vertues Honey is accounted hot and dry in the second degree the white is thought lesse hot It nourisheth cleanseth openeth is good for the lungs moves Urine cures the Cough resists putrefaction Outwardly it discusseth the dimnesse of the eyes and helps other diseases of them A caution 1. Because honey is easily turned into Choler it is not so profitable for the liver or hot bodies 1. Crude honey puffes up the belly provokes Cough and causeth nauseousnesse N. Honey according to Galen is the juyce of heavenly dew gathered of Bees according to Paracelsus it is a certain rosinous thing of the earth transplanted into a vegetable kinde by the vertue of the Planets and heavenly influences and gathered from hence of Bees and further digested Hence it varyeth 1. For the variety of Plants in which respect that is accounted best of Bees living among Roses or Lillies 2. For the diversity of the influence So honey is best which is made in the Spring and Summer the year being clear and wholesome It is called of Quercetan dew or heavenly Mâ—nna and from hence he prepares his Philosophicall Vinegars Preparat 1. Clarified honey Take honey as much as thou wilt powre a quantity of water thereon as much as the honey or twice as much or thrice as much if it be very impure or if free from impurity without adding any thing boyl it and skim it with a spoon N. If by this means it be not sufficiently purified it may be done with whites of egges to every pound one white N. 2. Conrad Kunrath disallowes the aforesaid clarifying of honey because by it the better spirits wherewith it is very much impregnated vanish into aire therefore he appoints this Take Virgin honey not set to the fire together with the Combes put it into Hippocrates his sleeve and hang it in a warme place of the Sun or in a stove made hot with watery vapors that the honey may flow thorough 2. Distilled honey Whence 1. Water of honey Spirit and Oyl Take one pound of honey adde thereto salt or flints bruised or sand three ounces others adde chips of Juniper wood distill it by a Retort by degrees and there goes out a white water then a yellow with Oyl as also a spirit which may be rectified divers times Others draw out first a water in a gourd by B. M. to the honey remaining in the gourd they add sand or calcined flints broken in pieces and distill by a Retort a yellow water with Oyl these they digest divers times 5 or 6 dayes then they distill them and at length separate the oyl swimming about from the water N. 1. Some think but not rightly that this yellow water is the Menstruum of Franc. Auton N. 2. Sand is added or flints or glasse that the fervency to which honey is most inclinable may be prevented which others do by putting in little bags full of sand N. 3. Some powre the water first drawn upon new Honey and rectifie it The vertues Both the white and the yellow water heal Cataracks and white spots of the eyes they are good for making hair grow They serve for drawing out the tincture of Coralâ— Inwardly they unlock obstructions moves urine wasts the stone The Oyl which burnes like Aqua vitae hath admirable vertues chiefly if it be circulated some dayes with spirit of Wine for that spirit of Wine separated again there remains a sweet Oyl and of a most pleasant tast very good for wounds by gunshot and running sores It is also singular for mitigating Podagricall aches it discusses the blemishes of the face with Oyl of Camphire 2. The Compound Oyl of Honey Take Honey 2 pounds Vitrioll Calcined one pound spirit of Wine rectified half a pound Tartar one pound distill it by a Retort first there comes forth phlegm then the spirit Force it 20 hours The vertues It asswages the ach of the Gowt if the place affected be therewith anoynted 3. Vinegar of honey Take of the best honey one part River water 8 parts boyl them to the half afterward hang therein the seed of Rocket in a cloth and set it in a hot place or the Sun till they be hot It becomes by little and little very sharpe Vinegar which may be distilled The vertues Besides other uses it dissolves flints and other stones even without any precedent calcination 4. Tincture of Honey Beguinus extracts the tincture out of raw honey pasted with sand and gives it to the consumptive for nourishment 5. The Quintessence of honey Take Honey with the Combes as much as thou wilt draw a water in B. M. then let there remain the water in a boyling B. M. 5 dayes then secondly pour water thereon and extract according to art the Tincture and being decanted purifie it by digestion and setling at length distill the Tincture in B. M. to drynesse the distilled is called the element of air the remaining essence fire Thirdly out of the feces burnt to ashes the Oyl first taken out by descent or a Retort if it seem good extract the salt with common water after the usuall manner and purifie it very well it is called the element of earth Fourthly now joyn all together and distill them in ashes by an Alembeck cohobating them so often untill all be volatile and transcend the Alembeck so thou hast the Quintessence of honey The vertues It may be in lieu of a Panacea The Dose 3 4 5 grains c. 6. The Elixir of Honey Take Honey purified through Hippocrates his sleeve draw the Water Oyl and Salt The Salt drawen moisten by course with its own water then with the Oyl untill it hath drunk up all and there be a coagulation The vertues It hath the same vertues with the Quintessence of Honey 6. There are sundry Medicines in Shops which own Honey both as the basis as the kinds of Hydromels and also a means of preservation as many syrups c. 3. Wax holds in a manner a mean betwixt heating cooling moistning and drying yet so that it inclines to heat It is of parts in some respect thick and emplastick and therefore digests ripens c. N. It is so usuall in shops that scarce thou canst finde an Emplaster of which it doth not afford the consistence Preparat 1. Oyl of Wax is distilled out of a gourd or a glasse Retort by ashes or sand mixed either with bricks made into powder or with calcined flints or with ashes or sand that the Oyl may more easily ascend The vertues It is diuretick and is given inwardly The Dose 3 4 or 5 drops Oyl of Wax of a good odor and colour Is made if it be rectified upon fresh pieces of wax by a fire of ashes Of it is made 2. A vulnerary Balsome By a menstrual infusion of the flowers of St. Johns Wort and the rose of Comfrey 3. The Magistery of Wax Is made of it being dissolved in spirit of Wine and filtered that it remain in the paperlike Butter which being sweetned
the circumcised Forest. in Chirurg 17. The bones are used of some for the strengthning of the bowels and driving away the Epilepsie Preparat 1. A water called The water of all flowers is distilled in Balneo M. or out of ashes in the Spring or May of the fresh dung of a Cow feeding on herbs Hence there also comes an oil The vertues It cools dissolves it is used inwardly in the Colick the inflammation of the Kidneys suppression of Urine Fevers c. Outwardly it is applyed on pained places as abovesaid it is also commended against cancrous Ulcers c. 2. A water of the bloud is made in May in Balneo M. The vertues It mightily mitigates the Gowt 3. The Decoction of the milt of an Ox is thus made Take the whole milt of an Ox or Cow cut into pieces one ounce of Cinamon grossely beaten half an ounce of Cloves two drams of Saffron white Wine or Malmesey as much as is sufficient put all into a capacious glasse which being well covered must boyle 24 hours in a very hot Balneó M. untill the milt be boyled into very little bits and there remain a great quantity of broth excellently boyled and most fragrant The vertues This is a proper medicine for the hardnesse and obstruction of the milt and suppression of the flowers in Women The dose 4 ounces continuing 4 or 5 dayes when the flowers used to flow Quercetan 4. The extract of the milt of an Ox. N. Crollius Takes the milt of a young Ox cuts it into thin slices infuses it a few dayes in spirit of wine essentificated with Myrrhe afterward he dryes it in the aire then according to art extracts the essence thereof with spirit of Wine and for the more efficacy addes a few drops of the distilled oyl of Angelica The vertues It dispatches the obstructions of the milt and provokes the flowers in Women The dose one scruple in some proper water N. It may fitly be dryed in an Oven 5. The oyl of Butter 6. The tincture of the gall of a Bull. Take the gals of Buls dryed leasurely in the sun then extract the tincture with spirit of wine The vertues It is a most excellent beautifying medicine procuring miraculously a most pleasant whiteness It is anointed on the place and suffered to remain three or four dayes so that they expose not themselves to the air then let it be washed off with the water of the flowers of Beans Water-lillies or Knot-grasse and the like Hartman VI. Bubulus the Buffle IS like to an Ox in figure and nature yet greater and more cruell and black of colour Of which in Physick and Chirurgery we have 1. Horns and hoofs 2. Tallow and dung c. The vertues 1. The horns and hoofs cure the Cramp a ring made thereof worn on the finger or toe 2. The suet and the dung hath the vertues of the Oxes c. Preparat The extract of the liver of the Buffle is made after the same manner that the extract of the milt of the Ox is N. It is accounted more excellent if the proper salt extracted out of the Caput mortuum be mixed with it The vertues It is of the same use with the extract of the milt of the Ox but more efficacious The Dose is also the same Hartman VII Bufo the Toad THere is a very great Antipathy betwixt Toads and Spiders if a Toad be set under a Spider she presently descends with might and force to destroy him In Physicall use are 1. Toads themselves 2. The Toad stone 1. Toads are dryed in the air being thrust thorow the head or neck and being dryed are kept for use The vertues Though a Toad be a venomous and abominable Animal yet shuns it not Physical practice and that both inwardly and also outwardly A certain Hydropick man despairing of recovery used the powder of Toads by which he experimentally found that the waters were vented by the urine and he beyond all hope attained his health Petraeus in Nosolog Wierus in Observat The Dose half a dram N. I allow of a lesse quantity Outwardly a Toad is applyed to biles a little infused in Vinegar to draw out the venom which it so well performs that it swels with the venom so attracted to it it is an ingredient in Amulets ordained for driving away contagious aire By certain experience it stayes bleeding at nose if it be applyed behind the ears of it self or be kept in the hand to grow warm or put under the arm-pits or appended to the neck The same is the ashes or powder reported to do sprinkled on the place affected Applyed on the kidneys it is said to drive out by urine the intercutall water tyed to the navill it draweth back and restraineth hysterick fluxes applyed to the soles of the feet it is thought to help the diseases of the head and heart the Phrensie and Fevers 2. The Toad-stone is like a bubble of water hollow on one part and convex on the other of a dark pale colour sometime black white which is better green of divers colours N. They are found in the fields yet others affirm that they are bred in the heads of old Toads which live among brambles and bushes and thorns but the greatness of some of them disswade me from giving credit to this opinion The vertues It is commended as a Soveraign remedy against the Plague and poison Yea some affirm that those who wear it are safe from poison and that by gentle rubbing it disperseth swellings occasioned by venomous beasts and drawes away all poyson Caspar Baubin de lap Bezord cap. 3. N. This stone is said to change its colour and to sweat when a poysoned cup is present Preparat 1. Amulets of divers descriptions The ashes of a Toad a Toad burnt cures involuntary pissing arising from the tearing of the neck of the bladder hanged about the neck Observat Henr. ab Heer 18. 2. The powder is made by only rubbing whereby Toads very well dryed are brought into powder N. I had rather have Toades burnt to ashes 3. Salt may be drawn out of Calcined Toads and be used in lieu of the powder in the Dropsie The Dose to grains iij c 4. Simple Oyl of Toads Take living Toads in number three or four boyl them one hour in two pounds of Oyl Olive strain it and keep it for use The Vertues It is very highly commended in cleansing the spots of the face morphew and other affects or inveterate Ulcers by the spotted signature the Toad is judged to avail against spots it is to be anointed every day once N. I would prefer spotted Frogs 5. The compounded Oyl of Toads Take Oyl of Sheeps feet as much as you will let it boyl with Sulphur powdered till it become a red Oyl then let the Sulphur be separated from the Oyl into which while it is as yet hot let Toads be put and suffocated and after pressing out distilled The Vertues It is most excellent in digesting
the animall drooping spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing it is anodyne and moves Womens courses from hence it is profitable in the Lethargy Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Vertigo trembling of the members defluxions to the joynts suffocation of the matrix the Colick both inwardly and outwardly used Moreover it helpeth the noise of the ears and difficulty of hearing put into the ear and the tooth-ach N. 1. In the suffocation it is used divers wayes it is applyed to the nostrils tyed under the arme pits put into the Navill N. 2. It correcteth the malignity of Opium N. 3. The skin helpeth the Gowty and Paralytick prepared and worn Preparat 1. The Oyl of Bever infused Vide Disp August Norimberg 2. The distilled Oyl Take Castoreum as much as thou wilt dissolve it in Vinegar or infuse it in Wine or its spirit then distill it with a gentle fire in a glasse Retort N. 1. Rectifie it with Vinegar N. 2. The same proceeding may be in this as in the Philosophers Oyl imbibing red hot bricks c. N. 3. The Electuary called Diacastoreum Vide Dispenstor 4. The extract is made after the common manner with spirit of wine rectified N. Others extract it with Vinegar which being again abstracted they do it again with spirit of Wine Quercetan useth a convenient distilled water as of Balm Marygolds Piony and like Antepileptick and Cephalick herbs and infuseth it in B. M. 4. or 5. dayes The Dose from 5. grains to 12. XV. Catus Domesticus the House Cat IS a lustful Animal quick of sight Whence we have in use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The head 4. The dung 5. The skin 6. The secondine The vertues 1. The grease of a lib'd Cat heateth mollifyeth discusseth and wonderfully helpeth the griefs of the joynts N. The grease of a wilde Cat is best 2. Three drops of the bloud out of the vein of a male Cat under the tail cure the Falling sickness drunk also the bloud drawn from the ear anoynted upon the Shingles is not without successe 3. The head of a black Cat burnt to powder is a most excellent remedy for the diseases of the eyes pin web specks c. if it be blown thereinto three times a day as writeth Misaldus N. The poyson which is attributed to Cats remains in the head alone and brain in no other part of the body as that which is made meat of many 4. The dung with as much mustard and anoynted with Vinegar cures the shedding of the hair and helps the Gowt 5. The skin is worne to warm the stomach and contracted joynts 6. They hang the secundine about the neck for the diseases of the eyes They prefer that of a Cat that first hath young and also black XVI Catus Zibethinus the Civet Cat IS a strange beast brought to our Coasts and is of some nourished for delight and pleasure Civet which is his excrement or sweat concrete together betwixt the testicles is wrapped in a bladder out of which being cut is the Civet taken The vertues It is hot moist and anodyne it is used frequently in the Colick anointed upon the navil in the belly-ach of Infants in the suffocation of the matrix applyed to the matrix or the hollownesse of the navil XVII Cervus the Hart IS a beast of a very long life living 100 years most swift in running casting his horns yearly in April goeth to rut in August and September and the female brings forth young the eighth moneth after From him we borrow for Physical practise 1. The horn 2. The skin 3. Bone of the heart 4. Pisle 5. The testicles 6. The bloud 7. The teares 8. The marrow 9. The tallow 10. The huckle bone 11. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The crude horn and unprepared resisteth putrefaction correcteth malignity provoketh sweat strengtheneth mans Balsome whereupon the use of it is profitable in the Measels Small Pocks putrid and malignant Feavers and other diseases where there is need of sweating it may be boyled in Decoctions or infused in Infusions because given in substance it is in a manner cast out crude or unchanged N. That is commended which is gathered betwixt the two Lady days viz. betwixt the 15. of August and the 8. of September Preparation of the horn 1. Harts horn burnt till after blacknesse it become white 2. Harts horn prepared is made of the burnt which is made smooth and small with some cordial water according to Art The vertues By its drying force it resists putrefaction it stayes fluxes of the belly kills Worms moves sweat and it is a medicine very fit for Infants The Dose from a scruple to a dram and more 3. Harts horn Philosophically calcined thus The horns are hanged or put in the head or upper part of a Bladder which is filled with some quantity of water then is there a fire put under that the vapour being lift up by the force of the fire piercing the horns may by little and little make them friable and white N. It is a work almost of three days It moves sweat and helps malignant diseases The Dose to half a dram 4. A Magistery The rasped horns are dissolved in Vinegar precipitated with Oyl of Tartar or Vitriol and made sweet by washing with water then being dryed are kept for use N. 1. Others dissolve them with Spirit of Niter which being again abstracted they sweeten the Magistery left in the bottom In the abstraction of the Spirit of Niter there is heed to be taken lest the flame which may easily happen bring losse therefore they proceed more warily who on four ounces of the dissolution pour one measure of Fountain water and filter it and having filtred it if need be do precipitate it by instilling Oyl of Tartar N. 2. Others dissolve them with Aqua fortis precipitate them with Spirit of Vitriol and sweeten them N. 3. The Magistery precipitated with Oyl of Tartar is yellow on the contrary with any mineral Oyl as of Vitriol is white 5. Gelly Take shavings of Harts horn digest them a while in common or some proper distilled water then boyl them and filter the liquor hot and make it into gelly 6. The liquor or Spirit which is drawn by a Retort luted with the force of fire 7. The Oyl N. See the description of the true Oyl of Harts horn in Kesler 8. The Volatile Salt Some digest the Salt of Harts horn fixed two ounces with one ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified twelve days and then abstract the Spirit of Wine to the half and keep the remainder under the notion of the tincture of the Salt of Harts horn The Dose from 5 grains to 10. The Extract of Harts horn is made by pouring upon the branches of the horns a proper water and extracting the Tincture by a Menstrual digestion 9. Water of the new horns of a Hart. Take the tender horns of a Hart having a bloudy juyce in them cut them into pieces and distil them in
for the stone and Epilepsie Outwardly it appeases the Gowt anointed with beasts tallow it is also said to profit in the Plague Apostemes and Carbuncles a linen cloth applyed which was moistned in Vinegar or Rose-water impregnated with the menstruous bloud It extinguishes Erysipelas and cleanses the spots of the face N. 1. That menstruum is commended which breaks out the first time N. 2. For restraining the immoderate flux of the flowers some put a cloth imbrued in the menstruous bloud at a certain time into the root of a Cherry tree opened in the bark and they again cover up the wound VIII The secundine or in stead thereof the navil of the childe is much commended for the taking away of the strumes of the throat calcined and every day given in water of Sothernwood to half a dram the moon decreasing for the Epilepsie and restraining Philtres for expelling the mole and birth and also for killing Animals which through witchcraft are in man Hartman commends it against spots marks or moles from the mother Others against the pain of the Colick worne in stead of an Amulet IX Vrine heateth dryeth resolveth cleanseth discusseth mundifyeth resisteth putrefaction and therefore is of speciall use inwardly in the obstruction of the Liver Milt Gall preserving from the Plague Dropsie Jaundise Moreover urine of the husband drunk is said to facilitate the hard travell Outwardly it dryeth the scab resolveth tumors mundifyeth wounds though venomous prevaileth against the Gangrene looseth the belly in a Glyster cleanseth the scales of the head mixt with Niter restraineth Feverish paroxysmes applyed to the pulse healeth exulcerated ears the urine of a boy dropped in helpeth the redness of the eyes dropped in takes away the trembling of the joynts in a lotion discusseth the swelling of the Uvula gargled mitigateth the pains of the Milt made into a poultise with ashes Preparat 1. A spirit volatile a salt volatile Take the Urine of a boy twelve years old who drinks good wine Distill it in an Alembeck in a hot Baln M. then by cohobation distill it again upon the feces and there shall come a spirit of urine mixed with its phlegm which separate from the phlegm if thou please and thou shalt have the spirit This if thou elevate in the viall thou shalt obtain a most white salt The vertues It is accounted of very great force to expell the Stone drunk with a proper liquor but it stincks grievously N. 1. It is most famous for the blew tincture of the Emarald to whose preparation it is a menstruum with the phlegme N. 2. Libanius rectifies it and applies it to the Gowty Asthmatick and to those that are troubled with the Stone He injects is into the bladder by a syringe but it is impregnated first with the essence of such as break the Stone as for example of the Crystal stone of the Lynx and the like 2. Another way a fiery Spirit of Urine or Volatile Salt Take the urine of a boy that drinks Wine as much as is sufficient let it evaporate with a very gentle fire to the consistence of a syrup put this in a vial with a very long neck and distil it in a cold air that it may be condensed in the Alembeck in ashes or sand and there will come forth a Spirit like snow heaving up it self coagulable by cold but easily melted by a little heat Oswald N. 1. If thou joyn this Spirit to its purified salt elixiviated out of the feces and make it volatile by some cohobations thou hast an excellent Menstruum to draw Vitriol out of Metals and specially out of Luna N. 2. The same Spirit of Salt very well purified by dissolutions and coagulations if for 8 days thou digest in Baln vapor it will be dissolved the dissolution if thou again shalt moysten with Spirit of Wine 8 days thou art made partaker of a Menstruum fit for dissolving Sol. 3. A Spirit by putrefaction Take the urine of a childe twelves years old that drinks Wine a great quantity set it into Horses dung or Baln M. 40 days to putrifie then decant it from the faeces and distil it by an Alembeck or bladder in sand so long till all the moisture be drawn away by distilling this humidity cohobate three times from its Caput mortuum At length it being distilled in a Cucurbite with a long neck set it to the heat yet so that the Alembeck may always be cold so there ascends a spirit like Crystal without any moisture rectifie the Crystals by dissolving them in rain water distilled and by distilling them in a Vial as before six times always pouring on new rain water distilled afterward digest the Crystals in an Hermetical vial shut 15 days with a gentle fire until they change into a most clear liquor N. 1. Sennertus from the Urine defecated after the said manner by distilling draws at least a fourth or sixth part it being sublimated after the said manner with a gentle heat in a glasse with a long neck N. 2. Others distil the Urine putrified in a Cucurbit whose orifice they stop with a threefold paper imbrewed â—ith Oyl or a Spunge moistned in like manner by which the fiery Spirit of the Urine only may passe N. 3. Because Urine by distilling doth easily boyl over thou must warily use the fire N. 4. Some to correct the stench which also by the aforesaid manner is in some manner corrected pour on the Spirit of Wine and again abstract it with a gentle fire and they do it often always pouring on new Spirit of Wine but the Salt of Urine by this means corrected deserves to be called not the simple Salt of Urine but rather the Magisterium that is Salt of Urine impregnated with Salt of Wine See concerning these distillations Hartman in his Prax. and upon Crollius Sennertus in his Instit kesl in his first book and second chapter fourth book and twenty fourth chapter c. The vertues It is an excellent Anodyne in aches if rubbed on with some convenient liquor it opens also the tartareous obstructions of the bowels and Mesentery whence the use of it might be great in the Scurvy Hypochondriack Cachexy yellow and black Jaundise it wasts the stone of the kidneys and of the bladder and mitigates the pains arising from thence c. The same Salt if it be dissolved in spirit of Vitriol and again distilled in sand there comes a liquor most efficacious in the Epilepsie The same spirit very well purified dissolving it often in rain water and distilling it and joyned with spirit of Wine of each alike dissolveth Sol whence is potable Sol. 4. The Antepileptick Spirit of Urine is made of Urine and twice as much Vitriol digested and distilled N. Quercetan Of the signature of things describes it in many words and by the same labor draws it in Baln M. 1. An Ophthalmick Phlegm first coming out 2. An Antipodagrick 3. By a Retort an Icy spirit i. e. coagulable which he
highly commendeth to open the obstructions of the liver and milt to provoke urine and dissolve the stone as also to allay Inflamations and Gangrenes 5. The Magistery of Urine Take Urine putrified as already said and cleared from the dregs distil it with a gentle fire out of B. M. until all the phlegm be come forth then cease and rectifie the Spirit out of a Vial with a long neck so shalt thou have a Volatile salt which gather and the phlegm cast away Distil the remainder out of sand and there shall ascend a Volatile salt out of the Colcothar elixiviate the fixed salt and coagulate it to drynesse and being mixt with thrice as much clay and made into balls after the balls be dryed distil by a Retort as the spirit of Salt is distilled upon this spirit pour the former spirit by drops on the Volatile Salt until the crack cease then give fire of Sublimation in sand and there shall be sublimed a most excellent Salt of Urine and pleasant to the sight The vertues This Sublimate works more efficaciously then the former by cutting the Tartar of the whole body and expelling it by sweat urine or the belly it cures many diseases arising from thence or at least eases them as are Atrophy c. it preserves also from the pain of the Stone if it be taken every moneth before the new Moon The Dose 7. 8. 9. 10. grains in a convenient liquor The dayly use thereof may be continued for some time 6. The Oyl of Ludus That is to say of the tartareous matter which sticketh to the Chamber-pot is made by calcining and by dissolving in a moist place The vertues It is excellent to dissolve the Stone The Dose is one scruple X. The ordure mollifies procures matter and is Anodyne It is of notable use to mitigate dolors from Incantations applyed on the place to procure matter in Plague sores to cure the Squinsie dryed powdered and anointed on with Honey to remedy the Inflamations of wounds Moreover it is inwardly used of many in the Squinsie burnt and given to drink in Fevers to prevent the fits taken in the manner The Dose two drams in the Epilepsie which as the report is the first ordure of an Infant dryed and powdered and given for many days doth pull up by the roots Preparat 1. The distilled water is made with the Oyl with one and the same labour The vertues It is said to cure the nayl or web of the eye and other diseases of the white of the eye one or two drops instilled to procure a good colour to the face to beget hairs to cure corroding Ulcers and Fistulaes and to take away the skars of the hands It is accounted inwardly to profit those that have the Falling-sickness and the Dropsie it drives out the Stone of the reyns and bladder and helps the bitings of a mad Dog and of venomous beasts 2. The Oyl Take the ordure of a young man not a boy as much as you will let be it dryed in the air or in an Oven with an easie fire then distil it by an Alembeck first with a gentle fire so there shall come forth a phlegm and at length with the white Spirits an Oyl let both be rectified by B. M. Poterius makes it thus Take a great quantity of mans ordure let it putrifie of it self and be turned into certain little creatures and then let it passe almost into air This ordure thus prepared distil out of a Retort first with an easie fire after with a stronger so there shall come forth an Oyl and water N. The strong smell of both is taken away by repeated rectifications and cohobations The vertues It helps sores of the Head Erysipelas ulcerated Tetters anointed it easeth pains of the Gout it cures and mortifies the Cancer Inwardly it cures the Jaundise 3. The Western Civet is nothing else but ordure brought to a sweetnesse by digestion by which it resembles Civet XI The seed or sperm we finde this used of many not only to unloose the bewitched ligature of Venus but also thereof a Magnetick Mumy made by which the heat of love is procured Moreover from hence doth Paracelsus feign his homunculus or little man XII The bloud fresh and drunk hot is said to avail against the Epilepsie if being drunk there be used a more violent motion and swift pace to the breaking out of sweat It stays all bleeding drunk new or made into powder Moreover outwardly it heals the eruption of bloud especially at the nostrils the powder put up or the fresh bloud anointed on the fore-head that there it may be dryed N. 1. The drinking of the bloud requires great caution because it not only brings a Truculency to the takers but also the Epilepsie N. 2. The bloud of a child-bed woman heals the running scab being fresh and anointed once or twice with the secundine Preparat 1. The water distilled is made with one labour with the Oyl The vertues It is profitable in Consumptive and withered bodies an ounce drunk and rubbed on the members it is good in cleansing and healing Fistulaes and cooling burnt places N. There is also distilled a water of bloud and womans milk of each a like quantity and it is commended for taking away the spots of the skin 2. The Oyl distilled Take a great quantity of young mens bloud extracted in the Spring Alcohol of Wine one third part the vials wel closed digest in Horses dung 40 days then distill it in an Alembeck out of ashes and with the water there comes forth an Oyl rectifie both the water by M.B. the Oyl by a Retort out of ashes distilling it 9 or 10 times The vertues It is very much commended for rooting out the Epilepsie if half a scruple thereof be taken every day for a whole moneth beginning at the new of the Moon and afterward every new Moon once in a year a scruple for the Palsey Apoplexy Lungs ulcerated Pleurisie N. The distillation of mans bloud is not found ordered after the same manner For some distil it fresh and as yet hot and that two ways of it self and without addition and with some part of spirit of Wine rectified mixt with it Others distil it not fresh and new but either dryed or digested for some time some make the digestion of the bloud alone adding a little salt others of the bloud with spirit of Wine rectified The Anatomy of bloud affords first a water 2. A Spirit that is water rectified 3. An Oyl that is a thicker liquor 4. A Volatile Salt 5. A fixed Salt but we mention only the more usual 3. The Oyl rectified Take the bloud of a healthful young man drawn from a vein in May receive it in a Cucurbit that only a fourth part be filled then let it be kept in the vessel being shut in an indifferent heat that by the swelling of the bloud the whole Cucurbit may be filled then let the Distillation be made and first comes
forth a water of no great vertue unless that being more fully wrought it is used of some to extract the Salt let the rest be driven out bâ— a Retort in ashes the joynts well closed Let that which is distilled be poured again upon the feces and cohobation be made nine times that a red colour may follow N. In distilling observe that thou burn not the feces with too much fire and bring them to a coal and therefore thou must only distil them to drynesse The vertues It is accounted of very great force to refresh the sick 4. An Antipodagrical Balsome or Oyl of Mans bloud Alcasitated It is made after the same manner Take mans bloud while it is hot one measure putrefie it 9 days then distil it out of sand by degrees first with an easie fire then with a stronger by a Retort and there shall come forth a red Oyl and stinking the Volatile Salt sticking to the joynts of the neck Rectifie the Oyl by the Colcothar out of a Cucurbit with the heat of sand distilling it often from the fresh Colcothar at length dissolve the Salt in this corrected Oyl and keep it for use The vertues It is of wonderful force in the Gout anoynted twice or thrice a day for six days together It appeaseth the pain the tumor and rednesse vanishing away N. Of like vertue is the Balsom drawn from the bloud of Goats and Harts in which it is requisite to add the bowels viz. the lights heart and liver 5. An Antepileptick spirit Take the spirit of mans bloud dephlegmated and rectified three times two pounds Infusion of Lavender flowers in Wine two pounds mingle and distill tâ—em in B. M. to the half repeat it thrice then add Spirit of Wine rectified two ounces and keep it for use The vertuâ—s It cures the Apoplexy Palsie Asthma c. N. Beguïnus hath other preparations of Mans bloud which may be seen in the Author 6. An Alexiterian Mummy of life Is the bloud of a lusty and healthful man dryed with a gentle fire impregnated with the Spirit of Limons and Spirit of Vitriol and with a little myrrh made into Trochisces The vertues It is very efficacious in curing Carbuncles The Dose half a dram in water of Cinamon drunk in the morning fasting 7. The Arcanum of mans bloud see it in Faber his Myrothec the 8 chapter Bylnick of the nature of Spagyr n. 66. XIII The stone dissolves Tartar viz. the stone in all parts and causes it to be driven out and therefore it helps all obstructions The Dose of the powder one dram Preparat 1. A Crystalline salt Take the stone very well calcined that the hardnesse be softned boyl it in water and it will be dissolved into a certain coloured water Then the filtrature being evaporated there remains the salt in the bottom which calcine again if you please and dissolve it in boyling water coagulate it and set it to Crystallize N. The calcination may be ordered diversly some calcine it with Niter 6 hours some with Sulphur and Niter others with twise as much of beechen coals Sennertus calcines the stone powdered with a circular fire then reverberatory and at length with beechen coals in a potters furnace Instit lib. 5. p. 3 s 3. cap. 5. 2. Oyl or liquor It is made if the Salt be dissolved in the moist air The Dose from 6 grains to 10. N. Sennertus calcines it with Niter then extracts the Salt with Spirit of Wine and the Spirit of Wine being separated he sets the Salt to melt 3. The Essence or Elixir Take the Salt of the stone crystallized volatize it with Spirit of Wine then abstract with a gentle heat the Spirit of Wine and the Oyl remains The Dose from 5 grains to 10. XIV The Membrane which covers the head of some children is said to have very great vertue against the pain of the Colick Of a Carcasse or Dead Man I. The whole carkasse or flesh in shops comes under the name of Mumy This dissolves coagulated bloud two drams taken and it is said to be good for purging the head punction of the milt cough puffing up of the body the courses obstructed and other affects of the womb and the like Outwardly it is used in consolidating wounds N. Mumy commonly signifies four things 1. The Mumy of the Arabians which is a concrete liquor sweating in Sepulchres out of carkasses condited with myrrhe Aloes and Balsome 2. Of the Egyptians which is a liquor from carkasses condited with Pissalphaltum for with this the carkasses of the meaner rank being preserved are to be sold 3. Pissalphaltum counterfeit i. e. Bitumen mixt with Pitch which they sell for Mumy 4. A carkasse in the sand scorched with the heat of the Sun It happens that in the land of the Hammonians which is betwixt the land of Cyrene and Alexandria the heaps of sands heaved up by the whirlwind over-whelm the heedlesse travellers whence their carkasses are scorched with the burning heat of the Sun 5. To these may the Mumy of the more modern be added which is thus made Let there be chosen the carkasse of a red hair'd man because in such the bloud is accounted thinner and in that respect the flesh more excellent in t re new without blemish about 24 years of age killed by a violent death not a disease hang it in the beams of the Luminaries by day and night when the weather is clear Of this cut the musculous parts into little pieces and sprinkle them with the powder of Myrrh and a little Aloes afterward imbibe it by infusion in Spirit of Wine for some days then let it be hanged up 6 or 10 hours and be again imbibed with Spirit of Wine at length let the pieces dry being hanged in a dry air and shady place then is it like to flesh hardened with smoak without stench N. Of these kindes of Mumy now rehearsed although I derogate not from the former if they can be had from sound bodies especially the first which yet I scarse believe is brought to us notwithstanding I affirm the two latter are to be preferred before the other as in whom we are free from the fear which Renodeus intimates affirming the Mumy of the shops to be nothing but the juyce of a rotten carkasse pressed out and thickned and therefore sold to the great hurt of man-kinde Preparat The common medicines in which the Mumy of the shops is an ingredient do every where occur And they are The powder for a fall or bruise Athanasia the great the Balsom of Peter de Ebano the sympathetick oyntment the black Emplaister called of the Apostles The Cerot for those that are bursten Laudanum Opiat c. Besides the lesse common are 1. The tincture or extract of Mumy Quercet It is made of common Mumy extracting it with spirit of Wine and Turpentine of each a like quantity and again separating the menstruum to the consistence of honey The vertues It is
Alexipharmacal and very much resisteth rottenness it is also commended for the diseases of the breast the Asthma Consumption c. N. The remaining feces are very Anodyne 2. The Tincture or Elixir of Mumy Croll It is made of the Mumy of the more modern with the spirit of Wine or spirir of Elder N. Of this Crollius makes Treacle of Mumy which takes of the tincture of Mumy half a pound Treacle of Andromach 4 ounces oyl Olive mumiated 2 ounces salt of Corall and Pearl of each 2 drams sealed earth 2 ounces Musk one dram digest them a moneth The vertues It is commended against all poysons and infections it preserves from the Plague taken the quantity of a scruple and cures it taken the quantity of a dram or a dram and half N. In poysons it may be given with oyl of sweet Almonds to provoke vomit 3. The Tincture Alcolisated or Elixir of Mumy Take Mumy mans flesh dryed cut into thin slices powre upon it the spirit of Turpentine and set it in an Hermetical vessell close stopt for a moneth to putrefie Poure some spirit of Wine rectified upon the expression received in beasts bladders Put it in a blind Alembeck upon a gourd the joynts very well fenced so that the gourd being set into cold water the sand and coals about the Alembeck may do their office with a gentle heat by the benefit whereof the liquor or Quintessence in a very subtle manner with the spirit of Wine fals through the bladder The remaining matter is to be reverberated and by sublimation to be brought into salt and at length to be united with the Quintessence by the means of circulation after it be separated from the spririt of Wine by B. M. which being finished the Quintessence of the Mumy may further be digested with the treacle and the musk and so kept in the form of an Elixir The vertues It is a present Remedy both of the plague as also of other venomous medicines or things N. There is a report of a tincture of Mumy of its four elements separated from themselves by course and again joyned together which who desires to see may in Tetzel in Med. Diastat 4. Another tincture or secret of Mans flesh 1. The rectified spirit of Wine is powred upon Mans flesh for four dayes the spirit of Wine being decanted the same is again moistned 2. The spirit of Salt at severall times that it may drink up a great quantity thereof then dry it thou hast the flesh seasoned very profitable 3. From this extract the Tincture with Spirit of Wine brought by the force of digestion to the highest fragrancy Defecate it by circulation extract the Salt from the feces calcined and that being cleared mingle it with the tincture and extract it 5. Oyl Olive mumiated Take Mumy first prepared or hardned cut it into pieces and digest it with Oyl Olive in an Hermetical vessell close shut for a moneth Then powre it into a glasse gourd and let the Mercury exhale in B. M. untill no stench come forth and all the Mumy be dissolved Digest the solution 20 dayes with spirit of Wine afterward abstract the same and there remains a red and odoriferous oyl N. Quercetan takes fresh Mumy The vertues It hath all the vertues and properties of naturall Balsom it is good in venomous and pestilent affects 6. An Oyl exalted Oyl after the said manner prepared may be further exalted if it be digested with spirit of Wine and the spirit of Wine again abstracted and so repeated 3 or 4 times The vertues This tincture or exalted Oyl of Mumy is said to excell with such a reviving faculty that there is not a past which it pierceth not no Ulcer no corruption which it cures not if you give thereof dayly twise for some continuance of time 4 or 5 grains with a convenient decoction N. Libavius to the fresh flesh cut into pieces addes a little salt and spirit of Turpentine infuses it in a close vessell strains it and suffers the stink to exhale the vessell being open afterward he distils it by a Retort or a straight Alembick and adding musk and spirit of Wine he digesteth it 7. The divine water Take a whole carkasse with the bone flesh bowels of one kild by a violent death let it be cut into pieces very small and all the parts of the body so pounded that nothing remain unmixed then distill it two times The vertues Some extoll this divine Water for its Magnetick vertue As thus They mingle some drops of bloud 3 or 9 drawn from some patient with a part a dram of the said water and they set it to the fire if the bloud and water be mixed together they promise health within a short space 24 hours but if they shall remain unmixt they affirm death to follow shortly For want of the bloud they proceed in the same manner with the excrements urine ordure sweat corrupted matter or the like which yet they use in a greater Dose II. The skin is commended in hard labour and diseases Hystericall if the belly be bound therewith in the withering and contraction of the joynts if gloves be made thereof and worn III. The fat or grease corroborates discusses asswages pains removes shrinkings mitigates the hardnesse of skars fils the pits left after Smal-pox Preparat A Liniment mingle the grease with spirit of Vitrioll whence is left a certain clammy substance The vertues It is piercing and is used in Blastings IV. Mans bones do dry discusse binde stay all fluxes and are profitable in Catarrhes flowing of the Menstrues Dysentery Lientery Moreover they mitigate the aches of the joynts N. 1. It is usuall to mix them with purging medicines N. 2. The teeth pluckt out of the jaw of one dead are used and commended against diseases by Witchcraft in fume and to pull out worm-eaten teeth if they be often touched therewith Preparat 1. The powder or ashes made after the common manner by calcination in a Potters furnace 2. The bones prepared are made after the common manner by making them smooth with a convenient water 3. The Magistery may be made after the common manner 4. The Oyl is made by Distillation in a Retort The Vertues It discusses it is anodyne and therefore an excellent medicine against the Gowt V. The marrow of the bones is chiefly commended against the shrinking of members VI. The skull is found to prevail against the diseases of the head and namely the Epilepsie whence it is that it entreth many Antepilepticall compositions The triangular bone of the temples is very much commended as a specificall Remedy against the Epilepsie Preparat 1. The skull calcined is made after the common manner in Potters furnace 2. The skull prepared is made of the calcined with an Antepileptick water as of water of the Linden tree 3. The Magistery of the skull is made after the common manner dissolving it in some acid spirit as of Vitrioll and precipitating it The Dose a
scruple or half a dram 4. The compound Magistery or essentificated spirit of the skull is made if with the acid liquor Oyl or volatile salt there be joyned the fixed salt drawn out of the dead head and afterward be digested and united together in ashes for a Philosophicall moneth The vertues It is Antepileptick whose vertues far exceed ordinary Antepilepticks 5. The Oyl is made by distilling the bruised skuls in a Retort there comes forth an oyl and a volatile salt N This vulgar Oyl in shops is uncorrected but it were better to rectifie it with spirit of Wine The Dose from 4 grains to 6. 6. The Volatile salt is gotten by the same labour with the Oyl 7. The extract or tincture of the skull Take 2 or 3 skuls grossely beaten digest them 14 dayes and cohobate them with spirit of Juniper or Sage powred 4 or 5 fingers high infuse them in a viall with a long neck very well joyned in B. V. 12 13 or 14 dayes then presse them very strongly through a presse and there will come forth a red oyly liquor strain it and abstract it in B. V. to the consistence of Sapa or Rob. The vertues This extract digested and perfectly purifyed is to be carefully kept as a pretious treasure against the Epilepsie The Dose half a scruple to a scruple with its proper sublimated water 8. The extract or gelly of Theophrastus Take the filings of the skull digest them with spirit of Wine saged 15 dayes then distill it in a Retort and having infused them 15 dayes cohobate 3 times at length circulate 5 or 6 dayes and the spirit of Wine being separated in B. M. keep the essence which will be like Rennet The Dose 5 or 6 grains daily VII The Vsnea of the skull i. e. the mosse growing on the skull of one slain and exposed to the air is very astringent And it is of great use in staying every flux of bloud as of the nose put in N. 1. Some affirm that the Mosse holden in the hands like a charm stayes all bleeding N. 2. There growes also upon other bones laid in the air a certain Vsnea which some account inferiour but it is found by experience to have also a great power of astringing The Vsnea of the skull enters the Composition of the Sympathetick or Magnetick oyntment VIII Of the brain are made 1. The spirit of Mans brain called the golden water Take the brain of a young man not 24. years old healthfull kild by a violent death with all the membrains arteries veins and sinews with all the marrow of the back bone bruise them and upon them powre of Cephalick waters flowers of the Linden Peony Betony Black-cherry Lavander Lilly Convall chiefly Diaphoretick in acute diseases as much as is sufficient to 4 or 5 fingers height leave it for a time afterward distill it by Cohobes out of the calcined feces draw the Salt which after joyn with the spirit and keep all carefull The vertues It is accounted a notable Antepileptick The Dose from one scruple to 4. N. Of the brain of an Alce in like manner may an excellent Antepileptick be prepared 2. Oyl of the brain Mingle with the substance of the brain some common Salt and distill it by a Retort of glasse in sand The vertues It is also an excellent Antepileptick and very much comforts the head N. Almost the whole substance of the brain may be brought to Oyl then there is little Salt to be expected 3. An Antepileptick water Take of mans brain 3 pounds water of Lilly Convall of Lavander of primrose of Malmesey of each three pounds let them stand in infusion 5 dayes and be then distilled in B. M. IX Of mans gall is made an extract with spirit of Wine which dropped into the ear wonderfully helps deafness X. The heart helps the Epilepsie dryed and given And these are the medicines taken from Man which the straightnesse of an Epitome would give leave to describe he that desires more at large may finde plenty in Authors Daniel Berker hath written a whole Treatise thereof XXIV Lepus the Hare IS a very fearfull creature and fruitfull engendering at any time Whence we have many medicinals 1. The ashes of a Hare 2. The head 3. The eye 4. The bloud 5. The lungs 6. The brain 7. The heart 8. The liver 9. The gall 10. The kidneys 11. The testicles 12. The matrix 13. The rennet 14. The ancle-bone 15. The fat 16. The dung 17. The hairs Their vertues 1. The ashes is made of a whole Hare burnt that is best which is taken in the spring or of the whole skin incinerated It is a most excellent medicine in the Stone The Dose to one scruple and half dram or dram It cures also shedding of hair and kibed heels N. Laurenburg calcines not the Hare but cuts off the head and dryes it in a pot in an Oven and useth the powder 2. The head helps the shedding of the hair the ashes anoynted with honey whitens the teeth the ashes in Dentifrices 3. The eyes of a Hare taken in March are good for hard travell in childe-birth drives out the mole and secundine dryed with pepper without any compression and applyed on the crown of the head that the pupill may touch the crown 4. The bloud anoynted cures the diseases of the skin of the face as pimples and the morphew rosted it stayes Dysenteries and Celiack purging it breaks the stone 5. The lungs help those that are troubled with sighing It is also said to cure the Epilepsie seasoned with brine and dayly eaten with Myrrhe for a moneth it cures kibes applyed 6. The brains rubbed on the gums of Infants facilitates their toothing mends the trembling members rosted and eaten 7. The heart is said also to cure the Epilepsie used as the lungs to ease the pains of the womb the powder taken in speciall manner to cure the Quartain cut into three parts and generall evacuation having gone before a third part drunk in the beginning of three fits every time 8. The liver stops the flux of the belly and helps the Liver-grown 9. The gall is an excellent Ophthalmick and Odontalgick medicine 10. The kidneys and testicles are given to those that are troubled with the Stone dryed they further conception taken after the termes they help involuntary pissing 11. The Testicles free from the incontinency of urine help the diseases of the bladder conduce to conception powdered and taken 12. The matrix in like manner conduces to conception dryed and taken after the terms 13. The Rennet disperseth congealed bloud helps conception after the termes applyed on the Matrix with Butter but being drunk it kils the childe drives away the Epilepsie c. N. That is most excellent which is taken before the young have tasted any other thing but the Mothers milk 14. The little bone of the ancle is commended against gravel the Colick Epilepsie and the throwes in childe-bearing powdered and taken N. The same
Crato mixes it with Sugar and gives it 5. The feathers are used in a fume against the rising of the womb 6. The egges are given to cure the running Gowt XXV Perdix a Partridge IS very lascivious and lives long 16 years eating the buds of Hasle and Birch grasse and green corne Whence in Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. Marrow 3. The bloud 4. The Liver 5. The gall 6. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh eaten increaseth the seed and milk and provokes venery 2. The marrow as also the brain is said to cure the Jaundise being drunk 3. The gall is preferred before others for the diseases of the eyes 4. The bloud is anoynted upon eyes bloud-shot and newly wounded 5. The liver dryed at the fire and powdered resists the Evill and is accounted a singular Antidote against a Fever if it be often taken in water of Milfoyle 6. The feathers serve against the suffocation of the womb the fume put to the nostrils for asswaging the Colick and other pains and discussing them used by way of fomentation and with Mint and Sothernwood in a bag are a familiar remedy for Children to mitigate the pangs of the belly XXVI Pica the Pie. The vertues THis Bird is very much commended against the dimnesse rednesse and pain of the eyes eaten or made into powder and put into the eyes or any way applyed It is good for these that are mad Epileptick Melancholick the ashes used Preparat The Antepileptick water of Magpies which is thus prepared Take seeds and roots of Peony and of Pellitory of Spain of each one dram of Aristoloch the long 3 drams of Misselto of the Oak half an ounce of Castor one dram and as much of flowers of Stechas of Lilly of the valley one scruple and half of Cowflips of Peony of each six drams of Lavander and Rosemary of each 5 drams Sage Marjoram Bettony Hysop of each half an ounce Cinamon Clouds Graines Nutmeg Cubebs of each one dram and half When they are all severally beaten into a grosse powder and cut let them be infused in 3 pounds of the water of Lilly convall a pound and half of the water of the flowers of Luiden one pound of water of Primroses then adde thereto young Pies in number 12. which must be bruised the greater feathers cast away and added to the said infusion after steeping let distillation be made in B. M. The vertues It is a notable Cephalick and Antepileptick water The Dose one or two spoonfuls XXVII Struthio an Ostrich IS a Bird very great forain famous for its chylifick quality In Physicall use are 1. The tunicle of the ventricle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The inner coat of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and wonderfully breaks the Stone 2. The fat is good for nervous parts mollifies the hardnesse of the milt asswages the Nephritick pains anoynted XXIII Turtur the Turtle IN use are 1. The whole Turtle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The Turtle agrees with the Pigeon in vertues but yet is specially commended in the Dysentery and chiefly in staying the flux of the terms Whether the ashes of a burnt Turtle or the extract thereof be given the Dose 4 or 6 grains or the Turtle deplumed and bowelled be roasted with Mastick in its belly and rose Vinegar sprinkled upon it while it is in roasting in lieu of Butter and afterward be dryed in a close pot and be made into powder and one spoonfull given every morning 2. The fat gathered from it while it is in roasting is anoynted on the kidneys belly breast groyn c. N. Some that are Gowty perswade themselves that the fits are driven away and the Gowt prevented if they nourish Turtles in their Chambers XXIX Upupa the Lapwing IS a melancholick Bird most nasty living on Wormes found in dung-hils In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh and its decoction helpes the Colick by a propriety of its own taken 2. The feathers are said to asswage the Head-ach applyed XXX Vultur a Vultur IS a Bird excelling in the animal faculties chiefly in smelling In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The fat The vertues 1. The flesh is judged to be good for the diseases of the head Epilepsie Hemicrany and the like The decoction is accounted to cure the diseases of the skin 2. The fat is good for the sinews 3. The brain helps the weaknesse of the head anoynted or put into the nostrils 4. The gall is said to take away the Epilepsie taken with wine 5. Of the feathers they fable that if they be put under the feet they powerfully provoke the birth 6. The dung provokes the birth by its stench The End of the Second Classis The Third Classis OF FISHES I. Anguilla an Eele IN medicinal use from this we borrow 1. The fat 2. The head 3. The bloud 1. The fat is good for wounds begets hairs anoynted in the disease Alopecia restores hearing dropped into the ear asswages the Hemroids 2. They say that the head of an Eele cures warts if the bloudy head wherewith the warts are touched be buryed in the earth that it may putrefie 3. The bloud as yet warm is said to mitigate the pain of the Colick taken with Wine N. Some say that the Wine wherein Eeles are suffocated makes men abstemious if the Wine be drunk II. Barbo a Barble IS a fish very commendable in Kitchens It is not in Physical use except the egges are taken of some countrey people to provoke vomit and stool which they do very violently III. Blatta Bizantia IS the shell or covering of a fish called Conchylium smelling like Castoreum N. 1. Conchylium is the species of long Shell-fishes which breeding in lakes where Nard doth grow feed on it whence the shell smells like Castor N. 2. Some confound the Conchylium and the Purple fish but absurdly for that is of the kinde of long shell-fishes this of the round The vertues Inwardly taken it loosens the belly softens the milt and discusses vitious humors Outwardly by fume it stirs up women oppressed with the suffocation of the womb and Falling-sicknesse In other things it performs what other shells of Shell-fishes do IV. Cancer a Crab. IN use are 1. The whole meat of the Crab. 2. The eyes 3. The shell The vertues 1 Crabs cool moysten asswage pain fix the raging spirits Therefore are they of chief use in the heat and pain of the head and reyns bruised and applyed in form of a Pultise in the Quinsie a Gargarism is made of the juyce of Crabs and also inwardly the juyce may be given In an Atrophy inwardly the juyce is used with water or juyce of Celandine outwardly a playster may be made of Crabs bruised the liver of a Calf Oyl Olive and Oyl of Bay They draw darts out of the body bruised and applyed they are good in St. Anthony's fire and burnings 2. Crabs eyes cool dry cleanse discusse waste
thickning the filtration to the remaining of Salt and being thick by washing or dissolving it again purifying it and sweetning it N. They need not be powdered because whole and without digestion they yeeld to Vinegar N. 2. Pearls washed and if you please bruised are dissolved in the juyce of Citrons poured on to the height of four fingers by digestion on the dissolution is poured May dew distilled or Balm water and the dissolution is poured off Then new juyce of Citrons is infused digested and May dew is again infused or Balm water and decanted c. And this work is often repeated till the Pearls be almost wholly dissolved a very few feces remaining At lâ—st the dissolution is made thick with a gentle fire to the remaining of the powder The Dose from 6 grains to 10. in the water of May dew distilled with Manna or in Cinamon water with Rose water N. Paâ—acalsus attributes great vertues to the Salt of Pearl as to other medicines thereof prepared the processes quoth he of these though simple yet wonderful is the operation of them yet this action of vertues is not made by Art but is in their very nature Which is hid in the grosse substance and cannot operate as a dead body but after dissolution is made its body is revived 2. Unto this is very like the Salt or Magistery of Pearls of Riverius Take Pearls most finely powdered as much as thou wilt make a paste thereof with juyce of Citrons or Oranges and let it alone for a time Then dissolve it with Vinegar distilled according to Art till the Pearls be almost altogether dissolved mingle the Vinegar with a third pâ—rt of River water distill it in sand with a gentle fire then with a stronger being distilled pour it again upon the Caput mortuum remaining and dissolve it again then filter it and evaporate it very easily and the remainder will be the Magistery of the Pearls The vertues Besides the vertues above said it is a chief Preservative against the Gowt The Dose one scruple at the most 3. The Magistery of Pearls 1. Common is made by dissolving it with Vinegar distilled and precipitating it with Oyl of Tartar 2. Butter is made as that Buttery Magistery of Coral thus Dissolve Pearls in the Spirit of May dew or in distilled Vinegar precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C then sweeten and digest it for a time with Spirit of Wine which being abstracted thou hast a Magistery melting in the mouth like Butter 3. The feathery Dissolve Pearls according to art in spirit of Niter then filter it pouring distilled rain water upon it then precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C. sweeten and dry it The vertues Are to be gathered out of the aforesaid The Dose from 6 grains to 15. 4. The Oyl or liquor of pearls Is made per Deliquium the manner is easie 5. The Essence Tincture Arcanum of Pearls Take Pearls as much as thou wilt dissolve them with distilled Vinegar and make a Salt purifie the salt thus made by frequent dissolutions in Vinegar and coagulations the feces always cast away until no more feces shall remain after the last dissolution and the Pearls by that freed from all uncleannesse then dissolve them with rain water or May dew and by distillation abstract the humidity and repeat this so often till the Pearls become sweet this the sweetnessse of the water last distilled sheweth This Salt so freed from the feces digest in a close vessel in M. B. 8 or 10 days with Spirit of Wine poured on to the height of two fingers so the Pearls in that time will send their Essence like thick Oyl to the top of the Spirit of Wine which warily separate and pouring on new Spirit of Wine repeat the labour as oft as thou pleasest for almost all the Salt is converted a very few feces left into an Essence This circulate a fresh with Spirit of Wine for a time afterward by gentle distillation in B. M. separate the Spirit of Wine and keep it for use The vertues Are according to the rest but stronger by far in respect of its very great subtilty The Dose from 6 grains to 14. A secret by the Spirit of Guaiacum Take of Pearls powdered very small as much as thou wilt extract according to Art a most red tincture with the Spirit of Guaiacum rectified the remaining powder calcine gently and extract again twice or thrice with new Spirit of Guaiacum Coagulate the Extracts in B. M. to the appearance of a divers coloured thin skin which is a sign that the phlegm being abstracted there remains in a coagulated form the sole secret or Essence of Pearls with the Spirit of Guaiacum N 1. This Essence and Spirit can scarse be separated asunder N. 2. The same Essence or Arcanum of Pearls is suddenly dissolved with water of Balm and the like a sufficient quantity and is turned into a red transparent colour of an excellent tast The vertues It cleansâ—th the bloud excellently and is of great vertue in the French disease The Dose from 6 grains to 14. Another Tincture Take Pearls half ounce Spirit of Salt a sufficient quantity dissolve them according to Art decant abstract that it may become like pap which wash off by a distilled water circulate with Spirit of Wine 6 weeks then abstract the Spirit of Wine with a gentle heat of B. M. 5. The flowers of Pearls Pearls are dissolved with distilled Vinegar the dissolution is digested for a moneth then the Vinegar is abstracted and at length the flowers are elevated with a stronger fire 6. The Spirit of Pearls or the pearled Spirit of the earth Take of the Salt or Magistery of Pearls 6 ounces terra sigillat one pound mingle and imbibe with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Pearls and make Balls which being dryed by a Retort as the Spirit of Salt is distilled rectifie it and keep it for use The vertues It is a very great secret in the Gowt LIII Dentalium Entalium IS a little Shell-fish somewhat long rough on the outside smooth within hollow after the manner of a reed and in one part having a chink like a Dogs tooth whence it is called Dentalium N. Not a fish but a long and slender worm is the Inhabitant of the Dentalium It grows to Rocks of the Sea and to old Shell-fishes The Entalium is a Sea Shell-fish long like a little horn right and hollow chamfered without smooth within seldom exceeding the length of ones finger N. It seems to be the Dactylus of Pliny The vertues Though both of these are hitherto little used in Medicine but only in the Citrine Unguent yet is it likely that they may be used with other kindes of shells to the like affects IX Halec the Hering IS a Sea-fish ordinary in the Baltick Sea and other Seas of Germany In medicinal use are 1. The roes 2. The hering it self 3. The brine or pickle The vertues 1. The roes in number
9 are said to move Urine 2. The whole hering salted is laid to the soles of the feet to derive humors from the head and to mitigate Feverish heat The ashes are used for breaking the Stone it is made as that of Crabs 3. The brine or pickle is the broth wherein the Hering or other fish is kept It serves for Clysters in the Sciatick and Dropsie it cleanses stinking ulcers restrains the Gangreen disperser strumes and is good against Quinsies anoynted with Honey X. Huso Ichthiocolla IS one of the greatest sort of fishes 24 foot in length weighing 400 pounds grisly without bones except those in the head withoutscales c. It is a fish ordinary in Danubius swimming out of the Sea into Danubius for the desire of sweet waters It furnisheth us with Fish glew white in colour made of its skin intestines ventricle fins and tayl after this manner The said parts being cut into very thin pieces are steeped in a sufficient quantity of water then they are boyled to the consistence of a pultise with a gentle fire and are malaxed into a masse before they be cold The vertues It dryeth filleth up and in some respect mollifies Wherefore it is used in glewing plaisters N. It is also used to jelly broth of the same with Sugar-candy is boyled a transparent and yellow kinde of glew which melted in the mouth is used to glew papers together it is called Mouth-glew XI Lucius a Lucy N. SOme confound a Lucy and a Wolf which though it may be granted in respect of the name seeing both are ravenous fishes as the Land-wolf yet are they really distinguished for the Wolf of the Antients is a Sea-fish of a different shape from the Lucy In medicine are used 1. The gall 2. The heart 3. The mandible 4. A little bone crosse-like 5. The grease 6. The egges The vertues 1. The gall is said to drive away the Fever if three in number be taken Outwardly it serves for the spots of the eyes dimness and other diseases 2. The heart is eaten against the fits of Fevers N. Some command to swallow the heart the Lucy as yet alive and to throw the Lucy again into the River 3. The mandible dryes cleanses therefore is it given in the Pleurisie as a specifical remedy it profits also as the rest of the bones of the head in the stone in the whites and hard labour of women Outwardly the ashes stay fleeting humors synoviam mundifies inveterate wounds dryes the Hemroids 4. The bone of the form of a Crosse taken out of the head of a Lucy is commended of some against the Epilepsie taken N. It is accounted of some a singular amulet against charms 5. The fat or grease is a vulgar medicine and is anoynted on the soles of the feet and breasts of Infants for Revulsion of Catarrhs and to asswage the Cough 6. The egges are fit to move the belly and vomit and for this cause they are used of the common people in stead of medicine Preparat The water of the gall distilled cures the eyes XII Mater Perlarum Mother of Pearls IS a species of Shell-fishes taking their name from Pearls which are oftener found in them then in other The vertues Besides the common vertues of Shell-fishes some attribute a Cordial vertue to this but let them see with what successe Others make a medicine against the Fever of this after the manner which we have described above concerning long Shell-fishes XIII Mustela a Lamprey WHence are in Medicinal use 1. The liver 2. The ventricle 3. The backbone The vertues 1. The liver hanged in a glasse and exposed to the heat melts into a yellow liquor very good for the dimnesse and spots of the eyes 2. The ventricle is commended very much against the diseases of the womb but chiefly it is said to expel the secundine and to help the Colick drunk 3. The back bone powdered is said to cure the Falling-sicknesse XIV Ostrea the Oyster IS a Shell-fish of the kinde of round ones The vertues Oysters move pestilential botches from their place and draw all the poyson to themselves but they are to be tyed to that part of the arm where the axillarie vein runs if it be in the arm-pits but if it possesse the groyn the lineaments of the thigh which the vein of the thigh describes N. The Shells may be used in stead of other shells XV. Perca the Perch IT is understood of the River Perch to distinguish it from that of the Sea In use are stones found in the head near the beginning of the back-bone These agree in vertue with the rest of shelly-stones and are used in wasting the Stone and cleansing the Kidneys Outwardly in dentrifrices and drying of wounds XVI Rana Aquatica the Water Frog THat is best which is found in clear Rivers and Springs and is green For the red Frog rubeta and that which lives in Pools is condemned as pernicious The Earth-frog is inferior to the Water-frogs and those which are spotted are accounted venomous In medicinal use are 1. Frogs themselves 2. The heart 3. The liver 4. The gall 5. The fat 6. The sperm The vertues 1. Dioscorides accounts Frogs as an Antidote against the poyson of all Serpents if they be eaten with Salt Oyl or Butter and their broth supped they are also good against the tendons It brings a loathing of Wine if the Wine in which a living Frog hath been drowned be drunk a living one applyed on a pestilential botch till it dye doth draw out the poyson A whole living one is used against the heat of burning Fevers asswages the pain of the joynts and quenches St. Anthonies fire applyed either alive or bruised it helps the Tooth-ach boyled and used in a Gargarism N. If it be applyed to the pained belly it is said that the disease presently passes into it 2. The heart of a Frog tyed to the spine of the lick of a Fever mitigates the feverish chilnesse some apply it to the region of the heart to asswage the heat of burning Fevers 3. The liver dryed and powdered in the accesse of Quartanes and other Fevers is taken with good successe Crato gives it in water of Milfoyl N. They commend the livers of green Frogs living in Fens as a specifick medicine against the Epilepsie They order it to be in the Conjunction of the Luminaries the Moon in Cancer 4. The gall peculiarly helps the eyes and is said to cure the Quartane made into powder and given to half a dram 5. The fat put into the ears cures the pains thereof 6. The sperm cools thickens asswages pains cures the scabbinesse of the hands if they be washed with it in March. It kills Impostumations under the nayls and the wilde fire it helps Erisypelas and burnings and other inflamations applyed on the place It cures the rednesse of the face the flux of the terms and Hemroids put into the Matrix or Fundament N. A linnen cloth often wet in
through a linnen cloth with white Wine or dryed and powdered Outwardly they are applyed alive or dead being applyed alive till they die they are good for the Panaritium a disease in the fingers being dead they are used in Puitises The ashes are said to be good for the tooth-ach put into the hollownesse of the teeth They mitigate podagricall pains the powder applyed hot with meal Preparat 1. A water and it is made in B. M. It is very profitable for the Hydropick 2. A boyled Oyl See the Dispensatory N. Of this Oyl is distilled with water of Radish an Oyl which powerfully moves urine and sweat 3. A liquor which is made in an Oâ—en after this manner Wormes washed and purged through a course cloth are put into a glasse with a narrow mouth Then is the glasse stopped and being inclosed in a loaf of bread is set in an Oven untill it be drawn with the rest of the bread afterward the liquor is filtred and kept for internall and externall use The Dose from 2 drams to half ounce 4. A powder it is made of Wormes dryed in a Furnace The Dose from a scruple to a scruple and half XVI Lumbrici intestinorum the Worms of the bowels ARe bred of the crudity of the bowels The vertue Some give them powdered to expell Worms XVII Musca the Flie. THere are many sorts of flies yet the vulgar is only in use In medicinall use is the Flies or rather their heads The vertue They cure Alopecies Preparat A distilled water and it is made by it self or with Honey The vertue Besides that it helps the growth of hair it is commended against the diseases of the eyes dropped in XVIII Pediculus the Louse IS of divers sorts of which the Mans Louse belongs to this place The vertue They are swallowed of Countrey people against the Jaundise used in like manner they are approved of some against an Atrophy being applyed to the hole of the yard they provoke Urine because they stir up the expulsive faculty to make water XIX Ricinus the Tyke IS a living creature livid and foule most offensive to Kyne Swine Goats Sheep and Dogs The vertues The bloud of a Dogs tyke is a depilatory and quencheth St. Anthonies fire as witnesseth Pliny It is excellent also for Tetters rebellious and hard to be cured anoynted XX. Salamandra IS a Four-footed Animal of the kinde of Lazards black with yellow spots an inhabitant of cold and moist places very much in love with clear springs and therefore of some there is a division of the Salamandra into the earthy and watery N. It is poysonful communicating together with its biting a virulent milky froth or foam The vertues The Salamandra gnawes ulcerates being burnt to ashes it happily heals ulcerated scrophulâ—s the ashes sprinkled on the place N. Take heed of the venomous fume XXI Scarabaeus the Beetle IS bred partly of dry logs chiefly of Oake partly of copulation It is found in woods in May and Summer In Physicall use are 1. The Beetles 2. Their hornes The vertues Beetles are commended against the pains and contractions of the nerves from their signature whereby being touched they become unmoveable and contracted against the Quartane applyed in lieu of an Amulet The horns hung about the necks of Infants are said to restrain Urine Preparat An Oyl of the infusion of Beetles The vertues It discusseth the pain of the ears dropt in There is a Beetle called Scarabaeus Pilularis having that name because out of the dung especially of Horses it rols great bals with its feet in which it is said to hide small wormes the seeds of its issue The vertues It is commended chiefly in the falling out of the eye and fundament the powder sprinkled on in mitigating the blind and painfull Emrods boyled in Linseed Oyl to the consumption of the Beetle and applyed hot on the place with lint N. The best manner of making the powder is Being killed let them be well dryed in the Sun in a glasse vessell and then be made into powder The unctuous Beetle which being laid on the hands it dyes them with a fat and yellow liquor creeps in May and June by the way sides and every where in woods The vertues It imitates the nature of the Cantharides it moves Urine and bloud helps the biting of a mad-dog and the running Gowt as Wierus hath the powder given Outwardly the liquor thereof is desired by some to wounds It is also added to plaisters in the boyl and Pestilentiall Carbuncle taken from the signature It is mixed with Antidotes and there is made thereof an Oyl of the infusion of the living Animals in common Oyl which many use in stead of the Oyl of Scorpions XXII Scincus IS a water creature having yellow scales with a gray line running from the head to the tail living on sweet herbs In use are 1. The whole ones dryed 2. The fat The vertues 1. The Scincus is Alexipharmacall and provokes venery 2. The fat is of the same nature The Dose one dram Mathiolus commendeth the snout and feet c. gives them with wine to drink he commends also the flesh of the sides Preparat It is an ingredient in Antidotes chiefly the treacle of Andromachus and the Antidote of Matthiolus XXIII Scorpio the Scorpion IS a creature imitating crabs in shape but lesse then they are The vertues They provoke Urine hindered by the stone of the reins or bladder the living ones burnt to ashes and used They heal their own bitings powdered and applyed Preparat 1. A simple Oyl of Scorpions of the infusion of Scorpions in Oyl of bitter Almonds N. Some give it to drink in the Colick and pain of the Stone 2. A compound Oyl of Scorpions of Mesue which moreover receives Aristoloch Gentian Cyperus and roots of Cappars The vertues It is most usuall in the pains of the reines and obstructed Urine anoynted on the back or privity it cures the bites of venomous creatures it drives away the fits of Fevers anoynted on the pulses or back it asswages the pains of the ears 3. An Oyl of Scorpions the great of Matthiolus The vertues It is of greater force then the former and of excellent use in preserving from and curing contagious diseases in venomous bitings and the like anoynted on the heart and the arteries of the temples hands feet it mitigates the pain of the Colick and womb c. 4. A bloudy Oyl of Scorpions Take seeds of Hypericon 6 ounces infuse them in Malmesey for 3 dayes then add Venice Turpentine 3 ounces very old Oyl 6 ounces Saffron one dram flowers of Hypericon 4 handfuls Let all be buried in sand in a vessell well stopt for 3 dayes and then let the liquor be pressed out very hard into another vessell Let it be decanted by inclination to the appearing of the Oyl then lift up the vessell and in it thou shall see an Oyl as red as bloud In this Oyl for every pound let there be put