therewith S. A. Addition Musk and Ambergreese ana grains nine white Sugar Candy instead of common white Sugar qu. sat S. A. Observe In respect that Musk for some causes may give offence to the receiver 't is requisite to omit the use thereof in some of your Water of this kind to serve for such particular uses Aqua Cinnamomi Nostra or Our Cinnamon Water Y-worth Take of our Spiritus Vini Sulphurat one gallon for when you make such rich Cordial Waters 't is best to make use of such Brandified Spirits as the Spirit of Malt or any other bereaved of their ill Tang and Hogo and then impregnated with an Azural Salt and Sulphur of a Vinor Nature of the best Cinnamon in small powder one pound four ounces Sugar half a pound Chrystals of Tartar four ounces let them infuse therein ten days or the longer the better and then Distill into High Proof Spirits and thus have you the true Spirit of Cinnamon most proper for any Physical use whatever But to allay it into a Cordial Water you must proceed thus Take of fresh Cinnamon half a pound Spring Water three Quarts put them into your Alembick with its Refrigeratory and Distill over and what Oyl comes will sink to the bottom the which you may separate and then to every Quart of this water add of Loaf Sugar one pound and over a gentle warmth dissolve it and so with this you may allay your Spirit to Proof or what height you please Its Virtues are excellent against Vomittings weakness of the Stomach and stinking Breath 't is a good Cardiack Pectoral Lienick and Splenetick comforting the Vital and Animal Spirits giving strength even to the Brain and Sinews The Dose is according as dilated the weaker one ounce the stronger two or four drachms at the most Aqua Seminum Foeniculi dulc or sweet Foenil seed Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons sweet Foenil seeds eight pound Carawayseeds six ounces three drachms Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Addition Sweet Foenil seeds eight pound Caraway seeds six ounces three drachms grains fifteen Aniseeds one pound nine ounces five drachms Cinnamon twelve ounces six drachms and a half Cloves three ounces one drachm and a half Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Sweet Foenil seeds one pound and a half Carawayseeds one ounce one drachm Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Distill into fine goods and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Addition Sweet Foenil seeds one pound and a half Carawayseeds one ounce three drachms grains five Aniseeds four ounces seven drachms Cinnamon two ounces three drachms and a half Cloves four drachms and a half Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth This Water takes off Stomachick Loathings and creates an Appetite strengthening the Tones imbibing sharp humours and expelling Wind. The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and half Aqua Calendularum or Marigold Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Marigold Flowers new gather'd pick'd clean three pecks and a quarter bruise them sweet Foenil seeds Aniseeds ana one pound Distill into fine goods and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Addition Cinamon sweet Foenil ana half a pound Caraway Cloves ana three ounces one drachm and a half Marigolds three pecks ¼ Sugar four pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Marigold Flowers new gather'd and pick'd clean ¾ peck or what more sufficeth bruise them sweet Foenil seeds Aniseeds ana three ounces Distill into fine goods and dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Addition Cinamon sweet Foenil ana one ounce four drachms Caraway Cloves ana four drachms and a half Marigolds qu. s e. Sugar twelve ounces Y-worth 'T is a wonderful strengthner and as great a Preserver against any Infection whatsoever The Dose is an ounce or two in the morning especially when contagious Diseases do reign Aqua Seminum Cariu or Caraway Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of high Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Caraway seeds three pound Aniseeds one pound Rosemary dry six ounces three drachms Limon Pills dry Cloves ana four ounces six drachms and a half Distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Caraway seeds nine ounces Aniseeds three ounces Rosemary dry one ounce one drachm Limon Pills dry Cloves ana seven drachms and a half Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Y-worth This Water hath been found very good for such as have been oppressed with cold and moist Stomachs as also for such as have been subject to Wind in the Bowels for it warms comforts and strengthens The Dose is from three to six drachms Aqua Nucum Moschatarum or Nutmeg Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Nutmegs two pound Aniseeds one pound bruise them and Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar eight pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Nutmegs six ounces Aniseeds three ounces bruise them and Distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar one pound and a half Y-worth This Water chears the Spirits Natural Vital and Animal it sweetens the Breath and is a good Carminative and Diuretick The Dose is the same with Caraway Water Aqua Lavendulae or Lavender Water Composition the greater Distiller Take of high Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Lavender Leaves dry four pound twelve ounces six drachms and a half Lavender Flowers dry three pound three ounces one drachm and a half Mace twelve ounces six drachms and a half Nutmegs one pound nine ounces five drachms Lavender Cotton dry three pound three ounces one drachm and a half Staechados twelve ounces six drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and Distill into Proof Spirit S. A. dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound or what less sufficeth Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three gallons Lavender Leaves dry fourteen ounces three drachms and a half Lavender Flowers dry nine ounces four drachms and a half Mace two ounces three drachms and a half Nutmegs four ounces seven drachms Lavender Cotton dry nine ounces four drachms and a half Staechados two ounces three drachms and a half bruise them that are to be bruised and Distill into Proof Spirit S. A. Dulcifie with white Sugar three pound Aqua Lavendulae Composita or Lavender Water Compound Distiller Take Flowers of Lavender Lily of the Valley ana twenty four handfuls Piony Tillia Flowers of Rosemary ana half an handful Sage Cinamon Ginger Cloves Cubebs Galingal Calamus Aromaticus Mace Misseltoe of the Oak ana one drachm and a half Piony Roots one ounce and a half of the best
Germander Hermodactyls Tormentil White Frankincense the pith of Dwarf Elder Juniper-berries Bay-berries the Seeds and Flowers of Motherwort the Seeds of Smallage Fennel and Anise the Leaves of Sorrel Sage Felwort Rosemary Marjoram Mints Penny-Royal Stechados the Flowers of Elder Red and White Roses of the Leaves of Scabious Rue the lesser Moonwort Egrimony Centory Fumitary Pimpernel Sowthistle Eyebright Maiden-hair Endive Red Saunders Aloes of each four ounces pure Amber the best Rhubarb of each four drams dried Figs Raisins of the Sun Dates stoned sweet Almonds Grains of the Pine of each two ounces of the best Aqua vitae to the quantity of them all of the best hard Sugar two pound of white Honey one pound then add the Root of Gentian Flowers of Rosemary Pepperwort the Root of Bryony Sowbread Wormwood of each an ounce Now before these are distill'd quench Gold being made Red hot oftentimes in the aforesaid Water put therein Oriental Pearls beaten small two pound and then distill it after twenty four hours Infusion Y-worth This is a very good Cordial Water prevailing against Malignant Pestilential Feavers a great restorative to such as are in Consumption it comforts the Heart and revives drooping Spirits 't is very hot in Operation you must not exceed half a drachm for the largest Dose without the Advice of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Nostra Multifera Virtutum or our Water of Many Virtues Y-worth Take Pawme Sage Bettony Buglosse Cowslips all gather'd in their prime of each a handful Motherwort Bay Leaves of each a handful and half Marygold-flowers two handfuls flowers of Rosemary Lavender Lillies of the Valley Rosa-solis of each four handfuls the Juice of Salendine two pound Saffron two ounces Lignum Aloes an ounce and half Turmerick four ounces Spirit of Wine six Quarts digest all six days and then distil in B. S. A. This Water is excellent in the Diseases of the Head Breast and Heart Liver and principal parts fortifying the Faculties and strengthning Nature as far as can be expected from simple Cordial Spirits without being enriched with some Mineral Sulphurs the which will be shown in our Spagyrick Phylosophy Asserted and Spagyrick philosophies Tryumph Now by the way observe that most of these Waters or Spirits are too strong to be taken alone Nature not loving to ride in fiery Chariots 't is best therefore that they be dilated and reduced into Cordials the way by which 't is performed will be shown in our Medicina rationalis Crollii Aqua Theriacalis Camphorat Or Crollius his Treacle Water Camphorated Take of Andromachus his Treacle ten ounces the best Myrrh five ounces the best Saffron one ounce Camphire four drams mix them together then pour upon them of the best Spirit of Wine â—wenty ounces and let them stand twenty four hours in a warm place then distill them in Balneo with a gradual Fire Cohobate the Spirit three times Y-worth This Water is of Excellent Virtue against the Pestilence and other Feavers 't is a very good Counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any Venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it drives forth all virulent Humours from the heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Composita contra Scorbutum or a Scorbutical Water Take of the Leaves of both sorts of Scurvy Grass being made very clear of each twelve pound let these be bruised and the Juice pressed forth to which add the Juice of Brooklime Juice of Water Cresses of each a pound of the best white Wine sixteen Pints twelve whole Lemmons cut of the fresh Roots of Briony eight pound of the fresh Roots of Horse-radish four pound of the Bark of Winteran one pound of Nutmegs eight ounces let them macerate three days and then distill S. A. Y-worth This Water is Excellent for the Scurvy with all the Symptoms that attend the same 't will radically cure those that are not too Rebellious in a Month or six Weeks time if you take two Spoonfuls thereof in a Morning and Evening I could indeed inlarge my self with various other Prescriptions but I think it needless seeing you have here what is sufficient to accomplish any Distiller nay peradventure more than ever you may have occasion to make so that others of a more Superior and Higher Order will be superfluous as to such as have a desire to know more thinking them necessary in their Medicinal practice let them resort to our Medicina Rationalis where they shall find them under the head of such Diseases as they are appropriated to And for those that would be curious and have variety of chargeable Prescriptions let them apply themselves to the London Dispensatory and other Authors wherein they are prescribed But as to such as desire the healing Virtues of one single Cordial which hath been found for many years to supply the place of many others such we advise to our Spiritus Propheâ—â—â—ticus Imperialis treated of in our Spagyrick Philoâ—â—phy asserted for this indeed is various ways to be â—â—dered and that to such an advantage as that it â—â—swers all that can be desired from any thing of this Nature and therefore for the good of such as languish under deplorable Diseases we thought it â—â—quisite to give its Virtue and Use First of the Spirit and then of the way of dilating it into a Cordial Spiritus HEADrophelacticus Imperialis or the Antipeleptick HEADowers Soveraign for all the Diseases of the Head Womb-Fits sudden surprisals and infectious Diseases being a general Cordial for all Diseases incident to the Body As to its Preparation 't is given in our Spagyrick Philosophy Asserted Its Virtues in General This is a great Cordial truly helping Nature inâ—â—rdly or outwardly applyed and is of admirable benefit to poor fainty drooping Spirits and weak Nature and a great Reliever and Comforter of Old Aged people Strengthning and Comforting the Heart and Stomach prevalent against Wind Chollick Gripes Yellow Jaundice Cough and Colds and such like Distempers And also Bruises and Contusions wither'd and benumbed Members and Cramp 't is efficacious against Cold moist Diseases of the Head Stomach and Heart as Apoplexies Falling Sickness Palsies Trembling Head-ach Megrim Vertigo Carus Lethargy Sleepiness and Dimnâ—sâ— of Sight cold Rheums Catarrhs Rhumatisms Old Aches of the Back and Loyns stinking breath as also good against Convulsions It s Use and Dose For any Bruise Squatt Aches or weak and decayed parts you must dip a Cloath therein and lay it four or five times double on the part and at last having repeated this three or four times bind it fast thereon For the Diseases of the Face and Head you must annoint your Face and Temples and take the savours up your Nostrils For Rickets in Children it must be applyed as well outwardly as inwardly chasing the grieved part with the clear Spirit before the Fire Dipping a Scarlet cloath in it and laying it
on the part affected repeating of it as often as occasion requires and swathing from the Arm-pits to the Groins with a Linnen Swath For weak and pained Limbs the same Method is to be observed as before 'T is also an Excellent preserver for dead Bodies for if you wash the dead over with it two or three times and then strike over all the body with our double Spiritus Odontugiasus it preserves the same a â—â—iderable while without being embowell'd and more â—â—â—cially if you afterward apply to the Mouth Stomach â—â—â—â—el and bottom of the belly some of our Elixer â—â—â—oprietatis Helmontii with a Spunge by which â—â—bod the dead shall be not only preserved but also kept 〈◊〉 giving the least Annoyance or Evil Smell to any 〈◊〉 shall come a near it or the least infection although 〈◊〉 died of an infectious Disease for if you repeat the 〈◊〉 of these three or four times the poysonous Venom 〈◊〉 be totally mortified Now of what moment â—â—â—ht this be in preserving people in the Family 〈◊〉 the Chambers are kept sweet and the person 〈◊〉 ever so gross from purging as experience maâ—â—â—â—â—sts Thus having given you its External uses 〈◊〉 shall now proceed to the Internal ones Viz. as 〈◊〉 dilated into a Cordial â—â—â—dialis Nostra Generalis or our General Cordial Take Spiritus Prophelacticus Imperialis well tinâ—â—â— with Pilula Nepenthe nostr one pound the â—â—grant Wine of Camomile Flowers Yarrow and â—â—â—cus two pound Mel Vegetabile qu. sa e. to Dulâ—â—â— it into a Cordial to which add of the Radiâ—â—â— Tincture of Gold Bezoar and the Milk of â—â—â—â—s Eyes of each Gutt 20. shake them well â—ther then let it stand and settle and decant 〈◊〉 clear so is it prepared â—his Cordial is in many Cases as profitable unto the 〈◊〉 as their Food especially for weakness Faintness and violent Illness that seize on people for this will if design'd for Life measurably fortifie and strengthen the Vital Natural and Animal Spirits it cherisheth the prinoipal Organs and makes them better to perform their Office in the preparing of good Juices for it agrees with the Callidum Innatum or Sulphur as well as with the Humout Radicalis or Mercury it stirs up the digestive Faculties and so not only prevents from being surfeited but also Relieves from Surfeits when Contracted and therefore may it properly be esteemed as a rich Treasure in Families it comforts both Young and Old 't is good in oppressions of Wind and Cholick expelling the same from the Stomach and Bowels and is also good for the Strangury and Gravel c. There is not yet known or Practised by a more Excellent Medicine both for safeness pleasantness and speed to expell the painful Gripes in Children whether with or without a Looseness which are so incident to these poor Babes that thousands die thereof as we may see by the weekly Bill of mortality therefore let such as have Children subject to Wind or as are so themselves make use thereof and in few Minutes they shall find the comfortable Relief thereof and indeed so will such as are subject to fainting and painful Diseases 'T is very prevalent not only to prevent Fits in Children but also to relieve such as have them In fine it s almost imparallel'd Virtues are such as that we could fill pages therewith but however shall here omit them seing we have been more large in the precited Book which God willing shall ere long see the Light seeing it may be of such publick Service in the distinguishing of the Nature of truly prepared Medicines from the common slops The Dose of this Cordial is from a pap Spoonful to three or four Ordinary Spoonfuls according to the Age Strength and Condition of the Patient and that as often received as is requisite which must at least be three and sometimes five or six times a day when the Patient takes little Food or Rest Thus Courteous Reader have we with painful Labours passed through the Garden of Distillation in which the various Flowers are to be gathered which may be found profitable to you the which indeed was the end of our undertaking it that you may see the Nature and difference of Waters even of the first second and third order and that you may not be deficient in any thing which may be said to appertain to this Art we shall stretch forth our hand in the following Chapter and show you the True and Genuine way of preparing of Vegetable Powers c. CHAP. IV. Treatis concerning Vegetable Powers Oleosum's and Essential Salts A Separating Glasse An Vn … 〈◊〉 Funnell A Retort the Helm A 〈◊〉 Body and Head A bolt Head A Retort Place this Figure before Chap IIII in pag. 139. Potestates per Hermaphroditicum Salem Ammoniacum or Powers by the help of a prepared Sal-Armoniack And under the second Potestates nobilissimae succedaneae Specificae per salem Tartari Volatilem or Noble Succedaneous and Specifick Powers And under the third Potestates verae arcanae per salem nostrum Panaristos or the true essential and genuine Powers Now these are the three heads under which may be comprehended all that can be said of Powers we shall begin with the first they being easiest to be prepared Now seeing that every one cannot obtain the Volatile Salt of Tartar neither will some indeed spend their time or money after it but would rather accept of easie things for the sake of such we shall first describe those which are made by the help of the said Sal-Armoniack and how the said Sal Armoniack is also to be prepared Those which are made by the help of the said Sal-Armoniack are of a noble and cleansing nature the which they borrow from the Hermaphroditical Salt that is radically united with the Oyl and Spirit and this in part supplies the want of the Volatile Salt of Tartar and enriches the Powers far above those that have no Salt in them for this Preparation to perform it well is no small part of the Chymical Art and there be many of those who pretend to succedanous Keys that cannot not do it for the Urinous Spirit must first be bereaved of its faetor or stink and secondly radically united with the Vinor and Oleous ones the way to bereave it of its faetor is thus take of pure Red-Wine two pound and filtre exactly through a double Cap-paper put it in digestion for seven days pouring on now and then four or five ounces of Spirit of Wine distil'd from rich Aromaticks and as it begins to smell very fragrant put in a pound of common Sal-Armoniack that hath been dissolved in the distilled waters of Aromatick-spices exactly filtred and again boiled up into the body of Salt which being therein dissolved you must feed it as before with the Aromatick Spirit adding thereunto of the Essential Oyl of Cinamon Guaiacum and Sassaphrax of each half an ounce and by a very gentle heat bring it to a dryness the
which Salt remove and carefully preserve for t is of an inestimable value Then take Oyster-shells wash them very clean dry them and Calcine them to an exceeding white Calx the which power very finely and sift through a fine sieve then take of this and the highly purifyed Sal-Armoniack of each a like quantity mix them well together and put them into a Retort and pour thereon twice their weight of the Alkalizated Spirit of that Concrete whence you intend to make your Powers and by degrees of fire distil to dryness the spirit that comes over you may rectifie from a proportionable Quantity of dryed herbs spices or seeds from whence you make your Powers or Oleosum and then unite three pound thereof with half a pound of Essential Oyl by two or three Cohobations or if your oyl is prepared as before directed you may only shake them together and they shall be united or in defect of this you may do it by digestion by adding in three or four ounces of our Common Reconciler or Vegetable-preserving-Salt and so have you an Oleusum or Powers superiour to any as yet by others exposed to sale being not only indued with the middle nature of the Concreate but also an Abstersive Vertue as will be seen more at large hereafter for what is here said in general is sufficient to signifie unto you the preparation and nature of those Powers and Oleosums prepared by the Hermaphroditical Sal-Armoniack we shall therefore proceed to the Particulars and first of Potestates Cinamomi or the Powers of Cinamon Take of the aforesaid prepared Sal-Armoniack one pound of the highly Alkalizated Spirit of Wine four pound Distil and Unite as before directed then Rectifie from Cinamon one pound moistned with a little Oyle of common salt run per del in a strong B. M. and Cohobate two or three times upon the Cinamon by which means its Vertue will be obtained put this upon a pound of fresh Cinamon and Cohobate as before repeat this a third time and your Spirit will become very rich of the Cinamon now on the Cinamon that remains pour good Spirit of Wine and extract the Tincture as long as any will come add these Tinctures together and put them into a Retort and call off 8 4 gently dry the Extract the Cinamon that remains after Distillation must be gently dryed and Calcined into Ashes the which while so warm as to be handled must be put into a Cucurbit pouring thereon the before mentioned Spirit call'd over by making the Extract put on a blind head and digest three days decant the clear and if after that you think any Spirit remains in the Ashes you may call it off by Distillation and then with Distil'd rain-Rain-water extract the Salt from the Ashes in the Cucurbit the which exactly filtre evaporate and Christallize Now add your two Spirits together and then take the Salt and extract and grind them together with six ounces of the Oyle of Cinamon put them into a large Retort and pour your Spirits on them Distil off and Cohobate three or four times and lastly return your spirit back adding in of our Common Reconciler four ounces digest four days decant the clear and so are the Powers prepared Their Vertues They are prevalent in Vertigoes Palsies Apoplexies deprivation of Sense Frensies Madness inveterate pains of the Head Megrims sudden Coughs Colds and difficulty of Breathing they not onely comfort the Head and Brain and refresh the Sences but also cheer the Heart resist Poyson and revive the Spirits being a powerful Medicine in Palpitations Faintings Swoonings and Sickness at the Heart and Stomack good against a stinking Breath Indigestion and want of Appetite and other the like Defects They are good for vomiting and spitting of Blood and excellent for weak and consumptive People They are also prevalent in the Cholick Griping of the Guts Wind Pain of the Stomack and Spleen Iliack Passion sharp and corroding humours in the Bowels and all other pains whatsoever they cure a Diarrhea Dysentery and Lientery the flux of the Liver over-flowing of the Terms and Whites in Women Their use and manner of being Taken For Fits or any Diseases that suddenly approach take thirty or forty drops in a glass of spring-water sweetned with a little Sugar anointing the fore-head and temples therewith and forcing the savours up the nostrels but for weakness and fluxes let forty drops be drank in a glass of Tent two or three times a day observe by the same rules are made the Powers of Sassafras and all such woods as will yield an Essential Oyle by Distillation all of which are more noble in vertue than any of their common Prescriptions hitherto Dispenced The price ten shillings an ounce Potestates Menthoe or the Powers of Mint Take of Mint gathered in the right signature in a clear day what quantity you please let them be chop'd very small or rather pounded in a great stone Mortar and put them into a large Tunn or Oyle-fatt as is ordered for Distillation and pour thereon new Wort or rather Mead sufficient to cover them at least an hands breadth either of which must be blood-warm head them well with yeast and let them work as we have ordered in our first part of Distillation and after five days distil with a large Refrigeratory into Low-wines the which pour again upon a fresh quantity of Mint gently dryed the herbs are best to be hang'd in a bag as described figure the second for so they will get no ill tangue and distil into proof goods then add fresh herbs as before and distil a third time which is called Rectification but in this we advise you to put in a Can or two of water to keep the body of your Still from burning as is usual in Reâ—â—ification then rectifie from Christallized Salt of Tartar and unite it with purified Sal Armoniack and again rectify from the herbs in a large Cucurbit with its glass Helm and so the Spirit becomes rich pure vital strong and fragrant of the Herb take of this three pound of the oyl of Mint six ounces and unite as directed in the generals Observe that if Essential oyls are rectified from mortified Bay-Salt they may be brought to unite in equal pondus with the Spirit VIRTUES These Powers are superior to any of this nature hitherto extant and wonderfully fortify the Spirits exhilerate the mind strengthen the stomack and provoke Appeâ—ite stays the Hiccough and Vomiting and stops the fury of cholerick Passions their like prevalency is also seen in stopping the Flowers and Whites externally the Temples being bathed with them eases the Head-ach and cures Watry-eyes strengthening weak sinnews and being internally taken and externally applyed are a Counter-poyson against the venom of Serpents The Dose is from twenty to forty Drops in Mead Wine or rather some cordial Julep made from it's distil'd water or Syrrup The Price is Twelve pence an ounce Potestates Melissoe or the Powers of Bawm Let
P. 46 Aqua Menthae simplex simple Mint Water P. 47 Aqua Violae tricoloris simplex simple Hearts-ease Water P. 48 Aqua Raphani simplex Radish Water simple P. 49 Aqua Sabinae corticis simplex Savine Water simple P. 50 The Way to perfume and dulcifie any of these Waters ibid. Concerning Medicinal Spirits P. 51 Spiritus Salviae Spirit of Sage ibid. Spiritus Cochleariae the Spirit of Scurvey-Grass P. 52 Spiritus Lavendulae Spirit of Lavender P. 53 Spiritus Angelicae Spirit of Angelica P. 54 Spiritus Croci Spirit of Saffron P. 55 Spiritus Dauci Spirit of Daucus P. 56 Concerning the Art of Distillation and how it may be obtained by this Book if not the Author advises you to have recourse to an Artist P. 57 Of the secundum artem in Distillation which is the very Marrow of Distillation and that by which the Artist is crowned and of it's difficulty to be delivered in Writing ibid. Of such Waters as are compounded and are really necessary for the Master Distiller to be furnished withal P. 58 Of the Measures made use of in this Book P. 59 That a Tun of Proof Spirits make a Tun and half of Common Waters ibid. Aqua vitae Prescription the first P. 60 Aqua vitae a second Prescription ibid. Aqua vitae aurea Glauberis Glaub Golden Aqua vitae P. 62 Aqua Anisi Aniseed Water P. 63 Aqua Angelicae Angelica Water P. 64 Aqua absynthii Wormwood Water P. 65 Aqua Melissae Bawm Water P. 66 Aqua Menthae Mint Water P. 68 Aqua Rosmarini Rosemary Water P. 69 Aqua Limoniarum aut Aurantiorum Limon and Orange Water P. 70 Aqua Majoranae Marjoram Water P. 71 Aqua Melliphylli Balsamint Water P. 72 Aqua Caryophyllorum Clove Water P. 73 Aqua Cinamomi communis Cinamon Water common P. 74 Aqua Cinamomi propria Cinamon Water proper ib. Aqua Cinamomi nostra Our Cinamon Water P. 75 Aqua Sem. Faen dul Sweet Fennel seed-Water P. 77 Aqua Calendularum Marigold-water P. 78 Aqua Seminum Carui or Caraway-water P. 79 Aqua Nucum Moschatarum Nutmeg-water P. 80 Aqua Lavendulae Lavender-water P. 81 Aqua Lavendulae Composita Lavender-water Compound P. 82 Aqua Salviae Sage-water P. 83 Aqua Salviae Composita Sage-water Compound P. 84 Aqua Caryophillatorum Avens-water ibid. Rosa Solis P. 86 Ros Solis proprius P. 88 Aqua Stomachica min. Stomack-water the lesser P. 90 Aqua Stomachica major Stomack-water the greater P. 91 Aqua Stomachica nostra Our Stomack-water P. 92 Vsquebaugh P. 93 Irish Vsquebaugh P. 94 Vsquebaugh Royal. P. 95 Aqua Bezoartica Bezoar-water P. 96 Aqua Matthiae Dr. Matthias's Water P. 98 Aqua Contra Scorbutum Dr. French's Scorbutick-water P. 101 Aqua Apertiva A Carminative Opening Water P. 102 Aqua Vulucraria a Wound-water P. 103 Aqua Mariae The Ladies water P. 105 Aqua Anticholica Our Water against the Cholick P. 106 Aqua in Vermes Our Worm-water P. 108 Aqua Convulsiva nostra Our Water against Convulsions P. 109 Aqua Preciosa the Precious Water P. 111 Aqua Carminativa Wind-water P. 113 Aqua Sudorifica Water to procure Sweat P. 114 Aqua contra Crapulam Surfeit-water P. 115 Aqua Antiscorbutica Scorbutical-water P. 117 Aqua Contra Pestilentiam Plague-water P. 118 Aqua nostra contra Pestilentiam Our Plague-water P. 120 Aqua florum Water of Flowers P. 121 Aqua frugum Water of Fruits P. 123 Aqua Rubra Londinensis the London Red. water P. 125 Aqua Mirabilis P. 127 Aqua Mirabilis Nostra ibid. Dr. Stephen's Water P. 128 Aqua Imperialis ibid. Aqua Caelestis P. 129 Aqua nestra multifera Virtutum Our Water of many Virtues P. 130 Crollii Aqua Theriacalis Camphorat Crollius's treacle-Treacle-water Camphorated P. 131 Aqua Composita Antiscorbutica A scorbutical-Scorbutical-Water Compound P. 132. Spiritus prophelacticus Imperialis Antipileptick Powers P. 133 Cordialis nostra generalis Our general Cordial P. 135 The Doctrine of Vegetable Powers Oleosums and Essential Salts P. 138 The difference between Oleosums and Powers ibid. The Theory of the Preparation of Oyls so as to unite with Water or Spirit of Wine P. 139 The exact Modus and Praxis thereof P. 140 The Author's Observation concerning such as pretend to Essential Powers and Spirits and yet are defective in Volatilizing the fixed Alkalie of that Concreat whence prepared P. 141 Potestates per Hermaphroditicum Salem Ammoniacum or Powers prepared by the help of an Hermaphroditical Sal Armoniack P. 142 The way to prepare the said Sal Armoniack ibid. The Modus of Distilling it into a Spirit P. 143 Potestates Cinnamomi Powers of Cinamon P. 144 Potestates Menthae The Powers of Mint P. 146 Potestates Melissae The Powers of Bawm P. 148 Potestates Sambuci Succinatae The Powerful united Spirit of Elder Essentificated with Amber P. 149 Potestates Rosmarini The Powers of Rosemary P. 154 Potestates Cochleariae The Powers of Scurvey-grass P. 156 Potestates Emundantes Our general cleansing Powers P. 160 Potest Neâ—enthae Our Annodyne Pain-easing Powers P. 163 Potestates Baccharum Juniperi The Powers of Juniper-berries P. 165 Potestates Cosmeticae Our Beautifying Powers P. 168 Potestates Mercurii The Powers of Mercury ibid. Potestates Nobilissimae Succedaneae Specificae per Sal. Tartari Volatilem or noble Succedaneous Specifick Powers P. 170 Potestates Absinthii or the Powers of Worm-wood P. 172 How to make Essential Salts and to know their goodness when prepared P. 174 Potestates verae arcanae per Salem nostrum Panaristos or the true Essential and Genuine Powers of Bodies P. 178 Helmont's Commendation of the first Ens of Cedar for long life P. 179 The Author's Observation concerning this Sal-panaristos and its universal Tendency in preparing Powers from the Vegetable Animal and Mineral Kingdom P. 180 Concerning the most principal Subjects sc Tartar Sulphur and Venus usefully in the meliorating Wines and Spirits when prepared by the said medium P. 183 The prevalency of the Element of fire of Venus and Common Sulphur being Philosophically prepared not only in exalting small Wines but olso in restoring such as are defective ropy and decay'd P. 184 The manner of using the said Sal-panaristos for the bereaving Malt and Molasses-Spirits c. of their adustion and ill tangue whereby they are advanced to the desired perfection P. 185 The Authors Answer to the request of a worthy Friend in which is Contained the names of those his Books that are or shall be Printed by Divine Permission c. P. 187 Advertisement WHereas the Author hath formerly in his Writings made mention of a noble Spirit sc Spiritus Odontugiasus or Mouth-wash so highly approved of by the most Learned and Ingenious Persons for it's prevalency in demonstrating its unparallel'd Virtues in whitening Black Yellow and Corrupted Teeth fastning such as are loose Curing the Cancer and Scurvey in the Mouth after so safe and effectual a manner as to bring up new flesh upon the Gums and prevent the Teeth from future
fit for the Verge and an Inch or two of vacancy between whereby to put in the Water may you have an Artificial Balneum for rectifying your Spirits We shall now proceed to the second Extraction which is thus Take two or three Cans of Water put them into your Still and a small handful of Salt and charge your still with Low-wines to a convenient height let down your Head and give Fire then put your Beck into the Worm and gradually proceed till all is over the which you may know by the weakness of that which comes Observe You may also use a small portion of some Herb which hath a proper Signature with the Vine And it is a general custom among the Distillers in order to make their Spirits hot strong and fiery in the mouth to use Spanish Grains which are sold by the Druggists which do accomplish their end but with little other advantage to the Spirit Therefore do we reject it tho' a thing so much practised seeing more agreeable and pleasant ways are easily to be found Now we shall reveal one thing more which will be helpful to the Distiller which is in taking away part of the gross Sulphur from whence much of the Evil Tang proceedeth and 't is thus Take a pound of Wool wash it exceeding clean and dry it and with a loop hang it in the Head of the Still in which the oleous parts ascending will be insorbed and when the Operation is over wash clean dry and keep it for the like service Having thus finished the second Extraction we think it not amiss to show what quantity of Low-wines Proof goods and fine Spirits may be Extracted from a Quarter of Malt. You must know that in the first place 't will make about Fifty Gallons or something more than three Barrels of Wash which in the first Extraction will make thirty two thirty four or thirty six Gallons of Low-wines and these if you let them lie will in the second Extraction yield eleven or twelve Gallons of Proof Spiriâ— nay sometimes through the goodness and richness of the Malt thirteen especially if in the second Extraction you add some Water into thâ— Still which in the third Extraction we count iâ— truly Proof lose not many Gallons in a Tun. Note also the English receive their Low-wines Proof and Fine Goods in Cans but the Dutch object against this way saying that it is disadvantageous because the Spirit is exhausted through the Magnetick or Attractive property of the Air therefore they place large receiving Vessels their full height or more in the Ground so as to place thick boards over them in which they have two holes the one for a Funnel to receive the Low-Wines or Proof Goods the other to put in an Hand-Pump to Pump them out when they please which indeed is very commodious not only for the Reasons mentioned but also because the Still may be set lower a Funnel requiring not so large a space or height as a Can whereby it may be the better and easier commanded Thus having run through what was promised in this Chapter we shall here conclude the same and pass on to Rectification CHAP. II. Wherein we shall Treat of Rectification in general as also of those Mediums by which 't is best performed so as to make excellent Stuff and Artificial Brandies IN the former Chapter we treated concerning the way of erecting a Work-House as also of proper Utensils thereunto belonging together with the way of making Low-wines and Proof Spirits so that we shall here come to that of Rectification showing how far we can advance in making excellent Stuff and Artificial Brandies concerning the possibility of which we shall first give you the Opinion of that famous Radolph Glauber P. 1. pag. 57. Where he mentions the difference of Malting The difference of Malt by reason whereof it yields better or worse Beer and Spirit consists for the most part in the preparation thereof for being made after the Vulgar way it retains its taste wherefore it can't yield good Spirit nor good Beer which is observed by very few wherefore they could not draw forth good Spirit out of Corn but such as savours of the taste and smell of the Malt which is not the fault of the Corn but of the Artificer not operating a-right in the Preparation of his Malt in Distillation and Rectification For if it were prepared a-right in all things Corn yields a very A smaler Still for Rectification I the Ash hole â—… the Fire place â—… the body of the Still â—… the Head â—… the entering of the Crane neck â—… the joyning of the nose therof to tho Worme â—… the Worme Tubb â—… the Can The Common Alimbeck wherein small quantityes of Waters are drawn AA the Ash hole B the Fire place C the body of the Still D the joynt whereat the Head shuts into the Body E the Cooler containing water to refrigerate the Spirits F the joyning of the Receiver to the beck of the Alimbeck G the Receiver good Spirit not unlike to that which is made out of the Lees of Wine in taste odour and other virtues Which Art although it be not known to all yet it doth not follow that it is impossible To which Opinion we can the more freely assent seeing that we by our former experienced tryals which were about five years ago at which time we had a good quantity of our Percipiolum of Tartar by us have made most excellent Wines and Artificial Brandies from the chief Heads before mentioned Concerning which Tartar we have many Mysteries to write but for obligation sake must reserve some of them as being assisted therein by a Glauberian but however we shall lay the thing before your view by repeating the words of the Famous Author P. 2. pag. 139. Take white or red Tartar for both of them being well mundified are as good one as the other dissolve it in Water and separate all its gross Sulphur by a certain precipitating matter This impurity abiding in the Water is to be separated from the precipitated Tartar by pouring out the Water the which Tartar remains in the bottom like a Snowy Sand and is to be well purged by reiterated washings with Water so long until all the impurities being well separated the Powder it self becomes like to the white Snow He also adds that this may be so highly exalted as to be associable to Gold but the knowledge of a matter Precipitating Tartar is not easie to be attained to without which it will never suffer it self to be precipitated and purged 't is an hard thing to find but he that knows it it renders him all his labour facile and easie Any impure Tartar whether it be white or red may be so wash'd in one or two hours space and so Purged that losing nothing save its Faeces it will become most white and much more apt for many Operations These make such fine Spirits of Wine without any violent Distillation
from something which is a proper Product of this Land or else how should we supply our selves with good wares in time of difficulty and therefore leaving all Foreign things as Tartar Wine-Lees Chrystals Verdigreese or any Vitriol of Venus c. although we know that something from these if rightly prepared may be performed as well as from common Sulphur or Sea Salt and such others as are aptly made for the great business of Rectification nay we say from the Stone Parietes or natural Vitriol of Mars being opened by the fixed Salts contained in Hermaphroditical ones from whence proceeds a pleasant Earth which to our knowledge is very homogeneous to Viner Spirits for by it we are able before men of understanding to prepare better Stuff than hath hitherto been usually done although Concentrated Vinegar is not to be despised if so imbodied as to preserve its Tartness in its Vitality especially if the Spirits are so Distilled as to retain their sweet flavours for as we have elsewhere said from the tart and sweet together with the predominance of the Specificated Sulphurs come the different flavours unto Viner Spirits for if the sweet hath the predominance with the flavours of the Rhinal soyl then the violet taste is evidently discernable but from the red mold of France the tart gives the Rasbery taste and these again mixing give neutral and other pleasant flavours whose difference is easily discernable by curious palates although it cannot be so exactly compared to what 't is most like in flavour seeing so many curious ones are intermixed many things of this Nature might be said seeing Nature is so bounteous and large in her gifts even to the filling of many Sheets and that with profit too to the Reader but we must be forced to omit many things least the Treatise should swell too big wherein we design to be as concise and compact as may be yet we think it needful to stir up the minds of the Ingenious to the search of that which by Trials may to their great content be measurably attained for we know that Spirits prepared from the Products of this Land may be much bettered for as we see 't is no difficult matter to take the Garments off a poor man and to give him richer so is it the same in this Case if we have a true knowledge of the Fountain of Nature and if it is really so as the Ancient Philosophers testifie sc that in the Mineral Kingdom by help of the first Ens or Seed of Metals they can transmute all the impure ones into vendible Sol and Luna why then may not the true Spagyrist by help of the Universal Vegetable Seed take off the drowsie Nature of Saturn or Spirit of Barley or the Airy Nature of Jupiter or Spirit of Fruits and bring them into that friendly one of Venus and the Sun to which the Vine belongs seeing the possibility of Transmutation is by the most Pregnant Wits of this Age believed And there is hardly any one that pretends to any thing of Art but will argue for the same and there have been given such undeniable demonstrations of its verity that we think it an impossibility that any reasonable man should at this time of day doubt thereof neither indeed have they the least cause concerning this of meliorating and bettering Spirits for if the Ingenious and Lovers of Art and others that are unskilful in the ways of working will but take the Method we prescribe they may in time therein become prompt perficients because we labour what in us lies to encourage them to supply their own defects c. which to do let them thus proceed Your Proof Spirits being well prepared or measurably bereaved of their Maltish taste then charge therewith your Rectifying Still with a Can or two of Water according to their quantity and take any sort of Herb you best like with your prepared Salt and tie them up in a bag called a Rectifying bag and throw it into the Still lute all fast and gently and warily draw off your Fine Goods You must be very cautious of Fire and Candles especially where there is any breaking out of fume least they should Fire and so do a great deal of mischief for this Reason Rectification is abundantly more dangerous than drawing Low-wines therefore be not too hasty but proceed warily and moderately and govern it so that the stream may not run above the bigness of a large Crow Quill or at most a small Goose one and you must observe not to let it run off too long for the latter part of your Spirit will be apt to carry some of the ill savour with it to the great detriment of the former therefore let them be saved apart the first for Brandies the latter to be again Rectified so as to Fire Gunpowder and then it may be used in Varnishes or else it may well serve for some Compound Waters Now to know when all the Spirituality is come over you must proceed thus Take a Taster of that which runs in the left hand and a lighted Candle in the right throw it upon the Neck or Head of the Still at work immediately putting the Candle thereunto and if it fires and burns you may proceed otherwise your Operation is at an end Now your first fine Spirits must be allayed into Proof or the strength of Brandy with Liquor for the which some make use of this following Water They take Calx vive and mix a small proportion of Sassafras with it and being put in a Tub they pour Spring Water thereon and so letting it settle till very clear then make use of it but we are for making our Liquor by Distilling it through some Azural Salt for then it freely mixes without the least bubble or white speck and seeming Precipitation and being brought to Proof it may be a little tinged with the Tincture of Saunders and 't will not be a miss if you add a small portion of Spices in a bag as Cinamon Broad-Mace and Nutmegs and then have you good Saleable Wares especially if your Proof Spirits were truly prepared and from a good Basis Now if this tryal although Good Wares doth not in all things answer your expectation then proceed to a second or third sometimes with one sort and sometimes with another and in greater or lesser quantity nay you may mix two Species together and so proceed in your Tryal till your end is answered for your experiments will be little loss or cost to you seeing if you proceed not irregularly your Goods will be nevertheless vendible especially if you observe but the rules laid down But least some should object and say that those high Preparations mentioned as Spagyrical which Art we understand not are not easie to be obtained and so the Art of Rectification must remain wholly hidden unto us In Answer to this we must be forced to say that it proceeds not from any deficiency in the Rules contained in this
Experience must be the chief Mistriss herein and as you proceed so we doubt not of prizing our Labours which are committed to the World for the benefit of such as are groaping as we may say at Noon day for satisfaction therein but here if you clear your sight you will discern a small Lamp burning by the which you may open the Chest to the choicest Mysteries thereof I have described all the necessary Stills and Furnaces in their several Figures so that we shall now proceed to the next Chapter in which will be laid down all the necessary Waters that will fully supply the Distiller with what may be desired of him for publick Sale CHAP. III. In which we shall give you the Composition and way of preparing of Aqua Vitae and other rich Cordial Waters in their greater and lesser Pondus stated from the greatest Authority of Art THE Receipts here prescribed derive their Foundation from the best Masters in Europe sc German Dutch and English c. that have Master-like treated hereof so that we have been at no small pains to compare and then compute their differences thence taking such a Mâ—dium as that the subsequent prescriptions may well serve for either nay indeed much beter than some others extant for in the firsâ— place the exact quantity of the Spirit is mentâ—oned and in the second the just Pondus anâ— quantity of all the Ingredients even to a Grain Now as to the first 't is very convenient and helpful to the young Practitioners in this Art seeing they may be mistaken in that general term Taâ—â— Proof Spirit what sufficeth and so take either toâ— much or too little and thereby destroy the haâ—monious A Philosophicall Alimbeck invented by the Author wherein you may obtain Oyl Spirit and Flegm at one time and a Spirit so Etheriall as to Fire Gun powder A bolt head for a Receiver AA the Ash hole B the Fire place C C the body of the Alimbeâ—â— d d the Flews of the Furnace e A pipe to fill the still ff the joynt G the Head for Flegâ— and Oyle H the joyning of the Rpe to the Receiver I the Receiver h h ii the Coolor to Refrigerate the Spirits K the pipe through wch the Spirits Ascend NN the Helm for their Condensation Place this Figure before Chap III in pag. 59. flavours of their Waters so is also the second for many Grains in a Composition where various things are named will amount to Scruples and Drachms and so make a considerable alteration especially in such as are prescribed for Physical uses in the which we ought to be very cautious that so their virtues may answer the Prescriber's end Now having given you to understand the reason why we have stuck so close to this Method sc for its exactness from whence superiority proceeds what remains as convenient to be treated of in this place is only to mention the Measures and then go on to the Receipts themselves As to the Measures the Dutch use Cans Stopes Small Cans Pints Half-pints and Muddikeys The English Cans Gallons Quarts Pints Half-pints and Quarter-pints the Dutch-Can is six Stopes and three Stopes are exactly two English Gallons so that their Quarts Pints Half-pints and Quarters are abundantly bigger than the English but finding the English Can generally to be four Gallons which exactly make six Stopes which is the same with the English Can we shall divide our measure thus into Cans Half Cans and Quarter-Cans which is to be understood four Gallons two Gallons and one Gallon this the English may compute by their Gallons and the Dutch by their Cans so that neither need to be in any Labyrinth Now by the way you are to observe that in the following common Waters that a Tun of Proof Spirits will make near a Tun and a half thereof That is by help of the sweets and allays Aqua Vitae Composition the greater Distiller Take of Strong Proof Spirit four Cans or sixteen Gallons Aniseeds bruised one pound eight ounces three drachms twelve Grains and adding a Can of Water as advised in Rectification Distill into fine goods or as long as it comes pleasant If it should be above Proof you may allay it the way how will be shown hereafter Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three Gallons or ¾ of a Can Aniseeds bruised four ounces four drachms and Distill into fine goods as before directed S. A. Aqua Vitae A second Prescription and Composition the greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen Gallons Aniseeds two pound Caraway Seeds Coriander seeds ana four ounces distill into sine goods S. A. Composition the lesser Take of high Proof Spirit three Gallons Aniseeds nine ounces six drachms Caraway Seeds Coriander Seeds ana one ounce one drachm distill them into fine goods S. A. Y-worth 'T is the manner of the Dutch to colour these Aqua Vitae's with Alkanet Root or Turnsole which is Linen Rags died Red their manner is thus They take a quart of Aqua Vitae and of either of these four ounces Musk and Ambergreese ana grains fourteen or sixteen or more or less as they will have it in strength they stop it close in a Bottle setting it in a gentle Warmth and then draw off the Tincture the which when cold they add in such quantity to their Aqua Vitae's as they would have them in height of Colour But the London Distiller uses Gilly-Flowers Roses Poppy Sanders or any of them severally what sufficeth and infuses them in Aqua Vitae or Proof Spirit till the Tincture be drawn out then decants the Spirit and reserves it close stopt for use which is to tinge or colour your Aqua Vitae's upon occasion the proportion may be about eight ounces to one Gallon or what more or less you think sufficient to answer your expectation If you add in a little fine Sugar 't will not be amiss Its Virtues 'T is an excellent Carminative for two or three spoonfuls being drank will expell Wind in the Bowels or any other parts of the Body a spoonfull thereof being taken in any Paroxism with as much Water relieves or helps the Patient being also very proper for such as are weak and faint through obstructions to be taken Mornings Aqua Vitae aurea secundum Glauber or Glauber's Goulden Aqua Vitae Composition the least Take of high Proof Spirit drawn from the aurified Salt spoken of in the Chapter of Rectification one Gallon to which add Flowers of the Lily of the Valley twelve ounces red Roses Cinnamon Mace Cardamums Burrage Rosemary Sage Lavender ana half a pound Ambergreese and Musk ana two three or four scruples let all these Flowers be fresh gathered and being in the Vessel with the dried Spices let them macerate for ten or twelve days then distill If you cannot get fresh Flowers you must even content your self with dried ones but the fresh gather'd would be better if they can be had Y-worth This is an incomparable
it is perfectly clear Composition the Lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Ennula-campana-roots drie Aniseeds of each four ounces and seven drachms Cyprus-roots bark of the roots of Bay-tree or as much leaves Sassafras with the bark Cinamon white of each one ounce six drachms and fifteen grains Calamus-aromaticus Orange-pills drie one ounce and a drachm Clary red Mints Calamint Elder-flowers Camomile-flowers of each an ounce and an half Sweet-Fennel-seeds Caraway-seeds Angelica-seeds of each one ounce and a drachm Coriander-seeds Cardamums Cubebs Grains of Paradise Cloves and Ginger of each six drachms Pepper long and white of each three ounces bruise them all grosely and distill into fine goods S.A. then dulcifie with white Sugar three pound and draw it for use when it is perfectly clear Aqua Sudorifica or Water to procure Sweat Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit 16 gallons Butter-bur-roots drie three pound three ounces one drachm and an half Valerian common roots Aniseeds of each one pound and an half one ounce and five drachms Vincetoxicum-roots Sassafras-roots with the bark of each twelve ounces six drachms and an half Angelica herb dry Carduus Benedictus Great-Valerian herb and roots all dry Scordium of each one pound three ounces one drachm and an half Cowslip-flowers Marigold-flowers of each one pound Juniper-berries two pound bruise them all and distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound Composition the Lesser Take of Strong Proof Spirit three gallons Butter-bur-roots dry nine ounces four drachms and in half Valerian common roots Aniseeds of each four ounces seven drachms Vincetoxicum-roots Sassafras-roots with the bark of each two ounces four drachms and an half Angelica herb dry Carduus Benedictus Great-Valerian herb and roots all dry Scordium of each three ounces four drachms and an half Cowslip-flowers and Marigold-flowers of each three ounces Juniper berries six ounces bruise them all and diâ—â—ill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with White Sugar three pound Y-worth This Water is very excellent in proâ—â—king Sweat the Patient drinking an Ounce thereof â—â—d then to be covered close in bed by which means â—iny Disseasysdea's will be dissipated and carried off and â—e Spirits and Body strengthened Aqua contra Crapulam or Surfeit Water Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Juniper berries three pound three ounces one drachm and an half Enula Campana roots dry one pound nine ounces and five drachms Calamus aromaticus Galingale of each six ounces and three drachms Wormwood Spearmint and Red-Mint all dry of each four ounces Caraway-seeds Angelica-seeds of each three ounces one drachm and an half Sassafras-roots with the bark and White Cinamon of each four ounces six drachms and an half Nutmegs Mace Cloves and Ginger of each one ounce and an half two scruples and five grains Red-Poppy-flowers six pound six ounces and an half Aniseeds four pound bruise them all and distill into fine goods S. A. and then dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound Composition the lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Juniper berries nine ounces four drachms and an half Ennula Campana roots dry four ounces and six drachms Calamus-aromaticus and Galingale of each an ounce and a drachm Wormwood Spearmint and Red-Mint all dry or each six drachms Carraway-seeds and Angelica-seeds of each four ounces and an half Sassafras-roots with the bark white Cinamon of each seven drachms and an half Nutmegs Mace Ginger and Cloves of each two drachms and fifteen grains Red-Poppy-flower sone pound three ounces and an half Aniseeds twelve ounces bruise them all and distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar three pound Y-worth This Water is not only good for Surfeits but also for Feavers Agues and Obstructions and all others wherein a sharp and Acid ferment too much affects the Blood The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce If in this Dose you mix two or three drachms of 〈◊〉 Spiritus Mundus and drink it two or â—hree times a day it will cure most Plurisies without â—mae-section Aqua contra Scorbutum or Scorbutical Water Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Horse-radish-roots drie three pound three ounces one drachm and an half Enula-Campana-roots drie Aniseeds of each one pound nine ounces and five drachms Water-cresses Winter-cresses and Garden-cresses Taragon Balsamint Scurvy-grass garden Wormwood Brook-lime Trefoile water Sweet-Chervile of each nine ounces and an half two scruples and five grains Arsmart twelve ounces six drachms and and half Mustard Bank-cress Rocket Radish of the seeds of each four ounces six drachms and an half Citron-pils Orange-pils dry Cinamon white and Mace of each six ounces three drachms and fifteen grains bruise them all and then distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar sixteen pound or what sufficeth For use take seven parts of this Spirit and one part of the Juice of Limmons or more mingle them together and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth Composition the Lesser Take of strong Proof Spirit three gallons Horse-raddish-roots dry nine ounces four drachms and an half Enula-Campana-roots dry and Aniseeds of each four ounces and six drachms Water-cresses Winter-cresses Garden-cresses Taragon Baisamint Scurvy-grass garden Wormwood Brook-lime Trefoile water and Sweet-Chervile of each one ounce six drachms and five grains Arsmart two ounces three drachms and an half Mustard Bank-cress Rocket Radish of the seeds of each seven ounces and an half Citron pils Orange-pils dry Cinamon white and Mace of each one ounce one drachm two scruples and five grains bruise them all and then distill into fine goods S. A. and dulcifie with white Sugar three pound For use take seven parts of this Spirit and one part of Juice of Limmons or more mingle them together and dulcifie with white Sugar what sufficeth Y-worth This Water is excellent for purifying the Blood and for carrying off the Scorbutick Acidity by way of mortification for it sweetens the same all one as Spirit of Wine doth the Spirit of Salt The Dose for such is from two to six drachms twice or thrice a day Aqua contra Pestilentiam or Plague-Water Composition the Greater Distiller Take of strong Proof Spirit sixteen gallons Butter-bur-roots dry one pound nine ounces and five drachms garden and common Valerian-roots both dry Angelica-roots Imperatoria Gentian Enula-Campana Snake-grass-roots of each nine ounces and an half two scruples and five grains Contrayerva Zedoary and Galingale of each six ounces three drachms and fifteen grains Rue-leaves dry white Horehound Scordium Carduus-Benedictus of each eight ounces Elder-flowers Lavender and Mace of each four ounces six drachms and an half Citron-pils dry Juniper-berries of each twelve ounces six drachms and an half Green Walnuts with the husks one pound nine ounces and five drachms Venice Treacle and Mithridate of each three ounces one drachm and an half Aniseeds best two pound six ounces three drachms and an
Air may come in give it for the first day a ferment in the still and the second distil but as it begins to work you must damp your fire very close for it must come but softly so let it run as long as any goodness comes you must repeat this Operation a second and third time with fresh Grass and if you add in a little Volatile Salt of Tartar or Sal Anotasier Lybianus and have a Peuterhead you may distil and receive a part as long as it runs all fire the after running you may save for afresh beginning Observe when you think that you have too much flegm in the Still you may add a quantity of decripitated Bay-salt and so will it be deflegm'd the way to make the Spirit purging is shown in our Chymicus Rationalis but for the Powers proceed thus take Scurvy-grass and smeer it over with new Mustard and lay a lay of that and another of Scurvey-grass-seed so continue str sup str and smeer up the uppermost also with Mustard ferment with Water and Salt and distil into Essential Oyl the way is shown in our Chymicus Rat. then being separated unite one pound of this with six pound of the Spirit according to the way directed in other Powers and so are they Prepared Their Virtues These Powers are abundantly surpassing in virtue any other preparation of Scurvy grass whatsoever and as I formerly told you they were originally prepared by me in Holland and presented to both Vniversities which for goodness strength and pleasantness of Tast were allowed to stand parallel with nay some were of Opinion that they clearly out striped those of the greatest Pretenders in Europe the Modus Operandi of which I never so plainly before communicated but I have now done it on purpose to be serviceable to the Ingenious and to destroy the use of that sophisticated Spirit sold which is made in six or eight hours time with a little Malt Spirit and Scurvey grass made burning and sharp in Tast with Horse-radish but this Spirit is not to be valued for t is impossible to take out the specifick virtue of the Grass without an higher exaltation and the reason why the sick are often disappointed in their Expectation is this the slight preparation that many Pretenders make for the Grass will not so easily give forth its central Virtue for this when truly obtained hath an excellent effect in relieving from many Diseases and principally the Scurvey because the herb hath a signature against the Disease it helps the Liver Spleen and other Viscera in their Defects it fortifies the vital Spirits and gives Circulation to the Blood it s internal texture being made up of a Volatile Armoniack and Vinor Essence united with a vital medicinal Crasis and as the Learned Physicicians allow as well Modern as Ancient which that worthy Mrs. Experience daily confirms there is no herb in the Vegetable Kingdom of a more Specifick Virtue in curing the Scurvey than the aforesaid Scurvey-grass for t is a great Abstersive and so dissolves and dissipates congealed humours for by its Alkalisated nature it opens and mundifies and by it's Vinor are the Venoms imbibed and destroyed so by its carrying off all the Saline trude humours which are the Original Cause of the Scurvey whether proceeding from living in crude moist and foggy Airs where the Sea-damps are or from raw sowr fruits or exceeding Salt Fish or Flesh as is plainly demonstrated by the incident of the Diseaseupon Seafaring-persons especially such as use long Voiages it sweetens the blood this Spirit doth not only cure this Disease in all its Symptoms but also prevents it from approaching in such as take it for prevention sake therefore in brief what we have to say is that it is indued with virtue to give Sanity to the principal Faculties and is a certain specifick both at Sea and Land where this popular Disease Reigns as also in Camps and Armies against the Chill-bane and Rot which are usually there by which men dye as Chore-sheep Their Vse and Dose For the Scurvey Jaundice Dropsy Consumption Phâ—hisick or shortness of Breath these Powers may be used at all times the oftner the better The Dose is ten twenty thirty or forty drops according to the Age Strength and Constitution of the Patient in a glass of Wine Beer Tea or Coffee as best liked The Price is one Shilling an Ounce Now according to these Rules you may make any Vegetable Powers therefore we shall omit instancing such as depend on common places and come to give a description of such as are Compound Potestates Emundantes or our General Cleansing Powers Take of Venice-Turpentine four pound Tartarizated Spirit of Wine the like quantity and put them into a large Retort distil and there will ascend a Spirit and fragrant Oyl as we have shown in making the Essential Oyl of Turpentine in our Chymicus Rationalis the Oyl must be made Aireal by Rectifying several times from Bay-salt as is also there shown the Spirit you must pour on Frankincense and Mastick of each two ounces Aloeshepatic Date-stones Laudanum Castor the Roots of Bettony and Elecampane of each one ounce and an half Cardamums Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Galingal Cubebs Calamus Aromaticus Lignum Aloes Yellow-Saunders Zedoary Pepper Spicknard Lawrel-berries Smallage-seeds Mug-wortseeds Sweet-fennel-seeds Ani-seed Sorrel-seeds of each two ounces and an half the Flowers of Brasil red and white Roses of each three ounces Germander Tormentil Juniper-berries Agrimony Centory Fumitory Pimpernel Dandelion Eye-bright Feverfew of each two ounces Rhubarb three ounces dryed Figs Raisons Sweet Almonds of each four ounces Virgins Hony six pound Mevis Sugar ten pound to these add of our Fermentative Salt three ounces and being close luted digest in the heat of Horse-dung twenty daies in the Vessel described fig. 4. Then take out and clapping on an head with its Receiver lute all fast and distil in B. 'till all is over that will ascend which first will come in a white Spirit secondly more deep and thirdly a yellowish-red with some floating Oyl which fragrant Spirit and Oyl preserve and unite with the aforesaid Etherial Oyl of Turpentine Observe you may remove your Vessel out of the B. into a Sand or Reverberatory Furnace and by degrees of fire force over all that will come which will be a stinking Flegm with some fetid Oyl the which may be rectifyed from Spirit of Salt as we have taught in our Chymicus Rationalis and so it will become fragrant and fit to be united with the Medicine then take of Musk and Ambergreece three ounces Safron four ounces Camphire three ounces and Cohobate in B. two or three times till united and lastly force all over till dry in the Bottom the subtil Spirit carefully preserve out of the faeces that remains in the bottom you must extract the Tincture with highly Rectified Spirit of Cinamon as long as it tinges the Spirit all which said Tinctures put together and Filtre and putting it
in Baln adapt a Receiver lute close and call off two thirds the which may be put away for other uses then evaporate the Flegm unto the consistence of an Extract the which add to your Medicine and digest with three ounces of fine Sugar till united and if any thing precipitate decant the clear the which carefully preâ—erâ—â— for use VIRTUES These Powers are a noble Medicine carrying a superiority of Virtue with them answering all that is attributed to the Powers of Turpentine the Stone powers and others but if you esteem of Cantharides Hog-lice and dryed Toads distiled by violence of Fire and then rectified and united you may take them for me and I 'le administer these altho we confess that if these were dissolved by the volatile and genuine Spirit of Tartar or having respect to Glauber in his prescription for the Stone which is prepared by his wonderful Sal Mirabilis much might be expected therefrom for we know that a Toad altho so great a poyson may by these be so prepared as to deserve the name of an Arcanum in the Plague far above any hitherto known in the World but this being treated of in its proper place shall be omitted here and so proceed to speak on of the excellent virtue of these Powers which indeed are profitable in many Diseases especially in the Strangury or difficulty of making Water Stone Gravel Sand or Sline and such offensive things which obstruct the a Vrinary passage they open Obstructions and highly provoke Vrine being very profitable in all kind of Fluxes excellent in Fevers Agues Jaundice Scurvey Leprosy and all foulness and corruption of Blood externally used they cure new and green Wounds tho in the Nerves Old Aches Vlcers tho never so rebellious they are excellent for Noli-metangere's and Plague-soars Impostumes and Fistula's they case the Gout and are helpful in Rheumatisms Palsy and weakness of Members they are good in the Hemmorrhoids or Piles and many other Diseases for they will perform all that can be expected of a Medicine short of succedanous ones Their Way of being Taken You may take from fifteen to twenty drops mornings only iâ— a glass of Rhenish-wine sweetned with the Syrrup of Marsh-mallows but strong Constitutions may take thirty or forty For external uses where any grief is you must bath the part till relief is found for Sore-eyes or those that have a Pearl you must drop in a drop once in two days but for Wounds and Vlcers you must dip a pledge therein and apply it with some proper Plaister The Price is 2 s 6 d an Ounce Potestates Nepenthoe or our Annodyne Pain-easing Powers Take Poppies gathered in their right signature and in a cold Still Distil the Water therefrom then take fresh Poppy-leaves and putting them into a Matrix strow them over with Calx vive after the same manner as directed in making Potestates Rosmarini distil off about 5 8 thereof ferment with Sugar Distil into Low-wine and from fresh flowers rectify into Proof-goods and by reiteration into fine Spirits then take a large quantity of Poppy-seeds which by Art must be macerated and so distil into Essential Oyl then take of the best Thebian Opium and with the aforesaid Spirit extract all the Tincture and make an Extract as before directed and to every three pound of the Spirit you call over add one pound of the aforesaid purified Sal Armoniack and a pound of the prepared Calx of Oyster-shells and macerate them together with the Faeces of the Opium that was left of the Extract put them into a retort and by violence of fire force over all that will come the which preserve and the Faeces that are in the Retort set in a cold moist Cellar to run per deliquium the which exactly filtre and Christallize and you will have a noble Opiated Salt take the whole quantity of this Salt and of Cinamon ten ounces Nutmegs Cloves and broad Mace of each four ounces macerate them and put them into a Retort and pour the aforesaid Spirit on them and distil in B. to dryness then take this Spirit so prepared and aromatized and equal parts of the first Spirit put them together and add in the Extract and Camphire one ounce of the Narcotick Sulphur of Venus six ounces and of the aforesaid Essential Oyl eight ounces digest till united which will easily be if you proceed by Cohobation and Digestion as before directed These are wonder-working Powers and perform more than we are willing to put upon them being far above any Liquid Laudanum hitherto extant to the World and more prevalent in any Disease to which that is attributed for by this method is the Opium well corrected and brought to a safe and pleasant Medicine prevalent against Spitting of Blood Catarrhs Fluxes of any kind Terms Whites and Gonorrhea's as also in Restlesness Watchings and Fevers Melancholy Frensy Epilepsy Convulsion and Fits of the Mother Plurisy Vomiting and Cholick there is hardly a better Remedy to be found for any violent Pain or Restlesness in the Body whatever vain Applauses too too many fill Books with who make as if one Medicine should be Vniversal against all Diseases but our Knowledge of Nature hath learned us so much the contrary that we have a perfect abhorrence against this canting way however our limitations being given in other Writings we shall omit it here The Dose is from three to five from thence to twenty Drops in some Cordial Julep according to the strength of the Disease and Age and Constitution of the Patient The Price is 2 s. 6 d. an Ounce Potestates Baccarum Juniperi or the Powers of Juniper-berries Take of Juniper-berries twenty or thirty pound or what Quantity you please pound them small and putting them into a Tub pour thereon rain-Rain-water adding thereunto an handful of bay-Bay-salt and so let them stand ten or twelve days and then distil in a Copper-still with a Refrigeratory so that pure Oyl will ascend with Water in good quantity and when the Liquor and Berries are taken out of the Still if you press through an hair-bag filtre and evaporate you shall find good quantity of Extract and yet the more if they have had a ferment by some Gummous and Vinor Nature the Water that comes over must be separated from the Oyl by a separating glass and then distil'd over again with resh Berries and Calx vive as directed in other Powers and so brought to Low-wines Proof-goods and Rectified Spirits by adding in fresh Berries to enrich the same Now some talk of drawing the Calcin'd Salt out of the Berries but we as an Operator tell you that the Quantity will be so insignificant as not to be worth your fire and time spent about it as upon Tryal you will find if it is to cleanse your Spirit Salt of Wormwood or Tartar will do the same But to talk of Volatilizing this or any other fixed Alkaly in a whiff is stuff for 't is not to
either be distilled into a Spirit or sublimed into a Salt as you please But we say that you need not proceed so high for when all the Principles are so united as readily to dissolve under an highly Alkalizated Spirit then by Distillation you will have the flavours brought over very rich and fragrant and a sweet Balsam remain behind the which you must deflegm very carefully and by Digestion unite with the Volatile Spirit and then you have not only an Oleosum and Powers but also the Essence of that Concreat whose Virtues are so noble that they really will perform as much as can in Reason therefrom be expected as you shall see more at large in the following Preparation c. Potestates Abscinthii or the Powers of Worm-wood Take Worm-wood gathered in its proper signature rich and full of Seeds what quantity you please let it be somewhat gently dried chop'd small and then put into a Tub with water and Salt as directed in other Powers then distil therefrom the Essential Oyl remove and separate by a Separatory and the Oyl carefully preserve N. B. the Water will serve to macerate fresh Worm-wood to which being put into the Still you may add the former Oyl and distil again by which means you will not only get the larger quantity of oyl but the same will also be purer and richer of the Essential Virtues of the Herb Now the remaining herbs may be dryed in the Sun and then burnt to Ashes in a Chimney or for brevity sake let dry Worm-wood which hath not been distilled be burned the which will yield the greatest quantity of Salt which calcined Ashes put into a large Hypocrates sleeve and hang the same over a large Funnel wherein is placed a double Cap-paper and gently pour on the Ashes distilled Rain-water about blood-warm and so the saline water will pass through the bagg and be received by the Funnel from thence filtre into the under Receiver and become very pure you must observe to cast on fresh Liquor as long as any saltness comes out of the Ashes and when they will give no more place your Receiver in a Sand Furnace give fire and continue the same until the whole is evaporated off to a dryness then remove and put into a Calcining pot in a Wind-furnace and with a small Iron rod keep stirring until it is throughly glowing hot then remove and when cold put them on a Marble or Glass made for that purpose set it in a cold Cellar and let run per del the which again filtre and Christallize and so is the true Salt of Wormwood Prepared which is excellent for the destroying Acidities in the Body and stopping Vomitings of any kind But to exalt it the Essential oyl must therewith be spagyrically united as we have before said which in plain terms is performed by adding in our Dispositio media or Reconciler of Extreams what this is we have briefly intimated in our Spagyrick Phylosophy Asserted together with its Preparation but more fully and amply in our Spagyrick Philosophy's Triumph Trifertes Soladini and Ignis Astralis Adeptorum the which God willing shall see the Light they being preparing for the Press Now take of this Salt one pound of the Essential oyl two or three pound and of our Red Wine Q. S. E. to elixerate and then by a secret fermentative Coction like the heat of the Sun in Aries the Compound will be changed into a third Nature neither saline nor sulphureous but white and creamy of a saponary consistence which nevertheless is no common Sapo but Philosophical for we say that it is not sufficient to unite the salts and oyls by a bare association of parts but by a radical union they entring into each others profundity Now when the Circulation is so far performed as that the Alkaly hath drank in three times its weight of oyl and none swim on the top then pour thereon the pure Alkalizated Spirit of Worm-wood and draw off and you shall have a volatile burning Spirit very fiery with the oyl which is more noble Powers than any hitherto extant altho it hath not yet a third part of the Exaltation of its virtues for after the Spirit is over you have an insipid Flegm as also a noble tinged Balsam the which you must by Circulation unite with the former and so by another Rotation you have the true Powers of Worm-wood Whose Virtues are so many as that we shall not here insert them but refer you to the Famous Radolphus Glauber the Worthy Starkey and Renowned Helmont and that mighty Chymical Monarch Paracelsus and so proceed on to show the way of making the Essential Salt that being most advantagious to the curious Artificers in Liquors Whose Preparation Helmont expresly says may be Performed in three Months by his hidden Circulation without Water And we say that as the aforesaid Elixeration is performed being again dissolved in its own Menstruum by a gentle decoction the whole will be converted into a Christalline Salt a small part of the oyl only excepted which will be turned into a Rosinary Gum distinct from what is Salified which said Salt contains the Vita media and whole Crasis of the Vegetable for by this way of Union they contract from each other a wonderful Virtue for from the Salt proceeds the Abstersive and from the Oyl the Balsamick and Vital Nature both Contributing for the performing real Cures this is that Salt of Worm-wood which Helmont says is a true Specifick for the curing all kind of Feavers Now what we further observe in this Salt is that it hath a communicative Ferment to all Herbs for their macerated Tinctures being taken out as we have shown in our Chymicus Rationalis and Digested therewith in a Chicken heat 't will all in about twelve or fifteen days be converted into a Christalline Salt thus the Tincture of Worm-wood exalts its own Salt and so the like of other Vegetables Nay moreover by this way you may have a Salt of such herbs as will not by Distillation yield their Essential Oyls as Hellebore Jallop Briony Elecampane and many others nay even from Safron and many things of a more gummous nature Let this of the Essential Salt of Worm-wood suffice seing therein are laid down rules sufficient for the making as many more as you please it being rather a common place than single Receipt for as Starkey and Helmont say in the learning of one you learn to make all Now the way to know the goodness and true Preparation of this Salt is thus in the first place 't is very sweet and fragrant smelling strong of the Essential Oyl whence made without having the least urinous scent Secondly 't will readily dissolve in water without making the same muddy and boyl up again without the least loss of Virtue Thirdly 't is totally Volatile as is evident in this that being cast upon a Red-hot plate of Iron it will fume all away without leaving the least grain of
or Lunar Salt doth not only measurably supply this defect but also enrich and meliorate Spirits for having prepared your Magnet we shall give you the use of it in sweetning of Spirits Take of any sort of ill smelling Spirit or Brandy made from Corn one part of pure spring water two parts mix them together that so the stinking and ingrateful Savours may diffuse themselves into the added water having so done you must again free this Brandy thus tempered with the water by putting your Magnet thereinto and so will you draw therefrom all the stinkingness and 't is then just as if you had washed that Wine and rinsed off all it's filth without any charge or difficulty for the Magnet or exalted Salt desires not to contract friendship with any Impurity N. B. It remaining the same as before being freed from its flegm so that this Work is neither chargable nor difficult therefore the principal business is to be Master of such a Salt the virtues whereof are known by Experience because some years ago we have prepared it and are now again preparing of it altho at present the quantity that we have by us is very inconsiderable as having lost above two pound three ounces of it by the misfortunate breaking of a glass in a considerable Tryal for which great loss we often lament our unhappy mischance seing we might have been more wary in making smaller Tryals but this we shall pass by hoping that Providence may in due time multiply our Stores if not we must learn to be content submitting our will to the Divine Pleasure who distributes of his Riches and Gifts in his own time and there is no obtaining of it by force 't is his own free Gift so that if it is not again bestowed on us we may say with Helmont God Almighty knows for why he hath given the Goat so short a Tail peradventure we use not the Tallent bestowed upon us aright for we are convinced in our conscience that had we applyed it the genuin way it might have been helpful to hundreds that languish c. We having run through what is necessary to be treated off as to this Part shall Conclude the same only we think it Convenient to add this following and general Head Containing as it were a Summary of our Labours being an Answer to the Request of a Person of Worth which is as follows Worthy Friend IN Answer to your earnest Desire I have given you the Heads of my Books Printed and those ready for the Press First you have our Britannean Magazine or Assays to Artificial Wines which God willing we intend suddenly to Correct and Enlarge with Experimental Additions Secondly Cerevisiarii Comes or the Art of Brewing Containing the Grounds thereof proved and demonstrated by sound Philosophy Thirdly Chymicus Rationalis or the Chymical Art rationally stated and demonstrated by a short but effectual Course containing the Heads of the chief Medicines so highly valu'd Fourthly this said Treatise which is the Art of Distillation Compleat to which is added the Doctrine of the Nature and Preparation of Vegetable Powers Fifthly Spagyrick Philosophy Asserted or the true Physical Principles demonstrated by way of Answer to that Learned Dr. Boylwharf in which the Foundation and Preparation of true Specificks are so delivered as easily distinguishable from those pretended to be such by the Pseudo-Chymists a Work highly necessary and as much desired and therefore God willing as soon as may be shall see the Light Sixthly Speculum Morborum in which you may see various Opinions concerning the Original of Diseases and also discern the true Nature thereof Seventhly Medicina Rationalis or the whole body of Physick rationally stated upon a new Hypothesis containing not only the Original and Definition of Diseases but also their Cure Eighthly Historia nova de Thesauro Britannioe interno Celato or a new History containing the yet undiscovered Mysteries of Englands Gloay and unspeakable Riches which may be obtained by the true advancing of its Vegetables and Minerals by a multiplying and concentrating the Universal Spirit Ninthly The Magicians Magazine or the Wise-man's Store-house containing the chief and profitable Heads of all the Voluminous Writings of the Ancient Philosophers Tenthly Our Ideas of Divine and Natural Things being a Philosophical Discourse of the Macro and Microcosmical World all which shall be hastned with what possible speed can be so that I hope in the mean while you will accept of what is done for that our Resolutions are to improve our Talent according to the Abilities given and that for the Benefit of such as prefer realities as they are delivered For we can truly say in what we have done we have cleared our Conscience towards the Sons of Art as for my rewards I expect it at the Final End if I persevere in Christian Duties only to be the Sentence of Well done thou good and faithful Servant Hence forth is prepared for thee a Crown of Bliss Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for and Sold by John Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard In Folio THE Travels of Monsieur Thevenot into the Levant in three Parts viz. into Persia Turkey and the East-Indies Rushworth's Historical Collections Dr. Goad's Aphorisms of the Weather Tarsis and Leile a new Romance Book of Homilies for Churches Smith's Christians Religions Appeal In Quarto Mr. Love's Compleat Surveyor or the Art of Measuring Land made easy in a more exact Method than hitherto Extant Curious Enquiries in six Discourses viz. of the Longitude the Tricks of Astrological Quacks of the Depth of the Sea of Tobacco of Europe's being too full of People the various Opinions concerning the Time of keeping the Sabboth Mr. Strode's new and easy method of the Art of Dyalling Several Letters written by French Protestants refug'd in Germany concerning the Unity of the Church Foxes and Fire-brands or the Harmony of Popery and Separation Arch-Bishop Cranmer's Judgment concerning the Holy Scripaures Published by Edmund Gee with a Preface The present French King drawn to the Life Angliae Decus Tutamen or the Glory and Safety of this Nation under our present King and Queen The Church of Englands Doctrine of Non-resistance Justified and Vindicated as truly rational and Christian by Lewis Sharp Rector of Morton-Hamstead-Deoon In Octavo Mr. Boyl's Free Enquiry into Nature in English and Latine His Disquisition about the final Causes of natural things with a Tract of Vitiated sight His Martyrdom of Theodora and Dydimus His Christian Virtuoso Experimenta Observationes Physicae Wherein are briefly treated of several Subjects relating to Natural Philosophy with a Collection of strange reports Quintilian's Declamations in English with the Approbation of several eminent School-Masters of Lond. Lord Vicount Shanon's Moral Essays on several Subjects relating to the present times Reasons why a Protestant should not turn Papist Le Grand's Historia Sacra Situation of Paradice found out Dr. Owen's Meditation of the Glory of Christ Osborn's Works Divine Moral Historical and Political Dr. Newton's Compleat Arithmetician A double Grammar for Germans to learn English and for English to learn the German Tongue In Twelves The Modern Courtier Dr. Salmon's New Method of Cuting the French Pox wherein is the Practise of an eminent French Author with the Method of Monsieur Blauchard as also Dr. Sydenham's Judgment on the same Rider's Practical Surgery in Observat Cases and Cures both for Sea and Land Galliae notitia Or the Present state of France containing a general Description of that Kingdom Mr. Gouge's Young man's Guide and Word to Saints and Sinners Minelius on Virgil. Dyer's Works History of the Wars of York and Lancaster Mr. Evelin's French Gardener Bishop Hall of Contentment An Exposition of the Church Catechism History of Lysander and Sabina A Novel Observations on the Mineral Watch in France Books newly Published Dr. Salmon's Medicina Practica or Practical Physick shewing the Method of Curing the most usual Diseases happening to human Bodies to which are added the Philosophick Works of Hermes Trismegist Kalid Persicus Geber Arabs Artefius Langoevus Nicholas Flammel Roger Scriptures and George Ripley Compleat in three Books Cervisiarii Comes or the newest and truest Art of Brewing Illustrated by various Examples in making Beer Ale and other Liquors so that they may be most durable and fragrant with the true method of making Salt Water Fresh and the Art of manuring Lands by W. Y-worth M. P. Miracles Performed by Money A Poem Just Published The true Interest of Familys or Directions how Parents may be happy in their Children the Children in their Parents to which is Added a Discourse about the right way of improving our time by a Divine of the Church of England with a Preface by Ant. Horneck D. D. A Sermon at the Funeral of the Hon. Rob. Boyle at St. Martin's in the Fields by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum Mr. Boy 's Seraphick Love c. General Heads for the Natural History of a Country Great or Small drawn out for the use of Travellers and Navigators Imparted by the late Honorable Rob. Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society Ordered to be Published in his Life time at the Request of some Curious Persons to which is Added other Directions for Navigators c. with particular Observations of the most noted Countries in the World by another hand Finis