St. Iohns-wort strained and depurated two pound of Pimpernel with purple flowers strained and depurated one pound blood of an Ass taken from the veins behind his ears half a pound flowers of Bugloss red Roses and Rosemary of each six drams Confectio Alkermes and Cassia lignea of each half an ounce of Saffron one dram Let them infuse all night and then distil them in B. M. cohobate the Liquor and repeat the work the second time Take of this water two pound Essence of the flowers of St. Iohns-wort made with Spirit of Wine half an ounce Let them stand all night in a warm place in the morning filter it so often till you have a most red Tincture which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is a great Secret in Melancholy Madness Witchcraft Inchantments yea in the Imagination impaired or abolished and as much as lyeth in art it amendeth the weakness dulness and stupidity of the Mind and the slowness of the Understanding it happily takes away all the affects of the Imagination It also provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Tertians and Quartans and is useful for all diseases of the Reins and Bladder The Dose is from three spoonfuls to four twice in the day in the morning before Sun-rising and at night going to bed Tinctura Vitae Take simple Spirit of Wine six pound of the best Rose-water four pound Orange peels Citron peels red Roses dryed water-Mints Balm white Sanders Cinamon of each eight ounces wood of Aloes Mace of each two drams seeds of Angelica Coriander Anise and Fenil of each a dram and a half Spicknard Galangal the less Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Cloves of each half a dram Ambergriese and Alexandrian Musk of each half a scruple Let them stand in digestion for eight days and then distil them in an Alembick Then take of this Spirit drawn off seven pound Cassia lignea two ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Oriental Saffron a scruple Let them digest until the liquor is perfectly tinctured afterward let the tinged Spirit be edulcorated with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy dissolved in its proper liquor and reserved for use Virtue Use and Dose By the pleasantness of its smell it refresheth the Heart and Spirits it exhilarates and prolongs life and comforts the Stomach and Brain it increaseth the heat of the Ventricle confirms its strength dissipates wind and encourageth digestion it helps the Gripings of the Guts and keeps them sound yea it is very profitable in the cold distempers of the Thorax Liver and Spleen The Dose is from one spoonful to two Tincture of Guajacum Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces of the best Mastich an ounce resinous wood of Aloes a dram Clove-gilliflowers half a dram These being mixed pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to extract the Tincture which afterward filter and reserve for use Virtue and Use. Let the Mouth and aking Teeth be washed often with this Tincture for the pain often proceeds from the defluxions of the Head it drys Catarrhs takes away the stink and rottenness of the mouth and renders the breath sweet at the same time let there be warm Plasters applied to the Temples made of Mastich or Gum Elemi and after spitting let the mouth be diligently washed with a Decoction of Aniseeds Tincture of Sassafras Take fountain-Fountain-water well boiled and while it is yet hot eight pound Sassafras cut into small thin chips two ounces Let them stand in infusion all night in a new well glazed Pot close covered until it cools of it self in the morning filter it and the straining being clear let it be a little aromatized with a Tincture of Cassia lignea and keep it for your daily use Virtue Use and Dose It is a Nectar in Catarrhs and Arthritick pains because of its vast driness and moderate heat it is an excellent remedy in Defluxions of every kind which it doth radically consume and also expels the Stone It discusseth Wind prepares the Womb for Conception provokes the Terms helps Digestion corrects Vomiting and moves the Belly downwards but to those who are weak and extenuated it is useless The Dose is not strictly observed but the Patient may drink his fill of it and continue it for some weeks A Tincture for the Toothach Take Guajacum two ounces Sassafras and Sarsa parilla of each an ounce roots of wild Pellitory crude Alum Nitre prepared of each half an ounce seeds of Staveacre and Henbane of each two drams Opium Spagyrically prepared Cloves of each a dram and a half wild Time Origanum and Saffron of each a dram Mix them and make a Powder which put into a Glass and pour upon it simple Spirit of Wine and Wine-Vinegar a pound and a half and of these make a Tincture Virtue Use and Dose A little of this Tincture held warm in the Mouth on the place where the Teeth ake after a while spit it out and take in fresh if need be doth powerfully allay and take away all pains of the Teeth by hindring the sharp flux of Humors nay it wonderfully takes away those humors that are already fallen on the part and although at first it seems to increase the pain yet it is suddenly mitigated and doth vanish Tinctura Uterina Take the berries of Elder and dwarff Elder of each four ounces roots of Bryony an ounce of the herb Marjoram a dram Mix them and pour thereon a sufficient quantity of Aqua Hyster Lit. A. add also a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol and make a digestion in B. M. for certain days till you shall receive a most red Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a manifest Hysterical and Cephalick force against all suffocations and torsions of the Womb and other dangerous affects yea it takes away all dolors and compressions of the Diaphragma The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole spoonful by it self or in some Hysterical liquor A Diaphoretick Tincture Take Spirit of Wine left in making our Solar Bezoar and flowers of Elder rectified of each four ounces Tartar often rectified three ounces of the best Vitriol an ounce Confectio Alkermes six drams Digest them for certain days shaking them often till the liquor be perfectly tinged Virtue Use and Dose It is a singular Medicine in the Plague putrid Humors diseases of the Head Palsie rectifying the Blood trembling of the Heart ill habit of Body Dropsie Jaundice Asthma Pleurisie Quinsie prickings of the Sides Pox Leprosie Worms Contractures Courses retained Feavers c. for it comforts the principal Members consumes superfluities corrects and expels noxious humors and by its Diaphoretick force penetrates the Nerves Muscles and Marrow and reduces all into its natural and pristine state The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one in water of Carduus Elder or Hearts-ease Tinctura Stiptica or the Stiptick Tincture Take the yolks of twenty one Eggs
and Liver once heated They gently and pleasantly remove and repel all Inflammations as well internal as external The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative Rowls Take of our Carminative Oyl a dram and a half Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Carminative water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make all into little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They dissipate the wind and ventose humors lurking in the Ventricle and Guts They help Digestion and sour Belchings and give ease in the Nephritick pains by moving Urine and bringing away the Stone They are given as necessity requires three four or five at a time Rotulae Diacymini Take the species of Diacymini and Dianisi of each half an ounce of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds Oyl of Fenil of each a scruple Oyl of Oranges and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Aqua benedicta Serpilli sixteen ounces Mix them and make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully dissipate the flatulencies of the Bowels and are good in all cold Distempers They wonderfully relieve old Folks and all those troubled with distempers of the Brain Vertigo Stomach Arteries Liver Spleen also in the Cough Asthma passion of the Heart Wind-Colick Quartan Agues c. They help digestion amend ill habits of body and free the Hypochonders when distended with wind Let the sick take one or more as he pleases Rotulae contra Vermes or Rowls against the Worms Take of our species Diacina two ounces white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Couch-grass and Tansie of each sixteen ounces Mix them and make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They kill Worms and bring them away They are given some days together to Children troubled with the Worms two three four or five at a time more or less as need requires Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative Rowls of Mithridate Take Extract of Mithridate prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Citron seeds husked compound flowers of Sulphur Emerauld prepared Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of Tormentil and Zedoary of each half a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Angelica of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Rue of each four grains the best Sugar dissolved in the waters of Sorrel and Roses sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Rowls Rotulae Theriacales liberantes Take Extract of Venice Treacle prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and an half Elks horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth seeds of Sorrel Tincture of Sulphur Hyacinth prepared of each a dram roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each half a dram wood of Aloes bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Camphire and red Myrrh of each ten grains Oyl of Cassia lignea and Zedoary of each four grains white Sugar sixteen ounces Dissolve the Sugar in Carduus and scabious-Scabious-water and make little Rowls for use Rotulae Angelicae praeservativae pro gravidis or preservative Rowls of Angelica for Women with Child Take Extract of the roots of Angelica made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth Bole Armenick prepared roots of female Peony seeds of Sorrel of each a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each half a dram Mace macerated in Vinegar and again dryed Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of white Amber rectified and Zedoary of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in water of Tormentil and Betony sixteen ounces Mix all and make little Cakes Rotulae Zedoarticae pro Pueris or Rowls of Zedoary for Children Take Extract of Zedoary made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Elks horn Spagirically calcined white Amber prepared sealed Earth Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of male Peony of white Diptamus and Tormentil of each two scruples Emerauld prepared Hyacinth prepared seeds of Citrons husked seeds of Sorrel and Cina of each half a dram Magisteries of red Coral Oriental Pearls and Crabs eyes the bone of a Stags heart Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mace Citrons of each four drops white Sugar sixteen ounces Mix all and with the Sugar dissolved in water of Roses and Water-lily flowers make little Cakes Virtue Use and Dose They are good against the Contagion of the Plague and defend and preserve the body from being hurt by any malignant and infectious Air. The dose when there is occasion is two or three at a time Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or hot Rowls for a Catarrh Take species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram species of Aromaticum rosatum Diaireos simple of each half a dram Frankincense Mastich Harts-horn prepared of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in betony-Betony-water five ounces Make little Rowls and smear them gently with Oyl of Cloves Virtue Use and Dose When the humor is preternaturally sent from the Brain to the Eyes Nose Mouth c. or if it falls upon any other part and is perceived to hurt the actions of that part by altering it from its natural quality and state in such a case these Rotula's are of excellent use for they stop all cold Catarrhs and comfort the Head and Breast The dose is three or four at a time Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae or Rotula's for a cold Catarrh Take seeds of white Poppy bruâ—sed four ounces of the heads that contain the seeds grosly powdered two ounces Let them infuse a few days in water of Scabious and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity then distil them and in a sufficient quantity of this distilled Liquor dissolve an ounce of Mastich let it boil a little and then filter it to which add of white Sugar eight ounces and so make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose When the Catarrh is thin and sharp the Head hot and the Face and Eyes appear red the humor exasperating and exulcerating the part upon which it falls and a bitter saltness is perceived and a Feaver begun then are these Rotula's of great use The dose is three or four at a time SECT VIII Of Morsels Morsuli Cephalici or Cephalick Morsels TAke Conserve of the flowers of Peony and Rosemary of each half an ounce species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each two ounces Mans skull Spagirically calcined Elks horn prepared in the same manner of each a dram roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Oyls of Lavender Nutmegs and Caraways of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in our Epileptick and
seeds of Roses of each two drams dead Nettles with their red flowers a dram and a half Nutmegs Cinamon the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Sebestens nine Boil these according to Art in three pound of Plantane to the consumption of one third and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve one dram of Camphire and if you please edulcorate it also with Miya of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is an experienced Medicine in Dysenteries and other Fluxes of the Belly and it also cures divers Haemorrhages The dose is a good draught in a morning fasting Decoctum Polypodii purgans or a purging Decoction of Polypody Take roots of Polypody of the Oak and Raisons stoned of each two ounces Carthamus seeds and Barley of each an ounce and a half Liquorish half an ounce Hyssop Scabious Coltsfoot and Germander of each a dram Iujubes fifteen fat Figs six and Dates cleansed from their skin four Boil them in so much Whey that there may remain about twenty one ounces and about the end of the Decoction add Leaves of Sena three ounces Troches of Agarick three drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Let them stand over the fire a while but not boil much then make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in the Asthma Phthisick Pleurisie and other Pectoral diseases The dose is from four ounces to five and the body being purged let the Patient drink our Pectoral Decoction called Subacidum or Subdulce as occasion serves Decoctum Galli antiqui farcinati or a Decoction of an old Cock stuffed Take Polypody an ounce and a half Carthamus seeds an ounce Cinamon three drams leaves of Sena white Turbith and Orange peel of each two drams white Ginger the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram species Diacymini and Dianisi of each half a dram and one Bay-berry The Species being mixed and put in a linen Rag let them be put in when the Cock is almost boiled enough Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in the Colick when it proceeds from a thick flatulent and flegmatick Cause Decoctum Sanguinem mundificans or a Decoction to cleanse the Blood Take Citrine Myrobalans an ounce flowers of Violets dryed a dram Prunes nineteen Sebestens and Iujubes of each eight Boil them in water of the flowers of Acatia to three ounces in which dissolve of our potable Scammony a scruple Oyl of Cinamon and Aniseeds of each a drop Mix them and make a draught for one dose Virtue and Use. It purgeth Choler of both kinds Flegm and other Humors It also mundifies the Blood and keeps the body laxative in Feavers Decoctum Senae or a Decoction of Sena Take elect Sena three drams acid Tartar a dram Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little yet so as that the Tartar may be throughly dissolved and in the strained Liquor while it is warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose to be given warm Virtue and Use. It is a good Purge for the whole Body for it opens the obstructions of all the Bowels and mundifies the blood But in the first place it purgeth Choler both black and yellow and Flegm also It cleanseth and strengthens the Head Brain Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and all the Senses of the Body and carrieth off all that offends them It retardes Age increaseth Youth Moreover it is an excellent Medicine in all chronical tartarous and melancholy diseases as the Epilepsie Dotage Deliria's Heach-ach Gout Elephantiasis Scabs Pustles Itch and all other vices of the Skin It is also profitably given to Women with Child and to Children and Men of all ages for it purgeth modestly without any molestation But for Children and young Patients half or a third part of it is sufficient Decoctum Senae cum Rhabarbaro or a Decoction of Sena with Rhubarb Take elect Sena two drams the best Rhubarb and acid Tartar of each a dram of Fumitory water warm four ounces Let them infuse all night and in the morning let them boil a little enough to dissolve the Tartar afterward the expression being made and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve of the best Manna six drams Again strain it and then add Cinamon water a dram Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a purging draught for one dose which is to be taken warm Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Flegm and both kinds of Choler chiefly from the Stomach Liver and Spleen c. It mundifies the Blood opens all Obstructions and cures all Affects thence proceeding as Jaundice Dropsie Tumor of the Spleen putrid and continual Feavers pains of the Hypochonders c. Let no man wonder at the small dose of Sena in this Prescript for four drams of Sena infused in four ounces of Fumitory water do not purge more than two drams macerated in the like quantity because the water doth extract as much as it can and leaves the rest therefore two drams of Sena are sufficient to quicken other things in four ounces of Water Decoctum Rhabarbari or a Decoction of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb a dram and a half red Roses dryed half a dram roots of Liquorish sliced and flowers of Marsh-mallows of each a scruple Let them be cut and bruised and infused all night in three ounces of Plantane water warm in the morning strain it in the strained Liquor dissolve of the best Manna half an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Spirit of Vitriol four drops Mix them for one dose and give it warm in the morning for a draught Virtue and Use. It is very effectual in all Fluxes of the Belly it gives one or two motions and by those it expels the cause of the bloody Flux Annotation Many use Rhubarb torrefied which is an evil practice because it consumes the virtue of it and the terrene part only remains and so makes it more stiptick Decoctum Violatum purgans or a purging Decoction of Violets Take leaves of Sena two ounces Fenil seeds and acid Tartar of each half an ounce dryed Violet flowers and the best Rhubarb of each a dram and a half white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram Galangal the less and Cloves of each half a dram Let them infuse all night in Fumitory water warm in the morning boil them a little and afterward strain it and take of the clear strained Liquor ten ounces Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb and Syrup of the juyce of Violets Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel and Oxysaccharum simple of each an ounce Mix them and make a Potion which divide into four equal parts for four doses Virtue and Use. It is good in Tertian and Quotidian Feavers c. and gently purgeth all humors that offend
it is likewise an excellent Remedy for the Stone And is given in the running Gout Scurvy Sciatica and such like diseases and is to be continued four mornings successively Decoctum Nucis Cupressi or a Decoction of Cyprus Nuts Take Cyprus Nuts Turkish Galls of each eight ounces filings of Iron prepared with Vinegar Roch Alum of each four ounces medicinal Stone and Pomegranate peel of each an ounce and a half Let them be bruised and mixed and boiled according to Art in a sufficient quantity of red Wine or Plantane water Virtue and Use. It is applied outwardly and doth extenuate and consume all superfluous Carnosities c. The way of using is to wet a Sponge in it warm and having squeezed it bind it upon the part Decoctum Nigrum or a black Decoction Take crude Alum a pound green Vitriol half a pound Turkish Galls four ounces Verdigriese and white Tartar of each two ounces Mix them and boil them in eight pound of Wine Vinegar to the consumption of one half then add of Spirit of Wine rectified a pound Again let them be mixed and filtred and then kept for use Virtue and Use. A linen Rag wet in it and applied to the part drys and heals old Venereal Ulcers in any part of the body and takes away other Defluxions and Excrescences of evil flesh and roborates and mundifies the part affected It also perfectly cures Wounds and Bruises in other Creatures SECT XXVI Of Gargarisms Gargarismus de Althaea or a Gargarism of Marsh-mallows TAke Roots of Marsh-mallows an ounce of common Mallows half an ounce leaves of Violets Strawberries Hyssop and Sage of each three drams leaves of Peaches and Cherries of each two drams shavings of Ivy wood Album Graecum prepared with Marigold water Honey of Saturn of each a dram and a half Vitriol of Mars and Venus of each a dram flowers of Marigolds Marsh-mallows wild Poppies and Bugle of each a dram Let them be grosly cut bruised then mixed and boiled in fountain-Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half let them boil to the consumption of one third and toward the end of its boiling add of Rob of Elder a sufficient quantity to make it grateful Virtue and Use. It is of good use in the Quinsie Imposthumes of the Throat Jaws Tongue and Uvula it dissolves and discusseth the Inflammations of the Tonsils and allays and amends the pain and difficulty in swallowing but the Patient ought to use this Gargarism every hour And it is to be observed That all Gargarisms are to be used warm Gargarismus de Glycyrrhiza or a Gargarism of Liquorish Take roots of Liquorish sliced an ounce Album Graecum two drams Roch Alum a dram Boil these a little in water of Plantane Roses common Mallows and Bugle of each equal parts and a sufficient quantity of all Take of this strained Liquor a pound white Wine three ounces Diamoron and Dianucum of each a dram and a half Mix them and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is of excellent use in a desperate Quinsie and other distempers of the Mouth and Throat if the Patient useth it often and warm Gargarismus Lacteatus or a Gargarism of Milk Take new Milk from the Cow two pound Album Graecum half an ounce Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdigriese half a dram Boil them and when strained make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is effectual in the Quinsie repels the Tumors and pains of the Jaws and Mouth and detergeth and heals Ulcers in those parts and it is to be used often Gargarismus de Cortice Granatorum or a Gargarism of Pomegranate bark Take of Pomegranate rind half an ounce Endive Scabious Night shade and Burnet of each three drams seeds of Sorrel and Quinces Barberries of each two drams burnt Alum a dram and a half flowers of Marsh-mallows Balaustines and Bugle of each a dram Boil them in water of Roses and Plantane and red Stiptick Wine of each a pound to the consumption of the third part Take of this strained Liquor two pound Diamoron and Dianucum of each two ounces Syrup of Pomegranates clarified Honey and Vinegar of Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Nitre so much as will make it grateful Mix them and make a Gargarism to be applied warm Virtue and Use. This is also proper for the Quinsie and it doth in a wonderful manner as well allay the Inflammation as dissolve the Imposthume and is attended with a singular discussive faculty But the use of it must be often repeated Gargarismus de Auricula Judae or a Gargarism of Iews Ears Take Barley husked half an ounce Liquorish sliced and Iews Ears cut of each two drams flowers of Marsh-mallows a dram Let them boil a little in a sufficient quantity of Plantane water Take of this clear Decoction a pound Syrup of Violets two ounces Nitre prepared a dram Mix them for a Gargarism with which let the Mouth be often washed Virtue and Use. The Medicine is of great worth as by Experience it hath been proved against Inflammations driness roughness sores and fissures of the Tongue Jaws and neighbouring parts which often happens in continual malignant and burning Feavers from hot sharp and putrid Vapors that rise to those parts Gargarismus de Tormentilla or a Gargarism of Tormentil Take roots of Tormentil and water-Acorus of each an ounce Pomegranate bark and bark of the roots of Acatia of each half a dram Balaustines and Alum of each three drams Rosemary Cinquefoil Stone-crop Sage Plantane and Hyssop of each two drams flowers of Marigolds and red Roses of each a dram Boil them in fountain-Fountain-water and Wine Vinegar of each a pound and a half to the consumption of one third in the end add of Honey of Roses so much as will make it grateful Virtue and Use. It cures the Putrefaction and Scurvy of the Mouth it renews the Gums perished by any disease or rotted by an Imposthume It fastens the Teeth and makes the flesh grow up to them again and it also contracts the Uvula that is fallen In short it is of good use in all the vices of the Mouth Tongue Palate and Tonsils nay Ulcers and Inflammations also And if used warm often or every hour it restores them to their perfect health again Gargarismus de Pyrethro or a Gargarism of Pellitory Take roots of Pellitory of Spain two drams the best Olibanum and white Ginger of each a dram and a half seeds of Henbane bruised of Sage of each a dram long Pepper a scruple Boil them in Wine Vinegar and fountain-Fountain-water of each half a pound and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. It is excellent and very effectual in pains of the Teeth for it hath an Anodyne faculty But the sick must use it often in the day till the pain ceaseth Gargarismus de Hyoscyamo or a Gargarism of Henbane Take roots of Henbane an ounce roots of the lesser Nettles Cinquefoil and Pellitory of Spain of each six drams shavings of Lignum
Diet and eat only thick viscid and adstringent Aliment the quantity of which ought to be small for hunger helps forward the Cure Emplastrum Diachylon Anodynum or an Anodyne Diachylon Plaster Take the Anodyne Oyl prepared from the seven Flowers four and twenty ounces Litharge well cleansed twelve ounces Mucilage of the seed of Henbane and Fleabane of Quinces and Flax the middle bark of the Teil tree roots of Marsh-mallows extracted with water of Nightshade four ounces Let the Litharge be finely powdered and prepared and then put to the Anodyne Oyl then let them boil over a gentle fire always stirring them till they are well mixed Remove them from the fire and let it cool a little theâ— put in the Mucilages and mix them all well together and bring them all to a just consistence c. Virtue and Use. It mollifies allays pain dissolves humors gathered in any part it digests and ripens hard Inflammations and hot Tumors and cures all things that are inflamed Moreover it gives ease in the Gout and is an excellent Medicine to bring down and abate a hot intemperature Emplastrum de Spermate Ceti or a Plaster of Sperma Ceti Take white Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti two ounces Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce Mix them and make a Plaster Virtue and Use. It being laid to the Breast of Women after their Delivery that do not give suck and there worn for certain days heals and removes all the pain caused by the Milk and all hard Tumors and swellings in those parts The Milk also coagulated or concreted it dissolves and also consumes the abundance of it SECT XXXVII Of Cataplasms Cataplasma de Fermento or a Cataplasm of Leaven TAke old Leaven an ounce and a half yellow Amber three drams Nutmegs and Cubebs of each half a dram water-Mints and Cloves of each a scruple Castor and wood of Aloes of each ten grains Mix them and with a little simple Spirit of Wine and Wine Vinegar of each alike bring all into the form of a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. Let it be applied warm to the top of the Head and repeat it often it curiously discusseth the cause of the Palsie of the Tongue and doth so consume and evacuate the matter from the superiour parts that always not without admiration the motion and speech returns and indeed it is a Secret in recovering the Speech and drying Catarrhs Cataplasma Febrile or a Cataplaesm for Feavers Take Gun-powder pulverized common Salt melted of each an ounce Spiders web Nutmegs and Olibanum of each two drams the herb Wormwood Shepherds-purse small Nettles and Rue of each a handful white Turpentine a sufficient quantity to make a Cataplasm for the Pulses Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm being put between two Cloths and laid to both the Wrists two hours before the Fit cures all Feavers in Children but especially bastard or spurious Tertians and wonderfully allays the violence of the Fit Cataplasma Scorbuticum contra Tumores Pedum or a Scorbutick Cataplasm against the Swelling of the Feet Take Wheat-bran well powdered half a pound Meal of Barley and Beans of each three ounces Meal of Lupines and Lentils of each an ounce and a half Venice Sope two ounces flowers of Chamomil two ounces of Marsh-mallows an ounce Litharge of Silver and red Bole Armeniack of each half an ounce roots of China and Rhubarb of each three drams Fungus of Elder-tree I suppose he means Jews Ears seven Boil them in Juyce of Elder exprest to such a thickness as may make a Cataplasm Virtue and Use. This Cataplasm in the Scurvy is applied warm to the Feet at night so that the whole Tumor be covered with it and there lye all night the next night let it be renewed and again applied and this continue and repeat so long till the Tumor be dissolved which by the use of this Cataplasm and the Blessing of God will soon succeed and the parts be corroborated Cataplasma de Cineribus or a Cataplasm of Ashes Take the Ashes of Hermodactyls roots of Asphodel Bean stalks Elder wood Figs Cutting of Vines dwarff Elder of each alike Mix them and with white Wine make a Lixivium Take of this Lixivium four pound of brown houshold Bread a sufficient quantity Boil them to a thickness and then add sharp Wine Vinegar half a pound Lapis medicamentosus three ounces powder of Cummin seed Bay-berries and Cloves of each an ounce Boil them gently and make a Cataplasm according to Art Virtue and Use. It is spread upon Linen Cloths and applied to Dropsical Tumors and Swellings Evacuation being first made there let it lye for certain hours and when it begins to raise the skin apply it lower toward the Knees and so by degrees still downwards till you come to the Feet Cataplasma de Nido Hirundinis or a Cataplasm of a Swallows Nest. Take a Swallows Nest Album Graecum an ounce and a half roots of Marsh-mallows and white Lilies of each an ounce Figs and Dates of each three Boil them in common water to the form of a thin Pultis then add Oyl of Violets meal of Chamomil Foenugreek Flax and Wheat of each six drams the brain of a Cat half an ounce of an Owl and Swallow burnt of each two drams the Yolk of an Egg Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and make a Cataplasm for the Neck Virtue and Use. It is often applied warm to the Neck in a desperate Quinsie and is indeed a Secret But the Album Graecum should be gathered from the Dog when the Sun is in Leo and the Dog should be shut up and fed with nothing but bones of a Calf gelt or otherwise and give him not much water and the first three days what the Dog voids throw away but what comes afterward gather for use Cataplasma contra Singultum or a Cataplasm against Hiccupping Take Leaven three ounces Iuniper-berries red Roses and water-Mints of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs and Mace of each half a dram strong Wine Vinegar a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm with which mix Oyl of Cummin and Caraway of each half a scruple Virtue and Use. This is only useful in the Hiccup which being put between two Cloths and laid to the Stomach warm gives ease especially if it be often applied and it is a singular Medicine Pannus Linteus Crocatus or a Linen Cloth prepared with Saffron Take a coarse Linen hempen Cloth wash it five or six times in Frog Spawn gathered in March and filtred so that the little black things like Eyes may be separated and dry this Cloth by it self in the shade not in the Sun or by any other heat Then take Vinegar of Elder-flowers and Oriental Saffron a sufficient quantity and make a Tincture in which boil that coarse hempen Cloth till it hath imbibed a deep Saffron-colour this being done remove them from the fire and let them cool together then take the Linen Cloth thus saffronized dry it in the shade and keep it for
exceed all other Preparations yea the very Rosin of Scammony it self For it dissipates its tough viscous and poisonous malignity and doth correct it and doth certainly purge which doth not always follow from the taking of the Rosin only Magistery of Scammony THE true and Spagyrick Preparation and Correction of Scammony which is used as a Secret by Physicians is this Take a sufficient quantity of select Scammony which dissolve in Philosophical Spirit of Wine after due filtration draw it off again in an Alembick at least to half then pour upon it Rose-water as much as shall seem necessary for precipitation and the pure Rosin of Scammony will be precipitated void of all its poisonous quality and freed from its nauseous smell and taste which when the humidity is separated from it reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth the body of both sorts of Choler and divers other diseases without any offence to the body neither can there be a more mild sweet and noble Cathartick found in the whole bosom of Nature The Dose is from half a scruple to a whole scruple in Conserves or other appropriate Vehicles Magistery of Gum Guttemaw or Gambogia BY the forementioned Method may a Magistery or Flowers be prepared of this Peruvian Gum which is an incomparable Cathartick to purge serous and thick humors let it be prepared carefully and reserved for use The Dose is from ten twelve or fifteen grains to a scruple especially in robust bodies Gum of Peru Rosated Take Gum of Peru or Guttemaw well pulverized an ounce Chicory-water half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol rectified a dram These being well mixed put it into a Glass or a well glazed Vessel and in a warm place but if it be too hot it will grow black and be spoiled let it evaporate and grow dry till it looks of an earthy colour Afterward pulverize this and add to it powder of red Roses an ounce of red Sanders two drams and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine and let it circulate for twenty four hours and when it is grown cold again filter it through a Paper and by degrees let it evaporate till it is dry and so you have a red Extract of valid and excellent efficacy and in aspect fair and lovely though the Gum by it self or the Magistery of it is of an unpleasant yellow colour and doth easily nauseate Hitherto it is revealed and communicated to none but to the ingenious and worthy for which end it was found Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth serous humors without danger and difficulty from all parts of the body for which reason it is used with excellent success in all ill habits of body Dropsie Gouts of all sorts and such kind of diseases also in the Scurvy and Greensickness it is found excellent by Experience The Dose is from fifteen grains to twenty one especially in robust strong bodies Amber Muskified Take of the best pure Amber an ounce of the most odorate Musk a dram Elaeosaccharum of Citrons half a dram Mix them and bring the mass into a most subtile Powder which moisten with Spirit of Roses hot and let it dry again and this labour repeat certain times and afterward let it be again finely powdered and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and drys It comforts the Brain it roborates and succours it in all its affects it helps the continual pain of the Head it cleanseth the Eyes of white specks and consumes the moist defluxions thereof It wonderfully gives help to old people and to those who are naturally cold it hastens drunkenness being infused in Wine The Dose is from four to six and eight grains at the most in Sack or other proper Vehicle Regal Diacinamon Take of the best Cinamon four ounces three Nutmegs of our Syrup of Cinamon as much as will suffice Make it into an Electuary to which add Confectio Alkermes an ounce Oyl of Cinamon half an ounce Amber Muskified Troches of Pearls of each a dram Leaves of Hungarian Gold thirty one Mix them and so make a Royal magnificent Medicine which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a hot quality It comforts the Brain and Heart above measure it discusseth the vitious humors of the Stomach and helps Concoction it helps the Syncope and Palpitation of the Heart it resists the inflation and swelling of the Stomach and dissipates wind It allays the Colick-pains proceeding from a cold Cause and it sweetens the Breath It resists all putrefaction It is very agreeable to old people who are cold and debilitated and in whom the native Balsam and natural heat are lessened and impaired It doth wonderfully recover strength increase Seed and promotes the strength of Procreation it excites to Venery and much sweetens the pleasure thereof and safely increaseth the motion thereunto The Dose in the morning fasting and in the evening at going to bed is the quantity of a Hazel-nut more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Pearls Trochiscated TAke white Salt of the Oriental Pearls and free from all its acetosity what quantity you please dissolve it in water made of May-dew gathered from the standing Wheat or in some Cordial liquor to this solution add by drops of Spirit of Vitriol rectified as much as shall seem requisite for precipitation and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which the flegm being removed edulcorate and dry it according to art and you have the true Magistery of Pearls Then take of this Magistery an ounce the true Oyl of Roses and Oyl of Cinamon of each a scruple Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in equal parts of rose-Rose-water and cinamon-Cinamon-water let little Troches be made according to art which lay by for use and reserve it like a Treasure Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Comfortative in all affects of the Heart as Pain Sorrow Trembling Pulsation Palpitation defects of the Mind c. Also in pains of the Head Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie Contractures resolution of the Nerves Convulsion Phrensie Melancholy Madness Gout and Gouty pains in the Joynts Consumption Blasting the numbness and decay by Age Stone Dropsie Scurvy French Pox and Feavers c. It purifies the Blood it comforts all the Senses Brain Memory and Heart and preserves the whole body sound It fortifies Nature within also the Child in the Womb it roborates the Spirits repairs the strength and increaseth the humane Seed it amends Milk in Women takes away the spots of the Eyes and consumes Catarrhs c. And these Troches of Pearls thus made by our ordination have been highly approved by many Great and Noble men and by them esteemed as a great Secret and equal in effect to the Aurum Potabile The Dose according to the nature of the infirm and the Judgment of the Physician is from six grains to eight in appropriate Vehicles Elaeosaccharum of Citrons Take of Rose-water sixteen pound the exterior bark
vitriolated a dram Diacodium crociated half a dram species of Diambra ten grains Extract of Elicampane flowers three grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose Laudanum Minerale or the Mineral Laudanum Take of the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol corrected and fixt two drams Magistery of Pearls Extract of Lignum Aloes of each a dram and a half of Saffron a scruple Bezoar stone the Animal Unicorn of each fifteen grains oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each half a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of the Juyce of wild Poppy flowers make a soft Mass according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Anodyne and most profitable to procure sleep also to stop Catarrhs Defluxions from the Brain upon the Nose or Eyes Coughs and other such kind of affects it helps the Distillations that fall upon the Thorax Lungs c. The Dose is from six grains to eight or ten in any Conserve or convenient Liquor or in the form of a Pill SECT IV. Of the Preparing certain things c. The Calcination and Preparation of Harts-horn Elks hoofs Mans Skull c. Spagyrically or without Fire THis Calcination is effectually performed in a Bladder by continual boiling or digesting in fair water by which vapor the Horn hanging in the neck of the Bladder in which place it may be best wrought and penetrated by a pleasant and wonderful manner is calcined to a perfect whiteness without those violent flames which otherwise consume its virtues as is used to be done in the vulgar Calcination but let the fourth part of the Bladder be empty And if in boiling the water should consume pour on more scalding hot and this do until this fumigatory Calcination for whatsoever is calcined by this method is not undeservedly said to be calcined by Suffumigation be absolutely finished Virtue Use and Dose Harts-horn thus prepared is equal to the Unicorns horn in its Diaphoretick force for it is profitable in all affects of the Heart and wonderfully excellent in all kind of Poison Moreover it is very effectual in the yellow Jaundice Dysenteries pains of the Guts voiding of blood either upwards or downwards pains in the Bladder Fluxes of blood in Women c. The Elks hoof also of the same Preparation is of great efficacy being a noble Cordial in malignant Feavers and a Secret in many other diseases likewise mans Skull wonderfully cures the Epilepsie Apoplexy Vertigo c. The Dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in some appropriate Vehicle The true Spagyrical Preparation of Thebane Opium Put Thebane Opium cut into small pieces upon an Iron plate and set it upon hot coals constantly stirring it till all the poisonous and corrosive quality is separated by Evaporation Yet take this caution let not him that tends it receive the Fumes for it is hurtful When this is evaporated the Opium left upon the Plate will have a fragrant smell like Violets which is a true sign that all its malignity is separated then dissolve this Opium thus prepared either in Wine-vinegar distilled or in Juyce of Citrons which being done again draw off the Menstruum and keep it for use The Preparation of Nitre Take of Nitre purified with Flos Sulphuris half a pound dissolve it in Spirit of Wine and Vitriol of each a like quantity then draw off the Spirit until the mass remains crusty what is left in the bottom put into a cool place and the Nitre will shoot into Crystals from which take the humidity and dry the Crystal and reserve them for use The Preparation of Millepedes commonly called Wood-lice Take Millepedes what quantity you please wash them in Spanish Wine and in a Glass close stopped and covered with Paste all over dry them in an Oven again wash them in Spanish Wine and dry them as before and repeat this the third time fourthly infuse them in our Aqua Nephritica vitriolated for two or three days afterwards dry them and pulverize them and keep them for use The Preparation of white Hellebore Take white Hellebore finely pulverized pour upon it often Vinegar left after the dissolution of red Coral being abstracted and vitriolated but first infuse in it the Cordial flowers and grains of Chermes dry it again and so you shall have white Hellebore well and Spagyrically prepared which may safely be given inwardly in many diseases in a certain dose and mixture without any danger The Preparation of Fish-shells Take oblong shells which are found near Fish-ponds and Lakes pour upon them distilled Vinegar and let them lye therein a whole night to extract the filth from them which you shall carefully scrape off and afterwards pulverize them and with Carduus water prepare it upon a Marble for the volatile Powder of them made by Calcination is of no worth nor use in Physick The Calcination and Preparation of River flints Take River-flints white and shining and heat them red-hot in a strong fire then quench them in water in which Sal Armoniack hath been dissolved and repeat this work often till at last the Flints appear white like Snow and may be easily brought to a Powder This Powder edulcorate with Rose water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Powder is not only a powerful Dentifricium cleansing the Teeth on a sudden from all their corrosive Tartar and other filth and makes them white but also Iron and Steel and hence it takes away all rust from Arms and Weapons presently and makes them fair and clean especially if the rust be first rubbed with Oleum Templini and then afterward scoured with this Powder By this way Arms that are kept in store may be preserved pure and clean for many years from the filth and damage of rust And indeed it is of great use not only for the Armory of Princes but of Cities and Persons of Honour and though it is but an ordinary thing it ought not to be contemned The Preparation of the Pumice-stone Quench a red-hot Pumice-stone in Cows milk thrice and the fourth time leave it in the Milk until all grow cold then pulverize it and it is prepared for our Farina Virginea The Preparation of the sweet Earth of Vitriol Take of green Vitriol calcined to a perfect redness what quantity you please pulverize it and edulcorate it by often washing it in distilled Rain-water till the red Earth is freed from all its saltness and acrimony then dry this sweet or rather insipid Earth and reserve it for use The Preparation and Calcination of Alum Take of common Salt two parts of the best Alum one part Mix them and in a convenient Vessel reverberate them according to art for twelve hours then take away the reverberated matter and wash it so often with warm water till it is perfectly edulcorated and the Powder is quite freed from all its saltness then pour upon it our Juniper Spirit of Wine that it may swim three or four fingers above it and
compound flowers of Sulphur half an ounce wild Boars teeth and the Iaw-bone of a Pike of each two drams Poppy flowers a dram Mix them and make a fine Powder which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It cures not without amazement to the Beholders the Pleurisie all putrefactions Imposthumes c. Dose from half a dram to a dram in Chamomil flower and Poppy water of each a sufficient quantity There is not a Remedy more effectual to be given and certainly this only draught edulcorated with a little white Sugar Candy and given often is a most admirable help which I have very often used and always by the blessing of God restored the sick to their former health Species Febrifugae Take the long shells of Shell-fish prepared Elks claws calcined without fire of each an ounce salts of the lesser Centaury of Carduus benedictus and Wormwood of each half an ounce Tartar vitriolated Magistery of Vitriol of each three drams Calamus Aromaticus Nutmegs of each a dram and a half seeds of St. Iohns-wort Cloves long Pepper Camphire of each a dram roots of Tormentil round Birthwort Zedoary and Laserpitium of each half a dram Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It drives away all Feavers especially Quotidian Tertian and sometimes the Quartan is by it cured also It is given in the Fit or a little before in water of Carduus or a little Centaury or in a draught of warm Beer or Ale The Patient being in his Bed let him compose himself to sweat The dose is from a scruple to a dram the age and strength of the Patient considered Pulvis Febrilis probatus or an approved Feaver-powder Take Calamus Aromaticus an ounce roots of Gentian round Birthwort white Ginger of each half an ounce salt of the lesser Centaury Carduus Wormwood of each three drams Harts-horn calcined without fire seeds of Marigold Camphire of each a dram white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half Mix them and make a fine Powder The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick and appropriate Vehicles Species Nephriticae or a Powder for distempered Kidneys Take Crystals of Tartar an ounce Magistery of Pearch stones and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce salt of white Amber a dram Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple white Sugar Candy four ounces Mix all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It gives ease to those who are pained in the Kidneys it breaks the Stone and tartarous matter in the Reins and Bladder and other members and brings it away It is a present help for the Ischury Dysury and Strangury without any great trouble it is indeed a Secret and so it ought to be esteemed against Stones of all kinds The dose for preservation is one scruple at the Quarters of the Moon in our Nephritick water but in curing the dose is from half a dram to a dram in the before-said water or in the water of Restharrow Parsley or Ground-lvy Species Cholagogae or a Choler-purging Powder Take Magistery of Scammony an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce acid Tartar two drams red Roses vitriolated flowers of the lesser Centaury of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It carries off yellow Choler without trouble and opens obstructions it relieves the Stomach Heart Liver Lungs Joynts and Bowels and conserves and increaseth their strength it cures the Heart-passion Consumptions yellow Jaundice c. It is taken with good success by ancient and weak people in burning and Tertian Feavers Dose from half a dram to two scruples Pulvis Carminativus or a Carminative Powder Take Cummin seed prepared with Vinegar seeds of Car away and Anise of each three ounces white Ginger six drams Mace three drams Oriental Saffron a dram Of these make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth that wind that distends the Guts and by its acrimony causeth pains It may be taken constantly or in time of necessity by continuing of it certain days and for the first month in some Broth or with water of Fenil or Anise or our Carminative water The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half Farina Virginea Nobilis Take River-flints calcined and pulverized six ounces Pumice-stone prepared an ounce roots of Flower-de-luce half an ounce Gallia moschata a dram Oyl of Roses a scruple Mix all and make a Powder like Meal which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose There is not a more excellent Medicine to cleanse the Teeth and take off the corrosive Tartar if they be daily and diligently rubbed with a woollen Cloth and this powder than this is and therefore I do commend this sweet and pleasant powder of Flints to the use of all Pulvis Haemorrhoidalis or a Powder for the Piles Take fine Flour an ounce Crocus Martis half an ounce red Oriental Bole prepared roots of Mullein of each two drams white Hermodactyls infused all night in spirit of Wine and again dryed flowers of wild Poppy white Sugar Candy Dragons blood Olibanum of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a fine powder Virtue and Use. It presently stops the bleeding of the Haemorrhoids and wonderfully allays their vehement pains And when it is used make a Cataplasm either of the White of an Egg spread upon a Pledget of Tow or of stale Butter upon Lint on which sprinkle a little of this powder and so apply it to the bleeding Piles or Haemorrhoids Pulvis de Verbasco or a Powder of Mullein Take of the green herb Mullein what quantity you please put it into a Crucible and stuff in as much as you can cover it with another Crucible and lute it well then set it on the fire that it may wax black but not burn to ashes and when it seems to be enough let the Crucible cool and take out that black matter and reduce it into a fine powder then Take of this black powder an ounce elect Rhubarb two drams Mix them and make of all a fine powder Virtue and Use. This powder is a certain Experiment against the Condylomata and blind Piles the use of which is thus Let such person take a piece of Linen that is much worn and wet a little of it with his own Spittle and upon that sprinkle some of this powder and so apply it to the part repeating it so often till the Piles are dissolved and discussed which will be in a short time Pulvis probatus or an approved Powder to dry consolidate and heal the small Pox. Take meal of Lentils Beans and Orobus or Fitches of each half an ounce of Litharge of Ceruss washed Tutty prepared Pompholix of each two drams shells of Sea-shell-fish prepared roots of Reeds Crocus Metallorum of each a dram Mix them and make a fine powder Virtue Use and Dose After the seventh day when the small Pox are ripe open them with a golden or silver Needle wipe off the matter lest it
Apoplectick Waters of each sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose They are used as well in preserving from as curing the Epilepsie Apoplexy and Palsie and other dangerous diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves The dose in preservation is from half a dram to a dram at all Quarters of the Moon but in curing it is given from a dram to two or three in the Fit or a little after either by it self or in some proper Vehicle And if necessary repeat it but to Children by reason of their age half so much or less is a sufficient dose Morsuli Regii Take green Pistick Nuts two ounces Pines cleansed sweet Almonds of each an ounce Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a dram the Cordial Flowers cut small of each a pugil Oyl of Mace a scruple white Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water sixteen ounces Mix them and make them into little bits or Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are of a grateful taste and comfortable above measure They nourish and restore those who languish under any Weakness Phthisick Consumption or are extenuated with a long Disease You cannot err in the dose for they may be taken at Meat or before or after it as the sick pleaseth Morsuli Rosati Take the best Conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce species de Gemmis frig Diamargar frigid of each two drams Confectio Alkermes Troches of Barberries flowers of Nitre of each a dram Magistery of Pearls and red Coral of each half a dram Elaeosaccharum of Roses and Citrons of each a scruple Cinamon and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve it in water of Roses and Strawberries of each a like quantity Mix all and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are proper for all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Womb and Reins and are given successfully in burburning cholerick Feavers They refresh those that are weak and dejected with a long Disease and restore them to their pristine strength They help the trembling of the Heart the defection of the Spirits and Digestion and those whose Countenance is vitiated The dose is from two drams to half an ounce Morsuli Pectorales or Pectoral Morsels Take Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams roots of Flower-de-luce Aliptae Moschatae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur anisat Oyl of Fenil of each ten grains white Sugar sixteen ounces dissolve the Sugar in water of Horehound and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity Mix them and make little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They relieve those afflicted with a lingering Cough Hoarsness Asthma c. They help difficulty of Breathing cut and attenuate the thick humors in the Breast and Lungs and ease pain there The dose is from half a dram to one or two every hour or when the Patient pleaseth Morsuli Refectivi de Cancris or Refective Morsels of Crabs Take the carnous part of River-Crabs boiled in pectoral Waters two ounces Conserve of Damask Roses an ounce and a half Pines cleansed green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds of each macerated all night in Scabious-water an ounce white Sugar dissolved in our water of Calves Lungs five ounces Mix them and in the end add Syrup of Mastich two ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams Troches of Pearls and Oyl of Nutmegs exprest of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple Mix them and with great diligence according to Art make a Confection into little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose It is an Arcanum against the Phthisick and Consumption of the body which ought to be preferred deservedly before many other Remedies for there is nothing almost that doth more conserve the radical moisture than these It restores lost strength and comforts the principal members The dose is often in the day from two drams to half an ounce more or less according to the Complexion and Sex of the Patient Morsuli Stomachici or Stomach-morsels Take Diacydonium simple two ounces preserved China Ginger an ounce Calamus aromaticus preserved green half an ounce Nutmegs Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Mace of each a dram seeds of Coriander prepared Cummin seeds of each half a dram Oyls of Cloves and Cinamon of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in our stomachical Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully comfort a cold Stomach and help it to retain the meat They roborate and strengthen the members of Nutrition hurt and debilitated and do powerfully excite the Appetite and Taste They discuss Flatulencies and dissolve ventose Humors They abate and take away the swelling and extension of the Hypochonders and restore the native heat They take away the ill savour of the body and wonderfully help those who have cold Bowels The dose is from one dram to two Morsuli Epatici or Morsels for the Liver Take roots of Scorzonera and Succory preserved of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Conserve of red Roses Raisins of each half an ounce Citron flowers preserved two drams Magistery of red Coral Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds Spodium of Wolfs lungs dryed of each a dram seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each half a dram flowers of white Agrimony white Sugar dissolved in our Epatick water frigid and calid sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Tablets and gild them with gold Virtue Use and Dose They are very good for the weakness and imbecillity of the Liver they take away its obstructions and give it strength They are good in the Jaundice some kind of Dropsies and ill habit of body The dose is from a dram to two and half an ounce Morsuli Martiales or Morsels of Mars Take filings of Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce Cassia lignea the lesser Galangal Cloves of each a dram Mace Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyl of Cinamon half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Wormwood and lesser Centaury eight ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable in all Obstructions especially of the Spleen and help all the vices of the Stomach Heart Head the paleness of the Face and provoke the Courses in Women c. They are taken in the morning four hours before dinner drinking a draught of Wormwood-wine after it and after taking it to use exercise for an hour The dose from two drams to three at a time Morsuli Viriles Take of our Confection succulata Inda an ounce green Pistick Nuts sweet Almonds Pine-nuts of each half an ounce preserved Nutmegs two drams Venetian Borax lesser Galangal long Pepper Cardamoms the less of each a dram the pizzle of a Bull and a Hart of each half
of Suffocation for if one or two be taken in the morning for three days together in our Hysterical water or in any other appropriate they do under God cure the Patient for which Divine gift let God alone be blessed Trochisci de Alumine or Troches of Alum Take crude Alum roots of Pellitory of each half an ounce long Pepper a dram seeds of Henbane Wheat-meal white Chalk Nitre prepared of each a dram and a half white Ginger Cloves Opium prepared of each a dram Mix them and with Juyce of the lesser Nettles make Troches Virtue and Use. They take away pain being applied to the Teeth and Gums due Purgation or Phlebotomy being first used Trochisci de Satureja pro Lixivio or Troches of Summer-Savory for a Lixivium Take dryed Savory half an ounce Marjoram and Origanum of each two drams Lavender flowers red Roses Rosemary flowers of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Gum Arabick white Tragacanth roots of Avens and Flower-de-luce of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Cubebs of each a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches each weighing a dram Virtue and Use. Boil two three or more of these Troches in a sufficient quantity of Lixivium and with that wash the Head in the morning fasting having first been at stool and presently let the Head be rubbed and dryed with warm Linen It takes away all the sweat and filth of the Head and strengthens it opens the Pores of the Skin drys up Catarrhs comforts the Memory and quickens the Sense Trochisci de Nitro or Troches of Nitre Take Rotula's of the juyce of Barberries and Rotula's of the juyce of Goosberries of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with spirit of Vitriol Nitre prepared of each an ounce powder of red Roses vitriolated two drams Oyl of Cinamon four drops Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in Juyce of Citrons make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in the Quincy Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue boiling of the Blood heat of Urine burning Feavers and especially putrid Semi-tertains The dose is from one dram to two in appropriate Vehicles Styli Dentrifricii or a Medicine for the Teeth Take the powder of calcined River-flints two ounce Pumice stone prepared burnt Alum of each half 〈◊〉 ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white ashes of Indian Tabaco of each two drams Gallia Moschata oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in rose-Rose-water make little Rowls to cleanse the Teeth Virtue and Use. They are most used to cleanse the Teeth and to remove their ill colour For when the Teeth turn yellow black c. this Powder doth wonderfully cleanse them and make them white if they be often rubbed and cleansed with it Pomum Ambrae Take roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce Cloves Mace Cinamon of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each two drams Ambergriese a dram Alexandrian Musk half a dram Balsam of Peru Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple All being diligently mixed add of true Civet two drams then with Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each alike dissolved in water of Marjoram Narcissus Roses and Lavender make a mass of which make Troches Balls Cakes c. which put into a Glass and kept will grow hard Virtue and Use. It is a specifick odoriferous Medicine which in cold Cephalalgia's Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy pestilential Air Colick suffocation of the Matrix falling out of the Womb c. and especially when Medicines cannot be taken into the Body if these be applied to the Nose or other parts they comfort the Heart and vital Spirits exceedingly Sapo odoratus or perfumed Sope. Take Venetian Sope dissolved in water of Narcissus a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each two drams Ambergriese and Civet of each a dram of Musk Balsam of Peru of each half a dram the Oyls of Rhodium Lavender Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Tartar per deliquium make little Balls and as you are making them up anoint your hands with the aforesaid Oyls SECT X. Of Suffiments Suffimentum Angelicum TAke Styrax Calamitis and Benjamin of each equal parts Dissolve these in the best Rose-water and presently well prest afterwards dryed pulverized and kept for use Take of this powder thus prepared an ounce wood of Aloes two drams red Roses dryed and Ambergriese of each a dram true Civet and Musk of each half a dram Balsam of Peru and Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Ivory calcined till it be black a sufficient quantity Mix all well and with rose-Rose-water make a Paste of which make little black Cakes put them among Rose-leaves and dry them in the shade then put them in a glass Vessel and keep them for use Virtue and Use. They are used for a Perfume by Kings Princes and Great men for one or two being laid upon hot Coals or infused and boiled in rose-Rose-water give a most sweet delectable and celestial Odor which doth refresh the Brain and vital Spirits and prevents the contagious Infection of a malignant Air. Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume Take Styrax cleansed Benjamin of each half aâ— ounce wood of Aloes two drams true Civet a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses â—f each ten grains Mix them and make all into little Balls or Cakes which keep for use Virtue and Use. These sweet Balls being laid upon hot coals send forth a most grateful Odor which doth not only correct a poisonous stinking and putrid Air but sweetly and pleasantly refresh the internal Spirits of man the Fume also conveyed by a Tunnel or other such Instrument into the Orifice of the Womb doth wonderfully help Women that are almost suffocated and stays all the inordinate motions of the Matrix But when it is thus used take care to cover the Head close lest the Patient should receive the odor by the Nostrils also Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Fume Take white Amber eleven drams red Myrrh elect Mastich Gum Animae Galbanum and Elemi of each two drams Misleto of the Oak seeds of Peony huked Iuniper-berries shavings of Elks horn of each a dram Wormwood Marjoram Lavender flowers flower of Lily of the valley red Roses of each half a dram Mix them and with an Infusion of Tragacanth made in our Epileptick water make little Troches or Balls Virtue and Use. These being laid on coals and the Fume received up into the Nose by one that is grieved with the Epilepsie takes away the fit and is very profitable for those who are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head as the Apoplexy and Palsie c. It is also used against the suffocation and falling out of the Womb. Suffimentum de Sandaracha Take of the
all depraved Humors The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Uterinum Take roots of Bryony two pound roots of white Diptamus and Peony of each a pound Misleto of the Oak Dwarff Elder and common Elder-berries of each half a pound Rosemary Balm Motherwort Nep and Penny-royal of each four ounces Mix all and calcine them to ashes and with Balm water or any other appropriate Water extract a most white Salt Virtue Use and Dose It opens all obstructions of the Womb helps Convulsions precipitates Suffocations and Fumes and provokes the Terms It removes sterility and takes away many other infirmities of those parts The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Carminativum Take Chamomil two pound Pennyroyal Mother of Tyme Water-mints and Dill of each a pound Let them be calcined according to Art into white Ashes then add the Ashes following i. e. ashes of Anise Cummin Caraway and Fenil seeds of each two ounces ashes of the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Zedoary of each an ounce Mix all and with Chervil-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent to discuss wind It helps the Gripes and allays all pain proceeding from wind The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Carminative water Sal Febrile Take Sal Armoniack divers times sublimed Nitre prepared Salt of Carduus benedictus of Wormwood and the lesser Centaury of each an ounce Dissolve them all in Succory-water and make of all a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Alexipyretick in Feavers of all kinds whether Quotidians Tertians Semitertians or Quartans c. without danger It is given from half a dram to a dram two or three hours before the Fit in Centaury-water or any other Specifick expecting Sweat toward the end of the Fit And the same dose is to be repeated if the first or second dose doth not perform it Annotation If any one proceeds so ingeniously that from the forementioned specifick Compositions he desires to prepare with the safe and secret Spagiâ—ists the Essential Salts as they call them let him â—ake the simple Herbs or mixt with other Ingrediâ—nts and being well dryed by a temperate heat boil â—hem in common Water according to Art till all â—heir strength and native Salt is well excocted for otherwise his labour is in vain then pour off the Deâ—oction and again boil that to the consistence of Hoâ—ey or to the thickness of a Syrup put that into a â—ery cool place till it shoots into Crystals which â—ake off and purifie well by divers Solutions Filtraâ—â—ons and Coagulations until it be fit for Physical â—se This excellent Salt is also extracted from the â—uyce of Herbs made thick concerning which see â—eguinus Lib. 2. cap. 17. And do thou know Reaâ—er that three grains of these Essential Salts will be â—ore effectual than a scruple of the vulgar made by â—alcinations SECT XII Of Marmelades Marmelada Cephalica or a Marmelade for the Head TAke Diacydonium simple four ounces Rotula's of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each two ounces preserved roots of Peony an ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce preserved Walnuts three Nutmegs preserved in India one Emerauld prepared a dram Elaeosaccharum of white Amber Marjoram and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Brain and resists all the affects thereof It is also happily given in the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Palsie Trembling c. The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Marmelada Stomachica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved rooâ— of Succory two ounces Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatâ— an ounce preserved Emblick Myrobalans Conserve 〈◊〉 red Roses of each half an ounce Nitre vitriolated haâ—â— a dram Mix them and without any additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It relieves the Stomach oppressed with hot Humors It comforts and provokes Appetite Moreover it alters a hot Temperature and is happily given to those that have pains about the Heart or are subject to vomit The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stomachica calida or a warming Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces aromatick Rotula's Succulata Inda of each an ounce Bengale Ginger preserved Calamus aromaticus preserved Chebul Myrobalans preserved of each half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix all and without any addition make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Ventricle and parts serving for nutrition It helps Digestion moves Appetite discusseth wind and preserves from putrefaction It opens the obstructions of the Veins and helps Hiccup and Vomiting The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Pectoralis or a Pectoral Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces our Pectoral Morsels and Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Violets of each two ounces compound flowers of Sulphur an ounce preserved roots of Fenil and Elicampane of each half an ounce extracted juyce of Liquorish two drams species Diaireos simple Confectio Alkermes of each a dram Mix them and without any other addition make a Marmelade and cover it with gold Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with infirmities of the Lungs Coughs Asthma's pains of the Breast It also helps those who are subject to a deflux of humors from the Brain upon the Thorax and vital parts The dose is from a dram to two Marmelada Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half aromatick Rotula's species of Aromaticum Rosarum species de Gemmis and Diambra of each six drams preserved Citron peels and Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix all and make a Marmelade according to Art without any other addition Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens and exhilarates the Heart and all the vital Spirits hurt by cold and refreshes them by its heat It wonderfully helps old people and women troubled with cold Diseases and is very proper for the distempers of the Womb. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Cordialis frigida or a cold Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces Manus Christi perlati Rotula's of Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and an half Pulp of preserved Citrons Conserve of red Roses of each six drams preserved roots of Succory half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Mix them and bring all into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and extinguisheth the heat thereof it contemperates the
time twice in a month The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in appropriate Medicines Syrupus Vitriolato-rosatus or a vitriolated Syrup with Roses In the Preparation of our Magistery of Corals already mentioned a red Liquor will remain in the separation of the Coral from the Menstruum to which if a sufficient quantity of white Sugar be added and boiled to the consistence of a Syrup it will be red and a most noble and efficacious Medicine very profitable in the Plague Epidemical Diseases Feavers Dysenteries Liver-fluxes vices of the Stomach Scurvy obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Inflammations and many other Diseases The dose is from an ounce to two by it self or with other appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Cephalicus or a Syrup for the Head Take the juyce of Carduus and Millefoil depurated of each a pound water of Lavender and Betony of each half a pound roots of Avens and Peony of each an ounce Cassia lignea Nutmegs Cubebs of each an ounce and a half Marjoram Vervain Rosemary and Origanum of each three drams flowers of Lilies of the valley Teil-tree Primroses Rosemary and red Roses of each two drams seeds of Lavender Fenil Sage and Peony of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Misleto of the Oak Oriental Saffron of each a dram Boil them to the consumption of the third part afterward let them be strained and clarified and then add of white Sugar a sufficient quantity to bring it into a Syrup according to Art which aromatize with Species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Remedy in all dangerous distempers of the Head as inveterate Head-ach Hemicrania Epilepsie Apoplexy Palsie c. It roborates the Head Brain and Ventricle and is agreeable to those who are troubled with a trembling of the Head and Heart The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or with other appropriate Medicines Syrupus Pectoralis or a Syrup for the Breast Take roots of Liquorish sliced Coltsfoot of each two ounces roots of Elicampane Flower-de-luce Angelica of each an ounce both sorts of Lungwort Maidenhair sharp Sage Horehound Scabious of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and infused in water of Carduus and Fenil of each three pound of Mallows Fluellin and Marsh-mallows of each a pound Let them be boiled to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained six pound and infuse in it small Raisons four ounces seeds of Carduus Anise Roman Nettles Quinces and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce of Dates Iujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each twenty one Boil them again to the consumption of the third part and then let them be strongly prest and strained Take of this strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil them again and as they are boiling aromatize it with Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace and Cinamon of each two drams Let these be tyed up in a thin Cloth and boil together with the rest till it comes to the consistence of a Syrup to which last of all add three ounces of cinamon-Cinamon-water and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of wonderful force and power in all affects of the Thorax Vitals Destillations and Obstructions for it cuts and attenuates thick Humors It is also of good use in Consumptions Wastings and Ulcers of the Lungs And is a present Remedy for Asthma's and Coughs and is profitably used in the pains of the Hypochonders and a Pleurisie beginning It dissolves suppurated matter and helps to cast it forth and is a great Secret in Hoarsness and defect of the Voice The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or in appropriate Vehicles Syrupus Asthmaticus or a Syrup for the Asthma Take white Sugar Candy a pound water of Lohoch sanum eight ounces Syrup of Horehound and Liquorish of each four ounces Syrup of Maidenhair and Iujubes of each three ounces Syrup of Hyssop and the juyce of Violets of each two ounces Mix them all well together and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It doth chiefly help in the Asthma and Pleurisie It safely cleanseth opens and inlargeth the Thorax and Lungs and also opens Obstructions It helps wheesing dry Coughs and is profitably given in the pain of the Breast and Hypochonders the Stone in the Reins c. It is also very agreeable to old people and those who are cold by Nature The dose is by it self or with Pectoral Waters from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cordialis or a Cordial Syrup Take Cinamon two ounces roots of Bugloss an ounce flowers of red Roses Borage Balm and Violets of each half an ounce Cardamoms the less Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each two drams Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be macerated in three pound of good odoriferous Wine until the Wine hath imbibed all the virtue of the Ingredients then boil it to the consumption of a pound Take of this Liquor strained two pound white Sugar a pound and a half Boil these together and toward the end add of each of our Cordial Waters four ounces And boil all to the just consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It exhilarates and daily increaseth the Magnanimity of the mind and is a most efficacious Medicine in almost all melancholy Diseases Moreover it is of singular use in the passions of the Heart proceeding from grief or sorrow and this it doth by roborating of that part The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in other convenient Vehicles Syrupus de Cassia Lignea Take Gelly of Quinces a pound Boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey then mix with it our Tincture of Cassia lignea so much as may bring it to the consistence of a Syrup at last add to it an ounce of Elaeosaccharum of Cassia lignea and again mix them and reserve it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is agreeable to old weak and frigid Patients and to those in whom the Radical moisture and natural heat are diminished It comforts all the principal Members It roborates the Heart and a cold Stomach It helps the Syncope and trembling of the Heart It allays Nauseousness Vomiting and Hiccup It takes away the ill savour of the Breath and makes it sweet The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce either by it self or in any other specifick Medicine Syrupus Diacitri Rosatus or a compound Syrup of Citrons and Roses Take juyce of Citrons and Lemmons first strained through a cloth or strainer but not prest and tinctured with powder of red Roses a pound Rob of Barberries and Goosberries of each seven ounces Syrup of the juyce of unripe Grapes Syrup of Vinegar Rasberries and Strawberries of each four
ounces Cinamon water buglossated in which species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused two ounces Nitre prepared a dram and a half Mix them and boil all into the consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It potently refrigerates penetrates drys and defends the parts from Putrefaction It is of excellent use in malignant cholerick Feavers and other contagious Diseases It powerfully resists Sur feits by drinking Poysons and Pestilence It extinguisheth Thirst and all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Bowels It provokes Sweat and Urine represseth cholerick Vomitings and cures the Cholera It helps the passions of the Heart Dysenteries and griping of the Guts the body being first purged The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or in any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a Syrup against the Scurvy Take of the juyce of Norway black Berries three pound juyce of Watercresses Brooklime Sorrel and Scurvygrass of each half a pound These being mixed add of white Sugar a pound and a half and so make a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble and approved Remedy against the Scurvy The dose is from an ounce to two or three by it self or with our Antiscorbutick Water Syrupus de Pyrethro or a Syrup of Pellitory Take of the best Agarick an ounce and a half roots of Pellitory an ounce roots of Acorus Burnet and male Peony of each half an ounce seeds of Peony and Fenil Iuniper-berries of each three drams Motherwort Agrimony Hyssop Primrose wild Mints Nep of each two drams flowers of Lily of the valley Mullein Bugloss and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Cinamon Nutmegs and Cubebs of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be infused in water of Sage and Rosemary of each three pound Let them stand and infuse a whole night and then boil them to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained and clear four pound white Sugar two pound Mix them and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in all passions of the Nerves as the Palsie Convulsions Epilepsie Hip-gout c. For it potently dissolves the peccant matter and mitigates pain The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in any other convenient Vehicle Syrupus Nephriticus or a Syrup against the Stone in the Reins Take of our Aqua Antinephritica and Lithontriptica of each ten ounces Salt of the Pearch stone and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce Being mixed and dissolved add flowers of Marsh-mallows new dryed as many as sufficeth Let them stand in digestion a few days until the Liquor be perfectly tinctured afterward with two pound of white Sugar boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is given to those troubled with the Stone and Gravel from an ounce to an ounce and a half by it self or with some other agreeable Vehicle for it breaks and expels the Stone though great as you may see by daily Experience how sand and fragments of Stones lye at the bottom of the Urine Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick Syrup Take Sloes ripe and dryed a pound roots of water-Acorus Snakeweed Tormentil and Zedoary of each an ounce rinds of Pomegranates dryed Quinces of each half an ounce Turkish Galls red Roses Balaustines of each two drams seeds of Sorrel Bloodworth and Plantane of each a dram and a half Boil all according to Art in a sufficient quantity of white Wine till it be perfectly tinctured Take of this clear strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil it again till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup and let it be aromatized with Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Oriental Saffron white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram wild Poppyflowers and Clovegilly-flowers of each half a dram Let these be all tyed up in a thin Cloth and boiled in the Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It helps Hepatick Dysenteries that arise from the sharpness of the Humors It moves Appetite to meat helps those that cannot hold their water But it is chiefly agreeable to those who are afflicted with long protracted Fluxes of the Belly caused of a watry humor as well cold as hot It stops Vomiting the flux of the Haemorrhoids overflowing of the Terms c. The dose is from an ounce to two universal Medicines being premised Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging Syrup for a bloody Flux Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces Liquorish Burnet of each an ounce roots of Tormentil and Succory of each six drams leaves of Harts-tongue Agrimony Fluellin Knotgrass of each half an ounce Make a Decoction in water of Comfry-roots Plantane and Oak-leaves of each a like quantity boil it to the consumption of the third part and strain it Take of this strained Liquor three pound the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half Mechoacan yellow Myrobalans leaves of Sena of each an ounce Troches of Agarick half an ounce flowers of red Roses white Lilies Elder Chamomil and Mullein of each two drams seeds of Anise Quinces and Dill of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Let them infuse in a warm place all night and in the morning let them be gently boiled and strained and prest and to the strained Liquor add of white Sugar two pound and make it into a just consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gently moves the Belly downwards without trouble and purgeth all sharp and cholerick Humors from whence proceed the Ulcerations of the Bowels Moreover it mitigates the pain and its purging operation being over it stays the Flux The dose in young people is from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in those full-grown from two ounces to three Syrupus Pantagogus Take roots of Polypody of the Oak white Hermodactyls of each four ounces white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half black Hellebore prepared the best Ialap of each an ounce Troches of Agarick of all the Myrobalans of each half an ounce Let them be cut and bruised and put into a sufficient quantity of white Wine in which let them infuse for certain days afterward boil them according to Art and in four pound of the strained Liquor again infuse the following Ingredients Sena three ounces small Raisons three ounces Cream of Tartar an ounce Maiden-hair Fluellin and Fumitory of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each two drams flowers of Peaches Violets and Roses of Acacia and Epithymum of each a dram Let them stand in Infusion all night in the morning let them be boiled strained and pressed and then with two pound of white Sugar boil them to the consistence of a Syrup adding these things following Cardamoms the less Cloves Galangal
wonderful operation and a happy restitution in a short time Spiritus Vini Theriacalis or Spirit of Wine with Treacle Take Venice Treacle four ounces roots of Angelica Elicampane and Swallow-wort white Diptamus Devils-bit Snakeweed Pimpinella Tormentil Zedoary Citron seeds of each an ounce Make all into a gross Powder and mix them on which pour eight pound of simple Spirit of Wine Let them digest fourteen days and then digest them in B. M. and keep the abstracted liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most excellent Spirit to preserve people from the Plague And is also called a Catholick Medicine because it consisteth of just twelve Ingredients It may be taken from one spoonful to two three or four hours before dinner or before they go abroad and is to be used every morning It prevents the danger of contagious Air and doth revive the Spirits But in curing it is given from two spoonfuls to three in Carduus-water or in our Aqua Cornu Cervi and it expels the Venom plentifully by Sweat SECT XIX Of compound distilled Waters Aqua Epileptica or an Epileptick Water TAke Roots of Peony duly gathered two ounces roots of round Birthwort white Diptamus and Angelica of each an ounce and a half Misleto of the Oak Peacocks dung Squills prepared Anacardus of each an ounce seeds of male Peony Coriander Caraway and Fenil of each six drams a dryed Secundine of a male Birth Castor of each half an ounce Carduus Millefoil wild Rue Sage and Rosemary of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days the Vessel being often shaken in the time afterward distil them by an Alembick and into the distilled Liquor again put these things following Flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley of each four ounces flowers of Betony Teil-tree Lavender Balm Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half Nutmeg Cinamon Cubebs Mace long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and over a gentle fire in Balneo distil them the second time Virtue Use and Dose It is an effectual Medicine against the Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Catalepsie and Subeth which Diseases it chiefly cureth It is given in the Fit from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in preservation at the four Quarters of the Moon especially in all moist and nebuâ—ous constitution of the Air from one spoonful to two Aqua Apoplectica or a Water for the Apoplexy Take seeds of Rocket a pound seeds of Mountain-Osier Caraway and Anise of each an ounce roots of Avens four ounces roots of male Peony Pellitory and water Acorus of each two ounces Iuniper-berries four ounces Bay-berries husked an ounce and an half Ground-pine Hyssop Marjoram Origanum and Vervain of each half an ounce Let them be grosly bâ—uised and beaten and put into a large Matrace with ten pound of Spanish Wine and two pound of Spirit of Roses Let them stand in digestion fourteen days and then distil them in Balneo and into the distilled Liquor put fresh flowers of the Lily of the valley Primroses and Lavender of each four ounces Sage Marigold Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and a half both sorts of Cardamoms Cabebs wood of Aloes Nutmegs Mace Cinamon the lesser Galangal long Pepper and Cloves of each an ounce Mix them and again digest them for three days and over a gentle fire distil it in Balneo and afterward rectifie it by it self with a scruple of Gallia Moschata wrapping Cotton about the Snout of the Alembick At last the water being put into a close Glass keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is rightly called the water of Philosophers because it is of a wonderful virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It also strengthens the Memory and Intellect exceedingly It preserves from the Apoplexy and Palsie and all other dangerous diseases of the Head It doth excellently discuss and attenuate Humors renders the Blood pure and gives a lively Colour to the body But chiefly and especially it cures the Apoplexy and may be as well outwardly applied as taken inwardly The dose is from one spoonful to two c. Aqua de Xyloaloe or a Water of Wood of Aloes Take of the species of Confectio Anacardina an ounce seeds of mountain Osier Caraway Fenil and Lavender of each six drams leaves of Marjoram Rosemary and Sage flowers of Primrose Stoechas red Roses and Rosemary of each two drams lesser Galangal Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Cubebs the lesser Cardamoms of each a dram Let them be grosly bruised and cut and infused in four pound of Spanish Wine let them stand in the Sun or in some other place to digest for a month and then add to it water of the Lily of the valley and flowers of St. Iohns-wort of each two pound water of the flowers of Bugloss Balm and Betony of each a pound Mix them and distil all in Balneo and in the distilled Liquor again infuse the best wood of Aloes four ounces Cassia lignea an ounce species of Diaxyloaloes and Diambra of each half an ounce Oriental Saffron a dram Mix them and after due digestion again distil them in Balneo and the distilled water reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a most illustrious and renowned Water in comforting and strengthening a weak Memory for it opens all the obstructions in the passages of the Brain and consumes all thick and viscous humors in the Head The dose is from one spoonful to two taken in the morning and at the same time to anoint the nape of the Neck with the same liquor and also rub it in well and let the Patient observe a regular Diet So it strengthens the Intellect removes forgetfulness and wonderfully sharpens the Wit Aqua Mastichina Take water of Water-Mints a pound Cloves infused in Spanish Wine of the best Mastich an ounce Let them boil in a double Vessel for two hours and then filter it and edulcorate it with Syrup of Quinces and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Water is of great efficacy in the nauseousness and loathing of the Stomach in Vomiting and the Disease Cholera which are known Evils It also strengthens the Stomach and roborates the retentive Faculty The dose is two ounces Aqua Hypnotica or a Somniferous Water Take seeds of white and black Poppy of each seven ounces Melon seeds husked seeds of Anise and Dill of each an ounce bitter Almonds two ounces Liquorish and Nutmegs of each an ounce and a half Cardamoms the less and Mace of each an ounce and half Oriental Saffron flowers of wild Poppy and Violets of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in waters of Lettice three pound of red Roses and Water-Lily of each two pound of Purslain and Endive of each a pound Mix them and set them to digest in a warm place for two or three days and
ounces Vinegar prepared with Sanders an ounce and a half species Diarrhodon Abbatis roots of Scorzonera and Plantane of each two drams Salt of Endive and Succory of each half a dram the four greater cold Seeds and the four lesser cold Seeds of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Liver Epithema Hepaticum in causa frigida or an Epithem for the Liver grieved with a cold Distemper Take Malmsey Wine four ounces water of Agrimony Pauls Betony and Mother of Thyme of each three ounces Spirit of Iuniper an ounce and a half species of Diacurcuma and Diacubeba of each two drams Rhubarb sweet Cane Cane Cassia lignea of each a dram Salt of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each two scruples Oriental Saffron seeds of Cummin and Lavender of each half a dram Squinanth flowers of yellow Stoechas of each a scruple Mix all for an Epithem Epithema in Inflammatione Renum praesentissimum or an Epithem for an Inflammation of the Reins Take juyce of Plantane and Night shade depurated of each four ounces water of Housleek and Purslain of each three ounces odoriferous Wine and Wine Vinegar violated of each an ounce and a half Nitre prepared Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Reins as the manner is But it is to be noted If cooling Epithems are to be applied to noble parts they are not to be applied cold but warm except the heat be very intense and then it may be used cold SECT XXV Of Decoctions Decoctum Catarrhaie or a Decoction for a Catarrh TAke clear Fountain water nine pound clarified Honey five pound Sage Origanum Marjaram Hyssop and Rosemary of each an ounce Boil it to the consumption of the third part and then strain it and to the strained Liquor add roots of Elicampane Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de luce of each six drams seeds of Roman Nettles Carduus Anise and Fenil of each half an ounce Maidenhair spotted Lungwort Scabious and Horehound of each two drams the Cordial Flowers and flowers of Coltsfoot and wild Poppy of each a dram Let these macerate 24 hours and then add Cubebs Cinamon Nutmegs Cardamoms the less white Ginger Galangal the less Cloves of each a dram Then let them boil once and so put them into some glass Vessel and let it there stand a whole day and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual in Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and the parts thereabouts The dose is a good draught at a time or the Patient may drink so much daily as his thirst requires Decoctum Cosmeticum or a Beautifying Water Take Venetian Borax white Sugar Candy and sublimated Mercury of each two drams Let them be finely pulverized and tyed up apart in a linen Rag and boiled in four pound of May-dew gathered off from the Wheat till the Mercury be dissolved and in the strained Liquor while warm dissolve two drams of Camphire then filter it and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It is only applied outwardly to the spots of the Face which it takes away and leaves the Skin white and clean But in using of it take heed lest it touch the Eyes or Teeth Decoctum Arthriticum or a Decoction for the Gout Take small Raisons eight ounces shavings of Guajacum eight ounces roots of China an ounce roots of Liquorish and water-Acorus of each half an ounce Cinamon and the lesser Galangal of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in ten pound of Barley-water afterward boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion according to Art Virtue Use and Dose I use this happily in all Catarrhs and running Gouts proceeding from a destillation of cold Humors especially where the sick is very dry I also ordinarily give it in ill Habits and Dropsies for their common drink for it roborates and drys the body of all its superfluity The Patient cannot well erre in the dose but let him drink at his pleasure Decoctum Pectorale subacidum or a Pectoral Decoction a little tart Take Fountain-water two pound and a half Virgin Honey two pound the best Wine Vinegar a pound and a half Boil it over a gentle fire till it comes to four pound in which infuse small Raisons three ounces seeds of Carduus and Roman Nettles of each an ounce roots of Elicampane Florentine Flower-de-uce and Coltsfoot of each half an ounce Maidenhair Scabious and Hyssop of each two drams Dates Iujubes and Figs of each eight flowers of Coltsfoot Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a dram Let them macerate twenty four hours and then boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of one part at last strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and aromatize it with a little Cinamon Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates thick humors in the Phthisick Asthma Cough and other Pectoral diseases it cuts the tough softens the hard and brings forth the unprofitable humors it also resists Putrefaction The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Decoctum Pectorale subdulce or a sweetish Pectoral Decoction Take small Raisons and white Sugar Candy of each four ounces roots of Liquorish Coltsfoot and Florentine Flower-de-luce of each an ounce spotted Lungwort Pauls Betony Harts-tongue Maidenhair and Horehound of each an ounce seeds of Myrtles Anise and Fenil of each three drams flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows Bugloss Liverwort lesser Centaury and Violets of each a dram and a half Dates dryed Figs Iujubes and Sebestens of each eight Let them be cut and bruised and infused 24 hours in four pound of Hydromel two pound of the water of the Juyce of Scabious distilled then boil them to the consumption of the third part and about the end of the Decoction let it be aromatized with Galangal the less Cinamon Cardamoms the less and white Ginger of each a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Then strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion which edulcorate with white Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It relieves those troubled with Asthma's distempers of the Liver Pleurisies Coughs c. and the continual use of this Decoction for some time cures the Consumption For it facilitates the Spitting mundifies the Breast heals the Ulcers of the Lungs c. nay and it opens the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen also The dose is morning noon and night from two ounces to three Decoctum Rad. Chinae Pectorale or a Pectoral Decoction of the Roots of China Take the best and heavy roots of China cut cross into little round and thin pieces three ounces Infuse it in water of Scabious Coltsfoot and Pauls Betony of each two pound Let them stand in infusion 24 hours in a glazed Vessel in a warm place well covered with Cloaths then add Bugloss an ounce roots of Liquorish and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Cudwort and Fenil of
each two drams Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the half and towards the end of its boiling aromatize it with a dram and a half of Cinamon let it cool by degrees and strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a clear Potion of it which edulcorate with Syrup of Violets four ounces Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Decoction doth not only give ease in the Catarrh Asthma and Pectoral diseases but also rectifies the whole Body and hath a singular force in curing Ulcers of the Lungs But it ought to be considered whether the Patient hath a Feaver or not for if he hath a Feaver he must abstain from the use of this Decoction It is given twice in the day for sweating but in the Cure it is used to be made of the Diaphoretick wood and for his ordinary drink at dinner and supper he may use the following Decoction of Raisons Decoctum Passulatum or a Decoction of Raisons Take small Raisons four ounces Barley husked three ounces roots of the best China Liquorish and Scorzonera of each half an ounce Cinamon two drams flowers of Violets dryed a scruple Boil them in six pound of fountain-Fountain-water to the consumption of the third part then let it be strained and clarified with the Whites of two Eggs and make a clear Potion of it Virtue Use and Dose Let the sick use this Decoction at Meals for his ordinary drink for it hath a certain singular faculty in curing the distempers of the Thorax and Liver for by lenifying and deterging it gives great ease in the vices of the Lungs The dose is a good draught at a time Decoctum Citri or a Decoction of Citrons Take Citrons rind and pulp cut into thin round pieces three or five white Sugar four ounces Fountain-water six pound Boil it to the consumption of the third part then strain it and the Decoction being clear like Wine keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose We do usually appoint this for a common drink to those who are sick of the Plague Epidemical diseases burning Feavers Cholerick diseases Inflammations small Pox and Meazles Stone immoderate Thirst Cholera c. because it curiously cools and moistens the Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and also comforts the other Bowels that are hot and impaired and preserves them from putrefaction The dose is a good draught at a time but for delicate Palates it is prepared without the rind of Citrons and so prepared it is more palatable And a little Wine being mixed with it may prove an honest excuse to prevent drunkenness Decoctum Hepaticum or a Decoction for the Liver Take the stalks of Spanish Lettice preserved three ounces roots of Succory and Scorzonera preserved of each an ounce and a half seeds of Melons bruised and Currans of each an ounce the Liver of a Wolf half an ounce flower of white Epatice Violets Succory and water-Lilies of each a dram species Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon of each tyed up in a Nodulus half a dram Let all be boiled in six pound of Barley-water to the consumption of the half and being strained clarifie it with the Whites of Eggs afterward add the juyce of acid Pomegranates and Citrons of each six ounces Syrup of blue Violets vitriolated four ounces Cinamon water half an ounce Mix them and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It is of great power and use in contemperating the heat of the Heart and Liver for it cools and comforts and is good to lenifie the Breast and Lungs and to humect the Praecordia's The dose is from three ounces to four or a good draught Decoctum Spleneticum or a Decoction for the Spleen Take leaves of Sena and Sea Coleworts of each an ounce roots of Cappars Fenil Grass Flower-de-luce and dwarff Elder of each three drams Rhubarb Dodder species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each two drams and a half Maidenhair Hyssop Harts tongue and Betony flowers of the lesser Centaury Hops and white Liverwort of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and then infused 24 hours in water of Scurvy-grass Fumitory Sorrel and Pauls Betony of each eight ounces Afterward boil it according to Art and make a clear Decoction in which dissolve Cream of Tartar six drams that being dissolved add these Syrups following i. e. Syrup of Scurvy-grass of Succory simple of Fumitory and Agrimony of each an ounce Spirit of Salt corrected half a dram Mix all Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is excellent in the Obstruction Tumor and Scirrhus of the Spleen also in the Scurvy rectification of the Blood ill disposition or inclining to a Dropsie The dose is every day from two ounces to three Decoctum Antictericum or a Decoction for the Iaundice Take Southernwood half an ounce Goose dung collected in the Spring and tyed up in a Nodulus three drams roots of Celandine Turmerick Rhubarb and Zedoary of each a dram and a half Nutmegs and Bay-berries â—uâ—ked of each a dram seeds of Cummin and Anise of each half a dram Oriental Saffron and white Lilies of each ten grains the best white Wine four pound Boil all to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Let him that is sick with the Jaundice drink a draught of this Decoction warm every morning for six days together and it perfectly cures the yellow Jaundice But the poorer sort may instead of Wine use good clear Beer or Ale and be as effectual Decoctum Ficuum or a Decoction of Figs. Take fifteen fat Figs Raisons two ounces Harts-horn and pulp of Tamarinds of each an ounce roots of Liquorish and Mock-chervil of each half an ounce Barberries two drams seeds of Carduus and Fenil of each a dram and a half Make a Decoction in Barley water and being strained clarifie it with the White of an Egg then take of this Liquor a pound and a half Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It safely and without any danger expels and drives forth the small Pox and Meazles and curbs the malignity of them The dose is often in the day from one spoonful to two but if the Belly were too loose add Gum Tragacanth in the place of Pulp of Tamarinds Decoctum contra Mictionem Sanguinis or a Decoction against Pissing of Blood Take roots of Liquorish an ounce seeds of white Poppy and Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce Acorns and Acatia of each two drams Pauls Betony Maidenhair Ceterach Sage and Burnet of each a dram and a half flowers of red Roses a dram and of wild Poppy a scruple Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water so that two pound may remain which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Violets for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a very good Medicine for those who piss blood for it doth quickly and without any trouble take away the affect and cure it really The dose is morning and evening from two
ounces to three or four Decoctum Satyriacum Take seeds of Ashen-keys an ounce Boletus cervinus Bulls pizzle Venetian Borax of each half an ounce roots of Pellitory and Aron of each three drams long Pepper Castor Ginger and Canamon of each two drams Cloves the lesser Cardamoms and Cubebs of each a scruple All being cut and bruised let them be put into a new clean glazed Vessel and pour upon it a sufficient quantity of Malmsey Wine and let them boil in a Vessel well luted according to Art Virtue Use and Dose He that would be presently and powerfully armed for the Sports of Venus let him drink a little draught of this Decoction morning and evening Decoctum contra Herniam Intestinalem or a Decoction against the Rupture of the Bowels Take seeds of Thorough-leaf and Cummin of each an ounce roots of Aron fresh dryed roots of water-Acorus Tormentil and great Comfry of each half an ounce the herb Perwincle Sanicle Winter-green golden Rod Mouse-ear Rupturewort and Orpine of each two drams red Roses Balaustines the lesser Galangal and Cloves of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and boiled in a sufficient quantity of the best white Wine to the consumption of the third part and make a clear Decoction according to Art Virtue Use and Dose Internal Balsams being given with it cure the Rupture without any trouble and is in this case a singular Experiment The dose is a good draught morning and evening Decoctum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam or a Decoction against a Plux of Blood from the Womb. Take roots of Succory an ounce roots of Tormentil Avens Liquorish and Plantane of each half an ounce Gum Arabick Elder-berries dryed Harts-horn Coriander prepared of each three drams Shepherds-purse Bloodwort Burnet Sorrel Horstail Rosemary of each two drams grains of Mastich a dram and a half red Roses dryed Nutmegs of each a dram Make a Decoction in a sufficient quantity of Water of Millefoil and white Wine to twenty four ounces and in the clear strained Liquor dissolve four ounces of Syrup of the Juyce of Quinces Virtue Use and Dose It is a Secret in the unmeasurable purgation of the Terms and the continual destillation from the Womb. The dose is morning and evening from three spoonfuls to four or a little draught Decoctum contra Menses suppressos or a Decoction against the suppression of the Terms Take Cinamon an ounce and a half roots of red Mugwort Smallage Asparagus and Fenil of each half an ounce Venetian Borax Bay-berries husked Iuniper-berries of each three drams Centaury and Savin of each two drams Motherwort Maidenhair Nep Pennyroyal Calamint Mother of Thyme of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil and Bugloss Oriental Saffron and Mace of each a dram Boil all but the Saffron Mace and Cinamon in a sufficient quantity of good old Wine to the consumption of the third part and then at last add the Species and make a clear Decoction according to Art which edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of Mugwort and Maiden-hair Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction is approved by often Experience for it wonderfully and potently brings down the Terms the retained Secundine and dead Child if not rightly disposed for birth it brings away without danger The dose is morning and evening at going to bed a moderate draught drunk warm and continue it so long till the Terms appear Decoctum contra Scabiem or a Decoction against the Itch and Scab Take Agrimony Origanum and Pauls Betony of each half an ounce roots of Elicampane Scorzonera and Swallow-wort of each two drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram Boil them in four pound of the best Beer to the consumption of the half and make a clear Potion Virtue Use and Dose Universal Remedies premised and the Body being duly purged it certainly drives forth the Itch and cures it The dose is morning and evening a good draught at a time warm Decoctum Vulnerarium or a Vulnerary Decoction Take Ladies mantle red Beets Winter-green Sanicle Periwincle golden Rod seeds of Angelica of each equal parts Let the Herbs be cut small and the seeds of Angelica bruised only and let them be well mixed one with another then take half an ounce of this mixed Powder tyed up in a linen Rag and boiled in two pound of Rhenish Wine in Balneo and make a clear Decoction Virtue Use and Dose It cures all Wounds and Blows in what part of the body soever they are and expels Iron Wood Lead and other such things And it consolidates and heals more in a week than other vulnerary Potions do in a month and is such an Experiment that all Chirurgions deservedly ought to receive it with both hands and with a thankful mind The dose is morning noon and night two or three spoonfuls warm Decoctum Ligni Guajaci or a Decoction of Guajacum Take shavings of Guajacum a pound the bark of it four ounces roots of China two ounces Sarsaparilla and Sassafras of each an ounce Infuse it according to Art in sixteen pound of clear Fountain-water for 24 hours and then boil it in a new glazed Pot close covered to the consumption of one half and let this serve for a Sudorifick Afterward boil it again in twelve pound of Barley water to the consumption of one third and keep this for ordinary drink And to this last Decoction you may add a few Raisons and aromatize it with Cinamon if you please Virtue Use and Dose This Decoction hath a most admirable faculty in the French Pox and chiefly in those who are full with Ulcers which loathsom disease this Decoction cures Of this first Decoction the Patient may take one good draught warm in a morning and another two or three hours before supper and let him drink of the second Decoction as often as he pleaseth in the day besides Another of Lignum Sanctum or the Holy Wood. Take Lignum Sanctum a pound the bark of it four ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces Sassafras an ounce Let them digest 24 hours in sixteen pound of Fumitory-water and then distil them in an Alembick and in the distilled Liquor boil Raisons four ounces roots of Liquorish and China of each an ounce seeds of Fenil and Anise of each half an ounce the herbs Betony and Succory of each two drams Let it be strained according to Art and keep the strained Liquor for use Virtue Use and Dose It drys attenuates expurgates and provokes Sweat and therefore doth resist Putrefaction and Contagion It amends the vices of the Brain cures the Pox strengthens the Liver opens the Spleen and is very good in the Scirrhus thereof It is of good use in the Dropsie It heals malignant Ulcers and cures the Leprosie and Elephantiasis c. The dose is a good draught at a time twice a day given warm Dococtum adstringens or an astringent Decoction Take roots of Tormentil and Snakeweed of each an ounce dryed Quince six drams seeds of Docks and
Sanctum Box and Tamarisk white Frankincense seeds of Stavesacre of each half an ounce Pomegranate rind long Pepper white Ginger and Cloves of each three drams Sage Mother of Thyme Calamint Peachwort Origanum of each two drams Mix them and make a gross Powder which keep for use And when the use of it is required Take of this gross Powder an ounce and a half Wine Vinegar and Fountain-water of each a pound Boil them and make a Gargarism Virtue and Use. The Liquor being strained warm is to be held in the mouth and being so used it stays the most painful and tormenting pains of the Teeth Gargarismus de Acatia or a Gargarism of Acatia Take of the best and fresh Acatia half an ounce of Cyprus Nuts Balaustines the outer rind of Pomegranate of each two drams the herbs Marjoram Hyssop and Sage of each a dram and a half roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and Alum of each a dram Acorns and red Roses of each half a dram Let them boil in a sufficient quantity and equal parts of red Wine and water of Oaken leaves to the consumption of the third part then take of this strained Liquor a pound and a half Rob of Nuts two ounces Spirit of Vitriol a scruple Mix them and keep it in an earthen Vessel Virtue and Use. It fastens loose Teeth and preserves them so but the Gums and Teeth must be often washed with it Gargarismus de Papavere or a Gargarism of Poppy Take four heads with the seeds of white Poppy the spongy heads that grow upon sweet Bryar two roots of Plantane and Bistort of each half an ounce seeds of Nigella flowers of wild Poppy of red Roses and Balaustines of each a dram Boil them in Lettice and rose-Rose-water of each a sufficient quantity Take of this strained Liquor twelve ounces Syrup of Poppy simple Diacodium violated of each an ounce and a half Pomegranate Wine and Tincture of wild Poppy of each an ounce phlegm of Alum rectified half an ounce Mix them for a Gargarism which is to be held in the mouth Virtue and Use. With this Gargarism let the Mouth be often washed and let it be also held in the Mouth without gargling and it prevents Catarrhs caused by sharp thin and hot Rheums SECT XXVII Of Lixiviums Lixivium Benedictum TAke Ashes of common wood of Iuniper of red Mugwort of Broom of Beans in the shells of Wormwood of each an ounce Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of strong white Wine make a Lixivium according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use for those grieved with the Dropsie called Hydrops for it doth powerfully and effectually expel the water by Urine and by this means we have cured several of the Dropsie giving no other remedy than this for certain days The dose is in the morning fasting from two ounces to three Lixivium Sapientiae Take roots of Avens Pellitory of Spain and Asarabacca Misleto of the Oak of each an ounce Olibanum and yellow Amber of each half an ounce Rosemary Marjoram Balm Origanum leaves of Sage and Bays of each two drams flowers of Lavender red Roses Peony Betony and Primrose of each a dram Boil all these in a sweet Lixivium and keep it for use Virtue and Use. The Body being purged once a week let the Head be diligently washed with this Lixivium and it restores the loss of Memory c. caused by cold and moisture For it wonderfully comforts the Brain and Memory and strengthens the animal Spirits and also preserves from the Apoplexy and Epilepsie Lixivium Cephalicum or a Lixivium for the Head Take leaves of Sena six drams roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and seeds of Carduus of each three drams the herb Eyebright with the flowers Vervain Marjoram Rosemary Sage and Origanum of each three drams the best Agarick a dram and a half flowers of yellow Stoechas Chamomil red Roses and white Violets of each a dram They being all cut and mixt let them be boiled in a good Lixivium then let it be clarified according to Art and it is prepared Virtue and Use. It is very profitable in pains of the Head It roborates the Brain Nerves Eyes and all the other Senses Let the Head be washed with it twice in the week But they who are cold and moist naturally ought to use Lotions for the Head but seldom but those who are hot and dry may use them more frequently Lixivium Antiasthmaticum or a Lixivium for the Asthma Take roots of Liquorish sliced Florentine Flower-de-luce and Elicampane of each half an ounce yellow Amber white Frankincense and Myrtle-berries of each three drams Sage Betony Hyssop and Origanum of each two drams seeds of Nigella and Caraways of each a dram and a half flowers of Chamomil red Roses wild Poppies and Rosemary of each a dram Let them all be put into a little Bag and boiled in a sweet Lixivium afterward clarified and kept for use Virtue and Use. Let the Head be washed with this Lixivium once or twice in the week For in the Asthma it drys and stops Defluxious falling from the Head upon the other parts but after the Head is washed let it be quickly dryed and covered Lixivium Diureticum or a Diuretick Lixivium Take wild Flax with its flowers Broom with its flowers dwarff Elder both root and branoh leaves and flowers of Elder of each a like and a sufficient quantity of all Burn them to ashes according to Art of which with a sufficient quantity of Rhenish Wine make a clear Lixivium Virtue Use and Dose It powerfully expels water by Urine from those who have the Dropsie and is a Secret in the Dysury c. The dose is from two ounces to three by it self or in any other specifick Vehicles Lixivium Tartari or a Lixivium of Tartar Take white Tartar calcined till it is black what quantity you will And with distilled Rain-water make a Lixivium in which afterward boil Orange peel and the tinctured Lixivium being strained and clear keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This being given for certain days doth dissolve and expel the Stone and insensibly brings away all the mucilaginous matter as well from the Reins as Bladder The dose is one spoonful in some specifick Vehicle Lixivium Tingens or a Dying Lixivium Take of Lixivium of Vine branches or cuttings two pound roots of Bryony Celandine and Turmerick of each half an ounce of Saffron two drams flowers of Mullein yellow Stoechas Broom and St. Iohns-wont of each a dram Let them boil together and make a clear Lixivium according to Art Virtue and Use. It cleanseth the Hair and makes it clear and yellow but it must be often washed with it till it be perfectly dyed SECT XXVIII Of Baths Balneum Artificiale ubi Thermae naturales desunt or an Artificial Bath where the natural are wanting TAke of yellow Sulphur three pound Sea-Salt and roots of Pellitory of Spain of each a pound white Tartar and Nitre of
digest together in Sand warm for three days and three nights putting a blind head upon the Cucurbit and stir it often with a wooden Spatula After digestion filter it into a Glass or earthen Bason and in Sand let it evaporate to the consistence of a liquid Extract and you shall have this Aperitive Magistery of Mars What remains of the Steel let it be dried and brought into a most fine Powder and reserved for use and so you have Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds for Chalybeate Wine whose description and use seek in its proper Section Virtue Use and Dose It hath a singular property in opening dissolving and drying which admirable Title is not given to it only for opening the oppilations of the Liver Spleen and Meseraicks but also for dissolving and consuming hard scirrhous Tumors and for drying and corroborating the parts grieved and debilitated by a redundance of humors Besides it hath an excellent faculty of attenuating loosning and preparing black Choler and therefore it hath been experimented in the Cure of Melancholy black and yellow Jaundice Quartan Agues and all other affects arising from superfluity obturation putrefaction and the like It also by a specifick quality openeth the Veins of the Matrix being obstructed and hence it moves and provokes the Terms c. It hath been also experimented in the Green-sickness ill habit of Body and the beginning of a Dropsie It also corroborates the Genital parts of man or woman debilitated and relaxed by a superfluity of moisture Lastly it is also very profitable in an inveterate Gonorrhoea and the white stinking flux of the Womb. Moreover if this liquid Magistery be mixed with a just quantity of Rhenish Wine it colours it black but if it be filtred again through a Paper it becomes clear and dilucid as before and doth no ways abate of its strength it still retaining its strong taste and is of equal virtue and force therefore in all affects where the Spaw-waters or any other Medicinal Waters that are impregnated with the Minerals of Mars which are so highly commended by our practical Physicians are useful this will supply the place and may be given as effectually to the Patient to drink For where the body is conveniently cleansed and some Veins opened if there be occasion and afterwards for certain days drink this Martial Wine and observe a good diet there and then it works upon the same affects which those Medicinal Waters are given for or can perform The Dose of this Aperitive Magistery is from half a dram to a dram more or less in some appropriate Vehicle or in Electuaries Conserves Boles Rotula's and in other Species of Medicines it may be mixed according to the judgment of the Physician But the Dose of the Martial Wine is from two ounces to three either by it self or mixed with other Liquors The Magistery of Jupiter TAke the Ashes of fine Tin prepared in an open fire and with strong distilled Vinegar extract a Salt according to Art afterwards take Spirit of Vitriol well rectified and drop it in upon this Extraction being first filtred and immediately it will become white like Milk and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom which Powder take and edulcorate by washing it often with distilled Rain-water till it hath lost all its acrimony then dry the Powder and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent virtue in the infirmities of the Womb and other Hysterical affects It repels those Vapors which arise from the Womb to the upper parts and doth prevent those grievous Symptoms that are hence used to rise The Dose is from four grains to six in proper Vehicles The Magistery of Saturn TAke of the clear and crystalline Salt of Saturn what quantity you will dissolve it in Rose-water afterwards pour upon it Spirit of Vitriol there are some who use Oyl of Tartar but Spirit of Vitriol is best slowly and yet with a quick fall till it be of the colour of thick Milk then filter it through a brown Paper and a white Magistery will remain there then with Cordial water edulcorate it according to the Spagyrick Art and having dryed it keep it for your use Virtue Use and Dose This Magistery of Saturn is freed from all its nauseous and noxious sweetness and we happily use it in Phthisicks Hecticks burning Feavers and in other internal Inflammations Also in Quartan Agues in affections of the Spleen in the Colick and Venereal Lusts it is a great Secret it being contrary to these things The Dose is from four to six grains in some specifick and congruous Vehicle It is also of excellent use in the rottenness and foulness of the Mouth in malignant Ulcers in Cancers in all Saturnine Diseases the Wolf an Ulcer so called Fistula's all burning Sores Burns red Pustles of the Face the redness of the Eyes c. and may be variously mixed either in Plasters or Liniments or dissolved in other things for external use Anima Vitrioli or the Soul of Vitriol TAke several great and large earthen Vessels by how much the larger they are by so much the better fill those Vessels full with Rain-water and into every Vessel put two three or more handfuls of common Vitriol yet measure the Vitriol and either increase it or diminish it according to the bigness of the Vessels and let this Vitriol dissolve in the water let the Vessels stand where they may not be moved and sometimes exposed to the Sun or the Air yet so that it may not rain into them nor any filth be cast therein Then you shall see the Soul of Vitriol swim on the top of the water in colour like the Rain-bow or a Peacocks tail this being thin you shall take it off with a Spoon divers times in the day This being done stir the water about and by and by when it is setled again there will appear fresh Soul which take also and so by little and little you shall gather as much as you shall think sufficient Note When there will no more colours rise in the water the Soul is all extracted and the water is to be replenished with fresh Vitriol The Soul being all abstracted it will at first appear like mud which lay upon a Tile or other earthen Vessel and put it into a strong fire till it be red-hot and then it will be of the colour of blood and endure the flame which being done though it should lye in the fire many days it will not waste a grain Virtue Use and Dose This Soul of Vitriol Philosophically extracted and Spagyrically prepared is given in many Diseases especially all fluxes of the Head and Belly the flux of Blood and Terms c. in the Epilepsie Dropsie Gonorrhoea prickings of the Sides Gout Feavers Phrensie c. in all which it is of admirable use The Dose from five grains to six or eight in appropriate Vehicles and Medicines respecting the Disease The Arcanum of Vitriol DIstil from native
of Citrons one pound Distil it and separate the Oyl from the water rectifie it and reserve it for use Then take of white Sugar Candy three ounces Oyl of Citrons rectified half an ounce Mix them and you have a most odorate Eleosaccharum of Citrons Yet there is another more secret way of preparing an Eleosaccharum of Citrons and Oranges and that is thus from the exterior coat of them being yet recent the oily Juyce is prest and mixt with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and well incorporate and so you have an Eleosaccharum far more sweet and excellent both in smell and taste which is also easier to be prepared Virtue Use and Dose It helps the imbecillity of the Heart and Ventricle it promotes Concoction and discusseth Flatulencies it is good against Poisons and causeth a sweet breath It being also mixed with Wine doth wonderfully advance it by its most sweet odour and taste The Dose is from half a scruple to a scruple in any convenient Vehicle Annotation This way of Preparation may be observed almost in all Spices Gums Barks Herbs Flowers and Seeds c. to wit in Clove-gilli-flowers Cinamon Cassia lignea Nutmegs Mace Pepper white Amber Mastich Marjoram Sage Rue Lavender flowers of Chamomil and Roses Aniseeds Fenil-seed Angelica Caraway Cummin-seed Dill c. From these and such like may Eleosaccharum be prepared most friendly to humane Nature Magistery of Parsley Take Ashes of Hearts-ease or Salt of Tartar half a pound and with a sufficient quantity of Rain-water make a strong Lixivium clear c. Then take Parsley not dryed in the Sun and cut small what quantity you please Put it into a Glass and pour upon it your Lixivium already made let them stand in digestion in a warm place to extract the Tincture To this being impregnate and the Lixivium yet hot pour upon it warm crude Alum half a pound dissolved in rain-Rain-water mix them well together and the true Tincture of the Parsley will precipitate with the ebullition and be a little green which diligently edulcorate and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats and cuts the Humors it strongly provokes the Terms and Urine it discusseth Wind and expels the Stone The Dose is from six grains to ten or twenty in some appropriate Vehicle Annotation In like manner Magisteries or Tinctures of green dryed Herbs as of Rue Watercresses Water-Mints Rosemary Sage c. are extracted and kept for the use of them in Physick SECT II. Of Liquid Tinctures Tincture of Coral TAKE true Spirit of Honey Philosophically distilled but not that corrosive and poisonous vulgar sort pour it upon the pure red fragments of Coral first Spagyrically and without fire calcined to draw the Tincture until the body remains white and as it were dead All the Extractions being mixed after due ablution and Coagulation draw it off gently in Balneo Mariae and the remaining Essence of the dissolved matter not of the dissolving Menstruum again draw off with rectified Spirit of Wine until you do receive a most red Tincture like blood which you shall make into the form of an Oyl at least of an Alcoole by evaporating the mediety thereof and keep it for your use as the true and genuine Preparation of Corals but by no means make your Tincture with Aqua Mellis as many have hitherto done by hiding of this Secret Virtue Use and Dose Hitherto the Hermetical Artists have kept this noble and precious Essence to themselves for they used it with happy and great success in Phantastical imaginations Epilepsie and Melancholy because it mundifies and renews the blood throughout the whole body It also resists all defects rising in the blood by putrefaction and corruption and it radically throws off all internal diseases It also comforteth the seven principal Members but especially the Heart and vital Spirits which it defends against poison and all other evil and dangerous accidents Also it wonderfully opens all obstructions of the principal Members as the Lungs Liver Spleen and Kidneys and it allays Inflammations It eats up the heat of Feavers and consumes their matter c. It is a divine Medicine in the most vehement suffocation of the Matrix superfluity of the Terms in the Dropsie Scurvy Palsie Pox Leprosie Dysentery Gonorrhoea Convulsions and Blood congealed or stagnant The Dose is from six drops to half a scruple or a whole scruple in Vehicles convenient and proper to the disease Tincture of Mars Take of Sal Armoniack two parts of filing of Steel one part Mix them and in a Retort distil them by degrees first with a gentle after with a more strong fire and the Essence of Mars will remain in the bottom take this and edulcorate it well that it may be free from all the sharpness of the Sal Armoniack then put this matter thus edulcorated into a little Cucurbit and with Spirit of Wine extract a Tincture and when it will tinge no more take away the tinctured Spirit and draw it off to the half in an Alembick that which remains with the Essence extracted filter through a Paper and reserve that for use as the true Tincture of Mars Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture of Mars is by Experiment found to be of singular use in all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Also in Hypochondriack Melancholy Quartan Agues ill habit of Body Dropsie Green-sickness Scurvy the Terms too much either in flux or retention The Dose is from six drops to half a scruple in Wine Syrups Decoctions or other convenient Liquors that the strength of it may so much the better penetrate which is effectual even to the remote and extreme parts of the body but in the use of this the body ought to be often and gently purged of the peccant humors and a good Diet to be observed Tincture of Antimony TAke Vitriol calcined to a redness what quantity you please pour upon it distilled Vinegar Let them stand in a warm place for two or three days take the Tincture by inclination filter it and the Menstruum is prepared Then take a sufficient quantity of crude Antimony well pulverized and pour upon it of your Menstruum before-mentioned what quantity you please and let them digest according to art until the Menstruum appear yellow which pour off and pour on fresh till all the Tincture is extracted This being done and all the several Tinctures mixed let them be distilled to the thickness of Honey then at last draw it off again with Spirit of Wine to the half and you shall then receive a reddish Tincture which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It doth wonders in the Epilepsie Melancholy Madness Love potions and poisonous Draughts The Dose is six grains in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Sulphur EXtract flowers of Sulphur with Spirit of Turpentine in the usual manner which being done let the Spirit evaporate by degrees till the rest is dry then take out the drâ—ed matter and pulverize it and with Spirit of
Wine rectified extract a Tincture from it and when it will give no more Tincture add all the tinged Spirit together and put to it the same quantity of our Pectoral water and set them for some days in a warm place that they may digest afterward draw off the Spirit of Wine in B. M. with a gentle fire and so the Tincture of Sulphur will remain in the Pectoral water This take off by inclination to the quantity of half evaporate the rest till it be like Oyl what remains filter through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This Tincture doth not only free the Breast from all thick humors that obstruct the Organs of Respiration and cause the Cough and shortness of breathing but it cleanseth the Thorax Lungs and neighbouring parts of all putrid and imposthumous Tumors and hastens their Cure and gives freedom and ease in breathing It succours drys and roborates a cold Brain in such as are falling into a Consumption It also allays the pains of the Colick and resists Putrefaction It is likewise given with great success in the Plague proceeding from a moist Cause but especially to the Common people who by feeding upon gross and bad food fill their blood with moist crude humors and therefore more proper for this kind of infection than to the others The ordinary Dose is from five six or seven to ten drops in a proper Vehicle Tincture of Tartar TAke Salt of Tartar well depurated by frequent solution and coagulation what quantity you will pour upon it the best Spirit of Wine Alkoholisated to the eminence of three or four fingers set it in digestion for certain days and every day as often as it is convenient shake it but take heed lest the Spirit of Wine should break the Glass let it stand so till it is tinged of a most red colour This Spirit being tinctured pour it off and pour on more that is fresh and this work repeat so often till it can receive no more Tincture from the Tartar Lastly the Spirit of Wine thus tinctured mix together filter it through a Paper and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder it breaks the Stone and brings it away like Bran it works by Urine and preserves Health It is excellent to remove Obstructions and Putrefactions and for penetrating and roborating it doth almost exceed all other Medicines and Arcana's It preserves from the Palsie and Gout if it be taken constantly morning and evening either by it self or in specifick Liquors Moreover in rectifying the blood it is of admirable use and cannot be sufficiently praised for its effects as well in that as in the Head-ach Dropsie Erysipelas Jaundice both black and yellow Colick Leprosie Pox Scabs Itch Tetters Pimples the Terms retained Pleurisie prickings in the Sides Feavers Contractures Gout and in other tartarous and venenate Diseases The Dose is half a spoonful at the most by it self or in some appropriate Liquor but the Dose is to be increased or diminished according to the Age Sex Complexion c. of the Patient Tincture of Lacca Take Gumm Lacca finely powdered half an ounce burnt Alum two drams Mix them and pour upon them water made of Lapis Medicamentosus with water of Sage and Roses three pound Let them stand in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which being done filter it and keep the red Tincture for use Virtue and Use. It is experimented in the Scurvy and cures the laxity and rottenness of the Gums and takes away the stink thence arising it repairs the decayed flesh about the Teeth the way of using this Tincture is to wash and rub those parts often Tinctura Proprietatis Take Spirit of Wine prepared with Aniseeds sixteen ounces Elixir Proprietatis an ounce Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Clove-gilli-flowers a dram Let them stand in digestion till the Spirit be perfectly tinged then filter the tinctured Spirit sweeten it with white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Melancholy Hemicrania Vertigo Palsie Catarrh Asthma Cough weakness of the Stomach passion of the Heart Quartan Ague and Stone Moreover it comforts the Heart keeps back baldness and makes the Patient merry and joyful c The Dose is from one dram to two in some convenient Vehicle Tincture of Iuniper-berries Take of fresh Iuniper-berries grosly powdered a pound Aniseed bruised four ounces Angelica-roots an ounce Nephritick wood half an ounce of the best Mace two drams Mix them and infuse them in four quarts of Spanish Wine let them infuse fourteen days and every day let them be stirred or shaken afterward distil them in B. M. and with this Liquor distilled extract the Tincture of Juniper-berries according to art which afterward filter and a little edulcorate and preserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens attenuates and discusseth and is good for the Stomach It is effectually taken in all distempers of the Breast Cough Wind Gripings and the biting of Serpents and is very profitable in the Plague it expels the Stone provokes Urine and helps the Convulsion and Suffocation of the Matrix The Dose is from one spoonful to three in the morning fasting Tincture of wild Poppy Take the Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy an ounce flowers of wild Poppies moistned with Spirit of Vitriol a dram Mix them and with water distilled from the juyce of the before-mentioned flowers thirty ounces draw a most red Tincture which filter and then add of the Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies a little vitriolated eight ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is very profitable in hot thin and sharp Defluxions that trouble the rough Artery and Jaws and it procures sleep it helps the Cough Catarrh and Phthisick it is an admirable remedy in Pleurisies and prickings in the Sides it mitigates Pain removes Inflammations and causeth Sweat gently moreover it is very profitable in Fluxes of the Belly and Dysenteries stirred up by the efflux of Choler and sharp Humors The Dose is from one ounce to two by it self or in any convenient Liquor Tincture of Cassia Lignea Take Cinamon-water made with Spanish Wine one pound good Cassia Lignea six drams Let them stand so long in digestion till it be perfectly tinctured which filter and keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It is fit for all cold Distempers it strengthens the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves and also sharpens the sight It is good against Poisons and poisonous bitings or stingings c. It sweetens the Breath provokes Urine and the Terms it helps Vomiting and loathing at the Stomach it gives ease in all diseases where we are willing to heat open attenuate digest and strengthen yet they who are of a hot Constitution or are troubled with inflammations must for bear the use of this Medicine Tincture of St. Iohns-wort Take Iuyce of the Herbs and flowers of
of Dragons blood a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs ten grains Rob of Gooseberries q. s. to make it grateful Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another most excellent in the overflowing of the Terms Take Laudanum five grains water of Shepherds purse an ounce and an half Rob of Elder three drams Sal Prunellae two scruples Extract of Tormentil ten grains Camphire four grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum q. s. red Bole prepared Magistery of Corals Rosated of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Rosemary make Pills and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. moss of the Sloe-tree Magistery of the mother of Pearls of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Sage make little Pills and gild them for one dose A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. the preserved rind of Quinces a dram Troches of Spodium half a scruple powder of Cuttle-fish bones Elaeosaccharum of Zedoary of each ten grains Mix them and with Troches of Diamargariton frigidum make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. roots of Comfry preserved a dram Troches of sealed Earth a scruple white Amber prepared Elaeosaccharum of Nutmegs of each ten grains Mix them and make them into a Bole for one dose In the Colick and Iliack Passion c. A Draught Take Conserve of red Roses an ounce roots of Zedoary a dram Boil them in three ounces of Chamomil water To an ounce and a half of this water strained add Laudanum six grains syrup of Oranges two drams of our Colick Extract a scruple of our Carminative Elaeosaccharum ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua benedicta Serpilli half an ounce syrup of Mint two drams of our Colick Extract a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Oranges ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Carminativa half an ounce syrup of Citron rinds two drams Extract of Zedoary Elaeosaccharum of Angelica of each ten grains spirit of Salt of Nitre q. s. to make it grateful Of these being mixed make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Carp-stone bones of the Hares foot calcined of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of white Amber make small Pills for one dose which gild Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Oriental Bezoar stone the Cockal-bone of a Hogs foot calcined of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Cummin seed make little Pills for one dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Mint a dram of our Extractum Colicum half a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon ten grains Mix them and with Rowls of Dianisi make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppy a dram Elaeosaccharum of Chamomil a scruple of Nitre vitriolated four grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diacymini make a Bole for one dose In the Pleurisie A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of wild Poppy flowers half an ounce syrup of Maiden-hair two drams Extract of Liquorish a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Carduus Mariae half an ounce syrup of Iujubes two drams essence of the flowers of wild Poppy Elaeosaccharum of Fenil of each ten grains Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of the jaw-bone of a Pike the tooth of a wild Boar of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Benjamin make little Pills which gild for one dose Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. compound flowers of Sulphur Extract of the juyce of Liquorish of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Hysop make little Pills for one dose which you may gild A Bolus Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of the flowers of wild Poppies a dram Lohoch sanum expert half a dram of our Species Pleuritica a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cummin seeds ten grains Mix them and with Diatragacanthum frigidum make a Bole for one time Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets a dram of our Diacodium crocatum half a dram our secret Pulvis Pleuriticus a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Chamomil ten grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diaireos simple make a Bole for one dose In the Stone and Gout A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Nephritica half an ounce syrup of Marsh-mallows two drams salt of the Perch-stone ten grains oyl of Oriental Pearls sour drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. water of Germander half an ounce syrup of Mallows two drams salt of Crabs eyes ten grains oyl of red Coral four drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Iewish Stone of Venetian Borax of each four grains Mix them and with Spirit of Turpentine make little Pills for one dose which you may gild Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of the Spunge-stone Nitre prepared of each four grains Mix them and with Oyl of Parsley make little Pills for one dose which gild A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets preserved roots of Pimpernel half a dram of our species Dianitri a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Parsley ten grains Mix them and with Sugar of Violets make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Confection of Mallow flowers a dram preserved roots of Eryngo half a dram of our Species Nephriticus a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Citrons ten grains Mix them and with Syrup of Roses make a Bole for one dose In immoderate Watching and unquiet Rest. A Draught Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Poppy-water half an ounce Syrup of Poppies two drams Elaeosaccharum of Aniseeds ten grains Spirit of Vitriol three drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose to be taken in the Evening Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. of our Aqua Hypnotica half an ounce syrup of flowers of wild Poppies two drams Elaeosaccharum of Fenil ten grains oyl of Oriental Pearls three drops Mix them and make a draught for one dose Pills Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of Pearls of Ambergriese of each four grains With Oyl of Styrax make Pills for one dose and gild them Others Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Magistery of red Coral Lignum Aloes of each three grains With Oyl of Benjamim make small Pills for one dose and gild them A Bole. Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of red Roses vitriolated a dram Lohoch de Papavere half a dram species of Diamoschu dulce ten grains Extract of Saffron three grains Mix them and with Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatis make a Bole for one dose Another Take Laudanum Opiate q. s. Conserve of Violets
made a Tragea Note That this and all other Compositions which have a great quantity of Musk may be also prepared without it Species Diacinnabaris or a Compound Powder of Cinnabar Take native Cinnabar prepared half an ounce Lapis stellaris prepared Elks hoofs Spagyrically calcined of each three drams the raspings of the fore-part of a Mans skull Misleto of the Oak of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony of each a dram and a half species Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral of each half a dram Oriental Saffron Oyl of white Amber of each a scruple Leaves of Gold thirteen Make all into a fine Powder and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It hath a wonderful force and power in the Epilepsie and in all other kinds of dangerous diseases belonging to the Head and is both a sure and certain Experiment by which God assisting we have perfectly restored to health an incredible number who were incurable by other means and some of them labouring under that sorrowful disease nine ten twelve and some eighteen years and more and yet have been happily restored by this Medicine The dose is from a scruple to two according to the age and strength of the Patient in appropriate and specifick Vehicles to be repeated every morning till the Patient enjoys perfect health Species Dianitri or a Compound Powder of Nitre Take Crystals of Nitre prepared with spirit of Wine and Vitriol an ounce salts of Pearch stones Crabs eyes white Amber of each two drams roots of Dropwort and Liquorish of each a dram and a half seeds of the lesser Nettle Burdock Saxifrage Gromel Broom of each a dram berries of Bays huskt Iuniper of each four scruples Cinamon white Ginger Saffron long Pepper and Mace of each two scruples a burnt Hare Goats blood prepared powder of Ceterach red Sanders of each half a dram Millepedes prepared a scruple white Sugar four ounces Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent powerful Medicine in breaking and expelling the Stone in the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram early in the morning in a specifick Vehicle Species Diatartari or a Powder compounded with Tartar Take Tartar vitriolated Magistery of Scammony of each two ounces white and gummy Turbith Hermodactyls of each half an ounce Oyl of Cloves and Cinamon of each ten grains Mix them and make a Powder which reserve for use Virtue Use and Dose It gently resolves Tartar coagulated in any part of the body and being resolved it safely and easily brings it away by stool with all other Podagrical defluxions It purges yellow Choler plentifully and watry humors lying between the Skin It also cleanseth the Skin of foulness Scabs Leprosie and such kind of filth Moreover it cures the Scurvy and mitigates the pains in the Joynts The dose from half a dram to a dram especially in strong bodies Species Diacrystalli or a Powder compounded with Crystals Take the flesh of a young red Cows udder boiled in Wine and dryed in a Furnace an ounce long Pepper five drams Crystals prepared half an ounce Pearls prepared â—wo drams seeds of Borage Fenil Lettice and Nigella of each a dram roots of Goats-beard Cardnus and wild Rape of each half a dram white Sugar three ounces Mix them and make all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is a specifick Medicine for Mothers and Nurses that give suck for it doth so increase milk in them that it doth turn almost all their food they take into milk And it hath also a secret quality to increase milk of it self The dose is from half a dram to a dram morning noon and night in Broth Carduus-water or any other convenient Vehicle Species Diasuccini or a Powder compounded with Amber Take white Amber prepared half an ounce Magistery of red Coral rosated Nutmegs torrified red Orientaâ— Bole Smaragdus prepared of each two drams Crocus Martis made by reverberation Dragons blood of each a dram and a half Styrax Calamitis burnt Harts-horn prepared Laudanum Opiate of each a dram Rose seeds seeds of Plantane flowers of wild Poppy of each half a dram Cloves Saffron Cinamon and Mace of each a scruple Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This Powder restrains and obtunds the viscous and tartarous Salts which erode the Bowels and doth disquiet the ordure of the Guts Hence it is the only healing Medicine in alâ— Dysenteries and Fluxes of blood by stool The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Species Diacretae or a compound Powder of Chalk Take Chalk prepared with rose-Rose-water three drams Nutmegs a dram and a half roots of Liquorish and seâ—â— of Quinces of each a dram Oriental Bole prepares red Coral prepared of each half a dram the Carp fâ—â—â—â— prepared with Plantane water Mace a little torrifies best Mastich Oriental Saffron of each a scruple wâ—â—â— Sugar three ounces Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose This is a Catholick Medicine in the Orexis or burning of the Stomach for these Species have such a power that they hinder the ebullition and tartarous sublimation of yellow Choler into the Orifice of the Stomach and do powerfully resolve and precipitate it The dose is from half a dram to a dram in the Fit For Medicines in this case are to be given whensoever the stomach is distempered and to continue taking till it is restored to health again Species Diaboracis or a compound Powder of Borax Take Venetian Borax half an ounce Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a dram shavings of the Savin-tree white Amber prepared of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Misleto of the Oak flowers of white Violets of each a scruple Mix them and make them into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It is successfully given to Women who are inclined to be barren and to those who bear them with difficulty It is most excellent to facilitate the Birth to cast out the dead Child or After-birth retained The dose is from a scruple to a dram in water of Cinamon white Violets Mugwort or in good white Wine Species Diaterebinthinae or a Powder compounded with Turpentine Take Turpentine twice washed in Citron water two ounces Magistery of Scammony an ounce white and gummy Turbith six drams Tartar vitriolated white Hermodactyls of each three drams species of Lithortrib two drams Saffron and Mace of each a scruple Sugar of Violets four ounces Mix them and make of all a Powder to which add Oyls of Aniseeds Oranges Cloves Cinamon and Fenil of each ten grains Mix them well and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Cathartick and wonderfully experimented in the Gout Colick Gonorrhoea Dysury Strangury Stone in the Reins and Bladder and in other distempers of the Urinal passages The dose is from half a dram to
habits of body Dropsie pains of the Joynts Scabs or Scald Jaundice obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and also in Quotidian and Tertian Feavers in all which diseases we happily use it as an experienced Medicine The dose is from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples especially in strong bodies Pilulae Terebinthinae or Pills of Turpentine Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in juyce of Lemmons an ounce and a half juyce of Purslain made thick six drams Extract of the roots of Liquorish and Rhubarb Tartar vitriolated of each three drams the spongy brush that grows upon sweet Bryars the stones of Medlars of each a dram and a half Salt of white Amber Nitre prepared of each a dram Magistery of the Peach stone Crabs eyes of each half a dram Mix them and make a mass according to Art from which afterward with rectified Oyl of Citrons make Pills Virtue Use and Dose They are admirably good to break the stone in the Reins and provoke Urine and this chiefly to those of a hot Constitution for they expel the Tartar and Sand even to a miracle They cure the Running of the Reins and such like Fluxes and open the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from half a dram to a dram taken a good distance of time before and after meat Pilulae Stipticae or the Stiptick Pills Take Extract of the juyce of Liquorish half an ounce species of Diaplantaginis and Diamartis of each three drams Laudanum Opiate two drams Birch-fungus Runnet of a Hare Camphire of each half a dram Horse hoofs burnt Sandarac Olibanum of each a scruple Mix them and with Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Pomegranate-wine make a mass from which afterward with Oyls of Nutmegs and Cloves make Pills of the bigness of small Pease and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It stays all Fluxes of the Belly from what cause soever and stops blood flowing from any part of the body it stays the Courses in Women mitigates pain and procures sleep The dose from a scruple to half a dram at bed-time Cicera Tartari Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water and in the same water boiled to a just consistence two ounces acid Tartar an ounce species of Diaireos simple two drams Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and keep your hands wetted in cold violet-Violet-water and so make Pills the bigness of a Pease Virtue Use and Dose We happily use it in all diseases proceeding from a thick tartarous matter And it is known by Experience that some by the use of this Pill have so cured and prevented the Gout that it hath not returned again for many years or else it returned more slowly but in others it hath been more mild and went off sooner They are also commendable in all obstructions of the Bowels and Veins in the Hemicrania Jaundice Contractures Dropsie Feavers retention of the Terms c. It fortifies the Reins and expels the Stones from the Kidneys and Bladder and doth not only relieve the Ventricle and parts about it but strengthens them also The use of these Pills is excellent in the Asthma Phthisick Cough c. and in all other Pectoral diseases They sometimes work by Sweat and sometimes by Urine according as the sick is propense to this or that The dose in preservation at the Quarters of the Moon is from half a dram to a dram but in curing every morning from a dram to a dram and a half Pilulae de Sandaraca Take of the best Sandarac half an ounce Extract of Polypody white Tartar of each two drams white Amber prepared black Pepper Roch-Alum red Sarcocol of each half a dram Lacca washed Nitre prepared round Birthwort seeds of wild Rue and Parsley of each a scruple Mix them and with the Juyce of the lesser Centaury made thick make a mass according to Art and of every scruple make two Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It extenuates fat and makes people lean and attenuates all preternatural Carnosities in the humane body It is given every morning one Pill gilded Pilulae de Sabina or Pills of Savin Take salt of Savin two parts Oyl stilled from Savin one part They being mixed seal them Hermetically and set them in a Philosophical fire so long till they are hard like a stone afterwards Take of our Pil. Aloephanginae an ounce and a half of this Stone prepared an ounce Venetian Borax three drams Extract of our species Dialauri flowers of the lesser Centaury the herb Savin of each half a dram Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Juniper make a mass from which afterward with Oyl of Cinamon and Mace make Pills Virtue Use and Dose These Pills do so happily open the obstructions of the Womb and so plentifully move the Terms retained that they deservedly claim the first place among Physical Arcana's that move the Courses The dose morning and evening is from a scruple to half a dram Pilulae Uterinae or Pills for the Womb. Take Pilulae Aloephanginae an ounce Faecula Bryoniae a dram salt of English Tin salt of Mother of Pearl salt of red Coral of each half a dram Extracts of Castor and the Callus of Mares of each a scruple Oyl of Angelica ten grains Mix them and make a mass according to Art of which when need requires with Oyl of Amber make Pills and gild them Virtue Use and Dose It is a peculiar and specifick Medicine for the suffocation of the Womb for it happily raiseth women that are as it were suffocated by Hysterical passion The dose is from a scruple to half a dram continued for certain mornings successively SECT VII Of Rotula's or little Rowls or Cakes Rotulae Imperiales TAke Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Troches of Pearls a dram Ambergriese a scruple the best Musk half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens the Head Brain and Memory to admiration It also roborates the Heart afflicted with cold and trembling and affords great help in all its other affects It gently draws away the continued pains of the Head discusseth the Vertigo sharpens the Sight drys up moist defluxions of the Eyes it prevents baldness and prolongs life shortned by bad diet c. The dose is one two or three at a time often in the day Rotulae Smaragdinae or Rowls of Emerauld Take of Emerauld prepared two drams Elks horn Spagirically calcined a dram and a half seeds of male Peony gathered the Moon decreasing Citron seeds huskt of each a dram roots of white Diptamus grains of Kermes the lesser Galangal Oriental Saffron prepared Cubebs Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Magistery of Oriental Pearls red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Nutmegs Mace and Cinamon of each ten grains Oyl of Rosemary and Lavender of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in an equal quantity of our
Epileptick and Apoplectick Water sixteen ounces Mix them and make of all little Rowls or Cakes Virtue and Use. They wonderfully preserve from the Apoplexy Epilepsie Palsie c. They correct the Vertigo and take away the debility of the Brain sharpen the Memory and Sense comfort the Head refresh the Spirits support and relieve the Faculties of the Mind debilitated by study and continual cares which are dangerous to the Animal Faculties Rotulae Hyacinthinae or Rowls of Hyacinth Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigidum of each half an ounce Hyacinth prepared two drams flowers of Nitre a dram Magistery of red Coral a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses ten grains white Sugar dissolved in Water-lily-flower water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gives relief to the heat and inflammation of the whole body and repairs the imbecillity of the virile force They help the Syncope and wonderfully refresh refrigerate and strengthen those who have long been dejected and afflicted with a long tedious disease They do wonders in Asthma's Heart-passions Epatick diseases Jaundice Consumptions Coughs and malignant Feavers The dose is two three four or five often in the day Rotulae Cordiales or Cordial Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Mace of each four drops white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water eight ounces Mix them and make a Confection in little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They are great Fortifiers of the Heart and preserve it safe from all corruption and putrefaction that it cannot be vitiated by the malignant Air. The dose is two three or four for one time Rotulae Pectorales albae or white Pectoral Rowls Take species Diatragacanth frigidum and Diaireos simple of each half an ounce Lac Sulphuris two drams powder of Benjamin a dram Oyl of Fenil a scruple the whitest Sugar dissolved in milk of the seeds of white Poppy and Violet water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are good for the asperity of the Tongue and Jaws and alleviate the hardness and compression of the Breast and Thorax They give ease to those troubled with the Cough Phthisick Consumption and wasting and to those who are obnoxious to defluxions and destillations from the Head The dose every hour one two or three at a time Rotulae Pectorales Citrinae or yellow Pectoral Rowls Take Lohoch sanum expertum species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each two scruples Extract of Oriental Saffron Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Fenil water sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Lungs lenifie the Breast facilitate the Spittle and therefore give ease in a wonderful manner to those troubled with the Cough Pleurisie difficulty of breathing c. The dose often in the day from one or two to three or four at a time Rotulae Pectorales rubrae or red Pectoral Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lohoch sanum expertum half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams juyce of Liquorish extracted flowers of Sulphur of each a dram powder of Benjamin roots of Flower-de-luce of each half a dram Oyl of Anisceds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Hyssop water first tinctured with red Sanders sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They purge the Thorax and Lungs and strengthen them to expectorate the thick and gross matter there lodged Hence they give ease in tedious Coughs Asthma's and Pleurisies The dose is one two three or four at a time Rotulae Lac provocantes or Rowls provoking Milk Take Crystals prepared half an ounce red Corals prepared a dram Pearls prepared long Pepper of each half a dram Oyl of Fenil seeds a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Nutmegs three ounces Mix them and make Confectionary Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in provoking Milk and is therefore given to Nurses every day morning noon and night The dose is four or five at a time Rotulae refectivae Take Troches of Pearls a dram Magistery of red Coral Ambergriese of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved and extracted in milk of sweet Almonds with rose-Rose-water four ounces Mix them and make little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They nourish and give strength in Chronical diseases they restore health and strength to those who despair of Cure they conserve Nature by roboration and help to recover pristine strength The dose is as necessity requires two or three being taken and by degrees rubbed upon the tongue and afterward swallowed Rotulae stimulantes Take Venetian Borax two drams seeds of Ashen-keys a dram Boletus Cervinus flesh of Skinks of each half a dram long Pepper a scruple the bodies of Cantharides Oyl of Cinamon of each half a scruple white Sugar dissolved in water of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers six ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They wonderfully irritate and excite Venery and are very effectual to repair that kind of impotence and lost virility The dose is at going to bed from three four or five to six more or less according as the Patient requires They may also be taken after the first digestion that is after midnight Rotulae Aromaticae Take Galangal the less a dram and a half Calamus aromaticus grains of Paradise white Ginger of each a dram Cloves Cassia lignea Zedoary Burnet long Pepper Caraway seeds of each half a dram Cubebs Nutmegs Oriental Saffron Mace of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mint Oranges and Rosemary of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Stomach-water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They calefie corroborate and preserve from pain all the principal members the Head Brain Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Guts c. They prevent the Colick stay Vomiting coming of a phlegmatick cause excite Appetite discuss the Flatulencies that distend the Ventricle and cure all that hurts the body coming of a cold cause The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae refrigerantes or cooling Rowls Take species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons flowers of Nitre of each two drams Crystals prepared a dram Tinctures of red Coral and grains of Kermes Sanders of each half a dram Magistery of Saturn a scruple distilled Oyl of Roses four grains white Sugar dissolved in juyce of Barberries and Goosberries equal in quantity sixteen ounces Mix them and make Rotula's Virtue Use and Dose They are very cooling and of excellent use to allay thirst in acute Diseases and burning Feavers They comfort the Stomach and its natural heat and relieve the Heart
a dram Galliae Moschatae seeds of Ashen-keys and Nettles flesh of Skinks Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of Cloves Mace exprest Cinamon of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Satyrion and Rosemary flowers sixteen ounces Mix all and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They have an excellent and indeed a sudden operation on those who are willing to be abundantly kind to the Women I also commend them to those who are slow idle or negligent in their duty called by St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 debitam benevolentiam so that when their cause comes before the Judge there is a Verdict against them or to use my Authors own words for it Ita ut si deferantur ad Iudicem causâ cadant The dose is upon occasion happily begun in the evening and continued from a dram to two and half an ounce drinking after it a little Sack or other rich Wine Morsuli Diacretae Take Chalk three or four times washed in Violet water half an ounce Crabs eyes prepared two drams Nutmegs Bole Armeniack of each a dram Coral prepared half a dram Pearls prepared Cinamon cut small of each a scruple Carp-stone Mace torrefied Oriental Saffron of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water eight ounces Mix them and make little morsels according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They are profitable and useful against the heat of the Stomach commonly called Heart-burning which is no ways dangerous but troublesom and is often common to those most healthy coming sometimes by eating and drinking as well as fasting and they are desirous to belch as it were a fiery vapour shut in that hath not force enough to break forth This boiling pain do they resist and also take away its cause The dose is from one dram to two SECT IX Of Troches Trochisci Vitae TAke Manus Christi simple eight cunces Confectio Alkermes an ounce and a half our Troches of Pearls Ambergriese of each a dram the best Musk the five precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in rose-Rose-water make little Troches sor use Virtue Use and Dose They increase and renew decayed strength and repair it wonderfully as it were by a Celestial power They recreate the Spirits support the radical Moisture and roborate the Head Heart Stomach and Liver c. above measure they discuss the vicious humors of the Stomach and open the obstructions of the Veins They are proper in all cold Distempers restoring Age helping Digestion and resist all Putresaction They prevent the Vertigo sharpen the Sight and are a great Preservative from the Epilepsie and Apoplexy They hasten the Birth and are a present Remedy in the distempers of the Mind The dose is one or two at a time They may also be prepared with Musk. Trochisci de Radice Rhodia or Troches of Rose-root Take of the roots of Rhodia an ounce the bark of the roots of Mandrake Peach-kernels Opium Hermetically prepared red Myrrh of each six drams flowers of wild Poppy Oriental Saffron red Roses of each half an ounce seeds of Henbane Dill and Smallage of each three drams Nutmegs Cubebs Camphire of each two drams Mix them and with Mucilage of the seeds of Fleabane and Quinces made of Lettice-water make Troches according to Art Virtue and Use. I have had Experience of these Troches in Melancholy Madness Pleurisie and excessive Watchings yea in all pains of the Head if they be applied like a Liniment or dissolved in water of Lettice and Roses or in our Hypnotick or Womans milk and applied to the Forehead and Temples Trochisci Ophthalmici or Troches for the Eyes Take white Lead washed an ounce Harts-horn calcined without fire Sarcocol Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Gum Arabick white Tragacanth dust of Flour of each two drams Mother of Pearls prepared white Pompholix Olibanum of each a dram Opium Spagirically prepared Camphire of each half a dram Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches for the Eyes to be used in Collyriums with appropriate Waters Virtue and Use. They are proper and useful for all kind of accidents and passions of the Eyes as Rheumatisms Blood-shot thin sharp Rheums Pustules Burnings Ruptures Fistula's Roughness Itching and all pains there they also consolidate and heal Ulcers of the Eyes Trochisci de Papavere or Troches of Poppy Take Sugar Penids two ounces white Poppy seeds half â—n ounce Melon seeds huskt Gourd seeds of each two â—rams juyce of Liquorish extracted red Bole Armenick â—repared compound flowers of Sulphur of each a dram and 〈◊〉 half white Tragacanth dust of Flour of each a dram Extract of wild Poppy flowers half a dram Mix them and with Mucilage of the seeds of Quinces and water of wild Poppies make little Troches Virtue Use and Dose We happily use these in all sharp Catarrhs falling from the Head upon the Breast and Lungs which they powerfully stop and restore the Head to its pristine state again and powerfully lenifie the pains of the Breast The dose is every hour or at certain hours two or three rubbed on the tongue till they dissolve Trochisci Glycyrrhizae or Troches of Liquorish Take white Sugar Candy and Penids of each four ounces juyce of Liquorish extracted ten drams powder of Diaireos simple Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamagariton frigid of each a dram the four greater cold Seeds Aliptâ— Moschatae Lac Sulphuris of each half a dram Mix them and with a Mucilage made of roots of Marsh-mallows and Violet-water make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in hot and dry Coughs they restore the Voice lost cleanse the Thorax and are excellent with other remedies to facilitate Spitting They are proper for Children troubled with Asthma's and straitness of the Breast c. They are given many times in the day two or three at a time according to the disease and strength of the Patient Trochisci Cordiales or Cordial Troches Take white Sugar Candy eight ounces Consectio Alkermes an ounce of the five precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Cinamon of each tâ—â— grains Mix them and with Mucilage made of Tragacanth and rose-Rose-water make little Troches Virtue Use and Dose They comfort the Heart and relieve the faintings thereof also the infirmities of the Mind They help those who lye long undeâ— Distempers or languish under any weakness and conduce much to the recovery of their former strength They take away the loathing of the Stomach and help Digestion The dose is from three to six at a time Trochisci Ioviales Take Magistery of English Tin Mother of Pearls red Coral of each a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in our Hysterical water make little Troches each weighing half a scruple Virtue Use and Dose They are of admirable force and operation in all kinds
Confection with Raisons Take Sena four ounces roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces roots of Scorzonera and Bugloss of each an ounce roots of Succory and Liquorish of each half an ounce Spanish Wine four pound In which boil the other Ingredients being cut and bruised and after it is prest and strained infuse in it all night Flowers of red Holy-hocks Peaches Violets and Roses of each two pugils Acacia white Ginger Cinamon and the lesser Galangal of each a dram Then let them be strained and well prest and in the strained Liquor again infuse small Raisons stoned and washed in white Wine six ounces Carthamus seeds husked three drams Iujubes Sebestens and Prunes stoned of each twenty one Boil them and extract the Pulp with a Sieve and then add of Manus Christi anisati four ounces Pulp of Tamarinds and the best Manna of each an ounce and a half Cream of Tartar an ounce Mix them and make them into a soft Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is a most sweet mild and lenifying Medicine and is good for those who are apt to be bound in their body For without trouble it moves the Belly downwards and gently purgeth yellow and black Choler It also mundifies the blood and takes off its acrimony It is also profitable in the distempers of the Reins and Bladder and prevents the generation of the Stone The dose is from three drams to half an ounce more or less Catharticum Passulatum or a Purge of Raisons Take of our Confectio passulata two ounces powder of Ialap an ounce Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple With Syrup of Cinamon make them into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler of both sorts Flegm and Water and other offending Humors It expels Wind opens Obstructions purifies the Blood and is good in the pains of the Joynts Colick and Reins It helps those that are troubled with the Asthma old Cough and Pox. It is no trouble to the Patient in the taking this Medicine because it doth partake of no ill savour and is therefore proper for those who loath other Medicines The dose is from two drams to three Cartharticum Peruvianum liquidum or the moist Peruvian Cathartick Take of the Electuary Diacorus six ounces Extract of Gum of Peru rosated an ounce species of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Extract of Kermes-berries three drams Gallia Moschata half a dram Oyl of Mace a scruple With a little Syrup of preserved Citron-peels make all into a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is a good Medicine in all strong and contumacious Diseases It powerfully purgeth all serous humors and water gathered in the Abdomen together with crude and thick Flegm from the remote parts of the body and is therefore good in the Gout and all distempers of the Joynts the Dropsie Ascites and Anasarca also The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Peruvianum solidum pretiosum or a solid and precious Purge of Gum Peru. Take Extract of Gum Peru rosated half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis two drams Confectio Alkermes a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cinamon half a scruple Mix them and with four ounces of white Sugar first dissolved in rose-Rose-water make them into little Morsels Catharticum Peruvianum solidum commune pro tenuioris fortunae hominibus Or a solid Purge of Gum Peru for the poorer sort of People Take Extract of Gum Peru rosated half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each a dram Cassia lignea Cloves white Ginger Mace of each a scruple Oyl of Aniseeds ten grains Mix them and with four ounces of white Sugar dissolved in fenil-Fenil-water make according to Art a Confection in little Morsels Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth thick serous and tartarous humors in the Dropsie Gout Jaundice Scab Pox and the like and is in these cases a Secret The dose is from a dram and a half to two Passulae Laxativae or Laxative Raisons Take leaves of Sena four ounces roots of the best Turbith and Ialap of each an ounce Magistery of Scammony elect Rhubarb of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each three drams the cordial Flowers of each a pugil Mix all these and then infuse them in a sufficient quantity of rectified Spirit of Wine let them stand in infusion until the Spirit hath imbided the Tincture together with the taste and virtue of the Ingredients Then pour off the tinged Spirit and put into it nine ounces of small Raisons let them digest until the Raisons have sufficiently imbided the Spirit Then at last the Raisons being taken out add Cinamon and Cloves of each two drams long Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each a dram and a half Indian Spicknard Gallia Moschata of each ten grains With a sufficient quantity of solutive Syrup of Roses make a Condite according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They purge Melancholy and adust Humors and carry off serous Excrements and keep down salt Flegm and neatly cleanse the body of the Leprosie foulness of the Skin and Scabs It is an excellent Remedy in the Gout straitness of the Breast Stone Catarrhs and the pain and tumor of the Sides The dose is from half an ounce to six drams more or less according to the Sex and Complexion of the Patient Catharticum Terebinthinatum or a Purge with Turpentine Take Turpentine often washed in juyce of Lemmons three ounces species of Lithontribon an ounce Magistery of Scammony seven drams Cassia newly extracted the pith of Carthamus seeds of each half an ounce white and gummy Turbith Tartar vitriolated of each two drams Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Oyl of Chamomil and Aniseeds of each ten grains With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses solutive mix all into the form of a Bole or a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose This Terebinthinated Cathartick doth chiefly purge all flegmatick thick and tartarous humors that oppress the Reins and Bladder It dissolves coagulated Tartar and it is an admirable Purge for all kinds of stones in what part of the body soever they lye The dose is from a dram and a half to two in good odoriferous Wine Terebinthina Laxativa or Laxative Turpentine Take Turpentine washed in Rose-water two drams Tartar vitriolated half a dram Salt of white Amber elect Rhubarb of each ten grains Mix them and with Sugar and powder of Liquorish make a Bole for a dose Terebinthina Purgans or purging Turpentine Take Turpentine washed in Violet-water two drams acid Tartar a scruple Magistery of Perch stone Crabs eyes and Scammony of each ten grains Mix them and with Sugar and powder of Cinamon make a Bole for a dose Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in the Gonorrhoea Stone in the Reins and Bladder pains of the Back c. It is given an hour before supper or early in the morning and it may be taken in a Wafer moistned in Wine SECT XV. Of Lohochs or Eclegma's Lohoch Rosatum or a Lohoch
of Roses TAke Conserve of Roses tinctured with Spirit of Sulphur four ounces Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots prepared with Sugar two ounces species Diarrhodon Abbatis an ounce Lac Sulphuris half an ounce red Oriental Bole prepared juyce of Liquorish extracted of each two drams Oriental Saffron prepared a dram flowers of Benjamin Cardamoms the less Mace of each half a dram Balsam of Sulphur prepared with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple true Oyl of Roses four grains Mix them and with our simple Pectoral Syrup make a Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with continual Coughs Hoarsness Pleurisies c. It brings offensive matter from the Lungs with ease and effectually heals purulent Exulcerations as well of the Breast as Lungs and takes away the ill smell thence proceeding It also helps those who spit blood The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut taken often Lohoch Violatum or Lohoch of Violets Take fresh Conserve of Violets tinged with our Elixir of Sulphur four ounces Lohoch sanum expert two ounces species of Diamargariton frigid Diaireos simple of each half an ounce compound flowers of Sulphur Extract of Liquorish roots of each three drams Oriental Saffron prepared Styrax Calamit of each a scruple Oyl of Hyssop and Benjamin of each four grains Mix them and with our compound Pectoral Syrup make a Pectoral Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose This Medicine is experimented in the Cough Asthma Phthisick difficulty of breathing and straitness of the Breast and in other diseases of the Breast and Lungs The dose is the same as before Lohoch Pectorale or a Pectoral Lohoch Take both our simple and compound pectoral Syrups of each two ounces Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots of sanum expertum of each an ounce Manus Christi with Aniseeds prepared six drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce green Ginger of each three drams Mix them and make a Pectoral Lohoch according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a certain Medicine for a Cough and Hoarsness coming of cold or thick Flegm contained in the Thorax and Lungs It is a present Remedy for all distempers of the Breast difficulty of Breathing Pleurisie pain of the Ribs c. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg often in the day Lohoch seu Diacodium Crocatum or a Lohoch or Diacodium with Saffron Take of the heads and seeds of white Poppy twenty one sweet Bean cods the seeds being cast away roots of Liquorish of each three ounces seeds of Bombace Marsh mallows and Quinces Myrtle-berries of each half an ounce fat Figs Dates and Sebestens of each eleven flowers of great red Mallows Violets and Hearts-ease of each two drams Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water according to Art Then take of this Decoction being strained two pound Sugar Candy rosated Penids of each half a pound Make of all a thick Syrup Then toward the end of the Preparation add Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies Iujubes of each two ounces Extract of Saffron half a dram Mix them and over a gentle fire let them boil to the consistence of Honey which aromatize with a scruple of Gallia Moschata Virtue Use and Dose It is a great Secret in all hot thin sharp and salt Defluxions and Destillations from the Head upon the Thorax and rough Artery which cause continual Coughs and Watchings For it lenifies the roughness of the Throat and maturates the Spittle by making it thick and glutinous and fit to expectorate It allays thirst mitigates heat and procures sleep Also by cooling and moistning it roborates the Spirits repairs strength and preserves the native heat Moreover it cannot be expressed how profitable it is for those who are afflicted with the Colick Stone and Gravel Pleurisie Gout c. It is also good for the over-great excretion and evacuation of the Blood and Terms nay 't is of good use in burning Feavers Fluxes of the Belly Dysenteries c. which are caused by a sharp and cholerick matter The dose is from a dram to two three or four Lohoch Antiphthisicum or a Lohoch for the Consumption or wasting of the Lungs Take of our Diacodium crocatum four ounces Lohoch sanum expertum and de pulmone Vulpis of each two ounces our white red and citrine pectoral Rotula's of each an ounce our simple and compound pectoral Syrups of each six drams green Ginger half an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each two drams Mix them and with an Emulsion made of white Poppy seeds and the water of Calves Lungs an ounce and a half over a gentle sire boil it to the consistence of a Lohoch Virtue Use and Dose It is of great efficacy and power in the Phthilick Asthma Cough Pleurisie Catarrh Hoarsness and other vices of the Thorax and Lungs It extenuates those humors that are hard to be spit forth and induceth sleep The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut often in the day SECT XVI Of Syrups Syrupus Perlarum Orientalium or Syrup of Oriental Pearls TAke water of Roses Borage and Bugloss of each six ounces Salt of Oriental Pearls half an ounce These being mixed and dissolved add of sweet Almonds a quantity sufficient to make an Emulsion with which afterward mix white Sugar a pound and then boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Heart Brain and Memory preserves the Body sound It relieves the Consumptive and keeps off Old age It drys up vicious Humors amends Milk in Women restores the humidum Radicale and increaseth Seed in both Sexes It is also a certain Preservative from the Apoplexy Epilepsie and Palsie and is to be given divers times in the week The dose is from half an ounce to six drams by it self or with other Specificks Syrupus Corallorum rubrorum or Syrup of red Coral Take Tincture of red Roses extracted with Succory-water distilled from the juyce of the whole Plant and as it were red ten ounces Salt of red Coral half an ounce These being mixed dissolved and filtred add of white Sugar a pound exprest juyce of Barberries and Goosberries of each four ounces Again mix them and bring all into the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the weakness of the Heart and much increaseth its strength It mitigates the intemperate heat of the Liver Spleen and Reins and wonderfully relieves them in Obstructions It cures any Haemorrhage mundifies the blood through the whole body It is a good Remedy for cholerick Vomitings It allays Thirst refrigerates and strengthens the Stomach It restores and amends the other internal Bowels distempered by heat Whence it is a great Secret in the Dysentery Lientery pains in the Guts Liver-fluxes Gonorrhoea Flux from the Womb c. It is also good in contagious Diseases and gives ease in malignant Defluxions and Colliquations It strengthens and preserves the Child in the Womb and prevents Abortion if while she goes with Child she takes half a spoonful at a
then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose This Water is far more safe in continual watching sharp pains and in the heat and driness of burning Feavers than those Medicines made out of the substance of Henbane Mandrake and Opium because of their virulence and excessive stupefactive quality The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or by adding Almonds and the four greater cold Seeds to it and so make it into an Emulsion Aqua Narcotica or a Narcotick Water Take juyce of the flowers of wild Poppy depurated sixteen ounces Opium dissolved in water of Nightshade two ounces bark of the roots of Mandrake Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce Styrax Calamit two drams wood of Aloes a dram Mix them and distil them in Balneo drawing off the Liquor three times from the same Faeces which Chymists call Cohobation Virtue Use and Dose It provokes sleep wonderfully and is a most excellent profitable Anodyne in all pains unquietness and extreme watchings And it operates to a Miracle in those troubled with sorrowful and pensive Melancholy for it refresheth the animal Spirits takes away sorrow and discusseth all those ill Vapors that rise and offend the Brain It restrains the heat of Choler and mitigates the fury of Phrensies and Madness and suddenly produceth rest The dose is from one dram to two Aqua Ophthalmica aurea or the golden Water for the Eyes Take the Decoction of Brasil wood made with a little Alum in Spanish Wine water of the roots herb and flowers of Valerian distilled in the same Wine Sugar distilled with a like quantity of ripe Strawberries of each twelve ounces of fragrant Rose-water eight ounces water of Fenil and Vervain of flowers of Succory Eyebright Pennyroyal and Garden Rue of each six ounces Virgin Honey four ounces Tutty prepared an ounce and a half white Vitriol Crocus Metallorum red Myrrh Aloes rosata of each half an ounce white Sugar Candy and Camphire of each three drams white Ginger Cloves black Pepper Bay-berries and Cinamon of each a dram Salt of Celandine Valerian and Saturn of each a scruple All these being well mixed one with another make of all according to Art a Collyrium which in a Glass close shut set to digest for a month either in the Sun or in a gentle heat shaking it every day and so keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use in all affects of the Eyes For it perfectly cures all distempers of the Eyes as Inflammations Bleer-eyedness Fistula's Films Spots c. and it takes away the violent pain thereof and if it doth not cure the same day yet it doth in a short time if a drop or two be but dropped into the Eyes carefully morning noon and night Aqua Ophthalmica viridis or a green Water for the Eyes Take Virgin Honey eight ounces ripe Strawberries three ounces white Vitriol and common Salt of each half an ounce Mix them and let them stand in a cool moist place in a Copper Vessel often stirring it till it wax green or shews it self of a green colour then add of Spanish Wine a pound water of Roses and flowers of Elder of each half a pound waters of wild Cummin Eyebright Celandine Valerian and Blue-bottles of each four ounces Let them be mixed and set to digest in a well stopt Glass for a month in a gentle heat or what is better exposed abroad both to the Sun and Dew for certain weeks and then the Liquor will appear green and separate it self into the superficies the impure Faeces remaining in the bottom from which it is separated at last having stood in the Sun long enough pour it off and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is a most solemn Medicine for all distempers of the Eyes as Contusions Inflammations Ardor Redness Blearedness Fistula's Pustles thin Rheum c. And the use of it is thus drop a drop or two into the Eyes twice or thrice a day and let the water be diffused all over the Eye that so the infirm part may be the sooner cured Aqua Ophthalmica subnigra Take of generous Greek Wine a pound water of Celandine white Roses Eyebright Fenil and Garden Rue of each six ounces Cloves Epatick Aloes Tutty prepared of each five drams Camphire six drams Mix them and in a glass Viol expose them to the Sun all the Dog-days shaking the Glass once a day whicâ— being done keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It makes Rheum thin discusseth redness sucks up the cause of Blearedness renders the Eye clear and by its nourishing quality extenuates the adjacent thick humors The way of using it is to drop a little of it into the Eye as before or you may dip a Rag in this Collyrium and lay it upon the Eye Aqua Ophthalmica de Cancris or an Eye-water of Crabs Take River Crabs alive in the month of June tâ—â— Sun and Moon being both in Cancer thirty one Adâ— to these as much Celandine as will equal them iâ— weight beat these together and then add to theâ— Fenil seeds bruised an ounce Sea-Beans prepared 〈◊〉 Camphire of each half an ounce Cloves Epatick Alâ—â— and Tutty prepared of each two drams Mix them anâ— divide them into three equal parts and distil the first in Balneo then put the second part into a Cucurbit and pour the distilled water upon it and draw it off again as at first then put the third part in and pour upon that all the distilled water already drawn off and so distil it the third time And so you have that most famous Water of Celandine truly prepared And if you will calcine the Faeces and extract a Salt and add it to the Medicine it will be far more efficacious Virtue Use and Dose This is a most precious Eye-water and also esteemed at a great price of which Crollius in his Basilica Chymica hath made mention in these words There may be made a wonderful and stupendious Ophthalmick of Celandine and Crabs Which if it be prepared by due artifice and time it virtually restores the Eye though hurt to desperation and agglutinates all wounds in those parts in the space of twenty four hours Thus far Crollius But the way of preparing it out of meer envy he would not reveal or else he never knew it unless by relation or perhaps had stole it from another Of this Water drop one two or more drops into the Eyes of the Patient or it may be used with a Feather dipped in the water and then anointed with it twice thrice or four times a day according as necessity requires and let this be continued till the Patient be restored to his former health again Aqua Ocularis interna or a Water for the Eyes inwardly taken Take Iuniper berries two ounces Cassia lignea an ounce seeds of Mountain Osier and Fenil of each half an ounce seeds of Rue three drams species Diamoschu dulce Nutmegs wood of Aloes of each
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This Capon-water is most famous and effectual in all Pectoral Diseases as the Cough Asthma Phthisick c. and is given by it self The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cinamomi Buglossata or Cinamon-water Buglossated Take Bugloss water six pound flowers of Violets and Roses of each two pound Cinamon a pound bark of the roots of Bugloss three ounces flowers of Borage and Balm of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Mix them and after due digestion distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It concocts mollifies and resists Poysons it also comforts the Brain Heart Stomach Liver and Spleen It clears the Sight provokes Urine and gives ease in diseases of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua ex Corde Cervi or Water of a Stags Heart Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Cardamoms the less Galangal the less Mace Oriental Saffron of each two drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Citron peels seeds of Basil that smells like Avens of each a dram and a half flowers of Lavender Rosemary Balm and Sage of each a dram Let them be macerated all night in Spanish
Let them infuse together for certain days afterward strain them through Hippocrates sleeve and edulcorate the Liquor with sixteen ounces of white Sugar Candy and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of excellent use in the Asthma Cough and other vices of the Breast also in the weakness and windiness of the Stomach Dysury Strangury and Stone The dose is from one spoonful to two or three often in the week Claretum Anisatum or a Claret prepared with Aniseeds Take Spirit of Wine anisated three pound water of Lohoch sanum Horehound and Violet flowers of each a pound Cassia lignea two ounces Mace cut small half an ounce Let them macerate eight days and then add twelve ounces of white Sugar Candy to it strain it through Hippocrates sleeve and make a Claret Virtue Use and Dose It is very good and proper for difficulty of Breathing and Asthma's and other cold affects of the Thorax arising from thick humors sticking to the Bronchia of the Lungs also for an old Cough Dyspnoea The dose as before is from one spoonful to two or three Claretum Chalybeatum or a Claret prepared with Steel Take the best Malmsey Wine three pound Steel prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce roots of Scorzonera and cream of Tartar of each half an ounce the lesser Galangal Cassia lignea and Cloves of each a dram Put these mixed into a glass Vessel and let them digest in a warm place often shaking them for the space of two days afterward strain them and clarifie them through Hippocrates sleeve and you have a chalybeate Claret Virtue Use and Dose It opens all the obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Meseraick Veins It corrects an ill habit of Body and expels all vicious Humors cures the black Jaundice provokes the Terms and stays them if too superfluous It expels water in Dropsies and discusseth Wind it promotes the resolution of the Salt tending to Coagulation and by its Martial rays it drys the Microcosmical Earth swelling with too much moisture But in the use of this Liquor for the aforesaid Affects it is convenient to give gentle Purgers as often as may be that as this Wine prepares the body and humors fit to be purged so the purging Medicines cleanse and carry it off as in other Cures The dose of this Claret is from one ounce to two or three morning and evening But in defect of the Courses in Women it is given five days before the New Moon to young ones but to those more in years so many days before the Full Moon and so to proceed till the Courses appear Claretum Antinephriticum or an Anti-nephritical Claret Take whole Barley and red Cicers of each an ounce and a half roots of Restharrow and Eryngo of each an ounce Liquorish and Parsley of each half an ounce Iuniper-berries bruised and Winter-cherries of each two drams seeds of Gromel white Thorn-berries seeds of Marsh-mallows and small Mallows of each a dram and ahalf flowers of Broom and Violets of each a dram fat Figs and Sebestens of each eleven Let them be infused in small white Wine and Rain-water of each three pound for 24 hours then boil them to the consumption of the third part that there may four pound remain to which add of white Sugar four ounces clarifie it with Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret of it Virtue Use and Dose It gives great ease to those troubled with the Stone for it dissolves breaks and drives forth the Stone in the Reins and Bladder with the Urine by inlarging the Ureters and urinary passage and by opening the obstructions of the Loyns and Reins and the other parts The dose is every morning fasting a good draught from three ounces to four Claretum Moschatum or a Muskified Claret Take Cassia lignea half an ounce Cloves two drams Nutmegs Mace and Citron peels of each a dram roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce and the lesser Galangal of each half a dram yellow Sanders and wood of Aloes of each a scruple Ambergriese and the best Musk of each ten grains All being pulverized and mixed add to them twenty ounces of odoriferous Spanish Wine and let them stand in digestion for certain days afterward add Spirit of Roses four ounces clarifie them in Hippocrates his sleeve and make a Claret which for delicate Palates may be edulcorated with Sugar Candy Virtue Use and Dose It is of admirable use other universal Medicines and Purgations being premised to amend the ill savour of the Mouth and Nose and render them sweet it also roborates the Heart and Ventricle Let the Patient take a spoonful or two every morning fasting Claretum purgans or a purging Claret Take leaves of Sena two ounces roots of our Flower-de-luce an ounce Mechoacan white Hermodactyls and Turbith of each half an ounce Agrimony Harts-tongue and Fluellin of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves white Ginger and Cinamon of each a dram flowers of Broom Balm Bugloss and Sage of each a dram and a half Infuse them all in a sufficient quantity of old Wine for 24 hours and then boil them and in sixteen ounces of the strained Liquor warm dissolve four ounces of the best Manna Again strain it and add of Cinamon water an ounce Elaeosaccharum of Citrons a dram Mix them well again and make of all a laxative Claret Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth flegm and water and that from the Joynts It gives ease in the Head-ach and Epilepsie and checks old Defluxions and for that reason gives ease in Gouts of all kinds It is also a good Purge in all pains of the Joynts Colon and Reins The dose is from three ounces to four Vinum Antiscorbuticum or an Antiscorbutick Wine Take Rhenish Wine four pound juyce of Scurvy grass Water-cresses Brooklime and Sorrel of each depurated four ounces roots of wild Radishes Elicampane and our Flower-de-luce of each cut into small pieces anounce and a half seeds of Rocket bruised an ounce All being mixed put them into a Glass in a cool place and reserve it for use adding to it two Nutmegs Virtue Use and Dose This medicated Wine universals being premised and the body duly purged perfectly cures the Scurvy in these Northern and Maritime Regions where it is natural and domestick and is also an infallible Medicine in rectifying the Blood The dose is from three ounces to four morning and evening two hours before meat and let the sick continue the use of this Medicine till he finds himself better SECT XXIII Of compound medicated Vinegars Acetum Aromaticum odoratum or a sweet Aromatick Vinegar TAke Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce and a half flowers of Lavender red Roses and Clove-gilliflowers of each an ounce Cloves and Cinamon of each half an ounce Nutmegs Mace lesser Galangal and Zedoary of each three drams Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Styrax Calamitis red Myrrh Benjamin of each a dram and a half
each half a pound Iuniper and Bay-berries of each seven ounces of Earth-worms washed in Spirit of Wine and again dryed six ounces Rosemary Sage Marjoram Lavender Hyssop Groundpine and Thyme of each an ounce flowers of Chamomil Mullein Melilot and St. Iohns-wort of each half an ounce Boil them in water for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. This Bath should be often used for it refresheth paralytick Members warms the nervous parts drys roborates and restores them to their pristine motion Yet general and particular Evacuations ought to precede Balneum contra Sterilitatem seu difficultatem impraegnationis probatum Or an approved Bath against Barrenness or difficulty of Conception Take roots of Madder Parsley Polypody and Valerian of each three ounces seeds of wild Rue and Darnel of each two ounces green Iuniper-berries an ounce and a half Motherwort Mother of Thyme Balm Mugwort Fumitory of each an ounce Marjoram Lavender Agrimony Melilot and Mullein of each six drams Calamint Chamomil and Origanum of each half an ounce All being grosly cut and bruised let them be boiled in a great Cauldron to the consumption of the third part of which make a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. This Decoction together with the Herbs Roots and Seeds put into a great Vessel or Bathing Tub and in that let the barren Woman after she hath been well purged from her Terms sit up to the Navil so that all the lower Belly may be bathed and refreshed and let this be continued for twelve days and the Bath to be renewed every third day And during the twelve days let her forbear Coition for by the use of this Bath only many barren Women have been made fruitful But when the Woman goes out of the Bath let her body be well covered with Cloths lest the cold Air should hurt her Balneum Stipticum contra Uteri Haemorrhagiam probatum or a Stiptick Bath approved of in Fluxes of Blood from the Womb. Take crude Alum two pound roots of Plantane Tormentil water-Acorus and Bistort of each four ounces bark of the roots of Acacia Pomegranate rind and Turkish Galls of each three ounces flowers of red Roses and Balaustines of each two ounces the herb Burnet Shepherds-purse Sage and Millefoil of each an ounce Boil all in a sufficient quantity of water in which while it is boiling Iron and Steel is quenched often and make a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Bath be moderately hot and the Woman sit therein up to the Navil every morning fasting for an hour or two and let this be continued for certain days and by the Providence of God she will be perfectly cured Balneum contra suppressionem Menstruorum probatum or an approved Bath against the suppression of the Terms Take of the whole plant of Mugwort four ounces roots of Angelica Madder Asparagus and Smallage of each two ounces seeds of Parsley Iuniper-berries and Bay-berries â—â—â—ked red Myrrh of each a dram and a half the herbs Centaury Savin and Pennyroyal of each an ounce Fenil Mother of Thyme and Balm of each six drams Wormwood Groundpine Horehound Pellitory Nep Mercury and Rosemary of each half an ounce Let them boil in a large Vessel in a sufficient quantity of River-water to the consumption of the third part then put it into a bathing Tub for use Virtue and Use. Let the Woman sit in it up to the Navil and continue in it for half an hour then let her be dryed and put to bed yet this is not to be used once only but to be repeated three or four times a week Balneum in Icteritia ad Cutem detergendam expertum or a Bath to cleanse the Skin in the Iaundice Take white Tartar a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white Hermodactyls and Solomons Seal of each four ounces whole Beans Lupines whole Barley of each two drams leaves of Misleto of the Oak an ounce and a half Wormwood common Mallows Pellitory Celandine and Sopewort of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Chamomil and water-Lilies of each half an ounce Make a Decoction for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Patient as it were swim in the Bath that is be covered all over with the water and when he goes out of the Bath let him go into his bed and sweat there the space of an hour and let this be continued Balneum contra Calculum Renum Vesicae or a Bath against the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each three ounces roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two ounces roots of Vervain Eryngo Fenil and Brambles of each an ounce and a half Bay-berries husked and Linseeds of each an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows six drams of the herbs Chamomil Tansie Dill Melilot Mullein Pellitory of the Wall Saxifrage Cinqfoil Violets and Strawberries of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them for a Bath according to Art Virtue and Use. Let the Patient sit in this Bath while he is in his greatest pains And it is successfully used after other Evacuations but while the sick is in the Bath Potions should be given him for to break the Stone Balneum medicamentosum sive Lotio pedum or a medicinal Bath or Wash for the Feet Take Lapis medicamentosus four ounces the best Alum three ounces the inner bark of green Elder an ounce and a half of the herbs Mugwort dwarff Elder Cinqfoil St. Iohns-wort Dill Maidenhair of each six drams ashes of Guajacum common Salt of each half an ounce Boil all in River-water for a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. Pour it into some convenient Vessel fit to bathe the Feet in it is good in the Scurvy and in other diseases to take away Tumors of the Feet but the Patient ought to continue in the Bath two or three hours in the morning fasting and this must be continued for three or four days together and when he comes out of the Bath let him wipe his Feet with a Towel Balneum Nitrosum pro pedibus or a Nitrous Bath for the Feet Take of the best Nitre half a pound Sea-Salt four ounces flowers of Chamomil Marsh-mallows and red Roses of each an ounce of the herbs Betony Origanum Sage and Rue of each half an ounce Mix them and boil them and make a Bath for the Feet Virtue and Use. Let the sick use this morning and evening for it draws away the flegmy matter that lies in the Joynts and draws down the humors from the upper parts when he hath done bathing let him wipe his Feet with a clean Cloth Balneum Hypnoticum pro pedibus or a Bath for the Feet to procure Sleep Take the bark of the roots of Mandrake of Henbane and common Mallows of each an ounce leaves of Violets Melilot Lettice Nightshade and Dill of each half an ounce eleven heads of white Poppy with the seeds flowers of water-Lily Chamomil and Roses of each two drams
dram Mix them and with the White of an Egg and Juyce of Plantane make Suppositories according to Art Suppositoria Dysenterica Anodyna somnum conciliantia or a Dysenterical Anodyne and Sleep-procuring Suppository Take of boiled Honey three ounces seeds of white Henbane and black Poppy of each a dram and a half Thebane Opium Balaustines Spodium and Olibanum of each a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Mix them and make Suppositories according to Art Suppositoria Carminativa or a Wind-breaking Suppository Take Orange peel and Chamomil flowers of each a dram and a half seeds of Cummin Caraway Mountain-Osier Ameos Agnus castus Chervil and Rue of each a dram pulp of Coloquintida and common Salt of each a scruple With a sufficient quantity of Honey make Suppositories according to Art SECT XXXII Of Clysters Enema Nutriens or a nourishing Clyster TAke of Beef and Capon Broth of each eight ounces Barley cream and Cows milk of each four ounces the best Wine three ounces Sugar of Roses an ounce Wheat bread dryed and pulverized half an ounce Yolks of two Eggs. Mix them and make a Clyster according to Art and let it be injected as the manner is Annotation Such Clysters are sometimes given in the Quinsie to nourish and conserve strength also in the Tumors of the Jaws not being able to open their mouths in the Stomach being stopped either with Tubercles or Ulcers in the Convulsion of the Mouth Palsie of the Tongue and the like Diseases It is also of great use when the sick can take nothing of nourishment by the mouth nor retain any thing in the stomach But it is to be given when the body is emptied of Excrements or when they go to rest for otherwise it mixeth with the Excrements and so becomes ineffectual In short it is a great Nutritive to the sick Enema Bilem evacuans or a Clyster evacuating Choler Take small Raisons three ounces Barley husked and Linseeds of each two ounces Rhubarb an ounce Boil these and when it is strained Take one pound of the Liquor Oyl of Violets three ounces the best Manna an ounce Electuary of the juyce of Roses an ounce Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Pituitam purgans or a Clyster purging Elegm Take roots of Elicampane and Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce the herbs Calamint Horebound and Pennyroyal of each half an ounce Troches of Agarick tyed up in a thin rag white Turbith of each three drams Carthamus seeds two drams flowers of Chamomil and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Rue three ounces Malmsey Wine two ounces Honey of Squills an ounce benedicta Laxativa and Diaphaenicon of each half an ounce common Salt two drams Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Humores melancholicos deturbans or a Clyster purging Melancholy Take roots of Polypody of the Oak an ounce roots of Parsley Fenil and Asparagus of each six drams the herbs Fumitory Dodder Harts-tongue and Melilot of each half an ounce flowers of Chamomil Borage and Bugloss of each two drams seeds of Fenil and Anise of each a dram Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Dill two ounces Honey of Rosemary an ounce Confectio Hamech and Diacatholicon of each half an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Extract of black Hellebore two scruples Mix these and make a Clyster Enema Phlegma Hydropicorum aquas purgans or a Clyster purging Flegm and water in Dropsies Take roots of Couch-grass Parsley Asparagus and Cinqfoil of each an ounce leaves of Sea Coleworts and Mercury of each six drams flowers of Elder Broom Stoechas and Rosemary of each half an ounce Agarick tyed up in a thin cloth Mechoacan and Bay-berries of each three drams seeds of Fenil Caraway and Cummin of each two drams Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound the exprest juyce of the roots of our Flower-de luce three ounces the exprest juyce of the inner bark of Elder two ounces Oyl of Rue and Dill of each half an ounce Benedicta laxativa six drams common Sa't two drams Mix these and make a Clyster Enema in Cephalalgia Vertigine Scotomia Phrenetide in aliis Capitis affectibus Or a Clyster in the Head-ach Vertigo Giddiness Phrensie and other affects of the Head Take leaves of Alexandrian Sena an ounce roots of Bryony and Agarick of each half an ounce leaves of Marjoram Chamomil the lesser Centaury Sage and Origanum of each two drams flowers of Lilies of the valley and Rosemary of each a dram and a half pulp of Coloquintida and black Hellebore of each a dram Mix them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of rain-Rain-water to the consumption of half and then take of the strained Liquor one pound Oyl of Vervain three ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers an ounce and a half common Salt two drams Mix them and make a Clyster Aliud Enema Cephalicum or another Cephalick Clyster Take roots of Asarabacca newly dryed an ounce Wheat bran half an ounce Calamint Betony Mallows Mercury and Chamomil of each two drams With these make a Decoction and of it when it is strained take one pound and add to it Oyl of Elder flowers three ounces Honey of Roses two ounces Electuary of Diasena an ounce Sal Gem a dram and a half Mix these for a Clyster Aliud Enema fortius or another Clyster stronger Take roots of black Hellebore half an ounce seeds of Coloquintida bruised three drams Chamomil Vervain Marjoram Origanum and Marsh-mallows of each two drams seeds of Fenil Caraway and Anise of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Liquor a pound Sallet Oyl three ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers an ounce and an half common Salt three drams Essence of the leaves of Sena a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Annotation Concerning the Laxatives in these Clysters it may be either increased or diminished according to the Sex Age and Complexion of the Patient which is also to be observed in all the other Compositions A specifick Clyster in Melancholy Madness Sorrow Congelation Quartans Scabs Ring-worms Morphew Cancer Elephantiasis Scirrhus of the Spleen and all other Diseases proceeding from Melancholy Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces bark of Indian Myrobalans an ounce Fumitory St. Iohns-wort Marjoram Dodder Hops Stoechas of each half an ounce black Hellebore two drams Boil these and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Chamomil three ounces Hiera Logadi Tartar vitriolated and Sal Gem of each a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Aliud Enema specificum in Melancholia or another specifick Clyster for Melancholy Take the bark of Bugloss roots two ounces leaves of Alexandrian Sena an ounce Masterwort lesser Celandine Dill Roman Chamomil Fumitory and Gentian of each half an ounce Boil all and take of the strained Liquor a pound Oyl of Roses three
drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Oyl of Linseed four ounces brown Sugar Candy an ounce Diaphaenicon six drams Sal Gem a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Enema Ventrem leniens in Colica ab Apostemate or a lenifying Clyster in the Colick caused by an Imposthume Take roots of Comfry and Marsh-mallows of each an ounce leaves of common Mallows Violets and Melilot of each half an ounce flowers of Marsh-mallows Acacia and white Lilies of each two drams Boil them and take of the clear Decoction a pound Oyl of Chamomil four ounces Electuary of the juyce of Roses six drams Cassia fresh drawn half an ounce Cream of Tartar two drams common Salt a dram and a half Mix them for a Clyster Enema in causa à duritie Faecum or a Clyster in Costiveness of the Bowels Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each an ounce leaves of branch Ursine Pellitory of the Wall Marsh-mallows of each six drams flowers of Chamomil Linseed and Foenugreek of each half an ounce Boil them and take of the clear Decoction a pound Oyl of Sesamum three ounces Benedicta laxativa aâ— ounce common Salt three drams Mix them for a Clyster Enema Colicum quod vehementer probatur or a Clyster for the Colick when the pain is vehement Take Broth of fat Meat a pound Oyl of Chamomil and Dill of each two ounces clarified Honey an ounce and a half Cream of Tartar three drams Gal Gem a dram and a half Enema dolorem Colicum sedans or a Clyster allaying the pain of the Colick Take roots of Marsh-mallows and common Mallows of each an ounce flowers of Chamomil Melilot and Elder of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Cummin Flax and Smallage of each two drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction twelve ounces Malmsey Wine four ounces Oyl of Chamomil and Dill of each two ounces Benedicta laxativa an ounce the Yolk of an Egg. Mix them and make a Clyster Enema Anodynum or an Anodyne Clyster Take roots of Marsh-mallows white Lilies and Liquorish of each an ounce leaves of Melilot Chamomil Violets and common Mallows of each half an ounce seeds of Foenugreek Flax and Quinces of each three ounces the bark of Mandrake and wild Poppy flowers of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound and a half fresh Butter not seasoned the Yolk of an Egg Extract of Oriental Saffron ten grains Mix them and make a Clyster Enema refrigerans or a cooling Clyster Take leaves of Strawberries Purslain Violets and Lettice of each half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each three drams Damask Prunes twenty flowers of water-Lilies Mullein and Roses of each a dram Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Oyl of Violets three ounces Honey of Roses an ounce Electuary of the juyce of Roses six drams Nitre prepared a dram Mix them and inject it Enema calefaciens or a warming Clyster Take roots of Elicampane and Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce leaves of Calamint Mercury Hyssop and Origanum of each half an ounce flowers of Chamomil Stoechas Rosemary and Sage of each two drams Agarick tyed up in a cloth seeds of Cummin Anise and Bishops-weed of each a dram and a half Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Oyl of Rue three ounces Benedicta laxativa an ounce Sea Salt three drams Extract of Wormwood a scruple Mix them for a Clyster Enema Stipticum in fluxibus Ventris or a Clyster in Fluxes of the Belly Take of dry Cheese prepared an ounce and an half roots of Hounds-tongue Pomegranate rind Turkish Galls of each an ounce Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Stiptick Wine and take of the clear Decoction a pound Frankincense pulverized three drams the Yolk of an Egg. Mix them and give the Clyster warm Enema aliud Stipticum or another Stiptick Clyster Take Oyl of St. Iohns-wort six ounces Honey of Roses Goats Suet and new Wax of each three ounces Melt them together over the fire and make a restringent Clyster Enema adstringens or an astringent Clyster Take roots of water-Acorus Tormentil and Snakeweed of each an ounce leaves of Pimpernel Ribwort and Plantane of each half an ounce seeds of Sorrel Purslain and Myrtle of each three drams flowers of yellow Mullein red Roses and Balaustines of each a dram and a half Boil them all in Milk burnt to or in Smiths water and take of the clear Decoction a pound Mill-dust an ounce Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each a dram Mix them and make a Clyster without Oyls Enema aliud adstringens or another astringent Clyster Take roots of Tapsus barbatus Plantane and Bistort of each an ounce leaves of Horstail Knotgrass and Rupturewort of each half an ounce Balaustines and Pomegranate peel of each two drams red Roses and Sumach of each a dram Boil them in Chalybeate or Smiths water and take of the clear Decoction a pound juyce of Millefoil two ounces Goats Suet an ounce and a half Oriental Saffron a scruple Mix them and make a Clyster which give after detersive or purgative Clysters Enema ad Lienteriam Diarrhoeam Take roots of Mullein Snakeweed and Tormentil of each an ounce leaves of Millefoil St. Iohns-wort and Bramble of each half an ounce Cyprus Nuts and Myrtle-berries of each two drams Boil them and take of the strained Decoction a pound Honey of Roses an ounce Hypocistis and Acacia of each two drams Laudanum a dram Mix them and give it Clyster-wise aftâ—â— Detersives by purging and astringent Medicines Enema tergens siccans or a drying and cleansing Clyster Take whole Barley half an ounce leaves of Wormwood and Myrtle of each half an ounce Lupines and Lentils of each two drams flowers of the lesser Centaury and red Roses of each a dram Boil them in rain-Rain-water and take of the strained Decoction a pound Honey of Roses three ounces Make a Clyster and give it warm Enema consolidans or a consolidating Clyster Take roots of Tapsus barbatus and great Comfry of each a dram and a half of the herb Plantane Horstail and leaves of Myrtle of each half an ounce red Roses two drams Make a Decoction in Chalybeate or Smiths water and take of it when strained a pound of Goats Suet two ounces Mill-dust a dram Mastich half a dram Mix them and make a Clyster Enema ad Bilem alterandum in Dysenteria c. or a Clyster altering Choler in a Dysentery Take Barley husked and Linseed of each two ounces small Raisons an ounce common Mallows and Violets of each half an ounce Make a Decoction and when strained take of it a pound Oyl of Roses three ounces brown Sugar an ounce and a half the Yolk of an Egg and a little Salt Mix them and give it for a Clyster Enema dolores Dysentericos sedans or a Clyster allaying pains in the bloody Flux Take of
Dill Oranges and Chamomil of each half a dram Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This is a true Anodyne Medicine for it discusseth Wind and cureth the pain of the Belly and Matrix and all other diseases arising from Wind. Sometimes also it lenifies and allays the pains of the Breast Stomach Spleen Guts Reins and Bladder It is also a present help for flatulent and Hypochondriack Melancholy The dose is from four drops to five in appropriate Vehicles Oleum Nephriticum or an Oyl good in the Stone Take Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Turpentine and Iuniper of each four ounces Leaven of coarse Bread common Salt and white Tartar of each two ounces water of Ground-Ivy Parsley and Restharrow of each three pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick afterward separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It potently breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder and expels it by Urine And moreover it allays the pains of the Colick It roborates the Womb and makes the Birth easie if it be drunk in water of Vervain And being taken in Teil-tree-flower-water it helps in diseases of the Head and Nerves as the Falling-sickness Stupefaction c. and the Nostrils anointed with it preserves from all Poison and pestilential Air. The dose is from five drops to six in specisick Vehicles Oleum septem Florum or an Oyl of the seven Flowers It is prepared of Oyl Olive by many repeated Infusions of the flowers of Violets Elder Roses Chamomil white Lilies Mullein and red Marsh-mallows Let the flowers be infused apart in Oyl every sort in its season so that they may be fresh let them digest in the Sun and after due maceration let every sort by themselves be strongly pressed and this labour with other fresh flowers is often to be repeated c. And at last you shall have a true Balsamick and Anodyne Oyl appropriate to all pains as well cold as hot and this Oyl keep for use Virtue and Use. It is truly Anodyne and mitigates the pains of the Head and Cephalalgia and being laid to the Forehead and Temples of those in a Phrensie and watching induceth sleep It easeth the distension of the Hypochonders and allays the pains of the Thorax Ventricle Colon Womb and nervous parts It is a present remedy for Pleuritick Consumptive and Hectical persons and soon allays the intolerable heat of burning Feavers and the immoderate heat of the Liver and Reins In short it extinguisheth all intemperate heat It mollifies the hardness of the Womb and composeth many other accidents of those parts It ripens all hot Tumors and discusseth Lassitudes It is also effectually used with the White of an Egg or the Mucilage of Quince seeds for Burns and Scalds Lastly given in Clysters it allayeth the pain of the Belly moves to stool and carries off serous Excrements Oleum Sabinae Crocinum or Oyl of Savin with Saffron Take distilled Oyl of Savin four ounces Oyl of Oriental Saffron three drams Mix them and put to it two ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine impregnate with Mugwort lesser Centaury and Cinamon Boil it to the consumption of the Spirit then separate the Oyl and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is approved in moving the Courses in Women The dose is morning and evening from five drops to six or seven in water of Mugwort or Pennyroyal Also in Malmsey or other generous strong Wine or in our Decoction against the Terms suppressed it is profitably given But is most usually given at the time when the Courses use to come down that Nature assisting the Medicine may work with more force and efficacy Oleum Balsami or the Oyl of Balsam Take Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bay-berries of each an ounce Oyl of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Rhodium and Spike of each two drams Oyl of Angelica seeds and Aniseeds of each a dram Cyprus Turpentine washed in Violet water half a pound Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Roots of Alkanet make according to Art an Oyl or red Balsam Virtue Use and Dose It heats opens discusseth attenuates and penetrates Hence it helps in all cold distempers and dissipates wind wonderfully It is of excellent use in the Palsie the Original of the Nerves being anointed with it It cures deafness singing and pain of the Ears coming of a cold Cause The Spine of the Back being anointed with it it takes away the pain and shivering cold of the Reins in Agues It drives away Feavers resists Putrefaction and the Plague It breaks the Stone and expels it It provokes Sweat and is an excellent Remedy used internally and externally in the Convulsions Colick Dropsie Tympany Contractures Suffocation of the Matrix debility of the Stomach c. The dose is from a scruple to a dram in Vehicles respecting the disease Oleum Formicarum or Oyl of Piâ—â—ures Take Pismires alive and seeds of Rocket of each what quantity you please Mix them and bruise them and make as it were a Paste Put this into a Glass and expose it so long to the Sun and Air till it becomes Oyl which separate by expression and keep for use for our Venereal Balsam Virtue and Use. If the soles of the Feet Privy parts and Perinaeum be anointed with this Oyl it wonderfully raiseth and revives those who are stupefied and benum'd and is good in other such kind of cases Oleum Lignorum or Oyl of Woods Take Lignum sanctum three pound Sassafras and Rhodium of each eight ounces Mix and distil them according to Art and you shall have an Oyl and Spirit which often rectifie apart and keep them for use Virtue Use and Dose This Spirit hath a Diaphoretick force and expels by Sweat whatsoever is noxious to the body The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick Vehicles but the Oyl is experimentally found good in a Gonorrhoea and doth powerfully resist Contagion and Putrefaction and for that reason is of great use in the French Pox for pocky Ulcers Pustles Crusts Tetters and Scabs by anointing them with Oyl only are cured The dose internally is from three drops to six in some convenient and appropriate Liquor SECT XXXIV Of Balsams and odoriferous Medicines Balsamum Polychrestum TAke Sallet Oyl a pound Oyl of St. Iohns-wort and Bays of each an ounce Oyl of white Amber rectified of Iuniper-berries and Peter of each half an ounce Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Nutmegs Oranges and Rosemary of each a dram Oyl of Chamomil and Cummin of each half a dram Mix them and add a pound of well rectified Spirit of Wine in which for eight days Frankincense Mastich Benjamin Styrax Calamitis Mumy Cochinel flowers of lesser Centaury great Comfry Roses and Violets also the Roots of Alkanet have been all infused Then add Cyprus Turpentine well washed in Rose-water half a pound our Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds six drams
Again carefully mix them and let them stand either in a Furnace or the Sun often stirring them for fourteen days afterwards abstract the Spirit of Wine by a gentle heat in Balneo and in the bottom will remain a most red Balsam to be reserved for publick and common use Virtue Use and Dose This noble Balsam is very effectual as well internally as externally used it is thin in substance because of penetration by which means it refresheth all the Members for it drys attenuates opens discusseth and heats It wonderfully assists in all cold Destillations of the Head but doth principally relieve those troubled with the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo and loss of Memory if the Coronal Suture the Nostrils Temples hinder-part of the Head Crown c. are frequently anointed therewith It is happily given in the ringing of the Ears caused by thick Vapors dulness of Sense proceeding from cold and frigid Humors It doth to a Miracle cure all the cold punctures and pains of the Brain Breast Liver Spleen Womb and all the Nerves and Joynts and all other nervous parts It is of good use in the extensions of the Hypochondres and dissipates and discusseth the Scirrhus and hard Tumors there and produceth a good Colour It is a Sâ—cret in the Palsie Convulsions Hip-gout c. It purgeth the Lungs of thick and viscid humors and roborates the Stomach if it be anointed therewith It helps shortness of Breath and potently dissipates internal Wind. It is an Arcanum in the Colick if the Navil is but anointed therewith and at the same time taken inwardly It dissolves coagulated Blood the part being anointed and at the same time taken inwardly to procure Sweat It being taken in Parsley water or any other convenient Liquor and at the same time the Region of the Reins and Bladder anointed therewith expels the Stone and other impurities in the Urinary passage and also provokes Lust and causeth erection It helps the Suffocation of the Womb and the parts being anointed brings away the Child from the Womb. In Quartans and other Agues and Feavers if it be applied warm from the Nape of the Neck down to the Hips and rubbed in before a good fire a little before the Fit comes it mitigates and takes away with the using the cold pain and shiverings of the Back and Shoulders and drives away the Feaver Lastly it preserves the whole body and defends it from Putrefaction Poison and all pestilential Air. The dose internally is from a scruple to half a dram or a dram in specifick and appropriate Vehicles Balsamum Apoplecticum or a Balsam for the Apoplexy Take Oyl of Nutmegs an ounce Oyl of white Amber rectified half a dram true Oyl of Roses and Cinamon of each a scruple Oyl of Lavender and Marjoram of each fifteen grains Oyl of Benjamin and Rue of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains Having mixed them well add thereto Ambergriese a dram and a half true Civet four scruples the best Musk a dram Mix them faithâ—â—lly and make a Balsam of a just consistence according to Art Virtue and Use. There is scarcely to be found in the whole Republick of Physick an Apoplectick Balsam which is more illustrious in Fame more noble in Virtue more worthy in Honour more ready for Help and more fragrant in Smell than this is For by anointing the top of the Head the Nostrils and Pulses therewith it doth miraculously raise the vital animal and natural Spirits and most sweetly refresh them Balsamum Hypnoticum or a Balsam to procure Sleep Take Oyl of Nutmegs exprest five drams vulgar Oyl of Roses Violets and water-Lily of each two drams Oyl of Henbane seeds exprest and of white Poppy seeds exprest Oyl of Bricks and Benjamin of each a dram Mix them faithfully and then add these following Unguentum Populeon an ounce a Stags marrow three drams Opium dissolved in Spirit of Wine Extract of Oriental Saffron of each a dram Amber and Musk and true Oyl of Roses of each a scruple Mix them and make a Balsam according to Art Virtue and Use. By anointing the Nose and Pulses of the Temple and Arms and if need be the Ears and soles of the Feet with it it sweetly produceth sleep and mitigateth the pains of the Head Balsamum Memoriae or a Balsam for the Memory Take Oyl of Nuts exprest half an ounce oyl of Bricks and Castor of each three drams oyl of Myrrh and Frankincense of each a dram oyl of Lavender Rosemary Marjoram and Rue of each a scruple oyl of Cloves white Amber Cinamon and Benjamin of each ten grains Mix them and with the Caput mortuum of exprest Oyl of Nutmegs make a Balsam of a just consistence to which add true Gallia Moschata two scruples Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It is a great Secret in recovering the Memory lost or to comfort and conserve it But it is hurtful in Womens Hysterical distempers and therefore the Gallia Moschata may be omitted or to suppress the odor of it the weight of Oyl of white Amber may be increased The use of it is thus anoint the hinder-part of the Head therewith morning and evening Balsamum Odontalgicum or a Balsam for the Tooth-ach Take the Oyls of Origanum Cloves and Camphire of each two drams Opium Spagirically prepared flowers of Nitre of each a dram species Diambrae and red Sanders of each half a dram Mix them and with the Caput mortuum of exprest Oyl of Nutmegs or in defect of this white Wax half an ounce make a Balsam according to Art Virtue and Use. It is effectual in the Tooth-ach of what cause soever but especially cold A little Lint or Cotton wet in it and the Tooth stopped therewith doth immediately take away the pain if the Tooth be hollow Moreover it kills Worms and brings away humors plentifully by the Mouth Balsamum Puerorum dentientium or a Balsam for Children breeding Teeth Take May Butter not salted three ounces sat of a Hen and a Duck of each two drams flowers of wild Poppies a dram Boil them in Juyce of living Crabs bruised and with water of Blue-bottles and Extract of roots of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces Let them boil to the consumption of the Juyces then being prest add white Sugar Candy four ounces Gallia Moschata vera a scruple the Yolk of one Egg. Mix them and make a Balsam according to Art Virtue and Use. Infants in breeding their Teeth are often in danger of their life because of the hardness of the Gums by reason of the great pain that attends it but the use of this Balsam doth so rarifie and mollifie the Gums that it removes all fear of danger and makes them breed their Teeth easily if the Gums be frequently anointed therewith Balsamum Paralyticum or a Balsam for the Palsie Take Oyl of Galbanum distilled with Spirit of Turpentine oyl of Amber rectified of each an ounce oyl of Rosemary and Angelica of each a
Unguentum Pectorale or a Pectoral Oyntment Take Oyl of Pistick Nuts exprest oyl of Pine-nuts exprest and oyl of sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half May Butter unsalted Capons grease and Goats Suet of each an ounce These being mixed add to it three ounces of our Pectoral water and boil them together to the consumption of the water then add Essence of Oriental Saffron two drams distilled oyl of Chamomil oyl of Fenil Mace Dill and Aniseeds of each a dram Mix them and with white Wax make an Unguent according to Art Virtue and Use. It is properly applied to the pains of the Breast for by anointing it therewith it dissolves flegm in it and heals all imperfections there it warms moistens and mollifies c. Use it morning and evening before a gentle fire Unguentum Pleuriticum or an Unguent for the Pleurisie Take the Fat of Field-Mice four ounces May Butter without salt two ounces oyl of Walnuts sweet Almonds of Poppy by expression and oyl of Bays of each an ounce juyce of wild Poppy flowers six ounces Mix them and boil all to the consumption of the Juyce afterward add Oyl of distilled Chamomil and Dill of each a dram and a half oyl of Bricks and Cummin seed of each a dram Again mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Unguent Virtue and Use. After the beginning of its violence and in allaying the pain of the Pleurisie and dissolving the Imposthume this Unguent is of wonderful use which is applied to the part grieved not ceasing from anointing till the pain desists And know for your credit that this Remedy is effectually prevalent used to any other strong pain in the whole body to the great profit of the Patient Note That Plasters and Unguents in all Pectoral diseases ought to be laid upon the Breast before and upon the Back behind but in the Pleurisie they must be applied more upon the Sides Unguentum Anodynum or an Anodyne Oyntment Take our Anodyne oyl of the seven Flowers six ounces oyl of sweet Almonds oyl of Henbane and Poppy exprest oyl of Earth-worms and St. Iohns-wort of each an ounce Fat of a Goose and wild Cat of each six drams juyce of Tabaco depurated juyce of Germander and Vervain of each four ounces Mix all and boil them to the consumption of the Juyces afterward with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment according to Art Virtue and Use. It mitigates pain in any part of the body from whence indeed it hath its name But in a case where excessive cold is the cause add to two ounces of the Oyntment Oyl of Peter Juniper and Bricks of each a scruple and mix them for use Unguentum Spleneticum or an Oyntment for the Spleen Take Oyl of Capers three ounces oyl of Rocket seeds exprest of Nigella exprest of Hemp exprest of sweet Almonds of each an ounce oyl of Iuniper half an ounce All being mixed pour upon them four ounces of Juyce of Harts-tongue exprest and boil them to the consumption of the Juyce then add distilled Oyl of Mastich Cummin and Myrrh of each a dram oyl of Ammoniacum Chamomil and Wormwood of each half a dâ—am Extract of Saffron two scruples Again mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. The Region of the Spleen being bathed with this Oyntment before a fire opens and comforts it and preserves it from scirrhous Tumors it also easeth the pains and discusseth the flatulency thereof Unguentum Spasmaticum or an Unguent for Convulsions Take Oyl of Snails distilled per descensum oyl of Earth-worms and Sesamus of each an ounce and a half the Fat of a gelded Ram Hedge hog and Fox of each an ounce May Butter without salt Stags marrow of each half an ounce Spirit of Iuniper three ounces Mix them and boil them to the consumption of the Spirit then add distilled oyl of white Amber three draâ—s oyl of Chamomil and Bays of each a dram and a half oyl of Rosemary and Sage of each a dram Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. It is chiefly useful in Convulsions after due Evacuation for it being applied to the grieved part and the Nerves with their Originals being anointed doth mollifie resolve and refresh the Nerves c. Let the part grieved be anointed morning and evening warm and you will quickly find ease Unguentum Renale or an Unguent for the Reins Take our Anodyne oyl of the seven Flowers four ounces oyl of white Poppy seeds exprest two ounces Oyntment of fresh Roses and Populeon of each an ounce Capons grease and the marrow of a Stag of each half an ounce red Sanders and Nitre prepared of each two drams juyce of the flowers of red Marsh-mallows six ounces Mix these and boil them to the consumption of the Juyces after with yellow Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. It hath an excellent faculty in cooling and moistning for wheresoever there is need of humectation and refrigeration this may safely be used But first the Back Loins c. anointed with it cures all heat inflammation of the Reins and Stone nay it allays and mitigates pain coming of a hot Cause in any part of the body Unguentum Nephriticum Take simple oyl of Scorpions six ounces oyl of flowers of Mullein Chamomil Poplar and Dill of each an ounce oyl of Cherry kernels exprest and bitter Almonds of each an ounce and a half fat of a Hen Goose and Duck of each six drams Butter made red with Crabs Oyntment of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces Balsam of Turpentine three drams juyce of Pellitory of the Wall exprest a pound Mix them and boil it to the consumption of the Juyce and then with Wax make an Oyntment Virtue and Use. Let the Reins Loins and Back downwards as far as the Privy parts be often in the day anointed with this Unguent for being so anointed it wonderfully dilates and opens the passages that the stones and sand may pass downward with the more ease It lenifies the pains in the Kidneys relaxeth the Ureters and makes the stone and tartarous matter soft Unguentum ad Ambusta or an Oyntment for Burns Take Whites of Eggs two parts Sallet oyl one part Let them be wrought diligently together and exactly mixed that they may be made into a white Oyntment Virtue and Use. This Liniment is of most excellent use although it seems to be but of little worth or esteem yet I tell you That there hath not been found hitherto a more secret and present Remedy for all Burns than this is For it quickly safely and perfectly takes out the fire lenifies and stops the pain and cures all Ulcers by fire let them be made of what matter they will and leaves no Scar behind it so that it may be deservedly reckoned among the domestick Arcana's and communicated to Posterity And this is the way of using it Let the