each four ounces of the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms boyl them all to the consumption of the fourth part to which ad five pound of white Sugar choice Rhubarb tied up in a linnen cloath sixteen drachms boyl them into a syrup according to art A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at al or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left recepts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The Syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisteth madnesse Syrup of Violets Take of pick'd Violet flowers a pound Spring water heat hot a pound and an half or else a sufficient quantity infuse the Violets in the water let it stand warm and close stopped 24. hours then presse them very hard out and to one pound of the expression add two pound of fine Sugar only dissolve the Sugar and so keep the Syrup for your use Syrup of the juyce of Violets Make it up with just so much juyce of the flowers of violets as will dissolve the Sugar into a Syrup without boyling A. Which is two pound of Sugar to one pound of Juyce A. This latter Syrup is far more chargable than the
must be boyled to here wants both the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem as also the quantity of the Aromaticks so that if it had not been signed by the Colledge I should have thought it had been a pure piece of non-sense I would modestly desire the Colledg to look back to their Epistle to the Reader wherein they shall find that they have promised but how truly performed in this and others let themselves judg to appoint a certain measure or weight in all compositions which ought not to be added to nor taken from and their reason is very commendable viz. that the same medicines in all shops might have the same operation as being the self same composition ad unguem that so the Physitian may know what to prescribe but why this and others are not so I dare not say it was negligence for then I should offend the Colledg I dare not say it was forgetfulness for that ought not to be in a Physitian much lesse in a Colledg well then I know not what to say and so I leave it A. When I look upon the Simples me thinks the composition if it be any thing handsomly made is opening expels wind provokes the terms in women hastens the afterbirth and is very profitable for such women as are not well cleansed after labour A Magisterial Syrup against Melancholly Take of the Juyce of those sweet sented Apples which we in England usually call Permains a pound and an half the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces choice Senna half a pound Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Epithimum of Creet two ounces of the best Agrick and Rhubarb of each half an ounce Ginger Mace of each four scruples Cinnamon two scruples Saffron half a drachm Let the Agrick Senna seeds Ginger Mace and Epithimum be grosly bruised and cut and so infused in the juyces for the space of 24. hours then let them boyl over a gentle fire till the scum riseth then strain them through Hippocrates his sleeve to the decoction ad a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl them according to art scumming them al the while to the consistence of a syrup whilst it boyls let the Saffron being tied up in a linnen rag be often crushed into it then let the Rhubarb being sliced thin and the Cinnamon which ought to be ready infused all this while in white Wine and the juycs of the Apples of each two ounces and now strongly pressed out be mixed with it warm them a little together by the fire for the syrup A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust choller and melancholly and to resist madnesse Syrup of Bawm Fernelius Take of the Roots of Dittany Cinkfoil Bettony Doronicum of each half an ounce The leaves of Bawm Scabious Devils bit the flowers of both sorts of Bugloss and Rosemary of each a handful the seeds of Citrons Sorrel Fennel Carduus Benedictus Bazil of each three drachms boyl these in four pints of water till two be consumed strain out the decoction and ad to it three pound of white Sugar juyce of Bawm and Rose water of each half a pound boyl them into a syrup which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow Sanders of each half an ounce A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls and hang them by a string in the vessel be it pot or glasse that you keep the syrup in being boyled A. It is an excellent cordial and strengthens the heart breast and stomach it resisteth melancholly revives the spirits is given with good successe in feavers it strengthens the memory and releeves languishing nature Syrup of Mints the greater Mesue Take of the juyce of Quinces between sweet and sour of the juyce of Pomegranates between sweet and sour of each a pound and an half and when you have mixed both these juyces together infuse in them for the space of 24. hours dried mints a pound and an half Red Roses dried two ounounces boyl it till half be consumed then strain it and with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup after it is boyled and cool perfume it with a drachm of Gallia moschata beaten and tied up in fine linnen and hung by a thrid into the vessel you keep your syrup in A. The Syrup is in quality binding yet it comforts the stomach much helps digestion staies vomiting and is in my opinion as excellent a remedy against sour or offensive belchings as any is in the Dispensatory Syrup of Mirtles Nicholaus Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half Sanders both white red Sumach Balaustines Barberries red Roses of each half an ounce Medlars half a pound bruise all these and having bruised them boyl them in eight pints of water till half be consumed strain it and ad to the decoction juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates of each six ounces Sugar three pound boyl it into a syrup according to art A. The syrup is of a very binding yet of a comforting nature it helps such as spit blood all fluxes of the belly or corrosions of the internal parts It strengthens the retentive faculty and stops the immoderate flux of the terms in women Syrup of Apples Fernelius Take of the juyce of our Apples commonly called Permains or Pippins four pound the juyce of both sorts of Buglosse Rose water the juyce of Violet leaves of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them then with six pound of Sugar boil them into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and isprofitable in hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in feavers and staies hiccoughs Syrupus de Pomis Regis Saporis Mesue Take of the juyce of Apples two pound the juyce of Borrage and Buglosse of each a pound and an half Senna two ounces Annis seeds half an ounce Saffron a drachm Infuse the Senna 24. hours in the juyces then let it boil a walm or two then strain it and with two pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup let the Saffron being tied up in a rag be crushed in the boiling A. Mesue appoints Senna cods viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the Colledg altered that and added the Annis seeds I suppose to correct the Senna and in so doing they did well A. The Syrup is a pretty cooling purge and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood it purgeth choller and melancholly and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice It is very gentle and for that I commend both the Receit and Mesue the Author of it Syrup of Horehound Fernelius Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium
Nicholaus but of what Nicholaus I know not the self same receit is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors and helps sour belchings A. View the Vineger of Squils and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom and somewhat more toothsom Democritus his Vineger of Squills Mesue Take of Origanum dried Hysop Time Loyage Cardamoms Stoechas of each five drachms boyl them in three pints of water till two of them be consumed strain it and with two pound of hony half a pound of hony of Raisons juyce of Briony five ounces Vineger of Squils a pound and an half Boyl it into a syrup alwaies scumming it A. Mesue saith this is good against the falling sicknesse Megrim headach vertigo or swimming in the head and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are I beleeve it is it helps the lungues obstructed by humors and is good for women not wel cleansed after labor it opens the passage of the womb Honey of Anacardium Azaravius Take of Anacardia or Beans of Malacca fresh bruise them and boil them in water till a kind of raddish substance like honey swim at top take off that and keep it for your use A. See the Fruit. Honey of Emblicks August Take sifty Emblick Myrobalans bruise them and boyle them in three pints of water till two be consumed strain it and with the like weight of honey boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine gentle purger both of flegm and melancholly it strengthens the brain and nerves and sences both internal and external helps trembling of the heart staies vomiting provokes appetite ROB OR SAPA AND IVYCES A. ROB is somthing an uncouth word and happily formidable to the Ignorant Country-man and therefore in the first place I will explain the word A. 1. Rob or Sapa is the juyces of a fruit made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the fire that so it is capable of being kept safe from putrifaction A. 2. It s use was first invented for diseases in the mouth however or for whatsoever it is used now it matters not A. 3. It it usually made in respect of body something thicker than new honey A. 4. It may be kept about a year little more or lesse Simple Rob or Sapa Take twelve pints of new White-Wine boyl it over a gentle fire till but four remain or else till it be of the thickness of honey keep it either in a glasse or in an earthen pot glazed A. When ever you reade the word Rob or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory simply quoted in any medicine without any relation of what it should be made this is that you ought to use Rob of Barberries Take of the juyce of Barberries well strained eight pound boyl it with a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and so lay it up in a glasse or earthen vessel you may also prepare it with Sugar by adding a pound of Sugar to every pound of Juyce and so boyling it to the thicknesse of Honey A. It quencheth thirst closeth the mouth of the stomach thereby staying vomiting and belching it strengthens stomachs weakened by heat and procures appetite Rob of Cornels Take of the juyce of Cornels two pound Sugar a pound and an half boyl it to the consistence of Honey A. Of these Cornel trees are two sorts male and foemale the fruit of the male Cornel or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used for the foemale is that which is called Dogberry in the North country they call it Gatter-wood and we in Sussex Dog-wood I suppose because the berries will make Dogs mad as some hold also it is very unwholsom wood specially for such as have been bitten by mad dogs A. The fruit of male Cornel binds exceedingly and is therefore good in fluxes bloody fluxes and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women Rob of Quinces Take six pound of the juyce of Quinces clarified boil it till two parts be consumed adding to it two pound of Sugar boil it to the thickness of Honey or you may prepare it without Sugar A. Its effects are the same with the former only I suppose it to be more cordial and not so cool but more strengthening to the stomach A Rob of the juyce of sour plums is made in the same manner as Rob of Quinces Rob of English Currance It is prepared as Rob of Barberries But that it may be well clarified first heat it then let it stand and grow cleer and use only what is cleer A. The effects are the same with that of Barberries Juyce of Sloes which is used for Acacia Take of the juyce of sloes clarifie it with the gentle heat of a bath adduce it to its just thicknesse A. It stops fluxes of the belly The juyces of wormwood Maudlin Fumitory and other herbs are made of the herbs when they are tender not too rank Beaten and pressed clarified and then boyled to their due height A. The vertue is the same with the herbs only here is diversity of waies to please diversity of palats Juyce of Liquoris Take of the roots of green Liquoris well scraped and well bruised infuse them in so much spring water that the water may over top them the bredth of two or three fingers for three daies then boyl them a little and strain them then boyl the decocton to a due thicknes and make it into what form you please A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs colds c. and a strengthener of the lungues Miua of Quinces Mesue Take of the juyce of Quinces clarified twelve pound boyl it till half be consumed then add to it five pints of old white Wine boil it over a gentle fire often scumming it till the third part be consumed then let it cool then strain it and with three pound of Sugar boil it to its due thickness A. It is something better for cold stomachs than Rob of Quinces and less binding else the effects are the same LOHOCHS A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few we will first explain what it is A. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word called in Greek 〈◊〉 in Latin Linctus and signifies a thing to be lick'd up A. 2. it is in respect of body something thicker then a syrup and not so thick as an Electuary A. 3. It s use it was invented for was against the roughness of the windpipe diseases and inflamations of the lungs difficulty of breathing colds coughs c. A. 4. It s manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick bruised at end to take up some and retain it in the mouth till it melt of its own accord Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius Take a pound of the juyce of Coleworts clarified Saffron three drachms clarified Honey and Sugar
in the like manner A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake yet is it of great moment in physick for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach are made delicious and pleasing also many simples are better kept by far this way A. For the Vertues of them see the simples CONSERVES AND SVGARS OF HERBS LEAVES FLOWERS AND FRUITS COnserves of Wormwood Sorrel Woodsorrel Maiden hair Orrenges Bettony Borrage Bugloss Carduus Benedictus Centaury Ceterach Germander Clove Gilliflowers Succory Scurvigrass Comfry the greater Cynosbatus Citraria Elicampane Eyebright Fumitory Brooms not quite open Pomegranates white Lillies Lillies of the valley Mallows Water lillies Peaches Primroses Self heal Roses Red and Damask Rosemary flowers Sage Elder Scabious Stoechas Linetree Coltsfoot Violets Goats rue Hedge Hysop common Hysop Marjoram Bawm Mints Rue Savory Scordium Comfry A. Thus have I given you the Colledges Conserves or rather their confusion in English wherein they have made such a chaos of hearbs and flowers that to unweave it would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain the truth is I want time only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples and there you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use as also what the use of it is A word is enough to a wise man I proceed Let the leaves and flowers be beaten very small and to every pound of them add three pound of white Sugar and beat them well together into a conserve But Barberries Prunella and other sour fruits are not made into conserves after this manner for example Take of Barberries as many as you will let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of cleer water till the pulp may be drawn out by rubbing it through a sieve Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained which put in an earthen pan well glazed because if you do it in brass it will retain an illfavoured smatch of the mettal boil away the watry moisture of them with a gentle fire stirring it about continually with a stick lest the juyce burn then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art boiling it to its due consistence A. Prunella indeed and in truth is Self-heal not Sloes as I am confident they intend it here because they place it among the sour juyces I was jealous they intended it so before therefore when I translated it self-heal I set the word Prunella in the margin Is it possible so many grave heads should so grosly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree Prunella for Prunellus The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Errour in the Latter end of their Dispensatory it remains in the Colledge to do the like it being a thing if not very preposterous I am sure extreamly dangerous to prescribe one thing for another in Physick If they can but produce an Author An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Sloe or Sloe-tree I shall be content to bear the blame my self A. The vertues of al Conserves are the same with the herbs flowers or fruits whereof they are made and they are thus mixed with Sugar 1. to preserve them the longer 2. that they may be more pleasing to the pallat Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum or Tabulatum Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness neiâ—â—â—â— too green nor too ripe spring-water three pints infuse them four and twenty hours then boyl them till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them out and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar boyl the liquor to that hardnesse that you may make Lozinges of it A. This recept is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledge through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head c. Manus Christi Simple and Pearled Take of the best Sugar a pound Damask-rose-water half a pint boil them together according to art to that thicknesse that it may be made into Lozenges and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom you ad half an ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder together with eight or ten leaves of gold it will be Manus Christi with pearls A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with pearls for that without Pearls is ridiculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Manus Christi against Worms Take of Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Hartshorn Dittany of Creet Wormseed Sorrelseed of each a scruple Cinnamon Zedoary Cloves Saffron of each half a Scruple white Sugar a pound dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water and one ounce of Wormwood Wine and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water and then with the forenamed pouders make it into Lozenges A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Penidies Are made of Sugar and Barly water boiled in such a proportion and with such an art that it will not stick to ones fingers and yet one may draw it like birdlime into what form one will A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other compositions Confection of Frankinsence Norimberg Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar make it into a Confection in bits of two drachms weight A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this receit Sugar of Roses Take of red Rose flowers not fully open an ounce cut off the white from them then dry them in the shaddow afterwards beat them in a stone mortar and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water boyl it according to art till the water be consumed then put the mass out upon a marble stone and make it into what form you please there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses dilligently mixing them together by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour and the pleasanter tast A. I am verily perswaded that the Colledge appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses which is but the Embrion of an ignorant brain it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in pouder the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it without the addition
travail Hiera with Agriok Take of Species Hiera Simple without Aloes Agrick trochiscated of each half an ounce Aloes not washed an ounce clarified Honey six ounces mix them together into an Electuary A. Look but the vertues of Agrick and add them to the vertues of the former receit so is the business done without any further trouble Hiera Logodii Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Colocynthis Polypodium of each two drachms Euphorbium Poley mountain the seeds of Thymelea of each one drachm and an half and six grains Wormwood Mirrh of each one drachm and twelve grains Centaury the less Agrick Gum Amoniacum Indian leaf or Mace Spicknard Squils prepared 〈◊〉 of each one drachm Aloes the leaves of Time Germander Cassia Lignea Bdellium Horehound of each one scruple and fourteen grains Cinnamon Opopanax Castorium long-Birthwort the three sorts of Pepper Saffron Sagapenum Parsly of each half a drachm Hellebore black and white of each six grains clarified Honey a pound and an half mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art also you may keep the Species by it self A. It takes away by the roots daily evils coming of melancholly falling-sickness vertigo convulsions megrim leprosie and many other infirmities for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unlesse upon desperate occasions or in Clysters Hiera Pachii or Diacolocynthides Nicholaus Alexandrinus Take of Colocynthis Agrick Germander Horehound Stoechas of each ten drachms Opopanax Sagapenum Parsly seeds round Birthwort roots white Pepper of each five drams Spicknard Cinnamon Mirrh Indian Leaf Saffron of each four drachms let the Gums be bruised in a mortar the rest fiefted all of them made into an Electuary with clarified Honey three pound three ounces and five drachms A. It helps the falling-sicknesse madness and the pain in the head called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises pains in the loins and backbone hardness of womens breasts putrifaction of meat in the stomach and sour belchings Tryphera minor Foenon Mesue Take of Myrobalans Chebs Bellericks Indian and Emblicks Nutmegs of each five drachms the seeds of 〈◊〉 the roots of Asarabacca Origanum of Persia or Dictamni of Creet black Pepper Olibanum Bishops weed Ginger Tamaris Indian Spicknard Schoenanthus Cyperus roots of each half an ounce Steel prepared twenty drachms let the Myrobalans be rosted a little with fresh butter let the rest being poudered be sprinkled with a little oyl of sweet Almonds then ad to them Musk a drachm and with three times their weight in clarified Hony make them into an Electuary according to art A. It helps the imoderate flowing of the terms in women and the Hemorrhoyds in men it helps weaknes of the stomach and restores colour lost It frees the body from crude humors and strengthens the bladder helps melancholly and rectifies the distempers of the speen Tryphera Solutive Renodeus Take of Diagrydium ten drachms of the best Turbith an ounce and an half Cardamoms the less Cloves Cinnamon Mace of each three drachms Yellow Sanders Liquoris sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Acorus Schaenanth of each a drachm preserved Citron pills Roses of each three drachms Violets two drachms Penedies four ounces Sugar-Candy half a pound Honey well clarified in juyce of Apples a pound make an Electuary of them according to art A. The Diagrydium and Turbith are purging the rest are all cordial but what to make of them put together I know not therefore I leave them and pass to PILLS A. PILLS in Greek are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Lattin Pilulae which signifies little Balls because they are made up in such a form that they may be the better swallowed down by reason of the offensiveness of their tast A. They were first invented for the purging of the head however Physitians have since ordered the businesse because the matter there offending is not so soon taken away by any other physick Pilulae Alephanginae or Aromatical Pills Mesue Take of Cinnamon Cloves Cardamoms Nutmegs Mace Calamus Aromaticus Carpobalsamum or the seeds of Angelica Schaenanth wood of Aloes yellow Sanders red Roses dried Wormwood of each half an ounce let these being grosly bruised be infused twenty four hours in four pints of water then boyl them over a gentle fire till the third part be consumed strain them and in the liquor dissolve a pound of Aloes then having drawn off the water either in hot ashes or a bath ad to it Mirrh and Mastich of each half an ounce Saffron two drachms syrup of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it up into a masse A. This recept differs much from that which Mesue left to posterity perhaps the Colledge followed Renodaeus more closely in it than they did Mesue but some question whether Renodaeus or the Colledg either can amend the recepts of Mesue the cheif alterations are Mastich Asarabacca roots and Indian Spicknard of each an ounce is totally left out besides all the Simples till you come to the Wormwood are set down but half so much in quantity as Mesue prescribed them some other smal alterations are also in most of the quantities But I must return to my scope A. It cleanseth both stomach and brain of gross and putrified humours and sets the sences free when they are thereby troubled it cleanseth the brain offended by ill humours wind c. helps vertigo and head-aches and strengthens the brain exceedingly helps concoction and strengthens the stomach I have often made experience of it upon my own body and alwales with good success in such occasions and therefore give me leave to commend it to my country men for a wholsom cleansing medicine strengthening no waies violent one drachm taken at night going to bed will work gently next day if the party be weak you may give less if strong more Aloe Rosata Hier. Fabr. ab Aquāp Take of cleer Aloes succotrina in pouder four ounces the juyce of Damask Roses clarified four pound mix them together and digest them in the sun or else in a bath till all the moisture is drawn away then infuse it again in so much more juyce and evaporate away the moisture again do so four times then keep the masse to be made into pills A. It is a gallant gentle purger of choller frees the stomach from superfluous humors opens stoppings and other infirmities of the body proceeding from choller or flegm as yellow Jaundice c. and strengthens the body exceedingly Pills of washed Aloes Augustani Take of Aloes washed with the juyce or Damask Roses an ounce Agrik trochiscated three drachms mastich two drams Species Diamoschu dulce half a drachm syrup of Damask Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. It purgeth both brain stomach bowels and eyes of putrified humors and also strengthens them Pilulae Assaireth Avicenna Take of Species Hiera Picra
well incorporated A. They both viz. this and the former heat and moisten the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies Unguentum Enulatum Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft bruised and boyled in Vineger and drawn through a pulping sieve one pound Hogs Greas without salt one pound Common Oyl four ounces Wax two ounces Salt one ounce Quick-silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lemmons Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boyled in of each two ounces let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oyl then ad the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely poudered last of all ad the Quick silver killed labored much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease make them into an ointment according to art Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver A. My opinion of this oyntment is briefly this It was invented for the Itch without Quick silver it wil do no good with Quick-silver it may do harm Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili Nichol. Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces Juyce of Nightshade six ounces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then ad white Wax five ounces Cerus washed two ounces Lead burnt and washed Pompholix prepared pure Frankinsence of each an ounce let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art A. It cools and binds dries and staies fluxes either of blood or humors in wounds and fils hollow ulcers with fiesh Unguentum Refrigerans Galenus It it also called a Cerecloath Take of white Wax four ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound melt it in a double vessel then powr it out into another by degrees putting in cold water and often powring it out of one vessel into another stirring it till it be white last of all wash it in Rose water adding a little Rose water and Rose vineger A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea superexcellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum de Minio Or Rubrum Camphoratum Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an ounce red Lead three ounces Litharge two ounces Ceruss an ounce and an half Tutty three drams Camphire 2. drams Wax in summer two ounces in winter one ounce make them into an oyntment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel the wax being first melted in the oyl over a gentle fire then the rest added in fine pouder A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually reade of one and withal cooling therefore good for sores and such as are troubled with defluxions I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer before it brake long time but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple yet in the forgoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails Oyntment of Tobacco Joubertus Take of Tobacco leaves two pound fresh Hogs Grease dilligently washed one pound let the herb being bruised be infused a whol night in red Wine in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine strain it and ad to the Oyntment of the juyce of Tobacco clarified half a pound Rozin four ounces boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉 adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in pouder two ounces new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise It cures Tumours Aposthumes wounds ulcers Gun-shot botches scibs itch stinging with nettles bees wasps hornets venemous beasts wounds made with poisoned arrows c. Tush this is nothing paulo majora canamus It helps scaldings though made with oyl burnings though with lightening that without any scar It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs whither the humours are most subject to resort in fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom Would you be fair your face being anointed with this soon will the redness pimples sunburning vanish a wound dressed with this will never putrifie a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow anoint but with this and you need fear no danger If your head ake anoint your templss with this and you shal have ease The stomach being anointed with it no infirmity dares harbour there no not Asthmaes nor consumptions of the lungues The belly being anointed with it helps the chollick and Iliack passion the worms and what not it help the Hemorrhoids or piles and is the best Oyntment that is for gouts of all sorts finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases of Tobacco as of any thing in the world the Phylosophers stone excepted O Joubertus thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine by those that use it so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Unguentum 〈◊〉 or Crudum or of Litharge or Tripharmacum Mesue Take of Litharge of Gold beaten into very fine pouder half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound Vineger four ounces put in sometimes Oyl and sometimes Vineger stirring it about in a mortar so long till the Litharge have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Oyntment A. It is of a cooling drying nature good for itching of wounds Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin as Tetters Ringworms c. Unguentum Ophthalmicum Renodaeus Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water Tutty prepared of each two drachms Pearls beaten into very fine pouder half a drachm Camphire half a scruple Opium fiue grains Oyntment of Roses fifteen ounces Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rhewms that fall down into the eyes the eye-lids being but anointed with it Cuilielmus Placentinus his Liniment Simple Take of washed Cerus eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Litharge washed juyce of Nightshade of each five ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms oyl of Roses often washed in common water two pound make of them a Liniment according to art A. It is cooling and also drying if you cast an eye to some of the former Oyntments of that nature you may see its use Oyntment of Lead Foesius Take of Lead burnt with Brimstone Litharge of each two ounces Ceruss Antimony of each one ounce Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment I et the Lead being filed to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone Pomatum Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid two ounces the fat of a Sow a pound and an half Apples being cut and pared
Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each three drachms and an half Per rozin wax of each five ounces oyl of Orris Turpentine of each an ounce and an half let the fats and oyl boyl with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Lin and 〈◊〉 seeds and that it may be brought to the due form of a plaister ad the Wax and Turpentine afterwards the Oynment of Marsh mallows and Melliot Plaister then the Gums dissolved in Vineger and lastly the pouders and per-Rozin in pouder mix them all well together and make it into plaister according to art A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a plaister spread upon a cloath but a rol made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and aswageth hard swellings and scatters the humours offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen and aswageth pains thence arising Album Coctum de Cerussa Ulms. Take of Ceruss ground into very fine pouder yellow Wax oyl of Olives of each equall parts the Ceruss being put into a brass pan let the oyl be added by degrees set it over a gentle fire stir it continually til they be incorporated then put in the Wax thin scraped neither put it in altogether at one time neither let it boyl til it be all melted then boil it all according to art till it begin to look black and be of a just thickness A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture A Plaister of Bayberries Mesue Take of Bayberries two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each one ounce Cyperus Costus of each half an ounce Turpentine an ounce clarified Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister according to art A. It is an excellent plaister to ease any pains coming of cold or wind in any part of the body whether stomach liver belly reins or bladder Emplastrum Barbarummagnum Galen Take of dry pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound eight ounces Per-Rozin five pound four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or else Mummy four pound Oyl a pound and an half Vert-de-greece Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces Frankinsence half a pound roch Allum not burnt an ounce and an half roch Allum burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of brass Galbanum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce juyce of Mandrakes or else the bark of the roots of them dried six drachms Vineger five pound let the Litharge Ceruss and Oyl be boyled to the thickness of Honey the Pitch melted and incorporated with the pouder of the Bitumen then the other things added and boyled according to art till the Vineger be consumed and the composition brought to a due thickness A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joints and gouts in the beginning A Plaisier of 〈◊〉 Andernacus Take of green Bettony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow Comfry the greater Clary of each 〈◊〉 ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Gum Elemni two ounces per-Rozin six ounces Venis Turpentine two ounces white Wine three pound let the herbs being bruised be boyled in the Wine strained and all the rest being added to the decoction boyl it to a plaister according to art A. It is a gallant plaister to unite the skul when it is cracked to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh it draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers restores flesh lost cleanseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum 〈◊〉 Take of Bistort roots Cyperus Nuts red Roses the three 〈◊〉 of Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drams 〈◊〉 half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Terra Lemnia Bole Armenick red Corral of each two drams Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 twelve ounces the juyce of 〈◊〉 Plantane and Orpine of each an ounce yellow Wax a pound and an half let the Hypocistis and Acacia be dissolved with the juyces and boyled to a due height then add the rest and make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repell hot rhewms or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum Vigo Take of the juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces the bark of the root of Ash tree and the leaves of the tree the roots 〈◊〉 Comfry the greater and lesser with the leaues and al of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wort of each a handful and an half the things to be bruised being bruised let them boil together in red Wine and water in which Smiths quench their 〈◊〉 of each two pound till half be consumed 〈◊〉 it and ad oyl of Mirtles Roses and Omphacine of each a pound and an half Goats suet melted eight ounces Litharge of gold and silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax a pound Colophonia half a pound let them boyl again to the consumption of the decoction then add towards the end 〈◊〉 Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce cleer Turpentine two ounces Boie Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them together till they are boiled enough to be made into a plaister according to art Catagmaticum Renodaeus Take of the roots of Comfry the less and Marshmallows 〈◊〉 of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamaepitys St. Johns wort of each a handful boyl them in equal 〈◊〉 of red Wine and Water wherein Smiths quench their Iron 〈◊〉 half be consumed strain it and to the decoction ad 〈◊〉 of Quince seeds extracted in decoction of Tripes Oyl 〈◊〉 and Roses of each four ounces Virgins Wax a pound 〈◊〉 of Gold two ounces Turpentine three ounces Balaustins Roses Mirtles Acacia of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 the seeds of Tutsan Colophonia 〈◊〉 Amber of each six drachms Ship Pitch an ounce and an half Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces let the water and mussilage be boyled together till the moisture be consumed then put in the oyl then the Wax afterward the Litharge which being boyled united stirred and removed from the fire let first the Turpentine be added then the pouders so let all of them be mixed stirred and brought into the form of an Emplaster according to art A. Both this and the former are of a binding nature Emplasirum Cephalicum Take of cleer Rozin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Ladanum half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each a drachm and an half Juniper Gum two drachms the flower of Beans and Orobus of each half an ounce Nigella three drachms Nutmegs two drachm Pidgeons dung two ounces let the Mirrh be dissolved in Malaga Wine and the
Colcothar mix it with an equal part of Salt 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 tartar let them be calcined between two little 〈◊〉 the uppermost having a hole 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have done smoking dissolve the 〈◊〉 thus calcined in warm water that so the Salt may be 〈◊〉 out the pouder which remains at bottom moisten with oyl of Tartar and dry it by the fire do so three 〈◊〉 again dissolve it in warm water that you may take out the salt then will there remain a very white pouder and fixed which being set in a moist place wil dissolve into an oyl much like butter Oyl of Salt Take of French bay-salt made with the heat of the sun not of the fire as much as you will dry it by the fire to which ad its weight in burnt bricks beat them together in a mortar before they be altogether cold put them into a retort with a long neck lute a capacious receiver very wel to it give fire to it by degrees and in twelve or fourteen hours you shall have the oyl in the Receiver when the furnace is cold and the smoak wel ceased powr out the oyl and keep it from the air in a glasse well stopped and rectifie it from the flegm But the best oyl of salt is better made if you make the salt into brine of such strength that it wil bear an eg then quench the Bricks being red hot in this brine til they have drunk up al the liquor then beat them into pouder and put them into a Retort wel luted and give fire to it even to the highest degree and then rectifie it from the flegm A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly it helps the gout three drops taken every morning in convenient liquor preserves youth consumes the dropsie resists feavers convulsions the falling sickness being mixed with oyntments it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations Oyl of Amber Take of yellow Amber four ounces beat it into pouder to which being put in a large Viol or a Retort pour as much sharp wine vineger digest it eight daies in horse dung then add to it twise its weight in dry sand distil it in sand adding the fire by degrees rectifie it from the sand with salt or Tartar calcined then with water A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves as Convolsions Falling-sickness c. Being given in convenient liquors it is a singuler remedy against poyson and pestilent air diseases of the reins and bladder the fits of the mother the nose being anointed with it the chollick it causeth speedy labour to women in travail being taken in Vervain water it strengthens the body exceedingly as also the brain and sences and is of an opening nature Oyl of Sulphur Take a glass bel-still which will hold sixteen pound at least for the larger it is so much the better it is place it upon an earthen vessel which hath three or four upholders to which the bell may be commodiously fitted then putting a sufficient quantity of Brimstone into the earthen vessel burn it under the bell putting in fresh Brimstone when the first is consumed let this be done in some obscure place where neither wind nor sun comes The oyl will be more in quantity if the vessel that holds the Brimstone stand upon a furnace and a fire be under it Before you put on the bell perfume it with the smoke of Sage A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold putrifaction or wind feavers agues tertian quartan or quotidian Pestilence wounds and ulcers affects of the brain mouth teeth liver stomach spleen matrix bladder entrails and arteries coming of abundance of humours or putrifaction outwardly applied it helps fistulaes ulcers of the mouth and gangrens the way to take it inwardly is thus dip the top of a feather in the oyl and wash it in the liquor or decoction you give it in in 〈◊〉 agues give it in wines in which rosemary or mints or both have been boyled in tertian agues in Wine in which centaury hath been boyled in quartan agues in Bugloss water in all of them a little before the fit come in pestilences in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boyled mingled with a litle Venice Treacle in the falling-sickness with decoction of Bettony or Peony in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hysop both of them made with Wine for flegm in Wormwood water for the wind chollik in Chamomel flower water for dropsies and cold livers in Selondine water and Honey for the rickets and stoppage of the spleen in Tamaris water for the French pocks in Fumitory or Broomflower water against worms in Grass or Wormwood water for the fits of the mother in decoction of Bettony or Featherfew in Wine for suppression of urine in decoction of Garlick with wine for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys with Wine in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the oyl it a hollow tooth ake put a drop into it if all your teeth ake make a decoction of mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this oyl to it and hold it warm in your mouth Oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as you wil put it into a large retort with that proportion that but the third part of the vessel be filled distill it in sand with a strong fire afterwards the oyl being first seperated from the water or spirit of Tartar rectifie it with much water to correct the smell of it let it stand open a long time in the sun Liquor Tartari commonly called oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as is sufficient fill an earthen vessel not glazed almost full of it let it be calcined in a furnace twelve hours when it is cold put it in Manica Hippocratis which hang in a moist Cellar that it may dissolve placing a vessel under it to receive it that which remains and will not dissolve in the hanging dissolve in water and evaporate away the moisture till it begin to look like Allum A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries and Virgins buy it to take away the sunburn and freckles from their faces it takes off the rust from Iron and preserves it bright a long time Oyl of vitriol Take of the best Vitriol as much as you will melt it in a pan then divide it into thick pieces the which burn in the fire till they look reddish then beat them into pouder and sprinkle them with the best spirit of Wine put them into earthen retorts which will bear the fire increase the fire to them by degrees for three daies till the receivers which were obscured with smoke come to be cleer rectifie that distilled liquor and seperate by themselves the spirit of Wine the sour spirit of Vitriol and the strong and ponderous oyl A. It must be mixed with other medicines for it kils being taken alone it a swageth thirst allaieth the violent heat in feavers and
pestilences and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine Aqua Mettis Take of pure Honey four pound dry sand two pound still them in a glass Still so capacious that the matter may fill only the fist part of the vessel first draw away the flegm then encreasing the fire draw off the water yellowish in colour and sharp in tast Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over and cals it Quintessence of honey and extols the vertues of it to the skies saith it will revive dying men which Mr. Charls Butler of Hamshire also affirms Aqua Fortis Take of dried Vitriol two pound Salt Peter cleansed one pound bruise them and place them in a reverberatory in a retort a large receiver being placed under it still it by degrees for twenty four hours together clarifie it with a drachm of silver according to art CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE USUAL Steel prepared by the Sun A. It is just so prepared as shall be hereafter shewed only here they appoint it to be set in the sun there in the shaddow a parles difference Steel prepared by the fire Take of Steel cleansed from the filth heat it red hot and quench it a dozen times in sharp white Wine Vineger and as often in Canary or Malaga Wine then dry it and grind it upon a stone with oyl of Cinnamon and keep it for your use Cremor Tartar Take of Tartar made of White or Rhenish Wine as much as you wil beat it into fine pouder and sieft it then wash it in cold water three or four times til the filth be washed off from it then boyl it in cleer water in a large pan or earthen vessel gently take off the scum but the crust which is one the top after it hath covered the whole top take off with a wooden scummer spread it upon a brown paper wash it again in cold water and dry it well then grind it into fine pouder and keep it in a glasse close stopped that it may touch no mettal Crocus Martis Take of a bar of Iron or Steel which being heat very hot thrust into a great heap of brimstone a bason being placed underneath with cold water in it the Iron will run out like wax which being separated from the brimston grind it to pouder in an Iron mortar put the pouder in square earthen dishes which are not of above a fingers breadth in deepnesse place them at the hot fire of a Reverberatory for three or four daies so will the substance be reddish and like a spunge let the top be taken away with an Iron instrument and the rest driven up by the fire til it may be brought into a very fine pouder Also you may prepare it by the fire of a Reverberatory without brimstone Crocus Metallorum Take of Antimony shining with long veins salt-peter of each equal parts beat them into pouder severally then mix them together and put them into a brass or iron mortar then set fire to them by putting a coal in which wil burn with great noise on the top place a tile or an iron plate at least three fingers bredth distant from the matter burning when the noise is ceased let the mettal which wil look of a deep red colour be separated from that whitish crust at top and kept for your use being sweetned with clean distilled water Flos Sulphuris Take of yellow Brimstone which when you have rubbed it if you hold it to your ear will make an noise grind it with its equal part of Colcolthar of Vitriol viz. the residue of the distillation of the oyl put it in a long earthen pot putting to it a glass head large enough give fire to it in sand by degrees and drive up the flower stirring it with an hares foot It will be the better if you sublime it again with fresh Colcothar Lapis infernalis septicus Take of the lye in which black Sope is boyled burn it in a pan to a stone but yet take heed all the moisture be not consumed and it wax too dry when it is cold cut it in the form of dice and keep it close stopped Otherwise Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces Sal Armoniack Tartar calcined to whiteness quick Lime of each three ounces put to them being bruised ly made of Fig-tree or Spurge or Sope dissolve them in it strain it and in a brass vessel boyl it to the consumption of the moisture keep the residence in a vessel close stopped Lapis prunellae or Niter purged with Brimstone Take of pure salt-peter a pound put it in a crucible w th coals round about it let it not burn but run like mettal that being melted put in two ounces of flower of Brimstone in little bits as big as hazel nuts which when it is consumed pour out the Niter into a brass bason and when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped that the air come not to it to dissolve it Magisterium Perlarum et Corallorum in quo etiam sales eorum continentur Take of Pearls or Coral as much as you will grind them into exceeding fine pouder then pour upon them so much Radical Vineger that it may overtop them three or four fingers bredth digest them in ashes till they are dissolved pouring off the old liquor and pouring in fresh till all of them be dissolved filter the liquor through a broun paper and putting a little oyl of Tartar into it the Pearls which were dissolved will fall down to the bottom in white pouder which is to be seperated from the liquor and washed with cleer water till it be sweet at last washed with Cordiall waters Radical Vineger is that which is distilled in sand with Bay salt Mercurius Dulcis sublimatus Take of Sublimatum prepared with salt Vitriol two ounces crude Mercury purified with salt and Vineger and ground upon a Marble an ounce and an half let the Sublimatum be exactly mixed with the crude Mercury upon the same Marble then put the pouder into a phial of a foot in length place the phial being stopped well with Cotten or Bumbast up to the middle in sand at first let the fire be gentle then encreased by degrees for six hours that which ariseth up to the middle of the glass let it be taken for that which ascends up to the top is of an exceeding poysonous nature fit for nothing but ulcers that which remains in the bottom is of no use if that which is in the middle be sweet without any acrimony it is wel made if not you must sublime it again the second time that so you may seperate again what is at the top and the oftener you do it the more perfect will your medicine be Mercurius Dulcis precipitated Take of crude Mercury distilled in a retort with Bay salt or revived with common Cinnabarum one part Aqua fortis of two parts of Vitriol calcined and one
part of salt Peter two parts dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve filter it through a broun paper into this brine which must be strong enough to bear an eg put the former solution of the Mercury and forth with a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which is to be washed in cleer water till it have no tast then in cordial waters so dried and kept in a glass Mercurius vitae Take of oyl of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat put it into cleer water and forth with it will appear like milk and a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use Sacharum Saturni Take of red I ead as much as you will which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vineger to it that it may overtop it the bredth of four fingers digest it in a bath or in dung twenty four hours seperate the sweet Vineger and put in fresh so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top then set the vessel in a Cellar and take away the Christalline congealation then exhale it again till another skin be on the top and do as before till there grows no more there at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water filter it coagulate it to a sweet christalline sugar Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour Take of Vitriol so much as you wil put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it till it come into a pouder of the colour of Violets let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot be cold so let it stand twenty four hours filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour Salt of Vitriol white Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was Turbith Minerale Take of crude Mercury oyl of Vitriol seperated from the flegm of each equal parts put them into a phial which being placed first of all in hot ashes then fire being added by degrees lest all the oyl of Vitriol flie away a white mass remaining in the bottom which being seperated from that portion of crude Mercury let it be put into rain water or else distilled water and forth with it will come yellow let it be often washed in warm water till it be sweet then in cordial waters then dried and kept Oleum Antimonij Take of bright Antimony as much as you will let it be beaten in very fine pouder and put into a large earthen vessel stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots then beat it again set it over the fire as before repeat this till all the splendor of it be gone and it smoke no more and the Stibium be like white ashes let this pouder be put upon a red hot plate take a pound and an half of it Borax half an ounce or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire til there flow a matter like water put that into a bason and keep it Tartarum Vitriolatum Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified two ounces drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar so wil there a white pouder fall down to the bottom let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat and the salt reserved for use Nepenthes Opiatum Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vineger then with spirit of Wine extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearls and Coral of each half an ounce Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms Ambergreece one drachm mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills THE VVAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS SEing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others We chose rather to give this general way of making of them than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with idle and needless Recepts and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful Take of the masse of any pill or pouder what soever as much as you wil infuse them or any of them in distilled water such as the Physitian shall prescribe a sufficient quantity let them stand two daies in a bath or if the species be hard three daies til the tincture have drawn out all the vertue which if you would try let the first liquor run through a brown paper and put in new liquor digesting it again which having received its tincture proceed as before let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae and the moisture evaporated so wil the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey which keep for your use that the extract may remain moist a long time put a little salt to it viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract If you draw it with distilled water put in a little oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur so the extract wil be the better drawn and the pleasanter to the tast for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine Cordial Extracts Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine THE VVAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The other fixed which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉 The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juyce beat it in a wooden or stone mortar and 〈◊〉 poured cleer spring water to it boyl it till half be consumed strain it and press it strongly then boyl the decoction to the thickness of Honey then set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed in a cold place for eight daies at the least and you shall find a christal line salt at the top of it like Sal gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner is made salt of Wormwood Carduns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other bitter herbs very easily but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty The way of
making Fixed or Elementary Salt The method of making this consists in these four things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That this may be rightly done 〈◊〉 of all the ashes of 〈◊〉 herbs you would make salt of must be made white by calcination and herein have a care lest by too much burning either they go to glass or else the most subtill part fly out which often chanceth in the calcining of scurvy grass and other plants of like nature Then make a ly of the ashes by pouring to them cleer water and hot till all the saltness be drawn from them filter the ly and boyl it by a gentle fire till all the water be evaporated away and the salt left at the Bottom to which a further cleansing is requisite therefore dissolve it again in water and filter it and coagulate it again for by often so doing the salt will be cleansed from all its impurity and remain white and clean Thus are salts prepared of herbs fruits and trees of any kind as also of parts of living creatures calcined and some stones But this by the by Amongst fixed salts these excel salt of Wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less Mugwort Carduus Benedictus Masterwort Parsly Best-harrow Ash dwarf Elder or Walwort Guajacum Box Chamomel St. Johns wort Succory Sullondine Scurvy-grass Bettony Eupatorium Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN MEDICINES VERY NECESSARY FOR APOTHECARIES The burning of Brass TAKE flakes of Brass put them in an earthen vessel putting between every thin plate either common Salt or Brimstone in pouder in this manner lay flake upon flake till the pot be full then burn it sufficiently and sweeten it with warm water it will be reddish if prepared with salt black if with Brimstone The way to wash Aloes Take of Aloes beaten into very fine pouder as much as you will put it into a glazed pot and stir it up and down with a spatula in a sufficient quantity of boyling hot water so as the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water pour off that and put in other warm water do so till nothing but the dross is left at bottom all the waters being added together evaporate away the moisture that the pure Aloes may be left in a mass at bottom The preparation of Spodium Take of choyce Ivory cut in big peices burn them in an earthen pot in a furnace till they look white then being beaten into fine pouder wash it in Rosewater let there be two pound of the water to one pound of the Ivory dry it and wash it again thrice the last time diffolve four drachms of Camphire in the Rose water then having dryed it grind it fine upon a marble and make it into troches to be kept for your use In the same manner may you prepare Hartshorn The Preparation of Bole Armenick The preparation of this is performed by many with Rose water by some with Vineger by others with Wine The Role being in fine pouder they wash so often till all the dross and sand be taken from it then they dry it in the air or in the sun and keep it close covered 〈◊〉 Brionie Take of 〈◊〉 roots as many as you will scrape them with a knife and press out the juyce strongly with a press which being kept without motion in a vessel after a few hours white foeces like Starch will settle the water swimming at top being poured off dry those Foeces in glazed vessels May Butler Take of sresh Putter without any salt at all about the middle of May or toward the latter end of them month place it in the sun in a broad earthen vessel well glazed that so it may be melted on every side which being well melted when the sun is at the hottest strain it through a thick linnen rag but press it not then set it in the san again at last when it is white you may keep it all the yeer 〈◊〉 of quick Lines The Lime being beaten let it be mixed with much sweet water especially in the Dog daies and much stirred and when it is setled at the bottom change the water and mix it again with other do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at 〈◊〉 put Rose water to it and so dry it and keep it for your use The way to burn River Crabs Take of River Crabs alive stew them in a brass pan over a temperate fire so long then having beaten them to pouder keep them in a clean box in a dry place so will they continue good a whol yeer The common preparation of filings of Steel Take of filings of Steel cleansed from the filth by a Loadstone washing them in clean water and drying them then sprinkle them well with sharp Wine Vineger stirring them well dry them in the shaddow often putting fresh Vineger to them so let it stand thirty daies afterwards beat it into very fine pouder and keep it for your use In such steel as is prepared by the fire with Brimstone you must note that unless after the burning it retain a smatch of the tast of Vittiol it hath lost all its opening saculty and is good for nothing The preparation of Coriander 〈◊〉 Steep Coriander seeds in sharp Vineger for twenty sour hours and then dry them and so if you please you may prepare Cummin seeds also The preparation of 〈◊〉 Take of wild Cucumers 〈◊〉 ripe as many as you will cut them 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the juyce gently with your 〈◊〉 singers 〈◊〉 which let run through a very fine sive then let it stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 part be setled at the bottom 〈◊〉 off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 into another earthen glazed vesel ser the 〈◊〉 at the bottom being covered with a linnen cloath in the son till it be dry then keep it for your use The preparation of Spurge roots Infuse the bark of spurge roots being well cleansed in sharp wine Vineger then dry them and keep them for your use In the same manner is prepared the leaves of Laurel Merereon or spurge olive and the fruit of Thymelaea The preparation of Euphorbium Take of Euphorbium beaten into very fine pouder grind it upon a stone with oyl of sweet Almonds till it be like an unguent then let it be put into a Quince or Citron made hollow rolled up in past and baked in an oven keep the Euphorbium so prepared in a glass well stopped The manner of making Gersa or Cerussa Serpentaria Take of Aron roots in the beginning of the spring before their strength run up to leaves as many as you will wash them cleanse them from the outward bark then being beat in a stone mortar and the juyce pressed through a sive which being covered with a linnen cloath let it be dryed in the sun afterward washed in Rose water dryed again and kept for your use The preparation of black Hellebore Take of black Hellebore roots as we have them with us the woody