resēble the tast of straung wines c. 407 The end of the Table ⧠VVhat Destillation is and of diuers formes and kyndes DESTILLATION not distillatiō as lerned doe write is the drawyng forthe of a thinner and purer humor out of a iuise by the force of heate Siluius Destillation by ascentiō or going vpwarde is when the vapours or fume is caried vp and be there gathered together into water so droppe doune The same authour Moist thinges put into a body for so do they cal the bigger vessell from whence the vapur is lifted vp by the force of heate are extenuated into a vapour whiche gathered together by the coldenes of the head or other thing into water is receiued for the most part by a chanel or gutter made in y e brinks of the head and so dropeth doune and destilleth by the noos for so do they communly term that part of the head very neer resembling mās noos both in fashion and in vse into some vessell sette vnder for the purpose men call it a receiuer or a vrinall Siluius Certain like things natur hath wrought both in exhalatiōs aboue in the aire specially thē that be moist and also in reumes destilling from the head both of men certain other beastes vnto the lower partes Therfore of a plant or any other substaunce ordeined to be destilled what part of it is most meet to be extenuated and fynet that is the purest parte the lightest the thinnest the moistest and the most superficial parte next vnto the vttermost partes of the body being first of all fyned by the force of heet is lifted vp next suche other partes as in puernes cum nie to the first and last suche a moysture of the thinges as is more grosse that held together the earthly partes a certain fatnes and oylines by a stronger force of the fyre is seperated and takē vp hoolly which once clean drawn forthe the body remaineth dissolued and brought into asshes Oute of all maner of plantes therfor and beastes Yea out of al partes of them bothe a certain raw waterishnes and as it were a fleumatick and excrementall parte is first drawen oute then cumyth forth that whiche is better disgested and more pure last of all an oylines whiche also euen oute of the very bones may be gottē and not only out of massy partes sauing that certain partes ar of so scleuder and thin substance y e they yelde vp almost all their moister strength at the first Morouer all this drawing oute of humors is done with heet For that kinde of Destillation that is done by a shred of wullen cloth they cal it a filter or by grauel a raw earthen vessell a vessell of iuye trie Plinie I thinke writes of the wode that is called Smilax how it willet sype through water mixt with wyne and kiep the wyne still which I once proued found it trewe but this is no destillation in deed except vnto suche as speake improprely For that which is proprely called destilation is done by heet and that from the sonne or of fyre corruption and rot tennes By the sonne as certain men haue inuēted to draw of flowres a kind of water very nere to them selues in smell and other pleasaunt qualities By fyre that is by flame that come of aere and of aereall bodies or els by burning cooles that are made of earth or earthly bodies enkindled destillation is made ether by no other thing betwixt or by the meanes of hoat water or also by the vapour and feume of the same by fine sand or dros of metall polished and made plaine Morouer the flame it selfe aswell as the coole is diuers not onely in respect of that it is great and little but also of the woode whether it bee rotten and doated or sound stinking or wel smelling grene or drie Besides this it is a great matter what bignes the furnace be of what fashion what ioyning together Also the coole of smothered and half burnd wode giueth a certain strong sauour and a quality far vnlyke to the thinges destilled as we see it doeth to thinges boyled and otherwyse prepared therwith Therefor let the cooles be all fired and halfbrent that the ill sauour be expired before that the thing to be destilled be committed vnto them specially if it be receiued into the body for in suche thinges as ar to be vsed without it forceth lesse al this saith Syluius In the destillation of wyne the foure elementes ascende vp in their order the lightest subtilst and hoatest first that is the fire secondarily the aire thirdly water the earth remaineth in y ◠bottome and lykewyse I iudge in the destillation of vineger In more grosse earthly thinges yet moyst also whiche besides the watery partes haue also some grose and such as may be made thicke as in the teares that run out of tries or gūmes in ioyces in rosin and in hony that which is more watery is caried vp first the airy partes next the firy last of al y e earthy partes remain in the bottome and if the fier be any thyng bigg they ar burnt In metalles the same ar resolued into vapours and congeled together sticke to the lembeck the coloure chaunged into whyt as quick syluer arsnike c. Saltpeter c. The nature of fyre is to deminishe as Cardane saith ether by breaking drye thinges into peces as when it bringeth grauell into dust or by melting as metalles or by separating the subtill and pure partes as in destillations It chaunceth in destillations notwithstanding that a thing shall both be extenuated and mixt with an other when as they ar done with a moyste heat not with fyre For a heat bothe extenuateth and mixeth with moysture This is doon sumtyme by setting the vessels in hoat water whiche is called Balneum Mariae The best kinde of destillation next vnto this is in hors dong Then by asshes the best in this kynde is by the superfluous refuse of oliues after the oyle is prest forth for it being a hoat moyst matter will reteyne his heat very long yea a great meany of monethes and so muche the lōger then the kurnels of grapes because the substance of the oliues is thicker fatter But none of thies wayes is able to melt metalles but they must nedes haue fyer Albeit as the most vehement and feruent destillation is done by fyre so is it vnmiet for mixture and true attenuation or fyning and the way by asshes is almost lyke vnto it for if a man will put thinges destilled by fyre vnto their own dregges and mixt them together he shall perceiue the quantity for quantity heuier then they were afore and dryer also Therfor fyre doth not truely attenuat and lessen in dede but that nature whiche digesteth mixeth the hoole substāce Wherfor through their puritie al ioyne together in one and the thing mixt is made thicker notwithstanding that is composed and made of the most subtill and the
e fire or set it on fire with a candle it wil burne but not cōsume nor waste nether leue any sign of burntnes in y e cloth If so be it part of this water when the sun shineth hot be put in a dishe or boule and thrown into thair with a strinkle it will make a great cloude and thicke sodenly and mitigateth the heat of the sunne for a great space It stauncheth the floures of wemen it kepeth a man from sweating it stirreth vp the appetite it putteth away the head ache speciallye that cometh of a hot cause or by the heat of the sunne It vtterly staūcheth and putteth awaye cleane the Canker To conclude it hath manye and great vertues for it is medicinable in hot causes as Aqua vitae in cold Wherfore the vse therof is good in all agues as well hoat as burning agues in all hoat diseases and grieues of the eyen and head that cōmeth of heat also againste the irkesumnes and lothsumnes of the stomack for the diseases called Lupus and the fistula and the pain of the syde the heat of the priuy members through the act of generation and all diseases aboute thies priuy partes what hot causes so euer thei cum of And after the deliueraunce of wemen it is very proffitable if a cloth be dipt in it and laid vpon the wombe or mother the preuy place and vpon the place where the grief is if the grief be outward if it be inward then take some of it and mynister it by the way of a glister If ther be any fault in the stomack take of it morning and euening half an egge shell full ▪ If a mans yard be sore within let therof be conueied in by a pype for that purpose Against the obstructions and stoppinges of the liuer splene and other diseases of hoat causes wette a linnen cloth therin and lay it to the diseased syde thrys a day for it purgeth the bloud very greatly but you must take good hede that the cloth that is moystened therwith roole not vpon the stomack nor cum nye it A certain water in Raymund Lullus booke of waters semeth to be of the lyke operation which he describeth in this wyse A water compounded accordinge to the contrary of Aqua vitae Take whyte Camphora roses whyt pople and blacke lettis cichory porsulane violets Solanū or night shade maidenhear cymbalaris singrene vermicularis rostrum porcinum cardicellum The leaues that be to be punned let them be punned and destilled Of the extracting and dravvyng forth of all the vertues of Chelidonia or selandine by the whiche example euery man of any vnderstanding may vse to drawe out the vertues also of other planetes BY the quint essence of selandin Ioan. Brasescus thinkes sumwhat els to be allegorically vnderstāded as I declared before wher we entreated of quint essence generally Chelidonia Selādin saith Vlst hath innumerable vertues and the quint essence therof which we wil teache here to get out goeth to the making of potable gold or gold that may be drunck Selandine when it is moste rype take it with the herbe routes and floures cut it small beate it in a morter then put it in a cucurbitam or body of a still of earth glased when the body is ful shit it close and clay it round aboute then set it in now hors dung for the space of iii. weekes After put it in a limbeck and destill it in Balneo Mariae with a slow fyre and the fleame shall auoyde out of it Then shall you drawe out the dregges and when they are very fine ground vpon a marble stone put thē again in a cucurbita with a blynde lymbeck and let them stand in Balneo Mariae a seuennight or in hors dung mo daies Afterwarde the matter by litle and litle being couled put on a nosed limbeck and destill it in ashes according as in the .x. chap. of the separation of oyle from the earth we haue spoken and there shall issue oute a clear water conteining in it selfe aire and water Thou shalt separate the water from the aire in a new cucurbita by Balneo Mariae with an easy fire for the fleam shall ascende and the oyle remayne whiche thou shalt reserue and kepe Then shalt thou grynde the dregges agayne vpon a marble stone and power .iiii. partes of the fleam to one of the dregges mixt them and incorporate thē and let them stande in Balneo Mariae seuen days at the last thou halt destill thē in sand with a great fire and the fleame shall issue oute first then a radishe water or rather an oyle whiche is the element of fyre from the whiche thou shalte separate the fleame in Balneo Mariae as is before sayde But the dregges that left whiche conteyne nothinge els but earth must bee vrged with a stronge fyre and brought vnto lyme by the space of ten daies that is in a fornace of calcination or reuerberation or a very lyme kiln as I haue taught in the tenth chap. Then grynd them again vpon a marble stoone and sooke them in the fleame and lette them be destilled in a limbeck vntill you see in the matter lyttle whyte stoones lyke salt And this salt must againe bee dissolued with water out of whiche you haue destilled it and after you shall destill it again and againe so ofte vntill the earth chaunce and put away from it all vncleane and earthy colour be brought to a very whyte to the whytnes of wax and so it shal be rectified earth The other elementes also ought to be rectified so that euerye one bee destilled seuen tymes powring euery time the fleam to the aire and fier and after separating them as is afore said When as thou wilt do this an easier way dissolue euery elemēt with his own water by equall portiōs c. whiche I let pas bycause they are declared sumwhat obscurely There is also an other way more subtill to reduce euery element to his perfection or quintessence but it must be presupposed that euery element be first iustified Then let it be put in a vessel of circulation in hors dung or in Balneo Mariae xxx daies and then destill it againe So shall the very body as a gros matter be chaunged into spirite or moste subtill and pure substance Sum do it with more ease taking foure partes of earth and one part of one of the foure elements whiche a man wil and by digesting after the forsaid maner and circulating .xxx. daies they dooe chaunge any element into quintessence The matter is iudged to be sufficiētly circulated whan the quintessence swimmeth aboue the other matter Of the vertues of euery one of the liquors of Selandine The element of the water is good for al the diseases of the body both hoat cold It tempereth also al the veines about the hart and driueth all ve nom from the hart it cureth al the diseases that chaunce vnto the lunges It
Porcellanas men call certain shelles and also pretious earthen vessels I haue vsed the mo wordes in this to geue some occasion to muentiue physicions to thinke y e more diligently vpon this thyng ⧠Of the manifold vse of lyquors destilled both in physick otherwyse I Do perciue a manifolde vse of destilled waters but chiefly and most of all for physicions whiche vse suche stilled liquors drest aright both within the body withoute alone or with other medicines They mixt burning water and hoate oyles chymistically drest and prepared with oyntmentes ether that they may haue the better sauour or els to make them hoater and that they may perce the sooner thei put moyst linnen clothes in thies voaters to coole and refreshe the partes of the body specially the bowels the forhead the temples the partes about the armes hoat fyrie swellinges Surgeons vse suche waters as drye mightily to washe woundes withall But the most common vse of longe tyme hath bene in mixture of syrups to be dronke and to zulapia or iulebs chiefly of roses violets Ther be that make diuerse kindes of liquors and oyles alonly for the good sauour Glasiars also that paint glasse in baking in their colours thei do vse burning waters Goldsmiths vse aqua fortis as they call it whiche signifieth a strong water Of suche vse of lyquores as is to chaunge metalles and to diuers colours paintinges also to poysoninges to kil hurtful beasts hear is no place to speake Raymund Lullus wryteth of y â— marueylous vse and coÌ„moditie of burning water euen in warres a little before the ioyning of battaile to styre and encourage y e souldiours mindes But of the vse of burning water I shall speake moare in his place Yea also wher there is lack of good and holsome waters that a man can gette none other but such as be salt foule â—nhoalsome to make thies apt and miet to be dronke the science and arte of destillation is necessary Sweet water may be separated from the salt in a great caudron with a great and hie keuer hauing a beacke or nose ¶ A way to purge and make clean troubled waters out of Bulcasis FIll a great pot with the puddled water A putting a soft fyre vnder it B lay two sticks or mo a crose C vpon the pot brinkes and vpon the stickes lay cleane wol D wel washt theÌ„ whatsoeuer the woll drinketh of y e vapors that ascend vp wring it out and kiep it and doo thus aslong as any vapor or fume will ascende Ther be some that still troubled and pudly water as though it were Rose water Other clarifie it putting some vynegar therin or els amiluÌ„ or meel for thies thinges go dounwarde and drawe with them to the bottome of the vessell the grose mattier of the water ¶ Of Balneum Mariae generally and of those destillations that be done by vapors of hoat water and in horse dong HOat water or els y e vapour of the same send les strength into the thing that is to be destilled then other fyre alone or els suche other dry meanes as are meÌ„cioned before for y t cause as Galen saith Diploma that is a double vessell the Apothecaries as the men that still lyquors also cal it Balneum Mariae melteth heateth seatheth those thinges whose strengthes the violence of fyre wil not dispers nor separate so suche thinges as be tender and geÌ„tle if we will haue them hoal we must destill them in hoat water or els in the vapour fume therof Whiche although men thinck they be not so durable they be yet les altered from their nature as is manifest by their former smell You must haue a fornace A of this sor vpon the whiche you shall set a great brasen vessel B ful of water in that brasen vessel set litle vessels C in a circle as many as it wil receiue in the botome of the which vessels the thinges that you will destill must be put Other builde y e fornace A otherwise as though it were a toure and in the sydes thereof they put long earthen vessels B in their broad bottoms staÌ„ding inward they conteine the thinges that they will destill the mouth without as though it wer a bottell being couered C in the which y e vapour caried vp by his open bely gathered together and by the long mouth of the same droppeth down Syluius But why remayneth not the smell of certain floures in the waters but in Iasmin and y e floures of Cariophillum and leâ—is the water commeth forthe w toute sauour the reason is declared otherwher bycause y t vnto so sclender and thinne substaunce no substancial and thick parte is ioyned Ther for in thies it shall do well if vnto the leaues of herbes voyde of smell being put by course vnto a thicker mattier but not suche as wil burn a smell be ioyned and then destilled and this is y e onely hope to get forth the smell when as suche thinges as are infused and put in waters doo not giue again their smel but putrify Cardan It appeareth without doubt that those floures shoulde be destilled in Balneo Mariae or in vessels of glas in the vapor of hoat water Balneum Mariae may be hansomly made hoate with a great pype of copper A set in the midst in the bottome wherof is a grate for y e B ashes to auoyde at men call it communly a stowe harry Vlstadius nameth it a furnace of sloth Vpon that pype do they make a couer of copper G w t a small pype comming out a shore to cary and conuey the smoke out at a window or some hoale So doo they also make warme house flors nowe a dayes to bathe in The coÌ„moditie of this pipe D is then chiefly when a maÌ„ list to vse many stillatories putting theÌ„ in a rouÌ„d circle E a ten or twelue at once to spare time labour and cost Some vse brasen cupping boxes to still withall in the Balneo Mariae glassen limbeckes whose noses if they bee to short or broken they ioyne other to them of copper with clay The herbes y t be to be destilled in a bathe or otherwise some doo pun them and let theÌ„ remaine so a whyle perauenture for certain dayes befor they still them thinking to haue more plenty of water therby if they woulde doo it in closed vessels specially in a hoat place it wer well but the most apothecaries and other that sieke most for lucre gayne therby leue it in cold places in open cofers till the herbes lose theyr smell and bee corrupted with a moyst and gros aire Some there be that put some sande also in the water of Balneum Mariae to thintent the heat mai be the greater and more vehement as Mathaeolê° of Sena in y e water that is called aqua philosophica against the frensh pocks And he affirmeth that in such a kind of destillation there may be gotten a double water
coles with water flaming wood with water and fire of cooles the first is the worst and yeildeth a water of the least smell the second is better then it the third then the second but the fourth is best of all The second and the third are mooste vsed And I will here describe thee third whiche is made with water and woode flaming as it is in vse w t the kinges of Aharach A. Thou shalt make therfore in a large house by a wall a litle berchile B so doth he cal the vessel that is filled with water the bottom and sides shal be of leede so wel closed that it leek not in anye place Then make meete a couering vnto this vessell of glas or glased earth and make two or three round hooles in it C C C moore or les according to the largnesse of the vessels and as you desire to ether muche or little water D then make a pot of bras like to the pot made in Balneo Mariae which thou shalt set vpoÌ„ the fornaice so that the Berchile aboue the furnaice be lower in situacion then the potte so that it maye conduite the heate of the fyre of the Berchyle to the pott but mee thinkes thies woordes dooe ether redounde or be depraued Thou shalt also make a chimney by the whiche the smooke maye auoyde hoolly out of the hous that it hurt not the rosewater Afterward fil a pot with water which may be in a well a great vessell made by the pot lyke a well in a bathe Then kindling the fyre vnder the pot thou shalt conuey the boyling water by a pype retching from the pot into the berchile and fill the pot again of other could water oute of the well In the berchile also shalt thou make a pype by the whiche the water when it is full may run out of the hous Thou shalt set the cucurbites or belies that is the stillatory vessels in the holes of the couering of the berchile and shalt bynd theÌ„ rouling linnen clothes about that they may staÌ„d stedfast in their hooles and the vapour of the water go not out Lykewyse the heades of them shalt thou bynd with a linnen cloth And let thies vessels be of glas or of glased earth Then put in the Roses and sette vpon euery one his couer and set vnder the nose of euery one a phiall to receiue the rose water that runneth out when the destillation is finished put away the first rooses put in freshe thus saith Bulcasis Some man would maruell that in suche a makinge of the fornace where the fyre is not put vnder the duble vessell or berchile as I coniecture seing he maketh the bottome and sydes of leed but at the syde of the fornace wherfore he should thinke it to skill anye thing whether the fyre put vnder the pot be made of wood or cooles Moorouer it is knowen saith Bulcasis in the same place that rosewater of wyld roses whiche growe by their own accord without any watering is swieter then that which is made of garden roses whiche are tilled and watered There is a destilled water made of thies with vs a shorter way then that before is this wyse A A brasen pot suche as diers vse is set to a wall wherunto a couer B made meet with hooles wherin the be lies ar put The pot is filled wâ—th water and a fyre is put vnder D it of the croppinges of vynes or suche lyke But in proces of the destillation thou shalt close the mouth of the furnace til the hoat destillation be finished In steede of wood if if thou burne cooles the water shal be the swieter Here is more reason then in the former because the fire here is made immediatly vnder the stillatory vessels The second way of destillacion with out water with fire of coles is such MAke a square or round fornace A with a couer wherin shal be set belies C made of glased earthe so that they may abide the fyre And when the cooles are kindled the water beginneth to destill shut the mouth of the fornace â–ª and leaue holes open for the smoke to go out at Ther is an other bridgemente of the third and fourthe waye A Brasen pot A ful of water is set ouer a fornace w t a couer bored B through so that it may receiue twoo or three belies of glas C more or les Put vnder fyr of the cropping of vines or cooles till the water sieth Saluiae SAge water keepeth reteineth his former smell Remaclus F. Brunsvvick saith that the members being rubbed with the water of Sage and so dryed by it selfe and often dronke is good against the palsy and also to drynke two ounces in the mornyg and at nyght is very good and helpeth against the Crampe he saieth further it is good against the dafing of the head Loke in the same authour Scabiosa SCabiose water is profitable geuen to drink to them that are diseased with any fistula and the very herbe pound is lykewyse put in Sedum THe water of y e least syngrien or houslieke is vsed of Surgeons too coule hoat partes Remaclus F. Brunsvvick reporteth that y e water of Scabiose dronke twyse or thryse a day an ounce and a half helpeth the stiches in the syde he sayeth further it healeth woundes inwarde outwarde being dronke .ix. daies together two ounces at once fastyng Loke in the same authour Solanum THe water of Solanum or Morrella is good against all agewes if the sick the daye of hys fitte abstaine from all meate and drincke and when hee is in greate heate and desyreth much to drink that he can not refrain him selfe any longer then let be geueÌ„ him a glas of this water Afterward let him be diligentlye couered and be kept in the heate by force and he shall swete a stinking sweet But he must abstain from the air that is to cold or to hot This water also is good for inflammations and concussions if a lynnen cloth be laid vpon it four fold and when it waxeth dry to be wet again Also to all strokes or wouÌ„des and other hot diseases if they be washt therewith and a cloth dipt in it be laid vpon It helpeth also the liuer that is hot and the lunges that are dried and greued with an Hecticke feuer Againste all these diseases it ought to be drunk with the third part of wine Lullus in his boke of waters Tilia OF the floures of Tilia whose smel is very plesaunt and lyke to the floure of vines in savour is destilled and muche vsed in Germany It is supposed to be a little hoot dry and perteining to plasters It is good to drinke against y e falling sicknes the treÌ„bling of the hart the grieues of the bely y e stone of the reines and blud gathered together or festerd in the body by chaunce or by reason of any stroke for the which medicine sum also mixt with it the cooles of
brosed to be poured in againe and to stand yet a few dayes The putrification of herbes to be destilled in horsse donge is wonte to be done almoste by the space of .xiiii. daies but in Balneo Mariae ii or .iii. naturall daies Brunsvvick Suche thinges require chiefly putrification whose substance is somwhat dry gros thick raw haue les nied which are contrary wyse and ar digested and prepared by nature or the sun Putrification is soner done in cloudy wheather then in fayre Vlstadius To the moste parte of thinges that are prepared in hors dong some salt is cast as vnto beasts bloud to flesh to fyshe Guainerius To digest take a blynd lymbeck if the matter be pure as pure liquor then take a vessell for circulation of whiche sort the pelecan is the best although it can skarsly be made and not withoute great cost c. But in digestion or putrification the hoal vessell would be hid with hors dong or with the refuse of grapes c. To circulation the halfe of the vessell or at the least the third part must loke out into the free and cold aire as also to destillation Vlstadius chap .viii. wher as he teacheth at large of putrification in hors dong Of the rectification of liquors destilled WAters destilled in Balneo Mariae ought to be set in the sun and to bee rectified namely in a glasen vessell the mouthe wherof let it be bound aboute and stopt with lether full of the destilled water so that the third part muste be lefte empty then set it in hoat sand by the space of forty daies that all the fleme may be consumed the third part of the vessel must be hid in the sande Destilled waters of hot vertue poured first into wine or burning water least they should hurt a man by the meanes of theyr ouer muche heat let them stande for the space of a monthe or more if the water be hotter in moyste sand in a cold place Likewise the thirde parte of the vessell hid in the sand or two parts of the vessell two third partes let them be digd in the earth in some wine celler Brunsvvick Euery water if it be destilled again specially vppon the dregs and grounds well pund and broken it may so be rectified and the more the ofter it is destilled againe but for the most part of waters it is sufficiente to repete the destillation of them thrise or .iiii. times But you muste take heede that at euerye time the fleame be diligently remoued and separated whiche a man shall do if he receiue by it self the firste liquor or if burninge water be destilled the laste liquor which is watry c. The fleame once sepated last of all rectification by circulation wherof is spoken now last of all and more shal be spoken in the title of quintessens must be added But y e the brentnes y t is in these may brethe out it shal be best to kepe opē a while the phials wherin the liquors stande not withstanding you muste take hede that the grace of the smell in the meane season with it much of the strengthe and vertue therof do fume oute Syluius Destilled liquors of diuers sortes if a man mixte them together sometimes they become troubled and pudled like thin milke or whay and for the moste part an olde lyquor mixt with a new troubleth it But you shall make them cleare and pure againe if into three poundes you cast six or eight drops of white vinegar very sharp for they wil driue down the pudly matter to the bottom Brunsvvick Destillacion by a Filter or a list of Wollen cloth DEstillation by a filter is more in vre w t the Chymistes and destillers then wyth phisicions inuented to try out the lighter purer and more subtil part from the grosser and the dregges Therefore the iuyces of herbes may thus be destilled put in some vessell wherein a pece of wollen clothe muste be put the broder end wherof only must be in the vessell the narower part and that that is sharpe at the ende ether w t one poynt or deuided into .ii. or iii. muste hāg without the vessel the vessel must lean a litle towarde that side that the list hangeth on A man maye put in also aboute the brimme some lystes of clothe euerye one of almooste a foote longe by the which the liquor shall be deriued and conueyed into a vessell set vnderneathe If you wyll destill the same iuyce or liquor agayne or the thirde tyme in the same manner sette the vesselles vypon a payre of stayres The fyrste wherein the liquor is highest the seconde lower and so forthe wyth listes of clothe putte in euerye vessell and hangynge oute into the nether the laste the laste vessel onlye and lowest shall haue no listes whiche muste onlye receiue not yeld forthe The destillation by a filter is doone also in two croked vessels of glasse well clayed the one wher of must stand higher then the other when you wil draw precious and swiet smellinge liquors from the matter digested firste in Balneo Mariae as Vlstadius maketh mencion Chap. 56. To the sirrup which is made of the sower iuyce of the citron that iuyce muste a man destill by a clothe liste or filter or elsse it will gather into a courd when it waxeth colde and likewise y e iuyce of Lemons and Orenges By a liste some destill also the decoctions of herbes sod wyth a softe fyre whiche afterwarde by little and little they sieth till it be as thicke as hony as of the rotes of black Elleborus or beares foote Other thinck it sufficient only to sethe it or straine it Of burninge vvater or single Aqua vitae and of the strength therof and manifold vse BVrnynge water or Aqua vitae is drawne oute of wine but wyth vs out of the wine lies only speciallye of them that sell it and by this onli almost get their liuing And parauenture it is neuer a whit y e worse that it is drawne oute of lies for Lullus teacheth that it may be well destilled of corrupt wine yea if it be destilled often it shal be made the more effectuall that is to say hotter and drier for dregs also or lies brente are very hot and geue the hottest oyle which they call oyle de Tartaro but that burning water that is destilled out of wine me thinkes it shal be the swieter and more plesaunt bothe in smell and taste and without all brent taste besides that more apte also for quintessens Burning water is called also water of sapa of whiche oyl mingled together soope is made for it brenneth y e body This water is made as lie half or thre partes ashes and on lime and that is the strongest water that wil make an egge cast therin to swim highest without or aboue the water Therfore the first being so made is stronger then the second to the vse of searing or burning of woundes Monachus in Mesuaem Burning
of a more gros substaÌ„ce it must niedes when it is destilled make hoot becum more subtill and sharp and draweny to the nature of burning water This â—aith he The lyke may be done of any drinck that maketh drunken as Ale Bier Curmus and Meed specially when it is old and that whiche is sodde with Mill. Hony whyle it is a destilling is wont to ryse vp and run ouer when it is made hoot But this is auoyded when a man destilleth in a coÌ„mun Rose-still by putting vpon it within the pan a wooden siue made with hors hear so that it touch the hony If ye wil destil in a Cucurbita or body of glas mixt with it pure and well wasshed sand make a slow fyre The first water is cast away but the second is kept whiche hath a goulden colour and a litle before the end reed The vse of this water is for wemen to their hear that they may growe be soft and yelow being moystened therwith specially in the sun It amendeth the shedding of the hear It heeleth swelled and blered eyes and putteth away their watery cootes and their duskishnes it heeleth the corners of the eyes that be hurt and ful of wheales It heeleth notably the places that be burned specially them that be soft and ten der so that no skar or blemysh shall remain The latter water that is redish purgeth corrupt mattier in roten byles if thei be washed therwith and lynnen clothes moystened therein be layde vpon them and wheÌ„ it hath purged them it rayseth the fleshe also Ryffius Reed Vlstadins Of oyles destilled and first generally then particularly Of oyles of Plantes Flowers Herbes Gums Rolines Siedes Barkes Woodes Of those oyles composed whiche they call Balsama Of oyles of Beastes Of oyles of Metalles OYles whiche are made in Chymisticall vessels ether by descencion or by ascencion sum be simple sum compound of thies sum are composed of many as certain balmes whiche they call artificiall sum of few There be sum that may seme to be in a meen betwene simple and compound as they where to sum medicine beeten sum liquor is added wherewith it is sooked and destilled togetherr that it may ascend being caryed by it afterward it is separated Also certain are made of plaÌ„tes or their parts Flowers Routes Siedes Barkes Rosines Gums Drops Sum of beestes or of sum partes of them or of their excrementes Other of metally thinges or suche lyke as Antimonium Leed Am ber We will speeke of euery of them by thies thre latter places Of other kyndes of oyles which are made by any other maner as by expression infusion c. we shall entreat after Lyke as oyl Benedict is destilled by sublimacioÌ„ of hoot burning tyl stones quenshed in oyll euen so of LadanuÌ„ wax liquors gums rosins boones marowes and other abouÌ„ding with fat humors may oyl be goten by sublimating Syluius An oyly nature semeth to be in al mixt thinges or coÌ„pounded by nature whatsoeuer they be whaÌ„ as it is in salt also the most dry body that may be as Cardanus wryteth Ther is also in salt a fatnes which we may maruaill at Plin. but in sum more in sum les For it is an oyly and fat humor that is in mixt thinges not that watery and eaâ—y to be dryed but an aery which also is hoot Boeth kynde of elementes haue the moysture in theÌ„ that belongeth to their kynd This liquor in certaine thinges nature it selfe separateth not in plantes only by iuices or liquors the Griekes call them opús teeres gumes rosins Elaeomel but also in deed bodies as in fat metally thinges brimston quick siluer also in diuers kyndes of pitch Naphtha aumber ambra Pâ—â—râ—lâ—on whiche hath his name because it floweth runnethout of stones But most manifestly in beests both by other partes of theÌ„ also chiely y e fat marow blud in theÌ„ y t haue no blud sum fat humor of y e natur of blud The same is not laking vnto the excrementes of the bely the bladdar sweet hony egges c. in the massy partes bothe of beestes and plantes in all suche chiefly siemeth it to bee whiche haue thriedes or vaines manifestly by the whiche they drawe nourishemeÌ„t For vnto nourishment swiet thinges are moste of all ordeined which by a moderat heet are tourned easely into a fatnes yee y â— very fat thinges them selfe are sumwhat swiet And the aboundaunce of fat iuice is tried found moste in those thinges which are nourished with many swiet thinges NotwithstaÌ„ding fat things of them selues nourishe not because they swyme aboue nether can they be brought into an vnitie of a lump or humor in the stomack Nowe that iuice whiche is sumwhat fat conteineth so muche the more oyle as it is in the more massy or dry nature as that which is more pure and les watery Gnaiacum bycause it sinketh in water aboundeth therewith Thinner and lyghter woodes conuert and turne the fat iuice in to Gum or Rosyn wherfor they haue les plenty thereof suche as be more massy and thicker heuier reteine the same as Gnaiacum the walnut trie the Ash Moreouer the very ashes shew that Oyll is in all woodes for the ashes of euery one haue their fatnes whiche it leeueth in lie So durable is the aery fatnes and yet more the fyery as when erth is burned the water goeth out in vapours the other remain part in the ashes parte in the Sout although in both those also sum substauÌ„ce of erth remaineth But thies thinges perteine to Philosophers Hovv oile must be dravvn oute of spices as Cloues Nutmegs Saffron Mace and other MOysting mesurably in Aqua vitae rectified circulated any kind of spice what ye will beaten and broken somewhat grose and when they are stiept together at the last destil them wyth a very slowe fyre And when as the Aqua vitae once drawne out cleane the oyle beginneth to still theÌ„ take the matter of y e spicesout of the cucutbita and put it in a little bag wel knit and tied w t a thred in a pres for y e purpose pres it out both y e iron plates of the pres wel made hot first The oyle pressed out so must ye destil rectify and circulate that the pure oyle maye be separated from the grosser matter The dregs afterward may be digested or putrified again with the Aqua vitae firste seperated from them and be destilled again And thys waisemeth to be the most commodious and most profitable among other Ryffius but we haue traÌ„slated it as well as we mighte somewhat darker then it shoulde be Hovve oile is dravvne out of vvodes and other like as Cloues by destillacion oute of Cardan Therefore as I did once see it at the first a troubled matter runneth oute caryinge foorthe the more subtill substaunce of the thinge after that a more cleare water commeth oute at the last oyle whiche declareth the sauoure rather of a thynge burnt
elect when they are all mixte together let them be prest cunninglye in a pres But my waye whyche I described afore and tried my selfe liketh me moore then the other There be many waies to make oyl of Rooses It is made ether with oyl and ripe Roses or bothe of them vnripe or the one ripe thother vnripe and so ther is .iiii. diuers waies Som in stead of commun oyle take oyl of Almondes Rasis in hys Antidotario seperato putteth .iii. waies Firste Take a pound of coÌ„mun oil washed wherin thou shalt put the fourthe parte of Grene Rooses in a glased vessell of glas rather which thou shalt set in the sun for the space of .iii. daies ye .xl. as Aegi neta hath Then straine it and put it in a glasse This waye is better then the other The second Take oyl and Roses as before and hang the vessell in a well so that it maye be touched of the water and after .ii. monethes take it oute straine it and kepe it The third Oyl and Roses as before put them in a glas anoynted within with honye which stopt thou shalt let it diep in y e erth wher it shall not be touched nether with water nor other moisture ii months This oyl wil be better smellinge then the other These writeth Rasis oute of Aegineta as it appeareth Aegineta biddeth in the xx chap. of the seuenth boke vnto a Sextarium or wine pint of oyl Omphacinum made of oliues not fully ripe to put .iii. ounces of red Roses the nails taken awai and for the space of .xxiiii. hours laid out in the air then the oyl to be set .xl. daies w tout dores in the sun not vpon the ground but vpon a borde ¶ Mesuae in the. 411. chapt describeth .iiii. waies First that fresh and new red roses be set in the sun .vii. daies then let them be sod in a double vessel .iii. houres then the Rose leaues wronge oute let other be put in and let them be set in the sun and sod as before Which wheÌ„ thou hast done thrise put to the oyl water of infusion of Rooses y t is wherin Rooses likewise haue staÌ„ded which he saithe we haue prescribed in the chapter of syrrups as it were the fourth of the oyl that is the fourth part as the Munkes haue it Syluius traÌ„slateth it as much as the oyl is which I like not so well So when it is set in the sunne .xl. daies straine it and sette it longe againe in the Sunne The second mixting with the oyl washt the iuyce of Roses and the water of their infusion and the leaues beaten together then setting it in the sun and chaunginge it as before c. The thirde that with swiet Almondes blaunshed exactly beaten in a morter leaues of Roses be beaten again theÌ„ make them in litle lumpes or caakes and keepe them in a hoat aire .xxiiii. houres Then beate theÌ„ again and kneed them in the morter very exactly pouring vnto it a litle hoat water of infusion of Roses At length prees out the oyll with a presse put in a glas couered set it to suÌ„ The fourth y â— it be made with Sesamum blaunshed after the same maner as with Almondes But Almondes are more mete for vnrype Rooses Sesama for rype Thies hath Mesue wher Syluius had it The first composition saith he of the .iiii. now rehersed is vsed of many but of the Parisians the composition of Nicolas whiche shal be declared in his Antidotary And againe I heare that oyll of Roses is is made moste odoriferous by putrifying the roses one moneth in dung in a vessell well stopt After the same maner of commun Mastick and Roses incarnate and Muske Roses and suche lyke I doubt not but it may be made most odoriferous without the mixture of any oyll ¶ Sieth Roses Wormwod or any other odoriferous herb in water with the fourth part of oyl til all the water be consumed and the oyll shall haue the strengthes and vertues of the herbes So shalt thou make oyll out of hand of any thing Cardanus out of Symeon ¶ There be sum that when the Rooses are beeten and sod in only water say there swimmeth a certain fat foom whiche may be streined or gathered with a fether ¶ An other certain man told me that the leaues of Roses new should be sod in water til they be thick as hony almost then crusht with a spoon that the oyll or foom may enter in to it but sum water wil be mixt also with it wherfore when it is gathered in a glas it is set in the sun y e oyl swiming aboue in y e top is separated Oyll of the flowers of Elder purgeth and maketh smouth the skin strengtheneth the sinewes and helpeth the griefes of them Furnerius Oyl of Spick moste holsome for theÌ„ that haue the gout in their fiet whiche a certain physicion of late did coÌ„municate Fill a glas with the flowers of Spick nard dryed in the sun and power vpon theÌ„ oyl of Oliues so that it be higher by a fingar bredth When it hath stande .iii. daies in the sun make it boyll in a kettell six or seuen waues and streine it with migth then put in other flowers dried set them in the sun .xvi. daies or more So shalt thou haue saith he an oyl to put away peyn or grief wurth gould as I haue tried with often experience Lay linnen cloothes moystened in it vnto the grief it misseth very seldoÌ„ yea although a man do not consider the humor offending See more in the Antidotary of Arnold de Villa noua Oyll of the flowers of Verbascum is made by settin them in the sun in a glas as also of the flowers of Rosemary moste coÌ„mended praysed for the gout of the fiet of other griefs specially hoat Oyl of violets is made as oyll of Roses but of grien oyâ—l or oyll of Almondes or Sasamin Mesue Paulus Aegineta maketh this oyll of purple Violeth or Leucoio that is yelowe or he setteth them in the sun couering the vessell exactly that it breth not through only ten daies the Violettes in the meane season thrys chaunged and at lengthe he addeth dry Violettes Of oyll of Tartarum that is the dry Lies of wyne OYll of Tartarum deuysed by Peter Argil lata serueth to clense the face and to smouth it Tartarum cleauing to the sydes of the vessell whyte rather then red made into pouder is stept in vinegar after it is folded in a linnen cloothe then lette it be put in Tow moystened with water vnder the ashes after that let it be laid in a dish hielding towad the one syde .iii. daies then shall a certaine humor sumwhat red destill Nicolas way to make oyl of Tartarum cleaning to the sydes of the vessels Take that TartaruÌ„ that is of good wyne beaten folded in a linnen cloth moysten it well with strong whyte vynegar sieth it vnder hoat ashes burn it til it wax black
them that were sick of the colick and haue had oft good succes through the same burning water set on fyre in a bath stouf or sweeting hous narowe and close euery where the aire waxeth hoat wherin the sinewes ioyntes and other partes couled are proffitably fomentated and if it be possible to be done they sweet also To moue sweet and to warme the bathing place with the vapour of hoat water the commun people set great caudrous w t hoat water in their sweeting places with chaf together to keepe the heat longer and sumtymes swiet herbes Other haue a pot hoot without the bath with water and other herbes or medicines put in it from whence the vapour entreth into the bath by a pype beneth This other do with other instrumentes and vessels as they in Italy in the old tyme heated hoathouses When the bathing place is alredy made hoat a burning coole might be put into the pot and dry medicines be strowâ—d in the perfume wherof is desyred or â—â—st both otherwyse also chiefly for wemens vse to diuers diseases of the wombe receiuing the perfume by a pype Hyppocrates describeth a peculiar vessell for this purpose Let them put out their head the whyle which are to weake for to abyde it or such as it is to be feared lest they swound or chaunce into ouer great thirst c. Sum in bathes power water or wyne simple or mixte with medicines vpon reed hoat tyle stones or dros of iron or stones Sweet in bed is prouoked with hoat tyle stones foulded in moyst linnen clothes and put in to the bedde or with tinnen bottelles filled with hot water or with litle bagges wherin herbes sod are put yet hoat and the better if a hoat tyle stone also be put in withall Wull vnskoured suppled in wyne or vinegar wherunto oyll is put Dates beaten Bran sod in salt water or vinegar do both repres and mollifie together Wyne and vinegar do repres and coule and more yet ether bread or meel or a sponge or ashes or woull vnwasht or a linnen cloth wiet in ether of thies Celsus Sum put hoat ashes or burning cooles rather in a vessell of wood filling it to the half the rest they fyll with what herbes they list as wormwod mints to comfort the stomack ether by them selues or sprinkled with a litle wyne then bynding vpon it a linneÌ„ cloth they lay it to y e part diseased specially where it is nedeful to heaten to dry to discus to drawe sumwhat strongly It is conuenient for partes couled and to them that haue gouty aches to vse it with mugwort only or also chamemell vnto the diseases of the womb with Matricaria This fomentacioÌ„ may be made with .ii. vessels to be laid vnto by cours Celsus willeth men in sum place to lay about the places diseased wull perfumed with the smoock of brymston Hereunto may be referred all suche thinges as Fuchsius other wryt of fomentacions apposicions embroches litle bags and insessions The greke word aeonein signifieth the water vpon and power vpon whether it be done bicause of fomentacion that is w t heat or other cause Galen doth prayse y e perfume of the fyer stone or miln stone sprinkled with vine gar for the taking away of hardnes of y e fleshe as kirnels Diuers perfumes for the french diseases which are al made with Cinabrio that is made of quitksiluer sum also with orpmeÌ„t Marchasita c shalt thou fynd in Nic. Mass certain other which haue taught y e heeling of this disease The leeues dry of Tussilago made in perfumes so y e smok may be drawen in at the mouth vpoÌ„ doth help y e congh and OrthopnaeuÌ„ and breaketh the impostumes in the brest The same operacion also hath the rout perfumed Dioscorides Of certain iuices THe iuices of certain herbes wrong and prest out are sod at fyer or dryed in the sun as Bulcasis teacheth seuerally of the iuice of Hamsig Plantain Lettis Singrien Purselan Rostrum Purcinum or hogges snout Scariola Fenel Smalage Volubili Sorrell and other A maruelous waye to drawe out the iuice out of black Elleborum whiche sum vse as a secrete mystery the commoditie whereof I also trying would not hyde lest I should seme to be sory that our posteritie shuld haue any excelleÌ„t knowledge who founde this way first I can not saye I learned it of certain my moste secret friendes I mean that black Elleborum whiche communly all men in Germany name in lyke maner lyke vnto Consiligo very many kepe it in their gardeÌ„s but that whiche groweth vpon the mouÌ„taines to be found in our countrey Heluetia is best A man may trye the same way in Colocynthida Esula Laureola c. Sieth lightly in water the routes of black Elleborum cleen and washt set infused in the same first a night or more small cut Thou shalt take hede both in this and in the other decoctions that thou skim away diligently al the foom that swymmeth aboue as venemous This water shalt thou kepe and again power other vnto it warm and heet it a whyle moderatly chaunging the water so oft til the routes retein none or very litle bitternes any more whiche shall cum to pas when thou hast chaunged the water seuen or nyne tymes But in the meane space whyle thou chauÌ„gest the waters destill the first euer with a Filtrum or through a brush and at length sieth all with a slowe fyer or with burnt cooles rather so that they boyl not yet let them be alwayes at the poynt of boyling vntil they be as thick as hony in an earthen pot glased or of bras tinned the pot couered or litle opeÌ„ WheÌ„ as now a litle water remaineth about the ende of the siething stur it about gently now and then w t a stick that the iuice be not burnt too and at the same time for a pound of rotes of Elleborum thou shalt put .ii. drammes of Mastik pund and cease not to sturre it other continuallye or by little distaunces til the iuice seme out and out sufficiently thickened whiche wil chaunce sodenlye for the mooste parte and that the matter may be the les burnt the nere vnto the ende and to the thickning the iuice is so much vrge it with les fyre nor be not weary of the time for thou shalt haue a most excellent and exquisite medicine againste diuers diseases speciallye melancholik diseases It shal become of a darke red coloure of moste bitter sauour with a percing sharpnes like as is in Asarum or Asarabaâ—cha and Cloues but stronger ye burning as it semeth to the taster yet is not burning in deede that is because of the tenuitie and sclendernes of the partes as I wold haue tried It is ministred an hour after supper in the mouÌ„tenance of a pease in all diseases whereunto Elleborus is conueniente and where it is good to lose the bealy One pill of that quantity that I saide wil make a man to
hatted Mercury and with his rod also This gift is sacred by the greatst vnto the greatest Ploto Again within this little pot was found a light yet burning betwene two Phials the one of Gould the other of Siluer ful of a certain mooste pure liquor by the vertue wherof they beleue that this lighte had burnte manye a yeare as did noote in their collections and gatherings of old auncient inscriptiōs or Poesies Petrus Appianus and Bartholom eus Amantius Hermolaus Barbarus also in his Corollarium or addicion vpon Dioscorides made mention of this same thing wheras he entreateth of waters in cōmun There is also saith he a heauenlye water or rather diuine of the Chymistes whiche boothe Democritus and Mercury Trimegistus knewe callinge it sometimes a deuine water somtimes a Seythicall liquor somtimes pneuma that is spirit of the nature of the firmament and of y ◠fift essens or substance of things wherof potable gold and that philosophers stone much spoken of but not yet fond consisteth Hereupon also is the name geuen vnto the art calling it Psammurgicall and misticall and Annophysiall and holy and greatest as thoughe it had certaine secreate letters and such as it should be conueniente to kepe and restrein the profane commun people from This kinde of liquor as I suppose dothe the Epigram signifye of late found within the field of Padua nie vnto the village called Atesta made vpon earthen or bricke mettal and therfore frail and broken vnwares by the handes of a man of the country digging the ground in the same place The remēbrance wherof least it should pearish we haue added hereunto the very wordes This holy gift to the God c. as before Therfore it appeareth that the study of this Art was of moste antiquitie amongste the Barbarus nacions but deriued vnto the Romains and Grekes somwhat late nether before perauenture that the Romains obteined the dominion of a great part of the worlde or if sooner yet couertly reteined emongst a very fewe Cicendulae y ◠shine in the night saith Cardane teach vs that a liquor may be made that may shine in the dark It is made certes by the putrifying of those things that haue most erceding brightnes light perspicuitie I dout not but it is possible to be made wherof and how I am vncertain But these things are almost besides our matter sauing that it mighte seme vtterly that the way to sublimate destil as they term it hath had his original of the Chimists continued also alwais w t their art was opened vnto the mē of our parte of the world thē first whē as y e world being made known bithimpery of the Romains sundry kinds of spices also diners medicins vnknown befor to the men of Europe to the Grekes Latins also began to be brought in and afterward also more what time as the Mauritans mē learned in the Arabik tung doctrin possessed a great part of Spain wherby certain bokes of learned mē cam vnto vs amongst the latter sort as I think the works of one Bulcasis Benaberazeris who in the place wher he intreteth of the preparation of medicins teacheth also of many things to be sublimated destilled About the age of the same mā almost I think Iohannes Mesue was famous whō we read to haue liued about y e yere of our Lord. 1158. But be mēcioneth none other destild waters thē of Roses Wormwod Mē say Auicenna florished the yere of our Lord. 1149 ▪ who also speketh of Rose water destild The vsa of metalli things sublimated is far more auncient at the leaste wise touching the tradition or tretises of authors like wise is the vse of oyls that are made by descension or downwarde as in Rasis Aetius A certain mā whose name I spare to rehers writ of late that these maner of destilled liquors wer not vnknown to the latter Greke writers vsing this argument that destilled liquors are sometimes named in the writings works of Actuarius And in dede he nameth in sōe places Rhodostagma as in his Iulep against y e cogh a litle folowing in an other Iulep intybostagma But w t these words is signified nothing els thē a simple syrup of Roses or Endiue Rhodostactum doth Agenita describe in his 7. boke y t. 15. cha with these words Sieth .ii. sextars of the iuice of Roses y t nails wherof are takē away one sertar of hony skimming it til the .iiii. part be consumed Ye a litle before also he describeth Hydrorosatū rosed water that also far differing frō a destiled liquor or water destild for it consisteth of .iiii. pounds of Roses the nailes takē away .v. sextaries of water ii sextaries of hony The Arabians also or their expositors when they speake of the water of any plant they vnderstand the decoctiō of it in water and likewise Nicolas Myrepsus that writte in Greke of the compositions of medicines whome it appeareth to be a verye late wryter by the barbarous woordes that he vseth very oft wherin I maruel this that no mētion is made by him of waters or oyles prepared in Chymistical instruments Only the oyl Capnistum or smoked that is destilled by descention doth he describe as Aetius also Moreouer the thinges that the Chimistes make may I comprehend in .ii. kindes for the moste parte that they be ether liquors or Massy things the liquors againe are ether watery or oyly and these ether aiery or fiery The Massy things are ether such as rest in the bottom or such as are caried vpwarde and that .ii. waies ether as pure bodies and substauces as they which they cal sublimated quick siluer c. or Sout for the remedies of the eies wyth Phisicions There be also other artificial manner of preparings wherwith the purest and most effectual parte in medicines is drawne out and as it were the forme is separated from the matter And although I am not greatly trauailed nether in the Chymistical nor in the other manner of preparings but by the way haue got the kuowledge of certain thinges partly by mine own experience in some things partlye of myfrends yet what so euer and how much so euer this is I wil communicat it with the studions of Phisick not as though I entend to teach perfectly and absolutely the very Art of destilling and preparing of other things but as it were wryting vnto such as now already are not all voyde and withoute knowledge of these things hauing ether experimented them selues or red other mens wrytings For I haue nothing so exrellēt or secrete but I couet it might ge abrode to the publik and common profit and although in smal wealth yet haue I ben euer of nature ready to communicate and make any man priuye of any cunning I had which som referre vnto simplicitie or childishnes other some better to the liberalitie of my disposition There be some that do vtterly cloke and kepe secrete
Rupe scissa looke in Raimund Lullus Io. Genrotus a frenche boke Io. Manardus Io. Mesuae Io. Tagautius Metaphras vp on the Surgery of Guido de Cauliaco Io. de Vigoes Surgery Marianus Sanctus a Surgean Munkes commentaries vpon Mesue Nicander Nicolas Massa of the Frenche pockes Nicolas Myropsus Peter Andro Matthaeolus Senenfis booke of the frenche pockes and Italian commeÌ„taries vpon Dioscorides Petrus Aponensis Philip. Vlstadius CoeluÌ„ philosophorum that is heaueÌ„ of Philosophers Raimund Lullius boke notable good and very learned of Quintessence which was prynted once at Argentin of late at Norinberge but differinge in manye thinges I haue .ii. written copies and other .ii. I saw with a frende of mine which al did differ amongste them selues from the prynted I did se also the boke of Quintessence of Ioannis de Rupe scissa almost throughout word for word agreinge with the same that it mighte seeme that Lullus writ out of his or els that some man fatherd it falsly vpon Lullus if so be it he writ afore Lullus as we reade in the Dialog of Ioannes Brasescus Yet Symphorianus Camperius noted that Lullus or Lullus florished the yere of oure Lord. 1311. But Io. de Rupe scissa the yeare 1340. Trite A boke of the same Lullus of waters Loke befor in Aegidius Rasis Remaclus F. Lymburgensis that writ of those destilled waters y t be in commoÌ„ vse Rogerius Bacho of the vertues of Aqua vitae according to the .xii. fignes whicke boke som not truely ascribe to Arnold de villa no. Serapio A Table of the chapters conteined in this Booke WHat destillation is and of diuers formes and kindes 1. Of the vertues of licores destilled generallye 7 Of the manifold vse of lyquors destilled bothe in Physicke and otherwise 15 A way to purge and make clene troubled waters 17 Of Balneum Mariae generallye and of those destillatioÌ„s that be don by vapors of hot water and in horse dong id Certain excelleÌ„t simple waters destilled in Balneo Mariae firste of Plantes then of bea 24 Of Rosewater 38 Of waters â–ª destilled of beasts or of their partes or excrementes and firste of all of the hoole beastes 49 Of vessels and diuers instruments belouging to destillation 51 Of the matter for vessels of destillacion and first against leaden and brasen vessels 57 Of Fornaces c 61 Howe to close vessels and to defend them bothe with clay and otherwise 61 Of the preparation for destillation 67 Of the rectificatioÌ„ of liquors destilled 73 Destillacion by a filter or a liste of Wollen cloth 75 Of burning water or single Aqua vitae and of the strength therof and manifold vse 76 Of the strengths and vertues of Aqua vitae 82 Of suche thinges as be destilled dry put into any liquor 89 Of quintessence of remedies 94 How the quintessence of all thinges maye be drawn oute to minister theÌ„ or the vertue of theÌ„ to mennes bodies 98 Of the drawyng oute of the Quintessence froÌ„ wine 102 How quintessens may be drawne out more easeli and with les cost for pore mens sakes out of the same 104 In what places Vlstadius teacheth in hys heaueÌ„ teacheth to draw out diuers quintess 106 A merueilous water that hath a contrarye operation to Aqua vitae whiche maye be called cold quintessence 107 Of the extractinge drawing forth of all the vertues of Chelidonia or Selandine by the whiche example euerye man of anye vnderstanding maye vse to drawe oute the vertues also of other plantes 110 How Quintessence is drawn out of frutes as Apples Pears plums Cheries chestnuts 1â—6 Out of flours herbs and rotes idem Of quintesseÌ„ce of maÌ„s bloud egges fleshe and Honye 117 Of quintesseÌ„ce of metals 121 Of the drawing oute of quintessence from Antimonia lead whit lead 122 Of diuers kindes of Aqua vitae coÌ„posed 124 Aqua vitae againste PestileÌ„ce proued and vsed with great and meruelous successe by a certaine Phisicion of oure time of Solodurn in Heluetia the yere of our lord 1547. In so much that scarsly euery teÌ„th of theÌ„ that receiued it died 128 Two compositions of Aqua vitae 125 What medicynes bee mixte wyth Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body theÌ„ without 141 A water to washe the parts taken with the palsey 145 Of destilled waters coÌ„posed but with other theÌ„ with Aqua vitae 146 Certain composed waters to be destilled other of the medicines by them selues or w t well springe water 135 Of waters of vertues or golden water c. 155 A water of certain remedies for short c. 163 A water for the ston 165 Certain waters composed idem Waters of CapoÌ„s 168 Waters composed for diuers diseases wythin the body chiefly whereof some are made of medicins and iuices whyles they be yet new other are infused and put into the iuices of plaÌ„ts or waters destild whai or blud 170 An aproued water for the sores of the raines bladder 171 A water coÌ„posed 172 A water against the Pestilence c 174 Of purging medi. 175 Gold potable or c 177 Certain waters composed c. 183 Certaine waters for the eies 185 Of waters of swiet sauour 187 Rosewater with musk Saffron cloues c. 189 Waters of swiet c. 192 Waters destilled called Cosmeticall c. 195 Certain waters destild for y e garnishing c 200 Certaine Cosmetical thinges 207 Waters for the dying of the heares c. 208 A way to destill swiet waters effectual c 211 Destillation in ashes 213 Of Rosaries that is to say instrumeÌ„ts c. 218 Of oils destild c 222 How oyl must be drawn out of spices c 225 Howe oyle is drawne of wodes c. ideÌ„ Of oils of flours 232 Oils of sedes c. 237 Certain oils of sedes 239 Of oyl of the beries of Iuniper c. 242 Of oils of guÌ„s c 246 Of oyl of TurpeÌ„ c 249 Oiles of barkes 251 Of oils that ar drawn out of wodes 254 Of true balm and an tibalm c. 261 Of balme made c. 268 Of balms that c. 285 Of oyl of the parts of beasts or excremeÌ„ts 289 Of oyl of metals c 290 Of Aqua fortis c. 320 Of the lyquors c. 325 Of certain massy c. id Of certain other c. 338 Of diuers oyles 339 Of oyl of Tartarum y t is the dry Lies c. 351 Of oyles of the yolks of egges 354 Of Perfumes 362 Of certain iuices 367 Againe of the iuice of black Elieborus c. 375 Of the iuice of y e flour Deluce and Rape 378 Of decocted things 381 Of made wine mixt with medicines 383 Of Aromatical wines y t is made of spices 392 Of swiet wines spyced 396 Three wais to make Nectar c. 401 Of spiced wines with burning water 404 Of certain other Aromaticall wines specially such as are made by haÌ„ging a little c. 406 Of Artificiall wynes which
purest partes Therfor in naturall digestion and siething whiche to melt the hardest thinges hath also the force of fyre and the strength of soft and easye bath in extenuating and lesning the same the more grosse and massy partes on broken into peces whiche can not be brought to pas with fyre The heat of the first degree whiche is moderate as of hors dong and Balneum Mariae is called the heat of digestion resolution putrefaction maceration and of circulation wherof wee shall speake more in place conuenient Of diuers wayes to destil by sublimation with water and withoute water looke within in Rose water out of Bulcasis Of destillation generally Gâ—ber an Arabian writ certayn thinges in 1. 4. 50. chapter of his booke callid Summa perfectionis Where he reasoneth excellently of many thinges chiefly of the difference and diuers affectes of destillation by water and by asshes In the same booke 39. chap. he teacheth of sublimatioÌ„ why it was inuented and so forth in the. 40. chap. what sublimation is and of thre degrees of fyre to be obserued in it and in the. 41. chap. of the moderating of the fyre in sublimation and how the reason of that thing is vnderstanded by putting wull of wode or bombice in to the vpper hoole of the aludel Of chusing of wode the. 43. chapter Brunsvvicke Suche coÌ„mune things as ar put into a rose still to be destilled it is best not to put myche in at once least they that be nethermost be dryed away and burnt those that lie aboue remainyng yet almost hoole and as they were put in And chiefly if thou destill any pretious or odorife rous thinges it shal be better to put in newe the ofter and so shall the water flow more pleÌ„teously Suche herbes flowres and other plantes and growyng thinges as ar to be destilled ought to be gathered when they ar perfectly rype chiefly whyle the mone encreasith when the wether is faire and in the day tyme to be laide in y â— shadow to be cut and if nede require to be brosyd also and by and by to be destilled ¶ Of the vertues of licores destilled generally MAnarde in his Epistles 15. booke 15. chapter saith thus when I perceiued in the commun waters that ar destilled out of plantes by fyre nether the smell nor the taste remaine but many times the contrary for the water of wormwode I perceyued to be sweet of Mint and Basill came water rather stinknyge then well smellyng whereby I well perceiued that the water alone had not the same vertues that the hoole herbe had I began carefully to muse and to consult also with those that of suche waters ar called communly chymici by what deuise bothe the smell and the tast might be preserued in thies waters that is founde in the hoole herbe It were longe to wryte all the ways whiche I proued to finde oute thies thinges yet one will I touche whiche semeth to me to be the best and the easiest waye That is by the vapoure and smoke of hoat water in a double vessell c. Syluius Waters destilled reteyne and kiepe still the vertues of the simples wheroute they be drawne sauing that they ar more pure stronge the oftener they be destilled whiche wee proue in the water of wyne for the most part very seldome in other thinges The vertues of licore destilled some doo alter and chaunge ether by smering the head of the still with some matter as hony Ladanum and suche like or els by putting it in y e nose of the stil which serueth for the most parte to the grace of the smel for thei bind muske cloues Caphura and such like in bundels and put them in the top of the nose that the licore passing thorow thies matters may get a swiet sauour A doubt If so be it y t fyre maketh al thinges hoat and drye all waters gotten by destillation ought to be hoat and drye Nether dothe the watery substance disproue this for when as brenning water is suche it doth both bren and mightly make hoat and dry mens bodies Again al waters be colde and moyste as long as the substance hath the vpper hande But nether of thies is alwayes true yea some of thies ar more lyke vnto those thinges wheroute they be taken as rose water bothe in smel tast and operation A phiall of plantain water is able to staunche bloud where so euer it runne forth Water of Lettis can not doo the same although it be muche colder A certain man of late endeuouring to encrease his memory infused and steept balm for the space of thre days in whyte wyne then lightly wringing oute the wyne destilled a water by the drinking wherof he thought to recouer his memory But hauing a hoat liuer had almost destroyed his health And this maner is called of the philosophers to sette Starres in the skye Therfor men be wont to axe whether these waters reteyne and kiep their owne propre vertues and strength Wee once saide whyles wee entreated of the euill maner of curing that they are no strengthes nor vertues because they are destitute of sauour and taste For water of wormwode nether smelleth like wormwode nor is bitter yea that is more wonder it is sumwhat swiete Yet burning water to speake nothing of Rose water well declareth that ther is a certaine vertue and efficacie in waters For if you will say it is suche because of fyre how commeth it to pas that none other water is like it for this doth marueilously make hoate dryeth perceth hath a sharp smell burneth It is plain therfore now that there is strength and vertues in waters but not in al waters nor equall with that they be drawn oute of for what things soeuer haue a thinne substaunce ioyned with colde gyue a water not vnlyke to theÌ„ selues as the Rose They that haue a thin and hoat substance giue a lyke water but burning withall as wyne and certain metals Suche as haue a grosse and hoat substance giue an vnlyke water and an euill as wormwod Such as haue grosse and colde they giue vnlyke but not euill as the Gourde According to this reason suche strengthes of waters as ar receiued with soft fyre ar easy to be learned for suche as require a vehemenr fyre doo all vehemently drye for the most parte also make hoate This saith Cardan But me thinkes thies thinges would be more diligently considered and weyed First wher he saieth that wormwode water is not bitter it is trew if a man destill it negligently as the coÌ„mun apothecaries ar wont in leaden limbeckes but destill it in Balneo Mariae and see whether it shall lacke his smell and tast or no. Yea it shall retain boeth and that effectuously not only this herbe but also any other plant whatsoeuer it be hauing any sauoure or taste if it be dried and weikte or stiept in wyne a few dayes then destilled in Balneo Mariae or by asshes gentely as I shall shewe
further within Now when certain thinges haue great plentie of their smel and that so strong that it vanisheth not of a long space whiche cummeth bycause the force of smelling is digested equally into the hoole â—ubstance of them it is no wonder if in the same vesselles some waters bee destilled lyke vnto their plantes as of Roses whiche as Theophrastus wryteth doo reteine their sauour very long other sum be vnlyke to their plantes for suche waters as haue their vertue and force in the vttermost and superficial partes they fume out easyly as of wormwode whose smell may be iudged to bee in the same place where his bitter taste is conteined whiche wee fynde to be only in the vtter and superficiall parte For if thou separate the barke from the stalke or the braunches thou shalt fynde that whiche is within to be vnsauery or vnswiete Therfor this difference is not to be required of the grossenes or puritie of y â— partes although I thinke it also to be of some force but rather of this that the strength of any thing is ether distributed equally through y e hoole plaÌ„t or els more nie to the midest or vtter parte of the same I am surely of that mynde with Raimunde Lullus that water of the same qualitie may be goten oute of any plant whatsoeuer it bee of colde plantes colde water of hoat hoat of dry dry of moyst moyste But I will not graunte that the same vertue remaineth except lyke sauour or like taste or bothe as in smelling thinges be left The cause why the smell of certain floures as of Iasmin of the floures of cloues remaineth not in the waters c. reade within oute of Cardane wher as we intreate of BalneuÌ„ Mariae generallye I sawe once an alchymist that destilled not the very herbes them selues but onely the iuse of herbes or busshes renewing certain tymes the destillatioÌ„ and powering again y e water vpon y e dregges grouÌ„de vpon a marble moler Gnaynerius Oates wherof drinke may be made as Ale or Bear of barly do warme make dronk no lesse then wyne Men say that in Tartaria water of milke destilled maketh men dronke But euery water not an element that is alone without any mixture but lyquor or iuyce mixt and compounded being oft destilled may doo the same for it wareth hoat is fyned and made more pure and receiueth more the force offyre Wherupon burning water being oft destilled is brought to suche sharpnes that it can not bee dronke Cardane Also a lyquor or other thing be destilled the thicker it is the more it semeth to conceiue heate and fyre if it be oft destilled It is manifest saith Cardane that a water may be made whiche shall incoÌ„tenent breake the stone in the bladdar if it be put in by a squirt or syring for whan as two thinges ar necessary bothe that it breake the stone and that it hurt not the bladdar the maner and matier wil performe the first for we shall receiue the last vapors of the asshes of scorpions or of persily of Macedonia or of the precious stone called Tecolittius or of the stones of crabes for so may a water be made to breake also the red marble Moreouer that it shall not hurt the bladder is brought thus to pas if the mattier out of which the water is taken be voyde of all saltnes A man must not take therfor water of any salt kind of thing or alum or coperoos or of wyne lies but some of them that wee meÌ„cioned erewhyle But ther is nied of diligent triall in coÌ„firming a subtile meanes that such things which we haue serched oute so subtilly being surely confirmed first by experience and profe we may then deduce and bring them to the coÌ„moditie of man In dede I know that pigeoÌ„s donge and paritary ether th one or thother destilled by this meanes is able too breake the hardest stoone that euer was in any bladder But what that is whiche shall doo it and withoute damage a man muste declare by experieÌ„ce for both a hea goates bloud and a hares skin and glas ar much approued by reason Notwithstanding no one of thies perauenture alone but some of them toyned together and in a certain quantitie Suche a thing surely must be of metall or at least wyse chaunged to y e nature of metall I hard ouce that it was founde of a certain man of Ianua but lost again by his death who would make no man priuie to it nor teache it to any man But this once sure that it is possible to finde it and that this is the arte and science of the same Hitherto Cardane Perauenture also Chrysocolla would helpe vnto this art being artificiusly made and withoute sharpnes suche as is also praised of the goldsmithes wherfor to make Borace sum vse rain water destilled and milke destilled sum also hony marow c. I hard of late a certain practicer cured the stone of the bladdar in certain men with Borace mixt with burning water to the thicknes almoste of hony mingling also Tartar punned or a stone cut out of a man or the groundes of pisse out of a pispot He coÌ„maunded that a man shall vse this medicine by the space of fourtene dayes so that he should alwaye mixt some with his wyne when he dronk yea bothe at diner and supper I remeÌ„ber I haue red of certain liquores in which if a man put a stone or flint it should be resolued The Chymistes and destillers vse destilled vinegar and destilled vrine to resolue metalles They dissolue with strong vinegar chiefly destilled or with the iuice of limons perles egge shelles stones of the reines of the bladder bothe the coralles and thei afterwarde dryed ar quickly redily croÌ„med betwixt ones fingers Siluius I can not let pas here to speake of the water of Epiphanius the practicionar which is such Re. Antalis et dentalis boracis sarcocollae whyt corall whyte chrystall claye anessede rys meel of orobê° pursulan of euery one half an ounce Let them be made into trochiscos litle roules or balles with water of beanes made with muske The vse of it is for wemen to make their faces whyt and faire but the face must bee perfumed afore with water of a decoction of barly oates then let one baul be steept and coÌ„sumed in bean water and anoynt the face afore you goo to bed but in the morning washe it away with water of a decoctioÌ„ of beanes and bran and again with coold water If the bauls be made with water of limons they shal yet more beautify the face for limones roasted and anoynted vpon the face they alone doo beautify y â— face If a man drinke this water fasting and anoynt the place of his priuities wher hear groweth therwith it breketh the stone which is prouid by this that if a man lay Porcellanas in it the space of a night the next daye he shall order them with his fingers lyke warmed wax
the first more thin and waterye the other more read The water of Balneum Mariae oughte to be no hoater then that a man may suffer his finger in it Brunsuicensis Vlstadius prescribeth the destillation of a certaine kinde of aqua vitae in Balneo Mariae to be done with so slow a fire that a man may tell one two three vntil seauen before a drop fall Of such things as pertain to the commun wai of Balneum Mariae you shall reade more with in where we make mention of aqua Camphorae out of Bulcasis and of Rose water out of the same This waye of destillation in Balneo Mariae is vsed also to the rectifying as they terme it of oyles to draw and purge the fleame from them for only the waters and nothing els may be lifted vp and drawn out by the heat of the bath the oyle remaining stil in the bottome The chief vse of dong or as som term it a hors belly is such that the mater which is to be destilled in a glasen vessell set in the dong maye be prepared by the heat therof as we shall declare more at large in his place wher we shall make mentiō of putrifactiō and rotting It is possible notwithstanding for destillation to be brought to pas in y ◠same if ether pouerty or ani other impediment be that a man can not haue fire Of this kinde of destillation see more within wheras we entreate of the prepation to destill The heate of hors donge because of the lime that is mixt therwith Brunsvvick supposeth to excede in the middle degree the heat of Balneum Mariae If you desire to haue a water destilled of the fleshe of any beast you shall strangle the beast y t it bleed not in any wise then take away al the fat and shred the fleshe in small pieces and so destill it in hors dōg or with a soft fire least the waters stink or sauour of brentnes which is wont easelye to chaunce wherefore it is best to destill them twise Brunsvvick The parts of beast or excrements as blud the liuer the lights eggs gall and oxe dong oughte to be destilled in hors dong with vessels not very close stopt but hony and milk a man may stop thē close least the water stink But if it chaunce to stink euen thus ordred then let it be destylled again in Balneo Mariae specially the water of excre mēts of oxen whose first destillatiō is scarse foūd without stench Brunsvvick It wold frame better if a man put to a litle curtsy of salt in the putrifying or destilling of dong that they maye corrupte the lesse Certain excellent simple vvaters destilled in Balneo Mariae first of plantes then of beests Absinthium OF Worme wode water Iohannes Mesuae hath made mencion and of it and of Rooses only as the Munks that writ apon Mesuae haue noted that it is to be supposed ther is a certain excellent vertue aboue other in thies .ii. destilled liquors if they be rightlye prepared but as commun apothecaries maketh them the wormwode water lacketh all odour and tast as is said before If so be it anye man desire to haue this liquor moore strong let him stiep the wormwood dry in win and destill it in Balneo Mariae or if yet strōger in ashes But such as be destilled first stiept in any liquor the waters of thies now ar not simple but compound of the which we shal write hereafter seuerally Alsine WHiche commonly they call Morsus Gallen Hēbain the water destilled is geuē to infantes children diseased with the falling sicknes ether alone or with spring water Wemen comend it greatly and som say they haue tried it them selues I saw it of late ministred in vain But that when I tasted it had like to haue made me vomit perauenture because it was somewhat to old or els because it was gathered in leeden lembeks Caepa THe whyt Onion destilled breketh the stone Martianus Sanctus Cerasus CHery water of what kynd soeuer they bee is drunke against to muche heate is ministred with out y e body but particularly of sweet black cheries whiche also is commended of many against the palsy if it be poured into the mouth and the mouth be wel washt therwith that it restoreth the vse of the tung lost They destill the flesh of it alone or the kernels also beaten together that y e liquor destilled therof may entye out the stony matter of the reines and bladdar The black and sower ar called Visula they yeild a water holsome in agues both other and also pestilent agues whiche couleth and confirmeth the strengthes it is profitable also against thirst and bluddye flixe Ryffius The water destilled of the swiete blacke and freshe Cheries is maruelously cōmended of Remaclus F. of Lymburg Assone saith he as it shal be powred into the mouth of one sick of the falling euill alredy taken with y e fit the potion of it is .iiii. drammes or moor by by he reuiueth refreshed neither is he any moor drawen together with any cramp til in the ordinary tyme as it is the custome of it after a fewe daies an other fit come vpon him whiche when it chaunceth it must be powred in again for it letteth taketh away and healeth the fit Camphora water therof or oyll is thus made Take one of the vessels for Rose water that is called baten that is a bely fill it with the sticks or cips of pynappull tree whiche hath great and brood leaues and let it be filled Siluius taketh it so as though the roose water should be poured to the chips of the pynappull tree but me thinkes y t the vessell of rose water is simply named heer for a cucurbita or bely that it may be a certayn repeticion of the same whiche he had spoken before and let it be couered with a vessell hauing a nose then put the bely into a brasen vessell ful of water ouer the fyre till it begin to boyl for an oyll shall destill and yet they denye that oyll may be lifted vp by the heat of water subtill of a good odour whiche is called water of Camphora Or if ye list destill it in a fornace of rosewater the same way that it is destilled Bulcasis But Belluensis sayth that water of Camphora according to the Arabians saith he is a water that runneth out of the tre that bryngeth the Camphora which as his tree also is of a hoot nature in third degree so Camphora it self is cold Monachi in Mesuae Put three litle bies in the vessel of glas wher the Camphora is whiche shall so be turned into water Fragaria SStraweberies shalt y ◠putrify in a Vessell of bras perauēture salt may be put to it or sugar and destill them This water saith Lullus in his .ii. booke of quintessence is holsō and diuine It comforteth nature expelleth poyson prouoketh we mens flowers asswageth burning humors strengtheneth the conceiuinge
But chiesly it breaketh newe spottes of the eies cūming of both the humors heet or cold if so be it they excede not mich It dryeth vp teers of both causes heet or cold it restoreth cleareth the sight lost with ether of the causes And I saw a woman hauing newly all ouer her face blesters or wheals by the strook of a ston with heet which the only washing of this water was streight way heled with great admiration But the vertue ther of is a hundred foold mor maruelous and stronger in operacion with burning water and muche moor with quintessence Yea this water mixt with quintessence or wyth burnynge water cureth the Leprosye Fraxinus THre vnces of the liquor destilled of the inner bark of ashe with as many vnces of whyt wyne is drūk against the pestilence and the same drinck after iii. howres is repeted so God willynge within .xxiiii. howres shall the sicke be deliuered A water of the kirnelles of Halicacabus is commended of som against y e stone of the reines and bladder if it be drounke ons or twyes a weeke Helxines WHiche we cal Parietary or Pelitory the water therof is profitable againste the stone ried before in the vertues of waters destilled generally out of Cardanus Hieracium DEntdelion in frēch wyth vs it is called Dandelion the water therof siemeth to bee of the same vertue as is the water of Endiue Cikory Some destill it first steeping it in wyne eight dayes it is of a sower tast and they giue it to drinke against the fittes of the fallyng sycknes with marueilous tryall as they say Hissopus HIssop retaineth merue louslye hys vertue in a destilled liquor althoughe it be destilled in a common earthen lembek only apon sād put in a fyre pan and likwise penyriall and certaine other They vse water of Hyssoppe o asswage touthache for it is sharp and subtill c. Intybum ENdiue the water there of coleth all hotte diseases and all burnynge of fyre or water hoote it heeleth them if they be wash therewith It is good also for quotidian Agewes and obstructyons of the bowels bothe drunck and mynistred oute warde Lullus vppon waters Lauendula WAters of the floures of lauender is sweet smelling Remaclus Iuglans THe water of walnuts not rype made aboute saint Ihons tyde ministred without is good for woundes and hoat byles and the pestilent anthrax Also being dronke a two or thre vnces it cooleth and resisteth the pestilence A water also is destilled of the vtter huskes of walnutes ether rype so that they be new brast and left of the nut or not yet at all in the moneth of September nether skilleth it if they be blacke so y t they be not rotten yet the black are counted the best A moderate potion of this water with the third part of vineger if it inuade a man with heet letting bloud first is geuen to drinke against the pestilence as a certain experiment It is praised also for y e noyse in the eares and the difficultie of heering for the diseases in the throte called angine being gargild A water destilled of y e leues of walnut tree about the end of May is maruelously cōmended for the drying and knitting of sores and to bring them to a skar if they be washt therwith morning and euening and a linnen cloth moystened therein bee laid vpon Brunsvvicencis Orchis SAtyrion is destiled rootes and al good for y e falling euill as men say Persica SOme destill the floures also of Peeches Petroselinum A Water destilled of Persely of y e garden beeten in a mortar cōfirmeth the apetite dissolueth all wyndes of the body and stomack strengtheneth concoction and purgeth out y e ill humors of the brest reines rather Aegidius Plantago AVyol of Plātain water is able to staūche bloud frō whence so euer it runne Cardanus Brunsvvick doth note many commodities vpon plantaine water and specially if it bee dronkē in the morninge and euening at eche time two ounces is good for the blody flix Pulegium PEny reall looke before in Hysope Rapum RApe water maye be made bothe of the hoole Rapes cut and also seuerally of the barkes whiche are sharper and hooter to prouoke vrin and further sweet The water of this Rapes sayeth Brunsvvick is good against burning of what cause soeuer it bee if the sore place be washed with it there wyll ryse first a scurffe but washe the scurffe also and it will hele the sayde burning Rosa ROos water semeth to be first inuented for I finde mention of it in Auicen the .ii. boke in the chapter of rooses Roosewater drounke saith he is good in a swoun and the iuice of them also and again water of roses is good for the liuer and it cōforteth the stomacke which is nourished of of it with hony and it is Geleniabin and helpeth to disgest And the roos and his iuice are good for a stomak to mich hoot And although the Arabiās for the most part ar wont to say water for iuyce or decoction yet in this place it can not be taken for then when as he speaketh seuerally of the iuice of the decoction also he made mētion befor Rooswater made by sublimation doth very much comcomforte Mesue in the chapter of Rooses And again The Roos and hys oyl and water sublimated comforteth the hart c. The same speeketh of rooswater destilled in the .vi. destinction wheras he describeth the iuleb of roses as the Munkes his interpreters do proue of whom also this was obserued and noted that two waters destylled and nomo mencioned in Mesue that is of rooses and wormwod They make no epithē or outward medicine at this day but they put roosewater in it In sharp vehement and greet inflammations to strengthen the principall members it maye be commodiously vsed It is good for the flixe of the bowels and vomiting It helpeth the inflammation of the eies veri much in the beginning Sum are wōt to mixt with it a litle thucia and sugercādy It strengtheneth the eies and sharpeneth the sight It stauncheth blud running out of the nosthrilles being put in a linnē cloth That which is made of red roses is more cordiall as they terme it and strengtheneth moor but of whit doth moore coul Remaclus F. Of wine mixt with roswater in time of meet see in Arnold in his boke of wine Rooswater although it be made diuers waies yet the best is made by Balneum Mariae Matthaeolus If thoos rooses which we call commonly carnacion dryed and moystened with the vapoure of water be destilled they yeld good rose-water Syluius They may be holden in a linen cloth ouer hot water til they haue drunck inough of the vapoure ⧠Of Roose vvater out of Bulcasis THe makynge of Roosewater is known in moste coūtires It is better made with water then without better also by fire of cooles then of wood wherfore of the iiii waies whyche be withoute water wyth flaming woode without water with
Tilia beaten The dosis or quantitie of ministration is one or one and a halfe It asswageth the griefes of the eyes and healeth the places brent with fyre or any hoot matter that more surely if the inner barck al but tiliae be stiept in this water or in stede therof the grains or kernels of quinces or psyllium and the places be anoynted with the horines or mouldines that bredeth ther vpon Ryffius Some vse against the pestileÌ„re a liquor drawn by the force of fire oute of the bloude of a graye or badger Also of the blud of duckes againste poyson c. wherof thou shalt read more in the boke of destillarions of Ryffius writen in Dutch Some mixt the bloud of a goat with medicins againste the stone to be destilled A water composed of the blud of a barrow hog and other diuers medicens wil we describe hereafter in some place Of the water of wormes and of the kind of CaÌ„tharides whiche is surnamed as Mey lander Kaeser saith of the month of May read Brunsvvick A water to take away wrinkles and spots of y â— face to clere the skin Beat the whites of egges hard sod in water y t yolkes takeÌ„ away together in a morter destill them in a lymbek of glasse or other vessel of glas The vse of it is that y e face be a noynted therwith euery day thrise for the space of iii. or .iiii. dayes I would adioyne here a table of waters destilled of plantes whiche are described in the Dutche bokes of destillacions of Hierom of Brunsvvick for the most part all that Gaulterus Ryffius hathe borowed of him sauing that I studye to be shorte And surely it is nothing necessary to resite al wheÌ„ as liquors also may and are wonte to be destilled of all such plantes wherof there is any vse in phisicke But to recken vp also the vertues and faculties of euery of them as some do it is superfluous when as none other for the moste parte but euen the very same also be attributed and ascribed to y e waters whiche are vnto the plantes so that theese repetycions moue irckesomenesse to the reader yea euen if it be but meanly learned neuer a whit les then colewortes twise sod Yet because that some waters chieflye and before other are in vse with apothecaries as those with Remaclus F. hath described I wil ad hither a rehersall and table of them in like order as he vseth and hath recited them him self Absinthinm wormwod Apium Artemisia mugwort Agrimonia Althea the holy hok Acetosa Alkekengi Auricula muris mouse eare Basilicon Buglossos Balsamita that is mynte of Rome Betonica Betony Bursapastoris shepherds pouche Chamomilum Cammomill Calendula Mary goldes Carduusbenedictus Centaurium Centory Chelidonium Felandine Cichorium Cikory Capillus Veneris Maiden heer Caprifolium that is Pericly menon woodbinde Cucurbita Gourde Cuscuta Ebulus Walwort Endiuia Enula Euphragia Eiebright Foeniculum Fennel Fumaria Fumitory Gentiana Genista Browme Hepatica that is Lichen Liuerwort Hedera Iuy Hyssopus Hippuris that is horsetaile Lactuca Lett es Lauendula Lapathum Sorel Maiorana Maioram Melissa Baulme Marrubium Hoorhound Melilotus Melilot Millefolium Milfoyl or Yarow Menta Mint Malua Malowes Nemiphar bothe kindes with the flowers Nigella Origanum Organy Paeonia Pyonie Papauer satiuum sown Poppy Parietaria Pelitory Pentaphyllon Cinkfoyl Petroselinum Persly Pimpinella Pimpernel Pastinaca Parsnip Plantago Plantaine both kindes Portulaca Purslein Polygonos that is CeÌ„tumno dia. Pulegium Peniroyall Roses white and red Ruta Rew sown or set Rosmarinus Rosmary Rubea tincterum Madder set or sowne Raphanus Radish Saluia Sage Saxifragia Satureia Sauery SaÌ„bucus Elder the bark floures and leues Scabiosa Scolopendrium Solanum wherof seing there are many kinds Remaclus writeth that apothecaries draw water out of Halicaâ—abus only for the moste part that is Alkekengi Semperuiuum Singrien Serpillum Salix Willow Senecio Grounswell Thymus Time Berded Tapsus that is Verbastum Tauacetum Tormentilla Violae Violets Valeriana Valerian Virga pastoris that is Dipsacus Tasill Verbena Veruin Vermicularis y t is the les syngrien Vrtica nettell Of vvaters destilled of beastes or of their partes or excrementes and first of all of the hoole beastes A Water destilled of whelpes will make that heir shall not growe againe And Furnerius I geue litle credence to thies curious exquisite remedies and although they be true yet I do not alowe them specially where other many and easy to be gotten ar not lacking A yong Storck some bid strangle and destil it lyke rose water and therwith to anoint the partes taken with palsey or shronke together and at certain tymes to be washt away with a decoction of sea crabes without salt they saye it helpeth marueilously if a man continue it Some bid put an vnce of Camphora a dram of amber in a yonge storkes bely the bowels taken out but it must be one that neuer yet flew then in destilling to gather seuerally thre waters differing in color of thies they prayse the last best to make the face whyte and clear They destill also a water of a pye wherof read Brunsvvick Ryffius as also of them that folowe Of a Capon whereof wee will speake seuerally within for it is not made simpely and singly only but also composed many wayes Of Frogs Crabes Snayles Pismiers or Emers Of the bloud of a Duck a he Goat a Gray of a calfe looke in Ryffius and Brunsvvick Of mans bloud looke Brunsvvick and within also wher we make mention of Quintessence Of the liuer and lightes of a Calfe The liquor of milck destilled the chymistes destyllors do vse and sum that go about to make Borax or Crhysocollam It is a wonder that men say amongst the Tartarians water destilled of milke doth make men dronke The milke must therfor be somwhat thicker and tary somewhat long vpon the fyre Whiche thing peraduenture chaunseth in meares milke Albeit all water if it be oft destilled wil do the same for it waxeth hoat is attenuated and made more fyne and receiueth the force and nature of the fyre the more Carda Some vse water destilled of wyne and milke together against y e feuer quartain specially in England as Brudus Lusitanus writeth Some drink it against the iaundys as witnesseth Iohan. Goeurotus Also seuerally of Goates milke water is destilled Loke in Ryffius Water of an Oxe hyde see in the same author Of the whytes of egges and of the yolke In the same Of the spaun of Frogges founde in waters looke in Ryffius Of kowes donge loke in the same Some say that water destilled of mans donge wil heale fistulaes also fretting soores and such as are to be cured and cancres and the disease called Tinea or matering of the head that it wil also make skarres like vnto the other skin and put away the spots or white webbes of the eyes If it be druncke it is good for them that haue the falling sicknes it helpeth them that haue
the gowte it driueth away the stone out of y e rains and bladdar it is a preseruatiue againste the bitinge of a mad dogge or other venemous beast But the oyle of the same which destilleth after the water wyth a greater fyre is much better to fistulaes and caÌ„cres and other euils aforsaid Matthaeolus of Sena and other you shal read certain merueilous thinges in Brunsvvick Mannes vrine destilled the Chymists doe vse to resolue certaine mettalles Printers to make their printinge inke but these destill it in Rose stillatoryes Of vessels and diuers instruments belonging to destellation Sublimation is taken of many simpely for destillation other take it particularly to lift vp or cause to ascende vp into the limbeck by the force of fyre the matter that is to befixed in it as many metally thinges ar sublimated The receyuing vessell for the moste part is a phiall of glas w t a longe neck in whose mouth the nose of the limbeck is put and some times the bely therof is set in a pot or some other holowe vessell that it maye stande the stedfaster in his place or els for the coÌ„moditie of the thing is set one way or other The formes and fashions of vessels ar diuers and almost without number coÌ„monly vsed with the chymistes and destillers Syluius Who so desireth the figures and names of diuers vesselles let him looke in Brunsvvick Ryffius Andro. Louicerus and other A man may cause to be made of what fashion he will in the glas makers shops suche as be in Heluetia nie vnto Scaphusia and not far from Basill and Solodourn But the best are made of whyte glas as at Venice suche may be made with vs of the peces of spectacle glasses other skrapes of whyt glas gathered together Of the vessell called aludelâ—s looke in Geber in his boke of chief perfection 1. 4. 44. chapter and again in his boke of fornaces Albertus wryteth it a luttell and expoundeth it a vessell appointed for sublimation lykewyse Bulcasis The same willeth arsnick to bee sublimated in an earthen dyshe glased the fashion wherof he describeth in the chapter of sublimation of abhichbar dic Aluthel writen with th is a limbeck whiche the Alchymistes vse in destillatious Belluencis Of the matter for vessels of destillacion and first against leaden and brasen vessels WAters destilled in Balneo Mariae do so far pas those that are made simplye by the tire in leaden limbeckes as golde passethyron For they that be made in Balneo Mariae with large chaplets limbeckes or heades and somwhat great and of glas do geue the natural sauour and taste of the herbes floures wherout they be taken without any noysome smel of smoke or burning which chaunceth not al in the common leaden stilles For the waters that are made in them very few and seldom speciallye whiles they be new are without notable lothsomnes of smoke and burntnes whiche vnto sickmen that drincke it is not only greuous but also hurtfull for the euill qualitie of the lead endamageth bothe the stomake and the breaste and all the entrailes and likewise the qualitie of brasse whyche the learned and excellent phisitions perceiuynge folowed the auncient men and vsed onlye decoctions But waters destilled accordinglye as they ought to be that is with the sauour and tast of his plant are not only equall in strength with decoctions but also passe them in thys that they more delite a man beinge more swete in taste and also clearer to the sight It shal be houe both good phisicions and also Apothecaries to lay away leaden instrumentes and prouid them the forsaid Balncum Mariae and althoughe it shall be a little more chargeable vnto them and painefull yet so shall they satisfy and please bothe God and man Matheolus Such thinges as are destilled in lead I iudge them altogether to be disalowed because of y e Cerusse and other malicious qualities of the leade when as water also that is conueyed by pipes of leade Galen condemneth because it bredeth diseases in the entrails Syluius Moreouer the vessel altereth muche aswell in destillacions as in thynges sodden Wherefore a man must take great hied in these things that the vessels be rather earthen or glasse then of metall and those that be of earth y t they be of a very pure earth and wel baked such as be the earthen vessels of Paris Bellonaca England and Spain But glasen vessels are the best because they be more pure and thicker but they be dearer will breake soner except they be made hoat by litle and lyttle and cold likewise and after the same sorte be also earthen vessels for the which cause they daube both sorts of them by little and little with claye of wisdom as they call it and dry them so far as the force of the fire shall touch yea althoughe it be to be set first in ashes sande or dros of metals For those vessels that shal stand in water or in the vavapour therof nede no such defeÌ„ce The cause whi I condemne vessels of metals leade yron brasse tin siluer and gold is Galens reason in euery one almost of these kindes of metals For if he affirme that water onlye conueied in leaden pipes dothe brede diseases of the bowels howe muche more oughte we to feare waters destilled in a leaden limbecke or still Besides that no small cerusse remaineth cleauynge to the inner side of a leaden heade as in destillinge of Vinegar is gathered so by the force of the vehemente heate or brentnesse ascendinge vp wyth a vapour manye times also tarte that is of sharpe and tarte plantes whiche infecteth the verye waâ—ers and for the mooste part maketh them white like milcke till that it be setled and suncke to the bottome Vessels of other metalles that bried other roust or canker are so muche the more pearilous as rouste or canker is more hurtfull theâ—â—cerusse Vessels made of pure siluer or golde as they be leaste hurtefull so are they more harde to be gotten because of the coste Syluius The best vessels be of glasse the nexte earthen that be glased bothe wythin and wythoute then limbeckes of tinne the bodyes in destillinge of Roses of leade Thirdlye the limbeckes and the bodyes also of leade For the strengthe of the fyre if it be moderate it hurtes not the leade but these bodyes of leade muste bee sette in syfted ashes a handfull thicke not in sande Fourthlye limbeckes of copper tinned within Fifthlye brasen But copper and brasse haue two discommodities but the brasse more then the other the fyrste they make the waters for the mooste parte somewhat read and fautye wyth brentnesse the other there is euer a certaine venemous operation in them more then in other metalles therfore Christophorus de Honestis admonisheth to take hede and auoyde them Brunsvvick Therfore seinge all the mooste learned Phisicions and experyence it selfe doe vtterlye disalowe waters destylled in vessels of leade Brasse and other vncleane mettals some
wil abide the fire better and longer if they be wared that is if they be warmed don ouer twise or thrise w t molten wax Of the preparation for destillation FOr as much as in destillacioÌ„ we seke y e separation of the elemeÌ„ts either for one or mo of them or els to thinteÌ„t that they once put cleane away we maye get the quintessens separation truely can not be don withoute heate For heat vniteth and gathereth together suche thinges as be of one kinde and nature and they that do differ and disagree it separateth to thintent this might duely be broughte to passe both the Chymists and Phisicions haue inuented diuers meanes and waies They terme thys preparacion diuersly and geue it sundrye names digestion leauening putrifaction or rotening Digestion they call it respectinge the concoction that is done in the maw by the natural heate thereof which bringeth to pas y t al such things as are put into it are turned into one humor for it is well enough known y t they which speake not very aptly nor latinly take these wordes to digest and to coÌ„coct indifferently both in one sence If so be it a dri matter ioyned w t a liquor be so prepared we shall name it wyth a more apte word maceration y t is steping or weking or els infusioÌ„ a watring moi stening But leauening is proprely spoken wheras a certain inward vertue but increased or styred vp by an outward heat commeth vnto an humor or moisture so that a certaine coÌ„mune and generall qualitie be mixed and spred throughout the hâ—ole body with a hoat spirit one that moueth and breadeth bubles as it is in y e mixture of true leauen in dede knodeÌ„ with meale also in vinegar powred vpon the earth And this affect is the beginning of rotennes in suche thinges as haue superfluous humor That which is called putrifactioÌ„ or rotteÌ„nes should differ nothing froÌ„ this sauing that it is done by setting the vessell conteining the thinges to be destylled in some corrupting and rottenyng matter and that for none other cause then that one and the selfe same heate continually for a certayne dayes and equally should be conserued with litle labour and coste The sauour or other qualitie of y e putrifying matter in my mynde it is not possible it should infect the mixture that is put in a glasen cucurbita with the mouth very diligently stopt although some thinke yes For if the vessell be diligently stopt it it is not possible there should chaunce any defaul Notwithstanding it happeneth somtimes not because of the dong or other outward cause but bycause the matter in the vessell hath abundaunce of corrupt excrementall moisture whiche with any outward heate doeth easely roat The glasen vessell it selfe howe longe tyme so euer it shal tary in the donge it wyll bee nothing defyled nether darkened specially if it be of good glas as y e Venice glasse is for the common grene glasse will gather a certain duskishnes and as it were a skin Destillation that is done by rottennes or with horse dong both alone and with lime be sprinkled and oft chaunged or with barks watred or other rottening thinges how so euer it is profitable to the Chymistes and destillers many wayes a phisition not withstanding ought not to receiue it for a cause in rotten wod and euil smelling thorowe the rottennes or some other cause speciallye if the thinges destilled be to be ministred within the body for to be vsed withoute the bodye it skilleth the lesse Syluius Of thys kind of destillation in hors dong read before in the latter ende of those thinges whyche we writ of Balneum Mariae generally At thys present we shoulde entreat rather of rotening then of destillatioÌ„ But because of rotening also in hors donge semeth to be disalowed if destillacion in it be reproued it is not altogether from our purpose and others that I haue declared my mynd of this matter in this place Putrification or rotening in hors dong w t lime is otherwise done on thys wyse that the dong euery day or euery other daye or by longar distaunce be sprinkled with warme water otherwise without sprinkling when as the dung of it self serueth to be hot inough A pit or hole being digd in some corner of the house they lai one course of hors doÌ„g about a fote thick that is thre handbread then an other cours of lime only one hand thicke and so for the by course There is nede of thre burden for the most part of dong as much as a porter is hable to cary Some put the thynges that are to bee destylled speciallye suche as bee stiepte in wine into a tin botel and that they do set in vnslaki lime closed whiche they quenche at certaine times nowe a little and then a little with raine water Some mixte Oten strawe wyth the hors donge and sprinkling it with hoat water set in theyr vessell and then couer it cleane wyth towe harde wyth clothes or sackclothe in some parte of the house where colde can not come at it Other in grape kernels in haruest Other in the broken peces of Oliues that is in the relickes of Oliues after they be prest the best waye of all other as Cardanus teacheth If a manne couet but a light heate it shall be sufficiente to putte it simplye in chopte strawe Certaine of the Germaines that lyue in stouffes that is hot houses the winter time make in them lowe fornaices A. and in the vpperparte they set two or three glasen pottes C. vppon lytle yron barres and pariet and rubbe them ouer diligentlye with clay In thies filled full of fine sand or ashes bothe thynges maye be destilled whyche I woulde shoulde be tried and also certaine lyquors may be rectified or prepared c and by this meanes a man shall saue bothe labour and coste The time of this digestioÌ„ doth vary according to the matter whiche the more massy it is the longar time dothe it requyre newe herbes nede the lesse time when they are stiept or weekt in wine or other liquor for they be the tenderer and if they shoulde be let stand long they woulde haue a certaine hoarinesse the same dryed muste stande a little longar then the seedes last of all the rotes so that almoste double time is necessarye for them that folow to y t which goeth afore them as to new herbes .iii. dayes to dry seuen to sedes and most parte of spices twelue or fourtene to rootes eight and twenty or lesse if they be newe There be certaine Phisicions that bid let metals stande fortye dayes the chymists and destillers of liquors yet longar Thys is also to be considered whether the thinges brosed are straight wayes put in for they nede much shorter tyme perauenture by the half then those that be put in hole In goulding waters as they call them spices sometimes hole are wonte to be stiepte a fewe daies in wine then taken out and
water oft destilled is broughte into such sharpnes y t it can not be drunk Cardan But this is commonly known they that sell it commoÌ„ly are wont to destil it only twise but to the vse of glasiers for the burning in of their colors in their glasses foure times except I be deceiued We declared afore how when it is once or twise destilled in serpentins or writhen or crouked vessels or in other accustomed vessels with pipes of brasse as big as a mans arme may afterward be perfected in ashes vntill all the steame be put awaye by the which meanes it is made not only hoter and more subtil and finned but also more pleasaunte bothe to the taste and smell Neither do all men vse one forme or fashion of the bodies and heades whiche they call limbeckse to destill all â—uyces for some draw the water out of wine put in a great brasen vessel standing vpon the fire the necke or mouthe wherof is great and broad vpon a three fote and vpon this necke standeth the heade of brasse also with a top like a spire steple a thing like a paile or bucket D. compassing it ful of cold water that the large vapoure maye be thickned the soner by the head made cold and least the water of y e wine should so resemble the fire Some vse in the stead of a necke or heade to receiue the vapoure wyth a pipe of white plate or other mettall verye longe writhen into manye boughtes and tourninges like vnto the maner of serpents wherupon they name them coÌ„monly serpentins the greatest part therof standing in water Some haue also yet an other fashion Syluius We did see diuers fashyons of vessels set out in figures to destill burning water or aqua vitae in Gualter Ryffius Andro Lo nicerus Bulcasis saith wine may be destilled after the same maner as vineger the destillacion wher of he described Read within streight after the title of destillacion in ashes Aqua vitae is thought then to be stilled inough that is after it be stilled foure tymes at the leaste and pourged from all his fleame whan as if a manne sette it a fyre it wyll consume euery whit wyth the flame that no token of moysture be lefte in the bottome of the vessell or elsse if a lynnen clothe dipte therein and sette a fyre it burne not the clothe whyche is a greatter token of perfectyon as that also if a droppe of Oyle bee lette fall into it it goeth to the bottome For Oyle is aierye wherefore a fyrie substaunce whereunto Aqua vitae soo ofte destylled shoulde atteyne oughte too bee lyghter then it But besydes the heate of so destylled it should also become thin and pure more more and when euery fire the thicker and grosser it is the more it burneth contrariwise the thinner the lesse that which is most thin should burn leaste of all By the same cause it commeth to passe that a drop of Aqua vitae poured in the palme of a mans hand the better it is the soner it vanisheth awaye and is consumed I heare that this is a laudable note of this water if succinum amber being set on fire and put to it into a spone do burn Whan wine saith Vlstadius 10 â–ª chapter is destilled twyse or thrise you shall cut a fine sponge into pieces so great that on euery side they may touch the cucur bita or bodye within the vpper parte that is in the inner circuit the spoÌ„g must be tied in thre or four stringes hanging withoute when you shall set on the limbeck so that the sponge can not fal into the bottome of the still let the sponge be dipt in oyle oliue and crushed out a little again least pexauenture the oyle should fall into the pot or body of the stil and be mixt with the matter then settinge the limbeck vpon it shit it close with wax as is aforesaid or with purified rosen By this spong the spirits shal be best destilled and the fleame shall not passe through because of the oyle by this menes shall a man do more with once destilling then otherwise with thrise Notwithstandinge the limbeck must be made withoute the gutter and circle within like to a blinde limbecke but it muste not lacke a nose Thus saith he That whiche remayneth of the lies and dregs destilled in the bottom y â— meÌ„ of our time call it dead water for it is vnsauery and stinking Such that is the stinking water whether it be yeilden of lies onlye or also of wine I haue not tried For the destillation of aqua vitae or burning water a man muste chuse the best wine blacke red or white Black and old yelds more plenty and also better water then any other The fire at y â— first must be light and soft after more vehemeÌ„t but you must take hede in anye wise y t the wine sethe not The water that is gotten theroute is surnamed burning or the soul and life of the wine and when it is destilled twise or thrise then they cal it flaming water Albertus as some alledge Of fiue partes of lies wheÌ„ it is twise destilled I heare one remaineth or somwhat les Whan y â— fleame is one cleane consumed nothing is lost after in the destilling but the hole is yeilded again Of .iiii. measures of wine for the moste parte one measure of burnyng water is gathered in the first destillacion or there about according to the goodnes of the wine Then in the next destillacion for one measure there commeth the halfe In y â— third one part offiue is coÌ„sumed In y â— fourth as much is yelded as you put in for the most part if the destillacion be done accordingly Notwithstanding if you continue destillinge the water shall be the more perfect in so much that at the ninth or tenth destillacion it shal come out most perfect But for as much as to the repeting of destillinge so ofte a man must bestow both more time and more coste for the most part we are content with the third or the fourthe destillacion and call it perfecte And surely it resteth much in the instrument that the water should be perfected soner or slower For the vapour is more destilled and perfected in the first destillacion in a serpentin that is in a croked and bowed pipe theÌ„ thrise destilled by a streight pipe Note further that ther diuers waters may be gathered in the first destillacion wherof the firste is perfit that is that whiche burneth and is consumed with the fire and a linnen cloth dipte therin and set on fire is not burnt You shall proue therfore nowe and then and when the water ceaseth burninge looke what remaineth in the still you may cast it away as vnprofitable The second is a meane betwene good and bad The thirde is good for nothinge saue that it cleareth the eyes and the face if thrise a day they be washte therin morninge noone and euening
but this vertue of the third water perauenture is true if the destillacion be made with wine but if it be with lies as they be wonte with vs it is not true More ouer the stil must not be filled aboue .ii. parts but that the third part may remaine emptye and that the vapoures maye haue their scoupe and romthe Hitherto Lullus Of the strengthes and vertues of Aqua vitae in the boke of Arnold De Villa noua which is written of Aqua vitae ARnold in his boke of Aqua vitae describeth many qualities therof both of it alone and also mixt with other medicins after the destillacion obseruing the order of the .xii. signes from the head to the fete for as he saith a man must minister much more effectuall remedies to the head if a man haue nede at such time as the mone is in the ram and likewise in the other which thinge how true I iudge it I wil not say at this time notwithstanding this wil I say the better learned any man is in oure time the les credit haue they geuen to suche perswacions as the Arabians haue broughte into phisicke Aqua vitae simple and alone saithe Arnold oute of one Theoricus I can not tel whome breaketh an impostume or recours of matter bothe within the body if it be dronke and without as botche if it be annoynted therwith It helpeth read and duskish eies It stauncheth the running and watering of the eies It is good for them that haue the falling sickns if they drink it It cureth the palsy if they be anoynted therwith It sharpneth y ewit it restoreth memori It maketh mē mery preserueth youth It putteth awai fracins ring worms al spots of y e face If it gargild it remedieth y ◠diseas in y e throte called synanchen y ◠squince the iuila faln down w t humors also the salt fleme the rose drop the touth ache It is merueylous profitable for frētik mē such as be melācholy It erpelleth poysō The smel therof burnt killeth flies cold creping beasts It doth sieth flesh kepeth fishes from roating It restoreth wine that is turned or putrified It draweth forth the vertues of herbes and rotes if they be laid in it .iiii. daies otherwise .iiii. houres excepte onlye the Violet It oughte to be set vp in a glasen or siluer vessell and to be wel stopt There is more of it better made of old wine pure and read This he He that desyreth more concerninge the vertues of Aqua vitae let him read that which we write aboue of y e vertues of certain liquors which our men call goldē and waters of vertues For they ascribe all those powers for the most part as well to Aqua vitae as to the other specially to simple Aqua vitae much more to compound or Aqua composita but chieflye to the quintessens therof Reade more ouer Lullus in the boke of waters I haue sene also a certaine broken worke ascrtbed to Albertus of the vertues of Aqua vitae But practicioners ignorant of thinges and times or els of a purpose to deceiue mē as many as they could haue most impudently fathered many things vpon Galen Hippocrates and Aristotle of the vertues of Aqua vitae or burnynge water as writen by them All kinde of cold passions or greues that be curable it helpeth in shorte space specially diseases of the brain sinewes and ioyntes Also wormes in the bellye biles and all scabbines if it be washt oft therwith it healeth it It helpeth y e splene it killeth all wormes It mēdeth a stinking breth It taketh awaye the disease of the loines The hurt members if they be anoynted therewith it will restore them to their former health It preserueth fishe and flesh from corrupting but before they be eaten they must be washte with common water Camphora put into it will dissolue If cōmon water be poured into it it goeth to the bottom and likewise oyle This writeth Albertus as some alledge The taste of it excedeth all other tastes and the smel all other smelles Lullus It comforteth the natural heat more then any other remeadye it is most holsom for the stomake the harte and the liuer it norysheth blud it agreeth meruelously and most with mans nature it openeth and purgeth y e mouthes and entrances of the membres vaines and poores of the body euery one it auoydeth all obstructions and comforteth them Yea it chaungeth the assections of the minde it taketh awaye sadnes and pensiuenes it maketh men meri witty and encreaseth audacitie Lullus Anoynte the head therwith and it helpeth it of the head ache it killeth the wormes drunken fasting it putteth away sowning it healeth the biles in the priuy mēbers if they be washt therwith it easeth them that be diseased in the stomacke it stauncheth all runninges it preserueth bodies from corruptinge by wormes It auoydeth and kepeth a man frō gray heares It is not permitted to women with child It redresseth the fleame and reume of the hed It encreaseth the ability of accompanying with voemen It is good against thick hearing poured into the eares Mixt with wine and drōk it healeth the falling sicknes If a man hold it longe it taketh away diuers kinde of touth ache It putteth away the blemishes and whit spots in the eies if it be poured into them and auoydeth the running and watering of the same if a man do but hold it in his mouth It letteth the leprosy a space and hideth it It helpeth rotten and materinge biles if linnen cloutes be dipt therin and laid vpon them With a little decoction of parcely it driueth away the stones in the bladder It maketh womē apt to conceiue but anoyeth them that be greate wyth childe It cureth diuers greues it is profitable to be laid vpon broken bones hot with towe or with some plaster It slaketh the cramp in the legs if a man anoynt them therwith He hath no name exprest that sheweth these qualities But the most of them seme to be taken out of Lullus I knew an old woman that was cold and Cathectica to be restored by a handkerchief made warm with Aqua vitae set a fire within it Some alledge the testimony of Constantine of the vertues of burning water Aqua vitae besides other things is commodious and profitable for the strangury and other diseases of the bladder for the tertian ague and quartain also which are ioyned wyth colde humors against the disease called the Wulfe againste wormes againste the sens or painefull fealinge of a mannes bodye lyke vnto biles It furthereth and prouoketh wemens floures It breaketh and putteth awaye the stone in the reins and expelleth a dead child without anye greate paine The issues of the bellye and fluxes it helpeth what so euer they be They say that Aqua vitae is perfite when often measures is made one whiche I suppose will come to passe in the thirde or fourthe
heat it expelleth what soeuer is vncleane and therfore restoreth the natural heat For age is nothinge els then a lessening and diminishing of natural heat which is therfore diminished because the mouinge is hindred as I saide of fire for there is like reason of this vnto that Mouing is hindred because of y e aboundance of earthy matter because the earthe only hath very muche matter and is destitute of all mouing Therfore that water being of so teÌ„perate a heate it shall nether vexe the hearte nor noysom to the liuer wherfore this onlye can perform the things that we haue spoken When burning water therfore or Aqua vitae reteininge hys purity and subtil matter by the longe mocyon of circulacioÌ„ hath put of and rid away his heat and sharpnes of taste and smell it is becomed of the nature of the firmament and then firste of all it smelleth swiet and fragantly For a fragraÌ„t smel is nothing els then a sharp smell when it is moderate Example of peper whiche hathe no fragrante smell c. Therefore Aqua vitae if it come once to a temperatnes the thinnes and purity remaining stil it must nedes be made fragraÌ„t and swiet smelling and if it be once fragrant it must necessarilye be turned into the nature of the fyrmament There is also a water made of the flesh tyrê° or an adder that restoreth youthe there is made olso of Elleborus which I sawe at my fathers But these vexe and vnquiet the body and make disceitful image and likelines of youth the firmamentall water dothe it in dede whiche reteineth long that which a man hathe and adourneth the same But is the firmament more pure then the fire which is moste hot â–ª It is surelye so for it is next vnto the heauen and therfore most lighte For by his circulacion it moderateth the heat caused in it by the starres and after y e same manner thys water broughte to the moste puritye by the heat of the fire by mocion it self is coled again and obteineth a temper Wherefore bothe this and the firmamente are as it were in a meane betwene mortal thinges and immortall For hauing a place and temper and also substaÌ„ce next vnto the heauen it can not be corrupte But whiles it is constreined and driuen beneath it is couled and so after a loÌ„g time it is corrupt Ther fore it is in a meane betwixt mortal and immortal â–ª of which kind the Stoikes beleue mans soule to be Al this write Cardane The vertue of euery thing resteth in the quintessens therof hot cold moyst and dry c and the same operacion it hath which it had afore in his mixture or with his mater but much more swiftly more merueilouslye manye waies After the destillacion vpon the lies certain times repeated letting the water haue euer a new digestioÌ„ eueri water ought alwaies to be circulated so longe in hors doÌ„g or other wher vntil it haue a most swit sauor For such a fragrancy is required in euery quintessens Somthings it is sufficieÌ„t to destil theÌ„ once or twise and then circulate them after a few daies if any part of the earth or lies remain in the botoÌ„ of the circulating vessel to put it awai pouring it forth The quintessens of wine wyll no more burn the mouth nether is it burning wine any more but more subtill and is called heauen wherunto we say his starres is added when as herbes of diuers qualities and such as be excellent againste diuers sicknesses are sokte stiept therin as we shall shewe hereafter in Aqua vitae compounded To be solificate or made goldeÌ„ is when we procure the vertue of the sunne that is gold to be in it as it is declared before in the tretise of potable gold or gold that may be drounke These thinges for the most part are out of Lullus boke of quintessens The quintessens of any medicine hathe a thousand times the greater vertue then it had before whiles the thing had yet the element in it Vlsta Hovv the quintessens of all things may be drawn out to minister them or the vertue of them to mennes bodies oute of the first boke of Lullus intreatinge of quintessene THe quintessence of any thinge may be drawne out from it as of wode frutes floures rotes leaues sedes stones metals fleshe and of what spices a man will in this sort Anye thinge that you wil separate the quintessence from you shall put it into the quintessence of wine pure and perfect as is said before and you shal set it forth to be solified sonned in y e spring or els in a vessel to a lighte fire and within three houres you shall haue the quintessence of y e thing mixt with the quintessence of the wine which shal be conuerted into such a nature as is of y e thinge that is put in whether it be hot or cold moyst or dry purge or what other condicioÌ„ or smel so euer it be of and it shal not only haue the same operacion but also in the same degre y t is nether more nor les c. After this he reherseth remedies one by one which are hot in the first degre then in the secoÌ„d third fourth likewise he maketh tables of cold moist dry things Then he teacheth generally of y e degrees of remedies of y e art of mixting the same Last of all he addeth also tables rehersals according to y e second qualities as thei term theÌ„ all which we let passe because we write vnto the learned phisicions nether is it conuenient to confound the partes of sciences one with an other Then in y e secoÌ„d boke for euery disease those only that be most greuous and counted coÌ„monly almost vncurable he teacheth what remedies or medicins ought to be mixt with the quintessens Rogerius Bacho also writ a little booke of the qualities strengthes of Aqua vitae throughout the .xii. signes according to the diseases from the head to the fete adding waters and medicins according to the nature of euery part and disease for one one for an other an other Thys booke some ascribe to Arnold de villa noua Ihon Brasescus a man of our age moste exercysed in the misteries of the Arte of liquors as hys writinges do testify in a certain dialoge the spekers whereof be Raymund Lullus and Demogorgon which y e author set forth in Italian with an other also vpon the exposicion of the bokes of Geber Ihon Petreius at Norinberg Prynted them both in Latin withoute the authors name affirminge that quintessens whyche serueth for the conseruing and lengthening of mannes life is not to be lokt for out of plants beastes or precyous stones but of only metals he wryteth thus Raymund Seing it is necessarye that this medicine should be vtterly vncorruptible and in thys thinge it ought to passe and excede al things that haue any part of the elementes in them it muste nedes be
afterwarde destill it by a filtrum or list of wollen cloth in croked glases well clayed so that the one glas stand higher then the other And this saith he is the moste excellent Aqua vitae amoÌ„gst all other An aqua vitae whiche may be a remedy against the moste part of diseases put rosemary cinamoÌ„ geloflowers ginger and maces and two or three peces of gold whiche will bee neuer a whit the wors for being thus vsed into aqua vitae foure tymes destilled Vse this water .iiii. tymes destilled morning and euenyng before slepee It dryueth awaye dyuers kyndes of diseases and restoreth youthe What aqua vitae can dooe wherein rosemary is stieped see hereafter where we make mencion of oyle of rosemary Take three vnces of Dianthos made with sugar put it in three poundes of wyne three dayes or in water of wyne destilled once for olde men that is that whiche cummeth furth first not that whiche runneth last moreouer lette it be destilled by a Filtrum Sum destil it in a lymbeck and keepe it vnto their vse Sum mixt the thyrd parte of Rosatae nouellae that they may asswage the heat and dryth of the Dianthos An aqua vitae against pestilence Take Rewe Sage the floures of lauendula maioran wormwod rosemary red roses blessed thistle pimpernell Tormentill valerian the beryes of Iuniper beries of baies terrae sigil that is grouÌ„d sill bole armoniack prepared of euery one two drames Dictamni angelica bistorta the bark of citron melissa commonly called baulm zeduaria inulae cam gentian rhaponticum or centory of euery one thre drames Coriander prepared flowers of borage buglose sandali or saunders whyt and red the sede of sorell basill rewbarbe ben whyte and read the graines of paradisi peper of euery one a dram and a halfe ginger two drammes Cinnamon saffroÌ„ spyces of confections against pestilence electuarii liberatis lectuarii of precious stones diamoschi y â— is swiet diacameron diambre diarhodon abbatis laetificantis Almansoris of euery one a dram Calami arom egloflowers maces nutmegges cubeba rum cardamomi galingall agallochi of euery two scrup The bon of the hart of a hart spiknard cam phora of euery one halfe a dram eight leaues of gold half a scrup of mosch chosen triacle .iiii. vnces Mithridaâ—ii two vnces Sublimated and rectified wyne two quartes Destill theÌ„ in a limbeck Aqua vite against pestilence proued and vsed with great and marueilous succes by a certain physicion of our tyme of Solodurn in Heluetia the yere of our Lord. 2547. In so much that scarsly euery tenth of them that receiued it died TAke the best perles Hyacinct of the east mother of perles corall whyte and read of euery one .ii. ounces halfe an ounce of the horne of an vnicorn saffron mirhe Boli armon terrae sigillatae zedoriae Venetae wode of aloes euory Mithridatii triacle of Alexandria chosen cinnamon ben white and red the barke of a citron and the sedes of euery one two ounces al sortes of saunders of euery one an ounce a half The litle bones of y e harte of a hart .xii. of them the kirnels of peony beries of iuniper of ether .xl. Conserue of buglos ii ounces The rotes of tormentil coÌ„mon dictaÌ„ni inulae astrantia selandine coÌ„mon Lybistici morsus diaboli ari Valeriane that kind of Saxifrage whiche the Germans call bibinel angelica of the rotes of euerye one of these hearbes .ii. ounces Sage Scabious Rew wild mint peny royall the les centauri Wormwode white Rooses and Red of euerye one a handfull Liquors destilled of Rosemary Gentian Melissa or baulme Betain wilde Roses sonchos or cicerbita called sowthistle or gose thistle of the Dutch menne or blessed thistle hyssope floures of Burrage bigger plantaine floure Deluice of euerye one .v. ounces These thus gathered together take the liquors of them destilled in Balneo Mariae accordinglye and mingle them with the best old Elseter wine or rather wyth .iiii. poundes of Aqua vitae vi times destilled put them in a stronge cucurbita of glasse that wil hold .iiii. good ale quartes which thou shalt claye well and let it stande in Balneo Mariae iiii daies Afterwarde then thou shalt burne the hyacinctes coralles Pearles and mother of perles into pouder as men do lim grind them vpon marble diligently til thou canst fele no roughnes in the pouder Put thys pouder into some vessell and make it with Rose water into a liquor what so euer remaineth sharp or rough which is not mixt with the water grinde it again and wash it the second time A man maye resolue the coralles into water when they are once pund or ground setting them in the iuice of Berberies which way is better theÌ„ the other After this beat the rotes meanly and likewise the sedes of the iuniper and paeony the herbes thou shalt cut Afterwarde put the herbes rotes and precious stones moystened and made liquid with the Rose water into a strong glasen cucurbita that will holde sixe great ale quartes there about I ges .vi. Dutche mooses to bee which I thinck he meaneth by MeÌ„suras and pour vpon them the Aqua vitae whych is dygested wyth the destylled liquors in Balneo Mariae and when the cucurbita is defended closed round about with clay of wisdom put it into a pit digged in a moyst place as in som celler vnder th earth .ii. cubits diep iiii cubites or there aboute wide and loÌ„g which thou shalt fil with hors duÌ„g and lime strawed and laid by courses now one lai er of the one now an other of the other til it be .ii. fote aboue the pit In the midst hereof thou shalt let the cucurbita stand for a monthe then take the dung away by little and litile and the matter whiche it conteineth to be destilled thou shalt destribute it into .vi. les cucurbitas and destil them in Balneo Mariae with so slow a fire that from the falling of one drop til the falling of an other thou maiste tell one .ii. iii .iiii. till thou come at ten For thou must in any wise take hede that the bath be not to hot wheÌ„ the destillacion is once ended stur the dregs that be left in euery one of the cucurbitas with a sticke moderatlye and poure the water that is drawne oute of them in againe and destill them again with a slow fire as before When this destillacion is once ended pour out all the dregs and distribute the liquors gathered in .vi. cucurbits into .ii. cucurbits of .iii. greate ale quartes a pece and destill them in Balneo Marie gentlelye So hast thou a treasure and an incomparable remedye againste the pestilence The vse thereof is bothe to preserue and also to cure prouokynge a sweete after the drinking therof So sone as any manne perceiueth him selfe enfected with the pestilence so that it bee wythin xxiiii houres that it enfecteth hym for after that tyme there is
no hoope or verye lyttle of anye remeadye lette hym dryncke halfe an ounce of thys liquor and lyinge vppon a bedde couered moderatelye wyth clothes and tarye for sweate the chamber muste be cloose from any ayre entrynge in Wythin an houre and a halfe or there aboute the sweat wyll begin whyche a manne muste suffer and abyde iii. houres at the leaste it shall be better if they sleepe a lyttle more or .iiii. houres absteyninge from dryncke all the whyle and wypinge hys face euerye foote wyth a lynnen clothe After remouing the clothes by litle and litle and wiping the bodye when the sicke is risen let him eate sodden Barlye or a little meale of Oates broyled mixte wyth Vineger and Rose water or Vineger onlye whiche shall be mixt alway with his meate also for the space of a sennyghte For his drincke he shall take a decoction of Barlye with raisons and Licoris when it is wel couled let hym dryncke as much thereof as he liste Let him abstein from wine .iii. or .iiii. daies after let him put water to his wine Therefore when he hathe taken meat after swet let a newe bedde be prepared for the sicke man or suffer him if he be so disposed to tarye in a chamber but wythoute aire for the space of .iii. or .iiii. daies If so be it he perceiue yet anye inwarde heate by the menes of the sweate let him drincke the liquor destilled of coulinge thinges as wilde Poppye Mulberies or Blacke beries Endiue and Cikorye the floures of sambucus Eldar or Acetosa And if so be it while he sweteth the botch called authrax or bubo do rise as it chaunceth often times then thou shalt vse theese medicines Cut an Onyon on the one side make it hollowe and put triacle into it tormentil Dictamni diligently broken and punde in equall partes and put the cappe that you cut of the Onyon on agayne fold it in moyst towe then roaste it vnder the ashes by the space of .vi. houres then punne it in a morter and wrynge it throughe a lynnen clothe puttynge Vinegar made wyth Roose water vnto it then lay the moyst cloth to the place and as oft as it dryeth moysten it again If a man drinke once a moneth halfe an vnce of this liquor and sweat vpon it he shal be preserued It is very good also if a man hold a drop or twoo therof euery daye in his mouth in the morning Vlstadius in the .xlvi. chap. describeth an other aqua vitae commended both for the pestilence and for other diseases An aqua vitae or quint essence whose effect is redy and present against poyson specially lest by the byting or stinging of beastes described by Matthaeolus Senensis in his sixt booke of his commentaries vpon Dioscorides A pound of our antidotū now described the description wherof we let pas for briefnes sake a man may vse good triacle in the place of it or Mithridatū or an other effectuall antidotum and a pound of syrup of the barkes of citron mixt them with fiue poundes of aqua vitae so oft destilled till it cum to quint essence and put them in a cucurbita of glas as big againe as the thinges do occupy that is of .xiiii. poundes and when it is well clayed moue it moderatly softly so long till the antidotus be holly resolued mixt with the liquor So let it stand a moneth mouing and chafing it in lyke maner twys a wieke The moneth being ended power out softly by litle and litle the clere water whiche is ascended aboue the antidotus whiche is sattled in the bottom into an other vessell of glas and reseruith very well closed This liquor is so effectuall whiche I haue proued by innumerable tryales that if halfe an vnce therof be dronken with wyne or with any cōuenient water destilled or els alone it restoreth a man infected with the bytyng or stinging of any beast althoug he haue lost both his voyce and his sences and calleth him again to the great wondering of all mem For the moste parte also the humors nowe infected are auoyded by vomite The same vertue hath it against poysons which a mā hath reciued in meats or drinkes For y e strength of this liquor is so subtile and effectuall that euen in a moment and furthwith it peerceth al the vaynes of the body It healeth lykewyse also other many and diuers diseases as euery leerned physicion may consider by him self chiefly it resisteth the pestilence both by preseruing and also curing them that be infected This wryteth Mattheolus Aqua vitae for the diseases of the colike Take a great ale quart of aqua vitae rectified put therein half an vnce of cinamon .ii. or .iii. nutmegges cloues ii scruples all pund and let them stande a hooll daye when a water is destilled thereof in a limbeck of glas giue the sick man a sponfull therof Andro Furnerius Aqua vitae deuised by George Alapide Take cinamon cubebarum ginger nutmegges cloues galangal of euery one an ounce freshe sage .iiii. vnces wyn that is sublimated six tymes made of the best of the wyne not of the lyes as muche in weyght as all the rest that is .x. vnces Take so muche euery day of this water destilled in a lymbeck as a filberd nut wyll holde They saye that M. Gallus the physicion of the Emperour Charles vsed this and liued Cxxiiii yeares A moste noble water of vertues worthy to bee preferred before siluer and gold out of a certaine wryten booke Cloues cinamon maces galāgal zedoaria bay beries graynes of paradise of euery one halfe an vnce Peny royall sage hyssop rue betyny ceri folii camphorae serpentine or dragons of euery one half an vnce Inniper beries fenell sede percely sede the seede of aquilegiae withy of the mountaynes the flowers of costi the seede of apii of the herbe called paralysis castorei of euery one two drames Destill all thies in wyne for the space of .xiiii. dayes then dreyn the wyn oute and grynde the spyces then mixed againe with wyne and let them stande .viii. dayes then destyll them and at length cast in a fewe sage leaues freshe They asscribe the same vertues euery one vnto it whiche we mencioned before in waters of vertues and .xx. seuerall vertues or ther about ar asscribed to sum one of them The conseruation of health the restoring of youthe and other whiche also ar ascribed for y t most part to simple aqua vitae A certain kynd of aqua vitae is commended in a certain booke wryten against the leper and pestilence in the composicion whereof Fumetetrae the les netle the leaues of bedegnar let them bee stieped in wyne in Balneo Mariae a moneth then let them be destilled casting into them also a dram of gold beaten to pouder Afterward put to destilled wyn decocted and sodden with peper that there may be equal porcions of both liquors whiche ioyned together and stieped eight dayes together in
Balneo Mariae must be destilled again He willeth a sponefull of this water to be drunke euery day for the space of a moneth and the leprous places to be anoynted therwith They say it purgeth bloud dissolueth the congeled bloud and chaungeth the hoole temperature of the body and if a maÌ„ may beleue it it cureth well nye all diseases An aqua vitae of a certain practicioner coÌ„posed after a singular and excellent preparation for diuers diseases Take crow fote iuae moschatae sage the tender crope of ebulus betony saint Iohns wurt germander maioram chamepityos organy peniroyal hyssop rew caryophyllatae gentiaÌ„ rouÌ„d aristolochia of euery one halfe a handful Polypody squinaÌ„tum or schoenoanthuÌ„ spike cassiae ligneae folii of euery one a dram halfe a dram of bay beries two drames of chamaemall The kernelles of peeches balhamitae pimpernell selandin agrimony of euery one two vnces Rosemary an vnce Dictamni tormentil scabiosus whyte of euery one foure vnces an vnce a halfe of the great bursied Anissiede fenel serpyllum or sauery alkekengi iumper beries persely of euery one halfe an vnce Sauin cresses of ether halfe a handfull Carui cumin water withy of euery one half a dram Cineris vespertilionis tamariscus the route of y e floure deluce with y e flowers of euery one halfe an vnce Make a pouder of all these which shal be deuided into .vi. partes wherof thou shalt put one part in Aqua vitae thrise destilled and let it stand to sower or to be seasoned a naturall day then destil it afterward stiepe an other part of the pouder in this destilled water and destil it likewise And so forth euery one of the other partes when they are all stiepte destill them likewise and keepe the laste liquor Then take nutmegges Mace cardamonium folium cinnamon zedoarie of euerye one iii. ounces Agallochu Saunders white and red of euerye one two ounces one ounce of the bones of hartes hartes one ounce of olde Triacle ginger amomum cubebe and the graines of paradise Galangal peper of euery one .iiii. ounces one ounce or more of chosen Muscke at the leaste not les then half an ounce Pun all these and put them in the forsaide water .iii. daies then destyll theÌ„ againe with a slow fire in Balneo Marie thrise alwaies pouring the water drawn forthe vpon y â— dregs At length ad vnto this liquor half a pinte of mooste cleare oyle of Oliues and as muche of the best honye clarified and when they haue standed quietlye destill them as afore saide This lyquor is good for the headache fallinge sicknesse frensye swindle or turnsicknes duskishnes of the sight lack of hearing stuffing of the brest the disease of the hart called cardiaca also against poysoÌ„ gout of the hands or fete gutta arthrîtis It purgeth blud it taketh away al agues of cold causes it strengtheneth the stomack It cureth the colâ—k the debility of holding the vrin the obstruction stopping of the splene and liuer the swelling and watry dropsy and all diseases bred of cold causes To conclude it is a most chosen remedy for the coÌ„seruacion of y e body They geue men to drink ther of half a philberd full in a cup of pure white wine An other A pounde of clarified hony halfe a pound of Aqua vitae iii. ounces of ligni aloes ii vnces of gum Arabick Nutmegs Galengal cubebae cinnamon mastik cloues spicknard musk of euery one .iii. drams ii drams of amber beat all these together when they are mixt wyth y e moistures destil theÌ„ This water helpeth the stinking breth maketh the tethe white it cureth y e deafnes and tineaÌ„ capitis it healeth al woundes if you dip a linnen cloth therin lay it vpon the wound To coÌ„clude it coÌ„serueth youth reuoketh y e beuty lost A water of great vertue in the palsy whyche a certain frend let me haue the knowledge of as a thing known by trials and profe Cloues galangall zedoaria nutmegs both kindes of pepper iumper beries and bay beries the bark of the CitroÌ„ and arantii white ginger sage leaues basill rosmary maioraÌ„ mint peny royal gentian y e flours of sambucus red Roses and white spik lignum aloes cardamomum cubebae calamus aromaticê° stichas Arabica germander chamaepytis maces Mercury the sede of mugwort or motherwort carikes passulae dates without the stones almonds swiet and sour pinapples of euery one a dram both the kinds of camfrey tasil ben white red of euerye one .ii. drams Scolopendra a dram a half half a dram of Laureola v. draÌ„s of whit hony .iii. pouÌ„ds of triacle suger Mithridatum of ether .iiii. vnces Six pouÌ„ds of Aqua vitae destilled iiii times Let them be destilled in a double vessell with a slowe and continual fire til the colour be chaunged theÌ„ chaunge the receiuer and do that thrise Tvvo compositions of Aqua vite oute of the boke of Raimundus Lullus of waters IN the coÌ„posed waters of life folowing althoughe Raymundus do not expresse whether wine or burning water ought to be put to the medicins that they mai be destilled together yet we haue thoughte good to rehers them in this place because Raimundus seemeth vtterlye to wyll these medicines to be destilled in burning water theÌ„ in wine as one that alloweth euery where the more perfect liquors the oftest destilled Take the rotes of fenell rusci maidenheare sperage Rapes parsellye eryngii mill of the sunne scariolae of euerye one like much mixt them and destill them wyth a slowe fyre It appeareth that thys liquor is good to prouoke vrine and against the stone An other Take cloues Nutmegs mastik doronicum zedoaria galingal long peper y e bark of citron sage sambucus that is elder perauenture it shoulde be samsuchus that is Maioram dill spiknard Wood of Aloes cubebe cardamonuum Lauendula Mint Peniroyal organy calamus aromaticus both kindes of sticas germander chamepytis of euerye one like much and a litle muske Pun them and destil them The vertues be all one wyth simple Aquavite but farre more effectuall Or the same that are attributed before to other waters of life composed of many medicines Then foloweth a water composed of manye colde medicines not in hys place as it semeth which I made mencion of before in the colde quint essence Afterward is placed a most perfect Aqua vite as he calleth it that is because it is composed of verye manye thinges and that most hot Take Euphorbium SerapinuÌ„ opopanax pyretrum Capers squinanthum spodium bdellium long peper and white or blacke cubebe castoreum zedoaria of euery one equal portions to the which thou shalt put good Mastick and a little Amber Saffron and of the bone of a hartes hart Also take all the thinges aforsaide in the composed waters and let them be destilled with a slowe fire For it is a merueilous water the mother and chief of all medicines whose vertues are
merueilous and innumerable against al colde diseases It is made in this wise c. he describeth streight way the maner of destilling biserpentins as they call them he addeth also other thinges which all do agree with the simple Aqua vite in so much that I suppose the boke to be corrupted by the fault of the Printer VVhat medicines be mixt vvith Aqua vitae without any destillation first within the body then without MAny times instrumentes time or cost faileth a man that those medicines whose strength he wold haue in his aqua vitae as though it were by a certain metempsy chosin y â— is a transposinge of the soules or principal vertues he can not mixt them with it by destilation whiche onely waye is the chief and best of al other to mixt thinges together for both by disgestioÌ„ as though it were a preparation in a moderat heat first one mixture is made then in destillation twyse as muche first of the vapours by the least and moste pure partes of the spirites then by dropes when they gather together into water but circulatioÌ„ is it that bringeth a perfectnes and absolutnes to all mixtures and without doubt no mixtur that men deuise or inuent can more properly and ny imitate the naturall mixture whiche is plain by this argument taken of the ende and effect for thinges prepared in this wyse and mixed do les corrupt then by any other meanes and hauing gotten a certain moste simple and moste pure substaunce that they seme to the sence to be simple and of an airy or a fytte substaunce they attain vnto a certain incorruptioÌ„ as nye as may be This is euideÌ„t loke how much any thyng shall haue the partes wherof it consisteth les exactly and throughly mixt so muche the nerer it is to corruption whiche first and chiefly in those bodies that are called metâ—ora that is thinges bred on hy in the firmameÌ„t moreouer in many other thinges mixed ether by nature or by arte is easy to be vnderstanded But for so muche as in so diuers states of men sum for one hinderaunce sum for an other thei can not alwayes folow that whiche is best if quint essence can not be made at the least the second or the third or as many as may be let the destillacions be repeted with a slow fire for any mixture is done better by litle and litle and slowly then sodenly and violently And if a man can not destill together with the aqua vitae the medicines whose strengthe he desyreth to mixt with it yet at the least wyse let them be broken and stiept a whyle in it for it draweth vnto it the vertues of all thinges that are put in it There is a booke of Arnoldes de villa noua or rather of Rogerius whiche I haue written wher in is declared particularly to what diseases and sicknesses what medicines ought to be put to sooke into aqua vitae for euery part of the body which he doth attribute to the twelue signes of y e zodiak It is well knowen in many ages hitherto that gentian is the best preseruatiue against certaine moste greuous diseases and poysons but sum vse to power the pouder of the same with burning water as muche more effectual into the throotes of beastes whome they knowe or thinke to be hurte with poyson in their meet or drinke or els by byting or stinging and if gentian can not be gotten the burning water by it selfe To the remedy of certain sicknesses of man specially of the bulke or brest apomeli may be put for both certain men couÌ„t it otherwise for dainty to haue apomeli mixt with burning water also a toost of breed mixt therwith many take for a breekfast A maÌ„ may also against diuers sicknessess giue men to drinke the water of gentiaÌ„ artificially destilled with wyn mixt after with apomeli or swiet hypocras Wormwood wyn most excellent sum make on this wyse they power to the leaues of wormwod specially when it is dried the best burning water and so much malmsey Of this they take a little sponefull and mixt with a litle draught of wyn so giue it to drinke So is it made by and by and effectually and is long preserued I my self gaue it once to drinke for the colick and had good succes The same meanes a man may vse also in other as wel herbes as spices c. For both the vertue is drawen out so in a short space and the drink is also the more plesaunt and besides that it may be kept long inough Grien aqua vitae Take Melissa called baulm balsamita dried both in the shadowe of the first .iii. vnces of the other two vnces put them into .iiii. poundes of aqua vitae destilled fowre tymes in Balneo Mariae eight daies then vse it ether alone or mixting with it other kyndes of aqua vitae composed to comforte the stomake The herbes must bee dried in the shade that the colour may bee made grien and moste beutifull For if a man dry them in the sun the water shall proue darke as the iuice of any other herbe Vlstad lvi chap. A man may also dy it with other colours whiche may encrease both the grace of y e coloure and the strength of the medicin as with saffron with red or yallow parsnipes dried Sum put to it in summer black sower cheries whereby also the tast is made more plesant and the heet is les perauenture moor asswaged Sum put into burning water mint cut beaten and set it in the sun foure daies or fiue then sighe it and set it in the sun again With this they wiet the tip of their noos against corrupt and pestilent ayre ¶ Hereafter will I put the vse of burning water with other medicines without the body Many mixt a litle burning water with hoot oynmentes as Martiatum Arragon dialthaea at suche tyme as they should vse them and wil them so to be annoynted vpon the griefes A water that norysheth and restoreth the heat of the brayn wherewith the head is to be rubbed Two vnces of aqua vite Moschocarium Cloues maioram cubebe long peper of euery one halfe a dram When they are pound mixt them and rub them vpon the head a certain space Sum put to it a scruple of euphorbium Epiphanius a practicioner other put to other smellinge and hoot things as sage six vncees rew ginger graynes of paradys cinnamum flowers ot rosemary the bark of a citron of euery one half an vnce an vnce of oyle de bay a dram of spik a dram and a half of castoreum And in a destilled liquor they hang mosch amber of ether of theÌ„ a graine Thys they say is good to annoynt the hed and also with the smell it putteth away the palsy and apoplexia A merueylous water of the same mannes for the impostumes or botches of the priuye members Three yolkes of egges hard rosted and cut small pun them in
a morter poure in to them ten ounces of Aqua vitae wyth a scruple of Alam .ii. drams of Camphora and a halfe of rust all pund together when they are stiept a while streine thē wyth strength throughe a linnen cloth wet a linnen cloth in this liquor and laye it vpon the swelling .iii. or .iiii. times a daye thou shalt meruel at the working of it A vvater to vvashe the partes taken with the Palsey MYrrha aloes ladanum right turpentin castoreum of euery one .ii. drams zedoria Galangall cubaebae Nutmegs long peper pyretrum of euery one .iii. drams The little white Dasy with the red tops iua Arthritica stichas Arabica sage Maioram mint penye royall the les Centaurye Roosemarye of enerye one halfe an ounce when they are all punde poure them into .xii. poundes of destilled Aqua vitae iii. dayes As I founde in a certaine wrytten booke but perauenture there is to muche Aqua vitae For to euery pounde thereof vi drams only with a scruple perauenture of the species are put In the disease called the French pockes somtimes the iawes and throte are eaten wyth euyll destillaciōs whiche onles a man finde remeadye for oftentimes the gargil is wasted oftentymes the corruption passeth to the very bones Therefore a man muste purge them and turne them aside c. There is a marueylous water made for the same purpose They destill Triacle in Aqua vitae and vineger in a limbeck a most cleare water issueth out of many vertues but chiefly it helpeth where the strength of the medicine oughte to be conducted sōwhat diep if therfore thou dissolue in it bole armoniak or sphragida and touche the partes that be freten thou shalt both kil the cause of that contagion heale al the freting Fracastorius in his .iii. boke of contagions Of destilled vvaters composed but wyth other then wyth Aqua vitae SVche waters as are destilled of two or mooe medicines mixte together I call them composed Of thys sort some are vsed for medicine some for smellinge some are inuented for garnishinge trymmynge and deckynge There be some that wyll do two of these or all Notwithstandinge we wyll referre euerye one to one kynde that is wherein it excelleth mooste Againe of theim that be vsed in medicine some are receyued into the bodye other some are minystred onlye wythoute other some bothe wayes We will make onlye two Chapters for all thoughe some bee vsed bothe wayes yet they are moore vsed other wythin and wythoute Agayne of them that bee receyued into the bodye some are moore symple whyche wee shall fyrste descrybe secundarilye those that bee composed of moe Of the kyndes of Aqua vitae composed where the spices are sooked in pure and onlye Aqua vitae we haue written seuerallye by them selues Heare wyll we putte the other as I sayde and those which they call waters of caponum and one with certain medicines put into swines bloud To be sooked in wine and after to bee destylled it seemeth to bee ordeined chieflye for those hearbes and medicines whyche haue little iuyce of them selues as Sage Betanye Melissa called Baulme Wormewode c. whych more ouer by that meanes do retaine more firmlye theyr owne sauoure the wine drawing it and drinking it vp that it canne not dispersed for the thinnesse we shall speake heare of certayne thynges to bee stieped in wyne but whyle they be newe for wee haue entreated of .iiii. dry things stieped in wine other liquor and so destylled Betany commonly called betany and in dutch eerenbreyʒ is stiept in wine a few daies likewise melissa They shall haue the same vertues strengthes but more effectually and more subtil then the herbes by them selues alone Melissa that is citraria saith Lullus let it be put in wine to be destilled Let a man drinke a sponefull of this wine fasting It sharpneth the vnderstanding and the wit encreaseth the memory To a man that stutteth ▪ lay a linnen cloth wet in thys wyne vppon hys tounge and he shall speke right excepte he stut by nature He that is sycke of the palsey let hym drincke it fastinge wyth a litle triacle and he shall be cured perfectly It cureth the stinkinge breath and putteth away touth ache Fleshe or fyshe layde therin corrupte not and may be kepte as longe as a man will Being put into turned wine it restoreth it It breaketh the stone It prouoketh vrine and wemens floures It is good agaynste the fretting of the guttes and pain of the raynes It oughte to be drounken agaynst kirnels vnder the chin and a plaster to be made of the hearbe If it be drunken fastinge it breaketh all inwarde and hid impostumes It healeth all stitches whyche tende towarde the hart or sides It is repugnant against al kinds of worms with in the body It taketh away all corruption of the body quick or dead It healeth al that it toucheth and preserueth it in good health in good quart ▪ It cheareth the spirites it is good for al the members and healeth the kyndes of colde droppes Aboue all thynges it comforteth the synnewes It is moste profitable against scabbednes cumming of could It sharpeneth y e sight of him that drinketh it It taketh away duskishnes teares of and superfluous humors of the eies It is holsome for the brest profitable for cōcoction against euill humors that letteth it Drunken with good wyne it stireth the appetyt It putteth away spots and frakenes of the face that is washt therwith if so be it a litle baulm be put to it then the face washt tnerwith it maketh also good colour It healeth the iawe bones The smell of it killeth al gnates and wormes It cureth the dropsy cumming of a coulde cause and superfluous choler with drinking and washyng Al maner of woundes may be washt well with it and so they shal be preserued from all putrifying It healeth all kindes of agues but moste of all quartaines The drinking of this wyne letteth the diseas of saint Lazarus from encreasing It is good also for them whose brain is perished and for the frantik Also if a man eat a spider by chaunce and drinke this wyne stregthway vpon it he can not be hurt of the poyson Theis wryteth Lullus Melissa beaten is stieptin wyne a night Men say this water destilled and drunkē euery day and holden in the mouth it cureth the benumming of the senses all so the falling sicknes the dropsy the quartain ague and other diuers diseases of black choler or fleume It is ministred also to the strangleng of the wombe and toth ache Remaclus F. A water of the les centory worthy to be compa red vnto gold Take one part of gentian two partes of cētory when they are pund and sookt in wyne fiue daies destill them This water drunke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kyndes of diseases It putteth away all impostumes it maketh good colour It resisteth the pestilence it heleth the
with spices and odoriferous herbes specially sage which semeth to be a foundacion in these waters composed put first a fewe dayes into wine they are in more vse to bee ministred without then receiued within the body specially to the comforting of the spirites with their odour and against the head aches c. Some bid simplely put theÌ„ in wine other in a vessel wel stopt som in a tin bottle set in a wine seller in hors dounge in Balneo Mariae in the sun in chaf or chopt straw in lime wherunto raine water must be sprinckled in a bottell Waters of vertue Guatlerius Ryffius in hys booke of destillacions describeth verye manye with burnynge water composed but verye fewe with spices and other medicines stieped in wine whyche not with standynge they seeme to be preferred where the diseases bee lesse greuous and the bodyes more drye and niâ—de lesse heate They are also made wyth lesse coste and sooner And a manne maye in theese also gather foure kyndes of waters differynge in vertue of the whych I would most chiefly allow the myddle For thys is truthe Aqua vitae commeth oute out more pure at the beginning of the destillacioÌ„ aboute the last end it runneth somwhat watery Of spices and gummes the parts that are more moistened ascend first the hotter and the drier folow which eueÌ„ the colour comming nie more and more vnto red declareth Moreouer they smell of brentnes and in tast they are les swiet plesant But without the body they are ministred effectually c. But a .iii. kinds of water is gathered better of dry spices and medicines only rectified not in wine but burning water which hath no manner of fleume more in the which likewise I wold chuse the midst With waters of vertues some also mixte well smelling sedes prouoking vrin and fenel violets parsly saxifrage mastik pomum araÌ„tium besides spices and odoriferous herbes sage costum rew sothernwod serpillum the lilly of the vally Thys is asscribed to one Arnold à Parisian There is without all dout a diuersity bothe in the kyndes of spyces and also in the number and weight Som vnto diuers spices as cloues nutmegs cinamoÌ„ of euery one half an ouÌ„ce wherunto other ad zedoaria galingal loÌ„g Peper grains of paradise of euery one .ii. drammes put as muche sage and Lauendula that the weighte of them ioyntlye maye counterpoys the weight of the spyces c. Three or foure droppes of thys water they counsell to mixte wyth the wine that menne dryncke at meeles or els mornyng and eueninge to be druncke seuerallye wyth a little wyne This water clereth the sight as they say confirmeth the brain and goodnes of the wit putteth away palsey maketh the face whyt and bright cleÌ„seth the skin and doth many other thinges Sum in the moneth of May or June when sage and lauender bee in their force take halfe of this sir vnces of the othe other twys as myche cut it small They put to it Cloues Ginger nutmeg mace graines of paradys cinamoÌ„ zedoaria galingall rosemary of euerye one halfe an vnce they be et them and when they are put in wyne they destill them This water they say is better at the .iii. yeres ende then at the first It hath all the same vertues whiche we reherseth before one by one to the number of the .xx. in an other water of vertues They say a certain Iew was the autor of this description who attributeth all thies vertues vnto it A maruelous water and of muche vertue Cariophyllata ginger rosemary in equall portioÌ„s put them in good wyne eight dayes and after destill them as aqua vitae It is good for the aking of the brest for a weake stomack for the griefes and gnawinges of the bely It killeth wormes in the body and bowelles If a man that is sumwhat gros desyreth to be made slender let him drinke this if any lean man desire to be in better plyte let him drinke it with sugar A water of vertues Sage Lauender rosemary carui and diuers spices when they are cut or pund thou shalt stiep them in very good wyne put in a bottell of tin whiche thou shalt hyd all ouer it vnslect lym .xiii. dayes and sprinckle vpon the lym rain water afterward thou shalt destill it lyke rose water In the heed ache thou shalt laye a linnen cloth wet in this water to the browes and forehead An other good and notable water Sage a pound and a half nutmegs ginger cloues graynes of paradys cinamon of euery one an vnce a half let theÌ„ be putrified in moste excellent wyn after the accustomed maner Then let the spyces be beaten and then de stilled hooll together Sum ad moreouer the flowers of borage red roses the barck df citron wode of aloes of euery one half an vnce in the best wyn whose weight shal be six tunes as much as the other let them be sookt .xiii. daies then when the wyne is dreyned out they beete the spices diligently in a stone morter and mixt it again with the wyne and they ether destill it by and by or let it stande yet a fewe daies Other put also halfe an vnce of newe and freshe sage I lyke better dry into the vessell that receiued the destilled water Thies vertues are sayd to be in it first It keepeth all kynd of fleshe fishe and other meates that it is sprinkled vpon sound and swiet from all maner of corruption with his own sauour and taste .ii. It amendeth all faultes in wynes as when they be troubled ar hanging or smel foysty or be otherwyse corrupted if a litle of it be dropt into it By this meanes thei recouer their taste and colour sum within seuen daies other within one neither corrupt they afterwarde any more nor yet is the remedy any thing perceiued .iii. Being sprinkled vpon spices it conserueth their force smell .iiii. It breeketh inward impostumes purgeth them downward before they cum to matter .v. Lykewyse outward impostumes if it be anoynted vpon them it openeth and breeketh them maketh them to run out and at length healeth them .vi. It cureth the blemishes or fautes of the eyes as blerednes bothe running and dry and wheales spottes or whyt skines or the web if it be stilled and dropt in moderatly with a fether .vii. What so euer groweth in the face besydes nature and maketh any suspicion of the beginning of the leper anoint it with this water with a fether it is made hoole .viii. Being drunke it cureth al inward diseases .ix. Also y â— faults of the liuer splen bowels bealy It taketh away al il humors bred of rawnes in y e stomack .x. It separateth quick siluer from trew siluer .xi. It heeleth al maner of wouÌ„des throughly that it is anoynted vpon also dry strokes beatinges the smellinges that cuÌ„ therupon .xii. It driueth away the dropsy being drunk anointed vpon the grief also the yelow iaundis .xiii.
half of the sede of Darnell for the space of .ii. daies let them be destilled An other causing slepe Take the seede of Darnell a pound half a pound of the sede of Henbane ii poundes of the sede of Purslan iii. vnces of the sede or rote of Mandrag as muche of Alkekengi wheÌ„ they are pund pour to theÌ„ a pouÌ„d of y e iuice of benes turned vp set down as much of the rotes or leues of Henbane half a pound of the iuyce of the leaues of black popy or if it be lacking or red minister an ounce of this water when it is destilled It is vehement and of great vertue A water called stony y e third of Aegidiê° becaus it breketh y e stone The sede of Pimpernel Petroselini Apii Ari otherwis Caryophylli Musterd sede leuing out Aro the bur also Apii bothe the herb the rote for the sede is named before burs Mastiches of eueri one like much wheÌ„ thei ar wel puÌ„d let theÌ„ be mixt w t the blud of a linx otherwis a he Gote better a little Vineger poured to it let theÌ„ stand a few daies in a vessel wel closed and theÌ„ at the last let them be destilled It is good for theÌ„ that be troubled with the stone what manner of stone so euer it be red white sharpe or plane if so be it the stone be confirmed gathered to some streÌ„gth let the pacieÌ„t drink of this water eueri dai for so shal it be brokeÌ„ brought into saÌ„d If so be icabd heds be washt once a day w t this water thei shal be made hole new heere 's shall spring the scabs shal be cured within .ix. dais otherwise any kind of scabs washt therw t is made hole w tin .iii. or .iiii. dais If it be droÌ„k fasting it maketh good blud good colour more theÌ„ any other medicin merueilouslye it strengtheneth the sinewes and taketh away the falling sicknes if it be druÌ„k twise a day Otherwise is added It heleth clene y e palsy if it be not dead in y e meÌ„bres Aegidius Lullê° An approued vvater for the sores of the raines and bladder by the cardinall of Tutellis CAudae equinae plantain red roses the grains of AlkekeÌ„gi the rotes of holy hok shauen or scraped licoris of eueri one an vnce IuiubaruÌ„ SebesteÌ„ of ether of theÌ„ .vi. draÌ„s bol armoniak half an vnce iiii cummen sedes could great cleÌ„sed of euery one .iii. draÌ„s the sede of white popy .vi. draÌ„s half an ounce of cytoniorum of the thinnest of gotes milk .vi. pound Let theÌ„ stand .ii. daies in the infusion or soking and after let them be destilled Geue the sick to drinck .iiii. vnces warm so longe as the disease continueth Epiphanius Empiricus An other water composed the second amongst the waters of Aegidius it is red of also in y e booke of Lullus of waters Rue Satyrion with y e hauds and stones Selandin otherwise Rue Agrimony Satyrion Chelidoni Suger otherwise Tutia the stone called Calaminaris al of like weight puÌ„d must be destilled with a slow fire This water excelleth in many vertues No disease of the eyes is so obstinate and great but it wil vanish awai and geue place to this medicin Being drunke it dryueth away all poyson other taken wyth meates for so it auoydeth the poyson by vomit It cureth y e dropsy it purgeth the stomak from al ill humors it quencheth y e holy fire in one day if flax dipt in it be laid vpoÌ„ y e sore It is good also against y e fire of a blak disposicioÌ„ white without or as a certain Dutch boke hath against y e inward heat of y e fire for if it appere red w tout it shal in no wise be conuenient to lay on a plaster It healeth the canker if aloes be mixt with it and a little towe of hempe dipt in it be laid like a plaster vpoÌ„ it twise a day A water composed the fyrste amongste Aegidius waters HIssop peny royal Charyo Cikory of euery one a draÌ„ let them be puÌ„d destilled After take tutiae persly of Alexan. Rue Zedoaria aloes the stone called calaminaris of euerye one a dram when they are pund sieth theÌ„ in y e forsaith water till y â— third part be wasted the liquor streyned with a cloth thou shalt kiep it in a glas diligently closed nyne days otherwyse .xl. Afterward let it be giuen in drink euery day in the morning before day other wyse by the space of .x. daies to the sick fasting It is proffitable against the falling sicknes if he that takes it continue fasting after it six houres And truly it is a moste effectuall remedy It heeleth al resolucion of the sinewes and the members are strengthened therby If it be drunck with Castorium it is good against all goutes whiche hath not taken rout yet in the members If it be drunk ix daies together fasting it puttes away all maner of agues what matter soeuer it cum of if it be drunk .ix. daies euery morning early This water is also moste profitable to wash wouÌ„des in which the sinues are cut An other of Aegidius the .ix. in number otherwyse they call it double The siede of Apii the sied of whyt Popy Apii ginger otherwise The sied of Apii whyte Popy sugar Carioph of euery one equall weght Pund in a morter put to it conseruatiue water that is destilled of persely and destill it This is the chiefest remedy for the cough and brest ill at eas If a man drinke it coulde fasting and in the euening as hoot as he can If it be drunken hoot with Castorio it is good against the disease called Apoplexia it healeth also the meÌ„bers sicke of the Palsy if so be the Palsy be not deed in the meÌ„bers It bringeth sliep rest easly it chereth all the members it driueth away il humors and strengtheneth the heed and the brayne An other the sixe in number amongst Aegidius waters Gladiolus Hyssop Sauin Sothernwood otherwys the sied of Sothernwood leuing out Sauin I like it not of euery one lyke much beate them together and let it stand a certain daies theÌ„ destill it This water is of greet streÌ„gth It with standeth all agues both hoot and cold It prouoketh wemens floures if it be drunk thrys but it is hurtfull to wemen with chyld and will destroy it It stauncheth the bluddy flyx and other flyx I would say rather that it styreth bloud rather euery where then to stop an other booke speeketh of nothing but stopping the flix of the bely It purgeth y e stomack froÌ„ ill humors It killeth worms being drunken fasting it cureth al the grief with Castorio it heeleth the palsy if it be drunke daily very hoot within .iii. daies The same descriptioÌ„ fynd I in the booke of Lullus of waters A vvater agrinst the Pestilence c. of the bloud of a Wether or gelded Ram out of a certain Duche
for the space of a natural daye that is xxiiii houres then let them be stilled in a limbeck The water that shal first run out is coÌ„pared vnto syluer the second vnto gould the third vnto baulm and this must bee diligently kepte in a glas Lullius A water for all the diseases of the eies that bee curable out of Aegidius and Lullius we haue described it before emongest the waters composed for diuers inward diseases A water composed for the eyes About the beginning of May gather Selandyn Veruin Rewe Fenell pun them seuerally and take .iii. vnces of the iuice of euery one of them then mixt them put to a litle of the grien braunches as the Frenche men call them the Pampes of Roses .iii. vnces of sugar candy .iiii. vnces of the best Tutia and as muche of Dragons bloud WheÌ„ all thies ar pund thou shalt mixt them together and destill them in alymbeck of glas The liquor that ruÌ„neth forth thou shalt let stande .ii. or .iii. daies in a receiuer then vse it It is of great vertue for eyes that bee ill at ease red or haue the web in the eye The water of the vyn together with hony sublimated by the fyre cureth the bleerednes of the eyes specially The munkes in Mesuen That is the water of the vyn say they whiche in vere the spryng tyme when the vynes are cut destilleth very cleer out of the places that are cut for certain daies This water without any destillacion putteth away the prickings and heet of the eyen and clarifieth the sight hindred by a hoot cause if a man put in both the corners of the eye one drop Rogerius A water or an oyll made of Sponsa solis sharpeneth the sight and cureth any disease of the eyes within fyue daies c. read after emongst the decking waters emongste them that be ordeined to the dying of the heare A water for eies in soÌ„mer to preserue the sight described by Io. Maynardus in his Epistles the .vi. iiii Three partes of Roses the herbs of Fenel and Rue of ether one part and let them be wel mixte together and after .iii. daies let a water be destilled other in onlye vapour of siething water or in the sun or in Balneo Mariae as they cal it so that a handful of the same herbes better if they be dried in mine opinion be put into the receiuing vessel that the drops maye fall vpon them and the mouth of the receiuer and the nose of the vpper vessel must be diligeÌ„tly ioyned together and closed that the vapors may not get oute Certaine vvaters for the eyes out of Rogerius FIl a stilful of the leaues of Agrimony Veruin Fennel Rue Memitha Leuisticus cut sprinkle vpon it a little white and cleare wine and destyll it in claied vessels This liquor represseth the swellinge of the eie lids of a colde cause it drieth vp the blearednes it stoppeth the flowinge of teares it cleareth the sight breaketh bleamishes or spottes I suppose he meaneth cornes or Pearles If thou wilt haue it stronger to breake spots or perls ad vnto it Gallitricum and Morsum Gallinae anagallis with red floures A man may get a water oute of Fenell also for the same causes For a liquor gathered of y e rotes and leaues of Fenell sod in water with a basen laid vpon the water while it yet sietheth is kept in a phiall and one drop is put in the corner of y e eie euery dai morning and euening for the forsaid causes by commun experience To breake the spot or perle mixt with the forsaid waters myrhe and Aloes pund put a drop of the liquor streined in ether corner of the eye early and late A water destilled of the floures of white thorn and willow putteth awaye prickinges heates or rednes of the eyes it stoppeth teares comming of a hot cause and breaketh the spottes or pearles of the same cause A water of the leaues flours of Eufragia stoppeth teares comming of a cold cause and maketh slender the eie lids that swell of the same cause it breaketh spots or pearles of the same cause and restoreth the sight that hath any impediment I wold say that Enphrag did not heate but wer temperate or els doth coule moderatly in the first degree and drieth in the second An excellent water for the debility of the sight described by Gordonius Take Selandin Fennell Rue water withy of the mountain Eufrage Veruin red Roses chosen of euery one a half pounde lib. s Cloues Longe Peper of ether two ounces When they are brused together destill them in a limbecke of glasse wyth a slowe fyre and put of it euery daye in the eyes An other of the same mans for Fistulaes which it is certaine it wyll heale Two pounde of good white wine destilled in the same vessell that Aqua vitae is the water of Rosemarye Sage of euerye one .v. poundes Suger .ii. pound when they are destilled againe put to them an ounce of Sage and as much of Rosemary When they are stiepte together eyghte dayes thou shalt strayne it and vse it A water for the Cancar in what part of the bodye so euer it be The herbe called Cancar which is also called Doue foote the floures of Quinces the floures of Cerifolium the bowes or leaues of the Breer Idaea which the frenchmen cal Frambosia and a few white Roses hony and white wine and the Alum whyche the Frenche men name of glasse Let all theese be destilled together Andreas Furnerius A water of a Moldwarpe c. for all kynde of Gutta or drop noli me tangere scalles of the head the roose drop and the wolfe reade afterwarde amongste the trimming or deckinge waters wher the waters inuented for the dyinge of heare are rehearsed We wyll referre amongste the trimmyng waters also those waters wherwith whelkes and little Pushes or Biles in the face are made hoale Of vvaters of svviet sauoure DIuers waters are made for the onli delectation of smel to sprinckle vppon the hands the face and heare bothe of theyr head and beard also vpon their linnen napkins or handkerchiefs garmeÌ„ts as wel that they weare as also their bed clothes wherunto it communicateth the pleasauntnesse of â—auour not only by sprinkling but also when it is hot by the vapoure Roose water also comes in vre to sauces of meates and onlye it as I thincke of all these kynde of waters for it is receyued bothe to season meates and is poured vppon rosted fleshe whyles it is yet hotte c. But of smellinge waters some are moore symple some composed of manye thynges Vnto bothe of them waters of vertue whyche oure countrye men call Golden may be ioyned and reckened for of these some are more simple other composed But golden waters for the mooste parte all are receiued wythin the bodye and all are made wyth hearbes or spyces infused in wine or burninge water Smellinge waters as we call them simplelye otherwise as it
fine linnen cloth and kepe it in a glas in y e which v. grains of Muske shal be put which once moistened and stieped with the water thou shalt stop the glas and set it in the sunne .v. daies So shalt thou haue a wonderful well smelling water A swiet water and vnknown wherof one part mixte with .x. partes of pure water maketh the hoole moste swiet .xx. graines or there aboute of Muske as the smel therof pleaseth the moore or les Nutmegs Cloues Galingal Spikenarde graines of paradise Mace CinamoÌ„ of euery one an ounce All theese pund let them be put into a glas mete to destil in with a pound a half or ther aboute of Roosewater poured vnto it Let it staÌ„d so for the space of .iiii. or .v. dayes afterwarde put to it thryse as muche Roosewater and destill all thys in a limbecke in a kettle full of water siething as in a Balneo Mariae Thou shalt kepe the water gathered therof diligently stopt for y â— same vse that the former serueth for An other excellent water Two pound of the water of the floures of Citri One pounde of the water of red Roses of Myrtus half a pounde Of muske Roses a good quantitye likewyse of Iasmin that is to say of the floures Of cloues halfe an vnce .iii. vnces of Assa dulcis well beaten one vnce of Vernicis Styrax calamita red Styrax of ether half an vnce All these pund mixt with water thou shalt destil them in a glasen limbeck the head and the receiuer diligently closed with clay with a soft fire or in a Balneo Mariae or in a kettle full of siething water A water of most swiet sauor with y e which oyl is destilled also The last being mixt with a hundreth times as much of pure water doth sauoure it all with the swietnes therof but this with a. M times as much A pound of Myrre chosen pure new and fat beaten into smal peces half a pound of the iuyce of Rooses when they are mixte together in a limbecke let them be destilled in ashes wher first thou shalt separate the water w t a slow fire theÌ„ make y e fire bigger separat y e oyl at last deuide the water from the oyl That water maketh the face brighte It closeth woundes effectuallye as well olde as newe The oyle is mooste precyous and dothe the same thynges that the water dothe but muche sooner as for example it dothe that in an houre that the water is aboute a hoole daye An ounce of thys water destilled mixt with certain hundred times as much of pure water maketh them all notably wel smelling but an ounce of the oyle if it be put to certayne hundred poundes of pure water doth the same A certaine Roosewater made wyth Muscke whiche is required and vsed also inother compositioÌ„s Put a .xii. graines or more of Muscke in a glas that is wide beneath and narowe aboue so closed with a parchmente set it in the sunne a iiii or .v. daies Afterwarde take an other glasse like vnto it full of Rooses dried and beaten stop y e mouth of it w t a fine thin cloth other linneÌ„ or of hear TheÌ„ put y e mouth of y e vessell y t conteineth y e roses into y e mouth of thother wherin the musk is conteined and stop it aboute diligentlye â—oyth clay and set it in the sun so that the glas with roses be the vppermost the other beneath in a windowe or other where where the heat of the sunne is vehement Thou maist also sprinkle the Roses moderatly dried and beaten with good Rose water and so put them into a still c. Thys water most swiet thou maist vse when thou wylt bothe alum and also mixt with other composicions VVaters destilled called Cosmeticall that is perteininge to garnishynge and deckinge DEstylled waters for garnishinge are deuyded also into certayne differences for some are for the face to make the coloure of it whyte ruddye bryghte to put awaye wrinckles to preserue and kepe it from Sunne burning or to abolish the spots and rusty roughnes in it Other pertain to the heares and to the chaunginge of the coloure in them Other make the tieth white Al the vse of Cosmetical and garnishing thinges oughte not to be taken for vnhonest and vndecent for a man that is wel instituted and godly mineded for Galen also the mooste famous of all phisicions prescribeth cosmeticall medicines not a few in his worcke of composicion accordinge to places and he declareth that the vse of theÌ„ is many times profitable and honest For the leudnesse of certain maried men is suche that for small and light faultes of their wiues they are turned from the loue of them vnto harlots and hores and certain faults or blemishes are such that a man of a bashful nature wold be ashamed to be sene abrode with them some also bring vexation or griefe or itch as certain whelks in the face c. I write not this vnto wemen or other men but vnto Phisicions only who should be good and discrete men y â— both otherwise they may vse these honest remeadies and medicins and chiefly wheÌ„ such as these be are required of the wife 's of tried honestye of Kinges Princes and noble men More of these thinges and what the art of garnishinge wherin honest garnishinge is soughte for differs for the commeticall and deceitfull thou shalt read in Galen of composi medic sec locos the first boke 2. ch Such Cosmetical waters as be simple we wil not declare heare as be the waters of Bean floures Strawberies Dew Gotes milke Read before of the water of strawberies and of the same and other in Brunsvvick or Riffius Yea Aqua vitae hath a certain cosmeticall and garnishing vertue as we rehersed in his place Waters destilled of the leues of the peeche tree and Willowe of lyk weight mixt together do he le the red whelkes in the face the Frenche men call them rubiz being moistened therwith A spyced wyne for the garnishing of wemen whiche maketh the skin whyt fyne pure and wel coloured Put Ginger and Cinamon in wyn and destill them as Rosewater It is holsome also against all could complexions and moste against palsy Arnold in his boke of wyne A garnishing water wherwith wemen amend their thick grose skyn black and skaly or skuruy with Quick siluer sod in a raw eg c. thou maist fynd in Nicolas Massa vpon the frenche disease in his .vi. booke .ii. chapter A water for the bewtifying of the face The spume of syluer half a pounde when it is beaten sift it and in two poundes of whyte vinegar sieth it till the third part be consumed sturring it with a stick when it is sod destill it At length ad to it half an vnce of Caphura Aphronitrum oyle of Tar taro clouen Alum of euery one an an vnce strein it through a cors cloth anoynt the face and
neck Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans for the brightnes of the face Take Lily routes Arus Dragons of euery one whyles they be fresh half a pound half a pound of the flowers of Beenes Eigth vnces of Roosewater destill them put to it Moschocarii Cinamon of ether two drames Washe the face therwith twyse a daye A very good water of the same mans for the same vse Take flowers of Beenes bitter AlmoÌ„des the leeues of Peeche trees of euery one .iii. vnces Gootes milke as muche as of all the rest When they ar destilled put six or eight whytes of egges sod which must be mixt with the water destilled by by destil it again and mixt with it .ii. drams of Caphura A frenche water for litle moules all scalynes freckmes of the face A pound of TartaruÌ„ or lyes of wyne burnd till they be whyt Mastick TragacaÌ„tha of ether half an â—nce Sir drams of Camphora iiii whytes of egs When they are pund mixt in Rosewater let theÌ„ be destilled They cure maruelously Epiphanius Empericus A water procuring vnto the face a Rooselyke and faire colour Take a pynt of Aqua vitae thrys destilled an vnce of PrasiliuÌ„ Cloues to the nuÌ„ber often as many grains of Paradys fiue Cubebas when they are all pund sifted heet them a litle with Aqua vitae in a vessel diligently couered that nothyng breeth out by any meanes Afterwarde when this mixtur is could again destill it in a leÌ„beck of glas with a very slow fyer and thou shalt haue a good water a cleer When thou wilt vse it wiet the face skyn of the person with a sponge moistened therewith for it maketh without all doubt a Roose colour fayre and bewtifull And this dying wyll continue a long time for .ii. or iii yeares If thou canst not haue Aqua vitae take reed wyne of Rupella the best thou canst fynde about the measure of Semiloti a dutche wourd for half an vnce for they call an vnce a loot for there must be more measure of wyne then Aqua vitae But Aqua vitae is much better to the preparing of this water This water garnisheth a mans skin subtilly maruelously Out of the writen booke the author wherof is not declared A lyke vnto this shal be declared by and by out of Gordonius An other that taketh away the wrinkles spots of the face and clarifieth the skinne of whytes of egges destilled Reede before emongest the simple waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A maruelous water that putteth away Napas litle whelkes or pushes or litle teetes sum call them Napas I thinke the Italians Lupinas acorns kurnelles Porros that is wartes what euel so euer groweth in any place of the body it taketh it away ii pounds of oyl de bay whyt frankensence Mastick elect Gum Arabick cleer Tur pintyn of euery one .iii. drams When they are beten mixt altogether and destil them in a lembeck And in this water thus destilled put half a pound of Cineris terrae destil it again and kiep this water as a tresure The author is nameles But it semeth that this liquor wil be rather an oyll then a water saue only that ashes is added vnto it it migth haue bien well asscribed vnto Balmes A cosmeticall water that bewtifieth the face breeketh the stoone is described before aboute the end of the title where we entreted generally of the vertues of liquors destilled Reed also Rogerius in his fourth tretise the fift chapter ¶ Certain Cosmeticall waters for the face shalt thou fynd also by and by in the waters that folow ascribed to the heares Ther be also emoÌ„gst the Balmes hereafter which serue to garnishing Certain vvaters Destilled for the garnishing of the face out of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the bewtifying man kynde A Water for the brightnes and whytnes of the face The flowers of whyt Rooses of water Lily Elder Lilyes the chydes take out of Beenes of the flowers of euery one of thies a pound Half a pound of the water of Strawberies Crums of whyt bred as miche as you shall thynke good .xii. whytes of egs .ii. vnces of whyte Frankensence Into all thies let Cerussa pund be put for a nightes space Let them all bee destilled in a Lembeck of glas when the water is drawen out let it bee set in the sun and washe the face therwith morning and euening so that ye wype it not An other that the face and the other partes of the body may retein a faire and youthfull form .ii. vnces of Aqua vitae the water of of Been flowers Rose water of ether .iiii. vnces of Lily water .vi. ounces when they are all mixt put to them a draÌ„ of the whitest Tragacantha After this water hath stand in the sunne .vi. daies streine it throughe a faire linnen cloth The vse of it is in the morning so that it be not wipte of An other for the brightnesse and beautye of the face A water of the whites of egges newe laide made by a spunge with like measure of the â—ice of Limons destill it as rosewater Put vnto this water afterward about .ii. ounces of communly and the limoÌ„ beaten hole the skin puld of rather put it into the rest after .viii. daies wring out the iuyce from it and mixt it with water Let the face be washt first with pure water and wipt let it be washt with this water destilled It procureth an hansome beautye conserueth the skin and is vtterly the best An other which Isabella of Aragonia duches of Millen vsed knede the flour of whete Mele wyth a Sextarium almooste a pinte .xx. vnces of Gotes milke then bake the bread therof gentlelye in an ouen and draw it out afore it be to muche baked The crums of this bread cut in smal peces or els crumd betwixt ons fingers and put in other new gotes milk let it stand so .vi. houres Thou shalt mixt with it the water of .xii. whites of egs made with the spunge lime made of eg shels an ounce Camphora Suger Alum white corall of euerye ii drammes When all these are pund let them be mixt wyth the moyste thinges and destylled in a lembeck of glasse A notable good water shal com therof and most profitable to put away all vexacions growing in the face It maketh the beauty of the face as excellent as is possible to be made An other to beautifye the face The leaues of Roosemary white Tartary mixt them with whit wine and vse the water drawne oute of it by a limbecke as ye woulde do the former medicines for the same effect An other for the same Set the floures of beanes in good white wine a day or .ii. in a glas bottell then destill them wyth a softe fire The vse of it is to wash the face therwith morning and euening but you must washe it first with a decoction of Cerussa And you shal see it
shortly worke An other that taketh away al maner of spots Put into a glas like muche of Cristall and Corall with water of Limones so much that it maye couer them and be a fingers bredth aboue them Stop this vessell and put it in some colde place in the earthe as in a wine seller a fewe dayes Then caste away the shelles and wash the snailes with water somewhat salt so ofte till all their slimines be washt away Then destill them and keepe the water Afterward thou shalt draw out a water of rapes cut small by a limbeck When thou wilt vse it take a sponeful of the firste water .iiii. of the second and .iiii. of the third mixt them and washe y e face which notwithstanding must first be washt with water and wipte An other maruelous for the same purpoose Take snailes wythoute theyr shelles and washe them as is before rehersed then sprinckle an vnce of Salte otherwise salte Gemmae beaten in a glasse and put the snailes there vpon then sprinkle other Salte vppon them againe and snailes vppon that and so shall you do continuallye layinge salte vppon Snailes and Snailes vppon salte till the thyrde parte of the vessell be fylled Then poure vnto them so muche of the iuyce of Snailes that it stande aboue the salt and Snailes two fingers thicke and destyll them vse thys water as is aboue rehersed If so be it thou canst not commodiouslye destill them set them all mixt together in a cloose vessell tyll they receiue the forme of an oyntmente and that shall you vse at euenynge as the other aboue wrytten Oyntementes the face fyrste washte and wipte and the seconde daye after washe the face wyth water of Beane floures This also did I reade in the Antidotary of Gordonius An other not destilled Twelue Snailes cut euerye one in .iiii. partes put in good white wine This liquor shalt thou vse as the aforesaide It shall come to good succes After thys followeth a destylled water of a yonge Storke of the same effecte and operation whyche I described amongste the symple Medicinall waters An other manner verye good and secreate or vnknowne Sixe newe laide Egges halfe a pounde of Malmsey a yong Pigion not yet holelye fetheared Chese new from the pres y t is made of vnskimmed milcke .viii. Arantia Poma oyle of Tartaro iii. ounces an ounce of Cerussa Let thē be beaten that maye be beaten and mixte altogether that they may be destilled wyth a slow fyre The vse of this water is like the other before It maketh a fair skin fine tender as is possible A washinge or Kynges water whyche abolysheth all spottes Take water of cleare Turpintine as muche as can be gotten out of .ii. pounds of it put therein halfe an ounce of Masticke iii. ounces of white Frankensence halfe an ounce of Tragacantha When they are pund mixte them wyth the water and destyll them keepe the water Then mealte Swines grease of a male Hog vnsaulted and strayne it throughe a double lynnen cloth Then take white Ginger Cloues Cinamon Euphorbium Spiknarde Camphora of euerye one two ounces three Nutmegges when all these are pund myxt wyth the strayned Swines grease put vnto these two ounces of quycke Siluer often times washte wyth salte and Vineger and wrounge throughe a piece of Leather and with this mixte the drosse la feuille ou de lauenre as it is wrytten in Frenche of quicke syluer de couppelle When all is mixte together destill them and keepe the water Afterwarde take vi ounces of the water of the forsaid Turpentin and of the latter water twise so much mixt them and when you wyll vse them washe the face fyrste wyth a decoction of Cerussa and wipe it Then poure about .vi. droppes of thys water mixt together into the palm of the hand and wher thou wilt anoynt couering the place anoynted or wet with a linnen cloth till it be dried A marueilous effect and operacion shall folowe therupon An other of Snailes .xxx. whyte Snailes .ii. pound of gootes milke .iii. vnces of swynes grece or els of a yong Kid a dram of Camphora pund let them be destilled in a lymbeck of glas An other Take six vnces of the crums of the whytest breed and wash it .ii. poundes of milke mixt it diligently and destill it as is aboue sayd and washe with it The water also of the whytes of egges destilstilled is thought good An other that purifieth the face two vnces of Mirh whyte Frankencence Mastich of ether halfe an vnce Gynger whyte .ii. drams one dram of Camphora a pound or a pound and a halfe of whytes of egges When all is diligently mixt let them be put in the bely of a yong hen and wellyking the bowelles taken out If thou wilt put to a hen simpely but flein and cut in small pieces Put to also Asses milke or Gootes milke aboute iii. Sextares that is .ii. pyntes a half .lx. vnces Destill thies in a lembeck of glas That the face may shyne elegantly .xxx. newe laid egges stiep them in vinegar the sharpest you can get for the space of .iii. daies and night then boor them through with a pyn that the humor w t in them may run al out Destill all this in a Rose-still that the face may be washt therwith A water clarifying the face Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles stiep them .ix. daies in whyte wyne so that euery daye half a pound or more freshe wyn be powred vnto them then take the call of fat that is aboute the goutes in a kides bely taken in May to the number of six rys beeten and sod in .iii. poundes of black nightshad and a poūd of the meel of rys half a pound of the water of wylde plums or bullies blaūshed Beenes to seeth in the same water Put vnto this .xii. rotten Appuls and ten egges two handfull of the routes of common flower deluce or els the flower deluce of Florence a pound of Hony halfe a pounde of bitter Almondes Gum Arabick Sarcocolla Tragacantha Borage Camphora of euery one two drams shiepes milk six poundes Venice Turpentin .ii. vnces water of the floures of water Lily Let thies be destilled together in a lembeck with a smal fyer The water destilled therof let it be set in the sun and moued oftentymes An other that taketh away the spots of the skin and whitteneth it An vnce of Borage halfe a dram of Camphora thre drams of cōmun Alum Gum Arabick and Tragacantha of ether of them half an vnce Sarcocolla Assa dulcis of ether .ii. drames .iiii. vnces of Cerussa Pun all thies mixt them and put them into half a pound of Dragons water and as muche of water of floures of Lily together with water of the floures of Broum of Nightshade of water Lilyes of euery one foure vnces When they are mixt destill them in a lembeck of glas To make the face cleer and youthlyke that it seme lyke to
the age of almost .xv. yeares Newe laid hens egges .xii. without the sheles an vnce of Cinamon a pound of Asses milke washe the face with that water destilled by a lembeck Certain cosmeticall thinges out of the Antidotorium of Gordonius TAke the routes of Lily the routes of Dragōs Arum blanushed Cicer Rys Amylum Cerussa washed frenche Soop of euery one .ii. vnces Let them be put in a new pot couered then sod or decocted in a furnace and beten Then take Tragacantha Gum Arabick of euery one an vnce put them in water of flowers of Beenes Then temper Porcellanas in water of Limons till they may be mollified put to half an vnce of Borax Al thies with a very litle of swines grees must bee mixte with water of Beenes With that whiche is made of this muche lyke an oyntment anoynt thy hool face morning and euening and washe it awaye with warm water strained through bran This medicine scoureth purgeth maketh whyt to bee short it maketh the face notable and marueylous faire plain equall gracious An other Lemons cut into .iii. or mo partes let them be sodde in whyt wyne wherwith let the face be washt An other to make y e apple of the chieck ruddy y e lyke also we described before Take Alum Brasill the graines wherewith the Peeche is made reed let them ve pund with the water of wyne destilled Therwith let the place be very muche annointed whiche ye lyst to make reed If so be it ye ad a litle water of salt Ammoniack destilled the colour should be the faster and abyde the lenger Yet take heed of this water Ammoniack bycause it fretteth euery body and if ye list to vse it take but a very litle lest it corrupt the medicine Whoso requireth mo liquors specially destilled for the puritie of the face brigthnes let hym reed Rogerius in his .iiii. treatise the .v. cha wher he describeth the water of Beenes and Limons whose vse is ether by it selfe or with a certain composition c. Also the water composed with Bryonia and Dragons simple of the herbe of strawberies of hasta regia of herba Muscata of the flowres of Nigellae c. VVaters for the dying of heares of the heed and other SPonsa solis beeten otherwyse the siedes of Solsosium beeten put it in milke of a woman that nurceth a boy ten otherwyse .xl. daies and then make an oyl This oyll sod with leued gold seething it gentely by the space of one day is maruelous for if a man washe his heares therwith they shall becum lyke gold If the face be wet and rubbed with the same it shal be plaine and cleare that it shall seme angellike continuinge for the space of .v. dayes It cleareth the sight also and cureth any disease of y e eies within ten otherwise iiii daies and al kind of tothache within .iii. daies and if the iawes be well rubbed with it the wormes fall oute and dy Aegidius amōgst whose waters thys is y e fourth If a man drinck of this water .ix. daies he is heled of the Palsy what cause so euer it come of although it haue endured the space of .iiii. yeares Lullius in his boke of waters It appeareth that this water is not made by destillacion but by expression that is wringing out only as I shall declare amongst oyle of sedes A water destilled of larde that the heares may be made long and yellow and shininge the face more elegant Scrape larde as muche as ye will and shaue it very small then beate it in a marble morter til it be like paste knoden Of thys destylled in a limbeck thou shalt gather a white liquor wherwith thou shalt annoynt thy heares and face for it wil make them very fair and bright A water destilled of honye maketh the heares fayre and longe Reade here after where we shall speake of simple quint essences and amongste waters that be destilled in Rosestilles A whitening water c. of a Mouldwarpe the vi amongste Aegidius waters Bryng a Moule into pouder with brimstone and the iuyce of Selandine put to it let it stande a certaine daies afterward destill it With this water washe a place anye beast what so euer it be and it shall be made white If thou mixte water otherwise the worde water is lefte oute aloes and waxe annoynt the place diseased and thou shalt heale al manner of Gutta and as they call it nolime tangere if thou lay a plaister made thereof vpon the soore Likewise it healeth the skalles of the head annoynted therewith and cureth the guttam rosaceam layde vppon it in manner of a plaister But mixt wyth the stone called Calaminaris and Aloes it healeth the Lupum perfitelye laying a plaister of it thervpō twise a day if also the superfluities be washt with the same mixture It must in no wise be taken inwardly within the body A water that dieth a Griene colour A poūd of cuperoos that is to say Vitriolum Half a poūd of Smerillum Destil them and anoynt Epiphanius Empericus The water of Capparorum Capers destilled maketh grene heares Cardanus A water commodious for purgyng the tethe Take Salte Ammoniak Salte Gemmae of euerye one thre ounces Suger Alum an ounce and a halfe Let them be destilled or soked .viii. daies in two pounde of water and strained rubbe and wash the tethe therewith Epiphanius Empericus Other .ii. like for the same purpose shalt thou find after next to the descripcion of Aqua fortis ¶ Howe waters of herbes floures and rotes be destilled by descencion that is downwarde A vvaye to destill svviete vvaters and effectuall oute of Flowers and Hearbes by descencion or goinge downwarde TAke an earthen vessell vppon the whyche straine or spread a thin and fine linnen cloth and vpon it sprynckle Rooses for so the Roosecake wil proue meruelous swiet or coueslops or other Floures or Hearbes Then muste ye haue a lidde to couer the vessell and aboue the bottom putte the fire So shalt thou destill not onlye a mooste swiet water but also moste effectuall and most strong The Rose cake is wont to be laide in the sunne closed that it maye be purged from the smoky smel when notwithstandinge it reteineth the smell of the Roose Cardanus Freshe Rooses laide vpon a linnen cloth strained vppon a Basin if they take a vessell full of hoate coales they destyll muche water and swiet into the Basin In like manner other flowers Syluius In my minde this kinde of destillacion is commodious for all suche thynges as be colde or oughte to coule chieflye if they lacke smell as the most part of binding thinges more also such as be cold moist to Yea also we shall haue much water in shorter time with les coste by this waye nether is there any ieoperdy that they should fume out But a man must geue diligente hede least the vessel laide vpon be to lyttle hotte and least it be left
thinges as are infused in wyne sumtymes stieped the vessell being very well shyt that they may render the very same sauour and tast as wormwood lyke as I shewed before Gentian Iuniper beries and spyces the waters destilled whereof our cuntreymen name goulden c. Then the destillacion of Aqua vitae is sumtimes repeted in whiche I haue obserued this that the better parte alwayes the purest issueth out first what so euer is flegmatyck or deed water as sum cal it which is vnproffitable hurtfull and almoste stinking foloweth last whiche is well perceiued and knowen in a glas heed for the still For whyle the purer matter that is the fyry and aery substance issueth no sygn apereth in the heed of the still but when the fleume comes once and tokens of the water folowing by straikes appeare manifestly as ye see them remoue the receiuing vessel and what so euer remaineth in the Cucurbita or bely of the stil poure it out as good for nothing and begin a new destillation of fresh and that must be repeted vntil no fleume appeare any more which chaunseth lightly in the fourth or fifthe destillation Afterwarde there nedeth no more destillation but circulacion that the liquor be rectified as they terme it and turned into heauen or quint essence Thinges destilled in the vapour of hot water retein more perfitly the vertues and qualities of of plantes but because they haue some coruption in them they can not be kept long Those thinges longar which by the heat of ashes or dros of metall beaten to pouder are destilled in vessels of stone or glas how many so euer they be vppon a long or round fornace couered with slates or tiles which may holde the hie sandes compassed wyth hie lead But these vessels muste be made hot by little and little not sodenly and couled likewise be fore they be opened to the colde aire or els they breake straight way Syluius Vlstadius prescribeth a certaine destillation in ashes wyth so softe a fyre that thou maiste number one .ii. iii. betwene one drop and an other Anye kynde of frute thou wilte when it is well ripe cut small and beaten thou shalt destill it in sand with a slow fire Vlstadius ¶ A certaine waye to make water by and by WAter is made also vppn a sodein whiles the iuice is made hot or skalding a glasen cup is set vpon it in the whiche the fume passeth into droppes and the droppes gathered therupon are driuen together into water By this meanes Vineger is easilye tourned into water Thys is holsome for spottes and blemishes in the eies and for the web to put them awaye speciallye if Rue be sod in white Vinegar Cardanus Som are put resinam larigenam in a trene vessell whose bottome must be made by a tornar as thin as is possible so that a man may see through it so in a hotte place the purer parte and the thinner destilleth Of rosaries that is to say instruments wherwith a destilled liquor maye be gotten oute of Roses and other medicines fyre being put vnder for the mooste parte wythoute anye meane betwixte either of cooles or of chippes FIre in destillacion dothe more procure the sauoure of adustion and brentnesse vnto the water that is to bee destilled then do cooles or water whiche thinge to auoide put sande in the pan in commun Rosaries or rather see that sande be betwixte the fyre and the panne and also aboute the pan and that it be glased or oyled as some call it if it be an earthen panne for it is made also of brasse The ioyning together of the pan and the lembecke thou shalt fense with clay that is to saye with a lynnen clout perieted or closed with clay and hansumlye laid aboute it and the receiuinge vessell with the nose of the lembecke likewise Brunsvvick Some nowe a daies make theese Rosarie pans of bras and vpon the sand they lay the hearbes that be to be destilled and round about the pan and within it also except I be deceiued they fill a voide space with water a pipe being made for the purpose to poure them in at They â—ut fire vnder it ether of coles or of very short chips because the flame of y e fire may seme to be able to do les hurt for the water that compasseth But withoute all doute all these shal be much better destilled in glasses or in Balneo Mariae or in ashes Vineger is made white wyth destillation as well for other vses of Chymistes and Phisycions as also to be mixte wyth Sirrupe of Vinnegar whereuppon I wyll reherse Bulcasis wordes Builde an Atanor like vnto that wherein Roosewater is destylled and euer take a stillatorye vessell of glasse or of earthe glased fyll three partes of it wyth good Vinegar that the fourthe parte of the Vessell aboue maye be emptye leaste when it doothe seethe the Vineger bee spilte and runne ouer Then couer the vessel with some Vessell vppon it as ye knowe hauynge a noose as the manner is in rosewater and make a light fire not greate nor stronge for if it be vehement the Vinegar shal not become so white The vineger that is destilled muste be of white wyne and verye sharpe So shalt thou gather a whyte and pure liquor which thou shalt keepe in store After y â— same maner may wine be destilled Thys writeth Bulcasis I destilled it once in glasen vessels in ashes which I kepe yet hitherto certaine yeares like to Vinegar not destilled bothe in sauoure and taste differing only in the coloure and substaunce where in it is like to pure water to see to Bulcasis seemeth to be of this opinion that vineger shoulde be destilled with fire or water not in a Balneo Mariae but in that maner that he maketh the first and second in destillinge of Rooses that is without water with fyre of woode or rather of cooles I haue destilled verye excellentlye in ashes Pearles eg shels stone of the rains and bladder are dissolued with strong vineger specially wheÌ„ it is destilled or with the iuice of limoÌ„s so is also both kinde of corals and they afterward dried are readily crumled praecipitatum and sublimatum and cinabrium and they retourne into quick siluer Syluius The Chymistes say metals are resolued with vinegar destilled also w t mans vrine destilled The leaues of hempe tourned into meale because they pearse the heade make drincke which wyll make a man pleasauntlye drounke Cardan It seemeth water shoulde be poured to it and when they are made dowe together then to bee destilled like as burninge water in a Rosarye or Rosestil or lyke instrument where the fyer is put vnder without any men and perauentur the destillacion should be twys or thrys repeted I wold say the same of Ootes water whereof lykewyse Cardanus wryteth The Moscouites saith he bycause they lack wyn vse water destilled of Ootes whiche enflameth and maketh a man drunken no les then wyne For Ootes being
being shaken together it shal then run out hoolly first in a colour whyte as milke afterward yelowe Thou shalt perceiue by the tast whan the liquor that thou desirest beginneth to runne out when the colour is chaunged thou shal chaūge also the receiuer that thou maist receiue it seuerally for the last liquor is not so good and is to be vsed without the body but the first within the body Thies saith he I my selfe as I thinke sawe once oyll of the beries of Iuniper prepared in this wyse Suche destilled oyles as be to be ministred w t in the body al must be mixt with sum liquor wyn Meed or Syrup with sum destilled water or other medicine As wee shall declare also hereafter emong the balsameles And this is it that Practicioners dooe saye That vnto Oyles oyles as vnto spirites or soules sum body ought to be added Of oils of flovvers OYll of Saffron is prepared thus Thy matter is digested by sprinckling Aqua vitae vpon it and when the Aqua vitae is drawen out by destillacion the other liquor is wrong out with a pres as it is wryten afore of the generall destillacion of spyces out of Ryffius Oyl of Spick out of the Frenche booke of Furnerius Set the herb the flowers rather of Spik or Lauendar a whyle in the sun then drawe out the water in a lēbeck This set in the sun in summer in a very hoote place bringeth forth an oyl in the superficiall or vpper part of it whiche beyng separated now and then frō the water thou shalt reserue For it both smelleth moste swietly and is holsum against diuers diseases specially such as be could and taketh away painfull grieues An other way of the same mans Thou shalt stiep in a glas the flowers of Spick well rypened in as much as thou thinkest good of Oyll of swiet Almondes in hors dong .xl. daies Then destill them with a slowe fyer at last rectify them in the sun the vessel diligently stopt But if there be any smell of adustion or brentnes make .ii. or .iii. litle hooles in the couer So shall it remayne purged in the sun good and odoriferous The thirde waye of the same mannes Fyll a glasse with the floures of Spike well ripened shit it and euery day put as much to it as ye can Do this continually for the space of .viii. dayes then stop the vessell and putrifye it in hors donge iii. monthes At the length destill it a lembek with great diligence and when the oyl is drawne oute set it in the sunne so that thou seperat alway that is clearer and reserue it Some as soone as the matter is drawne forth from the fire so is it in the frenshe boke but I thincke it shoulde be from the dong that is the hors dong wherin it is stiept iii. monethes set it in the Sunne and the oyle that swimmeth aboue they remoue it awaye euerye foote But when the flowers haue lefte nowe yelding of oyl wring it as hard as ye can and the iuyce that is prest out let it stand in the sunne in a vessel set on the one side lening that the oyl swimming aboue maye the more easilye be separated So shall ye haue a wonderfull well smelling oyl withoute all discommoditie of adustion or brentnes Thus far Furnerius The same oyle Ryffius saithe is made as oyle of Roosemary the floures being cut and stiept in olde wine then destilled so that the spirites of the lembecke be couled c. Reade before in the oyl of Roosemary Some sell this oyle of Spike commonlye and name it Balme with tables wherin the vertues of it are described It is very hot and dry I knewe a woman whiche receiued into her body not past a drop or ii yet it put her in great ieopardy but therewith she auoyded manye wormes It is mixte with many thinges chieflye for the smelles sake One droppe of it chafed wyth a greate quantitye of water maketh it all swiete smellinge Phisicians also mixte it with Oyles and hotte oyntmentes bothe because of the sauoure that it maye encrease the pleasauntnesse of thinges that be somwhat swiet of them selues and to conserue them or els to hide and cloke an euill smell for it ouercometh all smels and perauenture a man shall not find anye liquor bothe so strong and so swiet smellinge It semeth that far swieter is made of Spike then of Lauender Oyle of Roosemarye that is in stied of Balme Take a Phiall full of the floures of Roosemary burye it in sande shitte with a double cerecloth or with waxe and a couer so that it maye brethe Atnold wyth a double linnen and then also wyth waxe to be closed Hollerius til the middle of the vessell and let it stande so a month or more vntil the floures be turned into water This water separated and set in the Sunne .x. or .xx. daies otherwise .xl. it will become thicke like Oyle It strengtheneth the harte the braine the sinnewes and the hoole bodye It putteth away the ragges of the eies and spottes of the face it conserueth youthe A drop of it put into balme water goeth to the bottome like Balme It is good for webs and teares otherwise spots and other diseases of the eien if one drop be put into the eyen twyse or thrise at the moost Members sick of the palsy it heateth them for the mooste parte and healeth them sometimes It resisteth salsfleem Fistulaes and Cancars that geue not place to other medicines it healeth them throughlye Aqua vitae destilled of wine wherin Rosemary is decocted and sod dothe the same thinges Lullius I would not sethe the Roosemary for the strength of the wine and quintessence dothe fume oute in vapours but I wolde stepe them in a vessell closed or putrifie them then firste in Balneo Mariae afterwarde in ashes pouring the water again vnto the dregges woulde I destill them And of my minde is Arnold de villa noua whiche in his booke of wine where he wryteth of the oyle also of Rosemarye the verye same thinges whiche we rehersed now out of Lullius if so be they be Lullius words Of tentimes saith he haue I tried that Aqua vitae made of wine wherin Rosmary hath bene mollified cureth salsfleum scabs cankar and the fistula whiche cannot be healed otherwise But thys oyl of Rosmary is made none otherwise then the oyl of the floures of Verbascum not by destillatiō Oyl of Rosemarye shoulde be made of floures cropt of with the toppes of the tender buddes or bowes wherin they are sprung pund and stiepte or putrified in veri good old wine They ought to be destilled with a slow fire so y ◠the spirits of the lembek be now and thē couled afterwarde to be circulated till y t all the gros matter be separated from the subtill as muche as is possible Gualterus Ryffius It may be destilled as I coniecture ether in a Cucurbita speciallye somewhat shorte with a limbeck or in
and one drop be poured into the eye for the eye shal be made hool within .iii. or .iiii. daies If it be drunck fasting it suffereth no venim to approche vnto a man that day If so be also a man wounded very sore and deadly drinke therof fasting he shall escape so be that the other care of y â— wound and cure be had accordingly Also beinge druncke fastinge and putteth awaye the Gutta or drop and all scabbednes and the dropsy sprunge of a colde cause if it be taken but two dayes To conclude it stirreth vp and restoreth all sliepy and benummed members taken with the Palsy being annoynted vpon Ruberta if it be right written perauenture of the coloure he so calleth it I woulde rather reade Sperma that is oyle of Nasturtium I would rather the seedes of Nasturtium as in other in the same place before and after the oyl moystened in sharp vineger dry it in the sunne and drawe out the oyl after the manner of the lay people This mixt with Aloes oyle of bayes cureth all scabbednes and the drop the places beinge anoynted Druncken with Aloes and cooles of an elme it healeth the Tercian and quartaine and all breches in the body Soden with a ptisan and drunken it stauncheth the bloudye flux and bindeth the belly Sod with bran and drunken it driueth away all droppes Oyle of the seedes of Pimpernell Put seedes in read wine a fewe dayes dry them punne them and make an Oyle after the laye manner Thys oyle drunke fastinge dissolueth breaketh and expelleth the sand and anye stone of the bladder yea if it be finished gathered to y â— form of a stone what matter so euer it bee of It lighteneth the wearied members of a mannes bodye These wryteth he Of oyle of the beries of Iuniper destilling first by ascencion then by descencion as I learned of my frendes TAke a pinte or a quarte full of the Bearies of Iuniper when they are beaten stiepe them two daies in well springe water then putte those beries together with the water wherin they wer sooked into a Cucurbita or bladder as they call it of Cooper whiche thou shalt fill till there be but ii or .iii. fingers thicke emptye then puttynge a measurable fyre vnder thou shalt destyll it in all poyntes like burninge water that is by a Pipe whiche maye passe throughe a vessell full of cold water It will yeilde plentye of water so that one receiuer shall not be inoughe At lenghte the oyle followeth whyche muste be â—uffered to runne into the water where vppon it will swimme thou shalt separate it toureninge the vessell wherein it is wyth a narrowe necke vpside downe so that the water be lette runne oute vntill a little be left whyche shall bee separated afterwarde by pouringe the oyle into an other vessell A sextarye or pinte of bearies as they call it in Alsatia aboute iiii ounces of oyle Other to separate the Oyle from the water put it into a drincking glas that hathe the foote taken awaye ether by commynge with a wyer of iron redde hotte or els by chaunce so that a little hoole in the bottome be lefte for the water passeth throughe and when it comes to the oyle the hoole is stopte and then the oyle maye be poured out into y e vessel wher it shal be kept SoÌ„e destill it in like manner but they moue the matter oftentimes in the stil least it be burned And they say spices beaten as Cloues and cinamon mai be rightlye destilled likewise Some as I heare saye destill in a crooked vessell not of glas but of Copper tinned in the inside whiche is put into a long pipe of coper as they do for burning water An other waye of preparing the same by descencion downewarde communicated and shewed vnto me as a secreate thing by a certain frend who prepared and made it so his selfe Gather Iuniper bearies well rypened and drye in harnest or a little befoore Haruest betwene the two Marye daies as they be appoynted in the Kalendar in the morninge at eighte or nyne of the clocke in greate plentye as manye as will fill a couple of bagges whiles it is fayre weather Oyll of the nuttes kernels of the pyn tree for the polishing putting away of wrinkles in womens skinnes is made by destillacioÌ„ dounward as oyll of y e wood of Iumper Syluius Of oyls of gums teeres or liquors thickened or congeled and rosines OYll of Mirh Looke before emongst the swiet waters of Furnerius where wee haue described one which is made with one part of Mirh and the half part of y e iuice of Roses moste odoriferous Liquors thikned by nature and gums as they call them of a hoot and dry temperatur that they may be prepared vnto destillacion when they are pund put them in a vessell wel stopt wyn also except I be deceiued may be a litle sprinkled vpon it and dig it in a could and moyst place so diep as a man is hy without putting to it any hoot matter and it must be left a good long space notwithstanding it should soner be resolued if thou put to it sum yolkes of hard rosted egs The gums so resolued yelded an oyll troubled and pudly whiche being destilled in a crouked still as they call it shal be made moore cleere and pure For al gums and Caphura also seing they contein a fat liquor and whyt that whiche by destillacion is drawen from them doo easely sauour of the iniury of the fyer faut of brentnes that although they be destilled in vessels very meen yet issueth forth a licour full of dregs gros brent of an vnplesaunt smell the vse wherof doth not plees me noo not without the body muche les within the body the strengthes vertues of them is not alyke When the matter is so resolued y u shalt straine it through a wolleÌ„ cloth or a hear cloth y t what so euer erthynes is in it may be separated from the sande and dros After y t whiche is streyned thou shalt leue it again in an indifferent warm place as many daies as thou wilt last of all destill it Thies maner of Oyles are verye subtill and of greate strength whan as nature it selfe firste hathe as it were gathered the chief vertues of trees suche as power forth any gums or teeres Thies for the moste part wryteth Ryffius in his first boke of destillacion The same Ryffius in the treatise of the same worke of oyles prescribeth no peculiar waye to drawe out oyl of gums but sendeth men vnto his first koke He describeth seuerally the vertues of oyles of Ammoniacum Belzoum Camphora Cloues Euphorbium Galbanum Ladanum Myrh Opopanax Sarcocolla Sagapenum Stirax liquid Calamita In the only oyll of Mastick he willeth the Mastick when it is pund to be resolued with old wyne and to be degested then destilled And the gum of Iuniper lykewyse to be resolued and stiept in wyne because of the drynes of
as it shoulde be and that the pipe be not to hotte wherefore nowe and then chaunging the water he shall poure in coulder oute of some Vessell by and put linnē clouthes dipt in could water about the pype and about the couer lykewyse if it be too hoot For it skilleth much that thies partes be couled that both more plenty of water and also better may run out This water of Cinamon I haue sene my self and tasted very plesaunt and swiet in sauour and in taste The liquor whiche I sawe was sharp almost of the colour of milck and troubled wherupon certain sumwhat red drops of oyll did swim whiche were les swiet then the water and smelled of adustion The same almost Cardanus wryteth generally of liquors of swiet woodē thinges as Cloues c. This liquor restoreth the strength excellently the other vertues thereof Ryffius describeth but euery man may know thē manifestly by the nature of cinamon it selfe In lyke maner is the oyll of the huske of Nutmegges whiche they call Mace prepared which also is described by Ryffius An oyll maruelous swiet smelling wherwith gloues and other certain thinges are anoynted out of Furnerius Thou shalt take in the moneth of May the .iii. partes of the second barkes of the tree of Almon so is it red saieth Furnerius in the booke out of whiche he writ it but doubted whether it ought to be vnderstanded an Elm or a Limon a kynd of Orenges and the fatter partes of the flowers of the same tree Les espis de la fleur qui sont grasses in lyke weight dry them in the sunne That kind of this tree is thought best that groweth not in watery places To thies y ◠shalt ad the third part of the beries of Juniper newe and destill them dounwarde with a little fyer at the first then greater and greater encreasing it till al the Oyll be cumd down into the receiuer whiche should be of glas and closed with clay Afterward thou shalt set it in the Sun with the mouth of the vessell open a whyle or shit with a parchement prickt through with a fewe hooles till the smel of adustion and brentnes brethe out Sum to encrees the smell put to it Belzoum Spick narde Agallochum the shauings of Cypres Styrax Ambra Mosch and destill all together repeting also the destillacion the second tyme. Of oils that are dravven out of Woodes Oyls of wood are all destilled by descencion as they call it dounward Of the preparing of oyll of the wood of Iuniper we shewed before out of Vlstadius where we entreted of destillacion dounward generally He that desireth more specially perteyning to the vertues let hym serche in the duche bouke of Ryffius who wryteth that oyll is goten out of Guaiacum also after the same maner vtterly and also out of the wood of Rosemary I will ad heer that I found in a certain dutche booke The wood of Iuniper to make oyll therof ought to be cut in y e beginning of May or haruest whiche is grien or fresh the barck being red When y ◠barck is taken of thou shalt dry it diligently in an ouen streight after the bred is taken out then cut in pieces with an ax put it in a pot that hath the botom full of hooles set hansumly in a pot vnneth it The vpper pot thou shalt fill with y e chips of Iuniper and also of that whyt Popler whiche they cal trembling with a part of the whyt stones wherof lyme is made after when thou hast fensed the couer wel with clay put it into the nether and make a fyer round about it This oyll also made of only Iuniper for the moste parte is ministred without the body for it is very vehement and sanoureth very much of brentnes It defileth the skin that it can not be esely washed away I haue tryed the vertue of it against Scabbednes and itches to be excellent Brasauolus commendeth the same against the pestilence It putteth away cold causes and represeth the typum of the quartain Being anointed from the nauell of wemen to priuy places and reines i◠strengtheneth the matrix or mother and dryeth vp the moystnes therof and prepareth it to conception Rogerius Oyll destilled of the stickes of Iuniper moste dry in twoo earthen vesselles with the mouthes ioyned together or also in a lembeck of glas if it be holden in y ◠mouth it taketh away maruelously the touth ach sprung of a could reum lykewyse it is good against all oher grieues comming of could humors as the griefes of the synewes the conuulsion or cramp of the ioyntes the palsy and lyke Matthaeolus Oyl of Iuniper saith Mesues helpeth the infections of the skyn crieping diseases the cancar angry byles such as in sommens legges the late wryters call the deed euill Fill a glased vessell with a narrowe mouthe with the small chippes of Iuniper ioyn a thin plate of irō boored full of hooles after the maner of a meell siue to the hooll mouth daub the same with the mouthe bothe of the saide vessell and of the lesser whiche must be glased or oyled also to receiue the oyl whiche when thou hast digged in the ground compas the other biggar whiche hathe the pieces of Iuniper with a cleer fyer two howres so the oyl shall destill into the les vessel Thies wryteth Mesues as Siluius interpreteth him In the same place Siluius in the commentaries By this arte saith he oyl is made of the kurnelles of Pynaples to put away the wrinkles of wemens skins of the wood Gnaiacum and stronger of Lignum sanctum for the grieues of the Spanishe disease as byles vnto whiche oyll of Iuniper also and of Broum and of ashe and of lyke is holsum and of other woodes specially that be fat and ful of iuice as fruites beries and seedes The biggar vessell also may be of metall or if it be of glas or ston let it be well fensed all ouer with clay of wisdome an erthen vessell because it is spongi not so cloos when the oyll seketh to breeth out it would gyue it way therfore let it be glased within the nether vessell and receiuer may bee of glas not clayedd only in the circuit but somwhat more thik it may be also of metal it may be at length of earth so be that it be glased and oyled as they call it els that most thin oyl wold run out here and there by the pores of the vessel much les may that oyl be receiued safe in the pit within the grounde hauing the sides walled with potters earth which notwithstanding Mesues commaunded Take this withall that it shal not be nedeful to dig the lesser vessel within the ground if thou canste finde a meanes to beare vp the cooles and woode with some floore as it were to compas the bigger vessell aboute with These wryteth Syluius Oyl of ashe tre helpeth them that be sick of the splene besides that it can do all that
be annoynted with this oyle they putrifye not When thou wilte comforte bodies that be extenuated and broughte lowe thou shalt mixte Roose water with it and annoynte it vppon the lower mansions and from the Nucha vnto the raines If the backe bone be annoynted therewith being somewhat warme an hour before the fit leauing vppon it the token of it with Pecia thou shalt put awaye the shakinge of wandering Agues and of any simple agues But quartaines and wanderinge Agues it helpeth at the beginnninge of the course this place and they which folow seme vnto some to bee corrupted in the printed bookes in the swoundinge or debilitie annoyntinge the extreame partes of the backe boone that the instrumente for the purpoose maye speake with voyce put vnder the tonge of the sicke a little of it and after in his eares and nosthrilles if nede require Thou shalt geue of the same when neede requireth in the Stranguling and Suffocation of the Matrix or mother and in the fallinge sickenesse manye other diseases It is ministred in weght tree I thincke he meaneth one grain with wine that hathe a good smell So it comforteth y e mind and nature and healeth manye diseases But chieflye and is good for them that be Melancholye sadde and whose strengthes and members be feeble as though they were beaten and wekened by force For consuminge Feuers thou shalt mixte with Oyle of Rooses or of Mastike and annoynte the backe boone of them in a baithe or withoute a baithe Hitherto wryteth Aponensis The same manne willeth to mixte thys composicion in the steede of true Opobalsamum wyth Triacle Mithridatium Diacurcuma Aurea Alexandrina This Oyle saithe he Epiphanius Empiricus vseth as the Mother of all remeadies to all diseases of the sinewes annoynting twise a day therewith the Nucha the back and inynts for it is plain by manifest proues specially in a colde matter The same man commaundeth to stil this oyl in Balneo Mariae which I like not There is an other composicion of VViliam Pla centinus whiche I finde in the bigger Luminarie in Diacurcuma or Diacrocu in this wise Take Turpentin .ii. pounds commun oyl .iii. pound oyl of bayes .xvi. onnces Cinnamon .iii. ounces Euphorbium Cloues Bay beries Gum of Iuy Serapinum Galbanum Aromatik Opopanax ofeuery one an ounce Franken sence Mastike of ether ii vnces Let such be beteÌ„ as shuld theÌ„ destilled These and certain other diuers balmes dothe Ryffius also in his boke of destillation describe A quickeninge water and one that procureth youth vnto an old man out of the boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyne a pounde honye halfe a pounde Aqua vitae thryse or foure times destilled iii. ounces Lignum Aloes welbeaten SaÌ„dali mustatelli of ether .iii. drams gumme Arabeck perauenture a dram Nutmegs Ambra ofether .ii. drams When they are all pund destill them wyth a slowe fyre till ye haue the firste water cleare And when the second beginneth to run oute whithe shal be like to a burning cole encrease the fire by and by and kepe that by it self TheÌ„ encrese the fire again gather the third which shal be black and thick like hony til al the liquor be run out Of these waters y e last is hoter then y e first seconde The first is called mother of Balm the secoÌ„d oyll of Balm the third Balm artificiall The first is ministred in drink with warm wyne The second aâ—d the third ar good to remoue maladies which newly gnawe the fleshe of mans body The fyrst drunke with warme whyt wyne purgeth the stomack from al il humors and withholdeth the water that it cum not at the hart or principal partes as it is plain by often experiment A fyne lynnen clooth moystened in this water and thrust into the noosthriles with the litle fingar whan y e sick goeth to bed and left there within cureth the reum Being drunck morning and euening it cureth a stinking breth what cause so euer it cum of The tieth washt therwith are strengthened and made whyt and ar deliuered from ache whether it cum of a humor or of putrified bloud Whatsoeuer shal be put into it it will kepe it sound and vncorrupt A linnen cloth moysted in it and laid vpon woundes first washed therwith or vpon a fistula and other angry and ill byles cureth them It resisteth the quartain ague if the back boone be rubbed therwith a fewe daies Scabbednes washt therwith is made hoole A linnen clooth moystened therin is very good to be layd to y e hemrodes Wol that groweth on tries or Bombase dipt lightly is this water is very good to put in the eares against any kynd of deafnes Being anoynted it cureth the rednes of the face the palsy of the tong and all cold diseases The second and third water are of strength against the disease called Noli me tangere against the kynges il and also the disseases of the neck and throot Also against the fistula and the ill disease called Malus morbus specially if it be yet but new for by washing it and wetting and oft laing a linneÌ„ cloth moystened therin vpoÌ„ it it is made hool They help also if a maÌ„be beten with stones or clubes or a staf No poyson can approche ny vnto them and a spyder touched therewith dyeth They be anoynted vpon moste proffitably against all palsyes They strengthen all the partes of the body being washt therwith It is to be noted that the first water of thies thre as generall conteineth all the vertues of the other But to fret the second and the thirde are better this more then the other To be short they heel all diseases that cum of bloud or putrified fleume In the same Lullius a marueilous water is made in this wyse Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zedoaria Galangal bothe sortes of Peper Iuniper beries the pilles or barck of Citri or OreÌ„ges Sage Basilicum Roosemary Maioram round Mint Bay beries Peny royall Gentian Calamint y e flowers of Elder Roses Ammens Spick nard wood of Aloes Cubebae here semeth somwhat to be left out as well wyld as domekical or growing in gardines Cardamomum CinnamoÌ„ Calami aromatici Stichados Chamaedryos Chamaepity os Melissae Mastick Olibani Aloes hepaticae Anis siedes and flowers she siedes of Mug wurt of euery one an vnce Put vnto thies dry figges Rasins that cum froÌ„ beyond see Dait stones fat swiet Almondes of euery one an vnce Whyt old hony half a pound After twys as much Sugar as all the forsaid be All thies shalt thou put into Aqua vitae v. or .vi. times destilled in a leÌ„bek of glas y e Aqua vitae shal be as much as thrys y e weight of all the speces besides After thou hast lest them stand .ii. daies thou shalt destill theÌ„ with a slow fier The first water is moste cleer precious The second differeth in colour and must be receiued in an other vessel it is whyt good towhit ten the faces of wemen
cloth .iii. or .iiii. tymes folded and let it abyde bound vnto it .iiii. houres If so be it the grief seas not then power vpon it again as is said afore and euer take hede that the byle or soore be cleen so in a few daies it waxeth hool maruelousli Sum mixt Turpintyn and certain gumes together in a Cucurbita of glas and let it sieth softly set in sand and cloosed with clay then they let it stande a whyle till the dregges settle to the bottō and wa◠hard then they streine it Oyll also of Hypericō is compared of sum vnto Balm whiche bycause it is not destilled I will describe it hereafter A water that bringeth out boones and preserueth that the woundes chaunce not to root Turpintyn pure and whyte but vnwasht Zopissae hony of euery one a pound Half a pound of Rosin of the Pyn trie that is whyte Let thē be destilled A water of Epiphanius composed for Fistulaes with Turpintyn certain gummes and spices c It is rehearsed befoore in the seconde order amongste the waters composed for certaine outwarde byly diseases And again an other like vnto it in the third order Of oyles of the partes of beastes or excrementes OF the bones and marowes maye an oyl be gotten by sublimacion Syluius Oyl of the yelkes of egs may be destilled in a lembeck like as the oyle of Philosophers Mesuae Syluius Loke before wher we intreated of the destillacion of oyles by descēcion downward generally oute of Vlstadius Oyle of mannes ordure or donge looke before in the order of mans dong Of the liquor of mans bloud loke before in quint tessence Of the destillinge of honye ▪ we haue wrytten before amongste the waters that bee destilled in Roosestilles c. The laste liquor that runneth here oute is somewhat thicke that I iudge it maye be called an oyle Oyles destilled maye also bee mixte together one with an oteer as in this medicine of Epiphanius Empiricus praised for frakens and all kinde of ruggednesse and spottes of the face An ounce and a halfe of virgines milcke Water of Rooses with a little brimstone an ounce Oyles of Tartaro of wheate of yelkes or Egges of euerye one halfe an ounce a scrupul of Caphurae Althoughe the seoyles are not wonte to be made by destillacion yet oyl of wheat and of the yelkes of egges are better made destilled Of oyles of metals tile stones Gagate Aumber WAters and oyles secreate by the singuler industrie and wit of Chymists are of most greate vertues and of so thin a substance and so subtil that a drop of a certain oyl by chaunce falling vpon a bed perced in a moment the manifold clothes and keuerings thereof and burned the bordes in the bottome of the bed Syluius This vertue of pearsinge semeth to pertaine chieflye vnto oyles drawne out of metalles in the which also is a greater force of burninge I vnderstande that Vinegar is chieflye vsed to be destild for the drawing out of oyles oute of Metalies as Antimoni Leade Cerussa Other vse other sharp and most hot liquors for that purpose as sharplie burning water vrine destilled Aqua Forti Lullius in the fift Canon of his firste booke of quintessence when he had taughte to drawe oute the .iiii. elementes oute of plantes he added And so shalt thou do also with metals firste thou shalt make them to resolue with oure Menstrue I suppose he meaneth oure Vrine vnder dounge for the space of a weke the Menstruum must be sharp with some Vegetable and stronge quickenynge thinges whiche we shall declare hereafter in the Questionary After the metalles shall be dissolued set them to be destilled in a fire of the first degree and the Menstruum shall issue forthe and the lime or pouder of y e metal shal remaine in the bottome After this reiterat repete it again vpō the dregs of the metall with newe Menstruum as muche as the weight of the metall and set it to putrifyinge for the space of a month and a half and after this destill it as thou didst of the Vegetable or quickning things but euery time put new Menstruum vpon the dregs Other diuers opinions of Philosophers in the drawing out of the elements out of minerall thinges we shall declare in the thirde boke This saith he I suppose it to be a commone thinge vnto all oyles of metals to be heauier then other oyles as Cardanus signifieih and an other certaine author wryteth that the drops oyl of Vitriol or Coproos to be ponderous and weightie Oyle destilled of Orpment or Mysi or Vitriol of Rom. annoynted vpon y e arteries region of the hart I suppose is hable to saue a mā infected with poyson be it neuer so sharp and strong do kill a manne onlye with touchinge Cardanus And a little after but sence wee are fallen into this communication I think it shuld not be so vnprofitable nor far frō the purpose to inquere this how oyl may be made whiche beinge annoynted vpon the Arteriis maketh the venome to breake out by vomit or purgacion or sweat or vrine It is sure it muste be of metall which must be most stronge I sawe suche once and by the waighte onlye I coniectured that it was without al doute of metall It muste also bee of the nature of Venome for by the immoderate heate as it is saide it vanquisheth firste the euill infection conceiued and by naturallye attracteth vnto the vtter partes that is hurtefull and by the contrarietie driueth it awaye It must also haue no small strengthe to discus expel and again sōe contrarietie against the poysons them selues which .ii. things agree to the iuice of Laser or Assa Foeetida Therfore those things that must driue out the poysone ought to be metally poysons but not most bitter and most hot and discussing or expelling also in a maner contrary to the poysons The matter therfore of these thinges may consist of these thinges Mysi Orpment and the iuice of Laser or Assa foetida and Gentian and of the fat of venemous serpentes and Aconitum If so be it that in any land moo of theese foresaide vertues as to discus expell and resiste poysones c. be to bee gotten the oyle extracted by the force of fyre shall be best of all And a little after But oyle that onlye by anoyntinge of the Arteries dothe thruste oute the poysone I woulde not call it the best in this sence that also besydes it thou shouldest Minister in drinke Triacle or Milke or sum other excellent medicin ye also it should be the more auaylable That dare I be bold to say that the anoynting of the arteries and the things ministred outwardly are better and of more strength then those things that are drunck saue only for this that the poyson remayneth yet in the stomack For vnto such poysons newly taken that they be not yet gone out of the stomack they that prouoke strong vomities are moost excellent as Milk Lie
Oyll water of Nucis vomicae or spewing nut Therfore in venemous bytinges in stingings in oyntmentes that be venemous in the drinking of venom whiche is now alredy perced to the midrif or nether partes of the chest the helpes that be ministred outwardly are more auailable and of greater strength c. Thies out of Cardane haue I written the more at large that therby also y e reason migth be the more euident of that marueilous oyl of Scorpions c. Whiche bycause it is made without destillacion I will describe it hereafter seuerally Oyll of Antimonium is moste proffitable to all ill soores and byles as I my self dotry with good succes But the Antimonium is purged first ofteÌ„times melted and made liquid with the fyer Far from this doth the oyll of Antimonium which chymistes vse wherwithall they endeuoure to set the colour of gould vpoÌ„ siluer Matthaeolus vpoÌ„ Diosc Oyll of Antimonium howe it is made for soore byles and fistulas I writ afore out of Vlstadius in the treetis of Quintessence But certain practicioners also make oyll of Antimonium to diuers diseases within the body whiche they extoll with maruelous and great praises They make it after this sort as I here Antimonii half a pounde whyt Tartari Calcionated asmuche let theÌ„ be beaten and melted or dissolued in a gouldsmithes Tigillo crucibulo vpon cooles when they are melted let them be powred out into sum earthen pot where they shal be sturred and mixt together and when they are becum into a hard lump let them be pund again and streined by a colender that is a sack of that form that they vse for Hyppocras as they call it in a moyst place in a hoot and moyst place as in a wyne celler the colender hanging for so shall the oyll destill out by litle litle which of sum bycause of the bloudie colour is called Rubedo Antimanii and lykewyse it is made of certain Gouldsmithes for a certain painting I can not tell what But for the remedies of mans body it ought to be prepared with Quintessence of wyn or with burning water so that twyse asmuche all moste of it be powred to the forsaid rednes of the Antimonium and let them be sturde diligently in body and mixt and then destilled in ashes thre or iiii times till the breth lose al the euil smell The dregs must always be mixt sturd about when y u powrest iâ— again the destilled water vpon theÌ„ or when thou powrest to them new Quintessence for I am not sure whiche way it ought to be doone Sum in the beginning do stregthway mixt reed vineger most sharp destilled with the AntimoniuÌ„ TartaruÌ„ calcionated to be melted together But I wryt althies not as certain but as I noted theÌ„ by the way as I hard them recited certain yeres ago of a certain practicioner I know that certain chymistes goldsmithes serche for y e oyl or Quint essence of y e AntimoniuÌ„ as a moste perfect treasur Thies destil first sharp lye coÌ„posed of vnslect lyme and ashes Clauellatas by a FiltruÌ„ and is this lye they sieth the AntimoniuÌ„ subtilly and fynly beten for the space of .v. houres and again destil this lye when it is cold by a FiltruÌ„ that of y e AntimoniuÌ„ that passeth through w t it that is a pouder of yelowe colour they reserue After they powre in vpoÌ„ the AntimoniuÌ„ put in a Cucurbita or body moste sharpe red vinegar destilled so that it be aboue it iii. or .iiii. fingars thick they set it in a hoot place a few daies and euery day they shake and â–ª mixt it x. or .xx. times then they power y e vinegar lightly into an other glas so y t nothing be troubled This do â—hey repete .v. or .vi. times euer powring new vinegar vpon the AntimoniuÌ„ remaining in y e Cucurbita or body at length they put all the vinegar together destil it by a lembeck with a slow fyer til y e oyl begin to run out This oyl or quintessence of AntimoniuÌ„ is of a colour of blud With this thei die Mercurie say it is an incoÌ„parable treasure a chief mistery of y e chymistical art as we traÌ„slated out of a certain writen doutch boke A reed oyll is gotten out of AntimoniuÌ„ very sharp smelling lyk brimston it reteineth y e vertue of y â— Antiminium bycause of the grosnes of the substaunce proffitable to few thinges Cardanus Hooll Lyme vnbroken let it be slekt in coÌ„mun oyll and destill it in a lembeck of glas there shall issue forth an oyll good for a boon that is corrupt Syluius Put a hot piece of quick Lyme into commun oyll till the Lyme becum powder then let it be destilled in a lembeck of glas and oyll of Lyme shall issue whiche is the firste that was described by Leonard of Praedapalea Patauinus Ion. Iacobus de Manliis Oyll of Cerussa Looke before where we intreted of Quintessence out of Vlstadius Oyll of Gagates or ieet called Sacratum or holy moste holsum for them that be possessed of spirits that haue the falling sicknes the palsy the cramp the stifnes of sinewes the gout or be chooked in their wombe it helpeth also coÌ„ceiuing It is made of Ieet stones after the maner of oyll of Iuniper by descention or elles by sublimacion as oyll of tyle stones Mesues of Iac. Syluius interpretacion out of whose notes we haue subscribed thies wordes Seing Bitumen is far lighter cost then Ieet and of the same vertues or stronger a man might proue to get an oyl out of it whiche shal run more abundauntly specially if it be new Bitumen forasmuche as it is as it were the fat of the earth and is burned in steed of oyll of them that dwell about the place of Asphaltita or deed sea or els in other places wher Bitumen is Forthermore he douteth whether it can heele the falling sicknes seing the falling sicknes doth the more appeer with y e foule stinking smell of the Bitumen But me thinkes it semeth probable that that sicknes shuld be helped with it by attenuating digesting drying whiche vertues boothe it hathe theim befoore and that not feablelye and also muche moore the liquor destilled thereof perfourmeth theese thinges Nether doth it not help this diese therfor because it is likely that the same should be vttred and appere with the perfume of that bituminous smell as with the perfume of Myrrh Galbanum and horns houfs and the skins of a she or he gote For Phisicions vse the hornes houfes of diuers bestes against this siknes ministring the shauings of them within the body nether is it a like reasoÌ„ in the perfuminge of a thinge and receiuinge of it simplely But of these maiters Phisicions shuld teach not so much by reasons coniectures as by experiment trial I my self saw once a perfume of beaten Aumber whiche also is ascribed vnto y e kind of Bitumen speciallye white holden to the nosthrils
of one sick of the falling euil with coles in a spone and the Amber vpon them and by by the fit ceased which thing appels or bals as they call them made with Mosch or Ambra will do also But that Mesuae writeth of men possessed with deuils saith Syluius is supersticious against the faith of a Christen man Brimston and iet are molten at the fire as al other liquors The same Oyl of philosophers which some haue named oyl of wisdom and of perfect mastership diuine and holy by al the old writers consent is most effectuous to secreat diseases and thaâ— not to a few of them for it heateth drieth perceth depe by the meanes of the subtelnes of the substance it digesteth and consumeth al excremental and superfluous expelled matter Therfore it is very holsome for the falling sicknes palsy turning sicknes for getfulnes and for the cold diseases of the splene rains bladder womb sinewes al ioynts other sinewy parts But one sort is natural or mineral and an other of the sea that runneth out of Iles rocks called Naphtha of the which kinde that which is somewhat white is counted the best the redish of a mean goodnes but that which is somwhat black thick is the worst NotwithstaÌ„ding it is made by arte in this wise Tiles made of red earth very old must be beaten into pieces set on fire with vnsmoking coles til they be red hot theÌ„ slek theÌ„ in a bole ful of oyl of Rofmary alchichil or old claret as much as is possible let them sok in the oyl Dry them by theÌ„ selues in cases caczobis The Munks vpon Mesuen wher also is red shortly after Caczola for a Cucurbita or body of a stil Afterward beat them most smal and put theÌ„ in a vessel that be destilled by sublimacion ioyn y e vessel to the hed with claye that chymists do vse sethe them with coles set a fire in a fornace til an oyl destil into a phial of glas glued to y e lower end of the nose of the head with clay Bulcasis which stopt veri exactly set it vp kepe it for the elder it is the stronger Mesue as Syluius traÌ„slateth him whose words also I haue writen here out of his annotacioÌ„s Oyl saith he of tiles is so subtil that in a moment it spredeth most brode if it be poured into a mans haÌ„d it perceth it forth w t. It is much more subtil more hot and more effectuous in cold diseases theÌ„ is oyl of balm It prouoketh vrin it breaketh the stone killeth worms it is holsom for the singing of the eares comming of a gros wind for the palsi the craÌ„p spasmo cynico the sciatica or ach in the hukle bones the gout in the knees fete the greues of the other ioynts being drunk or anoynted vpon y e place but let it be drunke mixte w t a litle porcion of some water conuenient for the disease The making of this oyl is described also by Rasis in his Antidotari or preseruatiue and by Bulcasis in his boke intitled Seruitor wheras Bulcasis preferreth new tiles y t neuer yet toucht water because they drink in y e oyl better he bids deuide theÌ„ into pieces of an inche bignes putreth theÌ„ so in a vessel of glas or glased wel claied y t the third part therof remain empty The fire must be made soft at y e first but so y t it touch y e bottom encresed by litle litle First shall a water issue forth afterward an oyl read Bulcasis which must be gathered bi it self In the same wise do we destil turpentyn guaiacuÌ„ many other things Oyl also of Chamaemel Nard also which is called Benet or blessed of Mesuae but this of tiles is y e chief of soÌ„e is called petroleuÌ„ or oyl of stones These Sylu. This is a stinking oil but it perceth passingli Io. Iac. de MaÌ„liis ¶ Read certain things befor wher we haue entreted generally of y e destillatioÌ„ of oyls by desceÌ„cion out of Vlst ¶ Bul. bideth to dip in the peces euerye one of an iâ—che bignes a dramme Rasis made redde hotte in mooste olde oyle and when they are quenched to take them out of y â— oyl and when thei are al soÌ„what grose beaten to put them into one or mo stillatory vessels whiche he calleth belies so that .ii. parts of y e vessell or more be filled He biddeth also to take hede that y e fyre come not nie to this oile while it is destilled because it wil easily be set on fire and hardly be put out Afterward again new peces of tiles dressed as before to be destilled til oyl inough be gathered which he biddeth to be kept in a vessell with a narow mouth moste diligently stopte with waxe and earth For it bretheth out easily because of the subtiltie and thinnes of the substaunce Vse this oyl saith he in cold sicknesses as the falling euil the benumming of the senses or Apoplexia the heauines of hearing and cold gout other diseases also haue I expressed in the booke of oyles for it is a secrete thing of philosophers The very same way of making it doth Rasis describe The oyl that they cal commonlye Balsamyn of spik raiseth vp sodeÌ„ly them that lie in the falling sicknes being held vnder their noses to be smeld or els that which they get out of tilestones hath the name of the stone Alexander Benet This oyl is made also with certain other thinges mixt with it as I found in a certain written boke the words wherof I wil rehers here Take breke into litle peces red tiles very olde or new but y t neuer touched water thei being made red hot queÌ„ch them in oyl of oliues or els y â— is better in oyl of baies by by make theÌ„ red hot again slek theÌ„ as befor vntil they wax blacke Then put these peces into a lembeck with y e oyl also wherin theiwer queÌ„shed if ani of it be left if not put new vnto it to the measur of a fingar Afterward put to it Castorei and Spicknard or in the steed of it rew of ether of them one part Costi two partes When thies are punned mixt them with the tyles in a Cucurbita or bely whiche thou shalt digge in hors dong about rx. daies At lengthe thou shalt destill it encreasing the fyer by litle and litle The first liquor is good the second better but the third of a red colour is best This oyll is good against all could diseases as Balm but this is more subtil then Balm and more proffitable in could diseases for it perceth through the hand quickly and spredeth abrode a great way It cureth the stoone of the bladder and the could diseases of the same It prouoketh vrine It helpeth the could diseases of the eares and killeth the wormes of the same It is moste proffitable for them that be
sick of the palsy and of the Cynical Cramp being anoynted therupon or drunkē also the Sciatica the griefs of the ioyntes and back A plaster made with this oyll and salt Ammoniack dissolueth in short space the impostumes and hardnesses of the splien It is of force against the falling sicknes and the obstruction or stopping of the nose being put into y e noosthrilles It heateth the brain confirmeth the memory asswageth touth ache Being put into y e womb it prouoketh the flowers It bringeth out the chyld newly conceiued ether dead or alyue It openeth the mouth of the vaines dissolueth the bloud that is lopperd or curded It purgeth the lunges from gros humors A fewe drops of it drunken with syrop of Rooses helpeth them that drawe their breeth peinfully It consumeth marueylously the water descending down to the eyes that is to saye the disease called Suffusion If fishers anoynt their nettes therwith they shall entyse innumerable fishes Iron moystened therin and put to the fyer shall burne streigth way It killeth wornes whersoeuer they be Being made hoot in an egge shell or other vessell may be dropt holsumly into the place where the grief is vntyll the grief asswage It resisteth could poysons as the sting of a Scorpion and also black Popy and Henbane if a mā haue reciued thē by his mouth It puteth away the stoone of the bladder being mixt with the barck of Percily and Fenell the barkes of the routes being sodde in water and a litle quantitie of this decoction receiued with a drop or .ii. in drinke but all thies thinges for the moste part doth Rasis in Antidotary attribute and asscribe to the simple oyl Benet that is that which is destilled of only tyles oyl That is coūted the best saith Rasis that is very red of a strong smel and of a subtill substaunce Oyl of leed Loke befor wheras we haue reher sed Vlstadius wordes of Quinessence Amber by an artificiall meanes of siething is turned into an oyl of his oun colour Ge. Agricola In died it is possible to make oyl of Amber after the same maner as of Iet wherof we haue writen befor For they seme not to be of much vnlyke nature The Germains call them by a cōmun name Agstein geuing only the difference of black vnto Iet Cardan supposeth that Camphora also is of y e same kynd only bycause y t this that the perfume of Amber receiued in a moyst cloth giueth afterward the smell of Camphora in it which notwithstanding did not appeare so to me as I did proue it for a triall Brimston anoynted drūck taketh away scabbednes leprosy and the frenche pockes But with a more vehement force the oyl therof which how it should be made we haue declared in our bokes of the frenche diseases Card. But his bookes of y e frenche disease I suppose ar not yet cum forth in print Salt cōteineth an oyll in it if it be mixt w t the lyme or clay called Bitumen Wherupō Arrianus declareth emongst the Ichthiophagi the men that liue only by fyshe in his history of Ind howe they make an oyll of salt That may be an argument also that the Oliue tries delyte in the Sea bankes for a salt groūd is also not a litle fat But as I said al thinges do so contein oyl that it may be drawen out by y e force of fier but it can not contein much except it haue Bitumē mixt w t it Car. For the making of oyl of Brimston a mā must chose out y t which is pure neuer touched the fier chiefly aliue of an ashy colour This oyl is made many wayes at Rome by sublymaciō descēcion c. It is good for many thinges chiefly for fistulas for y e healing of y e wheeles of y e moutes y ◠mē cal gangrenes I suppose it to be y t which we call in Englishe cankers in the curing wherof it excelleth moste of all For take and wet the end of a fether or other lyke thing as some yong and tender spring of a trie or herbe and touche the wheeles once or twyse only therwith and by and by thei shal be killed healed The Munkes vpō Mesue Take a vessell of glas as Maithaeolus Senen writeth in his boke of the Frenche euil not much vnlyke to a litle bell daubed with potters claye hang it the space of a cubit from the grounde by a wyer of bras or iron vnder y e which thou shalt set a basen of glas of a great cōpas with a pot turnde vpsyde downe Moreouer the bottom of the pot shall hold vp an iron plate of .iiii. fingars broode made red hoat wherupon the Brimstone may be brent Whyles this is brēt newe shal be added vpō it Therupon it shal cum to pas that by the smoke ascending the hanging vessell in short space shall destill drop down in to the basen that standes vnder an oyll whiche gathered diligently thou shalt serue in a phyall of glas Brimstone that neuer came ny the fyer or most yelowe whyles it is brent giueth a thick smoke to be receiued in a bell of glas or of stoone Wherein thorowe the gros vapour an oyll gathered together destilleth into a large plain vessell in y e mids wherof the brimstone builded vpon a litle vessell is brent Other beating the brimstone consume the fyry substaūce of if with Aqua vitae set on fyer and after deuil that whiche remaineth lyke vnto oyll of Philosophers Other sieth yelowe Brimstone Turpintyn of ether an vnce oyl of Roses a pound with a slow fire with .ii. vnces of odoriferous wine til the wine be consumed as it is red in Luminari maiore Syluius Put one part of quick brimston into .ii. parts partes of oyl of Lynsied beat them well and diligently together and let them stand in hors dong ii dais in a vessel wel shut it shal be clere fair But all these oyls seme to be prepared only for this purpose that they may be ministred without the body I here say that there be certaine practicioners now a daies which geue men to drink to ther body a certain oyl of brimstō chiefli against falling siknesses perauenture that kind whose firy substance as Syluius maketh menciō is first consumed by Aqua vitae set on fire then destild by sublimacion it may be more safly ministred with in the body then the other Oyl of Vitriol or copros is desired of chymists and likewise of phisitions and as a moste secrete matter is hid I will put here some descriptions therof whiche I receiued of my frendes or found in writē bokes and after other I wil declare one way of this oyl most effectuall approued which I know my selfe whiche a certaine practicioner with vs vsed to the curing almoste of all kinde of diseases and in many luckely c. Make the Vitriol in to lime as thou knowest then pour burning water vnto it
Aqua fortis and although it weÌ„t not away by by yet within a few wekes is was gon Aqua fortis or to separate metalles is thus made One part of Sal nitrum liquid or molten Alum that they call roche .iii. partes sand half a parte when they are dryed diligently and purged with the fyer let them be destilled in a vessell of glas It is gathered by it selfe that whiche issueth out first at length when the glas looketh lyke a safroÌ„ colour encrease the fyre and an other foloweth whiche is receiued in the first for the moste parte and yet if thou take it in water of the fountain or well it is yet so sharpe that neuer the les it dissolueth siluer and separateth it from Goulde It is separated in this wise Take a litle quantity of y e water drawn out and put into it the weight of xii grains of very pure siluer â–ª and set it vpoÌ„ ashes til the siluer be dissolued This shall send down into the bottom of the vessell groundes like vnto fine lime which taken awaye the pure water that remaineth put it to the hole water from the which thou druest it which in like maner shal it self also let down into the bottom groundes like the other which taken away thou shalt haue the hole water most pure and most strong to dissolue syluer and other metals except gould gould also I suppose is dissolued of Chymists with Aqua fortis but of another maner of making But seing it vanisheth away easili and consumeth it shal be kept in a glas diligentlye shut To a man that imagineth how great strengthes it hath which takinge water as I said of the wel yea withoute fyre in xxiiii hours doth bring siluer vnto water but w t a little heate of ashes in .ii. or .iii. houres there is no man but he wil graunt those last vapors and water wherunto they be tourned to haue maruelous strength or rather increadible Of the same kind is water that is made of the salts Ammoniak and Nitrum with Chalcanthum y t is coproos and Alum molten in equal porcions putting vnto them at last one fourth part of roust this made after the same maner spareth not very stones It yet a man ad and put to a litle of the obstracite stone called Smiris wherwith they polishe precious stones thou shalt haue more plenty of water and better because it wil not bee burned Theese things therfor receiued and found true by trials let vs see what shoulde be cause that this water becommeth so strong for manifest experience techeth that the drier part attenuated and fined by the force of the fire receiueth a firye and a fretting or gnawing strength But why burneth not the water of separatinge as burnyng water dothe Because that the burninge water is hotter and thinner and les drye therefore it maye bren and excellentlye heaten but not freate But the other can freat not burne and also heaten a little By like reason therfore the oyl that is takeÌ„ out of Chalcanthum by the force of the fire for as muche as it turneth the driest part into humor it is most sharpe and striketh the tounge like fire Cardan Let no manne thinke that this liquor perteineth only to Chymists and goldsmithes For it is profitable also for medicines vnto mans body It is dropped into warts that be cut and slit as I said afore Some dip the end of a little band in it and put it into a hollow touth from which they wolde take the sence feling of the grefe and mortify it I haue hard the suffusion or web of the eie to be cured in certain with the vertue of this liquor by the same quick siluer is precipitated as we shall now declare and the oyle of Chalcanthum or Coproos is drawn out by it as we said Take halfe an ounce of Aqua fortis mixt it with an ounce and a half of Roosewater soores of the throte palace iawes and lips let them be touched twise a daye with a little Cotton tide to the top of a sticke and moistned in this liquor Thom. Philologus Certain diuers maners of Aqua fortis maiste thou read after where we shall write of Mercury sublimated ¶ Burning water that a candle maâ— burne in the verye water Put a sextar or .xx. vnces of the eldest wine in a potte wide aboue and narow beneath wherunto thou shalt ad .ii. vnces of bothe kindes of Sulphur or brimstone that is of the quik and dead ii vnces and as much alum and as much of gros salt Let theÌ„ be sod together til the third part be consumed A tallowe or waxe candle annoynted with this shal burne in the water as well as in the aire If so be it thou sprinkle a heare or cloth therwith light it at the flame and it shall burne mooste manifestlye withoute hurte Oute of a written booke It wold appeare that a liquor destilled of this matter by the force of the fyre woulde be muche more effectuous to the same conclusion A water to whitten the tethe whiche Isabella of Arragonia the Duches of Millen did vse A pound of Salte purged and beaten an ounce of Glaâ—sye or Isly Alum let them bee destilled in a lembecke Mixt an ounce of this water with an vnce of Plantaine water and with a little wode wouldipte therein rub the teethe and they shall becom most bright Furnerius An other like out of the same boke Sall Ammo niak Sall Gemmae of ether iii ounces Suger Alum an ounce and a halfe commone Salte an ounce When they are beaten destil them in a lembecke of glasse and with the liquor drawne oute thereof rub the tethe with a stone and after wash the mouth with a litle white wine Read befor in the end of the Cosmeticall waters the same description but without common salt the vse wherof is declared without destillacion Aqua Angelica of a maruelous vertue against blearednesse Cankar and burninge with fyre Three ounces of vnâ—lekt lime and halfe a pound of raine water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tinne a .iii. daies Then mirtinge them sturre them together and let them settle again a .xxiii. hours or more in a vessell well couered Afterwarde straine them tenderly throughe a linnen clothe till it bee cleare Then put to it .x. drawmes of Sall Ammoniak the whitest thou caÌ„st finde and finest beaten and molten wyth longe mouing in the said water After when it is setled thou shalt straine certaine times the cleare water that standeth aboue or els destil it by a Filtrum Thys water healeth the clothe or spot La Toile in Frenche that is the webbe of the eyes three drops thrise a daye dropt into them continuinge till the eye be made hoole It taketh awaye also the teares of the eyes the rednesse and blearednesse also the Cankar and burnyng if it be rightlye ministred It taketh awaye all spots and steines of cloth both silke and woullen if they bee
washt in it a litle warmed Furnerius Mans vrin destilled chymistes vse it to resolue goulde printers for their inck that they vse to print bookes with all Diuers waters wonderfully drying sharpe fretting for healing of the whelkes of the frenche pockes without anoynting maiest thou reade in Nicolas Massa in his .vi. booke the .ii. chapt of the Frenche pockes A certain burning water with orpment c. destilled is described of Rogerius a Surgion Of the lyquors of precious stones CArdan in his second booke of subtiltie serching a water whiche put in by a Syringe or Spoute mighte breake the stoones of the bladder supposeth suche a one might be receiued of the stoone called Tecolithos or the stones of creuisses c. as we haue rehersed befor in the tretize of y â— vertues of destilled liquors generally I if I may ad coÌ„iectur to coniectur I would destill ether thies or other stones or glas with the iuice of Parietary Certain chymistes do prayse highly the spirit or Quintessence of berill against the stoone of the reines or bladdar Of cirtain massy thinges as quicksiluer precipitated or killed and the same and arsnâ—ck sublimated LEt vs ad here certain massy and hooll medicines which also be sublimated or sod in glas vessels at the fyre although it be almoste besydes our matter when as we purposed to entreat only in this boke ofliquors separated from a grosser substaunce Yet because they be a few medicines and sublimated that is they are prepared and made with lyke in strumentes as the forsaid liquors and hetherto for the most part secret y t is knowen vsed of few maruelous effectuous I thought not good to let them pas Quick siluer precipitated is thus made as Car. wryteth in his fift boke of Subtiltie Take Alum Calcanthum that is coproos of ether lyke much put therto salt as much as one of them half as muche destil this together in glas vessels Put a pound of this water y t is of aqua for t is coÌ„munly called .iii. pouÌ„d of quick siluer into a glas destil therout encresing the fier coÌ„tinue til the smoke and the vessel wax red no water at al remain At length breake the vessell gather the quick siluer whiche thou shalt se now gathered to gether lyke a stone grynd this very small vpon a table of red marble sieth it again destil it til it be dryed in a glasen vessel Again breake y e vessel gather the matter y t remaineth grinde the same again vpon y e moler very fine subtil Afterward put it in a vessel of bras a gret fier made vnder it mixt it stur it about by the space of .ii. houres til it get almost a brightnes rednes les theÌ„ take it and kepe it in vessels of glas This emongst all other y t eat the flesh without grief dry vp putrifying sores if it be rightly made is the best nether serueth it to any other purpose y t I knowe Thies thinges writeth he Perles are dissolued w t stroÌ„g vinegar specially being destilled or with the iuice of limoÌ„s c. precipitated and sublimated Cinna briuÌ„ and they return into quicksiluer Syluius A way to make red pouder y t is quicksiluer calcionated precipitated out of Marianus y e surgeoÌ„ Six vnces of Aqua fortis iiii vnces of quicksiluer mixt theÌ„ together in a bely or cucurbita of glas wel claied with a hed vpoÌ„ it y â— nose end wherof shall be put within a receiuer let them be destilled with a moderat fyer encreasing it by litle litle But aqua fortis that separateth gold froÌ„ siluer is made thus Sal nitruÌ„ roche AluÌ„ Vitriol of Rome of eue ry one .ii. pouÌ„des let theÌ„ be mixt in a morter euer beating grinding with the pestil til they be well mixt Then put the pouder sumwhat groos into a bely vnclayed al the mouthes stopt let it be destilled The tokeÌ„ of his goodnes is this if y e grouÌ„d wherupoÌ„ a litle of it falleth do boyll streigthway The vertue of this reed pouder is maruelious Take out of the barbers shop .iii. vnces of lye of PraecipitatuÌ„ an vnce a half rosed hony .ii. vnces mixt them diligeÌ„tly With this medicine without doubt thou shalt dry cleÌ„se a filthy sore and roten wherupoÌ„ the flesh shal after begin to brede wher as other clensing things as those made of y e iuice of ApiuÌ„ or of y e iuice of Cynoglos shal do no good Nicolas Massa in his booke of the Frenche disease calleth Mercurium praecipitatum Angelicall pouder because of the marueilous as it were a diuine operacion of it in the FreÌ„ch pockes which he his selfe hath not seldom tryed This medicin saith he dryeth with a certain gentle eating of the soft and superfluous fleshe and that withoute grief remouing also the euill secret qualitie of the soores and chiefly of the disease of Naples It digesteth any matter and purgeth it letteth the disease called Corrosio of gnawyng the canker it dissolueth groos matter hard and rawe after y e opening of gummes And no medicine is to be coÌ„pared with this in this disease For if thou continew in the vse of it it leadeth vnto the perfect breding of the skin as I haue oftentimes tryed and it is excellent in the euill sores of the yard It is made in this wyse But a pound of quick siluer in a litle bely of glas and power as muche Aqua fortis vnto it Then put the bely in a pot and ashes in space betwene the bely and the pot sydes that the pot breake not assone as it toucheth the fyer TheÌ„ put vnder fyer slow at the first and let it be encresed by lytle and litle yet after a certain mean and so with a strong fyer let it be left till all the water be consumed whiche is perceiued when no more vapours ascend out of y e bely So shalt thou haue Mercurium calcionated red Grynde this if any parte of the quick siluer remaine with it put the said pouder in a cleen vessell of bras at the fyer so mixt it let it stande till all the part of quick siluer be consumed This pouder maist thou vse to all the forsaid diseases and specially to the sores of the yard of other places wher rottennes and much il matter letteth the knitting or heling vp and in fistulaes dissolue it with wine and cast it in by a brasen pipe for it worketh meruelously Moreouer water to separate gold from siluer is thus made Two poundes of Vitriol of Rome Roche Alum .xvi. ounces Sal Nitrum a pounde let them be put in a croked bely writheÌ„ bakward claied or in a streght with his head and receiuer Destyll them as Alchymists do This water is meruelous to put away wartes in what parte of the body so euer they be and specially in the fouÌ„dament and wombe it brenneth and
searreth also euil sores eating them out euery where yea euen in the throte and letteth the sores from crieping and spreading namelye of the yarde and the wombe If it be to vehement mixte it with Roose water And I my selfe haue healed ill sores and biles of the throte touching them twise a dai with the saide water mixtinge with it half so muche of Rosewater and it is one of our secreates se more in the same the .vi. boke and .ii. chapter But this angelicall pouder had I of a certaine olde Alcumist and I made it before Iohannes de Vigo euer made anye mencion of it Thus farre Massa and parte Thom. Philologus out of him Of the making and commodities of this redde pouder read Iohannes de Vigo in his fifte boke of Additionum where he biddeth that the vessels rereceiuer shall be thrise as bigge as the bealye the xxxviii leafe b. And that white found with thys pouder is siluer sublimated from the redde like as is what so euer is yelowe or of a Saffron coloure And also in his booke entituled Capiosa the. Clxiii lefe a. Pouder of Mercury saithe Matthaeolus Senensis in his booke of the waye to heale the Frenche disease is made in this maner Take .iiii. pouÌ„ds of water wherewith gould is seperated from siluer a pound and a half of quick siluer Put these in a vessel of glas with a narow mouthe wyth a croked nek round about fensed with clay which shal be receiued of an other theÌ„ stop the ioynts of the vessels with potters clay diligently TheÌ„ put vnderfire made of coles so that it may euer wax bigger and bigger so long till all the water haue run out After this breake the phial and take out lightly the red cake that setleth in the bottome what white so euer sticks in it cast it away but y e red make it in pouder But for asmuch as throughe this pouder much harm might happen to theÌ„ shuld receiue it except it be duely prepared Take ii ounces of the said pouder and let them staÌ„d to soke in water of Plantaine and Acetosae of ether ii ounces the next morow early take the waters from thence and put new vnto it and set it to the fire in a vessel of bras or erth when they are hot cease not to stur them aboute with an iron or woden spattle or sâ—is vntil al becom pouder and that withoute anye difficultie of the which thou maist when thou list make such a recept against y e frenche disease aswel that is Flegmatike as Melancoly Take electuarii Conciliatoris this is made of diuers cordiall medicins and spices precious stones pearles gould siluer Camphora Ambra Mosch is described of him Differentia 196 half a scruple perls hyacincts of ether .v. grains the pouder of Praecipitatum v. grains pouder of Dâ—amuscum Diamargariton of ether halfe a scrupull Make .v. pils let theÌ„ be gilded Thom Philologê° who addeth Terrae Sigillatae and Boli Armeniae of euery .iii. grains let these be taken of the pacieÌ„t an hour before day let him kepe his bed .v. houres Shortly beleue me shal the french pocks be auoided with this receit For the fleum and blak choler also shal vanish away bothe by vomit and downwardes Besides this there are very many kinds of diseases that we haue cured with such a pouder For it puts not awaye onlye matter and rotten flesh being strawed vppon but also wythout any difficultie it bringeth sores biles vnto a skar the pestilence also with a little Triacle and with the iuice of the hearbe called Tuneci whiche they call Carduum Benedictum or w t an electuarye of precious stones if it be not yet confirmed stablished in the bodye it driueth it away meruelouslye Manye also that bee Limphatici that is mad or Melancolike whome they beleued commonly to be resorted vnto of Deuils we haue cured them with y e same What make I mani words We haue deliuered with this pouder those y t wer almost dead of the quartain putting vnto it Saccharum Buglossatum or triacle or Mithridatium som digestion made an hour before the fit in .v. or vii grains weight according to the age and streÌ„ght of the body of the diseased Yea also it is holsoÌ„ to be ministred amongst the griefes of the yard great guts for we haue cured some that auoyded their dung by their mouth leaninge to the moniments and sayings of Paulus Aegineta that saith how certain phisitioÌ„s haue ministred in that disease of the great guttes quicke siluer killed The same resisteth the taking as they cal it or inchaÌ„tment It hath besides this many notable vertues which when I haue more leisure I wil rehearse vnto thee he speketh to him y t talketh with him one by one perauenture then it shall delite me to expres in what sorte thou maist make pouder w t gould and quicke siluer or els the water declared before These he I hare of late that a certain phisicion or chymist at Athesin did prepare Mercurium praecipitatum with gould and sold it like gold which had suche vertue to eat oute gnawinge or grief Se those that we shal declare about the end of those that folow next after How Praecipitatum is made which is a remedy against all diseases growing of the rottennes of humors out of a certain writeÌ„ boke Make a water of equal porcions of Vitriol of Rome and Sal Nitrum with a heade and receiuer in the whiche thou shalt put the sixt-sixt-part of the weighte of rawe Mercury y t is to say if ther be 3. pouÌ„ds of Vitriol and Sal nitrum put .vi. vnces of Mercury Afterward suffer the water with his spirites to descend in to the receiuer Then auoyde all that is in the receiuer into a clean bely and that is claied vnder the whiche put a head with a receiuer and destill it again and wheÌ„ the water is in the receiuer put it againe in the bely in the whiche the Mercury remained Thou shalt repete this till the Mercury wax red Then when it is red washe it with Cordiall waters as Borage Balme and such lyke But first washe it often tymes in fountain water or well water destilled Mercury so prepared shalt thou giue to sick men within their bodies in this maner If the body be very strong giue .x. grains if it be mean .viii. weakes fiue if it be a chyld coÌ„sider diligently what is necessary to be done But vtterly mixt it with triacle so shalt thou giue it to him that is infected with poyson droysy pestileÌ„ce or taken with other infirmitie If a sounde man once a yeare or euery third yeare as it shall seme him good vse this Praecipitatum with a dew digestion of the humors that is with a preparacion of purgacion he shall preuent many diseases Note that in the stede of Mercury thou mayst vse Amal gama made of six partes of quick siluer and of one part of gold and so shalt thou worke
haue .iiii. stoules But I hear that certaine when they had taken to muche as much perauentur as a beane they haue ben emptied to ofte by the bealye and vomiting and haue bene verye muche weakened whiche I to take heede of vsinge the counsell of a certaine learned Phisicion I woulde brynge to iuyce not the Elleborum alone but infused and decocted with other diuers medicines as I shall declare by and by I perceiue it skilleth little whether the rootes be taken grene or dry But a man must take a pouÌ„d at the leaste of the rotes Lullius and other Cardan haue made mention of the quintessence of Elleborum where vnto I thincke this iuice to bee nothing inferiour This truelye is worthye to be wondred at that the iuice so longe decocted is not onlye nothinge weaker but also muche stronger for it seemeth that I may speake of coniecture that one parte of this iuice to be tenne times and more stronger then Elleborus it selfe and yet nothing more daungerous or hurtful but the streÌ„gthe withoute harme is encreased And although I my selfe woulde haue remitted and asswaged his strengthe puttinge to manye medicines yet I can commende more this simple waye alreadye described where as nothinge but a little Mastik is added at the laste speciallye for more hard and greuous diseases where necessitie requireth extreame medicines and for Franticke persones and otherwise madde and dotinge whiche when they can not be compelled to take anye medicins they are the easier deceiued with so little a dosi in quantitye Yea also withoute the bodye for venemous bitinges and sinnewes hurte I canne beleue that the vertue of it shoulde be mooste excellent I finde no iuice made in this sorte in anye authors the iuice of Acatia and of Berberies in Bulcasis For the straininge of it onlye is decocted not that which is depressed oute also the iuice of Galbanus and Licoris but the water in them is not chaunged Other iuices are made all by expression and aresod til they gather into a Ielly as of Sâ—landine Poppy Wormwod nightshade Vinae Acerbae Memithae Agremony Hypocisthidis the barkes of the rotes of Mandrag The same Bulcasis also willeth to put to a little gum to certaine iuices that be prest out which are sod by them selues at the fire that the partes of theÌ„ may better cleue together as the iuice of wormwod gasid that is Eupatorium or nightshade also of Centaury and Gentian which is made of a decoction strained But Mastik is mixt with y e iuice of Elleborus not onlye for this cause but also to amende the venemous vertue therof and contrary to the stomak Moreouer in certain other medicins wher a maÌ„ list to encrease the strength and vertue of any medicin which is to be left and laid away in some liquor we chaung not the liquor but the medicin that is euer when the first is strained putting in new medicin into the same liquor as in many decoctions and oyles but here in the iuice of Elleborus we do contrary For keping the same rotes of the Elleborus we chaunge oft the liquor I maye tel the cause because y e rote of Elleborus aboue all other things hath most stroÌ„g vertues not in y e superficial other parts only but in y e hole substaÌ„ce imprinted vehemeÌ„tly fastly wherfore it may be also kept most long of al other I my self vsed it when it was .x. yeares olde in his full strengthe And certaine common Practicioners bidde men drinke for the lousinge of the belly the wine wher in a part of it hath sooked a nighte and the nexte daye is strained and the rotes to be dried again for they are nothing or veri litle weaker therwith although they be somewhat often repeated to the same vse and dried again But of Elleborus it self and what we haue tried and experimented therof perauenture we shal once haue an other place and occasion to wryte of Pils of blak Elleborus or rather of his iuice is to be taken euery seuenth day in the curing of the French disease that is Melancholy as Matthaeolus couÌ„selith Three drams of the rootes of blacke Veratrum or Elleborus fresh and new Dauci or yelow-Caret Anisi Peper of euery one a dram .vi. grains of Mosth ii scrupuls of Epithy mii or the harder time let all theese be lightlye beaten then when they haue stand to soke a day and a nighte v. poundes of Malmsye heare semeth to be som fault of the printer for it is to great a measure of wine let them be mightilye prest oute Take .iii. drams of this expression of the pouder of pils of Fumitory Cochiarum Aurearum of euery one ii drams and a half knede them together and then let them be dried Moreouer when they are dry made againe in pouder thou shalt stiepe them again in the same Malmsy as before .iiii. tymes The pilles thereof muste be taken at one time to the weight of one dram Oure iuice composed and made of Elleborus Two poundes of Blacke Elleborus newe cutte Liquoris scraped and brused with a pestil a pouÌ„d stiep them a night in a good quantitie of water The next day after sieth them an houre a halfe with a slow fyer or .ii. houres power it out straining it and put in to it other water warm which shal be redy in a chafer by the fyr for this purpose Repete this seuen tymes or more Then castyng away the routes take the hooll water streined or destilled by a Filtrum and sieth it by litle and litle and when as yet a litle of it shall remaine power vnto it this decoctioÌ„ Seuen handfull of Betain Agrimony two handfull Anisi iii. vnces stiep theÌ„ in water and sieth them till the consumpcion and wasting of the thirde parte pres it out strayne it twys or thrys at the length put to fiue vnces of Agaricum elect cut smal flower deluce two vnces and a half Cinamon six drams Ginger halfe an vnce sieth them to the half pres them out strain the water as befor Then power this decoction to the decoction of the Elleborus boyling moderatly and let them be â—od together to the thicknes of hony A litle before the ende put to .iiii. drams of the pouder of Mastick .ii. drammes of Scammonium thies dissolued together in a litle of the decoction of Elleborus that it may be lyke the substaunce of hony not muche before the end of the decotion power it in when the iuice shal be moderatly thyck or beginneth to be thick and thou shalt stur it about till the iuice be consumed Thou shalt trye now and then a drop of the iuice let it fall vpon a tinnen â—rencher and when it shal be so thick that it wil almost run no more abrode when thou leenest the trencher on the one syde or lifts it vp then is the iuice perfect But by the space of an houre or more before the ende thou shalt now and then
drawn out of such a matter as is moste far from all corrupcion and leaste subiecte to the same DemogorgoÌ„ Yet thou saidst in y e boke whiche thou writst of the secrets of nature y t it shuld be drawn out of red wine y e same coÌ„firmeth Iohn de rupa scissa other suppose it shuld be made of Celedonie other wold take mans blud Ray. Thou art not a litle deceiued if thou think y e writinges of philosophers ought to be taken vnderstaÌ„ded according to y e bare letter chiefly in this science y e more clearly plainly thei speke so much y e more darknes haue their writings for thei haue spokeÌ„ by similitudes ridles in y e darkest form of spech Demo. In this thing what similitude haue they vsed Ray. Senior the philosopher saith this medicine is tourned and altered from coloure to coloure and from taste to taste and from nature to nature and therfore the names therof are multiplied Also Minois a philosopher if a man aske saieth he why is it made rede before it receiued whyt Answer that it was twys made blacke twys turnid into orrenge colour and receiued twys red coloure Seing nowe that it receiueth twys red coloure as red wyne and mans bloud that is to say after the putrifaction and in the destillation therefore the olde menne speakinge by similitudes called it red wyne mans bloud dragons bloud and suche lyke c. A little after also he putteth those signes and tokens of quintessence now perfit whiche Io. de Rupescissa doth that is that al men entring into the hous may be marnei lously allured vnto it set in a corner of the hous an other that all birdes that perceine that swietnes of sauoure may flocke together vnto it set in the top of a toure this is expounded allegorically that by the toure the fornace set in a corner of the hous may be vnderstanded in the whiche fornace a glas coÌ„teining the matter to be decocted is put by them that enter in to this hous and by the byrdes y t fly vnto it maye be signified those spirites and vapoures whiche by the vertue of heat are caried vpwarde and ascende aloft by the neck of the vessell or box whiche when they are fastened and ascende no more it is a token saith he that their watery moysture is now finished and the matter swietened and the medicine ended And in this opinion Rasis also was Thus saith he ⧠Of the dravvyng out of the quint essence from wyne out of Vlstadius and Raymund Lullus If it be set in the top of a toure it will allure all kynde of byrdes vnto it that be there aboute But if that excellent grace of sauoure appeare not yet then thou shalt shytte it close againe in to the Pelecane when it is diligeÌ„tly clayed fet it in again to the circulating destillation vntill the perfit quint essence it selfe appeare or els as Raymundus in his first boke the second chapter calles it quick Mercury And it hath not only that moste excellent sauour and tast but also a certain vncorruptible nature to be occupied aboute other medicines And surely it hath no brentnes in the mouth as aqua vitae nether any moysture or fleame bycause all the earthy elementall matter is settled down to the bottome Hovv qvint essence may be dravven out more easely and with les cost for poore mens sakes out of the same PVtt Horsse dung A in great deepe vessell B or in a pitte made for this purpose and in midst of the dunge set the still C full vntill two third parts of the matter to be destilled so that the third parte remaine withoute the dung empty that the matter may ascende descende and so to bee turned into cleare water But the dung must be renued once at the least euery wieke The same may be done in the drose of vynes that remaine after they be prest in the wine haruest or els in the dog daies with the sunne It is possible also to draw quintessens out of troubled vnclean and corrupte wine if it be not sower or like Vineger For we see euen of corrupt wine if it grewe in a good place althoughe it be troubled and of an ill taste yet verye good Aqua vitae maye be destylled therout After thys he addeth the waye howe to drawe oute quintessence oute of newe wine yet hot in the vessell in haruest whiche is done wythoute anye harme to the wine whiche for shortnes sake and because it is not touched of other authors as far as I know â–ª except perauenture of Lullus I wil let it passe ⧠In vvhat places Vlstadius in his heauen teacheth to drawe out diuers quint essences HOw the quint essence of wine is drawn forth wherin golde may be resolued to make potable Golde or Golde to be drunke .xi. chapter Howe the quint essence of hony is drawn forth whiche is put into the confection of potable gold xii chapter Quint essence of Chelidonia xiii chapter Ofmans blud egges flesh c .xiiii. chapter Of apples peares and other frutes xv chap. Of flours herbs and rotes .xvi. chapter Of antimonium xvii chapter And of the same euerye one thou shalt rede in Lullus in his first boke of quint essence Quint essence of wine som cal quick Mercury som heauen and the key of philosophers this as men say doth extract and drawe oute within the space of .iiii. hours the vertue and strengthe of euery thing that is stiept therin Ihon Brasescus by red wine wherout quintessence should be drawn supposeth somthinge elâ—se should be vnderstanded and some metally thing as we meÌ„cioned afore wheras we intreated generally of quintessence A merueilous vvater that hathe a contrary operation to Aqua vitae which may be called cold quint essence THe flours of samoncus elder y â— flours of hors houf which groweth vppon waters hauing great leues the flour of giluuÌ„ otherwise y â— flour of nenuphar which I think to be true and so doth Rogeriê° interpretate it of ether of them a pound Purslan sede lettis sede of ether .iii. pouÌ„d other wise half a pouÌ„d of the leaues of salonum nightshade .ii. sru otherwise as muche of nighteshade as of al thother Al these must be taken grene destilled .vii. times kept diep in y e erth in a glas This water wheÌ„ it waxeth hot in the sun about midday it wil make glasses or thin wodden vessels the images or shel of egges to flie in the aire this place semeth to be corrupt depraued or els the thing to be false If a cloth be wet in it cast into y e fire it wil lepe out of the fire without harm and what so euer is dipte in it it will not suffer the heat of the fire Nether shal that cloth be hurt by fire that is moystened in this water If Aqua vitae be sprinkled vpon it then cast it into y
Dictamnum Creticum of euery one halfe a handfull When they are beaten put them into oyll and put them in a bath for twoo daies Strein them and pres them as before Then take Zedoariae the roote of whyte Dictamni Gentian Tormentillae Aristolochiae root of euery one thre drams of freshe Scordium a handfull When they are beaten together power them in and let them stand thre daies in the bath strein and pres And again put into the oyl Styracis Calamitae Belzoi or Laserpitii of ether .vi. drammes the bearies of Iuniper .iiii. drams Nigellae iii. drams odoriferous Casiae ix drammes white Saunders .iiii. drams Scoenanthi Cuperis of ether a dram and a half when they are beaten pour them in and put them into the bath .iii. daies straine and pres After take .xxx. liue Scorpions gathered in the Caniculer daies and put them in a belly of glas vpon hot ashes and when thou seest them sweate for heat and to send out an humor power vppon them al the forsaid oyl hot but not so hot that the vessell breake therwith and sodenlye stoppe the mouth of the vessell and put it in a bath .iii. dais Then strain it and pres it and cast awai the scorpions now sod and put into the oyle Rhabarbi Electissimi commun Mirh Aloes Hepaticae of euery one .iii. drams Spiknard .ii. drams one dram of Saffron Triacle elect Mithridatii perfecti of ether half an ounce When they are beaten poure them in and put it in a bath .iii. dais and strain it no more after that but set it vp and keepe it as a balm For it is a remeady of great admiracion against the forsaid poisons specially against the Napellum wherewith those .ii. theues of Corâ—ica wer infected whose history we recited in y e fourth boke wher we made meÌ„tion of Aconitum to whiche place I send the reader These writeth Matt. Cardanus thinketh that the oyl which should be anoynted without the body against poysons vpoÌ„ the pulses and region of the hart oughte to be of metall as of orpment or drawne out of Myssi see before in the beginning of the tretise of oyles destilled of metally thinges Of oyl of Serpents or blacke Edders also of oyl of frogs rede Mesuae c. Oyl of Castoreum is composed with manye other spices and hot gums c. as Syluius describeth vpoÌ„ Mesuen it may also be made simple and single and for the hard and Massy part of Castorei the fattines cleauinge to it to be added or rather both as I counsell Brimston is made hot in oenostagmate I vnderstand burning water till a certaine skin swim aboue they call it an oyl which a man must take in a shell sometimes the water muste be chaunged till oyl inough be gathered wherewith they saye Hydargiron that is quicke Siluer sunken in a body is entised oute if it be anoynted streighte waye when a man commeth oute of the bathes Iac. Hollerius See befoore amongste the destilled oyles Of fomentations and perfumes â–ª FOmenta are called of the Grekes Pyriamata all thinges that be laide hot to the bodye withoute ether to asswage the griefe or to drawe oute the matter bothe otherwise and also to dissolue swellings this perauenture is done by dri fomentaâ—ions rather the other by moyste Sometimes I woulde vse now the one now the other both dry and moyst by course as in gouty greues ether in the feete or other ioynts wher as it is ieopardy least the more subtill parte of the matter drawne oute the groser be lefte behinde and made more hard Moyst fomentacions seme to prepare the matter for the drye to extenuate and make sclender to mollefy to digest to make them vapor out some perauenture do none of these accordinge to the diuersitie of the matter But dry fomentacions do drye and draw outward and heaten more Moist be ether liquid or running as simple water or â—alte Oyl milk by it self or with hony herbs and flours sod in water or wine or other liquor and laid vpon a linnen cloth or bag or put into a blader or a spâ—g moistned therin or a linnen cloth or wul or a Filtrum that is a shred of wollen cloth Bladders or like thinges full of hot water or oyl Cataplasmata also maye be numbred amongste these whyche are ministred hot that is to saye hearbes sod and beaten laide vppon a linnen cloth Dry are suche as Milium Salte Sande bran Otes made hot in a kettle and sturred aboute are put into a linnen clothe or bagge Celsus in some places commendeth the iuice of hotte Salte and in an other place he saithe it is most holsome to make fomentacions wyth moyste Salte You shall as he expoundeth putte a little bagge into hotte water and laye it hotte to the place diseased puttynge into the bagge nowe and then an iron sâ—ise hotte whyles it lyeth vppon the place that is greaued sprinkling water lightly vpon it therefore you shal haue .ii. slices redi that while the one slis is put into the bag the other may be heated in the fire In the disease of the necke called Tetanus whiche is the stifnes of the sinnewes saith Celsus it is necessarie to haue a moyste and warme fomentacion Therfore the moste part of men do pour often vpon the neckes much hotte thinges That procureth presently ease but it maketh the sinewes more apt to receiue cold which ought to be auoided Therfore it were beter to anoynt the nek with some waxed moisture then to laye Oxe bledders or like thinges filled with hotte oyle or some hot plaster of bran or rounde Pepper with figs beaten But the best of al is to make fomentation with moist salt In the same we red a meruelous fomentacion for the touth To put wilde Minte in a Basin and water to it somewhat aboue it then to putte in hotte burnynge Flintes the diseased gapinge with his mouthe receyueth the vapoure I harde of a late of a woman deliuered from a longe paine of the touth ache whyche receiued gapinge the vapoure of a black flint wherewith the streates are paued be sprynkled with wine The same Celsus biddeth to vse fomentacions vnto sore nosthrils only w t the vapor of water out of a vessel w t a narow mouth This appor also is ministred to hot greuous HeÌ„rods A certain woman that had ben long sick of a Paronychia or whitflow or ilgnawing sore vpoÌ„ her toes nie y e nail when now certain litle bones wer out and many medicines vsed in vaine she laide vnto it a fomentacion of the mos of a walnut tree sod in wyne so that she held the sore place a prety whyle in that vapour then bound part of the mos hoat therupon and was by and by made hoole A fyer brand also brent foulded in a moyst cloth is in stede of a hoat fomentacion in Celsus I haue put Caret or Cumin sede beaten in a bag moystened with burning water hoat vnto the nauell of