Flints Emerald Smiris Sori Spodium Peuter Brimstone quick and common Talch Earth of Cimolia Samos Lemnos Sylesia Topas Alana Terra Tutty Vitriol white blew and green When the ground of our institution required us then one to one simple and sometimes to repeat them in diverse places it pleased us to note those that are iterated in a different Character lest we should seem to make a needless repetition or increase our Catalogue for vain glory sake Well said Colledg Culpeper A. Also I repeated them twice or thrice when they did caused them to be set down in a different Letter also I hope it will make to my honor and not to my disgrace to imitate such a learned Colledg of Physicians Of some precious stones I spake before in the former Edition I shall here reduce them all into order and treat of such as were casually there omitted whether they were mentioned by the Colledg or no it matters nothing to me Precious Stones alter by a way manifest or hidden By a way manifest they are Hot in the first degree Hemetites Pyrites Lapis Asius Thyites Smyres Lapis Schistus Precious Stones cold are in the first degree Jacinth Saphir Emerald Cristal Lapis Samius Lapis Phrygius In the second degree Ruby Carbuncle Granate Sardony In the fourth degree Diamond In respect of property they bind as Lapis Asius Nectius Geodes Pumice-stone Emollient as Alabaster Jet Lapis Thrasius Stupifie as Memphites Jasper Ophites Clense as Lapis Arabicus Glutinate as Galactites Melites 〈◊〉 as Morochtus Break the stone as Lapis Lyncis Lapis Judaicus Lapis Sponge Retain the fruit in the Womb as Aetites Jasper Provoke the Terms Ostracites Stones altering by a hidden property as they call it Are 〈◊〉 Topas Lapis Colubrinus Toad-stone Emerald Alectorius Calcidonius Amethist Saphit Jasper Lapis Nephriticus Lapis Tibernum Lapis Spongites the Stone found in the Maw of a Swallow Load-stone Lapis Vulturis Merlucius Corral Lynturius Jet Aetites the stones of Crabs Amber Cristal c. The Load-stone purgeth gross humors Lapis Armenius and Lapis Laxuli purge Melancholly To speak a word or two of those which were then pretermitted A Water-Snake a string being thrust through her tail and she hung up a Vessel full of Water being set underneath into which she may put her Head after certain hours or dayes she will vomit up a Stone which being received in the vessel full of water will drink it all up which being bound to the Navil of one that hath the Dropsie drinks up all the water Lapis Calcidonius being hung about the neck helps those melancholly illusions and melancholly fancies In the Indian Sea are taken certain strong fighting Fish called Tyburones in the Heads of which are found three or four Stones sometimes more very white great and ponderous insomuch that sometimes they weigh two pound The pouder of this Stone is very profitable for such as are troubled with the Stone and difficulty of Urine breaks the stone in the Reins and Bladder Blood-stone is a kind of Jasper of diverse colors with red spots in it like blood stops the Terms and bleeding in any part of the Body Hemetites stops blood the Eyes being often stroken with it helps bloodshed being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly provokes urine and stops the Terms Pyrites heats and clenseth takes away dimness of sight Lapis Asius binds and moderately corrodes and elenseth filthy ulcers and fills them up with flesh being mixed with Honey and applied to the place is an admirable remedy for the Gout Christal being beaten into very fine pouder and a drachm of it taken at a time helps the bloody-flux stops the whites in women and increaseth milk in Nurses Lapis Samius is cooling and binding it is very comfortable to the stomach but it dulls the Sences helps Fluxes of the Eyes and Ulcers Dioscorides held that it was little inferior to Lapis Aetites in all his vertues That which comes off from a Whetstone of Cypress by whetting helps baldness being taken inwardly with Vineger consumes the Spleen and helps the falling-sickness Geodetes binds and dries being beaten into pouder and mixed with water and applied to the place takes away inflamations of the Testicles Pumice-stone being beaten into pouder and the teeth rubbed with it clenseth them Jet it is of a softening and discussing nature it resisteth the fits of the Mother Lapis Memphites Dioscorides saith that if it be beaten to pouder and made into an Oyntment and the part of a man which is to be cut off anointed with it it takes away the sence of it without any danger Lapis Ophites some of these stones have white lines in them these are an admirable remedy both for Head-ach and Lethargy all of them being born about one help the Head-ach and the biting of Serpents Lapis Arabicus being beaten into pouder and made into an Oyntment helps the Hemorrhoids Ostrocites a drachm of it taken in pouder provokes the terms being taken after that purgation causeth conception also being made into an Oyntment helps inflamations of the breasts Lapis 〈◊〉 is an admirable stone of the Moon the Women in Germany wear them as 〈◊〉 because they would be fruitful they cure the falling-sickness and being bound to trees make them fruitful Lapis Amianthus being born about one helps such as are bewitched Myexis being born about one takes away pains in the reins and hinders the breeding of the stone Lapis Armenius purgeth Melancholly and also causeth vomiting I hold it not very 〈◊〉 for our English bodies and therefore I will speak no more of it An Explanation of certain Uncupations comprehending more things than one under one name The five opening Roots Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Kneeholly The two epening Roots Fennel Parsly The five emollient Herbs Marsh-mallows or Mallows Beets Mercury Pellitory of the wall Violet Leaves The five Capillary Herbs Maidenhair Wall-rue Cetrach Harts-tongue Politricum The four Cordial Flowers Borrage Bugloss Roses Violets The four greater hot Seeds Carminative or breaking wind Annis Caraway Cummin Fennel The four lesser hot Seeds Bishopsweed Amomus Smallage Carrots The four greater cold Seeds Citrul Cucumer Guord Melone The four lesser cold Seeds Succory Endive Lettice Purslain Five fragments of precious Stones Granate Jacinth Saphire Sardine Emerald Culpeper A. I was the more willing to quote these again although they be almost the same in their former Dispensatory 1. Because this is all the good the Learned Colledg hath done their Country in this their refined Master-piece namely To tell them that such and such Roots are opening such and such Flowers Cordial or strengthening to the heart such and such Seeds break wind c. and if any should be so bold as to object against a whol Colledg of learned Physitians That they did the generality of the Common-wealth no good at all because they wrote it in Latin which is a Language understood but by
Bur Clot-bur or Burdock temperately hot and dry Helps such as spit blood and matter bruised and mixed with salt and applied to the place helps the bitings of mad-dogs It expels wind easeth pains of the teeth strengthens the back helps the running of the reins and the whites in women being taken inwardly Behen alb rub Of Valerian white and red Mesue Serapio and other Arabians say they are hot and moist in the latter end of the first or beginning of the second degree and comfort the heart stir up lust The Graecians held them to be dry in the second degree that they stop fluxes and provoke urine Bellidjs Of Dacies See the Leaves Betae nigrae albae rubrae Of Beets black white and red as for black Beets I have nothing to say I doubt they are as rare as black Swans The red Beet root boyled and preserved in Vinegar makes a fine cool pleasing clensing digesting sawce See the Leaves Bistortae c. Of Bistort or Snakeweed cold and dry in the third degree binding the quantity of half a dram at a time taken inwardly resist pestilence and poyson helps ruptures and bruises staies fluxes vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women helps inflamations and soreness of the mouth and fastens loose teeth being bruised and boyled in white Wine and the mouth washed with it Borraginis Of Borrage hot and moist in the first degree cheers the heart helps drooping spirits Brionae c. Of Briony both white and black they are both hot and dry some say in the third degree and some say but in the first they purge flegm and watry humors but they trouble the stomach much they are very good for dropsies the white is most in use and is admirable good for the fits of the Mother both of them externally used take away Freckles Sun-burning and Morphew from the face and clense filthy Ulcers It is but a churlish purge but being let alone can do no harm Buglossi Of Bugloss Its vertues are the same with Borrage and the Roots of either seldom used Bulbus Vomitorius A vomiting Root I never read of it elsewhere by this general name Calami Aromatici Of Aromatical Reed or sweet garden flag It provokes Urine strengthens the lungues helps bruises resists poyson c. being taken inwardly in pouder the quantity of half a drachm at a time In beating of it be very speedy for the strength will quickly fly out You may mix it with Syrup of Violets if your body be feaverish Capparum Of Cappar Roots Are hot and dry in the second degree cutting and clensing they provoke the Terms help malignant Ulcers case the Toothach asswage Swellings and help the Rickets See Oyl of Cappers Cariophillatae c. Of Avens or Herb Bennet The Roots are dry and somthing hot of a cleansing quality they keep garments from being moth-eaten See the Leaves Caulium Of Coleworts I know nothing the Roots are good for but only to bear the the herbs and flowers Centaurij Majoris Of Centaury the greater The Roots help such as are bursten such as spit blood shrinking of sinews shortness of wind Coughs Convulsions Cramps half a drachm in pouder being taken inwardly either in Muschadel or in a Decoction of the same Roots They are either not at all or very scarce in England our Centaury is the smal Centaury Cepae Of Onions Are hot and dry according to Galen in the fourth degree they cause driness and are extreamly 〈◊〉 for cholerick people they breed but little nourishment and that little is naught they are bad meat yet good Physick for flegmatick people they are opening and provoke Urine and the terms if cold be the cause obstructing bruised and outwardly applied they cure the bitings of mad dods rosted and applied they help Boils and Aposthumes raw they take the fire out of burnings but ordinarily eaten they cause head-ach spoil the sight dull the sences and fill the body full of wind Chameleontis albi nigri c. Of Chameleon white and black Tragus calleth the Carline Thistle by the name of white Chameleon the root whereof is hot in the second degree and dry in the third it provokes sweat kils worms resists pestilence and poyson it is given with success in pestilential feavers helps the tooth-ach by being chewed in the mouth opens the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen it provokes urine and brings down the terms give but little of it at a time by reason of its heat As for the black Chemeleon All Physicians hold it to have a kind of venemous quality and unfit to be used inwardly both Galen Clusius Nicander Dioscorides and Aegineta Outwardly in Oyntments it is profitable for Scabs Morphew Tetters c. and all things that need clensing Chelidonij majoris minoris Of Celondine the greater and lesser The greater is that which we usually call Celondine The Root is manifestly hot and dry clensing and scouring proper for such as have the yellow Jaundice it opens obstructions of the Liver being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk and if chewed in the mouth it helps the tooth-ach 〈◊〉 the lesser is that which usually we call Pilewort which though Galen and Dioscorides teach to be hot in the fourth degree and might happily be so in those Countries where they lived yet with us it scarce exceeds the first degree the Juyce of the root mixed with Honey and snuffed up into the nose purgeth the Head helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles being bathed with it as also doth the root only carried about one being made into an Oyntment helps the disease in the neck commonly called the Kings Evil. China wonderfully extenuateth and drieth provoketh sweat resisteth putrefaction it strengthens the Liver helps the Dropsie and malignant Ulcers Leprosie Itch and French-pocks and is profitable in Diseases coming of fasting It is commonly used in diet drinks for the premises Cichoris Of Succory cools and dries in the second degree strengthens the Liver and Veins it opens obstructions stoppings of the Liver and Spleen being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk Colchici Of Meadow-Saffron The Roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach therefore I let them alone Consolidae majoris minoris Consolida major is that which we ordinarily call Comfry it is of a cold quality yet pretty temperate of such a gluttenous quality that according to Dioscorides they will joyn meat together that is cut in sunder if they be boyled with it it is excellent for all wounds both internal and external for spitting of blood Ruptures or Burstness pains in the back it strengthens the Reins it stops the Terms and helpeth Hemorrholds The way to use them is to boyl them in water and drink the Decoction Consolida minor is that we call Self-heal and the Latins Prunella See the Herb. Costi utriusque Of Costus both sorts being Roots coming from beyond Sea hot and dry break wind being boyld in Oyl it is
and eat them whether they be good meat or no I know not but I am sure 't is a good medicine for the biting of Serpents An Oyl made of it is excellent good for the stifness of the Tendons and the falling off of hair Before I come to the Compounds lest any should think I go about to hide from them any thing that might do them good I have here inserted the living Creatures and Excrements c. in the order the Colledg left them for impose them they could not for want of Authority Alack alack the King is dead and the Colledg of Physitians want power to impose the Turds upon men The use of the Fat 's and Suets you shel have if you please but to stay til I come to the Oyls and Oyntments the other which you think not useful for Physick will serve to laugh at the reading of them may make you 〈◊〉 though the smell of them might turn your stomach My self cannot chuse but smile to think in what part of the Apothecaries Shop the Colledg would have them kept they had need place them neer the Civit pot Therefore consider that the Colledg gave the Apothecaries a Catalogue of what Parts of Living Creatures and Excrements they must keep in their Shops Viz. Colledg THE Fat Grease or Suet of a Duck Goose Ecl Bare Herron Thymallos if you know where to get it Dog Capon 〈◊〉 wild Cat Stork Coney Horse Hedg-hog Hen Man Lyon Hare Pike or 〈◊〉 if they have any fat I am 〈◊〉 't is worth twelve pence a grain Wolf Mouse of the Mountains if you can catch them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serpent Badger 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Bear Fox Vultur if you can catch them Album 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dogs Turd the 〈◊〉 of a Hare and a Hog East and West 〈◊〉 Butter not 〈◊〉 and salted stone taken out of a mans Bladder Vipers flesh fresh Cheese Castorium white yellow and virgins wax the Brain of Hares and Sparrows Crabs claws the Rennet of a Lamb Kid a Hare and a Calf and a Horse too quoth the Colledg They should have put in the Rennet of ah Ass to make a Medicine for their adle brains the next time they alter their Dispensarory let them go take council of the Butchers and allow them a place in their Colledg-Garden in Amen-Corner as they have done their learned Alchymist truly they would have knocked down such an Earor like an Ox and told them no creatures had Rennets but only such as sucked to proceed The Heart of a Bullock a Stag a Hog and a Weather the Horn of an Elk a Hart a Rhinocerot an Unicorn the skull of a Man killed by a violent death a Cocks comb to hang upon their learned heads the Tooth of a Bore an Elephant and a Sea-horse Ivory or Elephants Tooth the skin a Snake hath cast off the gall of a Hawk Bullock a shee Goat a Hare a Kite a Hog a Bull a Bear the cases of Silk-worms the Liver of a Wolf an Otter a Frog Ising-glass the guts of a Wolf and a Fox the milk of a shee Ass a shee Goat a Woman an Ewe a Heifer East and West Bezoar the stone in the head of a Carp and a Pearch if there be any stone in an Ox Gall stone in the Bladder of a Man the Jaw of a Pike or Jack Pearls the marrow of the Leg of a Sheep Ox Goat Stag Calf common and virgin Honey Musk Mummy a Swallows nest Crabs eyes the Omentum or Call of a Lamb Ram Weather Calf the whites yolks and shells of Hens Egs Emets Egs bone of a Stags Heart an Ox Leg Ossepiae the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard the Wool of Hares the feathers of Partridges that which Bees make at the entrance of the Hive to keep out cold if they make any thing at all for I assure you I could never find any yet and have been a diligent searcher after it the pizzle of a Stag of a Bull Fox Lungues fasting spittle the blood of a Pidgeon of a Cat of a hee Goat of a Hare of a Partridg of a Sow of a Bull of a Badger of a Snail they might have been a little plainer Testudo which is their word signifies any shell-fish as also snails that have shels on their backs any thing will serve to cheat the people with Silk Whey the suet of a Bullock of a Stag of a hee Goat of a Sheep of a Heiser Sperma 〈◊〉 a Bullocks Spleen the skin a Snake hath cast off the Turds of a Goose of a Dog of a Goat of Pidgeons of a stone-horse of a Hen of Swallows of Men of Women of Mice of Peacocks of a Hog of a Heiser the Ancle of a Hare of a Sow Cobwebs Water shels as Blatta Bizantia Buccinae Crabs Cockles Dentalis Entalis mother of Pearl Mytuli purpurae Os sepiae Umbilicus Marinus the stones of a Horse of a Cock the hoof of an Elk of an Ass of a Bullock of a Horse of a Lyon the piss of a Bore of a shee Goats of a Man or Woman that is a Maid and that is not a Maid the Moss on a Mans skull Zibeth Culpeper A. The Liver of a Hedg-hog being dried and beaten into pouder and drunk with Wine strengthens the Reins exceedingly and helps the dropsie convulsions and the Falling-sickness together with all fluxes of the Bowels The Liver being in like manner brought into pouders strengthens the Liver exceedingly and helps the dropsie The Heart of a Frog being applied to the Region of the Heart in a burning Feaver mitigates the fits to admiration The Heart of a Lark being bound to the Thigh of those that have the Chollick helps them it doth the like also being eaten Then the Colledge tells you these things may be taken from the SEA As Coll. AMber-greese Sea water Sea sand Bitumen Amber white and yellow Jet Carallinae Corral white and red Fome of the Sea Spunge stone Pumice Sea salt Spunges Amber METTALS STONES SALTS and other MINERALS VErt-de-greese scales of Brass Aetitis Alana Terra Alabaster Alectorious Allum Scisile and Roch Amethist Amianth Ampheliles Antimony Leaves and filings of Silver Quick-silver Lapis Armenius native Arsenick both white and red artifieial Arsnick white and realgar Argilla Asteria Leaves and filings of Gold Belemnites Beril Bole-armenick Borax Toads-stone Lapis Calaminaris Cadmia Lime quick and quenched Vitriol white blew and green Steel Borax 〈◊〉 Crysopus Cinabaris native and artificial whetstones Chalk white and green Cristal Diphriges the rust dust scales and flakes of Iron Granate Morter such as walls are daubed with Hematites Heliotropium Jacinth Hibernicus Jasper Lapis Judaicus Tiles Lapis Lazuli Lapis Lincis 〈◊〉 Litharge of Silver and Gold Loadstone Marchasite or fire-stone Marble red Lead native and artificial Myst Naphtha Lapis Nephriticus Niter Oaker yellow and red Onyx Opalus Ophytes Osteocolla Lead white and black Plumbago Pompholix Marchasite realgar Ruby red Oaker Sal Armoniack Sal Gem and Sal Niter Saphir and Sardine Selenites
binding Comfry the greater Wormwood Centaury Horchound Cardamoms Cyperus grass Calamus 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and of 〈◊〉 Compounds are The Oyls and Oyntments of these Refrigerans Galen Unguentum Album Rhasis Unguentum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Siccativum rubrum Unguentum Pectorale 〈◊〉 Chap. 3. Of ATTRACTIVES ATTractives called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 for the nature of Repelling Repulsive or Repercussive Medicines is to drive from the Circumference to the Centre but of Attractives to draw from the Centre to the Circumference They are all hot in temper and of thin parts Attractives draw by 1. Natural Heat 2. Putrifaction 3. Hidden Property 4. Fuga 〈◊〉 1. Such as draw by Natural heat are 1. Simple 2. Compound Simple are Onions Briony Leeks Garlick and now you may know a reason why the cutting of Onions makes your eyes run a water Birthwort Spurge Southernwood Nettles 〈◊〉 Gentian Asphodel Bdellium 〈◊〉 Euphorbium Water-cresses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carpobalsamum Frankinsence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rosemary flowers Cabbage Aqua vitae Sea water Ammoniacum Pitch Bitumen Calaminth Dittany Mustard 〈◊〉 Galbanum Pellitory of Spain Cantharides Crowfoot c. Compound are The Oyls and Oyntments made of these Turpentine Oyl of Bricks Oyl of Foxes Oyl of Bays Oyl of Dill Oyl of Rhue Peter Oyl Oyl of Castorium Oyl of S t Johns wort Oyntment of Arregon Matiatum and Agrippa Mithridate and Venis Treacle applied outwardly for 〈◊〉 Diachylon magnum Diachylon cum Gummi A Plaister of 〈◊〉 both Simple and Compound 〈◊〉 with many others which Reading and Dilligence if they be gentlemen of your acquaintance will help you to and furnish you with Such as draw by Putrefaction are All Turds in general especially Pidgeons and Goats dung Leaven Old Cheese c. By hidden Property as they call it All 〈◊〉 in general Amber Viscus Quercinus or Mislero Peony the Load-stone these they poor fools being utterly ignorant of the Sympathy and Antipathy of the Creation and by consequence of the Magnetick Vertue of things upon which the Foundation of Physick is built call them Hidden Qualities and so give Physick by rote as a Parrot speaks I could if I durst tell you of common 〈◊〉 obvious to the eye of every one that have a far greater Magnetick Vertue in them than the Load-stone but I must be silent till men learn to be Honester It is denyed me to write all I know By Fuga Vacui or driving away Emptiness It is a most certain truth that nature abhors Vacuum or Emptiness neither is there such a thing in rerum Naturâ let Baptista van Helmont speak his pleasure And this way do Cupping glasses and Horse Leaches draw and thus may you draw with a horn Chap. 4. Of Resolving Medicines THese the Greeks call Diaphoretica the Latins Carminativa and these are used externally as well as internally for it is the external use of Medicines we are to speak of in this place Their Use is 1. To open the Pores 2. To make the Humor thin 3. To Evacuate them by Sweat which is that they call Insensible transpiration They are 1. Simple 2. Compound The Simple are 1. Weak 2. Strong Weak are Savin Marjoram Rosemary Origanum Wormwood Melilot Arrach Spicknard Chamomel Dill Annis Cummin Hysop Fumitory Elder Dwarf Elder Valerian Southernwood Wormwood 〈◊〉 Rozin all sorts of Turds Turpentine old Cheese Wine strong-water Strong are Dittany Leeks Onions Garlick Vineger Aqua vitae 〈◊〉 of Spain all the hot seeds which you may find ranked in Battalia at the beginning of the Compounds Cinnamon Chervil Nutmegs Pepper Crowfoot Coupound are Oyls Oyntments and all Compositions of the former Oyl of Euphorbium Oyntment of Bays Diachylon magnum and cum Gummi Emplastrum de Cymino Oxicroceum Emplastrum de Baccis lauri Of Melilot Oyutments of 〈◊〉 Arregon and Martiatum Chap. 5. Of Emollients TEe use of Emollients is to soften hard places and bring them to their pristine estate of which we spake more at large in the Simples They are 1. Common 2. Propper Those are common whose general operation is to soften hard swellings and such parts and places of the body as are hardened by Congralation They are Propper which are apropriated to peculiar humors and belong to my scope at present for I intend not a Treatise of Chyrurgery but to givea Candle and a Lanthorn to light you through the Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters that you may see what a mist the Colledge being ballanced with ignorance and Sailing by the wind of Authority hath hitherto wrapped you in and compassed you round about with for take this for a general rule and you if you have any Ingenuity in you must needs confess Ignorance is encroaching and seeks Authority to back it But wisedom desires to be publick and is alwaies justified of her children To proceed consider that Emollients are more temperate than Attractives but less temperate than Suppuratives of which more in the next Chapter Also take notice that if the tumor be in any principal part of the body mix your Emollients with Astringents Emollients are either Simple or Compound Simple are Almost if not altogether all Marrows as of a Stagge Dog Horse Caìfe Bear Man Hog Hen Goose Duck Lion Goat c. The Colledge in their Simples rattle you up enough of them one after another I promised then to tell you what they were held to be good for and now I am as good as my word and although I am of opinion that there is a far neerer and 〈◊〉 way to cure diseases than they use yet this book if you have but wit enough to be a Physitian this Book I say if heedfully read and examined will so furnish you with the vulgar rules that you may be able to understand that when God shall enable me to put it forth A man shall never know any thing of the mysteries of his Creator till he knows himself and he shall never know himself First Till he hath the honesty freely to impart to others what God hath freely revealed to him for the publick good Secondly Till he hath the Discretion to impart every thing in its due season But to proceed to Simple Emollents where I left Gum Amoniacum Bdellium Opopanax Galbanum Turpentine Rozin Colophonia Pitch the Emollient hearbs you have them in rank and file at the beginning of the Compounds Linseed Fennugreek seed white Lilly roots Astrach Figs Wheat and Barly Meal Malt Flower c. Compounds are Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters made of all or any of these Oyl of Lillies Oyl of Chamomel Oyl of Earth-worms Oyl of Foxes Oyntment of Marsh-mallows Resumptivum Diachylon cum muliis aliis I shall give a notion or two and then I have done with this you had had them before had I not forgotten them and now before I go any further let me advise those that intend to reap any benefit by my writings to take a pen and ink and note down what ever they find of consequence in them for I
Book Or Oyl of Mandragues The Colledg Take of common Oyl two pound Juyce of Mandrake apples or for want of them of the leaves four ounces Juyce of white Henbane two ounces Juyce of black Poppy heads three ounces Juyce of Violets and tender Hemlock of each one ounce Set them all in the Sun and after the tenth day boyl them to the consumption of the Juyce then put in Opium finely beaten and Styrax Calamitis dissolved in a little Turpentine of each half an ounce Culpeper A. It is probable the Author studied to invent an Oyl extreamly cold when he invented this I am of opinion it may be used safely no way but only to anoint the temples and noses of such as have a frenzy If by using this Ointment you see they sleep too long dip a spunge in Viniger and hold to their noses it may be a means to awake them It is scarse safe yet if you let it alone it cannot do you harm Moschelaeum Page 149. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Musk. The Colledg Take two Nutmegs Musk one drachm Indian leafe or Mace Spicknard Costus Mastich of each six drachms Styrax-Calamitis 〈◊〉 Lignea Mirrh Saffron Cinnamon Cloves Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdellium of each two drachms pure Oyl three pound Wine three ounces bruise them as you ought to do mix them and let them boyl easily 〈◊〉 the Wine be consumed the Musk being mixed according to art after it is strained Culpeper A. It is exceeding good against all diseases of cold especially those of the stomach it helps diseases of the sides they being anointed with it the stranguary chollick and vices of the nerves and afflictions of the reins A. The Receipt was made by Nicholaus Alexandrinus only the Colledg something altered the quantities and that not worth speaking of Oleum Nardinum Page 150. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Nard The Colledg Take of Spicknard three ounces Marjoram two ounces wood of Aloes Calamus Aromaticus Alicampane Cyperus Bay leaves Indian leafe or Mace Squinanth Cardamoms of each one ounce and an half bruise them al grosly steep them in water and Wine of each fourteen ounces Oyl of Sesamin or Oyl of Olives four pound and an half for one day then perfect the Oyl by boyling it gently in a double Vessell Culpeper A. I wonder why they should put in Oyl of Sesamum or Oyl of Olives when every body knows Sesamum is a kind of purging pulse but purge or bind it is all one to them it seems So Authors say it Will that answer serve the turn before the Lord God Almighty another day I left out Oyl of Sesamum in the coppy because of that and if it be made as I have written it It heats attenuates digests and moderately binds and therefore helps all cold and windy afflictions of the brain stomach reins spleen liver bladder and womb being snuffed up the nose it purgeth the head and gives a good colour and smel to the body Oleum Nicodemi Page 150. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the seeds or tops of Saint Johns wort old Turpentine of each one pound Litharge six drachms Aloes Hepatick Tutty of each three drachms Saffron one ounce white Wine four pound old Oyl two pound The fourth part of the Wine being consumed in a bath or sand or in the Sun in the Dog daies after the tenth day strain it and keep the Oyl apart from the Wine Culpeper A. Both Wine and Oyl are exceeding drying that the Wine is more clensing and the Oyl best to skin a sore your genius though never so dull will tel you and therefore excellent for sores and ulcers that run much as for scabs itch small pocks swine pocks c. Oleum Vulpinum Page 150. in the Latin Book Or Oyl of Foxes The Colledg Take a fat Fox of a middle age if you can get such an one caught by hunting about Autumn cut in pieces the skin and bowels taken away the bones broken boyl him scumming it dilligently in white Wine and spring water of each six pound till half be consumed with three ounces of Sea salt the tops of Dill Time and Chamepitys of each one handful after straining hoyl it again with four pound of old Oyl the flowers of Sage and Rosemary of each one handful the Water being consumed strain it again and keep the pure Oyl for use Culpeper A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joynts gouts pains in the back and reins it heats the body being afflicted by cold and hard lodging in the airs whereby the joynts are stiffe a disease incident to many in these times Oyls left out in the new Dispensatory Culpeper THe Receipt is before the vertues of Oyl of Tobacco is A. It is a gallant remedy for deep wounds scabs or itch as any is under the Cope of Heaven and no way prejudicial See the Oyntment Oyl of Pepper Mesue The Colledg Take of long black and white Pepper of each three drachms Myrobalans Chebul Bellerick Emblick and Indian of each five drachms the roots of Smallage and Fennel of each three drachms and an half Sagapenum Opopanax Ammoniacum white Henbane of each two drachms and an half Turbith two drachms Ginger three drachms the branches of green Time and green Rue of each one handful infuse them according to art in a sufficient quantity of Aqua vitae Oyl of Walflowers otherwise called Winter Gilliflowers two pound then boyl them to the consumption of the Aqua vitae Culpeper A It helps cold diseases of the nerves as Palsies falling sickness convulsions wry-mouths trembling or shaking palsie likewise cold afflictions of the reins and bladder yard and womb gouts and all diseases of the joynts it 〈◊〉 makes thin and clenseth and therefore it opens obstructions or stoppings and breaks the stone Oleum Populeum Nich. The Colledg Take of fresh Poplar buds three pound Wine four pound common Oyl seven pound two ounces beat the Poplar buds very well then steep them seven daies in the Oyl and Wine then boyl them in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it the medicine will be the stronger then press out the Oyl and keep it Culpeper A. It is a fine cool Oyl but the Oyntment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better OYNTMENTS MORE SIMPLE Unguentum Album Page 153. in the Latin Book Or white Oyntment The Colledg TAke of Oyl of Roses nine ounces Ceruss washed in Rose-water and dilligently sersed three ounces white Wax two ounces after the Wax is melted in the Oyl put in the Ceruss and make it into an Oyntment according to art add two drachms of Camphire made into pouder with a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds so will it be camphorated Culpeper A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Oyntment this way others hold it not convenient but instead of Oyl of Roses they add so much