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
shall be plaine by the example followinge Againe smellinge waters are ether destilled hoole or els after the destyllacion certaine precyous smelling thinges are added vnto them Som are made without any destillacion at all The Pouder of the Floure Deluce mixte wyth hotte water maketh it to smell and is vsed of Barbers The Floures of Lauendula or Lauender and muche rather of that whiche is communly called Spick both grien and drye are put into water or wyn or burning water in a vessel wel stopt set in the sun that thei may infect it with their smell But if they be yet fresh moyst they turn the wyn almoste into vynegar which if they be dry they do not so The liquor shal be made the more smelling if the flowers bee dryed in the sun in a glas closed and afterward whyt wyne be put to it If so be it a man desyer to haue a swiet water forthwith and by and by let him put a drop or two of oyle of Spick vnto a good deele of pure water and chauf it together in a glas with a narow mouth Al thies although they be made with out destillacion the same notwithstanding being right destilled specially if certayn other thinges be mixt with thē other precious ▪ as Muske Ambra ziuet Caphura Agallochū or meaner thinges as Assadubis Styrap and Stacte Myrh or any other spyces chiefly cloues or elles thinges of les estimation as Roses the barkes of flowers or leaues of Orenges Lymons Arentii Bay leaues commun swiet herbes Rosemary Amaracus Basill c. they shal be made much the swieter Saffron is to strong and stuffeth the heed rose-Rosevvater vvith muske Saffron Cloues Caphura out of Bulcasis WIth Musk Put a croun of good Musk beten in two poūdes of Rosewater in the bely of a glas still And destill it by litle litle then put it in a glas well stopt It is a water marueilous swiet and conuenient for a king that their clothes may be sprinkled therwith With Saffron Put half an vnce of good Saffron in two poundes of Rose water for the space of one day and destill it This water is holsom to be mixt with medicins also for smel garnishing With Cloues Put half an vnce of Cloues beten in a pound and a halfe of Rose water .xxiiii. houres and destill it With Caphura Destill an vnce of Caphura w t a poūd of rosewater vse it in medicines for kings After the same maner is Roosed water made with Saunders and other spices swiet smelling what so euer a man will Sum destill all thies in pure water in stede of Rosewater A thre leued herb thei cal it Tribulū at Rome an herb most swiet of sauor which they destil for per fumes and to make diuers other wanton swiete sauoures The munkes in Mesuen A water of swiet sauour wherwith the strengthes of the heed hart and stomacke are reuiued ▪ foure handfull of the flowers of Lauendula Roses whyte and red of ether two handful Rosemary Caryophyllata newe and freshe Cyperus the barke of Citranguli of euery one a handful Mint Sage Tym Bay leues or Peny royall of euery one halfe a handfull .iiii. vnces of Cloues Galingall Nucis mosch Calamus Aromaticus Ginger Cinamon the flowers I thinke better the rootes of flower deluce of euery halfe an vnce Six poundes of whyte wyne or q. s that is as much as shall suffise When they are pund let thē be put into a glas well closed for the space of eight daies afterward vse them It is excellent to wash the handes if thou mixt a litle of it with a great dele of pure water A mā may vse it also destilled put in a scruple of musk Epiphanius Empericus An other of the same mans delectable with a maruelous swietnes of sauour ziuet Muske of ether a dram let it be tyed in a fyne linnen cloth let it be set to sooke in two poundes of Rose water a few daies in the sun An other of the same mans of a very swiet sauour Basill Mint Samsuchum or Maioram flower deluce Hyssop Balsamita I take it to be Sisymbrium Sauery Sage Melissa Lauender Rosemary of euery one halfe a handfull Cloues Cinamon Nutmegges of euerye one an vnce The pome Citrangula of the kynd of Citriorum the figure of an egg of a yeloowe wax colour iii. or .iiii. Let them be beeten and set .iii. daies in rose water then let them be destilled with a slowe fyre When the destillatiō is finished put to a scruple of Muske and set it in the sun An other of the same mans of most excellent sauour Thre poundes of Rosewater Cloues Cinamō Saūders Citrinorū of euery one .vi. drā .ii. handful of the flowers of Lauender .vi. drās of Assa dulcis Malmsey Aqua vitae of ether .ii. vnces Let it stand a moneth to soke in y e sun wel closed in a glas or vpon y e top of a furnace of a stouf Then destil it in Balneo Mariae and at half a drā of Muske to the destillacion Then let it stand .x. dayes in the sun or aboue the fornace so vse it It is marueylous pleasaunt in sauour VVaters of svviet sauour of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the garnishyng of mans nature A Water of wonderous swietnes for the perfuming of the shietes of a bed wher by the hooll place shal haue a moste plesaunt sent Put into a litle phial of glas xviii or .xx. graines of Musk and ziuet and a litle of Ambra After filled full of Rosewater set it ouer the fyre and when it is hoot take it away thē let it stande to coule well cloosed after you haue let it stand soo a two daies you may vse it from thence forward It is as good as though it were destilled When thou wilt perfume thy shirt or other linnen put it in a vessell with a wyde mouth and spreed the clothes vpon it boyling that they may drinke vp the vapour and breth of it An other maner of swiet water whiche men call Cassoleptam that is Capsula Power into sum litle vessell of laton a litle Rosewater made with muske and a litle ziuet and Cloues Agallochum styrap calamita when they are all pund against a fyre mixt them and perfume any clothes that ye will with the vapour ascending there from It is a marueilous swiet sauour whiche if thou wilt kepe close the vessell diligently and when thou thinkest good put more Rosewater vnto it that it may be renued An other Thou shalt put into .iiii. poundes of Roosewater Assa dulcis somewhat grose beaten Stirax and Cloues Camphora Agallocum of euery one an vnce Musck Siuet of ether of thē xx grains Put these together in a glas shit with a parchment prickt through with .x. or .xii. small holes and let the vessel boile .iiii. houres in a kettle ful with water as thoughe it were in Balneo Mariae After when it is cold straine it throughe a
oyl of Iuniper can and is made after the same maner Mesues Wher again Syluius saith That oyl anoynted vpon the left side vnder the short ribs and drunken deliuereth mightely the obstructions stoppings of the splene it mollifieth also digesteth This oyl saithe Rogerius represseth the colde greues of the ioynts it healeth a wound bryngeth skin where it lacketh it deliuereth from the white morphew and blackeneth it Io. Manardus in his epistles 16. 4. geuing couÌ„sel for y e helth of the cardinal Campegius sick of y e gout I praise saith he both the maner the vse of the fome of the decoction of lignum sanctum or of Iudicum to the place where the grief is But I think the oyl of the same wod destilled after y â— maner that the chymistes call by descencion to be far more effectual anoynting the places therewith y t swel and wher the grefe is They be wont also of the shauings of raw wode sodden in some noble wine putting vnto it old oyl to prepare an oyntment which is very good to be annoynted vppon the places where the grefe is Take y e wode cut like bordes therw t fill a new ertheÌ„ vessell with a couer of the same mater bord through w t litle holes y t diligeÌ„tly claid let an other empty ertheÌ„ pot digd in the erth vp to the mouth receiue it ioyned w t clay vnto the vpper standing aboue vpon it by the couer the force of the flames blasing rouÌ„d about it the oyl shall run down into the empty within the space of 4. hours or 5. WheÌ„ it hath left boiling opeÌ„ it thou shalt find oil swiÌ„ming vpon the water wherwith if thou anoynte whelks pushes exulceratioÌ„s y e swellings ofioyntes greues of finews y u shalt procure ease that not a litle That water also is drunkeÌ„ morning euening by it self or with the sirup following c. Andreas Mat in his boke of the frensh disease A maÌ„ may also as I hard of a frend destil guaiacuÌ„ after the same way that Aqua fortis is destilled best in an erthen vessel glased y t wil abide the fire suche as they make at Haganoa This oyle is good for the fauts of y e ioynts through the frensh pocks if it be anoynted vpoÌ„ the places w t the best burning water Oyle of the wode guaiacuÌ„ more mightilye of lygnum sanctum is holsome for the spanish diseases biles Sylu. A certain practicioner told me once y t this wod is not to be cast awai although it be decocted soden twise or thrise for euen so also yet is the best oyl destilled of Take the wod of iuy dried the beries gum also if y u maist haue it When they are cut in peces let theÌ„ be put in an erthen vessel bored through in the bottom in .ii. or .iii. places then let an other pot be set vnder it Set theÌ„ in the erth ioyne the bottoÌ„ of the vpper vnto the mouth of the nether w t clay or paste the vpper pot must stand hollye aboue the ground At length make a fire on euery side and the oyl shal destill blacke into the nether Vessell This oyle before all Oyles healeth the grefes in the ioynts of a cold cause Rogerius The preparing of oyl of capuistuÌ„ that is smoked because it is made by descencion like as the oil of woods I haue rehersed it in this place out of the first boke of Aetius where he entreateth of oyles from whence Nicholas Alexandrinê° also borowed it in his treatise of oyls Vngues aromatici that be black melà nchó Fuchsius the expositor of Nicolas readeth MegálcoÌ„ that is great thus MasculuÌ„ styrax the best bdellium pure Costus of euery one v draÌ„s of euery one .ii. vnces a half saith Nicolas which I like better .v. sextaris that is about iiii pints of the best swiet oyl ii a half saith Nich. Hypni as much as nede requireth The costê° cut in peces soÌ„what gros likwise y e styrax bdelliuÌ„ mixt together put theÌ„ into an ertheÌ„ vessell a new one Nycolas w tout ere 's y e mouth wherof y u shalt stop w t the hypneÌ„ without y u shalt defeÌ„ce it w t the slips of aspalathê° or som odoriferus thing haÌ„somli lest any thing fal out of y â— pot Then â—eke an other ertheÌ„ vessel w tout ears w t a loÌ„g neck which may re of the other vessel that conteineth the spices agreing aptly with the mouth into whiche thou shalt put .v. sextaries of swete oyl Afterwarde dig the ground and bury the earthen pot that holdeth the oyl vnto the neck lest it wax red hot after with the fire that shal be made about it then turne y e other vessel with spices the mouth downward vpon y e hed of it soioyn y â— mouths of theÌ„ both y t thei mai be closed together most exactly Then close y e hole vessel rouÌ„d about w t clay on euery side where the mouthes are ioyned together by by thou shalt kindle a fire putting vnder coles about y e earthen vessel blowing When the fire is kindled let the spices being consumed y t being set on fire theimai seÌ„d out their vapor by the mouth of y e ertheÌ„ vessell into y e oyl set vnder For y e which cause it is called capnistoÌ„ y â— is smoked The secoÌ„d day after remoue away the oil and put it in a glas to kepe Wemen vse this whose flours are stopt anoynting the nether part of their bely loines therwith It is coÌ„uenient for them y â— after they be deliuered are euil to litle purged being likewise anoynted vpon y e said parts Moreouer it is holsom for a cold chest healeth the disease called tenesimus if it be receiued in wol hotte as Nicolas addeth folded together and laid to the lower part of the bely loyns The same semeth to be called capnelaeuÌ„ or smoked oyle but the author of Kiranidum expoundeth it naphtha in his .iiii. boke where he maketh mencion of the fish Ecleneis or Remora I haue sene also of paper roled together in maner of a hod set on fire ouer a dish of tin holden at the very extreme top with a paire of sheeres or tonges certain drops of black oyl run out which are praysed for the spots or whytneses of y e eyes Of trevve Balm and antibalm that is Oyls composed by arte whiche are vsed in steed of the true Balm both within and without the body BAlsamum is a word vsed almost in all tonges a Syrian worde without dout for in only Syria in one only garden did it ones growe Panag y e hebrew worde in the .xxvii. of Ezechiel Dauid Kimhi after certaine doth erpound it a proper place of Iudaea other Apharsamon that is Balsamum The later wryters of the Iewes wryt Palsamon Mycander BalsamoÌ„ bycans of the
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
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
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
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
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
then of that thinge wheroute it ranne In this manner the destillacion of waters also of herbes and floures maye be done but that waye is far better which is by descencion downwarde c. Some put Muske aboute F. and other precious smellinge thinges and the water that rettineth the smelles not onlye of the owne proper matter but also of the Musk and of other things that be put to it Of destillation by descencion or going downewarde Vlstadius in his .xix. Chapter teacheth of this waye of destillinge vniuersallye and speciallye or seuerallye of oyles of Iuniper stickes of the yelkes of Egges Nutmegges and Benedicto where throughe I wyll go aboute to declare the matter moore clearelye and more shortlye He teacheth to make a fornace meete for this destillacion lyke to suche a Chunney as is vsed to be made amongste the Germaines of brickes vnbrente of a Cubit and a halfhie on euerye syde saue the former side whiche maye be somewhat lower and couered with thinne tiles to lay any thing vpon as the iron instrumentes wherewith the fire is gouerned in bredthe .iii. cubites euerye waye In the middle of thys fornaice let there be a hoole so great that a mans fote may be put in at it This fornace shall be meete also for an other vse that is to seale wyth the seale of Hermes as they call it when the mouthe of a Glasen Cucurbita beynge put into the hoole of the fornace the length a hande bredth that is .iiii. fingers and if any more about it be open that being stopt wyth claye assone as it is red hotte it is nipte together with a paire of tonges likewise red hotte When thou wylte destyll therefore in this fornace take a Cucurbita of the best earthe or if not of Coper or Latin syll it vnto the thyrde parte wyth the matter that is to be destilled and shitte it wyth a verye thinne iron lidde of iron plate full of lyttle hooles Then tourne it vpside downe and putte the mouthe of the Vessell into the hoole of the fornace three fingers deepe and what so euer is open on anye side fyll it with claye diligentlye rounde aboute so that nothynge maye fall into thys hoole Beneathe in the neather parte of the hoole thou shalt sette vnder a Cucurbita of glasse for the puttinge in and takinge oute whereof and that thou mayste see when the hoole matter is destilled the foore parte of the fornace muste be open whereunto the mouth of the vpper Cucurbita must be ioyned but not with clay Then let a fyre be made aboue aboute the vessel that cōteineth the matter on euerye syde But the fyre at the fyrste muste be little and as farre of from the vessell as is possible afterwarde by little and little to make it bigger and nearer the vessell Ye muste vnderstande that of euerye matter at the fyrste water destilleth moore or lesse accordynge to the difference of the matter When it hath left running and now the oyll hath begun to destill thou shalt empty the Cucurbita of glas that standeth vnderneth and set it vnder a-again and continue in encreesing the fyer and to make it euer nerer and nerer the vessell vntill no more oyl destille For then by and by the fyer must bee remoued far of that the vpper Cucurbita may be couled Then take away the nether that is the receiuer and kepe the oyll But as I said a lytle fyer is required at the first and is to be encreesed by litle and litle vntill the fourthe degree for two causes First lest by the sodein exces of to muche heet all the moysture yea the oyly moysture also be consumed which chiefly must be taken hied of when we couet to haue oyll of the yolkes of egges and nutmegs for in certain other as of Iuniper stickes a man shal offende nothing to make a sodein and great fyer Then bycause the woode set on fier perauenture would hurte the Cucurbita burn it breeke it or infect the oyll with sum vnplesaunt sauour Moreouer in simple oyll Benedict thou shalt encrease the fyer only at the end of the destillacion and thou maist prepare suche a place for the destillacion Dig a pit in the earth long brood and diep accordining to the measure of the pot that is to be put into it Let the pot bee glased washt with water and vpon the mouth of it let a thin iron plate be put bored through with many holes so that the plate be a fingar thicknes within the brim of the pot vpon this set an other pot that conteineth the matter to be destilled so y t the mouthes of them be ioyned together and all well clayed then let a fyer be made about the vpper pot whiche shal be hool without the pit saue y e mouth But this second way is not so cōmodious as the first because the water can not bee separated from the oyl nor easely knowē whan the hooll matter is destilled except it be knowen by vse and custome The fornace may also be made in a stiep hill as the same Vlstadius sheweth I let that pas that I be not to long Oyl of the leeues of Citrum or Orenge Arantia or Limons when it is destilled first the water is gotten out then the oyll and both ought to bee kept seuerally the oyll is very swiet and good It is made on this wyse Take the leeues of any of the forsayd tries which so euer ye will when they are cut beet them in a morter and as ye destill them receiue the water and when ye see any drop of diuers colour swym vpon the water the receyuer being chaunged encrees the fyer and gather the oyll It shall smell a litle of the fyer whiche fault shal be amended if ye let it stande long set in the sun Sum drye the forsayde leeues between twoo lynnen clothes and beete them they put to also many odoriferous swiet smellyng thinges as ziuet Muske Ambra hoot Styrax Ladanum Cinamon Benzoum not the substaunce of them but the fume or smoke only for they put thies into Rose water vpon the fyer and with the vapour of them they season the leues When thies are so diligently seasoned they take Roosewater wherein certain spices ar stiept as Cloues Galangal Put megges c. for the space of one day and the pouder of the leues moistened therwith they destill it it ashes with a slow fyer till the watery liquor be separated then they encrees the fyer and receiue the oyll whiche is of a wonderfull pleasaunt and swiet sauour Furner A certain practicioner shewed me that the oyll is separated cōmodiously from herbes routes in this maner Put the herbes or routes in Turpentyn or Larigna rosin washt eigth or nyne tymes till it wax whyte and let it stande in hoote sand q. s Then destill them with a slow fyre the Turpintyn shal run out first ▪ by and by at the beginning or if it moue but a litle
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
so that it excede the Vitriol a little then seperate the burning water by destillacion in a phiall or in a croked stil or a bely laid on the one side When that is drawne out vrge the spirits of the Vitriol by litle and little encreasing the fire more and more til al y e spirits be ouer passed This liquor destilled put it again into som one of the .iii. maner of vessels aforsaid destil it in a kettle ful of water vntil whatso euer watry thing is in it be separated whiche thou shalt endeuor to bring to pas by al the witte thou hast that the watrines be clean gotten out ether by a leÌ„bek with a nose or a blind lembek whose nether skirt haue a hollow gutter or circle like vnto a leÌ„bek that is to say with a nose Endeuor that the water in the kettle sethe lightlye if so be it ought to sieth at all the dutch word siedeÌ„ semeth to be equiâ—ocal and may signify as wel se thing as boyling to thintent that the waterines alone may ascend and the oyl alwaies remain in the botom of the bely the which thing to bringe to pas you shall haue nied of two daies at the least Then afterward that oyl that is left in the belly put it into a bely or other of the forsaid vessels defensed with clay and destil it marke whether any water pas before the spirits For if there be any watrines yet mixt with it it shal be nedeful to set it afterward in y â— sun or hot place in a blind leÌ„bek y â— the watrines being eleuated and caried vp may remain in the hem skirt of the leÌ„bek This if y u repeete ofter then once this insolacioÌ„ I mene the oyl shall becom euer the swieter and better Ye also a man may repete the destillacion the second or third time for by that meanes the oyl is rectified more and more Thou maist minister .ii. or .iii. drops of this oyl against all manner of diseases ether by it self or with waters conuenient for euerye disease This oyl I haue tasted my selfe it is swiet pleasant and strong in colour if I remember wel somwhat white An other way Take .iiii. poundes of Vitriol of Rome dry it in an earthen vessel till it wax red after when it is beaten put it into a bely of glasse diligently defenced with clay as the maner is for Aqua fortis and first destilit with a soft fire encresing the degre of the fire by litle and little vntyll white fumes begin to issue out at the nose of y e bely then set a great receiuing vessel fensed w t clay and make a fire with wod continuing for y e space of .xii. hours and at leÌ„ght shal issue out red drops and heauye When the receiuer beginneth to bee clear the matter is finished wherfore then cease that the vessels may be couled Afterward y â— shalt put it in a litle lembek to separate and auoide the fleum and reserue the reast setting it in the sun a ix daies When thou wilt vse it minister it wyth white wine or Malmsy .vi. or .vii. drops so that nothinge after be eaten by the space of .iii. or .iiii. hours it mai be receiued also before slepe if a maÌ„ drink not vpon it This liquor is profitable for a sick stomack for lepers for them that be sicke of y e stone for the retention and keping of vrin for theÌ„ that be sicke of the Ague and in time of the pestilence with water of Acetosae somwhat warm putting vnto it half a dram of spices Diamargariton which is cold if it may be gotten An other way for the same that it may be the better made and purer Put in an earthen pot of earth of Crucibulorum glased within as muche Vitrioll of Rome as thou wilt and destill it in a fornace as is befor said with a fyer of Aqua fortis and there shall run out a whyte water of Vitriol After when it ceaseth thou shalt encreas the fyer and a grien water shall folow which wheÌ„ it hath left thou shalt make a moste strong and vehemeÌ„t fyer both aboue and beneth and a red oyl shall issue out Chaunge euer the receiuer according to the chauÌ„ging of the liquors Or els take those .iii. liquors in one vessel seperate the waters afterward from the oyl by destilling them and the oyll shall remain in the bely This separatioÌ„ is made y e bely staÌ„ding vpright with a head and a receiuer the first destillacion of y e oyl the bely lying ouerth warth as it is said If thou dip a litle drie woul or bombase in water of Vitriol of Rome and ther w t thouch any kind of diseases of y e mouth thou shalt easely heale them Out of a writen booke of a certain friend he semeth here to meane that water y t ruÌ„neth out first which is to be vsed only without the body not the very oyl of Vitriol which is more precious and pure and is kept to be ministred giuen to drinke against inward diseases Of the vertues of oyl of Vitriol out of y e same writen boke Drinck Malmsy with a litle oyll of Vitriol coÌ„tinually for the space of .v. or .viii. dais it riddeth a man from all obstructions it purgeth the bloud and driueth away the stone It healeth the il scab if it be drunck with water of fumitory and Myrobalana condite It reneweth a maÌ„ with water of endiue It healeth all maner of griefes of the head with water of Maioram or Buglos or Melissa also the turnsicknes if it be conteined any space With water of Agresta it healeth al maner of diseases the body being first purged It restoreth the memory with the water of Acorus or Fenell It mouith a man to slepe with the sied of Letis or Popy It is good for melancolyck persons with water of Bublos or Borage It cureth mad men with water of the water lily coÌ„tinuing y e vse of it also hoat impostums the sleping euil with water of wyld rewe It purgeth the body w t Aqua vitae It healeth y e palsy with water of wyld mint or sage Hyssop the cramp with water of Sage the sicknes of quaking with water of Basilicus diuers inward diseases with water of Trifolium all feblenes of the eyes with water of Fenell the reum from the head with water of Lily y e catar w t water of AdiantuÌ„ Hyssop the cough also the disease of the syde with water of PlaÌ„tain the Pleuresis w t water of maiden hear the feblenes wekenes of the stomack w t water of mint With water of Quinces it staunceth vomitting if the sick be of a moyst temperature or coÌ„plexion let it be giuen him with water of plantain or shep pardes purs with a litle Diarhodon It stinteth y e flux of the bely with the water of Plantain the co lyck with water of Rewe With water of wormwod 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
be et it again kepe it in a vessell lying on the one syde enclyned eight daies in a cold place til it be resolueed into oyl whiche if it doo not pres it out and kepe it The same wayes doth Mesues make oyls of egs It wer better whē y e Tartarū is calcinated and put it in a Hippocras bagge as they call it let it be put in a dry place till the oyll runne out into a vessel set vnder it Syluius I fynd an other certain maner in Furnerius in a Frenche booke of decking where as he biddeth to take Tartarū burned and calcinated as muche as can be taken at two handfulles and tied straite in a linnen clout to be burnt and calcinated in a furnace of Glas Lyme or Brick thē to be powred into a good quātitie of water with as muche Alum as a nut and to be muche sturred aboute then when thou hast let rest .xxiiii. houres streine this water casting that away that remaineth in the linnen cloth and sieth it in a skillet till nothing els then a certayne whyte crust remaine c. this place semeth to be mangled whiche hanged in a litle bag ny to the earth within thre daies thou shalt see it turned in to liquor whiche muste be a certain tymes strained til it becum cleer Sum put Tartarum to be calcinated in a newe pot in a potters ouen and when the vesselles are all baked then take it out But I thinke it should be calcinated better moore purely in hoat ashes or cooles as apples or wardens are wonte to bee rosted happing them also with cooles It shal be inough burnt when it shall appeare nowe whyte nor any more black whē it is so burnt they hang it in a litle bag with a sharp end lyke a spyr stieple tund vpsyde doun the mouth or wyde end put in a clouen stick wherby it shall hang and be prest together w t a phiall of glas set vnder with a tunnil An other way Take equall porcions of Tantarum and Salnitrum pund burne them in a larg pot then grinde or breake them with a hotte iron and put them in a little bagge in a wine celer that they may destill An other Beat Tartarum and Nitrum in equal parts mixt them and burn them that the Nitrum maye be consumed The Tartarum that remayneth put in a bladder that is a glas like a bladder hang it in hot water and it shall be streighte resolued into oyle ¶ An other Tartarum well washte from the dregs and verye wel dried shalt thou calcinat till it waxe white Then when it is beaten and sifted dissolue it with raine water destilled and made warme when it is molten destill it by a Filtrum then lette it gather into a Iellye when it is so calcinat it againe that it may waxe more white So at lengthe shalt thou hange it in a little bagge as an Hippocras bagge in a moyst place laye on some brode thinge for a couer that no vncleane thinge fall into it and setting a glased pot vnder it Some destill it in a lembeek of glas that is to say in ashes from whence a water runneth first then the fire encreased by litle and little the oyle The vse It is good for all scabs and Ringwormes it maketh the skin white cleare youth-like I haue sene it vsed to runninge soores of the head to the which I thinck that is better wher w t Nitrum is burned together It maketh coper also siluer white and putteth away spots steins in linnē clothes It is put to colours to make thē more bright as I think as they put to wrytinge inke of the coloure of the bresill wode and other Rogerius also 4. 9 teacheth to make oyl of Tartarum This saith he clenseth cloths and spots remaining after birth of a melancoly cause purgeth the face Of oyls of the yelkes of egges wormes and Scorpions OYl of egs out of Rasis Put the yelks of egs in an iron kettel vpon the coles till they be burnt and the oyl that drippeth out kepe it in a glas It is good for the greues of the tuel or fundament and of the eares and teethe ¶ This oyl saithe Mesues is proued with much experience to purge the skin to heale thorowly tetters ringwormes and other faultes of the skin to brede heare to sores boyles and fistulaes Thirty eg yolkes or there about hard rosted crummed with the handes let them be parched in an earthen frying pan or skellet leaden w t a moderate fire sturring them with a wodē spone or erthen til they waxe red and let the oyle be resolued from them which being pressed yeld more then a sponeful Or the same yelkes harde rosted let them be broken vpon a moler then let them be beaten into lumps and prest out in a pres as we haue declared in oyle of Almondes and an Oyle shall destil from them Or the same yelkes put in to a bealy with a lembecke let them be destilled by the force of the fire as it shal be said of oyl of Philosophers These saith Mesues Whereas Syluius in his annotacions saith It taketh away meruelously the foulnes of the skin and skars specially that be left in burnte places for the moste parte it smelleth somwhat strong yet at the laste destilled by sublimacion les It encreaseth heare as Serapion saith in his Antidotarie Oyle of egges of Nicolas fashion Frye sodden yolkes of egges with a slow fyre made of coles in an iron skellet continually sturringe them wyth an iron rodde till they be well rosted presse them oute in a stronge linnen clothe moystened in oyle of Almondes But it is better saithe Syluius to frye the yelkes rawe and moue them continually with a spone til they being rosted and prest with a spone geue an oyl in a vessel hielding which put in a glas reserued good a greate while Oute of xx yolkes thou shalt draw oute in .ii. houres .iiii. ounces or there about Matthaeolus wrytinge vpon Dioscorides prayseth this oyl for the roughnes of y e skin for ringwormes for cleftes of the lippes handes feete and tuell also for the griefes of sores ioynts and all sinewy places to conclude for the griefes and sores of the eares Moreouer it is good saith he for places burnt with fire and in the thin skins of the brain it separateth the impared partes from y e hole meruelously whiche not without my great honor and commendacion and profit of the sicke I haue often tried in Surgery In a wounde vpon the braine panne poure in the oyl of egs and it wil take away the griefe as Abhomeron Abynzoar teacheth whiche we haue also tried with good succes Marianus Sāctus An oyle for the sores or boyles of children .xvi. yolkes of egs sod an vure of Mirrh .iiii. graines of black Helleborus let them be mixte together w t an iron spone in an iron skellet set vpō a few coles then pres the yelks
stur it about with a slow fyer lest it burn too Of this decoctioÌ„ I had almost .xi. vnces of iuice I thinck I should haue had skarsly y e fourth parte if I had sod Elleborum alone This iuice haue I vsed alredy sumtymes for I ministred it vnto a yonge man sik of the falling euill with good succes who now of long tyme God be thanked is well but with many other medicines also ther with as letting of bloud and sweeting c. And an other certain person molested for .iii. yeares with the Ascarides or litle round wormes breeding in the long gut many medicines tryed in vayne was restored with this iuice once receiued and a few dayes after taking hartes horn burnt Pilles of the bignes of a pees from .ii. to fiue may be ministred after supper that is from half a scrupull or there about to a hool But a man may try thies better in proces of time This doo I admonish physicions that be litle exercised that thei vse it not rashly but with diligent consideration for it is a vehement medicine It semeth to be conuenient and good for the quartain ague that is no more rawe and for other diuers great and long diseases specially for the scab cumming of black choler I gaue of laâ—â— to one sicke of a quartain fyue pylles of the bignes of a pees whereupon he perceyued great anguishe and was purged only by vomit voyded nothing downward nether was eased of the diseases I imputed the cause to the distemperaunce of the man I my self taking two pyles lyke peasen after sopper y e next day I felt no smal grief about my stomak I auoyded suÌ„tymes downward but I vomited not A man may more safly giue it to theÌ„ y t be sufficiently ful of flesh or fat of a moyst stomack and a stomack of moo exquisite sence Again of the iuice of black Elleborus and of the drawing out of the vertues out of purging medicines and certain other as I learned of a certin friend THis drawing oute was inuented for delicate persoâ—es and such as be of a weake stomack for theÌ„ that can not abyde nor beare a great potioÌ„ of any lousing medicine but ar loused w t the leest weight The extractioÌ„ of black Elleborê° iiii pouÌ„d of blak true Ellebo new fresh let theÌ„ be streight waies washt theÌ„ cut smal power vpoÌ„ theÌ„ this maner of streining y e iuice of Buglos Borrage of ether .ii. poundes let theÌ„ be purified strained moste diligeÌ„tly y â— they may be as pure as gold let theÌ„ be laid or set vp for a tyme. TheÌ„ take fenel rootes Cichori sperage persely of euery .iiii. vnc Iuiuba ruÌ„ sebesten of ether .ii. vnces Melon siedes cucumer siedes gourd siedes citrul siedes of euery an vnce sieth theÌ„ accordiÌ„g to art in 16. pouÌ„ds of rain water Vnto this straining power y e forsaide .iiii. pouÌ„des of iuice let theÌ„ boyll a litle at y â— fier afterward put in y â— cut beateÌ„ Ellebo sieth theÌ„ lightly by litle litle till y t the rootes appeare aboue theÌ„ pres theÌ„ out again strain theÌ„ through a filtruÌ„ sieth this strainiÌ„g to y e thiknes of hony w t a slow fier taking coÌ„tinually hied lest it â–ª be burnd to Afterward take it of the fier vse it trying experimeÌ„ting in the dosior quaÌ„titie of ministraâ—ioÌ„ from half a scrupul to a hool or further It is ministred to louse y e bely folded or moulded in a litle moystned dow vnleuened mixt with a drop or two of oyll of Anis The extraction of Rhabarbari Cut a pound of the pieces of Rhabarbarum elect small and beat it sumwhat gros and power to it y e clarified iuices of Borage and Buglos of ether two poundes let them stande .xxiiii. houres Afterward sieth them at a slowe fyer till the Rhabarbarum appeare and be higher then the rest Then pres it out strongly and put the decoction prest out through a wullen sight and pres it out that the substaunce may remaine in the sight Sieth this sighting to the thiknes of hony putting to it an vnce of y t best sugar Sum sieth in Balneo Mariae till it be thick lest it should put to whiche is better as lykewyse in a double vessell In purging giue it to be swalowed doun mixt with a drop of oyll of Cinamon and Anis foulded in vnleuened dow making a triall in the quantitie of ministracion from a scrupul to ii Sum bicause Rhabarbarum by it selfe doth not purge greatly do sharpen the hooll extraction w t a litle of the best Dacrydium which hurteth not An extractioÌ„ of pilles Take any lump or mas that y â—uo wil of pilles composed most diligently of the best medicines when it is broken into litle pieces stiep it eight daies in raine water iuice of Borage iuice of Fenell in equall porcions as muche as suffiseth Then sieth it in a glasen double vessell a hool daye then pres it out through a moste cleane wullen clothe that will lose none of his heares and sieth it againe in a bath and double vessel diligently to a conuenient thicknes and frame little pils whereof thou shalt geue .ii. scruples or ther about A matter drawne oute in this wise is most pure very tender and melteth easily in a mans hand In like maner may also the vertues of other purging medicins be drawne oute But hede must be taken that euer softening and slippery iuices be mixt therwith in the decoction such as they before are and it shall be muche the better if all be sod in a double vessel A description of a purging Electuari extracted whiche a certaine excellente Phisition at Norinberg did vse .xiii. drammes of Colocynthidis blak Elleborus senae Alexandrinae of ether an ounce of mooste white Agaricum an ounce Rhabarbarum Electum halfe an ounce or if the Rhabarbarum be not very good an ounce xiiii drams of Dacrydium Turbirh if I rede right Stichas Ara. of ether ii vnces a half ii drams of Cinamon red Roses Lignum Aloes Mastik red Mirrh Asarum spiknard Styrax liquid of euery .v. scrupuls Pour altogether and digest or putrify theÌ„ as they cal it .x. daies or .xiiii. in warm Aqua vitae thrise destilled The iuice prest out therof shal be ioyned and mixt with .iii. vnces of prepared Aloes But the Aloes did he prepare in this wise About apouÌ„d of Aloes is put into a basen caudron or pot putting therto vinegar made with Rosewater and Roosewater as much as shal be sufficient but so y t ther be more of the vinegar of Roses then of the water of Roses Let them boyle together with a slowe fire .ii. or .iii. boylinges then straine them pressing them strongly When it is strained let it boyle againe with a slow fire to the thicknes of Aloes sturring it continuallye with a slise When it is coulde let it be kepte for vse The species or particulers rehersed are firste cut
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
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
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
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
destillacion Annoynt the heade therewith and it healeth wormes the scuruinesse and scabbes pusculs and skailes It putteth awaye the spottes in the face and other wher Broken egges or egges that that lacke a shell put them in Aqua vitae and it will sieth them It healpeth the numnesse of a mannes sences called Apoplexia swellings steames tenesmum or desire to the stoole and wearynesse It amendeth the morphew beinge drunken or annoynted theruppon It maketh the skinne softe and pure To conclude it is good againste the bitinge of a mad dog It will heale any wouÌ„d excellentlye if it be washte therewith and so that no euill effect shall come therafter by the meanes of the same wound I perceiuinge Aqua vitae to be hotte and to dry did sometime mixte with it honye whereby it was bothe swieter to dryncke and gentler profitable for the colde stomacke speciallye in wynter Som mixt it with water made w t honye or rather with mede called apomelâ— which with vs coÌ„monly they make of hony coÌ„bs c. Som wet figs ther in set them on fire then eat them hot A maÌ„ may also mixt any sirup therwith one or other according as y e disease shall requyre To preserue wine y â— it be not troubled nor putrified put to it the teÌ„th part of Aqua vitae in dede sulphur is far better for the same purpose but it bewrayeth the crafte and the smell there of The same will alum do but being bothe hurtfull they are verye noysome to the health Cardane If wine by the meanes of the sauour of the vessels or taste of the grapes be corrupte and soured poure Aqua vitae into it and it will restore it The same purgeth haÌ„ging wine that is new also wine that is putrified and soured also for it conuertes vineger To conclude it bringeth a good smel and tast also to any wine be it neuer so euel or corrupt and good wine also it makes it better Albertus as some alledge When the wine is to be drawen into an empty vessel most vse to put in a ball of brimston set a fyre other vse Aqua vitae dipping towe therein Wine that is made to haue anye taste or smell out of hand in a momente is both a curious thing for rich men cheiffy which wil aduaunt them of y e sortes of wine and also profitable For the qualities of diuers remedies may be communicated by this meanes with the wine Herbes sedes or spyces whatsoeuer they be let them be poured into Aqua vitae for the space of .xxiiii. houres for so the strength of them shal be drawen out Then y e waters so affected and died shall be mixt with a lyttle wine when ye wil drink Arnoldus de vâ—lla noua How that wine is made which they calcommoÌ„ly Hippocras with Aqua vitae and certaine spices stiept therein I will declare when I shall speake of wines Of the quintessens of wine I shall speake within in the title of quintessens Of such thinges as be destilled dry put into any liquor THe thinges that be dry can not be destilled except they be stiept in some liquor Of theis wil I write in this place Of those that whiles they be new be stiept and wet in some liquor befor thei be destilled I wil speake hereafter amongst waters compoundes in the beginning Although the waters wherof we speake here may be counted among the compoundes Dry thinges therfor first let them be broken and grounde then let them be stiept in some liquor wine vineger rain water or of the wel spring and those ether raw or destilled Vineger and wine are destilled for this purpose somtimes once sometimes ofter or in some other destilled liquor They maye be stiepte also in the iuyce of som herb or plant and that likewise ether rawe orels that is better destilled Aqua vitae rectified semeth to agre best to the stieping of spyces except we wil auoyd to much heat wherwith the thynges destilled in them myghte be infected withall when the liquor is drawne awaye Some still Cinnamon beaten with spring water poured to it as we shall shewe amongste Oyles Sedes also and other spices wheroute oyle is taken are stiept in some of the forsaid liquors It is best according to my iudgement to destill all these thinges dry thinges I meane infused and poured into anything in ashes with a softe fire Of waters of vertues or golden waters that are wont to be made with saudge other smelling herbes spices set in wine I wil speke within amongst the coÌ„pounded waters of them that are put in burning water emongst the composed waters of life It is to be considered also how long they staÌ„d to soke in wine for new thinges they y t be thin or opeÌ„ not massy nede les time theÌ„ dry grosse and thick beaten things theÌ„ hole the rotes then the sedes spices they againe les then the herbs Read befor wheÌ„ we gaue rules of y e preparacion of things to be destilled The coÌ„mon custom is to destil theÌ„ almost only dry set in wine first a fewe daies as spices smelling herbes But all other things also whose smel or tast what maner so euer it be we wil haue kept in the liquor destilled they are rightly destilled by soking in wine as I taughte afore also whereas I made mention of wormwod water of the preseruation of the vertues of remedies in y e waters destilled And surely in those which when they are new abound w t much moisture therfore haue y e les smel as gentian astrantia y e flour deluce y â— beries of iuniper other I wold more alow y e liquors of drithinges set in wine or other wher but if y e thinges be thin or slendar or of no sauor or ought to coul moisteÌ„ they should be destilled rather new Sometimes the time of the yeare causeth a man to take dryethinges because of the lacke or scarsity of fresh Gentian water Take .iiii. pounds of the fresh and new rotes or rather dry cut in small peces of great Gentian or white Gentian whose rotes are moste fat and beinge set in wine they nether corrupte them selues nor suffer the wine to corrupt as I haue tried my self by the space of these ii â–ª yeres set in a couple of great glasses in a stoufnie the fornace or hang them if you wil the glasses diligeÌ„tly stopt and put into them pure good wine so much that the wine be .ii. fingers aboue theÌ„ you shal euer put new wine vnto them stil til the rotes wil drinke no more and so the wine being aboue it a two fingars as I saide let the glasses stand a moneth and at length put theÌ„ into .ii. cucurbitas y e wine and the rotes destributed together destil them in Balneo Mariae or els in ashes with a soft fire Of the water of Centory y â— les and gentian together destilled in wine
reade within amongst composed waters Iuniper beries also dry set in wine geue a very good liquor swiet smellinge but wormwode soked a few daies geueth a water very effectuall and most bitter and the more if it be destilled in ashes which both waies I haue tried Pelitory other fresh or dry is set in wine or vineger destilled or vndestiâ—led â–ª These thynges also sookte in burnynge water as I sayde do communicate theyr strength wyth it but I heare it is done muche moore effectuallye if the thynges be beaten at the beginnynge and myxte wyth the lyes of wine redye to bee destylled for of theese rather then of wine the men of our country draw Aqua vitae So also did one teache me in counsell as a greate secreate that Wormwode water and other maye be best made I haue not tried it yet Water of Roses wyth drye Roses is so made Pour water to dry Roses not more theÌ„ is sufficient to stiep them in then put them from thence into glasen cucurbitas or leaden and destill them by little and little This water shall be profitable in medicins and also to garnishing and trimming or to the smel Ther was a certain man put to one pound of dry Roses ten pouÌ„d of water and destilled Rose water indifferente good But thys is not done saue when a man hathe not newe to make Rose water of Bulcasis If the Roses whyche we call commonly incarnation Roses dried moystned with the vapor of hot water be destilled they wil geue good Rose water Syluius The water of the nux vomica or spueinge nut or the iuice gotten out with fire is like the water in colour not in smel or tast the chiefest remedy against poysoÌ„ Cardanus in his second buke de subtilitate And a little after If the poyson newly taken remain yet in the stomake the best kind of remedies be they that prouoke much to vomit stroÌ„gly milke lie oyle the water of the spewing nut I suppose he meaneth by the iuyce gotten out by the fire nothinge els but the water destilled thereof For he nameth water that is like it in colour not in smel nor tast which agreeth with destilled waters But when as the spewing nut euery whit is most hard and dry it apeareth that his shel must be sookt in some liquor as water wine vineger Aqua vitae I wold soke it rather in vineger whiche by it self resisteth poyson and is good to prouoke vomitting Waters destilled of new and fresh plaÌ„ts saith Brunsvvick ought to be preferred whiche if they can not be had ether for some other cause or because they be brought out of straunge countryes only dry as spicknarde lauander stichae scoenantum the hard time c. Thou shalt destill oute of them dry in this manner In the month of May euery yere before the sunne rise when it hath not rained the hole night the sky is fair thou shalt gather dew out of som medow ful of diuers kind of herbes and flours no watery ground nor wet nor in a holow place but rather vpon some hil if it be possible Thou maist gather it thus draw a fair linnen cloth sprede abrode vpon the grasse til it haue dronken much of the dew then wryng it out into some vessell and draw it again and fill it euer wringing it out againe til thou haue gathred inough This dew thou shalt destil thrise in Balneum Mariae and rectifye it also in the sunne that is in hot sand for the space of xl daies and kepe it a yere TheÌ„ what time of the yere so euer thou lakst liquor of dry herbes do thus Take as many herbs as thou list dried in the shadow the leaues being taken away and kepte apart by theÌ„ selues put them in a glasse and pour vpon them thrise so much water of dewe or at thre times so that first thou power on so much that the herbes be sufficieÌ„tly ouercouered with water and againe twis so muche Then set it in hors dung twoo or three daies still it and putrifie it againe so that it be thrys putrified and destilled by course in order This water surely shal be muche better then if a man as Bulcasis wryteth to one pound of dry roses or other herbes or floures shall put ten pouÌ„d of common water and destill it by and by A certaine cunning phisicion wryteth that if water bee destilled out of dry thinges after this forsaid maner sooke in dew not thrys only destilled but nyn tymes it shal be better water then if it were made of freshe and newe thinges whiche haue muche fleame in them The same affirmeth that dew nyn times destilled doth drawe out the vertues out of the herbes that be put in it no les then aqua vitae Hitherto Brunsvvick And in the dew it selfe also there is a certaine medicinall vertue as Brunsvvick techeth in an other place to be in the water therof destilled In the falling sicknes if thou make a cake of meale knod with nighterly dew of saint Iohn and bake it vnder the ashes then giue it to the sicke to eate thei say it wil make him hoal AlexaÌ„der Benedictê° Of quint essence of remedies QVint essence they name to be the chief and the heauenliest power or vertue in any plant me tall beast or in the partes therof which by y e force and puritie of the hoale substaunce not by any elimentall or sensible qualitie although it be not without qualities conserueth the good health of mans body prolongeth a mans youthe differeth age and putteth away all maner of diseases Of this first of al meÌ„ writ RaimuÌ„dus Lullê° although it wer vnknowen to al the physicians of his time nether written of in any booke nor tryed or gone aboute in any vse After him foloweth besides other Iohannes de Rupe scissa whome one certain man thinkes he flourished before Lullus as I writ afore I iudge they were both in one tyme Hieronimus Brunsvvick Philippus Vlstadius and perauenture a few other whiche writ sumwhat of the same Sum kind therof is simple as y t moste famous quint essence of wyne or Aqua vitae of chelidony or selandyn of mans bloud of strawberys of Antimonii c. Other ar coÌ„pounde that is wheÌ„ certain remedies ar put to sum quint essence now perfited y t it may draw out y t vertues of theÌ„ wherunto gold y t may be drunken ought to be assribed But here springeth a doute saith Cardane whether a man may make y e water teÌ„perat which thei cal quint essence It wil be as I shal proue of the nature of the firmameÌ„t that is a most pure thin substance moueable which by the mouing reteineth a temperat heat very muche therof This thefor is of power to coÌ„serue al strengths topro long life For being most subtil it mixith it self w t the first moistur pearcing the massy thinges separateth the excremeÌ„ts which be coÌ„teined therin And because it hath much
purgeth the bloud and preserueth a man from all corruption of the natural strength and power At once it is good for all sicke men in what disease so euer they be The element of air like vnto oyle confirmeth and encreaseth the strength and beauty of yong persons if they vse it sometimes with meate for it letteth the bloud froÌ„ corrupting by any menes It burneth vp consumeth and expelleth all salte fleame it taketh away melancholy and all brentnesse of cholor The elemeÌ„t of fire if so much as a wheat corn in quantity be mixt with the best wine ye can get and poured into a sick mans mouthe yea if he be half dead it restoreth and refresheth al the streÌ„gthes of the body for it perceth vnto the hart and maketh it warme and expelleth all poysons and moist superfluities from the hart Lullus with the quint essence of wine mixeth a little drop of thys oyle to restore theÌ„ that are about to die and past al hope in that within the .xx. part of an hour Som draw out the quint essence froÌ„ Selandine an other way and shorter They cut Selandine together with the rote and flour in smal peces they wey it pouring wel water vpon it they sethe it til it be brought to the same weighte Then they pun it in a stone morter and when the iuyce is streined out through a linnen clothe and purged from the dregges they decoct and sieth the resttil it be ad consistenciam mell is as thick as hony After they put it in a cucurbita so that it be half full by destillacion in Balneo Mariae they gather y e water or fieme Then translating the vessel into ashes they receiue the aiery oyl wherupon when they se an other kind of oyl swim aboue the fyre being encresed they set vnder an other receiuing vessel wherin the element of fire is gathered Euery one of these liquors must be rectified that it may be mete for the medicins of mans bodi that is by the repetinge the destillacion .vii. times of the water or fleme in Balneo Mariae so y t at euery time the cucurbita be diligentlye washed made cleane from the dregges which remaine whiche ought to be mixt w t the element of th earth which remaineth in the bottome of the cucurbita after y e destillation of y e fiery liquor Likewise thou shalt rectify thair destilling it in ashes .vii. times mixting the dregs with th earth Afterward y e liquor of fire likewise The earthy matter in such maner as is said afore in the other fashion To these thinges thus dressed they attribute y â— same vertues y t we rehersed afore to euerye one of them which it nedeth not to repete onlye those thinges wherin they differ we wil rehers The waterye liquor of Selandine putteth away al heats poisons out of y â— brest It is good for the stoppinges of the liuer and lunges for it consumeth y e superfiuous humors fleme Ty coÌ„clude it deliuereth a maÌ„ within the space of .ix. daies free froÌ„ all infirmities The aierye liquor suffereth no blacke choler no bitter nor fleme in y e body to get y e moisture It encreseth blud destributeth it into all the partes of the body by his pearcing Wherfore they that vse this oyle do let blud the ofter If a maÌ„ be in ieoperdy â—f losing of an eie let him drop in a drop or .ii. therof euerye daye by the space of xxx dais it shal do him merueilus much good The firye liquor is muche more effectuous then the watry or aiery helpeth where they fayle It conserueth the youthe it maketh age liuelye and youthful it refresheth y e hart being receiued w t water of a kind of whete it is saide to be elipir of life Moreouer y e earthy matter rectified by dissolucioÌ„s coagulations ielyings calinatioÌ„s sub til salt of y e erth wherwith al metals may be turned into stone al spirits may be fixed hauynge radicable naturall moisture It norisheth lepre meÌ„ Of this y e auncieÌ„t philosophers made a stone which they called y e philosophers stone The maner to receiue y â— for said liquors within the bodi is thus Three drops of y e fire of SelaÌ„dine iii. sponeful of rose-rosewater put to it a litle sponeful of y â— sanguin air y â— is the liquor of the air geue it to be drunken fasting if the disease be hot with wine and if the man be past .xxiiii. yeres of age geue it him w t Aqua vite In hot agues it ought not to be taken in no wise Al this writeth Vlstadius Of drawing out the four elementes from Selaudine and bay leaues reade also Io. Ganiuetus booke whych is entituled Amicus medicorum a frend and a louer of phisicions 4. chap. 7 Hovv quint essence is dravvn out of frutes as Appels Peres plummes Cheries Chestnuts c. out of Vlstadiê° WHen the friâ—te is small cut and stampte in a stone morter mixte it wyth the .x. part of common salt Then put it in a cucurbita with a blind limbeck and set it in hors dung as is said afore of mans blud c Oute of Floures herbes and rootes GAther the Plantes when they be well ripened in faire weather in the spring of the mone and when it is almost at y e ful wash them and cut theÌ„ very lmall beate them in a morter of marble with the tenthe part of salt and thou shalt sower them in a circulating vessel or blind limbek in hors dunge for y e space of a month Then shalt thou destill them in a nosed limbeck in Balneo Mariae encreasyng the first fire to the third degre TheÌ„ take the dregges out of the cucurbita and grineding theÌ„ very smal poure the destilled water vpon them againe and when they are putrified in dung again as before at the length thou shalt destil them deminishing the fire by the half degre Then grind the dregs again c. as before and when thou destillest theÌ„ again deminishe and lesson the fyre yet also by y e halfe degre The putrefaction also must alwaies decrease by the half degre that is to say like as in the second digestion it may be putrified by y â— space of one and twenty daies in the third .xiiii. daies in the fourth .viii. daies When the fourth destillation is done put it in a circulating vessell close aboue and beneth and large narowe in the midst with a short byl holow coming out of the vpper part of the nether bely looking vpward and let it be digested in dung or a bath with a fire of the first degre or els in y â— sun or in the dros of grapes by the space of a moneth The water shall be so muche the more precious y e oftener it is destilled And so hast y â— quint essence which not withstanding shal be the more effectual if thou shalt destil the water of the
herbes seedes or routes and poure it again vpon his owne dreges then digest it by the space of seuen daies and afterwarde destill it by ashes the very same way as it is sayd afore of selandin that euery element may be had seuerally and that rectified Of quint essence of mans bloud egges fleshe and hony HOwe quint essence is gotten out of maÌ„s bloud egges and fleshe reade Vlstadi ' the xiiii chap. They put vnto them the tenth part of salt wherwith they ar wel mingled putrified and destilled and that four tymes by cours first the one then the other and at length they are perfited by long circulation vntil they come to the moste swietnes of sauoure and pure fynnes of substance Lullus also in his first booke the .iiii. chap. mencioneth of quint essence but the printed bookes left out that that salt must be added vnto it It semeth that salt may ryghtly be added to the destilling of moyste thinges specially those that woulde easely corrupte suche as chiefly the partes of beastes are A moste precious water of Albertus magnus as I found it in a certain wryten booke Destill the bloud of a healthfull man by a glas as men dooe rose water With this any disease of the body if it be anoynted therewith is made hoale and all inwarde diseases by the drinking thereof A small quantitie therof receiued restoreth theÌ„ that haue lost all their strength it cureth the palsey effectuously and preserueth the body from all sicknes Tobe short it healeth all kyndes of diseases All be it I can nether allow the making of medicines for men of mans bloud whiche although reason and experience would moue vs vnto it yet religioÌ„ semeth to forbid it namely when there is so many other medicines c. Nether yet do I lyke the preparation of this Albertus water if it be his when as he wylles it to be destylled only once and simpely The composition that followeth hath more reason with it whiche I founde also in the same written booke Holy oyle or lyfe oyle bycause it preserueth the lyfe of man of Hevve Gordones wherewith he cured many mooste greuous diseases Three pounde of read bloud of a helthfull man or helthfull men of .xxv. or thyrty yeare olde Spermaceti the mary of neet of ether a pounde Lette them be destilled in a lymbeck well clayed and closed and a water shall issue oute first whyte the next pale the thyrde yellowe the fourth read and sumwhat thycke An oyle so destylled when the moone encreaseth and decreaseth therefore they name it holy If so be it then gyue a sycke man that hath loost boeth all his strengthe and speeche three dropes with a lyttle wyne he shall bothe speake by and by and be stronger If a man euerye daye drynke a drop of this oyle with a sponfull of wyn he shall become lusty in mynde and strong in body throughoute all his membres and shall proroge and put of age very longe and shall be hurt with no poyson It cureth also fistulas old breaches and temporall byles if they become sumwhat drye before with the washyng of wyne Anoynt freshe woundes therewith and it healeth them in three dayes It cureth the fyges or blaines of the fundament without and within It healeth diuers diseases the Leprosy the Morphew the Palsy and other if a man fastyng drynke a droppe of it with whyte wyne Many boaste muche of mannes bloud sublimated as a certayne man Bartholomevve de Montaguana made at Padua but surely he was ignoraunt howe to prepare it whiche if thou wylt vse make it on this wyse Take the bloud of sanguin yong meÌ„ vsing a good diet whyles it is newly letten and let it stande a whyle and put away the water that swymmeth aboue theÌ„ with a litle salt punned chauf it a good and put it in a vessell well closed and clayed after set it in hors dung fortie daies At the length destill it certaine tymes euer powring the water againe vpon the dregs At the last thou shalt haue a marueilous water which being mixt with sum zulapio ielup as we call it is wonderfull proffitable to them that haue the hecticall feuer It shal be y e better if after it be destilled you put it to stiep again in hors dung fortie daies A man may also mixt other holsome medicines for the hectical persones together with the bloud Gnaynerius To draw out the foure elementes from mans bloud read the booke of Ioh. Geniuetus called the friend of physicions 4. 7. Of mans bloud destilled simpely read Brunsvvick in the duche booke of destillacioÌ„s He writeth that this water and the water of mans excrementes and ordure if they be mixt together will bryng to pas certain marueylous thinges My hart riseth against suche medicines and abhorreth them Io. Bracescus is of this opinion that the olde wryters woulde signify allegorically some other thing that of metall when they speake of mans bloud as I recited before wher I write of quint essence generally Vlstadius in the .x. chap. of his booke called the Heauen of philosophers wher he teacheth how quint essence of wine is made euery element drawne out apart by him self And thys sayth he which is destilled in the seuenth time is called mannes bloude whiche the destillers chieflye searche and it is verye ayre This saithe he In deede the liquor of the aire whiche in the mooste parte of destilled thinges is oylye semeth to be called by the name of mans bloude for as much as our bodye consisteth of foure humors as elements wherof the blud is compared to air hot moyst somwhat fatâ—y c. But Ihon Brasescus mans blud is a certain metally thing so called of the color For the extracting and drawinge out of quint essence from honi which goeth to y â— making of potable gold read Vlstadius the .xii. chap. and .xxii. whereas he prescribeth also diuers waies to gather thre maner of waters and reherseth the vertues wherof he spake nothinge in the .xii. chap. declared to get out only two diuers waters Of quint essence of metals IHon Brasescê° in the dialog of Raimund and Demogorgon when he had affyrmed that quint essence whiche is profitable to the preseruacion and lengethening of mannes life can not be had of anye other thing theÌ„ of metals only he addeth at leÌ„gth When as accordinge to the opinion of the auncient philosophers euery metall after theyr simiâ—itude vertue name coloure and proprietie are coÌ„prehended in euery metall as it is plainly declared in the boke of the expositioÌ„ of Gebrus bokes therfore this our medicin also although it be extracted and drawn out of som one metal only yet neuertheles it shall haue the vertue of al metals and plantes and the vertue ouer the hole bodye of man to heale manye infirmities that be curable Ioan de Rupescissa speking of our radical and naturall moisture and of quint essence vnder the name of Aqua vitae wolde signify the
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.
pacient to drink therof in the morning .iii. vnces Epiphanius Empericus A water for the stone of the raines and blader Sperage Ruscum Apium Fenel Perslye rubia of euery one halfe an ounce fiue of the siedes of diur etica ligusticum lithospermoÌ„ Ammi Radish seselis Masliliâ—sis daucê° Saxifrage of euery one .iii. drams adianthum matricaria ceterach scolopendrum trifolium gramen senecion I vnderstande cardaminam liuerwort the sede of peucedanum of euery one a handfull halfe an ounce of the floure Deluce .vi. drammes of Xilobalsanum two ounces of Licoris .iiii. of Cummun sedes colde greater cleansed of euery one halfe an ounce grounde Iuy Pimpernel of euery one a handful a half kirnels of Cheries stones an ounce spiknard .iii. drams the gum of Iuy .vi. drams Gotes bloude prepared an ounce as much of Cinnamon when they are beaten let them be put in .x. pouÌ„d of white wine or asmuch as shal suffise destil them A like water for the same purpose is described of Rogerius in his fourth treatise and .vi. chapter but destilled with vineger not with wine A vvater for the stone described by Epiphanius a practicioner SAint Iohns wurt Chamaedrios Chamepyteos senecionis not erigerontem but sisymbrium cardamine doth he vnderstaÌ„d the gras of sinkfoyl scolopendrium helxines verbenae eupatorium peny royall rew of euery one a handfull fiue routes of diuretica Acorus inula rubea asarus tamarix of euery one .iii. drammes Fine of the siedes of diuretica saxifrage lithospermon daucus radish persely of Macedonia ammiuÌ„ marathrum carus libisticus of euery one ii drams peeche kernels half a dram four of the cuÌ„mon siedes cold greater clensed of euery one a dram and a half Lycoris .ii. vnces Iuniper beries half an vnce When thies are beaten let them stande infused in fiue poundes of wyne then destill them with a slow fyre Giue the sick to drinck other after bathing early in the morning warm from halfe an vnce to two vnces Certain vvaters composed destilled with vinegar OF vinegar it selfe destilled reed before where we entreeted of waters destilled in Balneo Mariae A water that breaketh the stone in y e bladder described by Epiphanius a practicioner ii poundes of the iuice of saxifrage the iuice of milium of the sun Persely Anise of euery halfe a pound whyt vinegar eight vnces destill a water therof and giue it to drinke fasting A water of Swalowes is thus made Yonge Swalowes when they ar beaten to pouder mixt them with Castorio and a litle good vinegar and destill them this water drunke of one fasting is a trewe medicine of the falling sicknes what cause so euer it cum of And although a man haue had that disease .v. yeres he shal be heeled if he drinke of this water a litle for the space of foure daies he shal be heeled perfectly The phrenesey also if it be drunken fasting is cureth by it within nyne daies It maketh a good brain more then al other medicines It purgeth the stomacke it mollifieth the brest it coÌ„forteth the sinues it taketh the palsey away by the routs it encreaseth nature it heteth them that be couled Also sodde with Hyssop with a decoction of Hyssop doo I allowe rather and drunken it cureth the Dropsey sprung of cold and agues cotidians But let wemen with chylde absteyn from it leest their fruit be destroyed therwith Drunck with Hyssop it dryueth awaye the heed ache it maketh a man sliep easely and it forthereth concoction and the auoyding of the vrin otherwyse y e bely It putteth away hear whersoeuer it is anoynted vpon the pure skin so that they neuer grow again Lullius and Aegidius VVaters of Capons WAters of Capons as men call them ar giuen to drinke to restore the strengthe to women in chyldbed or old sickmen in diseases of great weacknes or through to muche euacuation They are wont to sieth the capon very long in water that al the flesh may fal from the bones and be destilled together with the liquor ether by it selfe or other precious waters put vnto it and spices gold syluer and precious stones Sum allow the capon the more the elder he is nether do they cut his throot but strangle chooke him nether do they pluck of his fethers by hoot water or skalding him but with their hands dry and so when his bowels are taken out and he is cut in small pieces they destill hym Other do not take away all but the guttes only A water of a capon restoritiue and sumwhat bynding Thou shalt sieth the capon in water according vnto the arte put to it a pounde of rose-water conserue of roses borage buglos of euery one an vnce Of both kyndes of corall of ether of them two drams of the spyces diarhodon abb a dram Small rasins without y â— curnels an vnce Coriander prepared half an vnce the fregmentes of all precious stones pearles of euerye one an vnce and a half Let them be destilled An other Let the Capon be sod with a pound of bief til it be sufficiently sodde whereunto thou shalt ad Malmsey Roose water of ether halfe a pounde white breade that it maye be sookte .iii. ounces thou shalt beat these without the bief and put to these spices folowing Spices electu of precious stones Diarhodon Abbatis Diamoschu that is swiet of euery a dram Diamargariton spices of confection agaynste the Pestilence of ether two scrup .viii. leaues of pure golde Mixte them all with the iuyce or brothe and let them be destylled wyth a slowe fyre Some dres this water with saffron and cinnamon c. for wemen in child bed whiche be bothe weake and theyr flours or loosenes of their body commeth not forwarde It is ministred ether alone or with suger Some also dres it withoute destillacion thus They sethe very long an old capon boyled drest accordingly then they beat smal the guts and the bones and in a tinnen or glasen vessel wel stopt set in a caudron ful of sethinge water they sieth it for the space of .vi. houres Som cast gold into it as rings or coynes of golde A certain water with a capon or a cock or a hen soden together with diuers coÌ„fortable medicins is described in Gnainerius in the chapter of curing y e hectical or coÌ„suming feuer not to be destiled but sodeÌ„ only in a glaseÌ„ vessel put in a ketle of water VVaters composed for diuers diseases within y e body chiefly wherof some are made of medicins and iuyces whiles they be yet newe other are infused and put into the iuices of plaÌ„ts or waters destilled whay or bloud A Water causing slepe .ii. vnces of Henbane an vnce of the rotes of Mandragora vi drams of Popy Gith Aumber of ether of them .ii. draÌ„s sedum the bigger and the les the water Lily Lett es of euery one an handful when they are pund let them be put in .ii. pouÌ„d of water of popy with an ounce and a
writen booke TAke a Wether that is all whyte and in good plyt and well lyking cut his throot receiue y e bloud and stur it whyle it is fresh and new a good space with a stick of red Iuniper and euer in the sturring cast away the clotes that is gathered of the bloud or lopperd bloud Then cast in the shauinges of the same Iuniper the beries of Iuniper that be red lykewyse to the number of .xxv. And vnto thies a litle of Agrimony Rew Pheu Scabious Veronica commonly so called Pimpernell Cicory Peny royall of euery one a handful If so be it the mesure of the bloud excied thre Sextarts then put to it .ii. vnces of Triacle but if it be les according the portion of the bloud thou shalt lesson the mesure of Triacle They must al be prepared redy at hand that they may be put into the bloud whyle it is yet warme When they are all mixt draw out a stilled liquor whiche thou shalt kiep diligently in a glas and set it in the sun .viii. daies for it wil endure for .xx. yeares it is knowē by experience that this liquor is excellent good against the pestilence the impostumes of the heed and the sydes or ribes or against the diseases of y e liuer and lightes the inflacion of the splene corrupt bloud ague swellinges trēbling of the hart the dropsy vnnatural heates il humors and chief ly aga ynst poysons and the pestilent ague The sick that is taken with any of the foresaid diseases shall drinke a spounful or .iiii. or .v. droppes and procure hym self to sweete Of pur ging medicines composed destilled THey also are to be called cōposed waters that ar destilled of medicines composed stiept in wyne burning water or other liquor Certain cōpositions of spices to restore the strengtes of the hart and the spirites are mixt with waters of capons drest by destillations as I sayd before also with burning waters or rather Quint essence of wyne against the pestilence and poysons as we declared before But also purging medicines Electuaria chiefly in the whiche Dacry dium and other vehement thinges hurtfull to the stomack are receiued mixt with the liquors specially with burning water rectified or with wyne perauenture also with milke and wyne or with milck or whay alone in hoot natures and diseases it should dooe well and sumtimes let stande in infusion or sooking they are artificiously destilled that thei may be giuen to drinck to them that are deinty or rich or exceeding weake or haue their stomack abhorring against other medicines whiche Lullius also prayseth greetly and certain practicioners of any acquaintaunce haue vsed it with prayse I know a certain man that destilled chiesly an electuary named Hamech that whiche is of y e iuice of Roses and gaue to drinke vnto the weeker sort the liquor that he receiued by it selfe to them that were stronger he myxt sum of the elctuary with it and so he said he purged sick men without any grief With Helleborum is a water made that restoreth youth such one sawe I my father haue But suche waters vex the bodies and make a fallible image of youth Cardanus Gold Potable or that may be drōken OF potable gold who so list he may read much in the booke of Vlstadius whiche he nameth the heauen of philosophers in the boke of Lullus of quint essence That there is vertue in gold whiche commeth of it made hot and quenched in water that maye be an argumente that the water wherin a wedge of iron or golde is slekt is commended of Nicander against the poyson called Aconitum for it semeth to be vnderstanded of water wherein these mettalles shoulde be quenched when as he nameth none other liquor Quench saith he red hat iron or the dros of iron or red hot golde or siluer dip it in a troubled potion or drink Where the expositer saith Quensh iron in water and drink it and a litle after quench the dros of iron in hony drinck the intinction so calling the liquor wherein anye any thing is quenched Dioscorides bids to quēch in wine as Auicenna also hath and Aegineta and also Aetius who saith that a miln stone so slekt is holsom and that the wine should be druncke hot with these wordes and the dros of iron or iron it self or gold or siluer red hot quēched in wine if y t liquor be dronk And trueli it semeth that wine is more apt to receiue y e vertue of gold then water When as I on a time tasted water wherin golde was often quenched I could perceiue no quality of the sauor or the tast to be altered in it Again it is credible y t burning water specially suche as is brought vnto quint essēce doth draw more strēgth of the gold thē wine the more if the gold be beaten into most thin plaits most of all if it be betē into pouder But the oyl that coms of golde shall pas al these As for gold simplely sod as in y e brothe of capōs there is no strength in it all except a mās opinion cādo any thing as I beleue withal learned men for the most part Of the vertues of gold rede Auicenna in his secōd boke 78. cha But because y e purest is to be chosē for medicins I wil bring in here Plinies words out of his 33. boke a bout th end of the .iiii. chap. of y e purging of gould Let gold be rosted broyled with thrise as muche in weight of the clots or lūps of salt and agayne w t .ii. procions of salt one of the stonecalled schiston so it yeldeth his strength to the things burnt with it in an earthen vessel it self remaining pure vncorrupted I coniecture y t Plini in this place did mistake schistū the stone for schistū an alū for in an other place the. 35. boke 15. cha he writeth y t gold is purged with black alū That kind of Alum is most excellēt of al other that is called schistum yea and the reason taken of the vertues makes more for Alum for he saith gold is purged w t salt only and schistu◠put vnto it but Alum hathe more like effect vnto salte then the stone Schistos wherunto the old writers ascribe none other vertue but y t which it hath cōmun w t the Haematit of which kind it is that is to stop bloud But Alum is taken and vsed in the purging of metals also in Aqua Forti as they call it Notwithstanding Plini may be excused because the worde stoone is more cōmon and of larger signification with hym for he nameth both quick siluer and manye other metally things stones wherfor he might call the Alum Schiston by the name of Schiston Albeit he shoulde not haue so done for the difference of that which is proprely called a stone Schistus In the same place of Plini after the words now rehersed is put The rest of the ashes that is to
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
vpon longer then it shoulde be least the water taste of burning If .ii. vrinals be set together the vpper full of Roses and set in the sunne with a linnen clothe betwixte a moste swiet water destilleth into the nether Syluius Roose water Moschata how it is made by the sun by descencion we prescribed afore in y e Chapter of swiet waters The liquor of yelow violet floures that destilleth by it self into a vial of glas amendeth the eie liddes that be turned inside outward A vessell is filled with the floures whiche are sooked a good meany of daies continuallye in the sunne wherevpon a certaine liquor is gathered in the bottom whyche is verye holsome to be put into the eyes Alexander Benedictus Take the tender buddes of Fennel before they florish or go abrode full of iuyce with the leaues Put these in a Phiall of glasse but fyll it not vp turne it vp side downe and put the mouth of it into an other Phiall vnder it and close it with dow that the spirites brethe not oute Put the Phials in some hoole in a wall towarde the hotest southe sunne So within .vi. houres or there about thou shalt haue a mooste profitable water to sharppen the sight and for blearednesse whose goodnesse a frend of mine tryinge vppon him selfe who also made the water his self shewed me and made me priuy vnto it Scillae whiles they be fresh and newe the vtter barke pulled of cutte with a knife are put into a vessell full of hooles in the bottom couered aboue well closed with clay The bottom of this pot is put into another put vnder it in a pit of the earth and the ioyning of the pots is compassed w t clay cloos Then make they a fier about the vpper part of the pot by the space of one night .x. houres or more Soo the water runneth in to the nether pot whiche mixt with meel or breed it killeth mys quickly that taste of it the sooner if thou mixt a litle Litharge or whyt Leed Bulcasis in his second booke and Syluius out of him Sumtimes certain waters and oyles ar made by descencion lyke as of Roseny tries when they are burnt pitche Syluius But of Oyles which ar made by descention we wil speeke hereafter Certain are made by a middle way between a discention and ascention as Oyll of Coperos by a Cucurbita layd along ouerthwart vpon the syde Destillation in Asshes or Sand or Dros of metall beeten c. IN Asshes are bothe waters and oyles destilled Waters with a moste gentle soft heet whiche thou shalt discerne by touching with thy hand both the asshes and also the vessels of destillacion And perauenture there is no difference for the destillacion of any kind of waters in Balneo Mariae or in Asshes if so be it thou obserue the measure of y e fyer For in Balneo Mariae the water that y e stillatory is put in may be skalding hoot the ashes may not be to hoot that is when herbes rootes flowers or any liquors ar destilled to deriue a water of thē Men thinke them to be made so muche the swieter les smelling of any fyrines and brenning being destilled in suche ashes because the thinge is doone more softly and with more leysur so that the heed or lid be not hoot and sumtymes betwene the falling of the drops a mā may tel swiftly til he cum at fifty But the Oyles haue nied of a gretter fire and a more vehement heet that is a dryer therefore although it may bee rightly doone in ashes whatsoeuer is done in water yet not cōtrary for oyles may be made in ashes but none in siething water But this thing shal be more euident herafter where we shall teache of Quintessence The destillacion by asshes is easy and redy if an earthen or brasen vessell diep inough and able to receiue the Cucurbita or body of the still be filled with fyne asshes and sifted or fyned sand so ful that the matter to be destilled which is in the vessell may be cleen within the ashes and no part of it aboue This vessell full of ashes shalt thou set vpon fiue or six iron barres which ar laid ouerthwart from one syde to an other that is to saye .iii. sydes of the furnace being layd they shall occupye two of them the further syde it shall not nied if it be done against a wall The foor part of this .iiii. cornerd bielding shal be lefte open that the fyer may be made and put vnder therat The length of euery syde is sufficient to be one foote long the heigth six fingars or there aboute All thies shall we strengthen euery where with clay and pieces of shelles mixt together that the heet may the better be kept in .ii. breething hooles left in the corners But this maner is for vpon a soden and only miet for one vessel I bielded once a more laborious fornace on this sorte In a corner of the house I raised a foundacion of brick and lyme a foote and a halfhy Vpon the foundaciō or harth a round fornace with one narowe door long and brode lyke a lytle brick so that a hand may be put in which is set vp when I lyst to shit the fornace There were .iii. ventes or breethyng hooles the height of the fornace was about .x. inches Aboue this fornace ther was an iron plait laid of y e same compas of .ii. foote or more broode through the midst about this was an edge raysed of vnburnt brick for vnto the fornace I tooke burnt brick in a compas wyse the heigth of two hand breed This round place aboue the plait was filled w t asshes in y e ashes round about was ther set about fyue stilles of glas that at one tyme and with one fyre many waters or Oyles might be destilled together Rounde about the fornace was well fensed with wrought claye with verye salte water wherewith sum Hors dounge was myxt This kynd of fornace is surely very cōmodious bycause it niedeth litle fier whiche also it selfe in this forme endureth very long that it is almoste inough to see to the fyer morning and euening But it must bee made only of cooles whiche are put in to the fornace with a litle fyer shouell only that they may be goten in at the litle dore hansumly the edges of this fier shouel must be a litle turned vp that it may holde the cooles y e better Ther is nied also of long iron fyershouel as the fornace shal require turned in at the end according to a streigth corner and ther in the end to be sumwhat made broder wherwith the cooles within may be moued and laid as a man will haue them and put down frō the other fier shouel But thies thinges are better knowen by experience In this kynd of fornaces and how soeuer they be in asshes bothe other kindes of waters and oyles as I sayd are rightly prepared and chiefly such dry
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
the substaunce therof and afterward to be destilled Oyl of Belzoum Thou shalt water a pound of Belzoum or more groos beeten with burning water and in a crouked stil with a receiuer set vnder thou shalt destill it in ashes with a slow fyer first and afterwarde with a great fyer This oyll hath an excellent and moste swiet smell The watery liquor that runneth out ought to be kept seuerally Furnerius Oyll of Styrax out of y e same Thou shalt beete somwhat groos Styrax Calamita that whiche is full of iuice and fat water it with the best Aqua vitae then destill it in a crouked still as the oyll before and kiep the water by it selfe This oyll excelleth with a marueilous fragraÌ„t swiet sauour Oyll of Camphora Looke before in the wawater of camphora amongste the simple waters destilled Of oyle of Turpentine or larigna resina PVt .iiii. pounde of Turpentin Rosin or of larix in a larg croked stil or cucurbita of glas and destilling it get out an oyl so that the cucurbita or croked stil be put in sand first of al with the water shall an oyl issue a thin and clere oyl secondly of the colour of gold last a duskish and thick take euery one of these by them selues and reserue them Valerius Cordus More of oyl of Turpentin and of the preparinge of it and of the hertues thereof wryteth Ryffius which I for shortnes sake let pas This is chiefly tobe taken hede of that in the destilling it sieth not as in hony also for they rise and swel quickly these liquors when they are made hot wherfor at the first the fire must be made very light scleÌ„der and encresed by litle and litle and the lembek according as the act requireth must be refrigerated and couled Some put vnto it slate tiles groselye beaten or white flints or sand washt and dried again or the leues of Iuye and a litle glas groose beaten such certain things are added also in the destilling of hony that they may let this risinge kepe iâ— froÌ„ sâ—thing ouer I woldad little peces of slates or flints wet with old oyl or som medicinable thing as in oyl Benedict y t by the same means both the â—iething might be letted and the vertue of the oyle incresed The descriptioÌ„ folowing maketh with me which I found in a certain wryten boke Take pure sande or little white and cleare flintes and put them ouer the fire in a vessell till they wax red hot then quench them in turpentin that they may drink wel and that sand quenched destil it in a lembeck Some commend oyl of turpentin for the grief of the stone Also those oyl of Turpentyn of a pound of Turpentyn an ounce of old tile slates or as Albucasis saithe newe tile slates because they may drink the more oyle and Mastik and Styrax of ether an ounce The tyles made red hot are slekt in oyl when they are queÌ„ched and pund they are mixte with the other in a lembeck of glas Thre liquors run out wherof y â— third is the best Iac. Hollerius amongst oils without smel for could greues Otherwise out of a writen boke In a cucurbita half ful of Turpintyn put a handfull of glasse pund and .ii. sponges of the quaÌ„tity of .ii. fingers the number is left out and put according to the art of Alchymistes fire about the cucurbita let the fire be continued .xxiiii. hours when the first destillacion is finished destill it again renuing y â— glas the cucurbita and the sponges To put awai skars or rather to asswage and mollifie them oyl of Turpentin doth chiefli profit except those that remain after warts For they that commend this oyl for the putting awaye the markes of wartes they are deceiued Brasalonus Oyl of Tartarum sublimated Put Tartarum beten in a vessell a cucurbita of glas parieted wyth claye or an earthen cucurbita and when it is put inalembek of glas destil it First of all water wil run forth then oyl whiche thou shalt receiue by it self encreasing the fire by little and little til it leue running The dutch writen boke Certain practicioners coÌ„mend the spirit or quintessence of Tartarum against inward impostumes kings euil Oiles of barkes OYl of Cinnamon is made as we declared before out of Cardanus how oyles be drawn out of woodes and like thinges as Cloues where is also described the instruments Or els as we described out of Ryffius of the drawing out of oyls of all kinds of spices CinnamoÌ„ may be stiept about viii daies in burninge water .vi. times destilled and theÌ„ be destilled as I was informed of a freÌ„d Here wil I rehearse also the waye to make water as they call it of Cinnamon for in the destillation also hereof oyl foloweth at length although but litle and because of the discommodity of adustion and breÌ„tnes vnprofitable to be vsed within the body but y e water is most noble most profitable y â— description wherof a certain freÌ„d of late seÌ„d vnto me on this wise The fornace instrumeÌ„ts must be in all poyntes suche as are vsed for burninge water with a pipe passing through a vessel full of colde water whyche excepte I be deceyued shall be better if it bee somewhat longe that is of the lengthe of .v. Romain fote what maner a one or rather longer an other shewed vs he had seene in the destillacion of this water but peraueÌ„ture it shal be les nied of such a long one wheÌ„ no great plenty of water is destilled It maye also be destilled in a Cucurbita of glas parieted with clay after the manner of Aqua fortis and perauenture it wold be best that way Put a pound of the best Cinamon pund not sifted in the bottome of a stil warely least the pouder sâ—ir abrode or cleue to the sides by and by pour to it a .iii. pintes of freash water the couer laid vpon it a receiuer set vnderneth make a litle fire of cooles The water y t runneth out first is soÌ„what thick like oyl but ther must be diligent hede taken that assone as it shal chaung the colour y t the receiuer also be chauÌ„ged The secoÌ„d water runs soÌ„what whiter theÌ„ chauÌ„g it again take an other receiuer so forth til the dregs issue out The water of the fourthe chaunging is most clere which when it begins to wax yelow streightway the couer the pipe muste be takeÌ„ away because y e busines is now ended al y e vertue of the Cinnamon is drawn out This hole matter may be don in .iii. or .iiii. houres but there must be a cople of meÌ„ about this destillacion the one to mark the alteration of the liquors and see that the fire be no bigger then it oughte and that the liquor run not to faste oute The other shall see that the Vessell wyth coulde water where through one part of the pipe passeth be according
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
it taketh all the spottes or fracknes from them out of hande if they be once washt therwith thre daies and maketh thē swiet smelling cleer This is called y e water of Balm or mother of Balm It oughte to be destilled in a lembeck in a baith with a slow fyer with Aqua vitae of the same weight And y e first water shall run furth odoriferous and maruelous whiche thou shalt receiue by it selfe then an other of the colour of safron the third at length lyke bloud The vertues of the first and of the secōd water are thies If the one of thē be poured in to a woūd whyles it is new there needeth none other remedy But within a naturall daye and a halfe at the moste it shal be made hool so be that it be no deed wounde All ill soores or byles Old roten Cankred Fistula Lupus Noli me tangere and lyke to them let them be washt with ether of thies waters and they shal be heeled within a fewe dayes One drop only dropped vpon a Carbuncle quensheth it within .iii. houres If an eye be diseased w t blerednes or the web or the naill or any swelling carnosity bred vpon it drop one drop of thies waters vpon it euery third day and within nyne daies it shal be hool except it be vtterly destroyed A drop of them drunk with a litle good wyne breketh the stone in the reines or in the bladdar or in the yard stopped and that within two houres deliuereth from the grief If deed flesh be washt away therwith the place is shortly made hool If a womā be sick of her womb or bely let her drink a litle of them with sum iuice If a man haue any grief of a stroke or by chaunce without any byll or heed let the place be bathed and washed with a litle of them and the grief shall go away within iii. houres By the like helpe a sinewe shrunken waxen hard or otherwyse ill at ease is restored The rest of their vertues a learned physicion shal imagin by him selfe The thirde and bloudy water whiche surnamed holy and blessed is so excellent in vertues that if one vse halfe a sponefull of it .xv. daies he shal be cured of the leprosy pthisick or consumptiō Astma or disease of short wynde the dropsy palsy Ischia or Sciatica the swounding the fallyng sicknes the drop in the ioyntes called the goute y e consuming feuer the strangury and many other diseases and that within two monethes It recouereth youth vnto old men a man that lyeth a dying out of all hope of the physicions it restoreth him if one drop of it let fall into his mouthe bee swalowed so that it may cum to the hart If so be it a man drinke a yeare together euery daye the quantitye of a wheate corne of this liquor with a sponefull of water of borage destilled like Rose-water after the yeare is ended he shall seeme as though he were made new in his flesh blud and hole body both in form and strength An other Artificial balm out of the same boke of Lullius of waters Turpentyn a pounde and a halfe Galbani two ounces Aloes Cicotrinae Mastik Cloues Galangall Cinnamon Nutmegs Cubebarum of euerye one an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce When al is wel beaten mixt them and destill them in a lembeck of glas with a slow fire first and gather the first water by it self seuerallye then encreasing the fyre a water somwhat reddishe and afterwarde encreasynge it more an oyle of a redde coloure till nothinge runne anye more chaunginge the receiuer thryse This oyle hathe all the vertues of true Balme For it burneth in the water and courdeth milcke by and by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pint of Milcke it shall forth with become courded The firste liquor is called water of Balme the second oyl of Balme the thirde Balme Artificiall The fyrste is profitable againste the runnynge of the eares if two or three droppes mornynge and eueninge be put into them Dropte into the eyes it amendeth the blearednesse and consumeth the teares It dothe meruelouslye restreine superfluous humors in anye parte of the bodye It taketh away the touthache if they be washt therwith and killeth the wormes if there be anye in them Ther third liquor wil suffer no venom is an vtter ennemy and destruction to spiders and Serpentes Two or .iii. drops let drop into anye venemous bitinge do make it hole streight If thou draw a circle with this liquor shit a venemous beaste therein it shall dye there rather then goe out of it To he short it doth the same thinges all that Triacle dothe but more effectually all thynges Being poured or put vpon any impostume within .ix. daies it healeth them and likewise a fistula be it neuer so ill and also a Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleume and colde humors it healeth them if a linnē cloth dipped in it be laid vppon the place where the grief is It putteth away vtterly the Palsy and all tremblinge of mēbers it strengtheneth meruelouslye the sinewes It is hoter then the first and second If a mā put a drop of it in his hand it perceth streighte without grefe To cōclude it doth many other things and all diseases risen of a colde cause it healeth them if they vse it right A water strengtheuing the memorye Floures of Roosemarye Borrage Camomell Violettes Rooses of euerye one an ounce Stichadis Baye leaues Samsuchi Sage of euery one .ii. ounces When they are all cut small thou shalt soke them in the best wine and destill them by a lembecke After the liquor is destilled thou shalt mixt with it a pounde of Turpintyne .viii. ounces of Olibanum Mastik Bdelli Anacatdorum of enerye one an ounce when they are all beaten mixte them with the other and destill them again Then adde vnto them againe Nutmegs Mace Galangall Cubebarum Cardamomi of euerye one an ounce Agallochi Amber Muske of euery one .ii. vnces if the written booke be true when they are beaten and mixte let them stande .v. daies and destill them the third time encreasing the fire til the oyl seace droppinge Certain waters of life to be reckened amongst Balmes shalt thou finde in Vlstadius boke called Caelum Philosophorum the .xliiii. liī chap. A balme of an vncertaine author Turpentin halfe a pounde Frankensence .ii. ounces woode of Aloes Saffron of either of them an ounce Mastik Cloues Mace Galangall Cinnamon Zedoariae Cubebarum Nutmegges of euery one halfe an ounce Gumme of Iuy or Elemi vi ounces slating tiles quenched in oyl accordingli such as neuer water touched .iii. vnces Pūd those that ought to be pund first will water issue forthe secondly oyl of Balm thirdly balm artificiall Balm artificiall saith Matthaeolus Senensis in his commentaries vppon Dioscorides whyche I tried and found of maruelus strēgth against very many diseases haue I made cōposed in this wise Take rosin Larignae
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
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
resistith venemous bytings It healeth al maner of impostumes and dropsy continuing it It is good for the limes that be resolued if it bee chawfed vpon with an Ox gaull It helpeth the splen with Tamarindis with water of Radish and and sea bremble it expelleth the stoone openeth the stoppinges of theines It healeth all agues w t water of Agresta certain kyndes of leprosy coÌ„tinuing the vse of it This is the trew potable gold and the trew SelaÌ„dyn or Chelidonia more also in weigth it giueth not place to gold it hath the same as many vertues as potable gould A litle of it with a litle water of Roses drunk restoreth y e speche that is lost it stinteth the bleding at y e nose with Roses Of the burninge or broylinge of Chalcanthum that is Vitriol and his kindes Bulcasis writeth in a maner the same things in his thirde boke of the preparacion of medicines whiche we haue declared afoore in his preparacion for the makinge of Vitriol Zimor also he teacheth to prepare after the same maner But emongst diuers wayes of this oyl of Vitriol I lyke that best which I described last For the liquor that is destilled that way is the sharpest of all and also the tartest in so muche that it may be called vinegar of metal as me thinketh Wherfore of certain it is highly commended for the quenshing of thirst in somer tyme one drop of it put into a draught of wyne lyke as I found in a certain doutch writteÌ„ booke where as this also is added Vitriolum is destilled in a bely laid ouerthwart fensed w t clay in the flames of the fyer it runneth out skant the third day and first water An other way out of the same booke Stiep Vitriol in Aqua fortis whiche may drawe out all the fatnes therof from the which if thou separate the Aqua fortis by destillacion an oyll shall remaine But perauentur this way is to daungerous that a liquor so destilled should be receiued within the body But without the body and to the wheeles or cankar of the mouth it may well be ministred I remember I haue red in sum place in Lulliê° in his worke of Quintessence where he maketh meÌ„cion of oyl or Quintessence of Vitriol But in what sort it should be made I could neuer yet fynde in any booke that went abrode so greatly haue they all kept secret this thing as a marueylous mystery For the description whiche I will declare here after out of the boke of Nicolas Massa vpon the disease of Naples can not be receiued within y e body When the Chalcanthum that is the Vitriol or Mysis that is Vitriol of Rome is brent an oyll moste sharp hoat is drawen out of it by the force of the fyre in vessels of glas wherwith if a man touche wartes when they ar cut or wounded they will go away The same if a maÌ„ tast it it striketh the tong lyke as it were a hoat iron Yet the vse of it is to dry byles within that be out of hoope of recouery wher as thei be not much filthy as it chauÌ„ceth in certain that be diseased of Phthoe corrupcion matter without grief It serueth also to cut of cancars corrupt members with the wood Oliue anoynted with it Cardanus The same coniectur we wryte before that oyl of Mysis or arsnick anoynted without may seme to deliuer froÌ„ poysoÌ„ The spirit or Quintesseuce of Vitriol is praysed of certain practicioners against the falling sicknes and Apoplexia or benumming of sences Shomakers inck lowseth the bely both in hony and meed drunck to the weight of a dram also in wyne specially the oyll therof George Agricola in his .iii. boke of the nature of things digd out of the ground Oyl of Vitriol doth kill not only men but tries wherfor it must be made in sum out syd or place where no man dwelleth Albucasis other shew the way of making it Brassauolus In myne opinion not the oyl but y e smoke of Vitriol whyles it is brent with fier prepared vnto destillacioÌ„ is so hurtful And again of ChalcanthuÌ„ y t is vitriol oyl is made so burning that we vse it for poteÌ„tiall fyer for it is of a caustical y u is a burning nature with litle grief it cutteth members if they be touched with a knief anoited with Oliues Whyles y e oylis preparing ye must take hede of the smoke bycause it doth not only kyl men but also the tries that be nye it drieth theÌ„ vp The tryal wherof FraÌ„ciscus de MoÌ„te the notable bone setter whose tries of his archard euery one died w t the smoke of Vitriol whyles he prepared the oyll therof The oyl of Vitriol is maruelous burning lyke a hoat iroÌ„ without grief is made in this maner xxx vnces of Vitriol of Rome or of Cypres Salnitrum roche Alum of ether .iiii. vnces When they are all beten let them be calcionated with fier according to arte Afterward put this calcionated in a croked Bocia clayed for the fier of an alchymists fornace and by the fier thou shalt haue the oyl incresed in the receiuer which is a marueilous Cauterium or burning thing and hath no pere in any operacion and chiefly in takyng away of wens great wartes But the receiuer must be great if thou wilt make the forsaid oyl Nicolas Massa in his boke of the disease Naples and Thomas Philologus who taketh .xx. drames of Vitriol but of Alum and salt of ether xxiiii ¶ A water of diuers metals out of a certain dutch boke for the leprosi spots dunnes of the eies The filing of siluer coper stiele gould of euerye one as muche as ye can get the first daye put it in vryn whyles it is warm made by a boy or wenche that is a maide the next day in the crums of hoat bread the third in a whyte of an egge the fourth in the milke of a woman y t nurseth a wenche the fift in reed wyne Then put all thies into a still destill them with a litle fyer and kipe it For the vertue of it is incoÌ„parable It is good against the leprosy and al the spots in the face and it procureth vnto the face a youthfull brightnes it maketh also cleernes of y e sight thies shalt thou reed otherwyse in the Addicions vpon the Breuiarium or Bridgment of Arnold de Villa Nona 1. 18. Of Aqua fortis and such lyke _â—E described a litle before a certain water lyke Aqua fortis destilled of Vitriol Sal Nitrum and Alum against greate wartes c. But the commun Aqua fortis also and the simple oyl of Vitriol if a man put a drop of them in to a wen or warte first cut they take it away of the whiche thing I made a tryall in my self vpon a sied wart on my fyngars ende wherinto when I had first cut it with a razer I put a drop of
and pres it out strongly Lykewyse stiep new Hypericon sieth it and presse it put to it .iii. vnces of Turpintyn six vnces of old oyll a scrupull of Saffron Sieth it till the wyne be consumed This oyll saith Syluius no man knoweth who was the author of it Yet Galen wryteth that Tart or harsch wyne wherin the leeues of Androsaenni or Ascyri whiche are kyndes of Hypericon are solde doth cloose great woundes and as sum thinke Hypericon hoat dry and of subtill partes is holsome for them to drynke that be diseased w t ache in the hippes or Sciatica Of the whiche the vertues of other mixt heer thou maiest gather y ◠whiche oyl strengtheneth digesteth and sclendereth For it is composed of contrary substaunces Sylui. vpon Mesuen Brassa putteth the same discriptiō in Examine simplice 519. chap. Sum saith he put simpely the flowers into a glased vessell y ◠the oyl may be gotten out by it self w t the strength of y e sun other dig it vnder y e ground other make it by infusing ether of the flowers alone or other mo thinges mixt with it as we haue declared alredy out of the wordes of Syl. Thus prepared in a glased or glas vessell they keepe it But thies thinges are cleerly expounded of Mesue newer authors Thies Brassauo Sum put to it wormes or bowels of the earth and let it stande a moneth or more in a wine cellar in a pot stopt with clay or past thē they sieth it by litle litle in y ◠same about ten houres they strein it through a bag pres it That is the best that is streined first The colour of the oyl is almost red the tast is sumwhat sour The vse of it is for woundes prickinges and all kyndes of offensions and the swellinges that cum therupon Sum vse them to the greuous soores of the legges An other cōposition of oyl of Hypericon which healeth any wound great or small within .xxiiii. houres out of a certain boke imprinted in french without an author A handfull of Hypericon Cōmun oyll two poundes a pound of Axungia that is swynes grees clarified streined Turpintyn of Venice the third part of a pound A dram of saf fron Cut all small and fyne and mixt them in a great phiall of glas whiche when thou hast stopt diligently with wax and otherwyse set it in dong two foot diep or more in a place that the morning sun beemes and euening may cum to it At the length when the yeare is gone about take out the phial in the whiche thou shalt fynde an oyll lyke vnto Balm That must ye vse as hoat as may be suffered An oyll is made also of Iuniper beries by expression as of other siedes Brassauo An oyll of the beries of Bayes and Iuniper stept in wyne is beatē out with a miln wery profitable for thē that haue griefe in the hukle boon and colde diseases of the ioyntes Iac. Hollerius Oyl of Baies The beries of Baies grene and beten let them be sod in oyl and streined An other way Beat the rype beries of Baies with y e leues sieth them and strain them Otherwise set the beries beaten in wine and when they are stiept .iii. daies let them be prest out in a pres Or els fresh and ripe beaten let thē be put in a sak and the oyl drawn out It is holsome againste the colick the disease of the great guts the Sciatica Rogerius Oyl out of the Myrepsical Nutte prest with an Anuil and a redde hotte iron is gotten oute Iac. Hollerius Oyles to asswage griefes are made of certain herbs brused together and sod in oyl as of Calen dulae Mary goldes Rosemary Maioram and other Iac. Hollerius Oyl of Nutmegs Cut them in smalpeces and when they haue stand .iii. dais infused in Malm sye drye them in the shadow .ii. daies then warm them moderatly in a fryinge pan and thou shalt sprinkle them in the meane season with Rosewater and pres them out in a pres Cardan I hear say som do not stiep them in wine but pres the very nuts alone beatē and heated I my self made of late verye good in this wise beinge taught of a certain French man I put in a glas about .v. ounces of Nutmegs somwhat grose beten for the space of one nighte in wine so that the wine was higher by a finger bredthe The nexte day I shut y e matter in a sack of linnen bound at the end that they could not fal out Thē I bound euery wher with thred that they shuld not com all together on a hepe But the matter must firste be warmed in a skellet not to much but as much as a finger may suffer and so put in a litle bag must they be by by tied and pressed in a little presse of wod with a litle lake or gutter of wod hauing a spout enclining downward the litle bag put ther in c. They yeilde for the most part the .viii. part of the weight of the nuts so that one ounce of the nuts geue a dram of oyl if the nuts be sufficiētly moystie A man may warm y e same matter again pres it as before but the second time yeldeth very litle oyl and not so good It is better therfor to leaue this matter and to dry it in the bag whiche when nede shal be may be laid to the stomak or to the mouthe thereof This oyle lately prest oute is somwhat thick and separated as though it were by Hilloks al which must be diligently gathered out of the wine and the wine streined from them with a linnen cloth they be brought into one mas and lump pressing and wringing it with your fin gers to the dish side wherinto the matter is crusht out that al the wine may be most diligently seperated The substaunce and the coloure appeareth like waxe The mountenance of a pease annoynted vpon the mouth of the stomack dothe meruelously strēgthen it I here say som vse the anoynting of it to the sturring vp of their luste Beinge swalowed it heateth moderatly the stomack and maketh swiet breth ¶ I here more ouer that som sieth the nuts beaten a while I can not tell whether in wine or in water and gather the fattines that swimmeth aboue I remember also y t I saw once an iron instrument like a pair of tonges the two extreme irons or ends wherof consisted of ii hollow half spheres so that when they wer prest together they might hold a Nutmegge or a little les as occasion of the pressing serued The one of the half spheres was bored throughe with .iiii. or v. little holes that the oyl might run out whē the ends of the tonges moderatly made hot wer prest together I founde also this descripcion in a certain writen boke Take .ii. pounds of Nutmegs Thre ounces of Malmesy wherewith the Nutmegs somwhat grose beaten may be sprinckled Put to half a pounde of commun oyle
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
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
In this decoction dissolue electuary of an eg or triacle to the quantitie of a been let it be giuen to the pacient as thou knowest Of made vvyne and mixt with medicines LAst of all wee wyll teache and declare here certain thinges of made and counterfeit wynes yet not of all of purpose whiche should be to long Who so desireth mo kindes of made wynes and their compositions and vertues let him go to Dioscorides Aetius in his last booke and to the booke of Arnold Villa nouani of wynes ¶ Wynes mixt with medicines are made diuers waies first siething the medicines with the wyne whyle it is must and new for the moste part to the consumpcion of the third part skumming in the meane season straining afterward Sum sieth the wyne alone other till y e third part be cōsumed other much les afterward they hang within the wyne in a litle bag the medicines sumwhat gros betē And bitter medicines specially ought to be put in decocted and sod wyne for so it waxeth swiet in a litle bad or els to be sod together or both So are wynes made w t wormewood with Zedoaria with Inula also w t Borrage and Melissa in Arnold Sum sieth a litle newe must and when it is couled they power it vpon the herbes in the vessell Secondly putting the herbes them selues or the medicines dry in y e new wyne before it be hoat that by the heet of it in the vessel the vertue of the medicin may be mixt with it So the mooste men with vs prepare wyne of wormwood and they let it stande a hooll wynter in the vessels euer filling the vessels again if thei draw any thing out of it in the beginning of vere they take the herbes out sum leue them in al summer also but yet it is easely corrupted waxeth hoor and mouldy and sower specially if the vessell bee not full Sum set a plate of iron tinned boored through with many hooles within the vessell about the tap or spigot that it be not stopt with the medicines that are put in A man may any tyme of the yeare put wormwood or other herbes in old wyne in a litle vessell specially in cellers that bee sumwhat coule or in a great glas well stopt if so be it the route callet Cariophyllata dry be put to y ◠wyne shal be preserued the lōgar Other sieth simpely with wyne the medicine whose vertue they would haue to pas in the wyne at any time of the yeare but sod wynes for the mooste parte breeth out and becum almoste sower therfore I allowe rather the medicines beaten to bee stiept in wyne together w t clarified hony or sugar a fewe houres and then after to be strained sumtymes through an Hippocras bag So haue I made sumtymes wyne good for them that were sick of the dropsy of the rout of flowre deluce and for them that wer short wynded of Inula c. Wyne may also be mixt and streined with the iuices of herbes clarified or els the iuice of them whiche dry beaten haue been hanged in a litle bag in it a few daies to be prest oute and when it is strained to be mixte with the wine and newe medicines to be put into the bag c. for if the matter be prest oute often and newe put to the wine shall be the stronger and we shall fil the vessel now and then for that that is drawn oute for if not the wine will become euerye foote weaker Wines medicined as we haue saide maye be made leauinge the medicines put in a bagge or simplely in Must or new wine that they ma◠heat together or in wine sethinge at the fire But the first way is preferred bycause by it the vertue of the medicines is not resolued nor altered or wekened The hole of the conseruatiue vessel ought to be couered with a litle couer that the heat may brethe out moderatly and yet the odour fewm not out to much Yet if ye thinke good to sethe them in wine at the fire let the fire be made moste slowe and continued without smoke with the vessel couered least it brethe out and let it be sod a certain space with a bigger or les fire according as the substance of euery thing requireth Arnold in his boke of wine Such as a mā list to sethe it shuld be best to sethe it in a double vesselor in Baln Ma. Aromaticall made wines or with spices maye be kept for .iii. or .iiii. daies clear afterward they are troubled Plinius teacheth the confections of wines of diuers simple medicines 14. 16. Wine of Wormwode howe it is made I haue alreadye saide before Some make it with onlye Wormwode other mixte with it other diuers herbes speciallye hotte as Hyssop Rue Sage Cardnus Benedictus Peny royall Costus Hortensis Phyllitides the floures of Eldar the Barkes of Ashe I make somtimes in a glas forthwith putting the leaues of Wormwode dry into Malmsy and burninge water thrise destilled of ether like much This may be long kept a litle of it put to a great deale of wine doth season it holly with the qualitie of Wormwode It is good for a cold stomake it duscusseth winde it healeth the fleumatik colik and that is bred of wind it healeth scabbednes being annoynted vppon Arnoldus in hys boke of wines ¶ A better way of making it saith he that the Wormwod grene or dry be beatē and that the wine warme be straind vpon it certaine times til it receiue the sauour and vertue of it and to season it with Suger or Honye this waye to make this wine is better then other because all the strength of the Wormwod is in the superficiall and outward parts of it which by this menes is best drawn out then is he long in rekening the vertues of it Galangal or Anise maye also be added or any other thinge as a man thinkes good ¶ Wine of Mugwort is made in the same manner that wormwode wine is Wine of the kirnels of Alkckengi or Haliacacabus is made the same way straining the wine vp on them beaten for one Dosis of it thou shalt take from .v. to .x. it bringeth out stony matter frō the rains and bladder manifestlye and guideth oute the water that is reteined and kept in see Arnold in his boke of wine wherof I my self also made a trial of late straining together Anise the rote of Carlina the kirnels of Peches and y ◠litle stones of crabs wherupon the vrin holden now of long space followed within an houre Some put the graines of Haliacacabus hole into newe wine in a little vessel that they may sieth together and kepe it for their vse Wine of Betain is good for the griefes of the stomacke Alexan. Benedictus Wine of Buglos of the rotes of Buglos stieped in wine is maruelouslye commended of Arnold againste the diseases of Melancholy with a story of a certaine woman healed with the drincking therof which through anger
in steed of Sugar put hony and in steed of reed wyne whyte in those that followe contrary wyse So of Hippocras wyne maist thou make claret or clear and of clear Hippocras Sum make no difference of the colour of the wyne The spices of claret Ginger Galāgal of ether an vnce Cinamon two vnces Cloues .ii. drams Graines of paradis long Peper of ether a dram Hony a pound and a half Sugar .ii. poundes Whyte wyne .xvi. poundes Other make it with only Hony adding a litle Spike and nutmegges and with the whyte of an egge they clarify it The claret that Philip Vlstadius in his Coelo Philosophorum describeth the. 57. chapt ℞ the best whyte wyne .iiii. poundes whyte hard sugar iiii vnces Cinnamon an vnce Coriander prepared .iii. drams Cloues .ii. drams Graines of paradis whyte Ginger of ether a dram a half lōg Peper .ii. scrupuls Zedoaria half a dram Al most fine betē streined shal be kept in a tinnen vessel A wyne for them that wax olde proffitable for them that be melancholick and phlegmatick in wynter tyme it heateth the reines and the hooll body it taketh away the swelling of y e hemrodes it helpeth concoction it maketh good colour it clereth the sight sharpeneth the wit tarieth and differreth hoor heares worketh the same thinges that Hiera picra sauing that it is not bitter louseth not the bely Take Spike Cinnamon Carpobalsamum Xylobalsamū Ginger Gallangall Calamus aroma Macis Asarum Myrtilla of euery one a dram Mastick .ii. drams Licoris small Rasines of euery half an vnce sugar as ye think good It may be made by decocting or without it lyke claret putting the spyces in a large bag and the bag in a streiner straining it so oft til y e vertue strength of the spyces be hooly past in to the wyne whiche shal be perceiued by tasting Arnold in his boke of wyne An other ℞ Ginger .ii. drams Cinnamō half an vnce Cloues a dram whyt wyne .iii. mesures that is .xii. pound an vnce of hony whyte Sugar half a pound make claret therof according to art An other laxatiue ℞ Galangall six drames Cinnamon an vnce Turbit Esula Pilles Hermol dactyla of euery a dram a halfe Beat it make it claret with hony and sugar An other ℞ Ginger .ii. vnces cinnamon iiii cloues .ii. Galangal asmuch Grains of paradis one Euery one fiuly beaten sifted must be mixted Then kepe by it self an vnce of easterly saffrō well beaten When y ◠wilt make thy claret make hoot ouer the fier .ii. pounds of hony in a new ear then vessel when it begins to boyll take it frō y e fier pausing a litle whyle skim it Then take .ii. measures about .viii. pounds of wine which shal be so much the better so muche as it is more swiet and cleer mixt w t it .ii. vnces of y e spyces aforsaid and a dram or more of y ◠saffron Then shalt thou straine it through a bag the vpper part wherof almoste to .ii. third partes of the hool length shal be linnen the nether for one third part of y e hool bag or a litle more shal be wullen When the wyne is inough streined y ◠maist power y e dregs into Hydromel or Apomel y t is drinck made of hony as it is cōmunly made y t they may leue their strength y t yet remaineth in thē in it This wyne if it be for y e vse of any womā or delicate person in steed of hony take sugar out of a dutch boke wryten An other preseruing wyne in tyme of pestilēce Take of the best wyne a measur .iiii. pounds half an vn of Angelica Bole Armeniae a drā nutmegs ii drās Galangal long peper coriander of euery one a drā a half ginger a drā a half cinnamon six drams sugar half a pound Certain composicions of Nectar of claret out of a certain booke writen in Latin whē a man would haue a greater quantitie thereof to be kept in his celler in a barill or vessell of wood Lotum as it appereth is a name of certain mesure of wyne in Spain perauenture Claret or good Nectar shalt thou make in this wyse Cinamon a pound Galangall Ginger Cardamom Graines of Paradis Cloues Cubebae Macis of euery an vnce Long peper and black if thou wilt of ether halfe an vnce Spick narde Nutmegs Schenoanthum of euery one .iii. drās Saffron a dram Let all be beten very small and mixt So hast thou spices for half a hors lood y t is for one barell perauētur a. 128. poundes The nectar shalt thou make thus Put all the wyne in the vessell then put the spices in sum linnen cloth large inough and let the clothe with spices into y e barill wherin thou wilt make thy nectar in suche sort that the sides of the cloth may hang ouer the mouth of the barill After put .iiii. poundes of hony in sum vessell mixt it strongly with the wyne so that the hooll be sufficient clear then power in the wyne vpon the spices streining it and at last the wyne with the hony Then cloosing the barrill leue the spices in it with the cloth for .ii. days Then take it away and pres it with strength and thou shalt haue very good Nectar But if thou wilt make it for sum Prince or very ryche man ad to the forsaid Lignum Aloes of the best Foliū of ether half an vnce a dram and a half of Musk and in the stede of hony put suger finely beaten in a morter then dissolued in the wine An other very good wine with y e same species but in other weight Take .xii. vnces a halfe of cinamon ginger galangal graines of paradice cloues cubebae macis Cardamomū of euerye .ii. drās lōg peper a scrupul spikenard Schoenanthū nutmegs of euery a scrupul a half saffron to y e weighte of a Deranii of Turona or a little more Mixt al these together when they are most smal beten thou shalt hauespices inough for a Lotū Nectar of the city Burgens Then take a pound of hony w t a pint of springwater sod to the consūpciō of the water set it aside to cole Thē take about a Lotum of good wine and when the iuice w t the forsaid spices is put into the vessell streining the wine through it pour it in by little and litle the hony also mixt first with a litle of the wine shal be poured in by litle and litle so that the iuice be not prest together If so be it ye wil make it more preous take suger in steade of honye dissolued in the wine likewise about a pounde waighte or more Thou shalt strain it .iii. or .iiii. times y t the wine may be strōger and better Thou shalt put also to the forsaid things Agallochum of the best Folium of ether .ii. grains a litle Musk ¶ Otherwise hang the species in a
bag w t in the wine mixt with hony or suger after .ii. or .iii. dais take it oute pres it wel But the former way is better finer Three vvaies to make Nectar wherof the first .ii. are called Gratia Dei the thirde Manus Dei oute of a writen boke TAke cinnamon .ix. drams ginger .iiii. drams nutmegs long Peper of ether .iii. draÌ„s GalaÌ„gal grains of paradice Maris or Folii cubebae of eueri .ii. draÌ„s cloues a draÌ„ spiknard a hole scrupul saffron a half suger a pouÌ„d or a pint of hony y t hath boyled in a litle water til the water be consumed wel skimmed Mixt them in a Lotum a half of wine Some ad Cardamomum and Carui of ether .ii. drams And this is the better Claret To the same â„ž Aristolochia round cinnamoÌ„ of ether an ounce Ginger half an ounce Galangall graines of Paradice Cloues Cubebae Macis Nutmegs of euery .ii. drams long pepper iii drams spiknard a scrupul Saffron a half Suger a pouÌ„d wine a Lotum If it be for the rich ad Agallochum of the best .ii. grains and musk halfe a grain Or according to other â„ž Cinnamon elect .ii. ounces Ginger one graines of Paradise longe Pepper of ether halfe an ounce Nuttemegs cloues Maces of ether .ii. drams Cubebae Cardamom of ether a dram Spiknard Schoenan thum Calamus aro of euery a scrupul When they are pund mixt them together with .iii. pounds of hony and a Lotum of wine as is said A drink named Manus Dei. â„ž Cinnamon an ounce and a half Ginger .iii. drams CardamomuÌ„ ii drams Folium Galangal of ether a draÌ„ spiknard Carui of ether half a dram long Pepper or blak .iiii. drams If it be made for rich men adde Cloues Nutmegs Maces Grains of paradice of euery .ii. drams clarified hony a pint a BurgeÌ„s Lotum of good wine And if thou canst in steade of hony put a pound of Suger If this drink be rightly made it shal be profitable against manye diseases specially cold and in old men and them that be somwhat weake feble vnto copulacion It shal be conuenient for Fleumaticke Melancholik persons meruelously that not withoute a cause it may be called Manus Dei that is the hand of God It putteth away dumpishnes sadnes and bringeth mirth It openeth the obstructions and stoppings of the splene It heleth the dropsy bringeth the stone out of the rains mightily if a litle Saxifrage of the stone called Lynx be added Spices for Zedoartical wine â„ž Zedoaria cinamon of ether half an ounce Galangall .ii. draÌ„s mixt them and make them into pouder For the wine that is surnamed of Scapa or Rappish â„ž Zedoaria halfe an ounce Coriander .iii. ounces galangal .v. vnces cinamon cloues of ether .ii. draÌ„s make a pouder therof soÌ„what grose Otherwise spices for Zedoartical wine which shal be inough for a mesure of wine that is called communlye at at Straszborovv Cinnamone .iii. vnces cloues nutmegs grains of pa. Cardamom of euery half an vnce Zedoariae vi drams Cubebae long Peper of ether a .ii. drams Beate them somwhat grose mixt them for a bag For the same cinnamon .ii. vnces ginger half an ounce cloues Longe Pepper Cardamom Cubebae Zedoria of euery one a dram Galangal graines of paradise of ether a dram and a halfe When they are beaten somwhat grose mixt them for a little bagge Of spiced vvines vvith burning water THat burning water doth drink in easily all y e odour and vertue both of other medicins and also of spices if they stand to stiep in it a few houres first beaten and a litle of it afterward be poured into simple wine and that diuers wines both in sauour and taste may be made by this meanes forthwith we did declare before out of Arnold in the descripcion of simple Aqua ardens or burning water ¶ The confection or making of the wine which they cal commoÌ„ly Hippocras Put into the name of the mesure is not exprest of burning water destilled .iii. or .iiii. times or more .ii. vnces of Cinamon Ginger half an vnce graines of paradise Peper of ether a dram and a half a dram of Cloues half a Nutmeg When they are al pund put them into a vessel wel closed for .iiii. dais and shake it about twise or thrise euery daye At laste strain it and kepe it it may be kept a longe time Put a meane sponefull of this into a measure or iiii pounds of good red wine and put a pound of Suger to it Yet if the wine be swiete there is no nede of Suger Furnerius A way to make Malmsy â„ž Galangall of the best Cloues Ginger Maces of euery one a draÌ„ Let al thies sumwhat grose beten staÌ„d 24. houres in a vessell of wood wel couered infused in water Then hang them in a linneÌ„ cloth by a thried into a vessell of a soom as they call it which is about the bignes of a hogshead or half a Soom of clear wyn .iii. daies And thou shalt haue wyne so good strong as is the very natural Malmsy or Traminuum A dutche writen booke A wyne that tasteth lyke Rhetish wyne In a vessell of glas or of earth glased hange a linnen cloth full of the spices hereafter folowyng and fill it with burning water stop it diligently let it stande at the lest .xii. houres when thou wouldest vse it wring out y e linnen cloth into sum gret glas whiche the wyne shal be powered into afterward so that the sydes of the pot may be wet with that spiced burning water or els y e liquor crusht out into the bottom by lening and rooling y e glas a syde may moysteÌ„ the sydes euery where Then power in the wyne whiche shall haue the taste of Rhetish The spices are thies Cinamon Ginger Cloues of euery one half a dram when they are sumwhat gros beaten let them be mixt and after be tied in the linnen cloth After the some maner is the tast of Muscatello wyne made take a Nutmeg with a litle Macis mixt them beaten as is before said Cloued wyne Beat half a dram of Cloues w t a litle CinnamoÌ„ tie it in a linnen cloth as is aforsaid The tast of Elseter wyne bynd sugar caÌ„â—y in a linnen cloth as is before said Or els mixt hony diligently clarified with burning water in a vessell well stopt when thou wilt vse it wringe out a linneÌ„ cloth dipt in this liquor into y e pot All thies haue we borowed out of a dutch boke writeÌ„ Of certain other Aromatical vvynes specially such as are made by hanging a litle bag in the vessell CLoued wyne is made hanging the cloues in a litle bag within the vessel with must It drieth much dissolueth coÌ„sumeth draweth vnto it it helpeth the old difficultie of fetching a mans breth cough in old men w t the corruption of the humors it is proffitable also in the falling sicknes swouning it strengtheneth the vertue