alteratton A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lunges spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poison helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year Cinnamon Water made by Infusion Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together 4. daies in a large glasse close stopped with cork and a bladder shaking the glasse twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white sugar Candy in a quart of Rose-water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a fine rag and hung to the top of the glasse A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his Aqua Ceolestis Mathiolus Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Gallanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis Sweet-Fennel Wild-Parsneps Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the lesse the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Peny-royal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of Red-Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. daies in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine in a glasse body wel stopped and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled water Pouders of Diambra Diamoscu dulce Armaticum Rosatum Diamargariton frigidum Diarhodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine ragg cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them wel together stopping the glasse close with wax and parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart reviveth drooping spirits prevaileth against the plague and al malignant Feavers preserveth the sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and al other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quallity they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient cordials and consideration had to the strength complection habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians A Cordial Water Take of Angelica leaves half a pound Carduus leaves six ounces Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet fennel seeds nine ounces let the herbs being dry and the seeds be bruised grosly to which add the pouders of Aromaticum Rosatum and Diamoseu Dulce of each an ounce and an half Infuse these two daies in 32. pints of Spanish wine then distill them according to art draw out ten pints of strong spirit which sweeten after two daies standing with a pound and an half of Sugar dissolved in Rosewater over the fire Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the mixtures of other Cordials A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart and resist infection and therefore is very wholsom in pestilentiall times and for such as walk in stinking aires Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Take of the juice of Borrage Buglosse Bawm Bistort Vervain Sharp pointed Dock Sorrel Goats-Rue Mirrhis or sweet Chervil Blew-bottle great and smal or the double quantity of the small Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl of each three ounces white wine Vinegar a pint Purslain-seeds Water-lillie Flowers of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Silecia and Samos of each an ounce and an half Pouder called Diatrion Santalon six drachms Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons three drachms Infuse al the Pouders Flowers and Seeds the Earths and Pearls excepted in the juyces and Vinegar for three daies then distill it in water in a glasse-Still and add to the distilled water the Earths and Pearls in fine pouder shake it together and let it stand till it be cleer and keep it for your use A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in feavers and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep Langius his Ant-Epileptical Water Take of the Flowers of Line tree three handfuls Lillies of the vally five handfuls peony seeds half an ounce infuse them eight daies in five pints of the best White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire Afterward Take of the flowers of Rosemary half a handful of the flowers of Lavender a handful Rue a handful Betony half a handful Stoechas of Arabia one pugil Peony roots two drachms and an half Dictamny two drachms Squils prepared one drachm and an half Pellitory of Spain half a drachm Misletoe of the Oak two drachms Castorium one drachm Cubebs Cardamoms of each one scruple Mace half a dram Cloves two scruples Nutmegs one scruple let al these being bruised be infused in the water aforesaid and shaken wel together for six daies then distilled again in Balneo Mariae and the water kept in a glasse stopped You may with one and the same labor prepare an extract which wil be very efficacious A. If the authority of Erasius or daily experience will serve the turn then was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sicknesse also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sicknesse and indeed Erastus experience pleads for this also It is true the composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the water a word or two of the use will not be amisse Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the Falling-sicknesse only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwilling to be tedious Then saith he if
redundant in which although we reverence the learned gray hairs of the ancient and have placed their recepts as it were in the front yet we neither reject nor 〈◊〉 the supplies of modern assusions but we have left them a place and corner in the reer that so they may serve as auxiltaries to the moddel of Physick Neither have we superfiously tied our selves to the sleps of the Ancient so as that we bring nothing new of our own for all here described is not transcribed we have not furnished our Apothecaries shop altogether with forraign wares but we have added some new ones and of our own which we bring forth into the publick as aproved by frequent use some we have changed in the ancient forms both the sence and name of the Author being preserved not moved thereto so much through desire of novelty as compelled thereto by necessity especially where such simples as are prescribed cannot easily be had in the place of which we prescribe others like unto them in vertue The like we have done in the composition of pils which if they were made into a mass after the ancient manner with juyces or waters they would soon be too dry therefore we have appointed it to be done with syrups also whereas in most Authors some things are totally left to the judgment of the Artificer especially in the quantity of Honey and Sugar under these two letters q. s. or words so much as is suffient whence it comes to pass that the same medicine hath neither the same consistence nor the same vertue we have for the future taken away this power from the Artificer and for this cause have taken some of the most skilful Apothecaries into counsel with us by whose help and pains we have agreed upon a certain manner of composition and have designed a certain quantity and dose which they may not ad to nor take from And lastly seeing in most Dispensatories both ancient and modern the use and vertue of every medicine is described whence ignorant fellows and Mountebanks may arm themselves for the practice of physick and so put a sword into a madmans hand for the destruction of the Common-wealth we have added nothing at all of the vertues for we write this to the learned only and to the 〈◊〉 rsiings of Apollo for the health not the understanding of the vulgar we need not give a reason why we dispose of it in this order we have placed the simple before the compound the internal before the external the liquid before the sollid We have digested them all into several Classes that so they may be brought into use and practice with little search Thus Courteous Reader thou hast both what we have done and why we have done it so It is a work to which all the Colledg have brought their Talents as all the gods did to Pandora in the play But under the auspicy of a most worthy President by whom not only as President but by whose counsel help and indefatigable study this building was finished which as it is friendly Reader we vow it to thine and the publick good and hope it will be commodious for thee and if it please thy palat use it and fare well From the Colledg of London Decemb. Anno. 1618 A brief of his MAIESTIES Royal Proclamation Commanding all Apothecaries of this Realm to follow this PHARMACOPOEIA lately compiled by the Colledg of Physitians of LONDON WHere is by Our especial Commandement the e hath been of late compiled in the Latin tongue by the Colledg of Physitians of London a Book entituled Pharmacâ—poeia Londinensis c. And whereas through the great care and industrie of the said Colledg the foresaid Pharmacopoeia Londin is now perfected and is a work greatly tending t the publick good of our subjects and we minding that all falshood differences varieties or incertainties in making or composing of Medicines and distilling of Oyls or Waters bereafter be utterly taken away and abolished and that in the time to come the manner and form prescrited in the said book should be generally and solely practised by Apothecaries in their compositions of Medicines and distillation of Waters for all such things as are therein named aud prescribed we therefore desirous in all things to provide for the common good of our subjects and intending to settle and establish the general use of the said Book in this 〈◊〉 of ENGLAND do hereby signifie and declare our Royal Will and pleasure to be and hereby straightly require charge and command all and singular Apothecaries within this our Realm of England or the dominions thereof that they and every of them immediately after the said Pharmacop Londin shall be printed and published do not compound or make any Medicine or medicinable receipt or prescription or distil any Oyl or Waters or other Extractions that are or shall be in the said Pharmacop Londin mentioned and named after the waies or means prescribed or directed by any other Books or Dispensatories whatsoever but after the only manner and form that hereby is or shall be directed prescribed and set down by the said book and according to the weights and measures that are or shall be therein limited and not otherwise c. upon pain of Our high displeasure and to incur such penalties and punishment as may he inflicted upon offenders herein for their contempt or neglect of this our Roial commandement Willing and commanding also hereby all Majors Sheriffs Iustices of peace Constables c. to be aiding and assisting Given at Our Palace of White-Hall 26. of April in the 16. yeer of Our Raign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland 51. 1618. VVEIGHTS TWenty grains do make a scruple three scruples a drachm commonly called a dram Eight drachms an ounce Twelve ounces a pound MEASVRES AS for the Colledges measures I know not well what English names to give them Cochlearium holds in syrups half an ounce in distilled waters three drachms Cyaibus holds an ounce and an half Hemina which also they call Cotyla contains nine ounces Libra holds twelve ounces A Sextary contains eighteen ounces A Congy six Sextaries These measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities for their Cyathus contained an onnce and an half a drachm and a scruple Their Sextary contained but 14. ounces 3. quarters and half a quarter and amongst the Grecians not so much it is called a Sextary because it is the six part of a Congy Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether 7. ounces and an half Their Libra I suppose to that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. a vessel to measure with it was made with cleer horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings was divided into twelve equal parts each part containing an ounce Besides these the Colledge have gotten another foolish and incertain way of measuration not here set down viz. by handfuls and pugills what ahandful is is known to all but
produce a better effect upon cold stomachs Wormwood Water the greater Composition Take of Roman and common Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls Galanga Ginger Aromarical reed Alicampane roots of each three drachms Liquoris an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Cinnamon Cloves Natmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in 20. pints of Spanish wines for the space of 24. hours and then distilled in an Alembick according to 〈◊〉 and sweetned with Sugar A. This water is excellent good for cold stomachs taken with discretion helps digestion in such in whom it is weak it kills worms in the belly easeth pains in the teeth and given in convenient mixtures is profitable in feavers Angelica Water the greater Composition Take of Angelica two pounds Annis-seed half a pound Coriander Carawaies of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces infuse them 24. hours in six congies of small wines then draw out the spirit and sweeten it with sugar A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital spirits resisteth the Pestilence and Infection Langius his Bezoar Water Take of Chelondine w th the roots three handfuls and an half Rue a handful Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angelica roots of each three drachms Citron and Lemmon pils of each two drachms and an half Clove-gilliflowers Roses of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each five drachms and an half Venice treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of Vipers Mace of each a drachm and an half Wood of Aloes two scruples Yellow sanders a drachm and an half Conserves of Clove-gilliflowers two ounces Carduus seeds an ounce Pouder of Electuary Liberantis five scruples Filings of Unicorns-horn or Harts horn a drachm and an half Let these Ingredients being cut and bruised be infused for three daies in the spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound then stil'd in a Glasse-Stil in Balneo Mariae according to art After it is half stilled that which remains in the Stil may be strained through a linnen cloath and by evaporation reduced to the thicknesse of Honey and called by the name of Bezoartick Extraction After the same maner may Extractions be made of almost all Compound Waters A. Fxtracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallates of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Mathiolus his Bezoar Water Take of Mathiolus his great Antidote syrup of Citron pills of each one pound spirit of wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glasse that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glasse to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapours A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good wine or any other cordial water so absolutely speedily cureth the bitings of any venemos beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient hath lost his speech sight almost al the rest of his sences yet wil he be roused up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testify by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant successe as also in consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Gallens supposed Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in Capon Water Take a Capon the bowels and fat being taken away cut him in bits and boyl him sufficiently in a sufficient quantity of water according to art Take of this broth being strained two pound and an half Borrage and Buglosse water white Wine of each one pound and an half Flowers of Roses Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each two drachms Crumbs of new bread half a pound bruised Cinnamon an ounce distil it in Glasse Still according to art A. Divers Physitians have written several recepts of this water as Gesner Andr. é Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this recept although our Physicians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Gapon must not be eaten without bread they added the bread to it the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart and in truth the Composition greatly nourisheth and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sicknesse It is a soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers and marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish wine 12. pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the wine 24. hours then distil them in an Alimbick draw out three pints of strong waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a Glasse-Still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the Still body close and place it in a warm bath 24. hours then put on the Still-head lute it wel and distil it according to art A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet 4. pints and that is al the
the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weekly then let it be taken only at the new and full Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Hysterica Take of the Juyce of Briony roots four pints the juyce of Rue and Mugwort of each a quart dried Savin leaves three handfuls Featherfew Nep Penyroyal of each two handfuls Basil Dictamny of Creet of each a handful and an half fresh Orange pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce Canary Wine twelve pints Infuse the simples in the Wine four daies then distill them in a bath and keep the distilled water for your use When it is half stilled you may prepare an Extraction of the residue for the same use the water is A. It wonderfully prevaileth against the fits of the mother and such like diseases incident to women and is a most excellent remedy to bring away dead children and the after birth a spoonful or two of it being given and therefore let Midwives make much of it Imperial Water Take of Citron pills dried Orange pills Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each an ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each one ounce Tops of Rosemary Lavender of each two handfuls The leaves of Bay Marjoram Hysop Bawm Mints Sage Time of each one handful fresh Roses White and Damask of each half a handful Rosewater four pints of the best white Wine eight pints The things to be bruised being bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in a glasse Still over hot ashes and then distilled according to art A. You must distill it in a bath and not in sand It seems the Colledge were but mean practicioners in Alchymy but in this and many other recepts 〈◊〉 to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorisme All grosse bodies stilled in sand will stinkegregiously A. It comforts and strengthens the heart against faintings and swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against consumptions and apoplexies Bawm Water The greater Composition Take of Bawm a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the lesse one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga six drachms Calamus Aromaticus Cyprus of each a drachm and an half Dictamni half a drachm let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale for 24. hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therfore must needs strengthens cold weak stomachs help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldnesse strengtheneth the brain makes the heart cheerful and helps the lisping of the tongue easeth the pains of the teeth and causeth a sweet breath Aqua Mariae Take of Sugar Candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose Water four ounces boyl them to a Syrupe to which ad Aqua Coelestis two pound Amber-greece and Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains Yellow Sanders two drachms make of them a cleer water A. It is of more vertue than Aqua Coelestis to resist feavers to strengthen the heart to releeve Languishing nature Aqua Mirabilis Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Gardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm juyce of Chelondine half a pound Aqua-vitae a pound White Wine three pints or three pound which you please Infuse them twenty four hours and then draw a quart of water from them by an Alembick A. The Simples also of this regard the stomack and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Rosa-Solis Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each an ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce Red-rose leaves a handful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Yellow Sanders two drachms Red Sanders Cinnamon of each an ounce and an half Of the best Aqua-vitae twelve pints make an infusion of them for eight daies then strain it and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Sugar A. The Basis of this medicine seems to be the herb Ros-solis which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the lungues and therefore must needs be available for Phtisicks or consumptions of the lungues and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly I suppose therefore the rose leaves were added which according to Authors resist lust Dr. Stephens Water Take of Cinnamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradice seeds of Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm Herbs of Time Mother of Time Mints Sage Pennyroyal Pellitory of the wall Rosemary Flowers of Red roses Chemomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong water from it A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labour that it provokes the terms and brings away the afterbirth Aqua Protheriacalis Take of the leaves of Scordium Scabious Carduus Benedictus Goats Rue of each two handfuls Citron pills and Orrenge pills dried of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Carduus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce The Flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each a handful Let the things to be cut be cut the things to be brused be grosly bruised and infused in four pints of White Wine and a quart of Carduus Water and being put into a convenient glasse digested either by the heat of the sun or of the fire certain daies often shaking it Then distilled in Balneo Mariae reserve the two first pints by it self the remainder by it self at last with every pound mix an ounce of Julapium Alexandrinum and a spoonfull of Cinnamon Water It is not bid from our eyes that there are very many Simples in the Composition̄ of Treacle the vertues of which cannot be exactly drawn out by distillation in Balneo Mariae and therefore we of purpose subscribed this that the rational Physitian may at the time of giving it appoint Treacle or Diascordium or any convenient syrup notwithstanding lest we should seem different from all we have added on recept of Treacle water by distillation A. Aqua Protheriacalis signifies a Water for Treacle so then if you put Diascordium to it it is a water for Diascordium well then we will take it for a general water for all Physick Aqua Theriacalis by infusion Take of the best distilled Wine Wine
of Creet sharp Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled of each two pound Venis Treacle and Methridate of each half a pound mix them all together and warm them a little either in the Sun or in a bath and keep the tincture for your use Aqua Theriacalis distilled Take of the juice of green Walnuts four pound the juyce of green Rue three pound juyces of Carduus Benedictus Marigolds Bawm of each two pound The roots of Patasites or Butter burs fresh and green a pound and an half the Roots of Burs one pound Roots of Angelica and Masterwort green of each six ounces Scordium four handfuls old Venis Treacle and Methridate of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pints white Wine Vineger six pints Juyce of Lemmons a quart Digest them for two daies in horse dung or else in a bath let the vessel be well stopped then distill it in sand and in the distillation you may make an Extract called Extractum theriacale A. That this latter water far exceeds the former in vertues every way I think no man that is well in his wits will deny therefore I quote only the vertues of this if any will use the former I will not burden their conscience A. This water is exceeding good in all Feavers especially pestilential it expelleth venemous humors by sweat it strengtheneth the heart and vitals it is an admirable counterpoyson special good for such as have the Plague or are poysoned or bitten by venemous beasts and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks If you desire to know more vertues of it see the vertues of Venis Treatle Ordinary Aqua vitae Distill Ale and lees of Wine in an Alembick whose worm runs through cold water into small Wine in ten Congies of which infuse a pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae compound Is made of small Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong spirit from it A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Spirit of Castorium Take of Castorium four ounces Lavender flowers one ounce the Tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drachms Mace and Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pints Digest all these in a glasse being filled only to the third part stopped close with cork and bladder in warm ashes or sand then stil it in a glasse Alembick in Balneo Mariae well luted and let it be kept close stopped A. It resisteth poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy delivery to women in travail and casteth out the after-birth it provokes the terms in women and helpeth the fits of the mother it helps lethargies convulsions and in some cases is profitable for mad people but in all let it be mixed with convenient medicine for the purposes Usquebach Take of strong Aqua vitae 24. pints in which for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris Raisons of the Sun half a pound Cloves half an ounce Mace Ginger of each two drachms strain it and keep it for your use A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold Fallopius his Allum-Water Take of Plantane and Red-rosewater of each a pound viz. a pint Roch Allum Quick silver and Sublimatum of each two drachms grind the Allum and the Sublimate very fine then let them boyl altogether in a glasse with a narrow mouth till half be consumed then let it stand five daies that the Sublimate and the drosse of the Allum may sink to the bottom then pour off the cleer water and keep it for your use A. Fallopius invented this for an unction for the French-pocks but in my opinion it is but a childish recept for the Quick-silver will most assuredly fly out in boyling PHYSICAL VVINES Wormwood Wine PUT a handful of dried Wormwood into every Congie of Wine stop the vessel close and so let it stand in infusion A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind-chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness Rosemary-flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against all cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth Eyebright-Wine is also made after the same manner A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk and revives the sight of ancient men a cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see fit quoth the Colledge A. But what if there be never a Physician worth a 〈◊〉 in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles as some such places may be found in this Nation must the poor country man lose his cure truly this charity is according to the saying of the vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them veiw the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs than the Simple it self A. And now I have veiwed the next recept a little you shall have first the recept 2. my opinion of it 3. the vertue of it Gallens Wine of Squils Take of white Squills of the mountains gathered about the rising of the Dog-star and cut in thin peices one pound dry them in the shaddow for ten daies then put them in a glasse and put to them twelve sextaries of old French Wine let it stand so fourty daies then take out the Squils and throw them away A. If admiration were not the daughter of ignorance I should most assuredly have admired at two things in this recept 1. At the time of gathering this same Squil It seems the whol Colledg laid al their learned heads together to hammer out the time when this Squil must be taken out of the earth the result of their consultations was That it must be gathered circiter Canis ortum about the rising of the Dog-star but which of the two Dog-stars they mean whether Syrius or Procyon or what rising of either whether Cosmical Acronyct or Heliacal I know not nor I think themselves neither a child in Astronomy cannot chuse but smile at their learned ignorance It seems they well observe that excellent maxime of Hippocrates in his Praefat ad Astron nemo debet c. No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physitian who is ignorant of Astrology because he is a Physitian of no value Indeed the truth is the roots are brought to us from beyond sea and we must be content with such as we can get A. 2. It seems somthing strang to me why this Squill must be dried in the
them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the liquor to a Syrup Syrup of Popplyes the greater Composition Mesue Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each 50. drachms Maiden-hair 15. drachms Liquoris 5. drachms Jujubies 30. by number Lettice seeds 40. drachms of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each a drachm and an an half boyl these in eight pints of water til five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining add to them Penidies and White Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remēber my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled w th hot sharp Rheums you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungus whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep Syrups of Red or Erratick Poppies A. by many called Corn-Roses Tak of flowers of red Poppies two pound infuse them 24. hours in four pints of spring water and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. Some are of opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other beleeve them that list I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderatly taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot agues Syrup of Peach flowers Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound infuse them in three pints of warm water for the space of twelve hours then let them boyl a little and presse them out adding the like quantity of Peach-flowers and use them as the former do so five times at last to three pound of the infusion add two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. It is a gentle purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose recept all things considered differs little from this Syrup of dried Roses Mesue Take four pound of spring water in which being warm infuse a pound of dried red Rose leaves for the space of twenfour hours then presse them out and with two pound of white sugar boyl the infusion to a syrup A. I pray take a caution or two a long with you concerning this syrup and there is need enough unlesse it were penned more wisely than it is A. 1. You cannot infuse all the rose leaves at one time because there will not be water enough to wet them hardly you must then infuse them at diverse A man had need have a head as deep as a Colepit to reach their meaning in some of their recepts A. 2. If you boyl it it will lose both color and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with noting this in every receit therefore be pleased to accept of this one general rule It is not best to boyl any syrup made of infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of Sugar to each pint of Infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting Syrup of Roses Solutive Mesue Take of the infusions of Rofes made with fresh Damask Roses let the infusion be repeated nine times let it be made in that proportion that one pound of Rose flowers may be infused in four pints of water and those being taken out infuse as many more in the same water do so nine times six pound with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm Syrup of Roses with Agrick Take of choice Agrick sliced thin an ounce Ginger sliced two drachms Sal gem one drachm Polipodium grosly bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white Wine then infuse them two daies in such infusion of damask Roses as you were taught to make the former receit a pound and an half warm by the fire then presse it out and with one pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. You had better ad twice so much Sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head releeves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women It purgeth the stomach and liver and provoketh urine Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore Montanus Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and infuse them in twelve pints of the infusion of Roses before prescribed 24. hours adding of Senna Epithimum and Polipodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds liquoris of each four ounces of the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms boyl them all to the consumption of the fourth part to which ad five pound of white Sugar choice Rhubarb tied up in a linnen cloath sixteen drachms boyl them into a syrup according to art A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at al or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left recepts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The Syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisteth madnesse Syrup of Violets Take of pick'd Violet flowers a pound Spring water heat hot a pound and an half or else a sufficient quantity infuse the Violets in the water let it stand warm and close stopped 24. hours then presse them very hard out and to one pound of the expression add two pound of fine Sugar only dissolve the Sugar and so keep the Syrup for your use Syrup of the juyce of Violets Make it up with just so much juyce of the flowers of violets as will dissolve the Sugar into a Syrup without boyling A. Which is two pound of Sugar to one pound of Juyce A. This latter Syrup is far more chargable than the
must be boyled to here wants both the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem as also the quantity of the Aromaticks so that if it had not been signed by the Colledge I should have thought it had been a pure piece of non-sense I would modestly desire the Colledg to look back to their Epistle to the Reader wherein they shall find that they have promised but how truly performed in this and others let themselves judg to appoint a certain measure or weight in all compositions which ought not to be added to nor taken from and their reason is very commendable viz. that the same medicines in all shops might have the same operation as being the self same composition ad unguem that so the Physitian may know what to prescribe but why this and others are not so I dare not say it was negligence for then I should offend the Colledg I dare not say it was forgetfulness for that ought not to be in a Physitian much lesse in a Colledg well then I know not what to say and so I leave it A. When I look upon the Simples me thinks the composition if it be any thing handsomly made is opening expels wind provokes the terms in women hastens the afterbirth and is very profitable for such women as are not well cleansed after labour A Magisterial Syrup against Melancholly Take of the Juyce of those sweet sented Apples which we in England usually call Permains a pound and an half the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces choice Senna half a pound Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Epithimum of Creet two ounces of the best Agrick and Rhubarb of each half an ounce Ginger Mace of each four scruples Cinnamon two scruples Saffron half a drachm Let the Agrick Senna seeds Ginger Mace and Epithimum be grosly bruised and cut and so infused in the juyces for the space of 24. hours then let them boyl over a gentle fire till the scum riseth then strain them through Hippocrates his sleeve to the decoction ad a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl them according to art scumming them al the while to the consistence of a syrup whilst it boyls let the Saffron being tied up in a linnen rag be often crushed into it then let the Rhubarb being sliced thin and the Cinnamon which ought to be ready infused all this while in white Wine and the juycs of the Apples of each two ounces and now strongly pressed out be mixed with it warm them a little together by the fire for the syrup A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust choller and melancholly and to resist madnesse Syrup of Bawm Fernelius Take of the Roots of Dittany Cinkfoil Bettony Doronicum of each half an ounce The leaves of Bawm Scabious Devils bit the flowers of both sorts of Bugloss and Rosemary of each a handful the seeds of Citrons Sorrel Fennel Carduus Benedictus Bazil of each three drachms boyl these in four pints of water till two be consumed strain out the decoction and ad to it three pound of white Sugar juyce of Bawm and Rose water of each half a pound boyl them into a syrup which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow Sanders of each half an ounce A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls and hang them by a string in the vessel be it pot or glasse that you keep the syrup in being boyled A. It is an excellent cordial and strengthens the heart breast and stomach it resisteth melancholly revives the spirits is given with good successe in feavers it strengthens the memory and releeves languishing nature Syrup of Mints the greater Mesue Take of the juyce of Quinces between sweet and sour of the juyce of Pomegranates between sweet and sour of each a pound and an half and when you have mixed both these juyces together infuse in them for the space of 24. hours dried mints a pound and an half Red Roses dried two ounounces boyl it till half be consumed then strain it and with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup after it is boyled and cool perfume it with a drachm of Gallia moschata beaten and tied up in fine linnen and hung by a thrid into the vessel you keep your syrup in A. The Syrup is in quality binding yet it comforts the stomach much helps digestion staies vomiting and is in my opinion as excellent a remedy against sour or offensive belchings as any is in the Dispensatory Syrup of Mirtles Nicholaus Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half Sanders both white red Sumach Balaustines Barberries red Roses of each half an ounce Medlars half a pound bruise all these and having bruised them boyl them in eight pints of water till half be consumed strain it and ad to the decoction juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates of each six ounces Sugar three pound boyl it into a syrup according to art A. The syrup is of a very binding yet of a comforting nature it helps such as spit blood all fluxes of the belly or corrosions of the internal parts It strengthens the retentive faculty and stops the immoderate flux of the terms in women Syrup of Apples Fernelius Take of the juyce of our Apples commonly called Permains or Pippins four pound the juyce of both sorts of Buglosse Rose water the juyce of Violet leaves of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them then with six pound of Sugar boil them into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and isprofitable in hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in feavers and staies hiccoughs Syrupus de Pomis Regis Saporis Mesue Take of the juyce of Apples two pound the juyce of Borrage and Buglosse of each a pound and an half Senna two ounces Annis seeds half an ounce Saffron a drachm Infuse the Senna 24. hours in the juyces then let it boil a walm or two then strain it and with two pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup let the Saffron being tied up in a rag be crushed in the boiling A. Mesue appoints Senna cods viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the Colledg altered that and added the Annis seeds I suppose to correct the Senna and in so doing they did well A. The Syrup is a pretty cooling purge and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood it purgeth choller and melancholly and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice It is very gentle and for that I commend both the Receit and Mesue the Author of it Syrup of Horehound Fernelius Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium
in the like manner A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake yet is it of great moment in physick for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach are made delicious and pleasing also many simples are better kept by far this way A. For the Vertues of them see the simples CONSERVES AND SVGARS OF HERBS LEAVES FLOWERS AND FRUITS COnserves of Wormwood Sorrel Woodsorrel Maiden hair Orrenges Bettony Borrage Bugloss Carduus Benedictus Centaury Ceterach Germander Clove Gilliflowers Succory Scurvigrass Comfry the greater Cynosbatus Citraria Elicampane Eyebright Fumitory Brooms not quite open Pomegranates white Lillies Lillies of the valley Mallows Water lillies Peaches Primroses Self heal Roses Red and Damask Rosemary flowers Sage Elder Scabious Stoechas Linetree Coltsfoot Violets Goats rue Hedge Hysop common Hysop Marjoram Bawm Mints Rue Savory Scordium Comfry A. Thus have I given you the Colledges Conserves or rather their confusion in English wherein they have made such a chaos of hearbs and flowers that to unweave it would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain the truth is I want time only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples and there you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use as also what the use of it is A word is enough to a wise man I proceed Let the leaves and flowers be beaten very small and to every pound of them add three pound of white Sugar and beat them well together into a conserve But Barberries Prunella and other sour fruits are not made into conserves after this manner for example Take of Barberries as many as you will let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of cleer water till the pulp may be drawn out by rubbing it through a sieve Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained which put in an earthen pan well glazed because if you do it in brass it will retain an illfavoured smatch of the mettal boil away the watry moisture of them with a gentle fire stirring it about continually with a stick lest the juyce burn then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art boiling it to its due consistence A. Prunella indeed and in truth is Self-heal not Sloes as I am confident they intend it here because they place it among the sour juyces I was jealous they intended it so before therefore when I translated it self-heal I set the word Prunella in the margin Is it possible so many grave heads should so grosly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree Prunella for Prunellus The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Errour in the Latter end of their Dispensatory it remains in the Colledge to do the like it being a thing if not very preposterous I am sure extreamly dangerous to prescribe one thing for another in Physick If they can but produce an Author An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Sloe or Sloe-tree I shall be content to bear the blame my self A. The vertues of al Conserves are the same with the herbs flowers or fruits whereof they are made and they are thus mixed with Sugar 1. to preserve them the longer 2. that they may be more pleasing to the pallat Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum or Tabulatum Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness neiâ—â—â—â— too green nor too ripe spring-spring-water three pints infuse them four and twenty hours then boyl them till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them out and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar boyl the liquor to that hardnesse that you may make Lozinges of it A. This recept is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledge through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head c. Manus Christi Simple and Pearled Take of the best Sugar a pound Damask-rose-water half a pint boil them together according to art to that thicknesse that it may be made into Lozenges and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom you ad half an ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder together with eight or ten leaves of gold it will be Manus Christi with pearls A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with pearls for that without Pearls is ridiculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Manus Christi against Worms Take of Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Hartshorn Dittany of Creet Wormseed Sorrelseed of each a scruple Cinnamon Zedoary Cloves Saffron of each half a Scruple white Sugar a pound dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water and one ounce of Wormwood Wine and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water and then with the forenamed pouders make it into Lozenges A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Penidies Are made of Sugar and Barly water boiled in such a proportion and with such an art that it will not stick to ones fingers and yet one may draw it like birdlime into what form one will A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other compositions Confection of Frankinsence Norimberg Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar make it into a Confection in bits of two drachms weight A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this receit Sugar of Roses Take of red Rose flowers not fully open an ounce cut off the white from them then dry them in the shaddow afterwards beat them in a stone mortar and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water boyl it according to art till the water be consumed then put the mass out upon a marble stone and make it into what form you please there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses dilligently mixing them together by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour and the pleasanter tast A. I am verily perswaded that the Colledge appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses which is but the Embrion of an ignorant brain it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in pouder the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it without the addition
Oak of each five drachms Maidenhair Time Epithimum of each half a handful Raisons of the Sun stoned half an ounce Fennel seeds two drachms the seeds of Purslain and Mallows of each three drachms Liquoquoris half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and in the decoction dissolve pulp of Cassia two pounds Tamarinds one ounce Cinnamon three drams of the best Sugar a pound boyl them to a perfection according to art Cassia Extracted with the leaves of Senna Take of the Electuary of Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna two pound the leaves of Senna in pouder two ounces mix them together according to art A. This is also a fine cool purge gentle cleansing the bowels of choller and melancholly without any griping very fit for feaverish bodies and yet the former is gentler than this Diacarthamum or Diacnicum Arnoldus de villâ novâ Take of Species diatragacanthi frigidi half an ounce pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce pulp of seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron half an ounce Ginger two drachms Diagrydium beaten by it self three drachms white Turbith six drachms Manna two ounces Honey Roses solutive Sugar Candy of each one ounce Hermodactils half an ounce white Sugar ten ounces and an half make of them a Liquid Electuary according to art A. I wonder what art it must be wherewith a man should make up an Electuary and have not wherewithal I tell you truly that to make up an Electuary of this without more moisture for here is not a quarter enough is a task harder than all Hercules his twelve labours abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell or it may be they intend you should go back to Species Electuarii Diagalangae to fetch Honey from thence where they have appointed three times more than needs for my part I shall trouble the reader no further but leave the recept to Arnoldus and the Colledg for a pure piece of nonsence Diaphoenicon Mesue together with Feruelius Take of the pulp of Dates boyled in Hydronel and strained through a pulping Sive Penidies of each half a pound sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half let all of them be bruised and mixed then ad clarified Honey 2. pound boile them a little then sprinkle in Ginger Pepper Mace Cinnamon dryed Rue the seeds of Fennel and Carrots of each two drachms Turbith four ounces in fine pouder Diagrydium an ounce and an half make of them an Electuary according to art A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in feavers taken downwards as Authours say for it is a very violent purge Indeed I beleeve being mixed in Clysters it may do good in chollicks and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humours Diaprunum Simple more rightly called Lenitive Nicholaus Take a hundred Damask Prunes fresh and ripe boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft then draw the pulp of them through a Sive and in the liquor they were boiled in boil an ounce of Violet flowers strain it and in the Decoction dissolve two pound of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup then add of the pulp spoken of before a pound pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each an ounce then put in these following pouders of white and red Sanders Spodium Rhubarb of each three drachms Roses Violets the seeds of Purslain endive Barberries Gum Traganth Liquoris Cinnamon of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm make them into an Electuary according to art A. It may safely and is with good successe given in acute burning and all other feavers for it cools much and loosens the body gently it is good in agues hectick feavers and Marasmos Diaprunum Solutive Nicholaus Take of Diaprunum lenitive whilst it is yet warm four pound Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art Seeing the Dose of the Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this medicine you may use a lesse weight of Scammony if you please A. And therein the Colledge said true for the medicine according to this recept is too strong violent corroding gnawing fretting and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes which simple people take to give themselves a purge being fitter to do them mischeif poor souls than good unless ordered with more discretion than they have it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb that no carrion will kill a Crow Diacatbolicon Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds the leaves of Senna of each two ounces Polypodium Violets Rhubarb Annis Seeds Penidies Sugar Candy of each one ounce Liquoris the seeds of Guords Citruls Cucumers Melons of each three drachms Let the things to be beaten be beaten and take of fresh Polipodium three ounces Fennel seed six drams boyl them in four pints of rain or spring water to the consumption of the third part strain it and ad to the decoction two pound of the best Sugar boil it again with the pulps of Cassia and Tamarinds and the pouders being added in theend make it into an Electuary according to art A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body and very gentle it may be given an ounce or half an ounce at a time according to the strength of the patient in acute in peracute diseases for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen gouts of all sorts quotidian tertian and quartan agues as also head-aches It is usually given in Clysters Diacrocuma or Species Electuarii de Croce Mesue Take of Saffron the roots of Asarabacca the seeds of Parsly Carrots Annis Smallage of each half an ounce Rhubarb the roots of Spignel Indian Spicknard of each six drachms Cassia lignea Costus Mirrh Schoenanth Cubebs the roots of Maddir the juyce of Wormwood and Maudlin made thick Opobalsamum or oyl of Nutmegs of each two drachms Cinnamon Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half Scordium Stoechas juyce of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half Traganth one drachm make it up into an Electuary with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Endive water and clarified according to art A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey it is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach liver or spleen corruption of humours and putrifaction of meat in the stomach ill favored colour of the body dropsies cold faults in the reins and bladder provokes urine Electuarium de Citro Solutive Take of preserved Citron pills conserves of Violets and Bugloss Diatragacanthum frigidum Diagridium of each half an ounce Turbith five drachms Ginger half a drachm the the leaves of Senna six drachms sweet Fennel seeds a drachm white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boiled according to art ten ounces make them all into a sollid Electuary according to art A. Here are some things very cordial
a double vessel til the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then presse out the oyl and keep it A. It is a fine cool oyl but the ointment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better Oyl of Foxes Mesue Take a fat Fox of a middle age wearied with hunting and new killed the skin and bowels being taken away and the bones broken cut into many parts boyl him in white Wine and Conduit water of each six pound till almost half be consumed scumming it dilligently then mix with it four pound of old sweet Oyl common Salt three ounces the flowers of Sage Time of each a pound let it boyl till almost all the water be consumed then ad water wherein a handful of Dill and Time have been boyled eight pound boyl it again over a gentle fire to the consumption of the water then press out the Oyl and if any watry substance remain amongst it seperate it with a Funnel and keep the Oyl for your use A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joints gouts pains in the back and reins OYNTMENTS OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum album Rhasis TAKE of oyl of Roses nine ounces good Ceruss washed in Rose water three ounces white Wax two ounces make them into an Ointment according to art and if you ad two drachms of Camphire then will it be camphorated A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Ointment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of oyl of Roses they ad so much Hogs grease and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Ointment without the help of the fire A. It is a fine cooling drying Ointment easeth pains and itching in wounds and ulcers and is a hundred times better with Camphire than without it Unguentum Aegiptiacum Mesue Take of Vert-de-greece five drachms Honey fourteen drachms sharp Vineger seven drachms boyl them all together till they come to be a thick Ointment of a reddish colour A. It cleanseth filthy ulcers and fistulaes forcibly and not without pain it takes away dead or proud flesh and dries the Chyrurgian of our daies use it commonly instead of Apostolorum to cleanse wounds it cleanseth more potently indeed and therefore may be sitter in sanious ulcers but it strengthens not so much Unguentum Anodinum Take of oyl of white Lillies six ounces oyl of Dill and Chamomel of each two ounces sweet Almonds one ounce Ducks grease and Hens grease of each two ounces white Wax three ounces mix them together according to art A. I take the Augustan Physitians to be the Authors of this for there it is to be found verbatim only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax its use is to aswage pains in any part of the body especially such as come by inflamations whether in wounds or tumours and for that it is admirable Unguentum sive Linimentum Arceus Take of Gum Elenni Turpentine of the firr tree of each an ounce and an half sheep Suit tried two ounces hogs grease tried two ounces mix them together and make them into an Ointment according to art A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers if not too sanious in any part of the body though in the feet and they are at the greatest distance from the head it gently cleanseth and filleth up an ulcer with flesh it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body Unguentum Aureum Mesue Take of yellow Wax half a pound oyl two pound and an half Turpentine two ounces Rozin of the Pine tree cōmonly called Perrozin Colophonia of each an ounce a half Frankinsence Mastich of each an ounce Saffron a drachm make them up according to art A. If you remember the Colledg commends this Ointment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds page 79. and indeed it doth so but if you please to take counsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE he will tell you that the former is worth two of it for that use Unguentum Basilicon majus Mesue Take of white wax Per-rozin Heifers Suit greek pitch Turpentine Olibanum Mirrh of each an ounce Oyl a pound or else a sufficient quantity to make it up into an Ointment Unguentum Basilicon minus Or Tetrapharmacum Mesue Take of yellow Wax Rozin greek Pitch of each half a pound Oyl two pound and four ounces only melt them that so they may be mixed together into the consistence of an Ointment A. Both this and the former heat moisten and digest procure matter in wounds I mean bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds they cleanse and ease pain Ointment of Bdellium Mesue Take of Bdellium six drachms Euphorbium Sagapenum of each four drachms Castorium three drachms Wax fifteen drachms Oyl of Elder or Walflower ten drachms the Bdellium and 〈◊〉 being dissolved in the water of wild Rue let the rest be united with warm water and made into an Ointment according to art A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner I do not well know whether it be possible or not If not it may be done with the oyl A. It is exceeding good against palsies wry-mouths falling sickness and other cold of afflictions of the nerves Unguentum de Calce Foesius Take of Chalk at least seven times washed half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound 〈◊〉 them about well in a leaden mortar then ad to them three ounces of Wax A. It is exceeding good in burnings and scaldings Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Simple Nicholaus Take of Marsh mallow roots fresh and bruised two pound Linseed and Fenagreek seed bruised of each a pound steep them in eight pound of Water then boyl them a little gently and press out their mussilage of which take two pound and oyl four pound boyl them together till the mussilage be consumed then ad Wax a pound Rozin half a pound Turpentwo ounces boyl them into the consistence of an Ointment Oyntment of Marshmallows Compound Nichol. Take of Marshmallow roots two pound the seeds of Flax and Fenugreek of each one pound pulp of Squils half a pound Oyl four pound Wax one pound Turpentine Gum of 〈◊〉 Galbanum of each two ounces Colophonia Rozin of each half a pound let the roots be well washed and bruised as also the Linseed Foenugreek seed and Squils then steep them three daies in eight pints of water the fourth day boyl them a little upon the fire draw out the Mussilage of which take two pound and boyl it with the oyl to the consumption of the juyce afterwards ad the Wax Rozin and Colophonia when they are melted ad the Turpentine afterwards the Galbanum and gum of lvy dissolved in Vineger boyl them a little and having removed them from the fire 〈◊〉 them til they are cold that so they may be
well incorporated A. They both viz. this and the former heat and moisten the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies Unguentum Enulatum Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft bruised and boyled in Vineger and drawn through a pulping sieve one pound Hogs Greas without salt one pound Common Oyl four ounces Wax two ounces Salt one ounce Quick-silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lemmons Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boyled in of each two ounces let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oyl then ad the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely poudered last of all ad the Quick silver killed labored much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease make them into an ointment according to art Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver A. My opinion of this oyntment is briefly this It was invented for the Itch without Quick silver it wil do no good with Quick-silver it may do harm Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili Nichol. Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces Juyce of Nightshade six ounces let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce then ad white Wax five ounces Cerus washed two ounces Lead burnt and washed Pompholix prepared pure Frankinsence of each an ounce let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art A. It cools and binds dries and staies fluxes either of blood or humors in wounds and fils hollow ulcers with fiesh Unguentum Refrigerans Galenus It it also called a Cerecloath Take of white Wax four ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound melt it in a double vessel then powr it out into another by degrees putting in cold water and often powring it out of one vessel into another stirring it till it be white last of all wash it in Rose water adding a little Rose water and Rose vineger A. It is a fine cooling thing for what denomination to give it I scarce know and exceeding good yea superexcellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors Unguentum de Minio Or Rubrum Camphoratum Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an ounce red Lead three ounces Litharge two ounces Ceruss an ounce and an half Tutty three drams Camphire 2. drams Wax in summer two ounces in winter one ounce make them into an oyntment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestel the wax being first melted in the oyl over a gentle fire then the rest added in fine pouder A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually reade of one and withal cooling therefore good for sores and such as are troubled with defluxions I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer before it brake long time but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple yet in the forgoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails Oyntment of Tobacco Joubertus Take of Tobacco leaves two pound fresh Hogs Grease dilligently washed one pound let the herb being bruised be infused a whol night in red Wine in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine strain it and ad to the Oyntment of the juyce of Tobacco clarified half a pound Rozin four ounces boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉 adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in pouder two ounces new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise It cures Tumours Aposthumes wounds ulcers Gun-shot botches scibs itch stinging with nettles bees wasps hornets venemous beasts wounds made with poisoned arrows c. Tush this is nothing paulo majora canamus It helps scaldings though made with oyl burnings though with lightening that without any scar It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs whither the humours are most subject to resort in fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom Would you be fair your face being anointed with this soon will the redness pimples sunburning vanish a wound dressed with this will never putrifie a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow anoint but with this and you need fear no danger If your head ake anoint your templss with this and you shal have ease The stomach being anointed with it no infirmity dares harbour there no not Asthmaes nor consumptions of the lungues The belly being anointed with it helps the chollick and Iliack passion the worms and what not it help the Hemorrhoids or piles and is the best Oyntment that is for gouts of all sorts finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases of Tobacco as of any thing in the world the Phylosophers stone excepted O Joubertus thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine by those that use it so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Unguentum 〈◊〉 or Crudum or of Litharge or Tripharmacum Mesue Take of Litharge of Gold beaten into very fine pouder half a pound Oyl of Roses a pound Vineger four ounces put in sometimes Oyl and sometimes Vineger stirring it about in a mortar so long till the Litharge have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Oyntment A. It is of a cooling drying nature good for itching of wounds Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin as Tetters Ringworms c. Unguentum Ophthalmicum Renodaeus Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water Tutty prepared of each two drachms Pearls beaten into very fine pouder half a drachm Camphire half a scruple Opium fiue grains Oyntment of Roses fifteen ounces Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rhewms that fall down into the eyes the eye-lids being but anointed with it Cuilielmus Placentinus his Liniment Simple Take of washed Cerus eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Litharge washed juyce of Nightshade of each five ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms oyl of Roses often washed in common water two pound make of them a Liniment according to art A. It is cooling and also drying if you cast an eye to some of the former Oyntments of that nature you may see its use Oyntment of Lead Foesius Take of Lead burnt with Brimstone Litharge of each two ounces Ceruss Antimony of each one ounce Oyl of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment I et the Lead being filed to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone Pomatum Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid two ounces the fat of a Sow a pound and an half Apples being cut and pared
6 11 12 14 15 17 18 20 21 26 27 31 32 36 42 43 44 49 50 53 58 68 70 116 152 176 253 Vomiting causeth 4 Vomiting staies 5 14 20 22 27 46 50 51 104 106 125 137 149 173 262 299 301 Ulcers 5 6 8 13 14 15 24 32 33 34 36 42 47 52 55 60 66 74 123 45 246 248 249 273 277 280 295 308 325 Vertigo 9 18 31 32 66 104 135 157 195 198 318 Ulcers in the bladder hurt 16 Veins broken 36 Vomiting bloud 58 130 147 169 183 Voice 99 143 W VVArts 12 107 Wens 12 Weaknesse 30 Wisdom 74 Witchcraft 40 73 Wearinesse 39 65 268 Whites 5 46 49 62 73 110 171 Wind causeth 86 Wind easeth 3 5 8 11 14 20 41 51 52 54 57 63 65 70 93 94 116 124 149 153 159 170 177 192 〈◊〉 257 263 286 318 Women with child 73 See Abortion Wouuds 3 7 8 12 15 18 23 27 28 30 34 35 36 37 40 41 44 47 48 52 54 66 102 130 248 249 262 263 273 275 277 278 296 299 304 308 316 Wry necks 32 Wry mouths 268 270 273 Y YEllow Jaundice 7 8 13 21 27 28 29 35 36 39 48 50 51 56 65 68 70 106 116 127 155 160 184 198 199 201 141 243 245 255 FINIS Reader through mistake the figures from page 184 to page 208 being 24 pages are false printed which to rectifie you must adde to every of the said 24 pages 70 as to 115 adde 70 which makes 185 and so for the rest So you shall find this table right * Indeed the discerning of these things belongs to the Internal not the External sences * some wise men question that extreamly * in a hopsack (a) viz. Adders Toads Spiders c. Dioscorides Gallen (o) I would not have the Reader build to much confidence upon the degrees of temperature or more properly intemperature neither of this or any other simple because most of them are quoted by OutlandishAuthors and out of question the differrence of the climate may something alter their temperature in degree Dioscorides AEtius Gallen Dioscorides Apuleius Dioscorides * 〈◊〉 Mathiolus Dioscorides a You must boil them but very little for the strength wil soon fly away in vapor Mathiolus * Gentius a Prince Gallen Discorides Gallen Dioscorides Mathiolus Mathiolus Monardus (a) Scobs properly signifies Saw dust Gallen Pliny Dioscorides Serapio Dioscorides AEtius Gallen Gallen a So it is commonly used but indeed all parsly is called by the name of Apium of which this is one kind Dioscorides Pliny Gallen Tragus (a) I doubt he was mistaken Gallen Dioscorides Gallen Dioscorides Gallen * in Sussex because they must be Francified called Langue-debeef in plain English Ox tongue * Memb 〈…〉 of joynt Gallen Dioscorides Apuleius AEgineta Camerarius Arnoldus villanovanus Gallen Brassavolus Camerarius AEgineta Gallen Dioscorides * Virg. AEniad lib. 12. Gallen Dr. Butler AEtius Melue Actuarius Serapio Avicenna 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pliny Rondeletius Gallen Avicinna Pliny Gallen Gallen Dioscorides * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I know not what better name to give it Old head-aches continual headaches Take which ye will a this I know by experience even where many other medicines have failed Tragus Dioscorides Dioscorides Serapio Dioscorides AEtius Agrippa * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AEtius Gallen Gallen Gallen Dioscorides a Vines of different climats have different operations I write of English Vines a I 〈◊〉 our English Adder to be the true Viper though happily not so venemous as they are in hotter Countries * Som countrys call them Gleads and others Puttoks * what those be see the directions at the beginning * the stone not the herb Garcias Cardanus Cardanus Cardanus Garcias Cardanus Lemnius Lemnius Mathiolus Pliny Dioscorides Albersus the Florentine Physitians Dioscorides Cardanus (a) take common wormwood but you may use which you will for their prescript gives you latitude enough (b) congius among the Romans contained about five pints and an half but our Phvsitians use the word for 6. sextaries the meaning of which you shall find in the begining of this book (c) A strongwater-stiller will tell you what it is (a) to wit The leaves (a) if there be such a thing (a) Sullendine commonly called by the vulgar (b) see the way to make it which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to (c) what that is see the directions in the beginning of the book (d) if it want nine hundred of it it matters not much it is but a figure called an Hyperbole wich is as much as tosay in English an Elequent lye (e) which had it been so my 〈◊〉 had never been alive to have written this Book (f) here 's latitude beyond the Zodiack In this case I can advise you no better than to make the broth strong or weak according to the strength or weaknes of the patient g me thinks they might have taken the pains to have prescribed what Rose-water both in this and other receits but out of questiō it is red Rose-water h I know not what better word to give it for their word Vehiculum signifies any thing to carry in even from a charriot to a wheel-barrow i Oxylapathum Gallen calls Sorrel by that name by reason of its sharp tast but Dioscorides Fuchsius Mathiolus derive the name frō the sharp point of the leaf whō it seems our Phisitians follow because here they joyn Sorrel with it for the Greek word ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies only sharp Dock * Tilia k Cat-mints l the outward bark of the pill take it in that sense alwaies both in Orange Lemmon and Citron pills unless the other be noted m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his more usual n and they are the greater Cardamoms as most of the Arabian Physitians held a viz. Ty up the Ambergreese Musk Saffron and Sanders in a rag and hang it in the water by a string * a pint weighs iust a pound c a Schol. Salern a Seseli b Thlaspi The Docters Apology which how wise it is let others judge e you must set the glass in water and so boil it else the glass will break a some hold they grow by the Sea and so do 〈◊〉 b see the meaning of the word in the measures at the beginning of the book a here you may palpably see which is the best Physitian Dr. Reason or Dr. Tradition a commonly called Dittany by the vulgar b which what it is see the directions in the begining c there the Colledge hit the nail at head d I would not have Gallen's judgment tryed in this particular it is far safer to take it upon his word o you must bruise the seeds else the Decectiō wil be but little the better for them z understand the herb called Mercury alwaies unless the contrary be specified a if you know not what is a sufficient quantity keep a quart b Barly husk't is usually called by
that name a if you can get any such all those that ever I tasted were sour o see Directions in the beginning a the Eupatorum of Mesae for so you must take this the receit being his is the herb we call Maudlin and not Agrimonv The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is not growing old because the flowers gathered in due time decay not by age ging quality b you had not best boyl the Senna altogether so much left it lose its 〈◊〉 c if you lack Sal-Indi you may take Sal-Gem d beaten into very fine pouder e burnt a birthwort b a sort of Comfry c the herb not the fish a too many Physitians in England being like Balaams Ass they will not speak unless they see an Angel yet I accuse not al. a to the liquor I mean not to the foeces o that is Grapes not ripe a this is the right ground Ivy it may be I may sometimes use the word permiscuously p Ribes a called also Lluellin by some Welchman or another and that 's the reason that Welchmen vapor so much of the vertues of this herb which is a quality most of that generation are excellent at 1 Ammi z Cassutha the Arabick name of Dodder a if you boyl the Dodder and 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 to long you had as good never put it in for a very little boiling takes out the vertues of them b melancholly is a sad sullen humor you had as good vex a nest of wasps asvex it o if I durst spend paper about it I cold easily prove spring-water to be the best by far a you may do it in warm water or a bath o the eross excepted which wil never dissolve while the world 〈◊〉 b you must first beat it into pouder else you may grind till your heartachs before you ob ain your purpose a I know not what fitter term to give that Arabick word Alkool b you must first beat it into pouder else you may grind till your heartachs before you ob ain your purpose c make the paper handsomly in form of a sunnel and so stick it in a suÌ„nel put the sunnel in another glass this is that they cal filtring a whether one one pound at three times or three pounds at three times might be som question yet not so great an one but experience wil decide it howsoever let it pass for one of the Colledges misty recepts o I rest coufident that the juyce if right is better by 20 parts and my confidence is built upon the rock of reason and not upon the sand of tradition d for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia e spring water is better a in all conscience especially as conscience goes now adaies here is too little sugar by half a let the water be warm else you may happen to lose your labor in syrups made o. decoctions the colour is not so material * pick the roses f take the roots themselves for if the bark be to be had it is very rare a blue violets not white * which is 〈◊〉 pints if your violets be good a 〈◊〉 some cal 〈◊〉 in English Cich pease c see in the begining of the book what they are c ground pine * Matricaria let others translate it by what name they wil I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that name I supose to be true a called by som 〈◊〉 broom in Suffix Knee-holly * hot or else you do nothing a viz. not husked * sliced thin or else you had almost as good hang in a stone a we want the terminus a quo unless we be as wise as Angels And the 1 Author hath t also in the very same words Howsoever if you boyl it away but to a pint and an half according to their rule you will not have water enough at the first to wet all the Simples they that are used to make Decoctionsknow how to make one for strength and this recept is not much in use o the manner shal be shewed in its proper place a would I could see theÌ„ truly if you would have them I doubt yon must go to Arabia for them where Mesue 〈◊〉 a would I could see theÌ„ truly if you would have them I doubt you must go to Arabioa for them where Mesuedwelâ—t a A kind of thorn growing in Egypt and Arabia * it is that we cal our Ladies thistle having white veins in the leaf and used to be eaten in the spring time * spring-spring-water is better a bruise 〈◊〉 I the roots you boyl take that for a general rule unles the contrary be mentioned * by the brest I alwaies mean that which is called Thorax o a flag of a sweet smell som take it for Calamus Aromaticus c Peucedanum a Seseli o by all means let it be brought from thence yet some are of opinion that things growing in England are fitter for English bodies and can give reasons for it too * viz slice the Agrick cut the EpithimuÌ„ bruise the seeds ginger and mace a one kind of wolsebain b I suppose Fernelius means Borrag and Bugloss the natures of which are alike neither according to the opinion of some was the name Borrage known to the Ancient but called Bugloss and indeed it resembles an Neats tongue from whence the word was derived more than that we call Bugloss doth * see the making of it among the Troches c water and honey boyled together til it be scummed a I think they mean horse rhadishes Bruise the roots seeds and cut the herbs else you had almost as good boyla chip a bruise them first o Aqua mulsa * have a little patience and you shall be taught not only the way to make it but also the vertues of it which are not a few * see the simples if at any time you be put to a nonplus about them in the Compositions o else you had as good presse a log of wood * that latitude may be given safely in all compositions * before the shels be hard a if your eyes be in your head they wil teach youthat a Observe that the later it be before you ad the vineger to any syrup the sourer will it be so may you please yourself not offend the Colledge for they give you latitude enough o viz. Only throw away the hard pith in the middle and so you ought to do every time you use the roots z it differs a little from our ordinary Garden time an Herbal will shew you the difference o Calaminthacattaria a you shall be taught how to prepare theÌ„ in its proper place o whether this Orris be English or of that country wher Gesner lived is some question b Esula or Tythymal in sussex we call it Spurg and so I english it c and so you must both the Hellebores also or else you had as good put in a rush o first bruise the roots
a Saccharum dispumarum it may be they mean Molossus viz. that which the vulgar call Treacle b where shall we in England get such out of questiō the dried ones are far more hot and worse the the green a if these be boyled with suger I would know but one yea the least difference between it and a syrup if none then if you please it shall run thus a syrup called Rob of Cornels o oh Heavens was ever the like seen two parts of how many to that I must write Ignoramus a I know not how better to translate sogeneral a word as prunum a Eupatorium o an Arabick word and in English is plain Juyce o I supose the seeds It is confessed Mesue hath it word forword as it is here a have a speciall care they be nor black ones a the same that we call Consumption of the lungues a or springwater else in a dry summer you cannotget the Lohoch if it were to save your life o the difference of which two diseases is not much o Asthma is a disease when thick tough flegm sticks in the lappets of the lungues a Phtisick is an ulceration of the lungues and the very same disease usually called a consumptiō of the lungues c I take those we call bluefigs to be intended by the Colledg but not by Mesue for he apoints fat figs. * those which we in Sussex call flour-de-luce a viz. the kernels only nonhusks and all for that would make a composition sooner to choak than to help a mans throat o or windpipe b blanched o or pils a or Lignum vitae such as they make Bowls of the wood of * I am of opinion that it you would learn to preserve neatly your best way is to learn of a Consumaker * I suppose they mean the flowers c som hold it to be white-thorn of which judgement are Tragus Dodonenus others hold it to be sweet-Bryar Truly I know no other way to know what the Colledge intend by it than to ask them o Prunella e I know not what they mean by it unless they mean Bawm i not cut as they prescribe i six pound will serve the turn * you shall be taught hereafter how to make it o and why wil not a brassemorter serve the turn c and this is but a slovenly art take my word for it * viz. white red yellow a a kind or wolf-bane o viz. Borrage and Bugloss o viz. Borrage and Bugloss c dried or rosted by the fire e a new name for earth of Lemnos a Dragons blood so called though it be nothing less but only the gum of a tree This receit is borrowed frō Alex. Bened. only the name is absconded som of the quantities not considerable are changed o but how big must they 〈◊〉 a there is nothing 〈◊〉 than that all their pouders will keep better in Electuarys than they will in pouders and most part of them were quoted Electuaries by the Authors whence they had them * viz. black long white * Bishops-weed * round Zedoary The Colledg made a great cry of a little wooll here 's a title as big as the recept a Maudlin * Mesue appoints honey o Mesue something alters the proportiō but not much * viz. long white and black * red white and yellow * I take that to be the greatest sort of Bazill called once before Ocimum Citratum and here Caryophillatum Citron or Clove Bazil a Ammi e or hartwort o a disease that causeth men to vomit up their excrements s widdowwail Ielt out by Gesner Crato and others and in my opinion it makes the recept the the worse and not the better t whether they intend the flower thereby distinguishing it from one leaf of the flower or whether they mean the flower and branch is very difficult if not impossible to judge for their word cum toto comprehends all both root branch leaf and flower a who dares affirm that our Collegiates ar no Astrologers b Learnedly written c Red-roses out of question yet it seems the Colledge either did not know or did not care wch * white red and yellow a red-roses where was the Colledges care b excellently penned c forgetfulnes a beat the white of the egg well first o this is notable they should have added two grains and an halt half a quarter * and could they not have given the Latin name as well as the Greek name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Pistacia b an hundred to one but it is Permains they mean or else Pippins for they quote no other Apples o Meum p water-flag perhaps they mean see the Roots in the Catalogue of Simples a see the Simples o in water saith Mesue though the Colledg left it out you might boyl them in piss and yet not swerve from theit recept I hope they do not hold Arbitrary Government they make such Arbitrary receipts a I know no reason why this might not have been left out considering the quantity of Honey was prescribed before b Scoria ferri is properly those flakes which Smiths beat off from iron when it is red hot a Terra sigillata a bare weight b I suppose they mean the seeds of these following a look the roots in the Simples and there you shal find these directions you have need enough of b the Author appoints but seven drams c viz the seeds within them d I know not what English name to give it a commonly called Benjamin a I suppose the seeds b Balaustins b the roots I suppose are intended a Irio b I think they mean that by smilax aspera a see the way to make these in their proper places * Ecchium b a wise man wil take Hony a the seeds out of question * a little hard wax will serve if you make not the hole too large a there is nothing like to hot Embers b Butter-bur it growscom monly by ditcnes sides bears no stalks at all but broad leaves and the flower apears before the leaf c I take it to be 〈◊〉 wort not 〈◊〉 bane the 〈◊〉 look 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a This is that which commonly is called Venice-treacle b Take it alwaies for red-Roses when the other are not mentioned c 〈◊〉 a viz. dissolve the Opium a it is something mysterious why sugar should be added to the syrups a must the Cinnamon be dissolved too a water and hony c beat them first into pouder d they might have been a little plainer and set down howmuch decoction there must be I suppose you may boyl the violets in three pints till one be consumed a bruise the Polipodium else you had as good boyl a 〈◊〉 b Ageratum a viz. the middle bark wich is thick a that is only the stones cast away b four pints is little enough I assure you you shall as soon eat a load of loggs as
make it into an Electuary with two pints boyled away to one c take the double quantity of them also a which is the whol apple as they are bought at the Apothecaries the seeds only cast away b Spurge-flax see the simples * which is indeed the triple weight a by mass alwaies understand the composition brought into such a thickness that you may easily with your fingers make it into pills a a kind of seashel to be had at the Apothecaries b not insuse as the Colledg prescribe b Maudlin * and why not clarified can they give but a piece of a reason for it I am deceived it Mesue appoint not Fennel water a Maudlin Spurgeflax it must be close stopped else the Composition will not be worth a louse at the 8 daies end a kind of Spurg three of the seeds of which some Authors and they good ones too say will give a man a sufficient purge have a care how you be too busy with such medicines lest you make a man sleep till dooms-day * it seems the 〈◊〉 give the name Absinthium ponticum with som other distinctions not herementioned both to Roman and Common wormwood a called sometimes 〈◊〉 * Psyllium a a psyllium * viz. water and honey o Marum * Pomegranate flowers a Balaustins o it may be they mean white Copperis * I think they mean Gum-Arabick a A kind of Vetch * Psyllium * if it be 〈◊〉 Gum 〈◊〉 I know not what it is * Psyllium * I think they mean that by Cadmia * first beat 〈◊〉 into pouder It 's not requisite to set Pine nuts twice as the Colledge did * the Colledg might havetaken the pains to set down how much that is * viz. having boyled it to the consumption of the juyce * some countries cal them Ants. some Pismires and some Pisants we in Sussex Emments * whether here they mean Maudlin or Agrimony I know not * some countries call it Alecost it is a kind of Maudlin * which in a some mens opinions are two things * I am of opinion any time in the heat of summer will serve the turn my reason is because the dog stars have so much south latitude that their influence is very little or nothing at al in these northen climats * Ung. Popules * I do not wel know whether they mean Lime or not for the latin word Calx I take it fignifies both a Linseed and flax seed is all one * be sure you miss not one of them * Checkers called in 〈◊〉 * but what if it be in the spring or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 or spurgolive * I know not how better to translate the word Gypsum a two seashels * 〈◊〉 the herb so called not the real tail of an Horse * Psyllium * called also 〈◊〉 and Iron-wort because of its excellency to cure wounds a which in London cannot be becauseir grows almost in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ditch o 〈◊〉 * be sure it be not hogs grease * you shall be taught what it is and how to make it before the book be at an end * a learned experience for a boy of a dozen years old * Coperis * stonepitch sure enough * know no other 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 tree * I know not what better word to give Omazum than tripes 〈◊〉 chitterlings a Farina volatilis * dreggs * Psyllium * a kind of fish * by al means * the Colledg send you to page 132. if you look look there ther 's no such thing as oyl of Saffron * Matricaria * the region of it * I wonder how 〈◊〉 gross oyies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ping in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Chymicals * Hold Learned 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whilst your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 open * 〈◊〉 I know not 〈◊〉 better English word to 〈◊〉 it * Metreta I know not what English name to give it * Cueurbita * a strange name for terredamnata * Quicksilver * in horses the not in men * I take that to be the native vermilion o I am as far from the Colledges opiniō in this particular as the Zenith is from the Nadir * as thez have done already a A blind order c i. e. filter it * see the directions at the beginning of the Book a burning * so much that it may swim above the Aloes the bredth of 2. or three fingers