them forth and put them into a Canvas bagge and presse it foorth This Oyle helpes wounds with great speed it makes the hayre of the head or beard black It takes away the paines of the Emerodes it is excellent against burning with fire or scalding with water you shall understand this oyle may bee made very perfect by the art of Distillation without impression as I haue prooved divers times ¶ Here beginneth the Order to make Oyles of all manner of Spices and Seeds To make Oyle of Sinamon TAke Sinamon as much as you will and stampe it grossely then put it into a glasse with pure Aqua vitae and so let it stand fiue or sixe dayes then distill it with a small fire and there will come forth both oyle and water the which you shall separate one from another for the Oyle will sinke to the bottome some vse to distill this with wine and some with Rose-water You shall vnderstand that this Oyle is of a marveilous nature for it pierceth through the flesh and bones and is very hot and drie and is good against all colde and moyst diseases and in speciall for the heart and head in so much that if a man lay speechlesse and could scant draw his winde it would presently recover him againe so that his time bee not yet come most miraculous to see and to bee short this Oyle is of such operation and vertue that if a man drinke never so little hee shall feele the working in his fingers and toes with great marvell and therfore to be short it pierceth thorow the whole body and helpes all diseases that are come through cold flegmatique matter This oyle is hot and sharpe it digesteth and makes thin driues downe womens termes it helpes vvomen that haue great paines and smart in their travaile and brings foorth their fruite if you giue the Patient a little of this Oyle with oyle of Mirra in Wine to drinke and annoynt the parts therewith The face and hands being annoynted with this oyle it driveth away the Measells and Spots It warmeth the breast and helpes the colde Cough It consumes all cold Fluxes that proceed from the braine and head and causeth quiet sleepe This Oyle may bee occupied in stead of the naturall Baulme for many Diseases Yee shall note that the water of Sinamon is also good against the aforesayd Diseases but yet nothing of so much force as the Oyle for one drop of Oyle will doe more then foure spoonfulls of the vvater therefore they would bee vsed together To make Oyle of Cloues THis Oyle is made in this order Take the best Cloues thou canst get and beat them grossely then put them into pure wine into a glasse with a long neck close luted then set it in warme hors-dung the space of a moneth then distill it in sand with a soft fire and thou shalt haue a faire Oyle which will sinke to the bottome the which you shall separate and his vertues are these It strengtheneth the braine head and heart and reviveth the spirits it serveth against al cold diseases it consumeth all euil flegme being outwardly applyed it hath great vertue in healing may be occupied in steed of balme for wounds One or two droppes taken in the morning with wine helps a stinking breath it maks the heart merry and cleanseth the filthinesse thereof and openeth the liver that is stopped being put into the eye it cleeres the sight it comforts a cold stomacke and causeth good digestion it purgeth melancholy this oyle may be made in manus Christi with sugar and they will haue the aforesaid vertue and strength To make Oile of Nutmegs THis Oyle is made as the Oyle of Cloues and will swim vpon the wine but if you distill this againe in Balneo it will bee most pure and suttle and may bee kept an hundred yeeres in his perfect strength and vertue This Oyle being drunke with Wine driveth downe womens tearmes and also the quicke and the dead fruit and therefore women with child shall not occupie this oyle vntill such time as they bee in travell with childe and then it causeth them to be faire delivered without paine and danger Being drunke with wine it takes away al paines of the head comming of cold It comforts the maw and opens the liver milt and kidneyes and such like it is excellent against beating of the heart and faintnesse and swouning if ye drinke thereof and annoint the region of the heart therwith it makes good blood and expelleth flegmatique and melancholly humours and makes a man merry being vsed at night it takes away all fancies and dreames if any had a vvound or had broken a ribbe within him with a fall let him drinke this Oyle with any slight wound-drinke and it will helpe him although he were almost dead it is good in all filthy sores which are counted uncurable it is also pretious for all cold diseases of the ioynts and sinews it makes a sweet breath if the splene doe swell yee shall annoint therewith the left side it helps all effects in the blather if it bee drunke To make Oyle of Mace THis oyle is made as aforesaid and is hot in operation it hath great vertue against the chollicke which commeth of cold causes or of a rheume descending from the head it comforts the heart the stomacke and the wombe it is good in the strangurie and all cold diseases if yee drinke thereof three or foure drops fasting with a spoonfull of wine or broath or eate two or three manus Christi made there with To make Oyle of Pepper THis oyle is distilled as is said afore and is very cleare and light and his vertues are these This oyle hath more vertue then the Pepper hath in piercing and specially in the cholicke and other weake places filled with flegme if you take thereof three or foure droppes with one scruple of the juyce of a Quince two houres afore the fit after the bodie is well purged and let blood it stayeth also the shaking at the first time or else at the second it taketh away the fit Yee shall vnderstand that this Oyle is onely the ayrie part separated from the other Elements I saw once this Oyle made by a German which had the perfect taste savour and smell and was so hot on the tongue as oyle of Vitrioll To make Oyle of Saffron TAke the best Saffron thou canst get and put it into a glasse and put thereon pure rectified Aqua vitae then lute the glasse fast and set it in warme horse-dung a moneth then distill it in Balneo Maria with a soft fire vntill all the Aqua vitae be come foorth then take foorth the Saffron and presse it in a presse made for that purpose within a strong Canvasse bagge and you shall haue both oyle and water which you shall disgest fiue or sixe dayes and then separate them by art If this oyle bee drunken with Wine it makes a man merry and to
you till it bee all dissolved Then dissolue that salt in raine water three or foure times and looke whether there remaine any salt in the bottome undissolved and if there remaine none it is well prepared or else not and it is called Sal philosophorum or sapientiae and when it is dissolved into cleare water that the salt may remaine very dry in the bottome the which ye shall keepe in a glasse close there for it is a mod excellent medicine against all diseases of the body for it will leaue nothing in a mans body that shall hurt him but it doth driue it forth by sweat and maketh the Patient as sound and whole as ever he was in all his life It helpeth all outward sores as the Canker the Wolfe Fistulaes and such like This being taken inwardly doth helpe those outward diseases most wonderfull for it helpeth them in three or foure dayes and when yee will occupy it against such diseases yee shall use it in this manner Yee shall take a Viall full of wine and put therein two or three graines of that salt for it is sufficient for any sicke person for any kind of diseases then stop that Viall and set it in warme water untill the salt be dissolved then giue the sicke person thereof to drinke warme and lay him downe to sweat for it will cause him to sweat wonderfully therefore keepe him from the cold in any wise for that sweat will bring him to health againe although he were a Leaper so that it come not by nature of his mother for if it come by kind there is no helpe that I doe know yet neverthelesse this medicine can not hurt nor yet it cannot helpe him But other sicknesses although they were never so evill or sore it will helpe them It helps the Pestilence miraculously in one day and likewise the poxe in short time giving it as is aforesaid in wine and lay thereon and sweat and when thou wilt helpe any outward sore thou shalt lay thereon a wound plaister and let him drinke the said salt with wine morning and evening as is said afore and in short space they shall be holpen The order to distill vineger to make the aforesaid salts TAke good strong renish wine vineger and distill it in a Limbecke of glasse and giue it first a small fire till halfe be distilled then take it away for it is nothing worth to our worke then taste it on thy tongue whether it be sharpe or no if it bee not sharpe it is not good if not keepe that small fire till the liquor come forth sowre yee shall note that the worst of the vineger distilleth first then distill that which is last with a reasonable fire till it bee almost distilled but yee may not distill it all quite out lest it should stinke of the fire and waxe red for then will it not serue our purpose Moreover yee shall note that it may not drop faster but that a man may say a Pater noster betweene To draw forth the salt of Arsnicke THe salt of Arsenicke is a marvellous salt but it is sharpe and corosiue and the order to make it is thus Take Arsnicke ʒ i. which is fixed and dissolue it in Aqua fortis made of salt Peter and Allum and when it is dissolved put thereon raine water till it sincke to the bottome and when it is suncke to the bottome let it stand to settle then poure off that part which is clear and put on more fresh water and let it seeth and then let it settle and poure off the water againe and then poure on more and this order yee shall use untill the water come off as sweet as yee put it on then calcine it sixe dayes and sixe nights then poure thereon distilled vineger and seeth it in Balneo Mariae to dissolue and at night let it settle and waxe cleare then poure off that which is cleare and put on more and let it stand a day to dissolue as I said afore and then let it waxe cleare and then poure off the cleare parts This yee must doe three times as is said of gold and then dry it very well and put thereon faire raine water till it be dissolved and when it is dissolved yee shall make no more fire under it but let it waxe cold and then poure the cleare parts off and distill it in Balneo Mariae untill it be dry and then you shall find your salt in the ground as white as the snow which is most excellent against the Canker the Wolfe and such like as commeth of wounds c. Yee shall helpe them thus Take of this salt ℈ j. and put thereto ʒ j. of Vnguentum fuscum and therewith dresse the sores and they will heale in short time though they were never so old and therefore if thou wilt understand wherefore it serues looke in my pearle of Chirurgery and also in the Chirurgery of Paraselsus To make Oyle of Mettals and first of Lead and Tinne IF you will make oyle of these two Mettalles yee must first calcine them as I haue shewed you and then dissolue them in the aforesaid strong water and when they bee dissolved let them stand till it bee as cleare as a glasse then distill away the water by a Limbecke till it remaine dry and when it is dry put thereon good distilled vineger and set it in Balneo Mariae to dissolua a whole day and let it boyle and then let it waxe cold and settle then poure off that part which is cleare and distill it in an other glasse and when your matter is dry put thereon other distilled vineger and let it seeth so long untill it bee dissolved then distill away the vineger and then put on more vineger this dissolving and distilling yee shall use so long untill the matter remaine in the bottome like oyle then put it forth whilest it is yet warme for when it is cold it is so tough as yee cannot get it from the glasse This oyle so made is most excellent for it helpes wounds and sores in very short time and moreover there is no oyle amongst all the secrets of Phisicke or Surgery that heales a wound sooner then this oyle doth for it helpes them in foure and twenty houres so as there bee no bones broke or cut c. There is an other manner of making of this oyle which is better wherof wee will not write in this place To make Oyle of Copper and of Crocum Martis or Iron THese mettalles yee must first calcine and then dissolue them in strong water then put thereon raine water till the mettall sincke to the bottome then put to so much raine water till it haue no taste of the strong water then dry it well and put thereon distilled Vineger and set it in Balneo to dissolue then distill away the Vineger till it remaine dry then put thereon fresh Vineger and distill that away till that the matter remaine dry and this
the Stone and provoketh Vrine if yee drinke it with Malmesie or Parcelie water or such like It helpeth the Collicke and choking of the Matrix if you also annoynt the parts therewith it driveth foorth the fruit and causeth a woman to be fairely delivered if she drinke three or foure drops it is good against all fluxes of the head To make Oyle of Amoniacum TAke this Gumme and put it into a glasse close luted and set it in warme dung or in Balneo Mariae vntill it bee dissolved then distill it in sand with a head and a receiver thou shalt haue both Oyle and water the which yee shall separate one from another ye shall understand that there will come foorth more water then oyle as I haue prooved many times This Oyle helpeth the Cough comming of moysture it purgeth the breast and helpeth Vlcers in that place three or foure drops being taken in an Egge it helpeth paines in the side if yee annoynt it therewith It dissolveth all hardnesse and swellings and taketh away the paynes of the Gowt If ye mixe this oyle with as much oile of Galbanum and a very little oyle of Wormewood and annoint the Milt it taketh away all the paines being mixed with oile of Wormewood and annoynted in the navill it killeth wormes To make Oyle of Sarcocolla THis is an excellent Balsome against all wounds and filleth them with flesh it purgeth all olde sores without paine and smart it breaketh hard Impostumes it helpeth all running Eyes if you vse it in a Collirie it helpeth wheales in the eye-lids Being drunk with Wine it helpeth the Phewme that falleth to the teeth and for that cause it is vsed of those that are troubled with aboundance of flegmatique humours You shall note that this oile is specially vsed in fresh wounds and old sores This Oyle is made as you made the oyle of Serapynum To make Oyle of Castoreum TAke the fattest that thou canst gett and stampe it well then put it into a glasse and set it to putrifie in Balneo Mariae fiue or sixe dayes then distill it with a soft fire and thou shalt haue an excellent Oyle This is good against all cold Cramps and Balsies being mixed with Rew and Vineger and put into the nostrills it comforteth the braine and taketh away paines of the head Beeing annoynted on the necke and also drunke with Wine it helpeth much those that are troubled with the Falling Sicknesse It helpeth Convulsions and paines of the sinewes if you annoynt them therewith Being drunk with Pepper and Hidromell it provoketh womens termes and also the fruit it warmeth cold places it is also excellent against Appoplexia it helpeth those that are deafe it mooveth Venery It cureth the Collicke and the suffocation of the Matrix and strengtheneth the naturall parts To make Oyles of Frankincense TAke Frankincense as much as you will and put it into a Retort of glasse well luted and put thereunto for every pound of stuffe foure ounces of cleane sand and then distill it with a gentle fire vntill all the substance bee come foorth and thou shalt haue both water and oyle the which ye must separate The water is good against wind in the stomack if it bee drunke it is also good for choppes in the hands and feet if yee wash them therewith annoynt them with the oyle against the fire and strait wayes put on a paire of gloues and so doing three times they shall be whole This Oile helpeth simple wounds in three or foure dayes if yee annoynt them therewith and lay thereon a cloath wet in the same it preserveth all flesh from putrifying and alteration and taketh away the paine It helpeth all aches and bruises if ye anoint them therwith Ye shall note that you must vse no tent where you occupie this oyle but wash the wound cleane and joyne it or stitch it close together and then lay thereon a cloth wet in the same for if yee fall a tenting ye make work for the Surgeon To make Oyle of Turpentine TAke pure and cleane Turpentine as much as you will and put it into a glasse so that three parts be emptie and put therein a certaine quantitie of Sand as much as you shall thinke good then distill it in sand with a soft fire and there wil come foorth foure Liquors The one is a cleare water the other a cleare Oyle the third a yellow Oyle the fourth a red and stinking the which a number of Potecaries doe fell in stead of Balme Yee shall note that the first Oyle is hot the second hotter the third hottest of all and not so good to occupie inwardly as the first Falopius in his booke of secrets writeth that this oile will help fresh wounds in foure and twenty houres if ye anoint them therwith and lay thereon a cloath wet in the same So is the oyle of Tile-stones or the blessed oyle mixed with Grayes or Badgers grease This oyle is made with powder of tyle-stones burnt redd hot and quenched in the best oyle oliue and then with a retort and strong fire purchased It is good against contraction or sinews comming of cold It provoketh vrine if yee drinke one dram of the first oyle in white wine it breaketh wind in the bodie and dissolveth the Plurisie and pestilent Fever it provoketh an appetite if ye annoynt the stomacke therewith It helpeth against cold diseases of the Maw and helpeth a stinking breath and the cough To make Oyle of Wax TAke new yellow Waxe as much as you shal think good and melt it on the fire then powre it into sweet Wine and vvring it betweene your hands then melt it againe and powre it into Wine againe and this you shall doe fiue or sixe times at the least and everie time you must haue fresh Wine then at the last you shall put it into a Retort of glasse well luted with his Receiver and distill it in Sand and there will come forth a faire yellow oyle the which will congeale like pap when it is cold You shall understand that for everie pound of Waxe yee shall put thereto foure ounces of the powder of Brickes into the glasse Raymonde Lullie greatly commendeth this Oyle approoving it rather to bee a Celestiall or divine Medicine then humane for because this in wounds worketh most miraculously which for his marveilous commoditie is not so well to bee vsed of the common Chirurgion Because this precious Oyle healeth a vvound bee the same never so bigge or wide being afore wide stitched vp in the space of eleven dayes or twelue at the most But those that are small this Oyle healeth in three or foure dayes by annoynting onely the wound therwith and laying thereon a'cloath wet in the same Also for inward diseases this Oyle worketh miracles For if you giue one dramme at a time to drinke with white wine it stayeth the shedding of the hayre either on the head or beard by anoynting the place therwith Moreover it is
oyle will haue the colour of gold It is most excellent to cure ulcers caused of the poxe for it taketh away their malice in such order that it can hurt no more being drunke with wine it breaketh the stone in the raines and bladder it provoketh vrine it purgeth ulcers Another way to make Oyle of Tartare TAke Tartare and stamp it small and then put it in a new earthen pot unglaâ—ed and set it in a potters furnace or furnace of reverberation untill it bee white then lay it upon a smooth stone in a moist place and it will turne into oyle the which is corrosiue but one part thereof mixed with ten parts of pure rectified Aqua vitae healeth ulcers quickly if yee touch them therewith it maketh the face faire if yee wash the haire therewith it maketh it yellow it taketh out blacke spots in linnen cloth and fixeth the medicines alchimicall with divers other vertues the which I will leaue untill another time To make Oyle of a Harts horne YEe shall take a Harts horne in the moneth of August and file it to powder then boyle it in water untill it be sufficient then draw away the water in Balneo and take that which remaineth in the bottome and put it in a glasse with little pieces of tiles and distill it and thou shalt have a faire oyle the which serveth for sundry purposes To distill Oyle of a mans Excrements TAke the doung of a young sanguine child or man as much as you will and distill it twice in a Limbecke of glasse This helpeth the Canker and mollifieth Fistulaes comforteth those that are troubled with Allopecia To make Oyle of the Skull of a man TAke the skull of a man that was never buried and beate it into powder then distill away the flegâ—… with a gentle fire and put it on againe and distill it again and this you shall doe three times upon the feces and at the last give it strong fire untill the Oyle bee come foorth the which yee shall separate by Balneo and keep it close shut in a glasse The dose is three graines against the falling sickenesse Yee shall understand that there is also a salt to bee drawne forth of the feces the which is of great vertue against the aforesaid diseases being drunke with wine as is aforesaid FINIS SECRETS OF PHISICKE AND PHILOSOPHIE The second Booke CONTAINING The ordering and preparing of all Mettalls Mineralls Allumes Saltes and such like for medicines both inwardly and outvvardly and for divers other uses Printed at London by A. M. for Will. Lugger and are to be sould at the Posterne gate at Tower-Hill 1633. To the Reader IN this present Booke welbeloved Reader I have taken upon mee to set foorth the true and worthy cunning of the distillation of Mineralles that is of those things which are found in the Mines as all manner of Salts Allums Vitrioll Sulphur Mercury and such like Mettalles as Saturnus Iupiter Mars Sol Luna Venus And how you shall get the liquor or moisture out of them And all that which appertaineth to the health of man The which I meane by the grace of God to set foorth in this Booke with a number of Alchy mistes preparations of the said things the which worketh wonderfully in mans body so that it seemeth to divers persons myraculous Therfore gentle Reader peruse this Booke with discretion and then if thou seest it stand to thy minde set thy hand to the plough and be diligent in the worke so that thou mayest know the proofe and feele the ready commoditie thereof for yee shall understand that there is no medicine in the world that can be found of so quicke operation as the Mineralls are if they bee truely prepared and as I will shew you hereafter but if they be not well prepared they are very hurtfull and not to bee allowed Therefore looke that ye prepare them as I shall shew you and then you shall wonder at their working And although the worthy science of Alchimie is come in such disdaine through lewd persons that it seemeth lyes and fables and no true science Yet that ought not to hinder or derogate any thing to our purpose as long as our matter is against the abuse of it as for example The Alchymistes have wrought in this worke to the intent they might have of Lead and Copper Gold and Silver or the meane to make them of all other simples or slight mettalles But whether God hath given them that gift I know not therefore I leave it to the Masters of that Arte. And albeit wee have seene many wonderfull things in that Arte yet will I not affirme that it is possible to be done for it seemeth vnreasonable that a man in so short time should doe that thing the which nature doth in many yeares And that men should presume to doe that which God doth only himselfe and not any of his creatures Wee therefore will not affirme it to bee true or possible nor yet will wee deny it vtterly or condemne it as untrueth But wee will leave the answer to those that take it to be done But heere in this treatise wee will set foorth that which we have seen and wrought and prooved and are expert therein And although it bee sprung out of the Arte of Alchymie yet it is not to that intent for it serveth not to transmute Mettalles but it serveth to helpe those diseased both inwardly and outwardly who of the common sort of Chirurgions are counted uncurable and also given over of the Physitians Those Patients shall be holpen through the hidden mysteries heavenly secrets of this science And forasmuch as it is unpossible to prepare these things without the Arte of Alchymie therfore we must praise this art through our preparations above al other sciences that maketh for the health of man for they preserue a man only touched and afflicted with slight wounds and griefes on his body and that with much paine and much adoe But this Arte giveth unto man his health againe in short time and with smal paine unto the patient be he never so desperately sicke and to mans thinking past cure for I have seene myracles therein And insomuch that it is all prepared with fire the meane man calleth it Alchymia Howbeit the intent of the Alchymist is farre from our intent But call it what you will it maketh not much matter of the name For I am sure there is nothing in all Physicke that ministreth eyther better or readier helpe to cure mans body then this science of preparing mettals with fire rightly I say rightly prepared not as the unskilfull Apoticaries have ordered them or as the unlearned Physitians have occupied them for the Apoticary is no other then a servant in the kitchin as I may terme him and no master Cooke so long as hee knoweth not these preparations which I will shew you In like maner it is to be thought of the Physitian that hath no skill in these
preparations For wee have seene and prooved divers times that the first vapour or smoake of any Herbe or Spice is the best that is therein and yet our learned Phisitians commaund it to be boyled untill halfe be consumed c. Then note if the best flie away in boyling what strength can the Medicine have Therefore I say that the Physitian without this Arte of preparation is little or nothing worth although they take the patients money For he goeth to worke blindly with a blinde leader which is the Apoticary But the Physitian that is expert in this Science and doeth prepare his Medicines truely hee is to be praysed above all other For a man cannot buy with any money that which is got by long carefull travell Therefore is the Arte of Alchymie worthy to be praised and the Alchymist to bee praised also although they attaine not to their first intention yet they have opened the way through the which this excellent cunning of preparation was knowne and found and through the which there are a number of wonderfull secrets opened the which without this Arte were all unknown to the great hinderance of the sicke and diseased persons Therfore I wil not speak against it but hold it in great estimation to our intention that is the help of the sicke and diseased person and to prepare the Mineralles wherewith you may doe that which cannot bee done with any other Hearbs or simples or spices And heerewith will we finish this preface and write of the names of the simples which are occupied in this Arte. The names of the Mettals Simples or Medicines of this Science HEre will I welbeloved Reader shew thee for good will that thing which many have sought with their money and labour and yet could never finde it especially for that I will not have this worthy Science trod under feete Therefore wee will write first of the names of the Simples and then of the names of the preparations and what they are Sal Armoniacke that is a salt so called the which yee shall finde at the Apoticaries Sal Gemme is stone salt found in the Myne as cleere as the glasse Sal Commune is common salt that we eate Vitriolum is greene coperas Calcantum is yellow Coperas a matter like Oker Alumen is Allum but there are divers kinds Sulfur Vive is the stone whereout the other Sulfur is melted and is greene of colour Antimonium is a certaine Minerall so called that yee shall finde at the Apoticaries Carrabe that is yellow Ambre or Sucinum Tartarum that is Argil or wine leese Saturnus that is lead Iupiter that is tinne Mars that is yron Sol that is gold Luna that is silver Venus that is copper Mercury that is quick-silver The names of the preparations CAlcinatio that is to make any of these mettalles as it were lime with great fire sometimes and other sometime with small fire Solutio that is to dissolve and make as it were liquid like unto water the hard or tough substance of any thing Sublimatio that is a driving up or ascension of the mettall by force of heate into the toppe of the Limbecke so that it may hange in the top of the vessell hard and dry Distillatio that is to take away the moysture by the heate of the fire Digestio that is to set the matter in hot water or in horse dung Fixatio that is to sublime a matter so long that it will sublime no more but remaine fixt in the bottome There are a number of other preparations but we will leave them because we have written sufficient for our purpose already To prepare Crocum martis and such like which are prepared through calcination CRocum Martis or Crocum Veneris shall bee made in this manner Take the limmall of yron as much as you will and wash it with faire water so long untill that the water run as cleare as it was put out then put it in a glasse and put thereon strong Vineger untill it bee covered and let it stand so two or three dayes close shut then poure off the Vineger and dry the limmall well then put it into a new earthen pot with a cover and lute it very well round about with lime and haire mixt together then set it in a furnace of calcination eight dayes and eight nights so that it may continually stand red hot then take it foorth and grinde it on a stone and if it grinde very smooth without any hard matter that yee can either see or feele then it is calcined enough but if yee feele any hard matter put it into the furnace againe two or three dayes and then grinde it againe and this order ye shall use untill it bee fine as can be possible This Crocum Martis being so prepared amongst all other medicines in the world it is the most excellent that can bee found against the bloody flixe giving it in this order Take conserue of roses one ounce crocum Martis one scruple mixe them together and let the Patient eate it in the morning and fast thereon two houres and it will helpe him although he had had it never so long or never so sore It is also given aboue all other medicines in the later end of a dropsie and also against the fluxe of menstrue and against bleeding at the nose and all other fluxes It helpeth those that spit blood it is excellent to stop the fluxe in wounds and to helpe them and dry them if yee strew the powder thereon c. Yee shall make Crocum Veneris in the selfe same order aforesaid but where yee tooke limmall yee shall take the scales of copper and yee shall note that this Crocum Veneris is not to bee vsed inwardly but onely outwardly Of the preparation of Alumes and Salts TAke sal Gemme or common salt and set it in a calcining furnace with a small fire untill it be red hot the space of halfe an houre and that it crake no more then let it waxe cold and beate it to powder and let it melt and let it stand till it be cleare then powre it in a pot well nealed and set it on the fire and let it boyle till it be dry and ye shall find the salt on the ground as white as snow the which yee shall neale once more in the fire and then it is prepared The preparation of Allum TAke Allum and calcine it in an open vessell till all his moysture bee gone then make it red hot and after a while put it into an other pot with strong vineger and set it on the fire and let it seeth dry then set it on the fire againe till it bee red hot and as white as snow then keepe it to thy vse This is very excellent to dry up old sores if it bee mixâ— with hony and taketh away dead flesh without payne c. To calcine Vitrioll TAke Vitrioll and beate it to powder and put it into a new earthen pot that
long till that the Mercury cannot be perceived then put all the substance in a subliming vessell with his cover the which hath a hole in the top as I will shew thee hereafter in the next booke if God permit me life Then set it in a calcining furnace and give it first a small fire till that the moysture bee flowne out thorow the hole of the cover of the Sublimatory the which yee shall know by this meanes ye shall now and then holde a knife over the hole of the instrument and then if the knife be wet there is moysture in the vessell but when yee see that the knife is still dry stop the hole with a stopple of paper and encrease the fire a little bigger and let it stand so foure houres long then encrease the fire yet bigger and let it stand foure houres then make the fire so hot that the bottome may be all red and that continue sixe houres but let not your fire slake then let it waxe cold and take that which is sublimed and grind it on a stone with two pound of salt prepared and sublime it againe as yee did afore in all points then let it waxe cold and grind it againe with Salt prepared and sublime it againe This grinding and subliming yee shal use untill the Mercury bee as cleare as Christall and as white as Snow and then it is prepared then keepe it in a glasse till that I write more thereof To sublime Sulphure FIrst before that yee will sublime Sulphur ye must prepare him thus Take Sulphure vive and grind it to fine powder then searce it finely then put it in a pan with strong vineger and set it on the fire and let it seeth a whole day and a night but yee must put thereto alwayes more vineger as it consumeth avvay and still yee must skum off the skim or filth as fast as it riseth and vvhen it hath sodden so in Vineger ye shall seeth it two daies in the Vrine of young children and alwayes skum off the froth and put thereto more Vrine alwaies as it consumeth This seething and skumming ye shall continue untill there rise no more froth then put it in a glasse and wash it with warme water till all the stinke of the pisse be gone and that it remaine as white as any Snow then dry it wel for it is well purged then take of that purged Sulphur halfe a pound Vitriall calcined one pound grind these very fine together so that the Sulfure cannot be seene then put them in a subliming vessell and set it in the furnace and give it first a small fire till the moisture be gone the which ye shall know with a knife as I shewed you afore then stop the hole and increase the fire a little and so keepe it sixe houres then let it waxe cold and take that which is sublimed and grind it vvith fresh Vitrioll and sublime it againe as ye did afore this subliming and grinding vvith fresh Vitrioll ye shall use till that the Sulfure be as vvhite as Snovv so cleere as a glasse and then it is sublimed enough therefore keepe it in a glasse close shut vvith Waxe till that vve vvrite more thereof To sublime Sal Armoniacke TAke Sal Armoniack l'i and as much limall of Iron and grind them together on a stone then put them in a subliming vessell and seeth it in the furnace first with a small fire and then increase it so that the bottome of the pot may be red hot and so let it stand halfe a Summers day then let it waxe cold and take that which is sublimed and grinde it on a stone with as much salt prepared and sublime it againe This grinding with new salt and subliming ye shall use so long till that it bee sublimed as white as Snow and then it is prepared then keepe it to sublime thy Mercurie with To sublime Copper which is a great secret FIrst yee must calcine it with Sulphur thus Take plates of Copper beaten as thin as is possible and cut them in little peeces as bigge as a peny or thereabout then take a crusible and put therein Brimstone beaten a finger thicke then lay thereon a bed of these plates and cover them with Sulphur then lay another bed and cover it with Sulphur againe and this doe till the Crusible bee full then set it in the calcining Furnace halfe a day long with a good fire then let it waxe cold and grinde it upon a stone and then put it into Aqua fortis let it dissolue and distill away the water and make the powder very dry the which remaineth in the bottome of the glasse land grinde it on a stone with salt prepared then put it in a subliming vessell and set it in a Furnace and giue first a small fire and then giue it a very strong fire foure and twenty houres and then let it waxe cold and in the vessell yee shall find a greene powder light and subtile but nothing like the Copper the which yee had to sublime Then keepe that in a glasse close shut with waxe for there is no better medicine in the world then this for the Canker the Wolfe Fistulaes and all such like sores for this doth helpe them quickly and when yee will occupy it in such sores yee must straw it thereon and lay upon it a wound plaister of the which I haue written a number in my pearle of Chirurgery and it shall heale them how sore soever they be To sublime Lead and Tinne THese two are sublimed with lesse labour then the Copper neverthelesse when ye shall sublime them goe to worke as thou didst with Copper saving that ye may not calcine them with Sulfur but as I haue shewed you afore And when it is so calcined yee shall dissolue them in this strong water following and when it is dissolved distill the water away till it remaine dry then dissolue it againe and distill the water away againe so that it remaine scant dry then take that and put thereto twise so much salt prepared and sublime them together with a strong fire and yee shall find a white powder sublimed in the top the which serveth to the same use that the copper serveth for that is in all foule Vlcerations and filthy sores c. How to make the said Aqua fortis to dissolue Lead and Tinne TAke salt Peter Vitrioll Roman and Sal Armoniack of each one pound beate them well together and put them in a glasse the which is very well luted then set on the head with a great receiver and lute the joynts well that no ayre may come forth then giue it a very small fire twelue houres long and then encrcase it according to Art but take good heed that yee bee not rash with your fire at the first lest that all the glasses fly in peeces then keepe it to thy use and when yee will dissolue your Lead yee must take for every pound
it on such kind of sores as will not bee holpe by no other kind of meanes for it will take away their corofiues and cause them to heale although they were never so ill And moreover because that thou shalt know wherefore it serveth yee shall note that it is good against all Cankers Fistulaes the wolfe and such like for it helpeth them al though they were never so evill as Paraselsus writes in his great Surgery in the chapter of the Canker and such like To make water of sal Armoniake TAke Sal Armoniake that is sublimed seven times and grinde it to powder then put it into a glasse that hath a hole in the bottome on the one side and then set that glasse in another and set them in a moist sellar and then the Sal Armoniacke will dissolue into water and runne into the neather glasse the which yee shall keepe close in the aforesaid manner yee may make water of Allum the which is excellent to dry up all filthy wounds c. The order to fixe all things that are flying TO fixe any thing is to be understood thus Ye shall sublime it so often as it will sublime no more but it will lie in the fire so as the fire cannot consume it and when ye will fixe any thing as Sulphur Quickesilver or Arsnicke or such like yee shall doe it in this order yee shall take Mercurie sublimed or Sulphur sublimed or Arsenicke or such like and put it into a subliming glasse which I will shew you divers Paternes in the next booke God willing and set it in a Furnace with a small fire and then encrease it according to Art the space of a whole day and then at Evening yee shall turne the glasse and let it sublime up into the other end and this order yee shall use with subliming from one end unto another till that it will sublime no more the which yee shall proue in this manner Yee shall take a little thereof and lay it on a red hot coale and look whether it smoke or no for if it smoke it is not fixt but if it smoke not it is fixt but to know the very truth yee shall take thereof and grinde it to powder and then put it into a Crusible and giue it as great a fire as though yee would melt Copper and then if yee see there commeth no smoake from it it is fixt but if it smoake away yee shall put it into a new subliming glasse and sublime it againe then keep it to thy use till I write more thereof for when you haue your spirits fixt yee haue a great treasure not to be bought with money and principally of Sulphure fixt for therewith ye may doe what yee list for there can no sicknesse come unto mans body but it may bee holpe therewith Also Mercury being fixt is such an excellent medicine against the poxe that the like cannot bee found in the world But yee shall note that it must not be occupied alone but with other things which I will shew you in an other place The Arsenicke and the Sal Armoniacke may not bee occcupied in any wise inwardly but onely outwardly as yee shall heare hereafter and especially of the salt of Arsenicke To make Oyle of Antimonie IF you will make this oyle yee must looke diligently to your fire lest ye spoyle all then take a retort of glasse and lute it very well and put therein three pounds of Antimonie and three pounds of Sal gemme calcined beaten together then encrease your fire according to Art three dayes and three nights and lute thy receiver very well which must bee of the quantity of fiue or sixe gallons or more the greater the better and then thou shalt haue an oyle as red as blood which is not to bee sold or bought for money for it helpeth the Canker the Wolfe Noli me tangere and Fistulaes if yee annoynt them therewith first the dead flesh will fall out without paine and then it will heale how sore soever it bee although it were forty yeares old In summa It is a most excellent oyle against all sores and venemous Vlcers for if yee annoynt them three times therewith it helpes them although they were so venemous as they did eate a hand broad in one night as is divers times seene of the Wolfe and such like ulcerations that eate so as it seemes a dogge had bitten out a great peece These and all other ulcerations which will not bee holpe by any meanes yee shall helpe them with this oyle in short space so as shall seeme marvellous to behold How yee may draw forth Salt out of all mettalles and first out of Gold which is called Sal sapientium FIrst if you will make sait of Gold you shall take gold filed into powder and dissolue it in the afore written strong water and when it is dissolved yee shall boyle away the water till it remaine dry then thou shalt put thereon faire water and let it seeth therewith three or foure houres long and then poure it away and put more thereon and let it seeth againe and then poure it off againe this pouring on and off yee shall use till the water haue no taste of the strong water but is sweet and when it is so giue it great fire that it may dry well then put it in a glasse and set it in a calcining Furnace and there it shal calcine a whole moneth long so that it remaine alwayes red hot and at one degree of fire then take and grinde it on a stone untill it be as fine as is possible then poure thereon good distilled vineger and lay a cover over the glasse and let it seeth in Balneo Mariae a whole day long putting thereto alwayes fresh vineger then poure off that vineger into a glasse and put thereon more and boyle it a whole day as ye did afore and this yee shall doe three times then take that vineger that yee poured off and distill it by Balneo Mariae till it remaine dry and in the bottome yee shall find a salt as white as snow which yee shall take and put thereon more vineger and set it in the Balneo Mariae that it may boyle the space of two houres then let it settle a whole day and then poure off that which is cleare and then if there remaine any thing in the bottome it is not enough prepared then shall yee dissolue it in vineger againe and distill the vineger againe as I haue shewed you and yee shall find a whiter salt in the bottome of the glasse which ye shall put in vineger againe and let that boyle in Balneo Mariae two houres as I haue afore shewed you and then let it stand and settle and then poure off the clearer part and distill it in Bailneo Mariae and the salt will remaine in the bottome as white as snow But if there remaine any in the other glasse yee shall not doe as I haue shewed
excellent in provoking of Vrine which is stopped it helpeth stitches and paines in the loines if you drink the foresaid quantitie with White Wine It helpeth the cold Gowt or Sciatica and all other griefes comming of cold Yee shall understand that if you rectifie this oile it wil congeale no more but then it will bee too hot to take inwardly for it pierceth marvellously and is good to bee mixed with other medicines to cause them to pierce the better To make the Quintessence of Honey YOu shall vnderstand that Honey is a liquor rather divine then humane because it falleth from heaven vpon the hearbs is such a sweet thing that the like cannot bee found vpon the earth And this Raymond Lullie calleth the Flower of Flowers because Bees gather it vpon the Flowers in the field And truely it is a most strange thing if wee would consider well the qualitie of Honey and Waxe and therefore the wise Baruch Arabico in the Academie of Avicene did write this sentence Mel dentro olio difuori satisfying vs by this that Honey and Oyle were the first two liquors in the world And truly it is so if we consider well as it may well bee prooved by holy Scripture The order to make this Quintessence is thus Take two pound of perfect pure Honey and put it into a great glasse that foure parts of fiue may remaine emptie Lute it well with a Head and Receiver and giue it fire vntill there appeare certain white fumes which you shall turne into water with wetting of clothes in cold water and laying them on the Receiver and Head and they will turne into water of a redd colour like blood When it is all distilled keepe the glasse close shut and let it stand till it bee cleare and in the colour of a Rubine Then distill it in Balâ—eâ— Mariae at least sixe or seven times and so it will lose his red colour and remaine in the colour of Golde having a great smell and so pleasant that the like cannot bee found in the world The juice of a Limmon doeth dissolue Leafe-golde in vvarme ashes with the Quintessence of this honey and maketh it potable in fortie eight houres This Quintessence dissolveth gold and maketh it potable and likewise any sort of Iewell that is put therein It is of such vertue that if any bee a dying and drinke two or three drammes thereof presently hee will recover as the Quintessence of Wine will doe If you wash any wound therewith or other sore it will heale quickly It is also good against the Cough Catarre and paines of the Milt and many other diseases which I will not speake of for but few and they very hardly wil beleeue the great vertue and operation thereof I gaue this six and fortie dayes vnto one that had the Palsie and hee was holpen It helpeth also the falling sicknesse and preserveth the bodie from putrifaction so that by these you may perceiue that it is a celestiall medicine If therefore anie vertuous man would take a little paine in the experience heereof hee shall doe wonderfull things as many times I haue so that the people deemed that I wrought by Inchantment when as indeed I did it by vertue of this liquor ministring the same so privily that they could not see it which fell out to my great honour and benefit of the sicke as you shall reade in my Thesauro della vita humana And therefore I would wish them that professe Physicke and Chirurgerie to vse such Experience whereby commeth Honour and gaine to the Physician and profite to the Patient To make Oyle of Lignum vitae or Guaicum TAke the freshest Wood that thou canst get and make it in powder then put it into a vessell of glasse well luted and set it in hors-dung or in Balneo to digest then take it foorth and distill it with a gentle fire as thou wouldst distill Nutmegs and thou shalt haue both oyle and water the which thou shalt separate by themselues then take the feces and put it into a new earthen pot and set it in a furnace of reverberation vntill it bee burnt into ashes then take that ashes and make therof a Lie with Fumetarie water and when thou seest that the ashes will make the water no more sharpe cast them away and let the water settle cleare then vapour away the water with a soft fire and in the bottome will remaine a Salt the which you shall dissolue and congeale vntill it be cleare and faire as Sal â—…ron or Eniallie then keepe it to thy use the water is to drinke with Wine The Oyle is to annoynt the fores or aches and the salt is to purge and the order to vse it is thus Either in the Poxe Gowt or the Palsie First you shall purge the Patient wel with this Take of the salt halfe a scruple Theriaca Alexandria two drammes mixe them and giue them thereof halfe a scruple at a time you shall giue this three or foure times according to the infection of the disease for in this Salt is vertue to purge all humours that causeth the Gowt the Palsie and the Poxe and such like hath not been found neither by vomiting or purging Then when the patient is wel purged if the patient haue any sores or holes you shall mundifie them with this salt and when they are mundified you shall dresse them twise a day with the Oyle vntill they bee whole but if the Patient haue no holes you shall annoynt those places where hee feeleth ache or griefe Also every morning early in his bed and at night an houre after supper you shall giue him a good spoonefull of the water with Rennish wine to drinke and let him sweat thereon well also hee shall vse this with his meat if he will Yee shall vnderstand that the cure lyeth not in meat nor drinke but in the medicine and therfore keep him not too hungry but let him haue good meate and well seasoned with salt and let him drinke wine and so vsing this order thou shalt be able to helpe the Gowt Pox or Palsie To make Oyle of Butter TAke newe fresh Butter as much as you will and put it in a Retort of glasse well luted and there will come forth three liquors the which thou must separate This Oyle doeth pearce marvellously and taketh away the paines of the Gowt if you annoint them therewith If you annoint the hands and face therewith it will preserue them faire It is also good for those that are troubled with a Catarre if you giue them thereof an ounce fasting for presently it arriveth to the stomacke and mollifieth the Catarre in such order as you shall spit it foorth at the mouth To make Oyle of Egges TAke Egges and seethe them hard then take foorth the yelks and stampe them in a morter then put them in a frying-panne and set them over the fire and continually stirre them vntill you see them turne to oyle then take
is unneiled and set it in an oven somewhat warme till it be dry then cover the pot close and lute it well that no aire may come forth then set it in a calcining furnace the space of two houres so that it may alwaies bee as red as the coles and then it will bee as red as blood then grind it on a stone and keep it to thy use There is no Corosiue the which worketh like this vitrioll calcinated for if yee mixe it with any Vnguent and lay it on a ill Vlcer it maketh an Asker the which in all corosiues must be loosed with fat or butter but this corosiue needeth not for yee must still lay more therein and leaue the Asker in the sore for the vertue of this Vitrioll is so great that it causeth the flesh to grow under the Asker and when the flesh is enough the Asker will fall off and then yee shall need nothing but to skin it the which is not commonly seene of other corosiues therefore I praise this for the best of all corosiues To calcine Quicksilver TAke Aqua fortis Ê’ ii Mercury Ê’ i. and put them in a glasse and set it on the fire in a scarvell with sand or ashes till the Mercury be dissolved then put it into an earthen pot well glased and set it on the fire to boyle till it bee dry and stirre it alwayes with a sticke that it may dry the better and when as it is wel dryed put it in an other pot with a kever that is very well glased within then lute it very wel that no aire may come forth but ye must note that the pot must be top full then set it in a calcining Furnace with a good fire foure dayes foure nights then grind it to small powder on a stone and keepe it to thy use For thou hast Mercurie calcinated of the which wee have spoken much in our pearle of Chirurgerie This is excellent in all olde sores although they be never so evill for it cleanseth without paine and healeth them that is it clenseth as long as it is needfull and then it healeth which is most strange to see this eateth away all dead flesh and preserveth that which is good and sound and causeth the ulceration to heale in short space Yee shall note that when wee speake of Mercurie calcinated or precipitate in any place yee shall take this To calcine Tartare TAke good Tartare that is cleere and without filth and stamp it to powder then put it in a scravell that never was occupied and set it in the calcining furnace so that it may stand but even red hot and there let it remaine untill it be as white as snow throughout then take it forth and keepe it in a glasse close shut untill you reade more how that ye shall make this Oyle To calcine Tinne or Lead TAke Tinne or Lead and melt it on the fire and when it is molte set it very hot then take an Iron Scummer and stirre it therewith so long till it come to ashes then take that ashes and wash it so long till that the water runneth deare off as yee put it on then dry it in a calcining Furnace till that it smoke no more then put it into another new pot with a cover that is unglased and lute it very well then set it in the calcining Furnace againe one whole day with a good fire then take it forth and yee shall find a Calxe in manner white but somewhat inclining to yellow The Tinne yee shall calcine in the selfe same manner as yee did the Lead but when yee burne it to ashes yee must giue it great fire but in calcining it shall not need greater fire then it was for thy Lead and so keepe your fire untill it be as white as snow and then it is prepared to make his Oyle as wee will shew you hereafter To Calcine Silver TAke Silver and dissolve it in Aqua fortis then cast a peece of Copper into the glasse where the water is with the silver and straitwaies powre theron a good quantity of raine water and then the silver will fall to the bottom in a Calxe then let it stand so one night or as long as ye will and then powre away the cleere water and dry the Calx on the fire then wash that with warme water so long that it have no bitter taste of the Aqua fortis and when ye have so done ye shall take common salt prepared as I have shewed you before and lay it in a Crusible the thicknesse of a straw and then lay thereon your Calx of Silver and cover it with the same salt againe then lute your Crusible with a cover that no ayre may come foorth then set it in a calcining furnace with a reasonable fire sixe houres long then take it forth and put thereon faire water and let it seeth two or three Pater Nosters and then the salt will seeth away and the Calx will remaine sweet which ye may proove upon the tongue but if it be not sweet wash it againe till it be sweet and then keepe it in a glasse for it is prepared to make his Oyle To calcine Gold TAke gold and Mercury and make thereof amalgamie as the Goldsmithes doe use to gild their silver Plate the which is made thus Take twelue parts of Mercury and one part of gold the which yee shall beate into very thin plates and then cut it in as small peeces as yee can then take a Crusible and put therein the Mercury and set it on the fire till it beginne to smoke then put thereto the gold and take it from the fire and stirre it together so long till that yee may see no more gold then set it on the fire againe and stir it so long that the Mercury be flowne all away and then yee shall find your gold in the Crusible like sand then take that and put thereto as much prepared salt and grind them together on a stone as small as is possible then put it in a glasse and wash it with warme water so long till that yee see the Calxe faire and yellow and sweet upon the tongue so that it taste nothing of saltnesse then it is prepared and herewith will wee make an end of Calcination and write of Sublimation To sublime Quicksilver TAke Mercury and wash it with Vineger and salt a pretty while then put thereon very hot water and wash it therewith till that the water runne as cleare off as ye will put it on then dry it with a cloth and grinde it with vineger salt againe and wash it with warme water as ye did afore this grinding and washing ye shall use till that the Mercury be no more blacke and that it be as cleare as a glasse then take of that Mercury one pound Salt prepared two pound Sall Armoniack sublimed as I will shew hereafter one pound grinde these saltes together with the Mercury so
order yee shall use till that the matter remaine moist in the bottome like oyle This oyle is of like vertue as the other and therefore we will write no more thereof in this place To make Oyle of Quicksilver IF thou wilt make this oyle yee must haue Mercury fixt or else it will not serue for our use therefore take that which is fixt and put it in strong water and set it in Balneo to dissolue and set thereon a head and when it is dissolved let it settle and then poure off that part which is cleare and distill it in Balneo Mariae and your Mercury will remaine in the bottome then put thereon raine water and wash it so long that the water haue no taste of the strong water but remaine as sweet as yee put it on then put thereon distilled vineger and set it in Balneo Mariae a whole day till it be dissolved then distill the vineger away and put thereon fresh and set it in Balneo Mariae againe to dissolue and then distill it away againe and this order yee shall use till that it remaine like an oyle in the bottome then take it forth and keepe it in a glasse close shut lest it should loose his strength This oyle is of as great operation in fresh wounds as the other aforesaid are it is aboue all other against the Poxe to be vsed outwardly for it helpeth all sores that come of the Poxe if yee annoynt the sores therewith and in the foresaid manner Yee may make oyles of all Mettals but they are not to be taken inwardly and therefore I wil shew thee another order how you shall make oyles of all the Metals to use inwardly To make Oyle of Gold the which is distilled through the helme and it is to be vsed both inwardly and outwardly IF thou wilt make oyle of gold yee shall take his salt of the which we haue made mention afore and put it into a glasse with a long neck and mixe the glasse fast with hermes-sel that is with a paire of gloing tongs as I will shew you hereafter then yee shall set the said glasse in a calcining Furnace with a fire so temperate as though it stood in the sun and there yee shall let it stand eight dayes and then increase the fire other 8. dayes till that ye see it begin to waxe yellow and then keepe thy fire in that heate till that thou seest thy glasse all yellow and then increase thy fire a little till that ye see it waxe a browner yellow and when yee see that yee shall keepe it in that heate eight dayes and then if yee see it change no colour increase your fire a little more eight dayes and then yee shall see it waxe red and when it is indifferent red yee shall increase your fire againe eight dayes till that yee see it a brown red then ye may giue it a greater fire for it is fixt no fire can consume it and when ye haue kept it 8 daies in such a great heate ye shall let it waxe cold and if yee will make this oyle yee shall grind it in fine pouder put it into a stone pot and put theron distilled vineger set it in Balneo Mariae to dissolue 4. dayes long then let it settle poure off the cleare parts and put theron more vineger stop the pot very close and set it againe other foure dayes in Balneo Mariae to dissolue and every day yee shall stirre it two or three times with a stick then let it waxe cold and settle and poure off the cleare parts and then put thereon fresh vineger and set it to dissolue againe and let it stand and settle untill the fifth day in the morning then let it waxe cold and settle and then poure off the cleare parts and if there remaine any thing in the pots bottome cast it out for it is not profitable for our worke then wash the pot very cleane and put therein the said Vineger that yee boyled afore and distill it per Balneo Mariae untill it be dry and yee shall find the powder fairer then it was afore and then put thereon fresh Vineger and set it to dissolue in Balneo Mariae as is said afore And when it hath stood foure dayes yee shall poure it cleare off and looke if there remaine any feces or powder in the bottome and if there be any you shall poure it out and make the pot cleane and put therein the said Vineger which yee poured off and distill it away per Balneo Mariae untill that it remaine dry then put thereon fresh Vineger and dissolue it as I haue shewed you and then poure off the Vineger and distill it againe and this yee shall use untill you find no more sand in the bottome But that it is all dissolved and then it is prepared to make his oyle of then distill that last vineger away per Balneo Mariae untill that it be very dry then put it into a glasse with a head and a great receiver the which yee must lute together very well that no aire may come forth then giue it small fire foure houres long and then encrease it a little stronger and so keepe it other foure houres and then yee shall see certaine yellow fumes rise up into the head then keepe thy fire in that degree untill that thou seest the head waxe red then increase your fire a little untill that the head be as red as blood then keepe thy fire in that state untill thou seest the colour begin to slake Then make thy fire greater untill that the bottome of the vessell bee red and then keepe it in that stay one houre and then the head will seeme to bee full of Snow Then make the fire as great as thou canst untill the head waxe cleare againe as it was at the first Then let it waxe cold and thou shalt find an oyle in the receiver the which is not to bee bought for any money For because it helpeth all diseases in mans body both inwardly and outwardly although they bee never so evill as the Pestilence the Poxe the Wolfe the Canker Consumptions the Dropsie and the Leaper if so bee that it came not by nature of the father and mother And the order to take it is thus Yee shall take a pot of wine and put therein ℈ .j. of this oyle and giue the sicke thereof to drinke in the morning and let him lie in his bed and sleepe and then thou shalt see his wonders And if so bee that the Patient be full of evill humors and that hee shall need purging it will cause nature to cast forth either by sweat or vrine or by vomite or downeward as long as the Patient shall haue need and then straight wayes amend and waxe stronger then if he had eate a whole Capon and then if the Patient doe purge no more by any of the said meanes aforesaid yee shall giue it him