deafe eares and annoynted with olde wyne recouereth the hearing The water of Grummell dystilled about the ende of Maye or beginning of Iune druncke morning and euening for xxx or xl dayes togither to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time with a little of this water helpeth the stone the dropping of the vrine the Strangurie and griefe of the stone of the Kidneys and Bladder It also clenseth the reynes and Bladder The water of the Bramble berries The Liij Chapter THe congruent time for dystillation of the Berries is when they are full rype but not tarying till they be soft and it behooueth to washe them before and to drie them againe after to dystill them in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae Thyâ— water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone in children The water druncke fasting recouereth the griefe of the stone of the Kidneyes and Bladder The water gargelled in the throte profiteth the griefes of the Vuula and healeth vlcers of the throte by gargelling it hote fower times in the day The water of Mulberies The Liiij Chapter THe Mulberies are to be dystilled when they are sufficiently rype by Balneo Mariae This water gargelled to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time for thrée or fower times a daye recouereth vlcâ—rs of the throte The water handled after the same maner and druncke downe putteth awaye impostumes of the Breast expelleth flewme out of the bodie The water in lyke maner druncke expelleth and dissolueth the congealed bloude in the bodie helpeth the Cough and looseth the binding in the brest The water of the vnrypened Mulberies dystilled by Balneo Mariae dropped and applyed about the eyes greatly helpeth them This water often gargelled in the mouth helpeth the weakenesse of the Vuula taketh away all manner of roughnesse exulceration and heate of the throte The water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme with Rosed honie recouereth the impostumes of the Liuer The water of Nenuplâ—are or the water Lillie The Lv. Chapter THe whyte flowers of the water Lyllie when they are full rype requyre in the due season to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae This water druncke with Rosed hony morning and euening for tenne or thirtéene dayes togither to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a time helpeth the shedding of the gall and a hote and drie Cough The water also profiteth them which haue an impostume of the Breast with payne in the side The water druncke with Sugar preuayleth against the vlcers of the Bowels softeneth a hote belâ—â—e and recouereth an olde watrie rupture The water druncke in lyke quantitiâ— preuayleth against the heate of the Plague putteth away headach ceaseth the Cough and helpeth the impostumes of the Mylt if they procéede of heate The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wette in it morning and euening doth mightily extinguish all inflammations in mans bodie It also procureth sléepe ceaseth the inflammation of the head the Lyuer stomacke and heart The water especially profiteth vnto the cooling of the hâ—ade if it be often applyed rounde about and recouereth the heate of the heart by applying lynnen clothes without The water drunke fasting or outwardly applyed greatly auayleth against the consumption of the Bodie It also deliuereth the night formes of Venus in sléepe and taketh away the Uenereall delight for euer by drincking it fasting and washing the Genitals with it for fortie dayes togither The water applyed without with lynnen clothes wette in it doth in short time coole the burning heate of the Liuer The Water of Hasill Nuttes The Lvi Chapter THe gréene Hasill nuttes gathered and bruised requyre to bée dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of Iuly Thys water well laboured on the handes and armes morning and euening and let to drye in by it selfe putteth away scabbednesse and trembling or shaking of the handes The water dystilled of the freshe Hasill Nuttes druncke fasting to the quantitie of twâ— drammes at a time miraculously helpeth the Cholicke and grypings of the Bowels a thing sure and experimented often as writeth the learneâ— Alexander Benedictus The water of Walnuttes The Lvij. Chapter THe gréene Walnuts gathered and bruised ought to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of Iuly This water ministred to drincke to a wounded person twyse or thryse a daye putteth awaye the inflammation of the wounde the rather if a lynnen clothe wette in it be applyed sundrie tymes of the day The water druncke twyse a daye to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme putteth away any maner of heate and profiteth blacke Pushes as the Carbuncle and harde swellings in the grynde and other pestilent Blysters and swellinges by applying diuers tymes lynnen clothes wette iâ— it It also helpeth the Plague by drinking the like quantitie twyse a daye with a scruple weight of fine Triacle Certaine persons there are which dystill a water out of the Walnuts not ripe and whole with their shelles which is soueraigne and auayleable against the plague and for to foment the places afflicted with Goute right profitable as the learned Graterolus wryteth The water applyed with lynnen clothes wette in it putteth away Tetters in that it extinguisheth and ceaseth payne The water of the gréene ryndes of the Walnuttes dystilled by Balneo Mariae in September taken in drincke with a thirde part of Uinegar when the heate of the Plague taketh any and that a veyne before be opened and that he shall drinke it within .xxiiij. houres is a sure and approued remedie against the Plague This water dropped into the eares helpeth the rynging and sounde or noyse of them The water of the rype ryndes applyed doth lyke helpe those griefes The water of the Walnut leaues shredde and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May dryeth vp the open vlcers ceaseth heate and causeth a smooth skinne to growe againe on vlcers by applying lynnen clothes wette in it morning and euening for a certaine time togither The water of Palma Christi The Lviij Chapter THe rootes only gathered and finely shredde require to be dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae about the ende of May. This water druncke twyse a daye recouereth the perillous fluxe Dysenteria as the same of experience knowne The water like drunck expelleth the grosse humors of the body and by oftentimes washing with it greatly clenseth and cléereth the face The water is profitable ministred to madde persons and franticke and in the griefes of the sinewes A dram weyght of the fine powder of the séedes gyuen with thrée ounces of the water swéetened with a little Sugar preuayleth against the falling sicknesse The water myxed with pure wyne and druncke at dinner and supper for .xxx. or .xl. dayes togither doth lyke recouer the falling sicknesse The water druncke at the beginning of the colde fitte riddeth away the Quartaine feuer in short
dystilled water restoring weake bodies and most profitable in consumptions out of the secrete conclusions of Fierauantus Let a good yong henne be gotten that neuer layde egge this pull alyue whereby hir bloude may so be stirred vp and spersed thorowout all the bodie thus being plucked bare and deade drawe forth the bowels only beating after both the fleshe and bones togither in a morter adding so much of the crummes of whyte breade as the weyght of the fleshe and bones beaten beate these well togither putting therevnto also one handfull of the gréene or drie Scabious and so many leaues of golde as wey a French or Englishe crowne to these after adde so much of the water of the garden Nightshade or petie Morell as is the weyght of the whole substance which after let so stande togither for a whole night putting it then into a glasse bodie with a heade diligentlye luted and thrée pyntes of the best and mightiest wyne also added before the dystilling which after the fastening of the receyuer to the heade dystill in Balneo Mariae vnto the fecies remayne thorowe drie and then haue you the water Nowe to euery pynte of this water adde one ounce of our water of the honye of which shall after be taught in the proper place of this booke which let be kept in a glasse close stopped that the ayre breath not forth The vse of it serueth to be druncke both in the meales and betwéene meales which helpeth the drye cough of the persons diseased and sicke of the Ague and women traueyling in childebed and many other like matters doth this dystillation worke greatly to be woondered at The Alchymistes instruct and teach a waye of the drawing of waters out of the whytes yâ—lkes of egges by burying the substance before for fiue days in horse dung and adding also a quantitie of Salt in the dystilling The lyke doe they describe of the fattes and rosinie substances â–ª and many descriptions of the like waters may be vnderstanded and read in many practises of Diodorus Euclayon alreadie published by the Author The water of Swallowes helping the falling sickenesse borowed out of the methode of Rondelleâ—ius â–ª Take of swallowes vnto the quantitie of vj. ounces â–ª of Gastoreâ—m one ounce these mixe and infuse in wyne for a night and put after into a glasse bodie dystill after Arte â–ª let the pacient vse and take of this water vnto the quantitie of twoo spoonefulles once a moneth in the morning fasting A playster marueylously helping the scrofuls and Fistula c. It hath bene experienced that cutting of the heades and tayles of the snakes and clensing forth the bowels and after dystilling them according to Arte This water applyed on scrofulles and the Fistula doth spéedily helpe them this Fumanellus writeth A remedie against the Leprie prepared and made of frogges This one singular remedie and medicine I will not hyde from the worlde sayth Fumanellus nor lightly ouerpasse the confection of frogs which ought before to be fleaed and the bowels drawne forth then put into a Copper vessell tynned within and hauing sundrie small holes in the bottome lyke to the forme of a watering pot vnder which must another pot be set in such sort that the vpper standing within the mouth of the nether pot and diligently luted rounde about that no ayre at all breath forth these so ordred set into the earth vnto the mouth of the nether pot and couering the earth close and harde make a fire of coles rounde about the vpper pot the mouth of it like close luted which so long continue with fire vntill the whole substance and moysture of the frogs shall be dystilled The licour may be ministred or druncke euery morning fasting for a certaine tyme vnto the quantitie of the thirde part of an ounce And if oppurtunitie and iust occasion shall so mooue me I intende to make an attempt of the dystilling also of Snakes in lyke order as aboue taught of the frogges Nowe the forme of the vessels which Nicholaus Florenti teacheth to be made in his large commentarie in fermo 7. fift treatise and xxxix Chapter is on this wyse He first writeth the vessel or potte in which the frogges prepared be to be filled vnto the mouth with them and the mouth all ouer filled and couered with butter with this dystilled lycour being a noble medicine he instrudeth to annoynt the Canker that healeth it in short time The water of the honie combe procureth heare to growe and helpeth the harde fetching and drawing of breath or such short wynded through the straytenesse of the breast if thys bée often druncke it helpeth a mans beard to growe the more being sundrie times annoynted or wette therewith but farre better and sooner doth the oyle and honie performe the same whiche hath a moste great force in the lyke The dystilled honie annoynted on a bald pluee causeth the heare to growe and come very soone againe after the shedding of heare this Theophrastus Ioannes Montanus writeth that of hony may a strong water be made and that in the thirde dystillation of it to become a poysonable lycour â—â—t of Mercurie which is resolued by the strong water is to be brought intâ— a water the which will make a helthfull lycour and strengthening The water of honie to make the face whyte and fayre take of reddishe honie twoo poundes of gumme Arabecke twoo ounces these twoo myxe togither and dystill by a Lymbecke with a soft fire â–ª The first 〈◊〉 thaâ— coâ—meth serueth vnto the clensing of the face and vnto the cléering and whytening of it the seconde with the thirde lycour doth cause the heares to grow and become whytishe or flaxen of colour Gesnerus distilled a water out of hony whose first water sauoured somewhat of waxe where besides it was sufficient delectable and cleare and whytish which perhaps may séeme auayleable in the Cholicke passions The seconde water which dystilled forth had a certaine sowrenesse The thirde water which came forth tasted as it were vinegar The fourth water which came forth tasted in a maner as sowre as vinegar he began dystillation in the morning at the seauenth houre and out of halfe a measure of honie he purchased two small vials full in a daye in the euening he began to dystill and continued vnto noone in a maner he also prepared and made his fire to last vnto the ninth houre of the night and from that houre he renued the fire vnto the sixt houre of the next morrowe and following the fire from the sixt houre of the morning vnto twoo in the after noone then began a great fume or smoke to arise and yssue forth into the receyuet and that somewhat stincking and a substance also to ascende as when nothing remayned of the watrie substaunce then did the honie ascende then drewe I forth the Cucurbite sayth the author which I shoulde not haue done but rather haue set or lyfted him hygher in the ashes and then came
take the distyllacion by a Lymbecke of the quicksyluer of the syluer sublymed of Romaine vitryoll of each a lyke this orderlye vse A strong water helping a knob called Morum Bertapalia in the sixtene Chapter of impostumes take of Romaine vitryoll of roche Alome of salt AmmoniacuÌ„ of Salt gemme of each fowre thrée two and one these are the wayghtes according to order which dilygently brought to powder distyll in a glasse body fensed with the lute of wisedome and Ore doong and strawe myxed This water is maruaylous for by touching the rounde knobbe Morum with it both shortlye destroy it yea any other knobbe of fleshe growen on the skinne and this is named the strong water with which the Golosmythes doe seperate the syluer from the Gold. A strong water auayling in Fistulaes and is besydes of great vertue and power in vlcers Take of Salt nyter of Romaine vitryoll of roche Alome of eache one pounde eache fynely grinded alone and incorporated togyther put into a Lymbecke making at the fyrst a soft fyre the fyrst water that comes kéepe by it selfe dystylling forewarde with the increasing of heate vntyll the glasse bodye wareth redde then take awaye that second water and receaue the other by it selfe for the fyrst water is nothing woorth and increase then the fyre myghtyer vntyll the Glasse bodye and headde become redder forsing then the Ashes which are in the vessell to ascende vnto the necke of the Glasse and increase your heate of fyre stronger and stronger vntyll the headde be redde and that the redde fume ascending shall ceasse which shall well or euidentlye appeare in the Glasse the same thus come seale dilygentlye with waxe and kéepe the abouesayde water The Furnace through colde and the bodye opened you shall fynde in the bottome of it a redde masse or lumpe which kéepe The sayde water is stronger then the water of the worlde and hath maruaylous workinges in it For this water dyssolueth corrodeth the fleshe and reduceth or chaungeth all thinges of the worlde into a powder and water as the stones and mettalles If this bée heated it then gyueth vp a verye redde and myghtie fume This water if it toucheth by it selfe eyther the fleshe or a garment it dyeth or coloureth the same yellowe to Saffron which spotte wyll neuer bée gotten out for the colour or stayne on the fleshe contynueth many dayes and if you washe the stayne with Lye it becommeth verye redde of colour Further if you shall put a lyttle piece of good Luna that is of syluer into this water it dyeth then the same of a blacke colour which after cannot be gotten out or clensed away And if you shal put a lytle of Mercurie which is quicksyluer into it â–ª that it bée molten it is then caused mightyer then the fyre For if it then toucheth the fleshe it doth cauterizate or burne euen lykâ— to an yron fyre hote and is not fealt and is ryght notable for canterises or to make cauterizations it also mortifyeth all Fistulaes Cankers Carbuneles wicked and venemous humours If yron also bée put into the sayde water it forthwith heateth boyleth without fyre â–ª and if you put into it yron it causeth a redde water by the intermedling dissoluing of the yron And if you shall drawe or distyll the water by a bodye of glasse fensed the yron then wyll remayne in the bottome of the vessel and wyll be a verye redde powder which properlie is named Marses Saffron If also in the above sayd water you shall put Venus that is to say Copper it lyke boyleth and of the same is made a greene water And if you wyll draw that water forth by a Lymbecke then wyll a most blacke powder of Venus remaine in the bottome of the vessell which properlye is named Venus Lyme Note that if you shall put Saturne that is Leade in the sayde water it causeth the water cleare if you shall draw that water forth by Limbeck there wyl remaine a whyte Salt in the bottome that bytter Also if you shall put Iupiter that is tynne into it it wyll then cause of it a paste lyke to butter and if you shall drye the same as aboue taught the powder then wyll be whyte in the bottome And if you shall put Mercurie that is quicksyluer into it it maketh then a cleare water of the same and if you shall let the water of Mercurie to settle it wyll then fall to the bottome lyke to yse and if you wyl drye the same then remayneth a whyte salt in the bottome and strong as the styffest waxe And if you wyll recouer your Syluer when it is in the water put then in the same water crude Mercurie and the good Syluer wyll incontinent enter within the Mercurie after emptye the water and take the myxion which put into a Goates skynne wryng the substaunce verye harde and the Mercurie or quicksyluer wyll then issue forth the substaunce which shal remayne in the skinne put into a Crucible to be molten and you shall then finde the good syluer Also if you shall put Golde in the same water it causeth the water yelowe of it and if you shall drye the same then is a golden salt caused bytter as the earth that auayleth in the drying of Fistulaes If also you shall dyssolue one part of good Luna or syluer in the sayde water and so muche of Mercurie or quicksyluer and so much of the whyte sublymed Syluer and a fowrth part of one of these of Tutia Alexandrina and shall drawe this water by a Lymbecke all these then shall remayne in the bottome of the glasse vnto the fourme of a stone of which stone put one part vpon fowre parts of Copper molten and it shall soone after become so whyte as the syluer 〈…〉 if you â—hall ioâ—ne good Syluer then maye fayre ornamentes be made of the same Also if you 〈…〉 cause lâ—ttle vesselleâ— or small rynges or any othâ—r thinges be made of halfe Golde and halfe Syluer and that after you shall take the redde substaunce which remayned in the 〈…〉 the vessell of the 〈…〉 and wyll bring it into fine powder you shall then doe or worked 〈…〉 â—nother water pâ—euayling 〈…〉 and the taking aâ—â—ye of thicke skyâ—nes and harde fleshe gathered take of Cuperosa that is Romayne vitryoll of Salt nyter of 〈…〉 made of each a lyke quanâ—â—tie these after tâ—e dilyâ—â—nt 〈…〉 â—ndâ—nyring tâ—gither distyl â—y a Lymbeck according to arte The fyrst water yssuing or comming forth iâ— whyte thâ—t 〈…〉 pymples aâ—d 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 cleansing thicke and harde â—nottie fleshe the other water is redde which cleâ—nseth both knobbes and wartes and healeth all those which I have aboue vttered Or thus take of vnslâ—â—ed Lyme newe made thrâ—e ounces of 〈…〉 Euphorbiâ—m 〈◊〉 ounce 〈◊〉 these beaten a parte myxe dyligently with hâ—th halfe a poâ—nâ—e of oyle of Tyle stones which after distyll according to arte that distylled and come kéepe in a glasse both for thicke gatheringes and
spattle after straine the lycor putting into it then of the greene Verdigres brought to powder the same styrre styll about vntyll it be in a maner colde these maye also be boyled in burning water preserued after in a glasse close stopped This out of Fumanellus A precious oyle compared to Golde in that the same cureth all euyls of the Legs synewes cutte it increaseth or procureth flesh to ryse closeth vlcers it remooueth besides paine it cureth the Fistula the CaÌ„ker al old vlcers except those which happeÌ„ on the head In the moneth of May take of Apium one handfull of Rosemarie so much of Sage Rue of each one handfull of Herba laurentia Florum omnium menseum of both thrée handfuls of Tapsus Barbatus of Lanceola of Celondine of ech two hanfuls of wormwood one handfull of common oyle two pyntes of good Turpentine one pounde of Galbanum two ounces of the Rosen of the Pyne tree two poundes of Viridis aeris or Diphrygis brought to powder two ounces the iuyce of the hearbes strayned and myxed with the oyle â–ª and Turpentine boyle on a softe fire of coales sturring the lycour continually about with a spattle vnto the consumpâ—â—â—n of the iuyce to which after the strayning adde of Viridis aâ—â—is brought to pouder and styl sturre the lycour about vntyll it taâ—â—n from the fire be colde which after put vp in a glasse close stopped An artificiall baulme prepared made without distyllation that auayleth in woundes and cureth them without the ingendrinâ— or procuring of matter it helpeth also the palsie members stayâ—th the blood and water which yssueth out of the wounded ioynts this borrowed out of a certaine Emperickes booke written in the Germayne tongue take of Rubarbe two drams cutte and pared into round balles to which adde of Camphora one dram a halfe these after put into a tynne porrenger powring vpon one ounce and a halfe of common oyle Olyue the same let stand in the Sunne for fowretéene dayes Another approued baulme out of the same booke take a glasse which is about a pynt in measure the same fyll with Spyknarde vpon which powre halfe a pynt of good Sallet oyle letting it after stande for a moneth in the Sunne which alwayes styrre about To it after adde of the oyle of Violettes two ounces of the oyle of Spike so much of the oyle of Camomyl and of the oyle of Roses of eache two ounces all these myxed togyther let stande for a whole moneth Another of the same man 's not to be contempned take of Galbanum of Ammoniacum and of Bolellium of each halfe an ounce of chosen Myrre of Masticke whyte Frankensence of ech halfe an ounce all these stiepe in the strongest vineger for thrée dayes and dissolued after powre the whole into an earthen Bason or pan wel glased within which set ouer a fire of coales without flame putting into it then of Turpentine two ounces of Sallet oyle two pyntes and a halfe let these boyle togyther in sturring the whole styll obout vntyll the Feces stick or cleaue to the bottome Which come to passe or being on such wyse adde then to it of Viridiâ— aeris brought to powder halfe an ounce the same taken from the fyre and become through colde straine through a lynnen cloath putting the lycour dyligently vp into a glasse to your vse for this auayleth in all woundes by applying lynt and tentes wette in it Another noble Baulme take halfe a pynte of common oyle with which myxe Violettes in a glasse setting the same after in the Sunne and the lyke doe with Broome flowers and leaues of the same after take of Galbanum two drams and a halfe of Bolellium of Ammoniacum and of Myrre of eache halfe an ounce of Masticke two drammes let the gummes afore be dissolued in the strongest vineger which after myxe togyther with the oyles and flowers strayning the whole through a lynnen cloath into a well glased potte the same set ouer a fyre of coales and when the oyle is hote powre in the Turpentyne heated and molten with the gummes dyssolued sturring them styll about that they burne not to the potte sydes and be carefull also that the lycour runneth not ouer then put into it of Viridis aeris finelie brought to powder halfe an ounce or sixe drammes and setting this agayne to the fyre sturre continually about vntyll the remoouing from the fire it shall be through cold which after the strayning put into a glasse and keepe â—â—â—se stopped to your vse Another â—elâ—â—ng members shruncke borrowed out of the practyses of Theophrastus paracellus take of distylled Turpentine one pounde â–ª of the gumme Galbanum and of Dyttanie halfe a pounde to these artlie myxed togyther â–ª adde of the oyle of Bayes one ounce which after made a Baulme with it annoynt members shruncke for many moneths and it shortly recouereth them The oyle Benedicke also myxed with the fatte of a Gray or Badger and the members annoynted with it doth marueylouslye worke in this case Another of the same mannes auayling in woundes Take of oyle Olyue one pynt â–ª of Saint Iohns woort of Bytonie of Centorie and of the hearbe selfe heale of eache one handfull these hearbes after the stamping and the iuyre wrynged out or onelye stamped and myxed with the oyle let them distyll in a glasse all the Summer after wryng forth the whole through a cloath which keepe for a nobler can not be found for woundes in that the same cureth them by the onely annoynting morning and euening without the applying of any other medycine this also expelleth the humours â–ª and farre otherwyse is then can well be vttered and what matters seeme impossible to be done by the helpe of this are speedilie perfourmed as in euery incarnating and closing togyther and healing so well in fractures as in bruses and such lyke Of the oyles gotten out of Flowers The xij Chapter THe oyle of Spyke is thus prepared if so be the Spyke be infused in wyne and distylled an oyle fyrst followe where a water otherwyse by distyllacion I gesse in Sande shoulde be seperated This oyle annoynted on the region of the kydneys helpeth the Gonorrhaea A certayne friend of the Aucthours hauing his wyfe nowe and then sicke procured to be ministred to hir in a draft of wyne but two drops of the distylled oyle of Spyke which after shée had druncke downe was brought by it in great hazard of lyfe but through it shee voyded soone many worms and recouered within short space The oyle of the common Spykenarde which is brought out of Fraunce doth Brassanolus commend but he affyrmeth that lyttle woorth or of lesser accoumpt to be made of which certayne prepare make of the Lauender in Italie the same writeth he that many name a Balsamyne vse it in the stéede of a naturall baulme Of the oyle of Spyke which many vsed in the steede of baulme and of his properties was fullie and at large
are woont to lute theyr bodies for the purchasing of strong water after the head set on he lyke luted the ioynt of the head round about the ioynt of the receauer in the same maner that no spirites shoulde breath forth The body thus fenced he set into the Furnace making vnder a soft fyre in the begynning but next a bygger last a strong fire euen as they doe which distyl the strong water and drawne it was for truth an oyle most excellent of sauour swymming aboue the water come in the Receauer which he dilygentlie gathered for he affirmed the same to be of great vertue in sundry matters The oyle of Mace is of a hote quality for that cause the vse of it is ryght profitable in the collicke passion procéeding of a colde cause and of the rewme distylling or descending from the head it comforteth also the heart the stomacke matrice But a most singular helpe in especiall is felt of this oyle in the tremblings of the heart proceeding of feare or through the stopping of the bladder or matrice it auayleth besides in the strangurie and helpeth all diseases proceeding of a colde matter A thrée or fowre droppes may be ministred or taken by the mouth at a tyme prepared with some other dayntye matter or in an yron Ladle or great spoone ouer the fyre or in a freshe draft of good wyne this borrowed out of an vnknowne Aucthor in the Germain tongue An oyle out of Mace may be gotten by pressing forth in the same maner as shall after be taught in the fourme and way of preparing the oyle of Cloues An oyle distylled out of Pepper hauing all those propertyes which the Pepper it self sauing that the same burning which the Pepper procurrth on the tongue is not the lyke fealt by tast in that oyle This oyle of the pepper is none other matter then an ayriall element seperated froÌ„ the other elements euen as the lyke wee proue in the distylled oyle of the vitryoll brymstone In the same maner is the oyle of pepper throughly seperated from his burning consisteth or hath greater properties then the Pepper it selfe hath the singular propertie of piersing In the Collicke passion and partes stuffed with much soft clammy flewme let two or three droppes of it be ministred or taken with broth vnto the cutting a sunder and breaking away of it I gaue sayth a certayne Practisioner in the Tertiane ague after a purgation the bleeding by vaine done thrée droppes of this oyle with one scruple of Mina two howres before the sytte began and it letted within once or twyse taking â–ª yea and maystred the cold the shaking the Ague it selfe to the wonder of the pacient And he further affyrmeth of it that if this auayleth not in the first giuing it wholy cureth in the second tyme. An oyle of Cloues is lyke prepared gotten as the oyle of Iuniper berries and not as the oyle of Cinamon This oyle is farre sooner and easier purchased if the same distyllatinn be done with waters as oyther â—ayne or ponde waters or other more dayntie waters The Cloues besydes haue a farre more moysture contained in them then hath the Cinamon There be some yea many which doe lyke prepare and get an oyle of Cloues by onely pressing forth Take of Cloues what quantity you wyl those beate in a grosse maner which after stiepe in Rosewater so long vntil you thinke it hath throughly purchased the qualities effectes of the Cloues Then take a quantity of good Almondes cleane whyte scraped with a knyfe those lightly cutte into pieces which after infuse in the sayde water that they may throughly drinck in of the sauour and taste of the Cloues those then lay a sunder to drie which dryed infuse againe in the sayd water and those drye againe this doe for fowre tymes togyther After put into bagges presse an oyle forth which set in the Sun to purify for a tyme And in this maner also may many profitable oyles be prepared gotten as an oyle out of Muske Amber and Beniamine Storax Cynamon Mace. This borrowed out of a written booke of the Aucthours An oyle of Cloues that is as the Cloues it selfe being hote and drye in the thyrde degrée which helpeth the stomack the Lyuer the heart the humorall fluxe of a cold cause all cold diseases of the stomacke The Cloues put away Melancholie spirites and cleare the grosse but the oyle doth these farre excellenter and as I may soothly affirme sayth the Aucthour it hath all the vertues of a Baulme For this doth heale outwardly freshe and gréene wounds It stateth the yssewing of blood water out of wounds It comforteth within the naturall partes it purgeth Melancholy blood it comforteth the heart head and doth especially helpe the gyddynesse of the head and weaknesse of sight if in the morning thrée or fowre drops of it be taken fasting in a spoone with some pleasaunt syrupe or other daynty thing or in wyne Of the oyle of Cloues wryteth another who thus sayth this I dare affyrme that it hath the vertues of baulme I saw sayth he a wound closed and healed by it without stitching by one Ioachimus Rhoeticus And as touching the other worthie effects of this oyle I by sylence ouer passe which this doth in strengthning in restoring especially decayed strength The oyle of Cloues druncke to the quantity of two or thrée droppes in the broath or â—ulleys of a Capon doth then auaile in the Collick suffocations of the wombe Tables or losings prepared and made of the oyle of Cloues and eating of them morning euening doe strengththen the head and staye rewmes Of the oyles out of gummes teares or lycours thyckned or coniealed and Rosens The .xvj. Chapter THE · COVER THe oyles of Gums or Teares may thus be distylled take of Gâ—ins what quantity you wyll those put into a Retort set in ashes which in the begynning distyl with a soft fyre but after increase by lyttle and lyttle vntyl no more wyll come and the oyle powre forth which must thus be recâ—tifyed take an other fayre Retorte into which shyft the oyle the same set into ashes distyll agayne with a very gentle fyre and you shal obtaine a most pure oyle piercing and entering much better the powers of the body And in the same maner rectyfy oyles drawne out of wooddes the séedes and Baulme Lullius distylleth an oyle out of a gumme or gummie matter being before well brayed and infused for a daye in sowre verguice or sharpe vineger An oyle out of Masticke is gotten by descentioÌ„ in a Retorte in such manner ordred that the fyre be made both aboue and vnder it and you shall so purchase an oyle of Mastick which after may be rectifyed as aboue taught A certayne Practisioner in the worthy Citie of Auguste distylleth it on this wyse in taking whole Masticke and it alone putteth into a Retorte luted vnto that parte
Grapes not rype or greene Pomegranates Seruices Medlars wyld Slâ—es Quinces Lemons c. Or out of hearbes hauing lytle moysture and the same clammye as the Iuie the Purselan Cotylidone the Houselyke c. Out of which not simplie a iuyce can be had or gotten but through water poured vpon or other lycour lyke to the properties of them that neede wringing or pressing out that pressed out togither with the same humour the force and vertue of the symple hearbe maye so be purchased or if brused and put into a strayner or Bagge and hanged in a colde Seller or place that the iuyce by lytle and lytle may droppe into a dyshe or Porrendger set vnder Of these and such lyke drawings forth of iuyces which in shoppes in a vessell with a narrow mouth oyle being poured vpon finger highe or sprinckled with Salt as appeareth of the iuyce of vnripened fruites vnto Phisick vse set vp and kept we meane here to intreate nothing thereof nor the lyke of certaine others which in the Sun by a dayly moouing are dryed and thyckned and that in the shadow as the iuyce of Sloes in an Ouen or Furnace or other hote place â–ª included and haÌ„ged to drye But we wyll onely intreate of those iuyces which are described out of rootes and the dryer hearbes or such hauing but verye lytle moysture stieped for certaine dayes in water or any other lycour distylled after by Balneum Mariae that seperated from the watery moysture that substaunce of the matter infused pure and sincere may be left somwhat grosser or without distyllation by boyling only conuerted into a vapour hauing a straunge humour the substaunce of the matter infused may thicken strayned before or the whole water distylled by Fyltre c. And the vse of this drawing foorth or substaunce purchased â–ª which of the iuyce taken in a smal quantity yeeldeth great commodities in our bodyes For where of Medicines in the whole substance is want to be giuen one ounce of the iuyce drawne sufficeth onelye one dramme in which vndoubtedlye maye the sicke be much delighted and pleased especiallye seeing many are woont much to abhorre the takyng of Medicines And this is to be noted in the drawinges â–ª that if the spirit shal not be sufficient pure or dilligently seperated insomuch that somwhat of the earthinesse yet remayneth and maye containe that then the vertue or propertye of the matter drawne is myxed to this earthynesse and ascendeth and euaporateth togyther But the sincere and pure spirit doth cause this least in that out of the matter drawne this descendeth without any sauour or taste and for that cause is the spyrit easilie seperated by Balneum Mariae whose heate exéedeth not the degree of heate which consisteth or is in mans vryne Yet it behooueth also that the wate by which the washing is caused be verie subtyll euen lyke as the spyrit of the wyne least the euyll qualitie of the water may ascende togyther But a sure tryall and knowledge of the water is if it shal be without taste or savour The drawing of hearbes and other remedies with burning water perfytelie distylled in Balneo Mariae c. As out of Rubarbe Agaricke Ellebore and Guaicum according to Theophrastus instruction The .x. Chapter THe artificiall drawing of symple matters are wrought after this manner Fyrst let purest and best Aqua vitae be chosen which is sufficient effectuous vnto the drawing foorth and purchasing the properties of the hearbes Then take Sage or any lyke symple out of the which you determine to drawe a iuyce the same laye in a drye ayre towarde the North especiallye Where after it shal be a lytle dryed shred or choppe finelie and powre the whole into a Glasse whose mouth shal be sufficient wyde that is two fyngers broade that when you wyll you maye easily get or draw foorth whatsoever is put in on which powre the Aqua vitae or spirit of the wyne well the lytle fynger breadth aboue the hearbe After couer the vessel dilligently in this maner let paste be made with which let the mouth be a finger breadth stopped round about next to which binde vppon a fayre white Paper and let it be so stopped that it maye onely sticke to the sydes about the mouth of the Glasse This Paper thus set on let paste againe be layd on rounde about the place aboue taught and another newe Paper againe bound vpon the same Then a thyrd time laye paste vpon and rounde about the sydes of the mouth and let a thyrde Paper be fastened which couereth fullye ouer that the mouth through the paste and Paper maye closelie be stopped After couer the whole with ware although this bee not so neâ—defull These thus orderlie handled and done let the vessel after be set for two or thrée dayes in a hote place according as the hearbe put in shall be of a thycker or thinner substaunce and shall so néede to stiepe a longer or shorter tyme At the ende of which tyme powre the spirit into another vessell and couer it againe and the hearbes remayning presse or wring through a Lynnen cloth so stronglie as is possible or that you can doe by your strength and after the wrynging throwe them awaye Then powre other freshe hearbes againe of the same kynde and prepared as aboue taught powre into the same spyrit which stiepe and presse forth and the same repeate thrée or fowre tymes ouer euen as you wyll purchase the drafte mightie or weake That if the matter out of the which a iuyce shall be drawne â–ª shall be of great price as is the Rubarbe Lignum aloes then not once pouring of Aqua vitae on it is sufficient but dyuers and often tymes â–ª that whatsoever of the spirit or propertie of the symple shall be maye wholie be lefte in the water Now after the spirit of the wine shall abound in the facultie of the hearbs in so much that it shal in a maner haue lost the proper tast or savour then presse or wring forth the hearbes and the same which shall be pressed foorth dylligentlie and subtyllie distyl by Fylter and vse when néede shall requyre Or the spirit of the wyne from the propertie of the hearbes shall be easyer seperated by distyllation in Balneo Mariae in drawing foorth eyther the halfe or all togyther vntyll it shall come vnto an extreame waterynesse or vntyll it bee thyckened as a Sauce or the iuyce dryed and hardened which may be brought to powder accordyng as you wyll applye and vse the same For when much moysture shall be in the drawing foorth then after the seperation of the wyne is it a noate or token that the spirit of the wyne was not syncere and pure But where the spyrit of the wyne shall be sufficient myghtye and that in the ende of the distyllation no waterynesse remayneth and insueth then take the distylled water of the same symple and poure to that drawne and myxe dylligentlye togyther with a quyll
boyling yet a little more incontinent throwe or poure into it the iuice or decoction of Gall nuttes in small quantitie If the water hath of Vitrioll or of Allum it will incontinent become blacke Or else take some composition black as is the medicine named Verzinum knowne in Italie causing it to boyle in water vnto the tyme that the water taketh a colour in maner blacke after strayne the same and sprinckle a quantitie of this water on the groundes and if there be of the Allum that colour blacke will incontinent be restored or caused more cleare And what I haue sayde of the colour left of the medicine Verzinum as much it behooueth to vnderstande of any other matter in such sort that the water for to worke or doe such an experience may be made of euery matter which may dye the water into a blacke colour and the water so that it be blacke it forceth not of what matter the same be caused blacke As touching the astriction which consisteth in the Allum I report nothing of it in that the Allum beyng in the sediment cannot be knowne by the taste For it commeth often to passe that when you taste the sediment and that you féele an astriction yet the same procéedeth or commeth not of the Allum but perhappes of Salt or some other thing The Iron the Copper and such lyke Mettals cannot by other meanes be known◠but by the corruption and resolution of the groundes in such sort that euery Mettall that there shall be maye be turned into hys proper excrement and so of his proper excrement shall you after knowe this or that Mettall to be in it By the selfe same fashion and manner is knowne the Iron the Syluer the Golde the Chrysocolla that is the Saulder of Golde the Copper and such lyke For these reasons it behooueth to ioyne and myxe the groundes with some medicine or sharpe lycour to the ende that euery Mettall which shall be contayned in the sediment maye be turned into his proper excrement Nowe the sharpe and corrosiue medicine that a man may finde apt and fitte to doe the same shall be the strong Vinegar the Aqua fortis and such lyke Take therefore the sediment and bestowe the same into Aqua fortis or other such medicine corrosiue and when you shall see the water to be dryed vp and consumed regarde and marke diligently if the excrement of any Mettall be not on the sediment as if you sée on the Groundes the excrement of Iron to be coagulated and heaped togither you shall easily iudge the Iron to be in the sediment or groundes If you there sée of the excrement of Copper or a matter gréene cankered the same is a note that there is of the Copper and euen so of the others Therefore the Mettalles are knowne by the corruption and mutation or chaunging of them into their proper excrements And this shall you knowe to be a sure experience and a troth of the matter as you may easily trie in the doyng if you take a portion of any Mettall as the Fylings of Iron and shall myxe the same with the groundes of any matter and bestowe a payne about it that the fylinges maye be corrupted then shall you sée that the same wyll be corrupted into his proper excrement which is named of the Latynes Ferrugo that is the rust of Iron After this maner are knowen how much and what are the things which are myxed with the Mynurall waters that serue to Bathes which is especially tryed by the industrie and worke of Dystillation But consider and take héede that the gréene colour doth not deceyue you which appeareth sometymes in the sediment although that it hath nothing of the Copper myxed for oftentymes this colour is there ingendred of some Bole which is myxed amongst the grounds for that cause throughly examine and make the proofe if this colour procéedeth of the Copper myxed or Iron or the excrement of Iron or of some Bole in this sort Take the sediment of that water and poure the same into Vineger dystilled and consider or marke what colour the Vineger representeth or draweth vnto the lyke consider what the colour is of the sediment after that it shall be through dryed For if it hath there the excrement of Iron the colour shall be blacke If Bole the colour shall be redde that is lesse blacke and tending or drawing to a rednesse I here vtter nothing of the sauour and taste for that so dyuers is the sauour and taste of Mynurall waters that a man cannot know of them what those are myxed wythall All these hitherto haue I borrowed out of the learned worke of Mynurall Bathes of Fallopius which I haue endeuoured to penne or wryte worde for worde as things appertayning to the matter of which we haue entreated in respect that we so oftentymes entreate of Mettals in this Booke which are things worthie to be examined diligently for the vtilitie and profite of most men ¶ A collection of certaine waters dystilled of Herbes Juices Lycours and Fruites The water of Hempe The .iij. Chapter THe congruent tyme of dystilling the Hempe is that the toppes as yet tender and gréene shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae This water greatly helpeth the paynes of the heade procéeding of a hote cause if the heade the foreheade and Temples be often laboured with the same Thys also profiteth agaynst any heate in what part or member of the Bodie it shall be especially the Goute if a Lynnen clothe dypped in the water be applyed on the place and thys in the Wynter vse twyse in the day but in the Summer thrée tymes of the day Take of the water of the gréene Walnuts one ounce of the water of Egrimonie an ounce and a halfe of the water of Rewe halfe an ounce of the water of Hysope thrée ounces of the water of Hempe foure ounces these myxe togither of which take halfe an ounce adding to it halfe a dramme of Mumia halfe an ounce of Sugar Candie and a dramme of the Conserue of Roses this after the drinking warme to bedde and lying downe well couered with clothes to sweete expelleth those wicked humors of which the plague procéedeth the same potion helpeth the Dropsie taken in the same manner and preserueth a man from such sickenesses A water dystilled of the Hempe séede with the iuice of Garlicke of the same fashion that the Rose water is dystilled which is Cosemeticall that is profitable for garnishing for it causeth heares to growe in the bare and balde places being often applyed The water of Walwort The fourth Chapter THe best tyme of dystilling the Walwort is when it beginneth to beare flowers that then the whole Herbe and roote finely shredde and bestowed in a Cucurbite or Glasse Bodye maye be distilled by Balneo Mariae this water drunke with a little Sugar or the iuyce of Reysons vnto the quantitie of foure or fiue ounces at a tyme fasting doth loose the Bellie In the same
manner drunke morning and euening auayleth agaynst the swellinges of the Bodie but especially the Dropsie euen so this drunke helpeth the Quotidian Ague and stytches or other paynes in the sides it profiteth agaynst the outward swellings of the Body by applying Lynnen clothes wette in the same This water also remooueth stytches or other griefes in the sides by applying Lynnen clothes wette in it This gargelled wyth a little of the pouder of Pellitorie helpeth the falling of the Vuula downe Thys drunke warme after the manner aboue taught helpeth a drye cough This gargelled in the throte helpeth that swelling there named Angina The dystilled water of the rootes finely shredde doth much mitigate the grieuous dolor of the Goute by daylye dryncking and applying Lynnen clothes wette in it on the grieued places This also helpeth marueylously ioynt aches by applying on the grieued places Lynnen clothes wette in it and eating a fewe of the tender gréene toppes whether two or thrée in a Sallate causeth a man soluble and to haue sundrye stooles The water drunke with Sirupe of Vineger helpeth a burning Ague The pouder of the leaues marueylouslye worketh in all sortes of Vlcers in that the same asswageth paynes clenseth them and doth incarnate The water of Imperatoria The fift Chapter THe tyme aptest for dystilling the Herbe Imperatoria is when it yéeldeth the floures then the whole Herbe wyth the rootes well shredde although some rather wyll the rootes onely require to be infused in wyne for twelue houres after the bestowing into a Cucurbite dystill the whole after Arte in Balneo Mariae This water drunke doth marueylous expell the wynde of the stomacke Bowels and Bellie for which cause auayleable in the Cholicke pâ—ssions and tâ—â—sionâ— of the stomack This also procureth the Termes in women and mooueth vryne If asswageth toothach by washing the mouth therewith The same myxed with Rosed Honie and drinke warme helpeth marueylously the griefes and stranglings of the wombe or Matrice in women and Conception greatly furthereth where the impediment procéedeth of coldenesse This water in lyke maner drunke warme strengtheneth the stomacke and causeth digestion This water sundrie tymes gargelled in the mouth comforteth a colde Brayne and purgeth it effectuously of Flewme A dramme of the pouder drunke with a quantitie of the water preuayleth in colde sicknesses so that this marueylously helpeth the loose parts of the Bodie convulsions and the falling sickenesse This water myxed with Rosed Hony and drunke wyth halfe a spoonefull of the fine pouder of the roote an houre before the comming of the fitte helpeth myraculously the Quartane ague The water gargelled in the mouth amendeth the breath and strengtheneth all the senses Thys drunke wyth halfe a spoonefull of the pouder of the roote helpeth the plague all maner of poysons the byting and stinging of venymous beastes and wormes Thys water drunke with Rosed Honie and halfe a spoonefull of pure Cynnamone water amendeth such hardly fetching breath openeth obstructions helpeth the water betwéene the skynne and flesh the Dropsie and diseases in the Mylt To be briefe it heateth all those partes of the Bodie where colde occupyeth and offendeth The water of the blessed Thystell The sixt Chapter THe commended time for the dystillation of the blessed Thystell is that the Herbe alone finely shredde and stamped be dystilled by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of Glasse about the end of May. This water drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme with Rosed Honye purifyeth the bloude remooueth headache comforteth and causeth a readie memorie breaketh the stone putteth away gyddynesse of the heade amendeth the consumption of the Bodie and preserueth the person long in health This lyke ministred auayleth agaynst the Plague and deadly poysons receyued as well within the Body as outwardly by the stinging or byting of venymous Beasts applyed vpon This water drunke with a dram of the powder before the comming of the fitte helpeth not only the Quartayne but other Feuers whose beginning are wyth colde This lyke drunke helpeth the falling sickenesse in chyldren The water drunke with a quantâ—tie of Rosed honye asswageth the griefes of the bowels and kydneys ceaseth the other torsions of the Belly and kéepeth the Bodie soluble It also causeth sweating sleyeth the wormes in the Bellye amendeth the defaultes of the stomacke and wombe The abouesayde quantitie of the pouder drunke with pure Aqua vitae not only kylleth worms in the Bodie of Chyldren but deliuereth in short tyme the grieuous paynes of the Bodie A Passe made with the pouder of the blessed Thystle whyte Breade and Honye and dystilled wyth whyte wyne yéeldeth a water right singular for the decayed sight of the eyes The water of Pellitorie of the wall The .vij. Chapter THe tyme of the dystillation is that the whole Herbe shredde and infused in wyne be dystilled about the ende of Maye in Balneo Mariae the water drunke with Rosed honie for eyght or nyne dayes togither to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme Morning and Euening openeth the stopping of the Lyuer and Mylt purgeth the kydneyes and Bladder ceaseth the griefes of the Matrice and sendeth downe the Termes in women The same drunke Morning and Euening vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme helpeth an olde and continuall cough The water simplye of the Herbe gargelled and applyed without amendeth the inflammation of the throte The aboue sayde water drunke with a quantitie of Rosed honye auayleth agaynst the Strangulion and grypings of the Bellye procéeding of wynde and colde humors The water applyed with Linnen clothes wet in it asswageth swellings and paine of the Goute also the Shingles burning or scalding and hote vlcers The water of Yarrowe The .viij. Chapter THe congruent tyme of the dystillation of Yarrowe is that the whole Herbe shredde and infused in wyne be dystilled about the ende of May in Balneo Mariae This water drunke euery morning for a tyme togither to the quantitie of foure ounces at a tyme and applying of it on the region of the heart heateth a colde stomacke This also auayleth agaynst the wormes of the Bellie and difficulties of Vrine The water drunke with a dram weyght of the fine pouder of Cynamone stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the Termes The rather if the gréene Herbe bruised be applyed at that tyme by a skilfull Midwyfe This water drunke sundrie dayes profiteth that person which hath lost his colour by much bléeding and purgeth the bloude Also fresh woundes wasshed with the same and Lynnen clothes after the wetting in it applyed vpon morning and euening doth spéedilye cure them A handfull of the herbe brused betwéene two stones and applyed on freshe and bloudie woundes after the stitching of the lyppes if they be great cureth them throughly within the space of .xxiiij. houres as of experience knowne by sundrie persons Thys water drunke with Coowe mylke vnto the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme both Morning and Euening helpeth the
by Balneo Mariae thys water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme recouereth all griefes of the Lyuer and Lunges by purging and comforting for it clenseth ◠by a certayne astriction strengthneth it openeth the stoppinges of the Lyuer and dyssolueth the hardnesse of the Mylt and Lyuer by drincking of the water of heartes tongue myxed wyth the same The water druncke twyse a daye expelleth Flewmaticke and Chollericke humours out of the Bodie and causeth Vryne In the same maner druncke putteth awaye Iaundise and sendeth furth the stone of the Bladder It helpeth the grypings of the Bellie druncke morning and euening the water dropped into the eyes causeth them cleare wythin short time The water recouereth womens places colde if it be drunke in the foresayd maner The water helpeth women whose termes be stayed and that haue a swelling about the Nauell The water druncke with a little powder of Annis séedes ▪ profiteth such which abounde in corrupt Bloude and be infected wyth fowle or Leaprowse scabbes The water myxed wyth common drincke and druncke daylie for a tyme comforteth the stomacke The water helpeth Feuers in Chyldren gyuen in Ale wyth a little of the powder of Annis séedes in that it purgeth the hote humour The water of Elecampane The .xxvij. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystillation is that the rootes wyth the Hearbe shredde togither be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of an Egge shell full at a tyme for fyue or sixe dayes togyther delyuereth the griefe of the stone washing the téeth therewyth strengthneth them i◠amendeth the cough by drinking twoo ounces at a tyme wyth the powder of Lycorise and Annis séedes myxed It also expelleth wormes in the Bodie helpeth conuulsions and swellinges and payne in the Loynes In the foresayde maner druncke or taken with drinke helpeth such bursten The water druncke wyth a little Rosed honie and the heade well laboured with the same that it may drye in by it selfe comforteth the heade The water druncke many dayes togither not onely comforteth and strengthneth the stomacke but clenseth the breast and Lunges of grosse and clammie humours Yea this causeth a fayre skinne to women both in face and Bodie through the often vsing of it It also procureth a glansome minde and the person often vsing the same to haue a chéerfull and amyable countenaunce The water druncke and annoynted strengthneth loose membres It profiteth such fetching the breath hardly by drincking sundrie morninges wyth Rosed honie The water druncke morning and euening for a certayne tyme togyther expelleth the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder clenseth them and causeth Vryne The water of the rootes alone dystilled about the ende of Maye or from the moneth of Iulye vnto September druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a tyme for certayne dayes healeth an inner rupture In the same maner druncke helpeth the stone prouoketh the Termes in women delyuereth the griefe of the stone and causeth Vryne This druncke in the abouesayd maner sendeth furth the dead yongling out of the mothers wombe It like druncke or applyed with linnē clothes dissolueth putteth away the swelling of womens places This on such wyse druncke or applyed remooueth the swelling of the testicles The water often druncke swéetned wyth Rosed honnie seasseth the Coughe and consumeth the grosse and clammie humours detayned wythin the Breast The water of Eiebright The .xxviij. Chapter THe congruent tyme for the dystillatiō of it is that the leaues stalkes flowers wyth the whole substaunce be dystilled in a Cucurbyte of glasse by Balneo Mariae when it yéeldeth or beareth the flowers This water dropped and stryked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes and sharpeneth the sight the water vsed in the same maner seasseth the payne of the eies the water dropped into the eyes an houre before night and striked about druncke to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the sight especially in the aged persons and flewmaticke of complexion The hearbe dryed and brought to powder and eaten euerie day in a reare potched Egge for a certayne tyme togither restoreth sight lost the water myxed wyth halfe a dramme of the powder and druncke euerie euening for a moneth or fourtie dayes togyther recouereth a weake sight The water of our Beanes The .xxix. Chapter THe best tyme of dystilling them that the gréene bestowed in a Cucurbyte of Glosse be dystilled by Balneo Mariae wyth the water of Beanes washe vlcered and matterie legges that remayning after the water dystilled quite forth bring by heate of fire into powder Which then sprinckle on the sore for it dryeth vp and is the best remedie for fowle and matterie legges The water of the Beane coddes distilled when the Sunne shall be in Leo and the Moone in Aries druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of twoo or thrée ounces at a time doth marueylously remooue and helpe the griefe of the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder The water of the gréene hearbe wyth the stalkes dystilled about the ende of Maye druncke for certayne dayes morning euening to the quantitie of twoo ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth sugar putteth away the stone in Children the same euerie day druncke to the quantitie of foure or fyue ounces at a tyme preuayleth agaynst a strong Poyson The water druncke in the lyke maner for a moneth engendreth good and pure bloud The face and skinne of the Bodie washed wyth the same water procureth a soft skinne and cleare and a fayre face The water of the flowers gathered at the full rypenesse and before the rotting dystilled in a Cucurbyte of Glasse by Balneo Mariae dropped into the eyes at euening dryeth vp the watering and dropping of the eyes It amendeth the exulceration and rednesse of the eyes dropped into them after the maner abouesayd The lyke it auayleth in pushes of the eyes The face also washed wyth thys water or laboured on the Bodye causeth a cleare and soft skinne and clenseth or taketh away spottes on the skynne The same druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time auayleth agaynst poyson If Lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed vpon doth drawe furth Dart or Arrow heades and thornes runne into the Bodie The water druncke of women morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme for sixe or seauen dayes togyther sendeth downe their Termes in due season The water extinguisheth the burning of the Shingles and expelleth euill pushes if it be applyed morning and euening wyth a Lynnen cloth or soft towe wette in the same The water of Filipendula The .xxx. Chapter THe chosen time for dystillyng the same is that the whole herbe with the rootes shredde small be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke Morning Euening to the quantitye of thrée ounces at a time with a
dram waight of the powder of the Gentiane roote swéetned with sugar healpeth the stayinge backe of the vryne and dropping of the same it also amendeth the coldenesse of stomacke and helpeth digestion This in lyke maner druncke helpeth such fetching the breath shorte and painefully and all sicknesses procéeding of a cold cause The water druncke in the like quantitie abouesayd mixed with a dram waight of the powder of the blessed Thistell swéetned with sugar helpeth the plague and preuayleth against poison eaten or druncke by happe The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of fower or sixe ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar easeth the griefes and expelleth the stone of the Kydneyes and Bladder The Water of Fumitarie The .xxxi. Chapter THe best tyme of dystillation is that the herbe with the whole substance shredde small be dystilled by Balneo about the end of Maye or the middes of Iune this water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme recouereth the Iaundyse and cleareth awaye the foule scabbe on the face after the kinde of a Leaprie and preserueth the person by the dailye vsinge of it from the Leaprie In the same maner druncke helpeth euery kinde of scabbes the morfew ytche Let the pacient entred into Bath drincke this wyth a little Triacle for it then prouoketh sweate by which the bloude is pourged and helpeth the sickenesse which is procéeded of corrupt bloud In the tyme of the plague maye the water be vsed in that it preserueth such by drincking of it The water myxed with fine Tryacle and pure bole Armoniake and giuen to that pacient afflicted with the plague yealdeth a helpe deliuereth him in short tyme The water druncke attenuateth pierceth openeth obstructions looseth the bellye it also purgeth the bloud Choller and all discommodities procéeding of chollor adust humours The water drunck twise a daye strengthneth the stomack the Lyuer and the Bowels it also putteth away the chollericke and burning Agues and those sicknesse which are caused by the obstruction of the vessels The water in the foresayd maner druncke prouoketh much chollericke vryne and helpeth the stoppings of the Lyuer It also putteth away clotted bloude and dissolueth the swelling both within and without the bodie and prouoketh the termes in women The water druncke with a dram waight of the powder of Synamon comforteth the stomacke prouoketh vrine putteth away scabbes and ytche and mundifyeth the bloude A potion of the same water recouereth vlcers of the mouth and dolours The water of the garden Clarâ—e The .xxxij. Chapter THe aptest tyme for the Dystillation of it is that the whole herbe shredde small be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddle of Maye this water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetned wyth Sugare ceasseth the gripings of the bellie and paynes of the stomack and sides the rather by applyng vpon the places lynnen clothes wet often in it The water drunck twise a day to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme remooueth the payne of womens places and prepareth them apt to conceiue with childe it also comforteth and recouereth the members harmed by colde by applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the places The water of Caryophyllata The .xxxiij. Chapter THe Herbe wyth the rootes finely shredde and bestowed in a Cucurbite of glasse requyre to be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of March or myddes of April this water druncke Morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée or foure ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth Sugar for fower of fiue dayes togither ceasseth gripinges of the bellie stayeth the blouddie fluxe womens Termes the spitting of bloude and strengthneth a colde brayne This in like maner druncke purgeth all euill clammye humours and sendeth them furth of the bodie The water drunck in the foresayde maner digesteth meate hard of digestion and amendeth a colde stomake This druncke twise a daye profyteth the Lyuer The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of thrée or fower ounces at a tyme healeth the inner woundes of the breast the like doth this recouer woundes déepe and desperate vlcers if they be often washed and that linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the fores The water helpeth impostumes by applying lynnen clothes wet in it on the swellings The water druncke Morning and Euening to the quantitye of thrée ounces at a tyme swéetned with Sugar healeth fistulaes it also profiteth much if they be washed with the same or that linnen clothes wette in it be applyed on the places The water remooueth and putteth away spots moles or other like markes which Infantes haue taken of the Moothers if they be often washed in their Infancie with that water The Water of Broome flowers The .xxxiiij. Chapter THe dystillation of the flowers is to be done by Balneo Mariae in a Cucurbite of glasse when the flowers are full rype and begynne in a maner to fall of thys water druncke wyth a little Rosed honye morning euening to the quantitie of two or thrée ounces at a tyme for twelue of fourtéene dayes togither draweth humors from the ioyntes purgeth flewme and auayleth against the shedding of the Gaule The water druncke twise a day to the quantitye of fiue or sixe ounces at a tyme swéetned wyth Rosed honye and a dram waight of the powder of Feâ—ell séedes myxed expelleth the excrementes of the kidneyes causeth vrine effectuously and breaketh the stone as well in the bladder as in the kidneyes and suffereth not matter after to gather in thâ—â—â— to harden into a stone The water druncke with Oximell or 〈◊〉 hony for a certayne tyme dissolueth the hardnesse of the Mylte and putteth away the swellinges in the throte The water profiteth the heade if applyed it be suffered to drie in by it selfe thys in lyke maner ordred recouereth the wearinesse of members The Water of Gentiane The .xxxv. Chapter THe congruent tyme for dystilling onely the roote as more commendid is that the gréene or freshe roote shredde small and bestowed in a Cucurbyte of glasse be distilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of the Caniculare dayes where otherwise the dryed rootes infused a tyme in wyne maye be dystilled at anye tyme The water symple of the fresh rootes druncke often fasting to the quantity of thrée ouncâ—s at a tyme expelleth feuers caused by the obstruction of the Bowells and other partes of the bodie kylleth the wormes in the bellie clenseth all maner of spottes in the face if they be often washed with the same and prolongeth mans lyfe in that it consumeth all the clammye humours in the stomacke The water like druncke prouoketh the termes in women and causeth vryne against the plague and stinging or bit of venimous wormes and Beastes this druncke and applyed with lynnen clothes doth myraculously auayle The water druncke of him which hath taken by happe the venemous and monstruous bloude of a
a time profiteth a fowle and corrupt lyuer and diseased lunges or at the least beginneth to putrifie This in lyke maner druncke preuayleth against stitches in the sides The water druncke twyse a daye stayeth the ouer great fluxe of the termes stoppeth the bléeding of wounds and lyke helpeth the pyssing of bloude by taking it in the foresaid quantitie The water dayly druncke doth especially preuayle agaynst the stone of the loynes and bladder It also healeth the bowels exulcerated by the daungerous fluxe of the bellie The water applyed with lynnen clothes on the inflamed member exceedingly cooleth It healeth olde vlcers of the legges if they be often washed with the same and let to drye in by it selfe The water auayleth against rednesse and burning of the legges by black pushes in applying on the places twyse or thryce a day towe or lynnen clothes wette in it vntill the heate be extinguished The water druncke with a dramme weyght of the fine pouder of Mestiltowe of the Oke for certayne dayes togither adding to it a scruple weyght of Aqua vitae rectified recouereth not onely Feuers and the Apoplexie or depriuation of senses but helpeth without doubt the falling sickenesse The water in lyke manner prepared and druncke putteth away gyddynesse swellings of the bodie preserueth from the Leprie and deliuereth most diseases in that it purgeth and sendeth forth the grosse and euill humors offending The water of the leaues of the Willowe The Lxix Chapter THe leaues of the whyte Wyllowes strypped from the twygges being tender in the Spring time requyre to be dystilled about the beginning of May by Balneo Mariae This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of foure ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar helpeth the stone procureth vryne and preuayleth against the wormes of the bellie The water profiteth against the rednesse of eyes being often washed with the same It helpeth the Shyngles and recouereth the Fistula by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water druncke in lyke quantitie expelleth the yoongling dead The water of the flowers dystilled after the maner of the flowers of the Apples and Peaches recouereth the sight healeth scabbednesse of the heade procureth fayre heare if wetting the heares well with a Spunge dypped in it and kembed be after suffered to drie by themselfe The water of the Elder The Lxx. Chapter THe outwarde rynde scraped and pylled from the slyppes of the Elde◠trée and the inner ryndes taken and shredde requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the beginning of May. This water druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of fower ounces at a time recouereth the Dropsie The water druncke fasting to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a tyme swéetened with a little Rosed honie mightily looseth the bellie without harme The water of the tender leaues of the toppes and sides budding forth shredde small and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May helpeth hote legges and putrified vlcers if they be often washed with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water of the flowers through blowne and stamped togither dystilled in a Cucurbite of Glasse by Balneo Mariae druncke morning and euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time swéetened with Rosed honie looseth the straitnesse of the brest The water in lyke quantitie druncke profiteth agaynst the swelling and water betwéene the skynne and openeth the stopping of the lyuer mylt and kidneyes The water druncke putteth away the Tertian ague clenseth and helpeth all courses procéeding of Melancholie and strengtheneth the stomacke The water druncke to the quantitie of sixe ounces at a time purgeth all humors by siege and clenseth the bodie The water dropped into the eyes extinguisheth the heate of them It also druncke twyse a day and dropped into the eyes consumeth whyte spottes in them The water helpeth the trembling of the handes if they be wette and laboured with the same and let to drie by themselfe The water profiteth against vlcers and that be colde if they shall be often washed with the same or that lynnen clothes wette in it be applyed The Water of Scabious The Lxxi Chapter THe leaues and rootes shredde togither requyre to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the ende of Maye This water druncke thrée or fower tymes a daye to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme recouereth the straytenesse of breast and helpeth the impostumes of the same The water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a tyme preuayleth against stitches of the sides The water profiteth against swellings in the bodie against the Plague poysoning the Cough and all inwarde corruption of the bodie The water in the abouesayde maner druncke helpeth scabbednesse and clenseth the bloude corrupt It also putteth away swellings arysing in the bodie and healeth woundes as well without as within the bodie by applying lynnen clothes wette in it The water in lyke maner druncke purgeth the lunges and putteth away the Cough The water helpeth the Pyles whyte scurfe Letters and Ringwormes It also recouereth pestilent pushes as the Carbuncle sore and amendeth the sight of the eyes The water of the Saxifrage with the whole substance shredde small and dystilled by Balneo Mariae about the myddes of May drunck euery day fasting to the quantitie of thrée or fower ounces at a time swéetened with Sugar breaketh the stone of the kidneys and bladder helpeth ache in the hyppes deliuereth the stopping of vryne and clenseth the reynes and bladder The Water of Nightshade of the Garden The Lxxij Chapter THe leaues with the stalkes gathered and shredde small require to be dystilled by Balneo Mariae when that the berries be gréene This water druncke morning noone and at euening to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time helpeth a swelling procéeding of an vntemperate hotenesse It perfourmeth the lyke by applying lynnen clothes wette on the swelling The water in the foresayde maner taken helpeth the stone and putteth away sweate myxed with the water of wormewoode and druncke to the quantitie of thrée ounces at a time The water preuayleth against the griefes and aking of the hynder part and whole heade procured of heate The water applyed with Lynnen clothes wet in it on a hote Gowte and the Shingles doth in short time helpe them the rather by the often applying of the clothes wette in the water The water dropped into the eares putteth away griefe in them asswageth inflamed impostumes of the breastes or pappes of women and represseth hote swellinges in the throte that they doe not hastily strangle nor stoppe the wynde and the water gargelled in the throte cooleth the liuer and extinguisheth heate The water helpeth men bursten by often applying lynnen clothes wette in it on the rupture The water druncke greatly auayleth if by any night terrour certaine pushes shall arise and the lyke doth the water preuayle applyed with lynnen clothes The water of the Mustarde séedes when the herbe bearing flowers is to be
the gummes and any maner of swelling of the throate this breaketh clenseth it helpeth the Melancholicke the persons molested with ache of the hyppes and goute it cureth the dropsie and payne of the great gutte procéeding of a cold cause and annointed about the garland seame taketh away all maner of payne ache of the head comming of a colde cause and slayeth wormes in the body by taking vnto the quantytie of halfe a dram at a time and in the same maner doth it auayle against poyson Many thinges else he promysed which are by him thus written the making of which is on this wyse take of Masticke of Cloues of Nutmegs of the lesser Cardamomum of Cubebae of long Pepper of Cynamon of Galingale of Ginger of Lignum aloe of the great Cardamomum of each halfe an ounce of Spiknard thrée drams of Mace one dram of Caphura one dram a half of the Iundiane nutte halfe a draÌ„ of a pleasaunt and cleare whyte wyne so much as shall suffice to infuse throughly the whole which after the dilygent beating and myxing togyther distyll with â— soft flowe fyre according to art The spyces seruing for the distylled Malmesie in the place to be vsed of potable Gold take of the best Malmesie sixe measures which put in a glasse bodie distyll with a slowe or soft fyre in sifted ashes seuen tymes ouer but after the opinion of the best distyllers thrée tymes ouer wyll be sufficient to be druncke as affyrmeth Fumanellus Into the Aqua vitae thus well rectifyed infuse these matters following take of Spermaceti of chosen Ambre and of the best Ruberbe of each two drams of very fine well chosen Muske one dram or more these after the distyllyng and running through a fyne ypocrase bagge made of pure Hob lande and whyte washed put vp the lycour into a glasse with a narrowe mouth which close stoppe that no ayre breathe forth for this after the setling wyl become appeare of a golden color You maye put in a lyttle of the inner part of the Cynamon in the running through which wyll cause the water to taste the pleasaunter The vertues of this water are these it fyrst cureth and expelleth poysons And to preserue the bodye froâ—â— hauing the plague or pestilence let the person take a droppe of it fasting in the morning with a lyttle toste of whyte bread not to drye tosted but purge the body before with some easie purgation and bée let bloodâ— And the person infected gyue to the quantitye of a great hasyll nutte shell full of it with a toste of whyte bread which by the receyuing delyuereth the pacient But I sayth the Aucthour alwayes dyd gyue of it with preseruatyue medicynes and myxed it besides with Cordiall medycines and Electuaries for the better digesting and comforting of weake persons And in this distyllacion sayth the Aucthour I found and practised many good helpes This borrowed out of a written worke A syngular compound water of spyces hauing great vertue in that the same helpeth all colde grieffes of the stomacke borrowed out of the secrete conclusions of Leonar Fiorauantus the famous Gretian â–ª This water of Lyfe sayth he is only aromatizated with the Leuaunt spyces which is glorious and woonderful in his working as â—y reason and practyse shall playner appeare which is made and distylled on this wyse Take of Nutmegs of Cloues of Galingale of Cardamomum of Cubebae of Mace of Cynamon of Gynger of Saffron of Frankensence or rather Olibanum of each one ounce these myxed and grossely beaten togyther and hauing a glasse body well luted put in your spices powring vpon sixe pynts of the best Aqua vitae distylled thryse or at the least twyse ouer which let so stand for sixe dayes after the closing of the Receauer to the nose of the head distyl the whole in fine sifted ashes the water being come forth wyl be of a red colour which is more precious than any other water the same helpeth all grieffes or sicknesses procéeding of a colde cause and clenseth any maner of wounde or sore This also healeth all cuttes and woundes without causing any payne to the pacient it procureth a readye memorye it healeth the cough of a colde cause it maketh or disposeth the person to myrth and worketh many other great matters besydes which were ouer long tedious to vtter them one by one therefore doth the Aucthour here ouerpasse them wyshing all men to practise and learne further proofes of the vertues of this precious water Of the metalline water and strong waters The .lxxxix. Chapter A Water of Quicksyluer sublymed preuailing against the Canker in eradycating or drawing it vp by the rootes soone slayeth or kylleth the same yf it be applyed vpon so that you shall néede no long cure in the doing of it but euen the same dylygence tyme as is required in an vlcer to bestowe in it the making of which water is on this wyse Let a quantitye of Tynne bée molten and when the same begynneth to coole and waxe thick cast then into it so much of quicksyluer as the wayght of the Tynne which incorporate or worke togyther that the whole may be as a paste and that the paste must be layd on a smoothe euen stone fynely grynded on the stone after it shal be thus handled adde to it of Mercurie or quicksiluer sublymed so much as is the paste which againe grynde and worke on the stone remayning thus on the stone wyll shortlie become liquide as water the same distyll in a strong luted bodie with a head the water which commeth kéepe dyligentlie in a strong glasse to your vse Against all maner of scabbes tetters fowle scurfe ringwoorms and the fowle Morphew c. A distylled lycour out of Theophrastus on this wyse Take Helycampane one ounce of Barrowes grease purifyed halfe a pounde of quicksyluer halfe an ounce of Brymstone two drams distyll the whole in a Retorte but if you wyll in a Lymbecke as the Aucthour wylleth which drawne annoynt the places therewith An Alome water seruing vnto all woundes being a secrete of a certayne noble man take of Egrimon of Nightshade of plantaine of eache halfe a pound of white wyne fowre ounces of rawe Alome fowre ounces of Masticke two drams of Orpyment halfe a scruple of the whytes of egges sixe in number these after the well beating and labouring togyther distyl in a Retorte according to arte with this water let the wound be washed twyse a day Another named an Alome water which marueylouslye and soone healeth all corrosyue vlcers happening eyther in the mouth or in any other partes or places of the bodye Take of Alome of the iuyce of Purcelane of the iuyce of Plantayne of the iuyce of gréene Grapes of the whytes of egges of eache a lyke quantity which after the well myxing togyther distyll according to the order and maner of the Cynamon water Another Alome water borrowed out of the booke of
prepare orderlye Another strong water take of strong water of common salt and a lyttle of Salt Ammoniacum these dystill togyther or if the strong water shall be distylled before and the others after distylled with it this then is named the regall water or water of a kyng which seperateth Golde But the common Aqua fortis or strong water doth only seperate Syluer so that it doth both leaue the Gold and maketh it apparaunt A causticke water in the Fistula without payne â—nd auayleth also against kernelles swellinges and knobbes yea it taketh awaye all maner of excessiue or superfluous increasing of the fleshe in mans bodie without payne The making of which is on this wyse take of the best oyle of Tyle stands of chosen Masticke of gumme Arabicke and of Turpentyne of eache thrée ounces such as are to be beaten beate dilygentlye the whole then myxe togyther which distyll by a Lymbecke this after myxe and incorporate with halfe a pound of the ashes of the trée Cerrus which distyl agayne by a Lymbecke and that distylled or come forth kéepe in a Glasse well stopped A marueylous water in the Fistula with which golden letters may be written in yron take a Rammes horne cleane rasped and cleansed without which cutte into small or fyne pieces puttyng it after into a Lymbecked of glasse to be subtylly distylled this water then come forth worketh so on hote yron that it gyldeth it and marueylously auayleth in Fistulaeâ— This Bertapalia A water corroding and eating away in the stéede of a cauterice in so much that it eateth into yron take of â—alt water two ounces of Romaine Vitryoll one pounde of Vermylion or * of the redde sanguinarie stone fowre ounces grynde each a part which after the myxing togyther dystyll by a Lymbecke the water kéepe in a Glasse this Bertapalia A ruptory which serueth to part and cutte away any swellyng or mattery impostume without yron take of Romaine Vitryoll rubysâ—ed or made redde sixe ounces or Salt and nyter of each two ounces of gaules of salt AmmoniacuÌ„ of ech eyght ounces of Vitryol not rubifyed two ounces all these after the powthering and distylled in a Lymbecke keep warely in a glasse The vse of this lycour is that if an Olyue twygge or other piece of wood edged lyke to a knyfe be dypped and well wette in this water that the same cutteth awaye the swelling and wartes maye in lyke maner bée taken away with it This borrowed out of Fumanellus A water agaynst long continuing vlcers yea howe peryllous or wycked so euer they bée and the Fistula a medycine learned of a certayne religious person of which in another place we haue mencioned taught to mée many yeares agoe and by sundry practises tryed the same that it cleanseth all rottennesse and bringeth to healing yea and healeth them in a short tyme which is prepared and made after this maner take of Chalcitis or of the Romain Vitryoll one pounde of Salt nyter so much of water so much as shal suffice these boyle togither with a lyttle of quicksiluer Take of this water cleared two pyntes of quicksiluer one pounde the whole myxed together distyll in a Lymbecke and the distyllacion ended breake then the Glasse body and the substaunce within it which he as Feces or grounâ—e grinde fynely on a marble stone which distyll togyther agayne with the abouesayd water thrée or fowre tymes ouer For the vlcers being olde doth the powder remayning heale by applying vpon them withall the water This Fumanellus â–ª Another water taking away and healing Fistulaes knobbes or kâ—ottes Take of the oyle of Tyle stones fyue pyntes of vnquenched Lyme â—ew made thrée ounces of pure Arsenicke two ounces of Euphorbium one ounce all these distyll in a Lymbecke according to arte This Fumaâ—ellus Another mightyer water inputting away Fistulaes knobbes and wartes Take of the oyle of Tyle stones halfe a pynt of vnslaked Lyme fowre ounces of pure Ammoniacum so much of Euphorbium halfe an ounce all these myxed with the oyle distyll after arte in a Lymbecke and the distylled lycour â–ª kéepe to your vse This Fumanellus An Oyle for the cleansing of the Morphew take of whyte Tartare and of Salt nyter of eache a lyke these grynde finely on a smothe stone after make a hole in the myddle of the powder in which laye a burning coale and the oyle which runneth from the stone dilygently kéepe with the same annoynt the Morphew places and they shall speedily be cleansed and healed A strong water take of OrpymeÌ„te of Floris aeris of ech two ounces of Romaine vitryoll one pound and a halfe of Salt nyter two poundes of Alome thrée poundes all these dyligently brought to powder distyll according to art A strong water maruaylous in the curing of an old Fistula and that déepe entered within the bone borrowed out of a most auncient wrytten booke Take of Salt Ammoniaci of vitrioll of the redde and cytrine Orpymente of gréene copperase of each two drams eyther more or lesse according to the discrecion of the workeman all these brought to powder distyll in a glasse bodye well luted making a gentle fyre at the fyrst and increasing it so long vntyll the glasse body become redde that distylled keepe in a glasse closse stopped in that otherwyse it would breath out and consume away This water is of such a force and vertue that it pearceth the bones and for that cause one small droppe let fall in the hollow of the Fistula doth forthwith canterizate the same euen lyke to fyre After let the burning be taken or gotten away with the whyte of an egge or freshe butter and a warie application then vsed for the increasing of fleshe Another strong water take of Salt peter and of the Romaine Vitryoll of eache two poundes of Alome calcyned halfe a pound all these brought to powder distyll in a Cucurbite but I rather thinke a Retorte the better This water whytneth the téeth that be blacke if so be you applye a droppe of it on the téeth with a Goose feather and washe them after with spring or Conduite water A kynde of strong water auayling against wormes wartes and knobbes or lytle swellinges take of Salt Ammoniacum of Romayne vitryoll and of each two ounces of Sugar Alome and of vnslaked Lyme of eache halfe an ounce all these dilygentlye myxed distyll after arte Another water maruaylous in the Fistulaes and in the dyssoluing of pearles and the Gold in leaues Take of Salt Ammoniacum halfe a pounde of Salt niter three ounces of Tartare two ounces of coÌ„mon salt halfe an ounce all these finely brought to powder and distylled by a Lymbecke keepe in a glasse close stopped A water which dyeth or coloureth Horses Dogges cloathes and Feathers of a greene colour take of Salt nyter one pound and of Smerilij halfe a pounde these fynelie brought to powder distyll by a Lymbecke the water kéepe in a glasse closse stopped For the taking away of a Canker a secrete of Master Frances
two ounces of Romaine vitryoll and set in the open ayre for thrée dayes after vse the same according to discretion Another water take of salt gemme of the â—rosse beatings about the Antuiâ—ld of Copper and of Alcanâ—a of each a lyke quantitye these after the beating distyll after art in a Lymbecke Another water more of value take of salt gemme one pound of Romaine vitryoll halfe a pounde of Salt nyter fowre ouncâ—â— of the gréene rootes of Celondyne scraped vnto the wayght of all these seuerallye heateâ— â–ª and myxed togyther drawe â— water by Lymbecke the same 〈◊〉 fyrst 〈◊〉 throâ—eâ— way 〈◊〉 â—nprofitable the next which coâ—â—eth kéepe◠〈◊〉 it coloureth thâ— heyre in washing the heyres before with â—ye â–ª and â—â—tting the heyres often with a Spunge as thâ—y drye in the hote sunne A powder made by sublâ—mation most strong seruing with the corrâ—â—ing and eating away and mortifying deâ—â—â—slcke boroweâ— out of Lanfraâ—ke in his Antyâ—â—â—arie Take of the fylinges of yron of the powder of vitryoll of Alâ—ne iaâ—â—â—i and of Antiâ—â—â—nie of eache two ounces â–ª of the Salt â–ª Aâ—â—noniaâ—i of Arsenicâ—e cytrine â–ª of Sulphure viue of Floris â–ª aeris of each one ounce and a halfe of vnâ—laked Lyme new made halfe a pounde after all these well beaten and myxed togyther adde to the whole one ounce of quicksyluer extincted or kylled with fasting spyttle or mortifyed with the squilletick vineger or the sea water or stroÌ„g Lye which shall be the better if the same shal be of the ashes of Beanes and that Trochistes or lytle flat balles be made therof and dryed put into a Aludel and sublymed after arte The maner of the sublymation â—s on this wyse take a thicke strong Glasse body â–ª which wyl abyde the heate of fire without cracking or breaking or that it be a bodie of earth glased within and hath a couer to artificiallye framed and matched to it that one part entereth close within the mouth of the bodie which shal be vnder and so closely neere ioyned to it that nothing at all can breath out of the same with this that the edges or lyppes be luted round about with the lute of wisedome or potters claye Let the powder to be sublymed be put in the bottome of the body and close couered with the couer and the edges stronglye luted and set in the Furnace vnder which a soft or slowe fyre made for halfe a day after take the vessell from the fyre letting the same throughlye coole which being colde vncouer the head and that which then remayneth alowe in the bottome throwe away But that which cleaueth or sticketh to the couer take away and keepe in the pieces And when you shall néede of the same then vse and worke with the same by good cyrcumspection and in a warie maner in that this burneth lyke to fyre and both putrifyeth and corrupteth the place to which this is applyed Certaine instructions of Mercurie precypitate to be prepared and made with Aqua fortis are here vnder vttered Thâ—â— Mercurie precypitate is made on this wyse take of Aqua fortis or strong wâ—â—er one pound of crude Mercurie foure ounces dyssolued into water after the water euaporate in Sande or by distyllacion seperate it stronglye that it waxeth redde through dryed the same after grinde in a marble morter powring vppon Aqua vitae distylled fiue or seuen tymes ouer which also kyndle â–ª and let it burne vntyll the same be consumed After let it be rectifyed with Rosewater verie well myxed and then by fyltring or by a fylter seperate the Rosewater and leaue or suffer it to drye Then powre againe of the Aqua vitae vppon which kyndle and burne vntyll the same be through drye and the same repeted a thyrd time you shall haue that you desyre and seeke And so much of Aqua vitae must be powred vpon as maye onely suffice to couer it but not to much in any wyse A Mercurie precypitate inuented of an Empericke Frenche man take of quicksyluer one pounde of strong water fifteene pyntes these put into a Cucurbyte stronglie luted distyll after the maner of strong water as is afore taught increasing alwayes the fire vnto the ende Of Mercurie precipitate which serueth and is a remedie against all sicknesses and disseases caused of the rottennesse of humours The lxxxx Chap. TAke equal parts of Romaine vitryoll and Salt nyter and of them gather a water by distyllacion with a body head and Receauer into which bodye you shall put a sixt part of the wayght of crude Mercurie or quicksyluer that is if of the Vitryoll and Salt nyter there be three poundes then adde to these of Mercurie syxe ounces after this so doe that a water with his spirites may ascende and fall into the Receauer All which come in the receauer emptie then into another Glasse bodie pure within stronglye luted and fensed without to the headde of which set a Receauer fastened with lute and standing vnder the same cause to distyll againe and the water when it shall be gathered in the Receauer powre the same againe into the bodie in which Mercurie yet remayned and you shall often repeate and goe ouer with this vntyll a Mercurie come to rednesse being thus come redde take the Cake forth and washe it with Cordiall waters as the water of Rosemarye Buglosse Baulme and such lyke But washe the Mercurie before and that often tymes in spring Cunduite or well water being before distylled which Mercurie thus corrected and prepared you shall mynister to the sicke and grieued persons after this order and maner If the person shall be sufficientlye strong of bodie then mynister after the mynde of Gabriell Fallopius of Aloes cicotri halfe a scruple of Myrre and Masticke fowre graines of precypitate fyue graynes myxe these with rosed Hony or rather with the conserue of Roses framing of the whole eyther three or fowre pylles which gyue fasting in the morning and dryncking a draft of whyte wyne warmed after them If the bodie shall be meane of strength then mynister but fowre graynes with a lytle swéetâ— butter Sugar and three graynes of Masticke If the body shal be feeble and through crased then onely thrée graynes with halfe a scruple of Aloes â—ycotrine powthered and myxed with RhodosaccharuÌ„ which made into thrée pylles minister as aboue taught But if you minde to minister this to a Childe then vse but fowre graynes or rather applye of it according to the strength and weakenesse of the Chyldes body Further learne note that you ought to myxe the precypitate before with Triacle and to mynister the same then to the pacient poysoned to the dropsie person â–ª and pacient taken with the Pestilence or any other sicknesse And that more to be vnderstanded if a healthfull and sound man shall yearely or euery thyrd yeere vse this precypitate as neede occasion shall requyre the same with a prudent digestion of humours that is the preparation of the
brused before The Mandrake apples are cut into quarters boyled in oyle in a double vessel in a colde coūtrey as afore of the oyle of Roses out of Rogerius was taught or you may otherwyse prepare the Oyle by the heate of the Sunne This Oyle auayleth the lyke in contynuall and burning Agues which the Oyle of Roses doth but in that this oyle stupyfieth and mightier altereth more then the oyle of Roses doth it ought for that cause that the malyce or hurt be repressed with womans mylke myxed the same oyle also auayleth in the hote aches and gowte This borrowed out of Rogerius An oyle out of Bay berries doth Rogerius instruct to make many wayes take the gréene berries those breake small which after the sufficient boyling straine through a cloath kéepe the lycour in a glasse Otherwyse take a quantity of rype bay berries those after the finely breaking boyle with bay leaues after art and the same strayned kéepe dilygently in a glasse Or after the baye berries be finely broken infused for sixe or eyght dayes in wyne and then put vp into bagges an oyle drawne by a presse Or the rype fresh berryes broken which after the putting into bagges an oyle pressed forth This oyle as wytnesseth Rogerius auayleth against the Collick the Ilyacke and Sciaticke passion or payne in the hyppe bone An oyle out of yuie berryes is gotten and made many wayes especially by those wayes taught aboue in the drawing an oyle out of bay berryes this oyle purchased auaileth against cold causes especially against the cold ioynt aches Wherefore I affirme sayth Rogerius that whatsoeuer consisteth in the yuie auayleth against ache of the ioynts whereof the oyle that myghtier worketh is on this wyse prepared and made take of the drye wood the berries and gum of the yuie if you can purchase altogyther the wood small cutte put into an earthen potte being ful of hooles in the bottome or at the least hauing three holes passing through in the bottome which set into the mouth of another potte glased the mouthes of which stoppe close with potters clay or past these two so ordered set to deepe into the earth that the vpper pot stand wholy aboue the earth the mouth of the neather potte couered ouer with the earth which done make a fire about the vpper pot and a blacke oyle wyll after distyll into the neather pot A Rape oyle gotten by pressing out take a Rape which after the making of a hollowe deepe hole in the roote fyll that hollownesse vp with oyle Olyue on which set the cappe or couer of the roote afore cutte of being thus close stopped on the head wrap the whole roote dilygently about with towe wette which after bury in the hote ymbers with a few coales vpon this done let it there lye for halfe an howre after which tyme drawe it forth and taking of the cappe preserue the oyle strayned and the roote also strayned togyther through a lynnen cloath This oyle auayleth against cleftes and choppes of the handes caused of colde This borrowed out of a written booke Out of the Pyne aple kernelles I sawe an oyle drawne or gotten by discencion which serueth for the wrincles of womens faces this out of Manaraus An oyle out of the Onyon and Triacle prouoking sweate in the pestilence take a bigge white Onyon in the myddle of which make a déepe hole filling the same with good Triacle after the cappe set on and a wet lynnen cloth wrapped rounde about ▪ put it vnder the hotte ymbers to rost for half an howre which after the distilling in a Limbecke giue of this lycour vnto the quantity of two ounces to the paciēt The same effect worketh sixe ounces of the distylled lycour ▪ of the greene Nuts This out of Fumanellus Of the oyles out of Spyces but the oyle or water to be gotten out of Cynamon see and reade hereafter among the Barks The .xv. Chapter THis generall precept ought to be obserued in the distillacion of all spyces in a maner that what spices soeuer you chose bray thē first into fine powder powring vpon a quātity of cunduite or spryng water which after the same shall be coloured with the spyce shyft into another glasse into which powre other fresh spyces broken so oftē do the same vntyl the water purchase no further colour then distyl it in Balneo Mariae seperate after the water from the oyle this G. Rast. But the waters oyles which are preapared gotten out of spyces ought to be done by the infusion in simple water not in wyne or Aqua vitae in that those doe hastily ascend not carry the force of the spyces with them but the water contrarywyse ascendeth not without the spyce And to be briefe those are here to be applyed which are afore taught of the oyles out of séedes in the begynning vttered to be done The oyle out of Cloues Nutmegs Pepper Mace Cinamō are made wrought through the spyces before broken put into a Cucurbite wel luted or into a copper body with a head set close on which you shall distyll by a pype retching through a vessell of colde water for on such wyse cooled wyll a water and oyle come which after seperate as the one from the other For the oyle euermore swymmeth aboue the water except the oyle of Cloues which falleth to the bottome An oyle out of Nutmegs vnto the imitaciō of this general rule which a certaine Empericke teacheth to be in a maner lyke prepared Take a thyrd or fowrth part of good Aqua vitae distylled the Nutmegs finely broken put altogither into a glasse body filled with the Aqua vitae three fingers aboue the Nutmegs which let stand couered to infuse for .xxiiii. howres that the Aqua vitae hath attayned a yellow colour the same then shyft into another glasse into which poure after fresh Aqua vitae so much as before the same so often repeate with fresh Aqua vitae vntyl it wyl colour the Aqua vitae no more Which done powre all the Aqua vitae thus colored into a glasse body which after the setting into Balneo Mariae distyll according to art that the Aqua vitae may ascend the oyle of Nutmegs remayne in the bottome of the body and on such wyse shal you attaine the oyle prepared In the lyke maner may an oyle be altogyther distylled out of all other spyces I saw sayth one of Gesnerus friends a distyllation of the oyle of Nutmegs which was an oyle drawne most pleasant swéet and of a great yéeld by an Alchymist after this maner He tooke the Nutmegs brought thē to fine powder on which he powred two measures of simple pure water after he shyfted the whole into a glasse Cucurbite fensed about with that lute of wysedome this lute was made with simple clay to which he mixed the shorne floxe of cloath tempred with salt water euē as the Alchymists
maner vnto one part of the powder of Brymstone they adde another part of flynt stones lyke brought to powder this myxture powre into a Retort and set ouer a very soft fyre they so drawe a singuler oyle Which oile in what maner diseases it may be vsed and with what it may be gyuen in eache and in what quantitie and howe shall briefâ—y be here vnder vttered This oyle is vsed in cold diseases whose cause procéede and are the humours eyther cold or putryfyed or in whome much wynde consisteth as in rotten Agues Tertians â–ª Quotiâ—ians and Quartaynes in the Pestilence in wounds in vlcers espetially hollow and wynding in many grieffes of the brayne the mouth the teeth the stomacke the Lyuer the Mylt the Matrice the bladder the Bowelles and ioyntes to those also which procéede of the abundance of humour or of putrifying And a lytle of this oyle is ministred with a distilled lycour or decoction of a congruent hearbe according to the qualitye of euery part and disease This is the maner of the measure a Hennes quyl must be dypped into the oyle and quicklyer drawne out agayne what that haÌ„geth on the quyl of the fatnesse or oyle the same temper in eyther syrupe or distylled lycour giue to drinck to the sick And with what this may be conioyned in each disease in the quotiâ—â—aÌ„ Ague in the wine of the decoction of Rosemary or mint a lytle before the fyt In the Tertian with the decoction of Centorie in wyne In the quartaine with the water of Buglosse In the Pestilence with the wyne of the decoction of Radishe to which a lytle Triacle Methridate is mixed In the vlcers sores of the mouth a feather or fine bombasie wette in the oyle and the same softlye apply on the vlcered place for in the repeating sundry tymes this oyle doth so throughly heale the euyll And druncke of such as are molested with falling sicknesse in the decoction of Byttonie and Pyonie speedily helpeth To such vered with the cough with Nettle séede and Ysope boyled in wyne In the abundaunce of flewme with the water of wormewood In the payne of the stomacke and great gutte of winde with the water of Camomyll In the coldnesse of the Lyuer and dropsie with the water of Ireos Celondyne and Hony. In the stoppings and griefe of the Mylt with Aquatamaricis In that French disease with â—umiterre water and broome flowers Against wormes in the long grasse or wormwood water In the griefe of the Matrice with wyne of the decoction of byttonie and Mugwoort In the staying backe of vryne with wine of the decoction of garlike Vnto the cold gowte with the water of Chamaepytyos And in al these the like maner must be vsed as afore was vttered of the quyll or feather dypped in the oyle and forth with tempered in an apte lycour But in wounds and vlcers the affected place must be annoynted with the oyle and that gentlye with a feather The tooth that aketh must be dressed with the same softly But if all the téeth payne and ake then let the pacient holde a space washe the mouth with the hote decoction of mynts myxed with a droppe or two of the oyle An oyle of brimstone inuented of a certayne Phisition of Rome and borrowed out of a written booke in the Italian tongue An oile of brymstone is easily and soone prepared gotten with a Bell of glasse but the better perfiter maner is this Let the brymstone be finely brought to powder and so much of the Pumeyse stone in fine powder which two myxed togyther put into a Retort fasten to it a sufficient large and bygge Receauer and within two dayes space by a most soft fire 〈◊〉 shall distyll gather the oyle of brymstone which of the Italians is named oile De grata or De regestro And the pouder of that Pumeise is added that the brimstone may not ascend that it may also send the vapors sooner vpward The selfe same properties in a maner are assigned to it which a lytle afore we recyted sauing that in a few we noted this diuersity That it cureth wounds by taking of the powder of the leaues of the Oke of Pympernel of Eâ—râ—â—onie of Campherie of S. Iohns wort al which well beaten togither seath in wyne to the straining mixe a lytle of this oyle or at least so much as may be for the malice and greatnesse of the wound And with this decoction let that fresh wouÌ„d or old vlcer â—e washed and they are speedily cured In the French disease after a sufficient purgation avayleth the oyle ordred in the same maner as aboue taught These truly and al the others afore wrytten which are to be applyed here are reported to be all experieÌ„ced by a singular phisitioÌ„ of the Emperors at Bononie of another notable phision at Rome An Odoriferouse or sweete smelling oyle of brimstone potable or to be druÌ„cke which healeth cureth in a maner all diseases griefts how wicked desperate so euer they bee borrowed out of the ItaliaÌ„ booke of secretes of the singuler Fallopio Let the Brymstone be grosely brought to powder which put into an earthen vessell ouer which hang a head or Bell with a Nose being two or three fingers distant from the vessell and to the Nose set a Receauer in which let a lyttle of pure Muske dyssolued in Rosewater be put Which done kyndle the Brymstone and the fume shall so ascend be receyued within the head But before the Brymstone distylleth wyll a certayne Câ—ate or thynne skynne as it were be gathered within the head which nothing wyll distyl before this Coate shall be thus gathered rounde about the head remembring alwayes to adde or powre in of the Brimstone by lytle and lytle as the other afore shall be consumed This oyle thus dystylled is caused swéete smelling yet very sowre in tast But the same that it may be potable or to be drunck and well delyghted to be taken by the mouth let a inlyppe be made of Hony in the same maner as commonly is made of Sugar into which instyll so much of the oyle of Brymstone now made as shal be néedefull to the purpose and that the same be not ouer sowre to take This drunck prouoketh sweate and vryne it cutteth a sunder and â—◠〈…〉 the wicked humours of the stomacke all Agues which in â—ade with a colde it helpeth it dyssolueth the stones of the kydneys â–ª â—â—â—â—â—eth all kynde of vlcers if they be applyed with this oyle in that of the proper nature this heateth and dryeth And all these the oyle of brymstone prepared in the abouesayd maner I haue found to performe by a sure and infallyble experience Another maner â–ª but the same by distyllacion vttered by the same Aucthour â–ª the ioynts before dilygently luted and sealed followed with a sofâ— fyre euer increasing the fyre by lytle lytle in a meanâ— maner In this maner is
or Feather that the spirit yet remayning or left behynde in the matter maye be myxed togyther with the water poured forth then drawe againe by Lymbecke the water poured forth and the same may you so often repeate vntyll no spirit of the wyne be fealt or perceyued in the drawing the which lyke may thus be knowne or proued When no wine mixture of the spirit is dystilled togither with the water but a pure water onely then may you iudge and perceyue that the same to be sufficient But I doe counsell sayth the Aucthour the same also is of vse and practise that to the draft or substance of the hearbs let the proper water be poured ▪ yet afore distylled apart euen as I have above vttered in the drawing of the Sage And in the same maner maye the spirites of the wine be gotten as by pouring the water of the Sage distylled in the ende and very well mixed togyther and seperated againe And such a drawing foorth is excellent and is preserued many yeares An order and waye by which the iuyce of eache hearbe may be obtained as in the distylled water of any hearbe powre the drye hearbe powdered which infuse in hote water for a time but boyle it nothing at all After straine the same then into the strayning powre againe the drye hearbe of the same kind in powder lyke infused straine againe which often repeate and in the ende distyl it in Balneo Mariae that the thynner part may be dissolued into a vapour and that which shall after remaine in the bottome wyll be so thicke as Honny and iuyce of the hearbe and in the Receauer is only gathered the water of the hearbe Or thus Of the herbe whose lycour you would distyl presse out the iuyce the remnaunt of the expression distilled togither with the iuyce the lycor shal be the effectuousser clearer as I heare sayth D. Gesnerus A verie comely maner and nothing so laborious or painfull by which the true substaunce or Quintessence the water also may easilye be drawne out of any Symple or hearbe or roote and this maner also shall serue and be ayte for diuers fruites as that the iuyces presed out and putrified Take the roote or hearbe gathered in the aptest time dryed in the shadow or ayre and the same in a cleane vessell poured in vpō the proper water drawne otherwise by distyllatiō which infuse so long togyther untyl the water hath purchased the colour of the infused mater thē seperate the water into another vessel apart which keepe close stopped And to the roote or hearbe poure the other water distylled and let them stand againe couered vnto the chaūging of the colour of the water thē 〈◊〉 aboue taught seperate the water ▪ myxe it with the first which so often repeate vntyll no more wyll issue forth and that the roote or hearbe obtaineth no more strength at all Which done the waters gathered in a Cucurbite distyll in Balneo Mariae with the head and Receauer set to after Arte that all the water may ascend be gathered and the mater or substance be ingrossed as paste or a Pultyse Which when it shall so come vnto drawe foorth the grosse matter left in the bottome of the Cucurbite and when you haue poured it into Basen or other cleane vessell sturre the whole about with a most easy and gentle heate as nygh to a Furnace or on hote ymbers that the superfluous moysture may by lytle litle within certaine dayes euaporate foorth and the same matter attaine the styfnesse of an Electuary or else of Honny then haue you purchased the best most precious substaunce of the matter drawne or the Quintessence with which euen with a most small quantitie you shall doe more then with great quantityes of the rootes or hearbes And let this be kept in a Syluer or Tynnie vessell close stopped which the older it shall be before the occupying the better wyll it be to vse And further note that the water drawne by distyllation no lesse auaileth then the other waters distylled of the hearbes or rootes Another manner of drawing foorth of substaunces Take any drie roote as the roote of Petasitis the same brought to fine pouder put into a Cucurbite poure vpon a sufficient quantitie of wyne the Cucurbite dilligentlie luted set into Balneo Mariae and let the wyne be drawne forth When out of this wyne you shall haue drawne a cuppe meane full and that the matter which is in the Cucurbyte shall be cooled powre then the same water or wyne which you haue drawne foorth distyll it againe in Balneo Mariae and the same repeate or doe thrée tymes ouer if néede shall be or oftner vntyll all the propertie through the decoction shall consist in the wyne This being done wring the substaunce gently with the handes and that pressed foorth dylligentlye kéepe For this is so precious as Gold and where you wyl the substaunce in the glasse maye be set in the Sunne that the wyne maye euaporate and an oylinesse onely remaine in the bottome Another maner of drawing foorth verye singular of an vncertaine Aucthour Take your Quintessence in which infuse your proper simple or compound for fouretéene houres grosely brought to pouder and set rather in a colde place then hote to infuse and the proper Quintessence shall drawe to it the fixed spirit of your matter and be lyke in propertie to it and when you shall see the Quintessence coloured of the matter infused seperate then the same artificiallie by an instrument which dylligentlye kéepe in a Glasse close stopped with waxe Take againe your proper Quintessence symple and poure it vpon your matter afore infused which is now seperated by the instrument and let it remayne againe to infuse for ▪ xxii◠▪ howres in a colde place after it be coloured againe seperate the Quintessence againe by an instrument frō the substaunce infused as you know that seperated adde to the former Quintessence coloured And poure vpon the simple essence of al your substaūce infused ▪ seperate the same so often ▪ vntyll your substaunce infused wyll yéeld no more colour or colour the Quintessence no more Take your Quintessence gathered which poure into a long necked Cucurbite setting vpon his Lymbecke or head luted accorcording to Arte set into Balneum Mariae after distyll the Quintessence with a soft fyre vntyll you shall see it come vnto the styfnesse of Pappe in the bottome of the Cucurbite and shall have in the bottome of the substance infused the spirit remaining fixed which gather artificiallie into a Syluer vessell A most singular and the profitablest manner of drawing iuyces out of hearbes Take gréene Sage and drawe a water out of the same by distyllation or let the dryed Sage be taken on which powre the water that from it the subtyller parte maye be seperated but the grosser Sauge infused stiepe for certayne dayes whiche after distyll according to Arte.