produce a better effect upon cold stomachs Wormwood Water the greater Composition Take of Roman and common Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls Galanga Ginger Aromarical reed Alicampane roots of each three drachms Liquoris an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Cinnamon Cloves Natmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in 20. pints of Spanish wines for the space of 24. hours and then distilled in an Alembick according to 〈◊〉 and sweetned with Sugar A. This water is excellent good for cold stomachs taken with discretion helps digestion in such in whom it is weak it kills worms in the belly easeth pains in the teeth and given in convenient mixtures is profitable in feavers Angelica Water the greater Composition Take of Angelica two pounds Annis-seed half a pound Coriander Carawaies of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces infuse them 24. hours in six congies of small wines then draw out the spirit and sweeten it with sugar A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital spirits resisteth the Pestilence and Infection Langius his Bezoar Water Take of Chelondine w th the roots three handfuls and an half Rue a handful Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet Carduus Benedictus of each one handful and an half Zedoary and Angelica roots of each three drachms Citron and Lemmon pils of each two drachms and an half Clove-gilliflowers Roses of each two drachms Cinnamon Cloves of each five drachms and an half Venice treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and an half Camphire two scruples Troches of Vipers Mace of each a drachm and an half Wood of Aloes two scruples Yellow sanders a drachm and an half Conserves of Clove-gilliflowers two ounces Carduus seeds an ounce Pouder of Electuary Liberantis five scruples Filings of Unicorns-horn or Harts horn a drachm and an half Let these Ingredients being cut and bruised be infused for three daies in the spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine of each three pound then stil'd in a Glasse-Stil in Balneo Mariae according to art After it is half stilled that which remains in the Stil may be strained through a linnen cloath and by evaporation reduced to the thicknesse of Honey and called by the name of Bezoartick Extraction After the same maner may Extractions be made of almost all Compound Waters A. Fxtracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from only the different form is to please the quaint pallates of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart Arteries and spirit vital It provoketh sweat and is exceding good in pestilential feavers in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions and makes a merry blith cheerful creature Mathiolus his Bezoar Water Take of Mathiolus his great Antidote syrup of Citron pills of each one pound spirit of wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glasse that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glasse to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapours A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good wine or any other cordial water so absolutely speedily cureth the bitings of any venemos beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient hath lost his speech sight almost al the rest of his sences yet wil he be roused up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testify by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant successe as also in consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Gallens supposed Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in Capon Water Take a Capon the bowels and fat being taken away cut him in bits and boyl him sufficiently in a sufficient quantity of water according to art Take of this broth being strained two pound and an half Borrage and Buglosse water white Wine of each one pound and an half Flowers of Roses Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each two drachms Crumbs of new bread half a pound bruised Cinnamon an ounce distil it in Glasse Still according to art A. Divers Physitians have written several recepts of this water as Gesner Andr. é Lacuna Med. Florent and Coloniens But the truth is this recept although our Physicians conceal it was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians and only because they thought as I suppose a Gapon must not be eaten without bread they added the bread to it the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart and in truth the Composition greatly nourisheth and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions and restoreth strength lost either by feavers or other sicknesse It is a soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers and marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish wine 12. pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the wine 24. hours then distil them in an Alimbick draw out three pints of strong waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a Glasse-Still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the Still body close and place it in a warm bath 24. hours then put on the Still-head lute it wel and distil it according to art A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet 4. pints and that is al the
a pugil of seeds of Endive and Succory of each a drachm and an half Raisons of the sun an ounce Damask Prunes twenty The flowers of Borrage Buglosse Violets of each a pugil Myrobalans Citrons and Chebs of each an ounce and an half boyl them all in water till the third part be boyled away then in a pint and half of this decoction infuse all night Rubarb two ounces and an half Agrick Trochiscated an ounce Senna an ounce and an half Ginger Cinnamon of each a drachm strain it the second time and with a pound of the best Sugar and 3. ounccs of syrup of Roses solutive boile it gently to a syrup A. It purgeth choller and openeth obstructions in the bowels kills worms but let it not be given in feavers Syrup of Epithimum Mesue Take of Epithimum twenty drachms Myrobalans Citrons and Indian of each 15. drachms Doddar Fumitory of each ten drachms Time Calaminth Buglosse Staechas Liquoris Polipodium Agrick Myrobalans Emblicks and Belliricks of each six drachms red Roses sweet Fennel seeds and Annis seeds of each two drachms and an half sweet Prunes 20. Raisons of the sun the stones picked out four ounces Tamarinds two ounces and an half after they have been infused 24. honrs boil them in ten pints of water till four pints be consumed then let it be strained and ad to the decoction white Sugar five pounds boyl it to a syrup A. It is best to put in the Doddar Stoechas and Agrick towards the latter end of the decoction A. This recept was Mesue's only in stead of five pound of sugar Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place and truly of my opinion the recepts of Mesue are generally the best in al the Dispensatory because the simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended they are not made up of a messe of hodg-podg as many others are but to the purpose A. It purgeth melancholly and other humors it strengthens the stomach and liver cleanseth the body of addust choller and addust blood as also of salt humors and helps diseases proceeding from these as scabs itch tetters ringworms leprosie c. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentlenesse for I never fancied violent medicines in melancholly diseases Syrup of Eupatorium or Maudlin Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Succory of each two ounces Liquoris Schaenanth Dodder Wormwood Roses of each six drachms Maiden hair Bedeguar or instead thereof the roots of Carduus Mariae Suchaha or instead thereof the roots of Avens the flowers or roots of Buglosse Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ageratum or Maudlin of each five drachms Rhubarb Mastich of each three drams Spicknard Indian leaf or instead of it put Roman Spike of each two drachms boyl them in eight pints of water till the third part be consumed then strain the decoction and with four pound of Sugar clarified juyce of Smallage and Endive of each half a pound boil it into a syrup A. 'T is a strange clause and the stranger because it comes from a Colledg of Physitians that they should set Bedeguar or instead thereof Cardnus Mariae It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us or rather that which the Physitians of our times use for Bedeguar is a kind of wild Rose but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was Cardnus Mariae and they knew well enough Mesue whose recept this was was an Arabian truly this is just as though they should say they would have ten shillings for a visit or instead of that an angel there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus-Mariae as between eight-pence and two groats A. It amends infirmities of the liver coming of cold opens obstructions helps the dropsie and evil state of the body it extenuates grosse humors strengthens the liver provokes urine and is a present succor for hypocondriack melancholly Syrup of Liquoris Mesue Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces white Maiden-hair an ounce dried Hysop half an ounce Infuse them together for the space of 24. hours in four pints of warm rain water then boyl it till half the water be consumed strain the decoction and clarifie it and with eight ounces of honey and sixteen ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding toward the latter end of the decoction six ounces of red rose water A. It cleanseth the breast and lungues and helps continuall coughs and Pleuresies Syrup of Hysop Mesue Take of spring water eight pints in which boyl half an ounce of French Barly the space of half an hour then put in the roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel Liquoris of each ten drachms let these boyl very gently about a quarter of an hour then add Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half dry Figs and Dates of each ten afterwards put in the seeds of Mallows Quinces and Gum Traganth tied up in a linnen rag of each three drachms afterwards put in of Hysop meanly dried ten drachms Maiden hair six drachms boyl it to three pints and having clarified the decoction with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungues causeth long wind cleer voyce is a good remedy against coughs Syrup of Jujubes Mesue Take of Jujubes sixty Violets and Mallow seeds of each five drachms Maiden hair Liquoris and French-Barly of each an ounce the seeds of white Poppies Mallows Lettice and Quinces Gum Traganth tied up in a rag of each three drachms boyl them in six pints of rain or spring water till half be consumed strain it and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It is a fine cooling syrup very available in coughs hoarsness and pleurefies ulcers of the lungues and bladder as also in all inflamations whatsoever Syrup of Chamepitys or Iva Arthritica Take of Chamepitys two handfuls Sage Rosemary Darnel Origanum Calaminth wild Mints Peny-royal Hysop Time Garden and Wild Rue Betony and Mother of Time of each a handful the roots of Acorus Aristolochia or Birth wort both long and round Briony Dictamni Gentian Hogs-Fennel Valerian of each one ounce and an half the roots of Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus of each one ounce Stoechas the seeds of Annis Bishops weed Caraway Fennel Lovage Hartwort of each three drachms Pellitory of Spain half an ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water and with hony and sugar of each two pounds prepare it and perfume it with Cinnamon Nutmegs and Cubebs according to art A. The Anthor is here concealed neither do I remember that ever I read it in any other or ever knew it made I know not the meaning of that word sufficient quantity of water nor how much it
Colcothar mix it with an equal part of Salt 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 tartar let them be calcined between two little 〈◊〉 the uppermost having a hole 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have done smoking dissolve the 〈◊〉 thus calcined in warm water that so the Salt may be 〈◊〉 out the pouder which remains at bottom moisten with oyl of Tartar and dry it by the fire do so three 〈◊〉 again dissolve it in warm water that you may take out the salt then will there remain a very white pouder and fixed which being set in a moist place wil dissolve into an oyl much like butter Oyl of Salt Take of French bay-salt made with the heat of the sun not of the fire as much as you will dry it by the fire to which ad its weight in burnt bricks beat them together in a mortar before they be altogether cold put them into a retort with a long neck lute a capacious receiver very wel to it give fire to it by degrees and in twelve or fourteen hours you shall have the oyl in the Receiver when the furnace is cold and the smoak wel ceased powr out the oyl and keep it from the air in a glasse well stopped and rectifie it from the flegm But the best oyl of salt is better made if you make the salt into brine of such strength that it wil bear an eg then quench the Bricks being red hot in this brine til they have drunk up al the liquor then beat them into pouder and put them into a Retort wel luted and give fire to it even to the highest degree and then rectifie it from the flegm A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly it helps the gout three drops taken every morning in convenient liquor preserves youth consumes the dropsie resists feavers convulsions the falling sickness being mixed with oyntments it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations Oyl of Amber Take of yellow Amber four ounces beat it into pouder to which being put in a large Viol or a Retort pour as much sharp wine vineger digest it eight daies in horse dung then add to it twise its weight in dry sand distil it in sand adding the fire by degrees rectifie it from the sand with salt or Tartar calcined then with water A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves as Convolsions Falling-sickness c. Being given in convenient liquors it is a singuler remedy against poyson and pestilent air diseases of the reins and bladder the fits of the mother the nose being anointed with it the chollick it causeth speedy labour to women in travail being taken in Vervain water it strengthens the body exceedingly as also the brain and sences and is of an opening nature Oyl of Sulphur Take a glass bel-still which will hold sixteen pound at least for the larger it is so much the better it is place it upon an earthen vessel which hath three or four upholders to which the bell may be commodiously fitted then putting a sufficient quantity of Brimstone into the earthen vessel burn it under the bell putting in fresh Brimstone when the first is consumed let this be done in some obscure place where neither wind nor sun comes The oyl will be more in quantity if the vessel that holds the Brimstone stand upon a furnace and a fire be under it Before you put on the bell perfume it with the smoke of Sage A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold putrifaction or wind feavers agues tertian quartan or quotidian Pestilence wounds and ulcers affects of the brain mouth teeth liver stomach spleen matrix bladder entrails and arteries coming of abundance of humours or putrifaction outwardly applied it helps fistulaes ulcers of the mouth and gangrens the way to take it inwardly is thus dip the top of a feather in the oyl and wash it in the liquor or decoction you give it in in 〈◊〉 agues give it in wines in which rosemary or mints or both have been boyled in tertian agues in Wine in which centaury hath been boyled in quartan agues in Bugloss water in all of them a little before the fit come in pestilences in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boyled mingled with a litle Venice Treacle in the falling-sickness with decoction of Bettony or Peony in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hysop both of them made with Wine for flegm in Wormwood water for the wind chollik in Chamomel flower water for dropsies and cold livers in Selondine water and Honey for the rickets and stoppage of the spleen in Tamaris water for the French pocks in Fumitory or Broomflower water against worms in Grass or Wormwood water for the fits of the mother in decoction of Bettony or Featherfew in Wine for suppression of urine in decoction of Garlick with wine for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys with Wine in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the oyl it a hollow tooth ake put a drop into it if all your teeth ake make a decoction of mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this oyl to it and hold it warm in your mouth Oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as you wil put it into a large retort with that proportion that but the third part of the vessel be filled distill it in sand with a strong fire afterwards the oyl being first seperated from the water or spirit of Tartar rectifie it with much water to correct the smell of it let it stand open a long time in the sun Liquor Tartari commonly called oyl of Tartar Take of Tartar so much as is sufficient fill an earthen vessel not glazed almost full of it let it be calcined in a furnace twelve hours when it is cold put it in Manica Hippocratis which hang in a moist Cellar that it may dissolve placing a vessel under it to receive it that which remains and will not dissolve in the hanging dissolve in water and evaporate away the moisture till it begin to look like Allum A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries and Virgins buy it to take away the sunburn and freckles from their faces it takes off the rust from Iron and preserves it bright a long time Oyl of vitriol Take of the best Vitriol as much as you will melt it in a pan then divide it into thick pieces the which burn in the fire till they look reddish then beat them into pouder and sprinkle them with the best spirit of Wine put them into earthen retorts which will bear the fire increase the fire to them by degrees for three daies till the receivers which were obscured with smoke come to be cleer rectifie that distilled liquor and seperate by themselves the spirit of Wine the sour spirit of Vitriol and the strong and ponderous oyl A. It must be mixed with other medicines for it kils being taken alone it a swageth thirst allaieth the violent heat in feavers and
part of salt Peter two parts dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve filter it through a broun paper into this brine which must be strong enough to bear an eg put the former solution of the Mercury and forth with a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which is to be washed in cleer water till it have no tast then in cordial waters so dried and kept in a glass Mercurius vitae Take of oyl of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat put it into cleer water and forth with it will appear like milk and a white pouder will fall down to the bottom which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use Sacharum Saturni Take of red I ead as much as you will which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vineger to it that it may overtop it the bredth of four fingers digest it in a bath or in dung twenty four hours seperate the sweet Vineger and put in fresh so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top then set the vessel in a Cellar and take away the Christalline congealation then exhale it again till another skin be on the top and do as before till there grows no more there at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water filter it coagulate it to a sweet christalline sugar Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour Take of Vitriol so much as you wil put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it till it come into a pouder of the colour of Violets let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot be cold so let it stand twenty four hours filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour Salt of Vitriol white Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was Turbith Minerale Take of crude Mercury oyl of Vitriol seperated from the flegm of each equal parts put them into a phial which being placed first of all in hot ashes then fire being added by degrees lest all the oyl of Vitriol flie away a white mass remaining in the bottom which being seperated from that portion of crude Mercury let it be put into rain water or else distilled water and forth with it will come yellow let it be often washed in warm water till it be sweet then in cordial waters then dried and kept Oleum Antimonij Take of bright Antimony as much as you will let it be beaten in very fine pouder and put into a large earthen vessel stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots then beat it again set it over the fire as before repeat this till all the splendor of it be gone and it smoke no more and the Stibium be like white ashes let this pouder be put upon a red hot plate take a pound and an half of it Borax half an ounce or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire til there flow a matter like water put that into a bason and keep it Tartarum Vitriolatum Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces Oyl of Vitriol wel rectified two ounces drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar so wil there a white pouder fall down to the bottom let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat and the salt reserved for use Nepenthes Opiatum Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vineger then with spirit of Wine extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine of each an ounce Salt of Pearls and Coral of each half an ounce Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms Ambergreece one drachm mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills THE VVAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS SEing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others We chose rather to give this general way of making of them than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with idle and needless Recepts and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful Take of the masse of any pill or pouder what soever as much as you wil infuse them or any of them in distilled water such as the Physitian shall prescribe a sufficient quantity let them stand two daies in a bath or if the species be hard three daies til the tincture have drawn out all the vertue which if you would try let the first liquor run through a brown paper and put in new liquor digesting it again which having received its tincture proceed as before let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae and the moisture evaporated so wil the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey which keep for your use that the extract may remain moist a long time put a little salt to it viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract If you draw it with distilled water put in a little oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur so the extract wil be the better drawn and the pleasanter to the tast for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine Cordial Extracts Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine THE VVAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The other fixed which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉 The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juyce beat it in a wooden or stone mortar and 〈◊〉 poured cleer spring water to it boyl it till half be consumed strain it and press it strongly then boyl the decoction to the thickness of Honey then set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed in a cold place for eight daies at the least and you shall find a christal line salt at the top of it like Sal gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner is made salt of Wormwood Carduns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other bitter herbs very easily but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty The way of
making Fixed or Elementary Salt The method of making this consists in these four things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That this may be rightly done 〈◊〉 of all the ashes of 〈◊〉 herbs you would make salt of must be made white by calcination and herein have a care lest by too much burning either they go to glass or else the most subtill part fly out which often chanceth in the calcining of scurvy grass and other plants of like nature Then make a ly of the ashes by pouring to them cleer water and hot till all the saltness be drawn from them filter the ly and boyl it by a gentle fire till all the water be evaporated away and the salt left at the Bottom to which a further cleansing is requisite therefore dissolve it again in water and filter it and coagulate it again for by often so doing the salt will be cleansed from all its impurity and remain white and clean Thus are salts prepared of herbs fruits and trees of any kind as also of parts of living creatures calcined and some stones But this by the by Amongst fixed salts these excel salt of Wormwood Time Rosemary Centaury the less Mugwort Carduus Benedictus Masterwort Parsly Best-harrow Ash dwarf Elder or Walwort Guajacum Box Chamomel St. Johns wort Succory Sullondine Scurvy-grass Bettony Eupatorium Bawm Cetrach c. PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN MEDICINES VERY NECESSARY FOR APOTHECARIES The burning of Brass TAKE flakes of Brass put them in an earthen vessel putting between every thin plate either common Salt or Brimstone in pouder in this manner lay flake upon flake till the pot be full then burn it sufficiently and sweeten it with warm water it will be reddish if prepared with salt black if with Brimstone The way to wash Aloes Take of Aloes beaten into very fine pouder as much as you will put it into a glazed pot and stir it up and down with a spatula in a sufficient quantity of boyling hot water so as the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water pour off that and put in other warm water do so till nothing but the dross is left at bottom all the waters being added together evaporate away the moisture that the pure Aloes may be left in a mass at bottom The preparation of Spodium Take of choyce Ivory cut in big peices burn them in an earthen pot in a furnace till they look white then being beaten into fine pouder wash it in Rosewater let there be two pound of the water to one pound of the Ivory dry it and wash it again thrice the last time diffolve four drachms of Camphire in the Rose water then having dryed it grind it fine upon a marble and make it into troches to be kept for your use In the same manner may you prepare Hartshorn The Preparation of Bole Armenick The preparation of this is performed by many with Rose water by some with Vineger by others with Wine The Role being in fine pouder they wash so often till all the dross and sand be taken from it then they dry it in the air or in the sun and keep it close covered 〈◊〉 Brionie Take of 〈◊〉 roots as many as you will scrape them with a knife and press out the juyce strongly with a press which being kept without motion in a vessel after a few hours white foeces like Starch will settle the water swimming at top being poured off dry those Foeces in glazed vessels May Butler Take of sresh Putter without any salt at all about the middle of May or toward the latter end of them month place it in the sun in a broad earthen vessel well glazed that so it may be melted on every side which being well melted when the sun is at the hottest strain it through a thick linnen rag but press it not then set it in the san again at last when it is white you may keep it all the yeer 〈◊〉 of quick Lines The Lime being beaten let it be mixed with much sweet water especially in the Dog daies and much stirred and when it is setled at the bottom change the water and mix it again with other do so seven or eight times filtring it every time at 〈◊〉 put Rose water to it and so dry it and keep it for your use The way to burn River Crabs Take of River Crabs alive stew them in a brass pan over a temperate fire so long then having beaten them to pouder keep them in a clean box in a dry place so will they continue good a whol yeer The common preparation of filings of Steel Take of filings of Steel cleansed from the filth by a Loadstone washing them in clean water and drying them then sprinkle them well with sharp Wine Vineger stirring them well dry them in the shaddow often putting fresh Vineger to them so let it stand thirty daies afterwards beat it into very fine pouder and keep it for your use In such steel as is prepared by the fire with Brimstone you must note that unless after the burning it retain a smatch of the tast of Vittiol it hath lost all its opening saculty and is good for nothing The preparation of Coriander 〈◊〉 Steep Coriander seeds in sharp Vineger for twenty sour hours and then dry them and so if you please you may prepare Cummin seeds also The preparation of 〈◊〉 Take of wild Cucumers 〈◊〉 ripe as many as you will cut them 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the juyce gently with your 〈◊〉 singers 〈◊〉 which let run through a very fine sive then let it stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 part be setled at the bottom 〈◊〉 off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 into another earthen glazed vesel ser the 〈◊〉 at the bottom being covered with a linnen cloath in the son till it be dry then keep it for your use The preparation of Spurge roots Infuse the bark of spurge roots being well cleansed in sharp wine Vineger then dry them and keep them for your use In the same manner is prepared the leaves of Laurel Merereon or spurge olive and the fruit of Thymelaea The preparation of Euphorbium Take of Euphorbium beaten into very fine pouder grind it upon a stone with oyl of sweet Almonds till it be like an unguent then let it be put into a Quince or Citron made hollow rolled up in past and baked in an oven keep the Euphorbium so prepared in a glass well stopped The manner of making Gersa or Cerussa Serpentaria Take of Aron roots in the beginning of the spring before their strength run up to leaves as many as you will wash them cleanse them from the outward bark then being beat in a stone mortar and the juyce pressed through a sive which being covered with a linnen cloath let it be dryed in the sun afterward washed in Rose water dryed again and kept for your use The preparation of black Hellebore Take of black Hellebore roots as we have them with us the woody
the disease come daily let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening if weekly then let it be taken only at the new and full Moon and at her quartiles to the Sun if it begin to wear away then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice It profits also in time of the fit by rubbing their temples nostrils and jaws with it Aqua Hysterica Take of the Juyce of Briony roots four pints the juyce of Rue and Mugwort of each a quart dried Savin leaves three handfuls Featherfew Nep Penyroyal of each two handfuls Basil Dictamny of Creet of each a handful and an half fresh Orange pills four ounces Mirrh two ounces Castorium one ounce Canary Wine twelve pints Infuse the simples in the Wine four daies then distill them in a bath and keep the distilled water for your use When it is half stilled you may prepare an Extraction of the residue for the same use the water is A. It wonderfully prevaileth against the fits of the mother and such like diseases incident to women and is a most excellent remedy to bring away dead children and the after birth a spoonful or two of it being given and therefore let Midwives make much of it Imperial Water Take of Citron pills dried Orange pills Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces Cyperus Orris Florentine Calamus Aromaticus of each an ounce Zedoary Galanga Ginger of each one ounce Tops of Rosemary Lavender of each two handfuls The leaves of Bay Marjoram Hysop Bawm Mints Sage Time of each one handful fresh Roses White and Damask of each half a handful Rosewater four pints of the best white Wine eight pints The things to be bruised being bruised let them be infused twenty four hours in a glasse Still over hot ashes and then distilled according to art A. You must distill it in a bath and not in sand It seems the Colledge were but mean practicioners in Alchymy but in this and many other recepts 〈◊〉 to that monster called Tradition therefore take this for a general Aphorisme All grosse bodies stilled in sand will stinkegregiously A. It comforts and strengthens the heart against faintings and swoonings and it is held to be a preservative against consumptions and apoplexies Bawm Water The greater Composition Take of Bawm a pound Time Penyroyal of each three drachms Cinnamon two drachms Cardamoms the lesse one drachm Grains of Paradice half an ounce Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a drachm Galanga six drachms Calamus Aromaticus Cyprus of each a drachm and an half Dictamni half a drachm let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale for 24. hours together and then distilled by an Alembick draw out of the stronger water three pints A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach and therfore must needs strengthens cold weak stomachs help digestion besides Authors say It restoreth memory lost quickens all the sences keeps away gray hairs and baldnesse strengtheneth the brain makes the heart cheerful and helps the lisping of the tongue easeth the pains of the teeth and causeth a sweet breath Aqua Mariae Take of Sugar Candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose Water four ounces boyl them to a Syrupe to which ad Aqua Coelestis two pound Amber-greece and Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains Yellow Sanders two drachms make of them a cleer water A. It is of more vertue than Aqua Coelestis to resist feavers to strengthen the heart to releeve Languishing nature Aqua Mirabilis Take of Cloves Galanga Cubebs Mace Gardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each one drachm juyce of Chelondine half a pound Aqua-vitae a pound White Wine three pints or three pound which you please Infuse them twenty four hours and then draw a quart of water from them by an Alembick A. The Simples also of this regard the stomack and therefore the water heats cold stomachs besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies and restoreth speech lost Rosa-Solis Take of Nutmegs Annis seeds Coriander seeds of each an ounce Galanga Ginger Cloves of each half an ounce Red-rose leaves a handful Ros-solis six handfuls Liquoris two ounces Cardamoms Zedoary Grains of Paradice Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm Yellow Sanders two drachms Red Sanders Cinnamon of each an ounce and an half Of the best Aqua-vitae twelve pints make an infusion of them for eight daies then strain it and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Sugar A. The Basis of this medicine seems to be the herb Ros-solis which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the lungues and therefore must needs be available for Phtisicks or consumptions of the lungues and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly I suppose therefore the rose leaves were added which according to Authors resist lust Dr. Stephens Water Take of Cinnamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradice seeds of Annis Fennel Caraway of each one drachm Herbs of Time Mother of Time Mints Sage Pennyroyal Pellitory of the wall Rosemary Flowers of Red roses Chemomel Origanum Lavender of each one handful infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembick draw three pints of strong water from it A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labour that it provokes the terms and brings away the afterbirth Aqua Protheriacalis Take of the leaves of Scordium Scabious Carduus Benedictus Goats Rue of each two handfuls Citron pills and Orrenge pills dried of each two ounces the seeds of Citrons Carduus Hartwort Treacle Mustard of each one ounce The Flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary of each a handful Let the things to be cut be cut the things to be brused be grosly bruised and infused in four pints of White Wine and a quart of Carduus Water and being put into a convenient glasse digested either by the heat of the sun or of the fire certain daies often shaking it Then distilled in Balneo Mariae reserve the two first pints by it self the remainder by it self at last with every pound mix an ounce of Julapium Alexandrinum and a spoonfull of Cinnamon Water It is not bid from our eyes that there are very many Simples in the Composition̄ of Treacle the vertues of which cannot be exactly drawn out by distillation in Balneo Mariae and therefore we of purpose subscribed this that the rational Physitian may at the time of giving it appoint Treacle or Diascordium or any convenient syrup notwithstanding lest we should seem different from all we have added on recept of Treacle water by distillation A. Aqua Protheriacalis signifies a Water for Treacle so then if you put Diascordium to it it is a water for Diascordium well then we will take it for a general water for all Physick Aqua Theriacalis by infusion Take of the best distilled Wine Wine
of Creet sharp Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled of each two pound Venis Treacle and Methridate of each half a pound mix them all together and warm them a little either in the Sun or in a bath and keep the tincture for your use Aqua Theriacalis distilled Take of the juice of green Walnuts four pound the juyce of green Rue three pound juyces of Carduus Benedictus Marigolds Bawm of each two pound The roots of Patasites or Butter burs fresh and green a pound and an half the Roots of Burs one pound Roots of Angelica and Masterwort green of each six ounces Scordium four handfuls old Venis Treacle and Methridate of each eight ounces Canary Wine twelve pints white Wine Vineger six pints Juyce of Lemmons a quart Digest them for two daies in horse dung or else in a bath let the vessel be well stopped then distill it in sand and in the distillation you may make an Extract called Extractum theriacale A. That this latter water far exceeds the former in vertues every way I think no man that is well in his wits will deny therefore I quote only the vertues of this if any will use the former I will not burden their conscience A. This water is exceeding good in all Feavers especially pestilential it expelleth venemous humors by sweat it strengtheneth the heart and vitals it is an admirable counterpoyson special good for such as have the Plague or are poysoned or bitten by venemous beasts and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks If you desire to know more vertues of it see the vertues of Venis Treatle Ordinary Aqua vitae Distill Ale and lees of Wine in an Alembick whose worm runs through cold water into small Wine in ten Congies of which infuse a pound of bruised Annis seeds for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water Aqua vitae compound Is made of small Wines in six congies of which infuse Annis seeds half a pound seeds of Fennel and Caraway of each two ounces Cloves Cinnamon and Ginger of each one ounce and then draw the strong spirit from it A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind Spirit of Castorium Take of Castorium four ounces Lavender flowers one ounce the Tops of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce Cinnamon six drachms Mace and Cloves of each two drachms Spirit of Wine rectified six pints Digest all these in a glasse being filled only to the third part stopped close with cork and bladder in warm ashes or sand then stil it in a glasse Alembick in Balneo Mariae well luted and let it be kept close stopped A. It resisteth poyson and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts it causeth speedy delivery to women in travail and casteth out the after-birth it provokes the terms in women and helpeth the fits of the mother it helps lethargies convulsions and in some cases is profitable for mad people but in all let it be mixed with convenient medicine for the purposes Usquebach Take of strong Aqua vitae 24. pints in which for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris Raisons of the Sun half a pound Cloves half an ounce Mace Ginger of each two drachms strain it and keep it for your use A. It strengthens the stomach and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold Fallopius his Allum-Water Take of Plantane and Red-rosewater of each a pound viz. a pint Roch Allum Quick silver and Sublimatum of each two drachms grind the Allum and the Sublimate very fine then let them boyl altogether in a glasse with a narrow mouth till half be consumed then let it stand five daies that the Sublimate and the drosse of the Allum may sink to the bottom then pour off the cleer water and keep it for your use A. Fallopius invented this for an unction for the French-pocks but in my opinion it is but a childish recept for the Quick-silver will most assuredly fly out in boyling PHYSICAL VVINES Wormwood Wine PUT a handful of dried Wormwood into every Congie of Wine stop the vessel close and so let it stand in infusion A. It helps cold stomachs breaks wind helps the Wind-chollick strengtheneth the stomach kills worms and helps the green sickness Rosemary-flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made A. It is good against all cold diseases of the head consumeth flegm strengtheneth the gums and teeth Eyebright-Wine is also made after the same manner A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk and revives the sight of ancient men a cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles All other Wines are prepared in the same manner when the Physitian shall see fit quoth the Colledge A. But what if there be never a Physician worth a 〈◊〉 in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles as some such places may be found in this Nation must the poor country man lose his cure truly this charity is according to the saying of the vulgar Fervent cold in such cases let them veiw the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs than the Simple it self A. And now I have veiwed the next recept a little you shall have first the recept 2. my opinion of it 3. the vertue of it Gallens Wine of Squils Take of white Squills of the mountains gathered about the rising of the Dog-star and cut in thin peices one pound dry them in the shaddow for ten daies then put them in a glasse and put to them twelve sextaries of old French Wine let it stand so fourty daies then take out the Squils and throw them away A. If admiration were not the daughter of ignorance I should most assuredly have admired at two things in this recept 1. At the time of gathering this same Squil It seems the whol Colledg laid al their learned heads together to hammer out the time when this Squil must be taken out of the earth the result of their consultations was That it must be gathered circiter Canis ortum about the rising of the Dog-star but which of the two Dog-stars they mean whether Syrius or Procyon or what rising of either whether Cosmical Acronyct or Heliacal I know not nor I think themselves neither a child in Astronomy cannot chuse but smile at their learned ignorance It seems they well observe that excellent maxime of Hippocrates in his Praefat ad Astron nemo debet c. No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physitian who is ignorant of Astrology because he is a Physitian of no value Indeed the truth is the roots are brought to us from beyond sea and we must be content with such as we can get A. 2. It seems somthing strang to me why this Squill must be dried in the
of the Sun Tamarinds Liquoris of each half an ounce Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms in Summer time ad of the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms of each of three of the cordial Flowers a pugil and an half boyl these in two pints of water till half be consumed A. This was Guainerius his recept whose works I neither have nor know where to borrow and therefore I can give you no other vertues of this Medicine than what the title affords it is a composition which with addition of other Medicines is fit for every thing but in it self is good for little A Decoction of Epithimum Mesue Take of Indian Myrabolans Stoechas of Arabia Raisons of the Sun Epithimum or Doddar of time of each an ounce Myrabolans chebs Fumitory of each half an ounce Senna an ounce Polypodium of the Oak six drachms White Turbith half an ounce Eupatorium five drachms Whey made of Goats or Heifers milk three pints let them all the Epithimum excepted boyl to the consumption of two pints then ad the Epithimum let it boyl a little together and having taken it from the fire ad to it black Hellebore a drachm Agrick half a drachm Sal Indi a drachm and an half let it stand close stopped in infusion eight or ten hours then strain it for your use A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly as also addust Choller It resisteth madnesse and all diseases coming of melancholly and therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a Jewel A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits Take five Figs fifteen Prunes Jujubes and Sebestens of each twenty Tamarinds an ounce the flowers of Roses Violets Borrage Buglos of each a drachm Maidenhair Hops Endive of each half a handful Liquoris two drachms being cut and bruised boyl them in three pints of spring water to the consumption of the third part A. It strengthens the lungues and opens obstructions A Pectoral Decoction Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten Jujubes of each 15. Dates 6. Figs 4. French-Barly an ounce Liquoris half an ounce Maiden hair Hysop Scabious Coltsfoot of each half a handful cut them and boyl them in three pints of spring water till one pint be consumed A. The Medicine is chiefly apropriated to the lungues and therefore causeth a cleer voyce a long wind resisteth Coughs hoarsness Asthmaes c. A Decoction of Senna Take of Senna two ounces an half Ginger a drachm The flowers of Borrage Violets red Roses Rosemary-flowers of each 2. drams Polipodium of the Oak half an ounce Sebesten Prunes of each 12. Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces make a decoction of them in four pints of spring water till half be consumed yet so as the Senna may boyl but little let it stand off from the fire close stopped six hours after it is boyled then strain it out for your use A. It is a common decoction for any purge by adding other Simples or Compounds to it according to the quality of the humour you would have purged yet in it self it chiefly purgeth melancholly Lac Virgineum Take of Allum four ounces boyl it in a quart of spring water to the third part Afterwards Take of Litharge half a pound white wine Vineger a pint and an half boyl it to a pint strain both the waters then mix them together and stir them about till they are white A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and sunburning the face being washed with it A Drink for wounded men Take of Crabs of the river calcined and beaten into very fine pouder two drachms the roots of round Aristolochiah and of Comfry the greater Self-heal Bay-berries lightly bruised of each a drachm ty them all up in a linnen cloath and boyl them in three pints of white Wine till the third part be consumed adding about the middle of the decoction one pugil of Perewincles then strain it for your use This decoction must be prepared only for the present when the Physitian appoints it as also must almost all the rest of the decoctions A. And therefore least my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an angel to fee a Physitian or if he have it before the Physitian which in some places is very remote can come at him I have taken the pains to write the recept in his own mother tongue he may get any friend to make it SYRVPS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPOVND WHICH ARE IN USE Syrup of Vineger Simple of London TAke of white Sugar five pound White-Wine-Vineger a quart melt them into a Syrup according to art A. That is Only melt the Sugar with the Vineger over the fire scum it but boyle it not Syrup of Vineger Simple of Mesue Take of White Sugar five pound Cleer Water sour pints boyl it into a Syrup scumming it well then put a quart of Vineger to it and boyl it again to a Syrup A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best the difference is but little I hold the last to be the best of the two and would give my reasons for it but that I fear the Book will swell too big They both of them cut flegm as also tough hard viscous humours in the stomach they cool the body quench thirst provoke urine and prepare the stomach before the taking of a vomit Syrup of Vineger Compound Mesue Take of the roots of Smallage Fennel and Endive of each three ounces the seeds of Smallage Fennel Annis of each one ounce Endive seeds half an ounce Clear Water six pints boyl them in a vessel well glazed over a gentle fire till half the water be consumed then strain it and ad to it three pound of Sugar clarify it and then ad a pint and an half of white-wine-Vinegar to it and boyl it to a syrup A. This in my opinion is a gallant syrup for such whose bodees are stuffed either with flegm or tough 〈◊〉 for it opens obstructions or stoppings both of the stomach liver spleen and reins it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a stuffing at their stomach Syrup of the juyce of Citrons Mesue Take of the juyce of Citrons strained without expression and clarified a pint Sugar two pound and an half melt it into a syrup over the fire A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from choller or heat of blood feavers both pestilential and not pestilential it resisteth poyson cools the blood quencheth thirst cureth the vertigo or dissines in the head After the same manner is made syrup of sour Grapes Cherries Quinces Pomegranates Lemmons Wood-Sorrel Sorrel English Currance and other sour juyces clarified A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach syrup of Quinces staies vomiting so doth also
former and in all reason the better although I never knew it used they both of them cool and moisten and that very gently they correct the sharpness of choller and give ease in hot vices of the breast they quench thirst in acute feavers and resist the heat of the disease they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly cool the liver and heart and resist putrifaction pestilence and poyson COMPOUND SYRUPS WHOSE SIMPLES ARE NOT IN USE Syrup of Wormwood Mesue Take of Roman Wormwood half a pound red Rose leaves two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old white Wine juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half infuse them 24. hours in an earthen vessel then boyl them till half be consumed strain out the decoction and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this and the recept is apropriated to cold and flegmatick stomachs and in my opinion 't is an admirable remedy for it for it strengthens both stomach and liver as also the instruments of concoction a spoonful taken in the morning is admirable for such as have a weak digestion it provokes an Appetite to ones victuals it prevails against the yellow Jaundice breaks wind purgeth humors by urine Syrup of Marsh-Mallows Fernelius Take of Marsh-Mallow roots two ounces red Cicers an ounce the roots of Grasse Sparagus and Liquoris Raisons of the sun stoned of each half an ounce the branches of Marsh-mallows pellitory of the wall Burnet Plantane Maiden-hair both white and black of each a handful of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms boil them in six pints of water till only four remain to which ad four pounds of Sugar and boil it to a syrup A. It is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup and chiefly commendable for the chollick stone or gravel in the kidnies or bladder A. I shall only give you a caution or two concerning this syrup which for the forenamed effects I hold to be exceellent A. 1. Be sure you boyl it enough for if you boyl it never so little too little it will quickly be sour A. 2. For the chollick which is nothing else but an infirmity in the gut called Colon and thence it takes its name you had best use it in Clisters but for gravel or the stone drink it in convenient midicines or by it self If both of them afflict you use it both waies I assure you this midicine will save those that are subject to such diseases both mony and pain Syrup of Mugwort Matheus De Grad Take of Mugwort two handfuls Penyroyal Chamomel Origanum Bawm Ars-smart Dittany of Creet Savin Marjoram Germander St. Johns Wort Chamepytis Featherfew with flowers Centaury the lesse Rue Bettony Buglosse of each one handful the roots of Fennel Smalledge Parsly Sparagus Bruscus Saxifrage Alicampane Cyperus Madder Orris Peony of each an ounce Juniper berries the seeds of Lovage Parsly Small age Annis Nigella Carpobal samum or Cubebs Costus or Zedoary the roots of Asarabacca and Pellitory of Spain Cassia Lignea Cardamoms Calamus Aromaticus Valerian of each half an ounce Let these being bruised be infused for 24. hours in twelve pints of water afterwards boyled till half the water be consumed when it is pretty cool strain it and ad to the decoction Honey and sugar of each two pound sharp vineger four ounces boyl them into a syrup perfuming it with Cinnamon and Spicknard of each three drachms tied up in a rag and boyled a little in the syrup A. It helps the passions of the matrix and retains it in its place it dissolves the coldness wind and pains thereof it strengthens the nerves opens the pores corrects the blood it corrects and provokes the terms in women Syrupus Augustanus Or Syrup of Rhubarb of the Augustane Physitians Take of the best Rhubarb of Senna of each two ounces and an half Violet flowers a handful Cinnamon a drachm and an half Ginger half a drachm the waters of Betony Succory and Bugloss of each a pound and an half infuse them all night in the morning strain it and boyl it into a Syrup with two pound of white Sugar adding to it four ounces of the Syrup of Roses solutive following A. It cleanseth Choller and Melancholly very gently and therefore is fit for children old people and weak bodies Syrup of Roses solutive without Helibore Take of all the Myrobalans of each two ounces bruise them grolly rub them with a little oyl of sweet Almonds then infuse them in fifteen pound of infusion of Roses for 24. hours space then add to them Polypodium two ounces and an half the seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron an ounce and an half Annis sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms Senna three ounces Epithimum an ounce and an half Citron pills an ounce Cloves half an ounce Nutmegs three drams infuse them again 24. hours which being elapsed strain them hard and ad one pound of sugar to every two pound of the liquor boyl it into a syrup This is the syrup which should be added to the former Syrup of Rhubarb Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb Take of whol Barley the roots of Smallage Fennel Sparagus of each two ounces Succory Dandelion Endive smooth Sow-thistle of each two handfuls Lettice Liverwort Fumatory tops of Hops of each a handful both sorts of Maiden-hair Cetrach Liquoris winter-Cherries Dodder of each six drachms boyl them in 12. pints of spring-water til the third part be consumed then strain it and with six pound of Sugar boyl it to a syrup in which whilst it is bovling hang by a string six ounces of Rhubarb six drams of Spicknard tied up in a rag let it boyl a walm or two pressing it often and let it hang into the syrup perfectly boyled A. This Recept without a name was borrowed from Nicholaus Floâ— entinus the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb and Spike besides the order inverted whose own approbation of it runs in these terms A. It cleanseth the body of venemous humors as Boyles Carbuncles and the like it prevails in pestilential Feavers it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue purgeth by stool and urine it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep A. But by my Authors leave I never yet accounted purges to be proper physick in Pestilential Feavers this I beleeve the Syrup cleanseth the liver well and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack melancholly Syrupus Diasereos Andernacus Take of Endive and Succory of each a handful Maiden-hair both white and black Agrimony Cetrach Hops Fumitory of each half a handful winter Cherries Doddar of each three drachms The roots of Smalledg Fennel Sparagus of each half an ounce Polipodium of the Oak an ounce Liquoris six drachms the seeds of Bastard Safiron or Carthamus an ounce the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms French Barly
travail Hiera with Agriok Take of Species Hiera Simple without Aloes Agrick trochiscated of each half an ounce Aloes not washed an ounce clarified Honey six ounces mix them together into an Electuary A. Look but the vertues of Agrick and add them to the vertues of the former receit so is the business done without any further trouble Hiera Logodii Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Colocynthis Polypodium of each two drachms Euphorbium Poley mountain the seeds of Thymelea of each one drachm and an half and six grains Wormwood Mirrh of each one drachm and twelve grains Centaury the less Agrick Gum Amoniacum Indian leaf or Mace Spicknard Squils prepared 〈◊〉 of each one drachm Aloes the leaves of Time Germander Cassia Lignea Bdellium Horehound of each one scruple and fourteen grains Cinnamon Opopanax Castorium long-Birthwort the three sorts of Pepper Saffron Sagapenum Parsly of each half a drachm Hellebore black and white of each six grains clarified Honey a pound and an half mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art also you may keep the Species by it self A. It takes away by the roots daily evils coming of melancholly falling-sickness vertigo convulsions megrim leprosie and many other infirmities for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unlesse upon desperate occasions or in Clysters Hiera Pachii or Diacolocynthides Nicholaus Alexandrinus Take of Colocynthis Agrick Germander Horehound Stoechas of each ten drachms Opopanax Sagapenum Parsly seeds round Birthwort roots white Pepper of each five drams Spicknard Cinnamon Mirrh Indian Leaf Saffron of each four drachms let the Gums be bruised in a mortar the rest fiefted all of them made into an Electuary with clarified Honey three pound three ounces and five drachms A. It helps the falling-sicknesse madness and the pain in the head called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises pains in the loins and backbone hardness of womens breasts putrifaction of meat in the stomach and sour belchings Tryphera minor Foenon Mesue Take of Myrobalans Chebs Bellericks Indian and Emblicks Nutmegs of each five drachms the seeds of 〈◊〉 the roots of Asarabacca Origanum of Persia or Dictamni of Creet black Pepper Olibanum Bishops weed Ginger Tamaris Indian Spicknard Schoenanthus Cyperus roots of each half an ounce Steel prepared twenty drachms let the Myrobalans be rosted a little with fresh butter let the rest being poudered be sprinkled with a little oyl of sweet Almonds then ad to them Musk a drachm and with three times their weight in clarified Hony make them into an Electuary according to art A. It helps the imoderate flowing of the terms in women and the Hemorrhoyds in men it helps weaknes of the stomach and restores colour lost It frees the body from crude humors and strengthens the bladder helps melancholly and rectifies the distempers of the speen Tryphera Solutive Renodeus Take of Diagrydium ten drachms of the best Turbith an ounce and an half Cardamoms the less Cloves Cinnamon Mace of each three drachms Yellow Sanders Liquoris sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Acorus Schaenanth of each a drachm preserved Citron pills Roses of each three drachms Violets two drachms Penedies four ounces Sugar-Candy half a pound Honey well clarified in juyce of Apples a pound make an Electuary of them according to art A. The Diagrydium and Turbith are purging the rest are all cordial but what to make of them put together I know not therefore I leave them and pass to PILLS A. PILLS in Greek are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Lattin Pilulae which signifies little Balls because they are made up in such a form that they may be the better swallowed down by reason of the offensiveness of their tast A. They were first invented for the purging of the head however Physitians have since ordered the businesse because the matter there offending is not so soon taken away by any other physick Pilulae Alephanginae or Aromatical Pills Mesue Take of Cinnamon Cloves Cardamoms Nutmegs Mace Calamus Aromaticus Carpobalsamum or the seeds of Angelica Schaenanth wood of Aloes yellow Sanders red Roses dried Wormwood of each half an ounce let these being grosly bruised be infused twenty four hours in four pints of water then boyl them over a gentle fire till the third part be consumed strain them and in the liquor dissolve a pound of Aloes then having drawn off the water either in hot ashes or a bath ad to it Mirrh and Mastich of each half an ounce Saffron two drachms syrup of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it up into a masse A. This recept differs much from that which Mesue left to posterity perhaps the Colledge followed Renodaeus more closely in it than they did Mesue but some question whether Renodaeus or the Colledg either can amend the recepts of Mesue the cheif alterations are Mastich Asarabacca roots and Indian Spicknard of each an ounce is totally left out besides all the Simples till you come to the Wormwood are set down but half so much in quantity as Mesue prescribed them some other smal alterations are also in most of the quantities But I must return to my scope A. It cleanseth both stomach and brain of gross and putrified humours and sets the sences free when they are thereby troubled it cleanseth the brain offended by ill humours wind c. helps vertigo and head-aches and strengthens the brain exceedingly helps concoction and strengthens the stomach I have often made experience of it upon my own body and alwales with good success in such occasions and therefore give me leave to commend it to my country men for a wholsom cleansing medicine strengthening no waies violent one drachm taken at night going to bed will work gently next day if the party be weak you may give less if strong more Aloe Rosata Hier. Fabr. ab Aquāp Take of cleer Aloes succotrina in pouder four ounces the juyce of Damask Roses clarified four pound mix them together and digest them in the sun or else in a bath till all the moisture is drawn away then infuse it again in so much more juyce and evaporate away the moisture again do so four times then keep the masse to be made into pills A. It is a gallant gentle purger of choller frees the stomach from superfluous humors opens stoppings and other infirmities of the body proceeding from choller or flegm as yellow Jaundice c. and strengthens the body exceedingly Pills of washed Aloes Augustani Take of Aloes washed with the juyce or Damask Roses an ounce Agrik trochiscated three drachms mastich two drams Species Diamoschu dulce half a drachm syrup of Damask Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art A. It purgeth both brain stomach bowels and eyes of putrified humors and also strengthens them Pilulae Assaireth Avicenna Take of Species Hiera Picra
which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes of which this is one and a good one to dry up rewms there Agrick Trochiscated Mesue Take of choice Agrick four ounces with infusion of Ginger made in wine make it into Troches Troches of Agrick Take of choice Agrick three ounces Sal. Gem. six drachms Ginger two drachms with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient make it into Troches according to art A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick only it may be more safely given this way than the other they cleanse the brain of flegm and the stomach of tough thick viscous humours Trochisci Alhandal Mesue Take of Colocynthis cleansed from the seeds ten ounces cut them small with a pair of shears and rub them a little with an ounce of oyl of Roses then make them into Troches with Mussilage made with Gum Arabick and Traganth and Bdellium of each six drachms then steep them four daies in Rosewater dry them in the shaddow then beat them into pouder again and with mussilage as you had before make them again into Troches A. They purge slegm violently but may more safely be given than the troches themselves Troches of 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of Rhubarb ten drachms the juyce of Maudlin made thick bitter Almonds of each half an ounce Roses three drachms Indian Spicknard Wormwood the seeds of Annis and Smallage the roots of Maddir and Asarabacca of each adrachm make them into Troches according to art either with Succory water or juyce of Maudlin clarified A. They gently cleanse the liver help the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of Choller and stoppage of the liver Troches of Violets Solutive Mesue Take of Violets meanly dried six drachms Turbith half an ounce juyce of Liquoris Scammony Manna of each two drachms make them into troches with syrup of Violets A. They purge flegm very violently SIMPLE OYLS MADE BY EXPRESSION Oyl of Sweet Almonds Mesue TAKE as many sweet Almonds as you will that are dry and not sour beat them very well and press out the oyl in a press without fire A. It helps roughness and soreness of the throat and stomach helps pleuresies encreaseth seed easeth Coughs and Hectick feavers by injection it helps such whose water scalds them ulcers in the bladdeer reins and matrix Oyl of bitter Almonds Mesue It is made in the same manner as oyl of sweet Almonds A. It opens stoppings helps such as are deaf being dropped into their ears it helps the hardness 〈◊〉 the nerves and takes away spots in the face Oyl of Hazel Nuts Mesue Take a sufficient quantity of Hazel nuts and cleanse them then bruise them well place them in a warm bath five or six hours then press out the oyl in a press A. You mast put them in a vessel viz. a glass or some such like thing and stop them close that the water come not to them when you put them into the bath A. The Oyl is good for cold afflictions of the nerves the gout in the joynts c. After the same manner is made oyl of Been called Oleum Bolaninum Of Mace Indian Nuts Nutmegs Walnuts Of the kernels of Cherries Apricocks Pears Pinenuts Prunes Fistick nuts Of the seeds of Orrenges Hemp Carthamus or bastard Saffron and is called Oleum Cnicinum Citrons Cucumers Guords Citruls dwarf Elder or Walwort Henbane Lettice Flax Melons Poppies Parsly Rhadishes Turneps Palma Christi and is called Oleum de Cherva Cicinum and Ricininum Sesami Mustard seed and of the stones of Grapes A. Because most of these oyls are out of use I took not the pains to quote the vertues of them if any lift to make them let them look the Simples and there they have them if the Simples be not to be found in the book there are other plentiful medicines conducing to the cure of al usual diseases which are Oyl of Bays Mesue Take of Bay berries fresh and ripe so many as you please bruise them sufficiently then boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till the oyl swim at top which separate from the water and keep for your use A. It helps the Chollick and is a sovereign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold Common oyl of Olives is pressed out of ripe Olives Oyl of Olives Omphacine is pressed out of unripe Olives Oyl of the Yolks of Egs. Mesue Take of the yolks of Egs boyled hard warm them well with a gentle fire in a glazed vessel but have a care you burn them not then press out the oyl with a press and if whilst they are warming you sprinkle them with a little Wine the Oyl will come out the better A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉 and malignant ulcers it causeth the hair to grow it cleers the skin and takes away deformities thereof viz. Tettars Ringworms Morphew Scabs SIMPLE OYLS BY INFUSION OR DECOCTION Oyl of Roses Omphacine Take of oyl Omphacine a pound in which infuse red Rose buds bruised four ounces put them in a glass or stone pot glazed stop them close and set them in the sun seven daies shaking them every day then boyl them gently in a double vessel and casting away those Roses viz having strained them out put in fresh Roses set it in the sun seven daies more then boil it again cast away those also and infuse fresh Roses and when they have also been digested in the sun seven daies and gently boyled according to art strain the oyl from them and keep it for your use Oyl of Roses compleat Mesue It is made in the same manner with the former only with sweet oyl Not Omphacine and red Roses full blown boiled twice as the former was only the third time that the Roses are put in let it stand fourty daies in the sun and then if you please you may keep the oyl and Roses in it and not press them out at all After the same manner is made oyl of Wormwood of the tops of Wormwood 〈◊〉 ounces Oyl three pound repeating the infusion three times adding at the last juyce of Wormwood four ounces boyl it gently till the juyce be consumed Also oyl of Dill of one pound of oyl and four ounces of the leaves and flowers of Dill infused three times Oyl of Castorium of one ounce of Castorium one pound of Oyl Wine so much as is sufficient boyl it to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Chamomel Of Oyl and the flowers of Chamomel let them be set in the sun fourty daies In the same manner is Oyl of Meliot prepared Oyl of Winter-Gilliflowers or Wall flowers as we call them in Sussex is made as oyl of Dill is Oyl of Quinces is made of un-ripe Quinces pils and all and juyce of Quinces of each six ounces oyl Omphacine three pound let them stand in the sun in a glass fifteen daies then boyl them in a double vessel four hours afterwards chang the
Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms Bdellium Galbanum of each three drachms and an half Per rozin wax of each five ounces oyl of Orris Turpentine of each an ounce and an half let the fats and oyl boyl with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Lin and 〈◊〉 seeds and that it may be brought to the due form of a plaister ad the Wax and Turpentine afterwards the Oynment of Marsh mallows and Melliot Plaister then the Gums dissolved in Vineger and lastly the pouders and per-Rozin in pouder mix them all well together and make it into plaister according to art A. By Plaister alwaies understand not a plaister spread upon a cloath but a rol made to spread such a one withal A. It softens and aswageth hard swellings and scatters the humours offending applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen and aswageth pains thence arising Album Coctum de Cerussa Ulms. Take of Ceruss ground into very fine pouder yellow Wax oyl of Olives of each equall parts the Ceruss being put into a brass pan let the oyl be added by degrees set it over a gentle fire stir it continually til they be incorporated then put in the Wax thin scraped neither put it in altogether at one time neither let it boyl til it be all melted then boil it all according to art till it begin to look black and be of a just thickness A. It helps burns dry scabs and hot ulcers and in general what ever sores abound with moisture A Plaister of Bayberries Mesue Take of Bayberries two ounces Frankinsence Mastich Mirrh of each one ounce Cyperus Costus of each half an ounce Turpentine an ounce clarified Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister according to art A. It is an excellent plaister to ease any pains coming of cold or wind in any part of the body whether stomach liver belly reins or bladder Emplastrum Barbarummagnum Galen Take of dry pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound eight ounces Per-Rozin five pound four ounces Bitumen Judaicum or else Mummy four pound Oyl a pound and an half Vert-de-greece Litharge Ceruss of each three ounces Frankinsence half a pound roch Allum not burnt an ounce and an half roch Allum burnt four ounces Opopanax Scales of brass Galbanum of each twelve drachms Aloes Opium Mirrh of each half an ounce juyce of Mandrakes or else the bark of the roots of them dried six drachms Vineger five pound let the Litharge Ceruss and Oyl be boyled to the thickness of Honey the Pitch melted and incorporated with the pouder of the Bitumen then the other things added and boyled according to art till the Vineger be consumed and the composition brought to a due thickness A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts easeth the inflamations of wounds and helps infirmities of the joints and gouts in the beginning A Plaisier of 〈◊〉 Andernacus Take of green Bettony Burnet Agrimony Sage Penyroyal Yarrow Comfry the greater Clary of each 〈◊〉 ounces Frankinsence Mastich of each three drachms Orris round Birthwort of each six drachms white Wax Turpentine of each eight ounces Gum Elemni two ounces per-Rozin six ounces Venis Turpentine two ounces white Wine three pound let the herbs being bruised be boyled in the Wine strained and all the rest being added to the decoction boyl it to a plaister according to art A. It is a gallant plaister to unite the skul when it is cracked to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh it draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers restores flesh lost cleanseth digesteth and drieth Emplastrum 〈◊〉 Take of Bistort roots Cyperus Nuts red Roses the three 〈◊〉 of Sanders Mints Coriander seeds of each three drams 〈◊〉 half an ounce Hypocistis Acacia Dragons blood Terra Lemnia Bole Armenick red Corral of each two drams Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces oyl of 〈◊〉 twelve ounces the juyce of 〈◊〉 Plantane and Orpine of each an ounce yellow Wax a pound and an half let the Hypocistis and Acacia be dissolved with the juyces and boyled to a due height then add the rest and make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a fine cool binding strengthening nature excellent good to repell hot rhewms or vapours that ascend up to the head the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown Emplastrum Catagmaticum Vigo Take of the juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces the bark of the root of Ash tree and the leaves of the tree the roots 〈◊〉 Comfry the greater and lesser with the leaues and al of each two ounces Mirtle berries an ounce and an half the leaves of Willow the tops of St. Johns wort of each a handful and an half the things to be bruised being bruised let them boil together in red Wine and water in which Smiths quench their 〈◊〉 of each two pound till half be consumed 〈◊〉 it and ad oyl of Mirtles Roses and Omphacine of each a pound and an half Goats suet melted eight ounces Litharge of gold and silver red Lead of each four ounces yellow Wax a pound Colophonia half a pound let them boyl again to the consumption of the decoction then add towards the end 〈◊〉 Frankinsence Mastich of each half an ounce cleer Turpentine two ounces Boie Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each an ounce stir them together till they are boiled enough to be made into a plaister according to art Catagmaticum Renodaeus Take of the roots of Comfry the less and Marshmallows 〈◊〉 of the Oak of each two ounces Plantane Chamaepitys St. Johns wort of each a handful boyl them in equal 〈◊〉 of red Wine and Water wherein Smiths quench their Iron 〈◊〉 half be consumed strain it and to the decoction ad 〈◊〉 of Quince seeds extracted in decoction of Tripes Oyl 〈◊〉 and Roses of each four ounces Virgins Wax a pound 〈◊〉 of Gold two ounces Turpentine three ounces Balaustins Roses Mirtles Acacia of each half an ounce 〈◊〉 the seeds of Tutsan Colophonia 〈◊〉 Amber of each six drachms Ship Pitch an ounce and an half Bole Armenick fine flower Frankinsence of each twelve drachms Dragons blood two ounces let the water and mussilage be boyled together till the moisture be consumed then put in the oyl then the Wax afterward the Litharge which being boyled united stirred and removed from the fire let first the Turpentine be added then the pouders so let all of them be mixed stirred and brought into the form of an Emplaster according to art A. Both this and the former are of a binding nature Emplasirum Cephalicum Take of cleer Rozin two ounces black Pitch one ounce Ladanum half an ounce Mirrh Mastich of each a drachm and an half Juniper Gum two drachms the flower of Beans and Orobus of each half an ounce Nigella three drachms Nutmegs two drachm Pidgeons dung two ounces let the Mirrh be dissolved in Malaga Wine and the
is 〈◊〉 boyl it in a quart of water till half be consumed then having strained it the things to be beaten being beaten into very fine pouder the roots and figs boyled and pulped and added to the decoctiō let them boyl alwaies stirring them that they burn not then the Oyls Turpentine Wax Suet and Rozin being melted together and the Gums dissolved in Vineger make up all into an Emplaster according to art A. It mollisies the hardness of the stomach liver spleen bowels and other parts of the body it wonderfully aswageth pain and easeth Hypocondriack melancholly and the rickets Emplastrum de Minio Compositum Vigo Take of oyl of Roses a pound and an half oyl of Mirtles Vnguentum Populeon of each four ounces Hens grease two ounces the suet of a Weather and a Heiser of each half a pound Hogs grease seven ounces Litharge of Gold and Silver of each three ounces and an half Ceruss four ounces red lead three ounces Turpentine ten ounces Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaister tending to blackness according to art A. It potently cures wounds old and malignant ulcers Another plaister of Red Lead simple London Take of red Lead nine ounces oyl of red Roses one pound and an half white Wine Vineger six ounces boyl them to the perfect consistence of a plaister Also it is prepared without Vineger in this manner Take of red Lead a pound oyl of Roses a pound and an half Wax half a pound make it into a plaister according to art A. It is a fine cooling healing plaister Emplastrum Isis Epigoni Galen Take of yellow Wax an hundred drachms Turpentine two hundred grams scales of Copper Vert-de greese round Birth wort Frank in sence Sal Armoniack Ammoniacum burnt Brass of each eight drachms burnt Allum six drachms Aloes Mirrh 〈◊〉 of each an ounce and an half old Oyl a pound sharp Vineger so much as is sufficient let the mettals be dissolved in the sun with the Vineger then put in those things that may be melted last of al the pouders and make them al into 〈◊〉 Emplaster A. Galen Apropriates it to the head and ulcers there I know no reason but why it may as wel serve for other parts of the body A Plaister of Mastich Nich. Alex. Take of Mastich Ship Pitch Sagapenum Wax of each SI drachms Ammoniacum Turpentine Colophonia Saffron Aloes Frankinsence Mirrh of each three drachms Opopanax Galbanum Styrax Calamitis Allum Rondeletius appoints and we from him Bitumem Foenugreek of each two drachms the feces of liquid Styrax Bdellium Litharge of each half a drachm Let the Litharge being beaten into pouder be boyled in a sufficient quantity of water then add the pitch which being melted ad the wax and Ammoniacum afterwards let the Sagapenum Opopanax and Galbanum be put in then the Styrax and feces being mixed with the Turpentine last of al the Colophonia Mastich Frankinsence Bdellium Allum Mirrh and Foenugreek in pouder let them be made into a plaister A. It strengthens the stomach and helps digestion Emplastrum Metroproptoticon Take of Mastich an ounce and an half pure Galbanum dissolved in red Wine and strained six drachms Cypress Turpentine two drachms Cypress-Nuts Gals of each a drachm and an half Oyl of Nutmegs by expression a drachm Ship-Pitch two drachms and an half Musk two grains and an half let the Mastich Pitch Galbanum and Turpentine be lightly beaten in an hot mortar with an hot pestel in the end add the oyl of Nutmegs then the pouders sprinkled in by degrees then the Musk dissolved upon a marble with a little oyl of mastich mix them together exactly and make of them an Emplaster A. It was invented as I suppose to comfort and strengthen the retentive faculty in the stomach and belly and therefore staies loosness and vomiting and helps the fits of the mother Emplastrum nigrum August Called in High Dutch 〈◊〉 Take of Colophonia Rozin Ship Pitch White Wax Roman Vitriol Ceruss Olibanum Mirrh of each eight ounces oyl of Roses seven ounces oyl of Juniper berries three ounces oyl of Egs two ounces oyl of Spike one ounce white Vitriol red Coral Mummy of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Mastich Dragons blood of each one ounce the fat of an Heron one ounce the fat of Timallus three ounces Loadstone prepared two ounces Earth-worms prepared Camphire of each one ounce make them into a plaister according to art A. It is very good say they in green wounds and pricks Emplaistrum Nervinum Vigo Take of oyl of Chamomel and Roses of each two ounces oyl of Mastich Linseed and Turpentine of each one ounce and an half boyled Turpentine four ounces the suet of a gelded Calf and an hee-Goat of each two ounces and an half the herbs of Rosemary Bettony and Horse tail Centaury the less of each one handful Earthworms washed in Wine and cleansed three ounces the leaves and seeds of St. Johns Wort of each a handful Mastich in pouder Gum Elemni of each ten drachms Maddir roots ten drachms Ship-Pitch Rozin of each an ounce and an half Litharge of Gold and Silver of each two ounces and an halfe red lead two ounces Galbanum Sagapenum Ammoniacum of each three drachms let the herbs roots and worms be boyled in a pint and an half of Wine till half be consumed then pressed out in the liquors boyl the oyl suets Litharge and red Lead til the Wine be consumed then ad the Gums dissolved in Wine afterward the Turpentine Rozin Pitch and Mastich and make of them a plaister according to art A. It strengthens the brain and nerves Emplastrum Oxycroceum Nicholaus Take of Saffron Ship-Pitch Colophonia Wax of each four ounces Turpentine Galbanum Ammoniacum Mirrh Olibanum Mastich of each an ounce and three drachms let this be the manner of making of it let the wax Colophonia and Turpentine be melted together then taking it from the fire ad the Pitch then the Galbanum Ammoniacum Frankinsence and Mirrh dissolved in Vineger afterward the Mastich then the Saffron in pouder well moistened in Vineger and so make them into a plaister according to art A. It is of a notable softening and discussing quality helps broken bones and any parts molested with cold old aches stifness of the limbs by reason of wounds ulcers fractures or dislocations Vigonis Oxycroceum in quo nil croci Prestantius In plain English thus Vigo his more excellent Plaister of Vineger and Saffron in which is no Saffron Take of oyl of Mirtles and Roses Omphacine of each a pound and an half juyce of Marsh-mallow roots two pound the roots and leaves of Ash tree and Comfry the lesser the the leaves of Mirtle of each a handful let all of them being bruised be boiled a little in red wine even till half be consumed with Mirrh and Frankinsence of each half an ounce strain it strongly and ad to the decoction Goats suit half a pound Turpentine two ounces Mastich
one ounce boyl them again with the Oyls to the consumption of the decoction strain it and then add Litharge of Gold and Silver of each three ounces Bole Armenick earth of Lemnos of each two ounces red Lead ten drachms boyl it with a gentle fire alwaies stirring it and with a sufficient quantity of wax make it into a plaister according to art A. Surely the Colledge quoted this recept which more properly might be called Vign his nonsense for Apothecaries to laugh at not to make the way of making of it up being almost as childish as the title it dries and binds Emplastrum de Ranis Vigo Take of oyl of 〈◊〉 Dil Spicknard Lillies of each two ounces oyl of Saffron see page an ounce Hogs grease a pound the fat of a Calf half a pound Euphorbium five drachms Frankinsence ten drachms oyl of Eaies an ounce and an half Vipers fat or for want of it take a Snakes two ounces and an half live Frogs by number six earth worms washed in Wine three ounces and an half the juyce of the roots of Walwort and Elicampane of each two ounces Schoenanth Stoechas Mugwort of each a handful Wine a quart Litharge of Gold a pound Turpentine two ounces yellow wax so much as is sufficient Liquid Styrax an ounce and an half Quick-Silver killed either with fasting spittle or juyce of Lēmons four ounces This is the manner of making it let the frogs worms herbs with their juyces the oyls of Dil Chāmomel Lillies grease and suet be boyled in a pound an half of Wine strain it then ad the Litharge Wax 4. ounces and the remainder of the Wine then boyl it till all the Wine be consumed and it stick not to your fingers then ad the oyl of Baies Saffron and Spike and the fat afterward the Euphorbium and Frankinsence last of all the quick Silver well mixed 〈◊〉 the liquid Styrax and Turpentine stir them all 〈◊〉 till they be incorporated take heed you put not in the quick Silver while the mass is too hot lest it fly out A. I have known it applied to the swelling in the throat called the Kings Evill but for my part I fancy not the recept neither for that nor any thing else Emplastrum Sanctum Andr. è Cruce Take of per-Rozin twelve ounces oyl of Baies Turpentine of each two ounces Gum Elemni four ounces let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass instrument then add the oyl of Baies and Turpentine boyl it a little then put it in a linnen bag and that which drops through keep in a glazed pot for your use A. The vertues are of the same with Arceus his Liniment Sparadrapum seu Tela. Gualt de Renod. Take of oyl of Roses half a pound Rams suet four ounces Wax ten ounces Litharge Per-Rozin Frankinsence Mastich of each two ounces Bole Armenick fine flower of each an ounce boyl the Oyl Suet and Litharge together till the Litharge be well incorporated in which being warm you may dip your tents Emplastrum Stephaniaion Take of Ladanum half an ounce Styrax Calamitis Juniper Gum of each two drachms Amber Cypress Turpentine of each one drachm red Coral Mastich of each half a dram the flowers of Sage red Roses Orris Florentine of each one scruple Rozin washed in Rose water half an ounce let the Rozin Ladanum and Mastich the Styrax Juniper Gum and Turpentine be lightly beaten with a hot pestel in a hot mortar according to art so long putting in a little red Wine the while till you see them well incorporated then put in the pouders and make them up being well mixed into an Emplaster Emplastrum sine Pari. Take of Frankinsence Bdellium Styrax of each 〈◊〉 drachms Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one drachm and an half Ship Pitch six drachms the marrow of a Stag 〈◊〉 Hens and Geese of each two drachms Sulphur vivum 〈◊〉 in milk Hermodactils in pouder of each a drachm and an half let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine not in Vine ger because that is inimical to the nerves and with two parts of oyl of Roses compleat and one part of oyl of Egs and little oyl of Turpentine make it into a plaister according to art Slicticum Paracelsus Take of oyl of Olives six ounces Wax one ounce and an half Litharge four ounces and an half Ammoniacum Bdellium of each half an ounce Galbanum Opopanax 〈◊〉 Calaminarius oyl of Bayes both sorts of birthwort Mirrh Frankinsence of each two drachms pure Turpentine one ounce let the Oyl Wax and Litharge be boyled together till it will not stick to your fingers then being removed from the fire let it cool a little adding the gums dissolved in white-Wine Vineger which evaporate away by boyling then strain them last of all ad the pouders turpentine and oyl of bayes make them into a plaister according to art A. Both this and the former strengthen the nerves draw out corruption take away pains and aches restore strength to members that have lost it the last is most effectual A Plaister for the Stomach Mesue Take of wood of Aloes Wormwood Gum Arabick Mastick Cyperus Costus Ginger of each half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus Olibanum Aloes of each three drachms Cloves Mace Cinnamon Spicknard Nutmegs Gallia Moschata Schaenanthus of each one drachm and an half with 〈◊〉 of Quinces make it into an Emplaster and when you have spread it upon a cloath perfume it with wood of Aloes and apply it to your stomach Another plaister for the Stomach Take of Mints Wormwood Stoechas Bay leaves of each one drachm Marjoram red Roses yellow Sanders of each two drachms Calamus Aromaticus wood of Aloes Lavender flowers Nutmegs Cubebs Galanga long Pepper Mace of each a drachm Mastich three drachms Cloves two drachms and an half oyl of Mints an ounce and an half 〈◊〉 oyl an ounce oyl of Spike one drachm Rozin Wax of each four ounces Ladanum three ounces liquid styrax half an ounce make them into a plaister according to art A. Both this and the former strengthen the stomach exceedingly help digestion and stay vomiting CERECLOATHS A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger an ounce Vnguentum de 〈◊〉 Melilot plaister of each half an ounce Bran an ounce pouder of the roots of Briony and Orris of each half an ounce the grease of Ducks Geese and Hens of each three drachms oyl of Orris one ounce and an half let them boyl gently in the mussilages of Lin and Foenugreek seeds so much as is sufficient by adding Wax four ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art A. It assawageth swellings or ripens and breaks them and easeth pains thereby coming A Cerecloath of Galbanum Take of Galbanum prepared one ounce and an half Affa foetida half an ounce Carrot seeds one scruple Mirrh two drachms Bdellium one dhachm Featherfew Mugwort of each half a drachm let the Gums
how much it is is known to none but is as different as mens hands are in bigness or their fingers in length A pugil is properly so much as you can take up with your thumb and two fingers and is very incertain not only in respect of the length of the finger but also in respect of the matter you take up for your mothers wit will tell you you may take up more hay in that manner than bran DIRECTIONS ALthough I did what I could throughout the Book to expresse my self in such a language as might be understood by al and therefore avoided terms of are so much as might be yet it could not sometimes be avoided but some words were quoted which stand in need of some explaining such of which as are obvious to my eye are 1. Balneum Mariae is a double vessel the one of which holds water the other holds the matter to be distilled conveniently placed in the water that which contains the matter to be distilled is made of glass which ought to be put in whilst the water is cold neither to be taken out whilst the water is hot for fear of breaking in this manner are all gross bodies distilled 2. Manica Hippocratis Hippocrates his sleeve is a strainer made of woolen cloath sewed together in the form of a Sugar-loaf 3. Calcination is the burning of a thing in a Crucible or other such convenient vessel that will endure the fire 4. Filtation is straining a thing through a brown paper viz. make up the paper in form of a funnel which having placed in a funnel let the liquor pass through it 5. Coagulation is curdling or hardning it is used here for reducing a liquid body to hardness by boyling 6. Whereas vital natural and animal Spirits are often mentioned in the vertues I shall here explain the meaning of them The actions of the animal vertue are 1. sensitive 2. motive the sensitive is 1. external 2. internal External are seeing hearing tasting smelling feeling The Internal sences are Imagination Judgment Memory this proceeds from the brain The vital spirit proceeds from the heart and causeth in man Mirth Joy Hope Trust Humanity Mildness Courage as also their opposites Care Fear Sadness Sorrow Despair Envy Hatred Stuborness Revenge c. The natural vertue altereth Nourishment into Chyle Chyle into Blood Blood into Flesh it also Formeth Engendereth Nourisheth and encreaseth the body 7. Infusion is steeping a gross substance in one more liquid 8. Decoction is the liquor in which any thing is boyled A CATALOGVE OF THE SIMPLES CONDUCING TO THE DISPENSATORY The PREFACE BEfore I begin the Catalogue I thought good to premise a few words to the Reader 1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another viz. Herbs for Roots or either of them for Flowers If he cast but his eye up to the top of the Page he shall there see which it is 2. Let a due time be observed cases of necessity excepted in gathering all Simples for which take these few Rules All Roots are of most vertue when the sap is down in them viz. toward the latter end of summer or beginning of the spring for happily in winter many of them cannot be found you may hang up many of them a drying by drawing a string through them and so keep them a whol year Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of juyce before they run up to seed and if you gather them in a hot sun-shine day they will not be so subject to putrifie the best way to dry them is in the sun according to Dr. REASON though not according to Dr. TRADITION Such Herbs as remain green all the year or are very full of juyce it were a folly to dry at all but gather them only for present ufe as Houseleek Scurvy-grasse c. Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime in a sunshine day and dryed in the sun Let the seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered 3. Let them be kept in a dry place for any moisture though it be but a moist air corrupts them which if perceived in time the beams of the sun will refresh them again 4. Take notice that only the Latin names were quoted by the Colledge and are to be seen at the beginniug of each Simple in a different letter the English name together with the Temperature and Vertues were added by the Translator he hopes for the publick good 5. All the Lattin names to one Herb are not set down that would have done no other good in the world than took up more paper and by consequence made the Book the dearer ROOTS ACanthi Brancae ursinae Of Bears breech or branck-ursine it is meanly hot and dry it helps ach and numnesle of the joynts and is of a binding quality good for wounds and broken bones Dioscorides saith they are profittable for Ruptures or such as are bursten or burnt with fire Acori Veri Peregrini Vulgaris c. See Calamus Aromalicus I shall not nor dare not make a long paraphrase about the sorts of it one of which is the water-flag or flower de luce which is hot and dry in the second degree binds strengthens stops fluxes of the belly and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women Allium Garlick It is hot and dry in the fourth degree breeds naughty and corrupt blood yet is an enemy to all poysons and such as are bitten by cold venemous beasts it provokes urin and expels wind Alcanuae Of privet See the leaves Althaeae Of marshmallows are meanly hot of a digesting softning nature ease pains help bloody-fluxes the stone gravel Angelicae Of Angelica is hot and dry in the third degree strengthens the heart exceedingly and is a singular remedy against pestilence and poyson Anchusae Of Alkanet cold and dry binding good for old ulcers Anthorae An outlandish root the counterpoison for Monks-hood it is an admirable remedy for the wind-cholick and 〈◊〉 poison They that would know more of it let them reade Guainerius and Solerius both which lived neer the places where it plentifully grew Apii Of smallage see the Barks Aristolochiae Of Birthwort of which are three sorts long round and climing All hot and dry in the third degree The long being drunk in wine brings away both birth and after-birth and whatsoever a careless Midwife hath left behind The round being drunk with wine helps besides the former stuffings of the lungues hardnes of the spleen ruptures convulsions both of them resist poison I never read any use of the climing Birthwort Artanitae Cyclaminis c. of Sow-bread hot and dry in the third degree a most violent purge dangerous outwardly applied to the place it profits much in the bitings of venemous beasts also being hung about women in labor it causeth speedy deliverance See the herb Arundinis Vallatoriae Sacchatinae Of common Reeds and suger Reeds the roots of common reeds draw
is for certain that it is an admirable remedy for inward ulcers in any part of the body or any corrosions or excoriations pains in the reins and bladder but it is very bad in diseases in the liver spleen the falling sicknesse vertigo or dissines in the head feavers and head-aches Goats milk is held to be better than Cows for hectick feavers Phtisicks and consumptions and so is Asses also Whey attenuateth and cleanseth both choller and melancholly wonderfully helps melancholly and madness comming of it it opens stoppings of the bowels helps such as have the dropsie and are troubled with the stoppings of the spleen rickets and hypocondriack melancholly for such diseases you may make up your physick with Whey Outwardly it cleanseth the skin of such deformities as come through choller or melancholly as scabs itch morphew leprosie c. Honey is of a gallant cleansing quallity exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers in what part of the body soever it opens the veins cleanseth the reins and bladder he that would have more of the vertues of it let him reade Butler his Book of Bees a gallant experimental work I know no vices belonging to it but only it is soon converted into choller Wax softens heats and meanly fills sores with flesh it suffers not the milk to curdle in womens breasts inwardly it is given ten grains at a time against bloody-fluxes Raw-Silk heats and dries cheers the heart drives away sadnesse comforts all the spirits both Natural Vital and Animal As for the vertues of Excrements for some reasons best known to my self I shal be silent in BELONGING TO THE SEA SPerma-Caeti is well applied outwardly to eating-ulcers the marks which the smal pocks leave behind them it clears the sight provokes sweat inwardly it troubles the stomach and belly helps bruises and fretching of the nerves and thereforc is good for women newly delivered Amber-greese heats and drys strengthens the brain and nerves exceedingly if the infirmity of them come of cold resists pestilence Sea-sand a man that hath the dropsy being set up to the middle in it it draws out all the water Red Corral is cold dry and binding stops the immoderate flowing of the terms bloody fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit and pisse blood helps witchcraft being carried about one it is an approved remedy for the falling-sickness Also if ten grains of red Corral be given to a child in a little breast-milk so soon as it is born before it take any other food it will never have the falling-sicknesse nor convulsions Pearls are a wonderful strengthener to the heart encrease milk in nurses and amend it being naught they restore such as are in consumptions both they and red Correl preserve the body in health and resist feavers Amber viz yellow Amber heats and dries therefore prevails against moist diseases of the head it helps violent coughs helps consumptions of the lungues spitting of blood the whites in women it helps such women as are out of measure unwealdy in their going with child it stops bleeding at the nose helps difficulty of urine The froath of the Sea it is hot and dry helps itch scabs leprosie scald heads c. it cleanseth the skin helps difficulty of urine makes the teeth white being rubbed with it the head being washed with it it helps baldness and trimly decks the head with hairs METTALS MINERALS AND STONES GOLD is temperate in quality it wonderfully strengthens the heart and vital spirits which one perceiving very wittily inserted in these verses For Gold is Cordial and that 's the reason Your raking Misers live so long a season However this is certain in Cordials it resists melancholly faintings swounings feavers falling-sickness and all such like infirmities incident either to the vital or animal spirit Alum heats binds and purgeth scours filthy ulcers and fastens loose teeth Brimstone or flower of Brimstone which is brimstone refined and the better for Physical uses helps coughs and rotten flegm outwardly in ointments it takes away leprosies scabs and itch inwardly it helps the yellow Jaundice as also worms in the belly especially being mixed with a little Salt-peter it helps lethargies being snuffed up into the nose the truth is I shall speak more of this and many other Simples which I mention not here when I come to the Chymical Oyls of them Litharge both of Gold and silver binds and dries much fils up ulcers with flesh and heals them Lead is of a cold dry earthly quality of an healing nature applied to the place it helps any inflamation and dries up humors Pompholix cools dries and binds Jacynth strengthens the heart being either beaten into pouder and taken inwardly or only worn in a ring Cardanus saith it encreaseth riches and wisdom Saphire resisteth Necromantick apparitions and by a certain divine gift it quickens the sences helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts ulcers in the guts Gallen Dioscorides Garcias and Cardanus are my Authors Emerald called a Chast stone because it resisteth lust and will break as Cardanus saith if one hath it abòut him when he deflowrs a virgin moreover being worn in a ring it helps or at least mitigates the falling-sicknesse and vertigo it strengthens the memory and stops the unruly passions of men it takes away vain and foolish fears as of Devils Hobgoblins c. it takes away folly anger c. and causeth good conditions and if it do so being worn about one reason will tell him that being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly it will do it much more Ruby or Carbuncle if there be such a stone restrains lust resists pestilence takes away idle and foolish thoughts makes men cheerful Granate strengthens the heart but hurts the brain causeth anger takes away sleep Diamond is reported to make him that bears it infortunate It makes men undaunted I suppose because it is a stone of the nature of Mars it makes men more secure or fearlesse than careful which it doth by over-powring the spirits as the Sun though it be light it self yet it darkens the sight in beholding its body Amethist being worn makes men sober and staied keeps them from drunkennesse and too much sleep it quickens the wit is profitable in huntings and fightings and repels vapours from the head Bezoar is a notable restorer of nature a great cordial no way hurtful nor dangerous is admirable good in feavers pestilences and consumptions viz. taken inwardly for this stone is not used to be worn as a Jewel the pouder of it being put upon wounds made by venemous beasts draws out the poyson Topas If Epiphanius spake truth if you put it into boyling water it doth so cool it that you may presently put your hands into it without harm if so then it cools inflamations of the body by touching of them Toadstone being applied to the place helps the bitings of venemous beasts and quickly draws
all the poyson to it it is known to be a true one by this hold it neer to any toad and she will make proffer to take it away from you if it be right else not There is a stone of the bignesse of a bean found in the gizzard of an old Cock which makes him that bears it beloved constant and bold valiant in fighting beloved by women potent in the sports of Venus Nephriticus lapis helps pains in the stomach and is of great force in breaking and bringing away the stone and gravel concerning the powerful operation of which I shall only qnote you one story of many out of Monardus a Physitian of note A certain noble man quoth he very well known to me by only bearing this stone tyed to his arm voided such a deal of gravel that he feared the quantity would do him hurt by avoiding so much of it wherefore he laied it from him and then he avoided no more gravel but afterwards being again troubled with the stone he ware it as before and presently the pain eased and he avoided gravel as before and was never troubled with the pain of the stone so long as he ware it Jasper being worn stops bleeding easeth the labour of women stops lust resists feavers and dropsies AEtites or the stone with child because being hollow in the middle it contains another little stone within it it is found in an Eagles nest and in many other places this stone being bound to the left arm of women with child staies their miscarriage or abortiō but when the time of their labor comes remove it from their arm and bind it to the inside of their thigh and it brings forth the child and that almost without any pain at all Young swallows of the first brood if you cut them up between the time they were hatched and the next full moon you shall find two stones in their ventricle one reddish the other blackish these being hung about the neck in a piece of stags leather help the falling-sickensse and feavers The truth is I have found the reddish one my self without any regard to the lunation but never tried the vertues of it Lapis Lazuli purgeth melancholly being taken inwardly outward worn as a Jewel it makes men cheerful fortunate and rich And thus I end the stones the vertues of which if any think incredible I answer 1. I quoted the Authors where I had them 2. I know nothing to the contrary but why it may be as possible as the sound of a trumpet is to incite a man to valour or of a fidle to dauncing and if I have added a few Simples which the Colledg left out I hope my fault is not much or at least wise venial A CONCLUSION to the Catalogue of SIMPLES THVS Courteous Reader have I led thee by the band through the Catalogue of Simples contained in this Dispensatory For what intent the Colledge quoted them I cannot tell considering they quoted neither English names nor Vertues and the Lattin names most part of them may be found here and there throughout the Dispensatory It is true I willingly omitted the vertues of many of them partly because I would not have the Book too big partly because they are not easily gotten and many of the operations I buried in silence for fear knaves should put them in practice to do mischief Remembring a speech once in a Sermon of Bishop Latimers I could saith he reprove other sins from this text but I wil not for fear you knowing what they be should practise them Thus I send this Treatise of Simples into the merciless world being not careful of the Slanders or Envy of traducing tongues or brains of ill Common-wealths men my own Conscience bearing me witness that I sincerely aimed at the Publick good of my Country in it and to all ingenious people shall never cease to remain theirs whilst my own NICH. CULPEPER COMPOVNDS CONTAINED IN THE DISPENSATORY A PREFACE I Shall desire only to give the Reader notice 1. That I left out all the Simple distilled waters quoted by the Colledge many of which were ridiculous the simples being not to be obtained green in this Land And sure none in Bedlam are so mad as to go about to distil simple water out of dry things 2. If any desire to know the vertues of distilled waters let them repair to the Herbs themselves part of the vertues of which the Waters have though I am of opinion not so much as people think they have 3. The best way that I know to distil Simple Waters is To bruise the Herbs or Flowers of what you would distil and having pressed out the juyce distil it in a Glass-stil in sand and so will the Water be better by odds than if distilled in a Peuter-stil as usually they do 4. Only and barely the Receipts themselves were quoted by the Colledge the Vertues of them as also the Marginal Notes and whatsoever sentences are marked with a capital A. are Additions The Colledge when they made this Dispensatory never intending their Country so much good as to quote the Vertues AN INTERPRETATION OF CERTAIN COMMON NAMES The five Cordial Flowers The five Capillary Herbs Of Roses Violets Borrage Buglosse Rosemary or Bawm-flowers The four sorts of Maiden-hair Cetrach The five Emollient Herbs The four Pluretical Waters Marshmallows Mallows Beets or Brank-Ursine Mercury Violets or Pellitory of the wall Of our Ladies-Thistle Dandelion Carduus-Benedictus Scabios The four greater hot Seeds Common hot flowers Of Annis Fennel Caraway Commin Of Chamomel Meliot Orris The four lesser hot Seeds Three stomach Oyls Of Bishops-weed Amomum Smallage Carrots Of Wormwood Quinces Mastich The four greater cold Seeds Four hot Ointments Of Gourds Cittuls Cucumers Melons Of Agrippa Althea Aregon Martiatum The four lesser cold Seeds Four cold Ointments Of Endive Succory Lettice Purslain Album Camphoratum Populion Refrigerans Galeni Rosatum The five greater opening Roots Four Ointments fit for Chyrurgians Of Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsly Bruscus Basilicon to digest The two Roots Viride Apostolorū to clense Of Fennel Parsly Aurium to breed flesh The five lesser opening Roots Album to skin Of Grass Eringo Capers Rest-harrow Madir Precious Fragments  Of Saphire Granate Emerald Jacynth Sardine Ruby Pearls Amethist COMPOVND VVATERS Wormwood Water the lesser Composition TAKE of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seeds bruised half a pound infuse them in six congies of smal wines for 24. hours then draw out the spirit with an Alembick adding to the distillation so much Sugar as is sufficient After the same manner is drawn Water of Angellica Roots Annis-seed Water Orrange pill Water Lemmon-pill Water Bawm Water Mint Water Rosemary Water Sage Water c. A. If you desire the vertues of these waters see the vertues of the herbs and pills c. and then your reason will tell you the waters have the same opperations and may happily
alteratton A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lunges spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poison helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year Cinnamon Water made by Infusion Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together 4. daies in a large glasse close stopped with cork and a bladder shaking the glasse twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white sugar Candy in a quart of rose-Rose-water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a fine rag and hung to the top of the glasse A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms and faintings than Mathiolus his Aqua Ceolestis Mathiolus Take of Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce white red and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Cloves Gallanga Nutmegs of each two drachms and an half Mace Cubebs of each one drachm both sorts of Cardamoms Nigella seeds of each three drachms Zedoary half an ounce seeds of Annis Sweet-Fennel Wild-Parsneps Bazil of each a drachm and an half Roots of Angelica Avens Calamus Aromaticus Liquoris Valerian the lesse the leaves of Clary Time Calaminth Peny-royal Mints Mother of Time Marjoram of each two drachms the flowers of Red-Roses Sage Rosemary Betony Stoechas Bugloss Borrage of each one drachm and an half Citron pils three drachms Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. daies in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine in a glasse body wel stopped and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art Adding to the distilled water Pouders of Diambra Diamoscu dulce Armaticum Rosatum Diamargariton frigidum Diarhodon Abbatis pouder of Electuary de gemmis of each three drachms yellow Sanders bruised two drachms Musk Ambergreese of each a scruple tied up in a fine ragg cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them wel together stopping the glasse close with wax and parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart reviveth drooping spirits prevaileth against the plague and al malignant Feavers preserveth the sences and restoreth such as are in Consumptions A. Only take this Caution both concerning this and al other strong waters They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers because by their hot quallity they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire but mixed with other convenient cordials and consideration had to the strength complection habit age and sex of the patient for my own part I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physitians domineer so I would not have fools turn Physitians A Cordial Water Take of Angelica leaves half a pound Carduus leaves six ounces Bawm and Sage of each four ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet fennel seeds nine ounces let the herbs being dry and the seeds be bruised grosly to which add the pouders of Aromaticum Rosatum and Diamoseu Dulce of each an ounce and an half Infuse these two daies in 32. pints of Spanish wine then distill them according to art draw out ten pints of strong spirit which sweeten after two daies standing with a pound and an half of Sugar dissolved in Rosewater over the fire Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the mixtures of other Cordials A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart and resist infection and therefore is very wholsom in pestilentiall times and for such as walk in stinking aires Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Take of the juice of Borrage Buglosse Bawm Bistort Vervain Sharp pointed Dock Sorrel Goats-Rue Mirrhis or sweet Chervil Blew-bottle great and smal or the double quantity of the small Roses Marigolds Lemmons Citrons of each six ounces juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl of each three ounces white wine Vinegar a pint Purslain-seeds Water-lillie Flowers of each two ounces Earth of Lemnos Silecia and Samos of each an ounce and an half Pouder called Diatrion Santalon six drachms Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons three drachms Infuse al the Pouders Flowers and Seeds the Earths and Pearls excepted in the juyces and Vinegar for three daies then distill it in water in a glasse-Still and add to the distilled water the Earths and Pearls in fine pouder shake it together and let it stand till it be cleer and keep it for your use A. It mightily cools the blood and therefore profitable in feavers and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep Langius his Ant-Epileptical Water Take of the Flowers of Line tree three handfuls Lillies of the vally five handfuls peony seeds half an ounce infuse them eight daies in five pints of the best White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire Afterward Take of the flowers of Rosemary half a handful of the flowers of Lavender a handful Rue a handful Betony half a handful Stoechas of Arabia one pugil Peony roots two drachms and an half Dictamny two drachms Squils prepared one drachm and an half Pellitory of Spain half a drachm Misletoe of the Oak two drachms Castorium one drachm Cubebs Cardamoms of each one scruple Mace half a dram Cloves two scruples Nutmegs one scruple let al these being bruised be infused in the water aforesaid and shaken wel together for six daies then distilled again in Balneo Mariae and the water kept in a glasse stopped You may with one and the same labor prepare an extract which wil be very efficacious A. If the authority of Erasius or daily experience will serve the turn then was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sicknesse also for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sicknesse and indeed Erastus experience pleads for this also It is true the composition of Erastus differs from this and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius but it seems our Physitians for some reasons best known to themselves esteemed this the best A. Well then having now learned the vertues of the water a word or two of the use will not be amisse Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon and so am I of that opinion also for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the Falling-sicknesse only at the new and full Moons I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwilling to be tedious Then saith he if
Maiden-hair five ounces infuse them in four pints of spring water boyl them gently strain the decoction strongly and with a pound and an half of white Sugar boyl it unto a syrup according to art A. It opens stoppings of the stomach strengthens the 〈◊〉 and helps the infirmities of them Syrup of Cinnamon Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised four ounces infuse it in a pint of white wine for three daies in a glasse by a gentle heat then having strained out the Cinnamon ad to it a pound and an half of white sugar boyl it gently to a syrup A. It hath the same vertues with Cinnamon water and being not so hot must needs be far better for hot bodies After the same manner may be made syrup of Annis seeds sweet Fennel seeds Ginger Cloves Nutmegs c. A. If any will be so nice to make such 't is but veiwing the Simples and there you have the vertues of them Syrup of Corrall Simple Take of Red Corral finely poudered as much as you will dissolve it in a glasse in Balneo Mariae in such a quantity of the clarified juyce of Barberries that the juyce may swim above it the breath of four fingers stopping the glasse cloose with cork or wax when it hath stood in the glasse three daies pour off what is dissolved and pour in fresh juyce of Barberries clarified set it in the bath again till all the Correl be dissolved Then to one pound of this juyce ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it to the consistence of a syrup but in the Preparation of this Syrup it requireth a great deal of skill and dexterity lest you er Syrup of Corral Compound Take of Red Corral six ounces bring it into a pouder by grinding it upon a marble with a little rose water Then add to it Juyce of Lemmons clarified from the flegm in Balneo Mariae sixteen ounces juyce of Barberries clarified eight ounces sharp wine Vineger juyce of wood Sorrel clarified of each six ounces digest them in a bath or else in horsedung eight daies in a large glasse stopped close with cork and bladder shaking it every day then let it run through a brown paper of which take a pound and an half juyce of Quinces half a pound Sugar of Roses twelve ounces mix them all together and with the gentle heat of a bath draw off the superfluous liquor till it be left of the consistence of a Syrup to which ad Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers sixteen ounces together with half a drachm of Amber greece and four grains of Musk tied up in a cloath and hung into the glasse by a string A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and compound restore such as are in consumptions are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last and very cordial special good for Hectick feavers it stops fluxes the running of the reins and the whites in women helps such as spit blood and such as have the falling sicknesse it staies the terms in women and indeed it had need be good for something for it is exceeding costly Syrup of the Infusion of Clove-Gilliflowers Take a pound of Clove-Gilliflowers the white being cut off infuse them at 3. times in three pints of spring water al night afterwards with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. Which if you do it will be scarce worth your labour but will lose both colour and tast and by consequence vertue in boyling and then the Colledg themselves would say 't is naught for in all syrups which you would have keep colour of which this is one add two pound of Sugar to each pint of insusion and only melt it over the fire in a peuter vessel and I assure you if in prescribing this and many other medicines the Colledg did make use of the ablest Apothecaries for the manner of composition of the medicines either the ablest were very weak or very negligent but enough of this A. The Syrup is a fine temperate syrup it strengthens the heart liver and stomach it refresheth the vital spirits and is a good cordial in feavers Syrup of Citron pills Mesue Take of the thin outward pills of Citrons dried five ounces of the berries of Kermes or the juyce of them brought over from beyond sea two drachms spring water four pints set them in infufiou all night and the next morning boyl it till half be consumed strain it and add to the decoction two pound and an half of very good sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art which perfume with six grains of the best Musk wrapped up in fine linnen and hung into the syrup by a string A. It strengthens the stomach resists poyson strengthens the heart and refists the passions thereof palpitation faintings swoonings It strengthens the vital spirit restores such as are in consumptions and hectick feavers and strengthens nature much Syrup of Water-Lillie-flowers Simple Nicholaus Take of the whitest part of White-water-Lilly-flowers a pound infuse them for seven hours in three pound of warm water then boyl it a little and strain it and add the like quantity of fresh flowers use them in like manner as you did the former repeat this infusion three times then clarifie the infusion and having added the like quantity of sugar to it boyl it into a syrup according to art Syrup of Water-lillie-flowers the Compound Fernelius Take of Water-lillie-flowers half a pound the flowers of Violets two ounces Lettice two handfuls the seeds of Lettice Purslain and Gourds of each half an ounce boyl all these in four pints of water to the consumption of one pint and having strained it ad to the decoction Red Rose Water half a pint White Sugar four pound boyl it to a Syrup according to art A. They both are fine cooling Syrups they allay the heat of choller and provoke sleep they cool the body both head heart liver reins and matrix and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either Syrup of Meconium Mesue A. Meconium The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispice is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled til it be thick as I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of Poppies growing in hotter countries and therefore in al reason is colder in quality and therefore I speak purely of Meconium and Opium not of these Syrups though they be no edge-tools yet t is ill jesting with them Take of the heads of white Poppies meanly ripe and green eight ounces of the heads of black Poppies meanly ripe and green six ounces Rain-water four pints boyl them in the water til half of it be consumed then strain it and with fixteen ounces of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art and when you have done so you may use it if you please for Diacodium Syrup of 〈◊〉 the lesser Composition Take the heads of white Poppies and black when both of
them are green of each six ounces the seeds of Lettice the flowers of Violets of each one ounce boyl them in eight pints of water till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them and with four pound of Sugar boyl the liquor to a Syrup Syrup of Popplyes the greater Composition Mesue Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies seeds and all of each 50. drachms Maiden-hair 15. drachms Liquoris 5. drachms Jujubies 30. by number Lettice seeds 40. drachms of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a thin linnen cloath of each a drachm and an an half boyl these in eight pints of water til five pints be consumed when you have strained out the three pints remaining add to them Penidies and White Sugar of each a pound boyl them into a Syrup according to art A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness such as these are are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers nor to such whose bodies are costive ever remēber my former Motto Fools are not fit to make Physitians Yet to such as are troubled w th hot sharp Rheums you may safely give them and note this the last which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungus whose own words translation excepted of it are these It prevails against dry coughs Phtisicks hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms and provokes sleep Syrups of Red or Erratick Poppies A. by many called Corn-Roses Tak of flowers of red Poppies two pound infuse them 24. hours in four pints of spring water and with three pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. Some are of opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other beleeve them that list I know no danger in this syrup so it be taken with moderation and bread immoderatly taken hurts the syrup cools the blood helps surfets and may safely be given in Frenzies Feavers and hot agues Syrup of Peach flowers Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound infuse them in three pints of warm water for the space of twelve hours then let them boyl a little and presse them out adding the like quantity of Peach-flowers and use them as the former do so five times at last to three pound of the infusion add two pound and an half of Sugar boyl it to a syrup A. It is a gentle purger of choller and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus whose recept all things considered differs little from this Syrup of dried Roses Mesue Take four pound of spring water in which being warm infuse a pound of dried red Rose leaves for the space of twenfour hours then presse them out and with two pound of white sugar boyl the infusion to a syrup A. I pray take a caution or two a long with you concerning this syrup and there is need enough unlesse it were penned more wisely than it is A. 1. You cannot infuse all the rose leaves at one time because there will not be water enough to wet them hardly you must then infuse them at diverse A man had need have a head as deep as a Colepit to reach their meaning in some of their recepts A. 2. If you boyl it it will lose both color and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with noting this in every receit therefore be pleased to accept of this one general rule It is not best to boyl any syrup made of infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of Sugar to each pint of Infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting Syrup of Roses Solutive Mesue Take of the infusions of Rofes made with fresh Damask Roses let the infusion be repeated nine times let it be made in that proportion that one pound of Rose flowers may be infused in four pints of water and those being taken out infuse as many more in the same water do so nine times six pound with four pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup A. It loosneth the belly and gently bringeth out choller and flegm Syrup of Roses with Agrick Take of choice Agrick sliced thin an ounce Ginger sliced two drachms Sal gem one drachm Polipodium grosly bruised two ounces sprinkle them with white Wine then infuse them two daies in such infusion of damask Roses as you were taught to make the former receit a pound and an half warm by the fire then presse it out and with one pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art A. You had better ad twice so much Sugar as is of the infusion for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in boyling A. It purgeth flegm from the head releeves the sences oppressed by it it provokes the terms in women It purgeth the stomach and liver and provoketh urine Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore Montanus Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces bruise them grosly and infuse them in twelve pints of the infusion of Roses before prescribed 24. hours adding of Senna Epithimum and Polipodium of the Oak of each four ounces Cloves an ounce Citron seeds liquoris of each four ounces of the bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms boyl them all to the consumption of the fourth part to which ad five pound of white Sugar choice Rhubarb tied up in a linnen cloath sixteen drachms boyl them into a syrup according to art A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at al or but very little if you do you had as good put none in me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty than to have left recepts so woodenly penned to posterity or it may be they wrote as they say only to the learned or in plain English for their own ends or to satisfie their covetousness that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes A. The Syrup rightly used purgeth melancholly resisteth madnesse Syrup of Violets Take of pick'd Violet flowers a pound Spring water heat hot a pound and an half or else a sufficient quantity infuse the Violets in the water let it stand warm and close stopped 24. hours then presse them very hard out and to one pound of the expression add two pound of fine Sugar only dissolve the Sugar and so keep the Syrup for your use Syrup of the juyce of Violets Make it up with just so much juyce of the flowers of violets as will dissolve the Sugar into a Syrup without boyling A. Which is two pound of Sugar to one pound of Juyce A. This latter Syrup is far more chargable than the
It restoreth such as are in consumptions comforts the heart cherisheth drooping spirits and is of an opening quality thereby carrying away those vapours which might otherwise anoy the brain SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY AND VINEGER AND HONEY Diacaryon Or Dianucum Gallen Take of the juyce of green Walnuts two pound clarifie it and with a pound of Hony boyl it into a syrup A. It is an excellent preservative in pestilential times Diacodium Gallen Take of the heads of white Poppies neither too green nor too ripe by number twenty rain or spring water three pints infuse them twenty four hours then boil them till the vertue be out of the heads then strain it and with two pound of Hony boyl it to the consistence of a syrup some ad to it Sapa two pound juyce of Liquoris two ounces A. It works the same effects with the former syrups of Poppie Diamoron Nicholaus Take of the juyce of Mulberries and Blackberries neither of them being fully ripe of each a pound and an half boyl them with two pound of Hony over a gentle fire into a syrup A. It is vulgarly known to be good for sore mouths as also to cool inflamations there Hony of Rosemary flowers Mesue Take of Rosemary flowers a pound clarified Hony three pound put them together in a glasse that hath not a very wide mouth set them in the Sun to digest and being digested keep it for your use A. It hath the same vertues with Rosemary flowers to which I refer you only by reason of the hony it may be somewhat cleansing Honey of Mercury Take of the juyce of Herb Mercury three pound with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is used as an Emollient in Clisters Honey of Raisons Nicholaus Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned two pounds infuse them 24. hours in fix pints of warm water then boyl them till half the water be consumed strain them and with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup A. It is a pretty pleasing medicine for such as are in consumptions and are bound in body Honey of Roses Common Mesue Take of red Rose buds picked two pound Honey fix pound digest them in the sun like the Honey of Rosemary flowers Honey of Roses Nicholaus Take of the best Honey clarified ten pounds the Juyce of fresh red Roses one pound put them in a pan over the fire and when they begin to boyl ad four pound of fresh red Roses the whites being cut off let it boil till the juyce be consumed continually stirring it and so keep it for your use being strained A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth Honey Roses Solutive Take of the infusion of Damask Roses as you have formerly been shewed to make it five pounds clarified Honey four pounds boil it into the consistence of a syrup A. It is used as a laxative in Clisters and some Chyrurgians use it to cleanse wounds In the same manner may be prepared Honey of red Roses Honey of Violets is made in the same manner Oximel Simple Mesue Take of the best clarified honey three pound pure water and of the best Vineger of each two pound boyl them into the consistence of a syrup A. Your best way is to boyl the water and honey first into a syrup and add the Vineger afterwards and then boil it again into a syrup A. It cuts flegm and is a good preparative before a vomit Oximel Compound Mesue Take of the bark of the roots of Fennel Smallage Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces The seeds of Smallage Parsly Fennel Annis of each one ounce and with six pound of water one pound and an half of vineger and three pound of Honey make it into a syrup A. First having bruised the roots and seeds boil them in the water till half be consumed then strain it and ad the honey and when it is almost boyled enough add the vineger A. It cuts thick and grosse humors and cleanseth the body of them it opens the stoppings both of the liver and spleen it purgeth the reins provokes urine and sweat Heleborated Oximel the greater Gesner Take of Rue true Time Dittany of Creet Hysop Penyroyal Horehound Carduus Benedictus the roots of Spicknard Celtick without leaves the inner bark of Elders of each a handful Mountain Nepp two pugils The seeds of Annis Fennel Basil Roman Nettles Dill of each two drachmas the roots of Angelica marsh Mallows Aron Squils prepared Aristolochiah or Birth wort long round and climing Turpeth our Orris Costus smelling like Violets or else Zedoary Polypodium Lemmon pills of each an ounce of the strings of the roots of Black Hellebore Spurge of each two drachms the bark of the root of white Hellebore half an ounce Agrick two drachms which you must put in towards the latter end of the decoction let all of them being dried and bruised be infused in eight pints of Posca viz. equal parts of water and vineger Sapa two ounces either in the Sun or in a Furnace either in a glasse or earthen vessel then boyl it either in an earthen or stone vessel till almost half be consumed strain it out but gently and ad to it hony roses in which two ounces of Citron pills have been infused a pound and an half then boil it till the Posca be consumed and so it come to the body of a syrup the which perfume with Cloves Saffron Ginger Galanga and Mace of each a a drachm tied in a rag keep it either in a glasse or a pot for your use A. It is such a mess of altogether that a man scarce knows what to do with it here are many Simples very cordial many provoke the terms some purge gently some violently and some cause vomiting being all put together I verily think if warily given it may be a fit purge in some cases for madness coming of melancholly provided they be not Phrenitick or as the vulgar say frantick for then purges are not fitting Oximel Julianizans Take of the bark of Cappar roots Orris roots the roots of Fennel Parsly Bruscus Succory Sparagus Cyperus of each half an ounce the leaves of Hartstongue Schoenanth Tamaris of each a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce first infuse-them and then boyl them in three pints of sharp Posca to a pint and an half which boyl into the body of a syrup with Honey and course Sugar of each half a pound Posca is made of water and vineger and is either more or less sharp according to the intention of the Physician A. This medicine is very opening very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly and as fit a medicine as can be for that disease in Children called the Rickets Oximel of Squils Simple Nicholaus Take of clarified Honey three pound Vineger of Squils two pound boyl them into a syrup according to art A. They say they borrowed this receit of
in the like manner A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake yet is it of great moment in physick for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach are made delicious and pleasing also many simples are better kept by far this way A. For the Vertues of them see the simples CONSERVES AND SVGARS OF HERBS LEAVES FLOWERS AND FRUITS COnserves of Wormwood Sorrel Woodsorrel Maiden hair Orrenges Bettony Borrage Bugloss Carduus Benedictus Centaury Ceterach Germander Clove Gilliflowers Succory Scurvigrass Comfry the greater Cynosbatus Citraria Elicampane Eyebright Fumitory Brooms not quite open Pomegranates white Lillies Lillies of the valley Mallows Water lillies Peaches Primroses Self heal Roses Red and Damask Rosemary flowers Sage Elder Scabious Stoechas Linetree Coltsfoot Violets Goats rue Hedge Hysop common Hysop Marjoram Bawm Mints Rue Savory Scordium Comfry A. Thus have I given you the Colledges Conserves or rather their confusion in English wherein they have made such a chaos of hearbs and flowers that to unweave it would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain the truth is I want time only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples and there you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use as also what the use of it is A word is enough to a wise man I proceed Let the leaves and flowers be beaten very small and to every pound of them add three pound of white Sugar and beat them well together into a conserve But Barberries Prunella and other sour fruits are not made into conserves after this manner for example Take of Barberries as many as you will let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of cleer water till the pulp may be drawn out by rubbing it through a sieve Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained which put in an earthen pan well glazed because if you do it in brass it will retain an illfavoured smatch of the mettal boil away the watry moisture of them with a gentle fire stirring it about continually with a stick lest the juyce burn then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art boiling it to its due consistence A. Prunella indeed and in truth is Self-heal not Sloes as I am confident they intend it here because they place it among the sour juyces I was jealous they intended it so before therefore when I translated it self-heal I set the word Prunella in the margin Is it possible so many grave heads should so grosly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree Prunella for Prunellus The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Errour in the Latter end of their Dispensatory it remains in the Colledge to do the like it being a thing if not very preposterous I am sure extreamly dangerous to prescribe one thing for another in Physick If they can but produce an Author An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Sloe or Sloe-tree I shall be content to bear the blame my self A. The vertues of al Conserves are the same with the herbs flowers or fruits whereof they are made and they are thus mixed with Sugar 1. to preserve them the longer 2. that they may be more pleasing to the pallat Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum or Tabulatum Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness neiâ—â—â—â— too green nor too ripe spring-water three pints infuse them four and twenty hours then boyl them till the vertue is out of the heads then strain them out and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar boyl the liquor to that hardnesse that you may make Lozinges of it A. This recept is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians though the Colledge through forgetfulness or something else hide it the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head c. Manus Christi Simple and Pearled Take of the best Sugar a pound Damask-rose-water half a pint boil them together according to art to that thicknesse that it may be made into Lozenges and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom you ad half an ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder together with eight or ten leaves of gold it will be Manus Christi with pearls A. It is naturally cooling apropriated to the heart it restores lost strength takes away burning feavers and false imaginations I mean that with pearls for that without Pearls is ridiculous it hath the same vertues Pearls have Manus Christi against Worms Take of Rhubarb four scruples Agrick Trochiscated Corallina burnt Hartshorn Dittany of Creet Wormseed Sorrelseed of each a scruple Cinnamon Zedoary Cloves Saffron of each half a Scruple white Sugar a pound dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water and one ounce of Wormwood Wine and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water and then with the forenamed pouders make it into Lozenges A. The title shews you the vertues of it for my part I think in penning of it they made a long Harvest of a little Corn. Penidies Are made of Sugar and Barly water boiled in such a proportion and with such an art that it will not stick to ones fingers and yet one may draw it like birdlime into what form one will A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs and they are sometimes used in other compositions Confection of Frankinsence Norimberg Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Nutmegs white Frankinsence of each three drachms Liquoris Mastich of each two drachms Cubebs Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm Conserves of red Roses an ounce with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar make it into a Confection in bits of two drachms weight A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this receit Sugar of Roses Take of red Rose flowers not fully open an ounce cut off the white from them then dry them in the shaddow afterwards beat them in a stone mortar and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water boyl it according to art till the water be consumed then put the mass out upon a marble stone and make it into what form you please there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses dilligently mixing them together by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour and the pleasanter tast A. I am verily perswaded that the Colledge appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses which is but the Embrion of an ignorant brain it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in pouder the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it without the addition
others purge violently both put together make a composition no way pleasing to me therefore I account it a pretty recept good for nothing Electuarium Elescoph Mesue Take of Scammony and the best Turbith of each six drams Cloves Cinnamon Ginger Emblick Myrobalans 〈◊〉 Polypodium of each two drachms and an half Sugar six ounces clarified Honey ten ounces mix them and make them into an Electuary according to art A. Mesue appoints only clarified Honey one pound and four ounces to make it up into an Electuary and saith it purgeth choller and flegm and wind from all parts of the body helps pains of the joints and sides the chollick it cleanseth the reins and bladder yet I advise you not to take too much of it at a time for it works pretty violently though well corrected by the pen of a Mesue let half an ounce be the most for such whose bodies are strong alwaies remembring that you had better ten times take too little then once to much Confectio Hamech Fernelius Take of the barks of Citron Myrobalans two ounces Myrobalans chebs and black Violets colocynthis Polipodium of the Oak of each an ounce and an half Wormwood Time of each half an ounce the seeds of Annis and Fennel the flowers of red Roses of each three drachms let all of them being bruised be infused for one day in two pints of Whey then boyl it to one pound rub it with your hands and then presse it out and ad to the decoction juyce of fumitory pulp of Prunes and Raisons of the sun of each half a pound white Sugar clarified Honey of each a pound boil them to the thickness of Honey sprinkled in towards the end Agrick Trochiscated Senna of each two ounces Rhubarb an ounce and an half Epithimum an ounce Diagridium six drachms Cinnamon half an ounce Ginger two drachms the seeds of Fumitory Annis Spicknard of each one 〈◊〉 make an Electuary of them according to art A. The recept is cheifly apropriated as a purge for melancholly and salt flegm diseases thence rising as Scabs Itch Leprosies Cancers infirmities of the skin it purgeth addust humours and is good against madness melancholly forgetfulness vertigo c. Electuarium Indum Minus Mesue Take of Turbith Sugar of each a hundred drachms Mace Pepper Ginger Cloves Cinnamon Cardamoms Nutmegs of each seven drachms Scammony prepared twelve drachms mix them with three times their weight the Sugar excepted of clarified Honey and so make them into an Electuary according to art A. It purgeth the bowels as also the joynts of putrified flegm it breaks wind is therefore profitable for the Chollick A. The Colledg have much altered the quantity of the Turbith and Sugar it purgeth violently Lenitive Electuary Take of Raisons of the sun stoned Polypodium of the Oak Senna of each two ounces Mercury one handful and an half Jujubes Sebestens by number twenty Maidenhair Violets French Barly of each a handful Damask Prunes stoned Tamarinds of each six drachms Liquoris half an ounce boil them according to art strain them out and dissolve in the decoction pulp of Cassia Tamarinds and fresh Prunes Sugar of Violets of each six ounce of the best Sugar two pound lastly ad an ounce and an half of Senna in pouder to every pound of the Electuary so bring it into a form according to art A. It gently opens and mollifies the bowels bringing forth choller flegm and melancholly and that without trouble It is cooling and therefore is profitable in Pleuresies and for wounded people a man of reasonable strength may take an ounce of it going to bed which will work next morning Electuarium Passulatum Take of Polypodium of the Oak three ounces the leaves of Senna the roots of marsh Mallows fresh of each two ounces Annis two drachms infuse them all in spring water a sufficient quantity in a glazed vessel and boil them according to art then strain them out and ad to the decoction pulp of Raisons of the Sun drawn through a Sive half a pound white Sugar and Manna of each four ounces boyl them again to the thicknesse of Marmilade and renew it four times a yeer A. The Colledge are so mysterious in this recept a man can hardly give directions how to make it for they give only incertainties A. You had best first boil the roots in three pints of water to a quart then put in the Senna and seeds boil it to a pint and an half then strain it and ad the rest the Manna will melt of it self as well as the Sugar indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by it self in some of the decoction and so strain it because of its dross A. It gently purgeth both choller and melancholly cleanseth the reins and bladder and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidneys Electuary of the juyces of Roses Nicholaus Myrepsus Take of Sugar and the juce of Red Roses of each one pound and four ounces of the three sorts of Sanders of each six drachms Spodium three drachms Diagrydium twelve drachms Camphire a scruple make of them an Electuary according to art let the juyces be boyled with the Sugar to a just thickness then ad the other things in pouder A. It purgeth choller and is good in tertian agues and diseases of the joynts it purgeth violently therefore let it be warily given Electuarium Reginae Coloniens Take of the seeds of Saxifrage and Gromwel Juyce of Liquoris of each half an ounce the seeds of Caraway Annis Smallage Fennel 〈◊〉 of Macedonia Broom Carrots Bruscus Sparagus Lovage Cummin Juniper Rue Siler Mountain the roots of Acorus Penyroyal Cinkfoyl Bay Berries of each two drachms Indian Spicknard Schoenanth Amber Valerian Hogs Fennel Lapis Lincis of each a dram and an half Galanga Ginger Turbith of each two drachms Senna an ounce Goats blood prepared half an ounce mix them together first beat them into a pouder then make them into an Electuary according to art with three times their weight in Sugar dissolved in white Wine A. It is an excellent remedy for the stone and wind chollick a drachm of it being taken every morning I assure such as are troubled with such diseases I cannot but commend it to them as a Jewel Hiera Picra Simplex Galeni Take of Cinnamon Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes Asarabacca Spicknard Mastich Saffron of each six drachms Aloes unwashed twelve ounces and an half clarified Honey four pound and three ounces make it up into an Electuary according to art also the Species is kept by it self in shops A. It is an excellent remedy for vicious juyces which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach and such idle fancies and symtomes which the brain fuffers thereby whereby some think they see others that they hear strange things especially when they are in bed and between sleeping and waking besides this it very gently purgeth the belly and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their
quinces and the juyce viz put in fresh having strained out the former at last strain it and keep it for your use Oyl of Elicampane is made of the roots of Elicampane bruised and of the juyce of them and oyl of Almonds of each half a pound sweet wine three ounces boyled to the consumption of the wine Oyl of Euphorbium is made of Euphorbium half an ounce oyl of winter-Gilliflowers Wine of each five ounces boyled to the consumption of the wine Oyl of Emmats is made of winged Emmets two ounces oyl eight ounces set in the sun for fourty daies and so kept for your use Oyl of St. Johns wort Take of the tops of St. Johns wort four ounces steep them in a pound of old oyl Olive and six ounces of Wine for three daies either in the sun or in the heat of a bath then strain them out renew the infusion with fresh tops of Saint Johns wort the second and third time the last time let it be boyled almost to the consumption of the wine strain it out and ad to the oyl three ounces of Turpentine one scruple of Saffron boyl it a little and so keep it for vour use Oyl of Jasmine is made of the flowers and cleer oyl as oyl of Boses is Oyl of Orris Take of the roots of Orris Florentine a pound the flowers of white Lillies half a pound water in which other roots of Orris Florentine have been boyled so much as is sufficient sweet oyl six pound boyl them in a double vessel then put in fresh roots and flowers the former being cast away as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Earthworms Take of Earthworms half a pound wash them wel in Wine then add oyl of Olives two pound Wine eight ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Marjoram Simple is made of four ounces of the Herb infused in six ounces of Wine and a pound of oyl with insolation and two other infusions as in oyl of Roses evaporate away the Wine in a bath Oyl of Mastich Take of oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound Mastich three ounces Wine four ounces boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of mints is made of the hearb and Oyl Omphacine as Oyl of Roses Oyl of Mirtles is made of the berries of Mirtles bruised and sprinkled with red Wine a pound oyl Omphacine three pound let them be set in the sun eight daies then boyled infuse fresh ones and repeat both the infusion and insolation three times then boyl them in a double vessel and keep the oyl for your use Oyl of Mirrh Take certain new laid Egs and boyl them till they be hard then cut them through the middle the longest way take out the yolks and fill the hollow place half full of mirrh then joyn the whites together again and bind them gently with a string then place them between two dishes a small grate being between that they fall not to the bottom then place them in a wine Cellar or some other cool place under ground so wil the melted liquor of the Mirrh distil down into the inferiour dish Oyl of Daffadils is made of the flowers and oyl as oyl of Roses Nard oyl Simple is made of Spicknard three ounces sweet oyl a pound and an half Wine and Water of each two ounces and an half boyl them in a double vessel till the Wine and Water be consumed Oyl of water Lilly flowers is made of oyl Omphacine a pound white water Lilly flowers four ounces three times repeated as in oyl of Roses Oyl of Poppies is made of the heads flowers and leaves of Poppies and oyl Omphacine as oyl of Dill. Oyl of Rue simple of Rue boiled and sweet oyl as oyl of Roses Oyl of Savin is made as oyl of Roses So also is oyl of Elder flowers Oyl of Scorpions of Scorpions by number thirty 〈◊〉 of bitter Almonds two pound let them be infused for fourty daies in a warm place in a glass then strained out and the oyl kept for your use Oleum Sicyonium of wild Cucumerroots and their juyce of each six ounces oyl of ripe Olives a pound boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the juyce Oyl of Nightshade is made of the ripe berries of Nightshade four ounces boyled in a pint of oyl Oyl of Styrax is made of a pound of oyl Olive and three ounces of Styrax Wine so much as is sufficient boyl them after a sufficient maceration to the consumption of the Wine Oyl of Vervain is made of the herb and oyl as oyl of Mints is Oyl of Violets of the flowers of Violets and oyl Omphatine as oyl of Roses A. That most of these oyls if not all of them are used only externally is certain and as certain that they retain the vertues of the simples whereof they are made therefore the ingenious might help themselves but because we live in a frigid age I shall vouchsefe to quote the vertues of the chiefest of them A. Oyl of Roses the stomach being anointed with it strengthens it cools the heat of it thickens takes away inflamations abates swellings A. Oyl of Wormwood doth moderatly heat and strengthen the stomach being anointed with it it procures apetite opens obstructions furthers digestion and kills worms A. Oyl of Dill doth moderatly digest aswage the pains of the head and nerves and procures sleep A. Oyl of Castorium helps cold diseases of the nerves deafness being dropped into the ears and noise there A. Oyl of Chamomel strengthens the sinnews greatly aswageth pain and breaks the stone A. Oyl of melilot hath the same effects A. Oyl of Walflowers aswageth pains in the breast and reins sinnews joints and bladder A. Oyl of Quinces cools binds and strengthens stops vomiting loosness and sweating A. Oyl of Euphorbium hath the same effects with that of Castorium but works more forcibly being 〈◊〉 up the nose it purgeth the head of flegm A. Oyl of Emmets the privities being anointed with it provokes lust A. Oyl of St. Johns wort is as good a thing in green wounds as a man can use A. Oyl of Orris doth concoct and dissolve aswage pain of the womb liver aud joynts also it strengthens the breast A. Oyl of Earthworms mollifie heat and aswage pains and is special good for such as 〈◊〉 been bruised or hurt in their joints A. Oyl of Marjoram helps weariness cold diseases of the brain noise in the ears being dropped into them the bitings of venemous beasts and provokes the terms in women A. Oyl of Mastich strengthens the brain stomach and liver sinnews and veins staies vomiting and fluxes A. The stomach being anointed with oyl of Mints staies the weakness of it heats and strengthens it staies vomiting helps digestion and provokes appetite A. Oyl of Mirtles hath the same effects with Quinces A. Oyl of Mirrh preserves any thing from putrifying that is anointed with it makes the face fair and
leaves of wild Cucumers and Nep of each half a pound all of them being gathered in the month of May let them be beaten when they are green and steeped seven daies in six pound of the best oyl and one pound of Aqua vitae then boyled till the water be consumed let the Oyl be strained in which melt sixteen ounces of Wax Bears grease and Oyl of Baies of each three ounces Oleum Moschellinum half an ounce Petroleum an ounce Butter four ounces these being stirred together sprinckle in these pouders Mast 〈…〉 Olibanum of each seven drachms Pellitory of Spain Ginger Euphorbium Pepper of each an ounce bring them all into the form of an Oyntment according to art A. It mightily digesteth and maketh thin and that not without some purging quality and is very commodious against cold afflictions of the body but especially of the sinews convulsions falling sickness pains of the joints and great guts Unguenivm è succis Aperitivis primum Foesius Take of the juyce of Smallage Endive Mints Wormwood common Parsly Valerian of each three ounces oyl of Wormwood and Mints of each half a pound yellow Wax three ounces mix them together over the fire and make of them an Oyntment sometimes is added also the pouders of Calamus Aromaticus Spicknard of each one drachm a little oyl of Cappars A. It opens stoppages of the stomach and spleen easeth the Rickets the breast and sids being anointed with it Unguentum Aperitivum Secundum Foesius Take of the juyce of Dwarf Elder or Walwort eight ounces the juyces of Parsly and Smallage of each four ounces the juyces of Wormwood and Orris of each five ounces common Oyl half a pound oyl of white Lillies ten ounces oyl of Wormwood and Chamomel of each six ounces the fat of Ducks and Hens of each two ounces boyl them all together to the consumption of the juyces afterwards strain them and with seven ounces of white Wax and a little Vineger make it into an Oyntment according to art Unguentum de Artanita majus Mesue Take of the juyce of Artanita or Sow bread or for want of it a strong decoction of the roots three pound the juyce of wild Cucumers Butter of each one pound Oyl of Orris two 〈◊〉 pulp of Colocynthis four ounces Polipodium six ounces 〈◊〉 half an ounce let the things to be bruised be bruised and infused in the juyces and oyl for eight daies in a glazed vessel well stopped then boyled in a double vessel almost to the consumption of the juyces strain them and add to the liquor Wax two ounces Bulls Gall seven drachms and an half let them boyl together till the wax be melted then ad Sagapenum seven drachms and an halfe Mirrh three drachms being dissolved in Vineger stir them together till they are almost cold then sprinkle in by degrees the pouders of these following simples being well mixed together Scammony Aloes Colocynthis the leaves of Mezereon or the berries thereof Turbith of each seven drachms and an half Sal. Gem. four drachms and an half Euphorbium long Pepper Ginger Chamomel of each three drachms mix them together and make of them an Oyntment according to art A. The stomach being anointed with it it purgeth by vomit the belly anointed with it it purgeth by stool the truth is it is a desperate kind of purge yet I hold it as sitting as can be to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies because I conceive it especially purgeth water and the water in dropsies lies neer the skin Unguentum Catapsoras Take of Ceruss washed first in Purslain water then in Vineger mixed with the juyce of wild Rhadishes and then strained Lapis Calaminaris Chalcitis of each six drachms Litharge of lead two ounces burnt lead goats blood of each two ounces Mercury Sublimate an ounce the juyces of Sengreen or Housleek Nightshade Plantane of each two ounces Hogs grease cleansed from the skins two pound oyl of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mandrakes of each an ounce first let the Sublimatúm and Hogs grease be well mingled and incorporated then add the oyl and juyces and last of all the pouders and of all of them mixed make an oyutment according to art A. The Title shews it to be invented against scabs and itch Unguentum Citrinum Nichol. Take of Borax an ounce Camphire a drachm 〈◊〉 Corall half an ounce Plaister of a wall an ounce Vmbilicus marinus Gum Traganth white Starch of each three 〈◊〉 Cristal Entalis Dentalis Olibanum Salt Niter white Marble of each two drachms Gersa serpentaria an ounce common Ceruss six ounces fresh Hogs grease cleansed a pound and an half Goats suet prepared an ounce and an half Hens grease two ounces and an half let the things to be poudered be brought into very fine pouder according to art many of them will be best beaten by themselves then make up the ointment thus put the Hogs grease and Hens grease into an earthen pot that is glazed into which put two Citrons of a middle bigness together with the pulp and juyce cut in bits stop the vessel and place it in a warm bath for seven daies then strain out the Citrons and cast them away then the Goats grease being melted with the other sprinkle in the pouders by degrees but let the Camphire and Borax be put in last alwaies stirring it till it come into the form of an ointment A. It takes away pimples redness freckles and other deformities of the face scabs in any part of the body it takes away the redness of the eyes and makes a rough skin smooth Unguentum 〈◊〉 Varignan Take of the middle bark of 〈◊〉 Chestnuts Oak and beans Mirtle berries Hors-tail Gauls the stones of Grapes unripe Services or Checkers dried unripe Medlars dried the leaves of Sloe tree the roots of Bistort and Tormentill of each an ounce and an half let them be grosly bruised and boyled in eight pints of Plantane water til half be consumed strain it then take of yellow Wax eight ounces and an half 〈◊〉 it with simple oyl of Mirtles two pound and an half then wash it nine times with the foregoing 〈◊〉 putting in fresh decoction so often as you wash it afterwards sprinkle in these following Simples being beaten into fine pouder take of the middle bark of Acorns Chestnuts and Oak Galls of each an ounce juyce of 〈◊〉 ashes of the bones of an Ox leg Mirtle berries the stones of unripe Grapes unripe Services or Checkers dried of each half an ounce Trochisci de 〈◊〉 two ounces mix them with the aforesaid wax and oyl of Mirtle being washed adding oyl of Mastich not washed so much as is sufficient to bring it into the form of an oyntment according to art A. It seems in my eyes a gallant binding oyntment composed neatly by a judicious brain the belly and reins being anointed with it it staies 〈◊〉 or miscarriage in women though already begun it strengthens weak backs exceedingly and stops the
be dissolved in Vineger and with a sufficient quantity of Wax made into a Cerecloath according to art A. Being applyed to the belly of a woman after labor it cleanseth her of any relicts accidentally left behind helps the fits of the mother and other accidents incident to women in that case Ceratum Oesypatum Galen Take of Oesypus ten ounces oyl of Chamomel and Orris of each half a pound yellow Wax two pound Rozin one pound Mastich Turpentine of each one ounce Spicknard two drachms and an half Saffron a drachm and an half Ammoniacum an ounce Styrax Calamitis half an ounce make them into a Cerecloath according to art A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver spleen womb nerves joynts and other parts of the body and is a great easer of pain Ceratum Santalinum Mesue Take of Rose twelve drachms red Sanders ten drachms white and yellow Sanders of each six drachms Bole Armenick seven drachms Spodium four drachms Camphire two drachms white Wax washed thirty drachms oyl of Roses six ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art A. It wonderfuly helps hot infirmities of the stomach liver and other parts being but applied to them Ceratum Stomachicum Galen Take of red Roses Mastich of each twenty drachms dried Wormwood fifteen drachms Spicknard ten drachms Wax four ounces Rose water so much as is sufficient oyl of Roses a pound and an half let it boyl so till it be like an oyntment then ad oyl of Roses eight ounees Wax fourteen ounces the pouders afore mentioned excepting the Mastich which must be melted in the oyl of Roses of all them used in this manner make a Cerecloath according to art A. It strengthens the stomach and liver easeth their pains provokes apetite to ones meat and helps digestion Emplastrum à Nostralibus Commonly called Flower of Oyntments Take of Rozin Per-Rozin Wax Sheeps suet of each half a pound Olibanum four ounces Turpentine two ounces and an half Mirrh Mastich of each one ounce Camphire two drachms white Wine half a pint boyl them together into the form of a Cerecloath A. I found this recept in an old manuscript written in the year 1513. the quantity of the ingredients but very little altered except analogically and the vertue of it thus described verbatim Yt ys well clensande and well sowdande and generande the flesh and heland more yn eight days then ony other 〈◊〉 woll doe yn a monyth for yt wyll soffer noe corrupcion yn a wounde ne noe dead flesh to byde 〈◊〉 also yt ys good for headache and for wynde yn the brayne and for all mannyr posthymes yn the head or in the body for swelling of the eares or of the cheekes for all mannyr of synowes that ys greived or breysyd or sprong and yt woll draw out yrne or splynts of trees or thornes or broken bones or ony other thyngs that may grow yn a wound and yt ys good for bytyng of venemos 〈◊〉 and yt rotts and healls all mannyr of boches without fawt and yt ys good for fester or canker and for nolime 〈◊〉 2nd yt drawys out al mannyr of akyng yn the lyver or reynes or mylt and helpyth the emerauds CHYMICAL OYLS A. 1. I Desire you to take notice before I begin that Chymical oyls generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning but mixed with other convenient medicines A. 2. They carry the very same vertue the Simples do but are far more prevalent as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross OYL OF HERBS Oyl of Wormwood Take of dried Wormwood a pound spring water twenty pound infuse the Wormwood in the water twenty four hours then distill it in a great Alembick with his refrigeratory so shall you draw out the oyl with the water which you may seperate with a funnel keep the water for another distillation A. Your best way to learn to still Chymical oyl is to learn of an Alchymist for I rest confident the greatest part of the Colledge had no more skill in Chymistry than I have in building houses but having found out certain models in old rusty Authours tell people SO they must be done I can teach a man SO how to build a house first he must lay the foundation then rear up the sides then joyn the rasters then build the chimneyes tile the top and plaister the walls but how to do one 〈◊〉 of this I know not And so play the Colledge here for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them the truth is I am in a manner tyed to their method here from which I may not step aside if my country kindly accept this which is the beginning of my labours I may happily put forth somthing else for the Ingenious to whet their 〈◊〉 upon Only here I quote the oyls in the Colledg order and then quote the vertue of the 〈◊〉 of them that so the reader may know by a peny how a shilling is coyned After the same manner is prepared oyl of Chamomel flowers Chelondine Eyebright Hysop Lavender Marjoram Mints Watercresses Origanum Penyroyal Roses Rosemary Rue Savin Sage Savory Time Verbascum and all other flowers and hot hearbs A. I 〈◊〉 instance here only in oyl of Lavender commonly called oyl of Spike which helps the ranning of the reins they being anointed with it it expels worms two drops of it being taken in Wine the region of the back being anointed with it it helps the palsey for all the rest see the vertues of the herbs themselves OYL OF SEEDS Oyl of Dill Seeds Take of Dill seeds bruised two ponnd spring water sixteen pints steep them for twenty four hours then distill them in a great Allembick with his Refrigeratory draw out the water and oyl which you may seperate with a funnel In the same manner is prepared oyl of the seeds of Annis Caraway Cmmmin Carrots Fennel Wheat Parsly Rue Saxifrage c. A. Oyl of Annis seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes ordissines in the head yes its cheif operation is upon the breast and lungues it helps narrowness of the breast rawness and wind in the stomach all infirmities there coming of cold and wind strengthens the nerves six drops is enough at a time taken in broath or any other convenient liquor A. As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast so are Fennel seeds to the head the oyl of which cleanseth the brain of cold infirmities lethargies indisposition of the body numbness want of motion also it helps the stomach and expels wind A. Cummin seeds the oyl of them is a great expeller of wind nothing better it also wonderfully easeth pains of the spleen pains in the reins and bladder stopping of urine especially if it come of wind and is a present remedy for the chollick for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds OYL OF BERRIES Oyl of Juniper Berries Take of
pestilences and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine Aqua Mettis Take of pure Honey four pound dry sand two pound still them in a glass Still so capacious that the matter may fill only the fist part of the vessel first draw away the flegm then encreasing the fire draw off the water yellowish in colour and sharp in tast Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over and cals it Quintessence of honey and extols the vertues of it to the skies saith it will revive dying men which Mr. Charls Butler of Hamshire also affirms Aqua Fortis Take of dried Vitriol two pound Salt Peter cleansed one pound bruise them and place them in a reverberatory in a retort a large receiver being placed under it still it by degrees for twenty four hours together clarifie it with a drachm of silver according to art CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE USUAL Steel prepared by the Sun A. It is just so prepared as shall be hereafter shewed only here they appoint it to be set in the sun there in the shaddow a parles difference Steel prepared by the fire Take of Steel cleansed from the filth heat it red hot and quench it a dozen times in sharp white Wine Vineger and as often in Canary or Malaga Wine then dry it and grind it upon a stone with oyl of Cinnamon and keep it for your use Cremor Tartar Take of Tartar made of White or Rhenish Wine as much as you wil beat it into fine pouder and sieft it then wash it in cold water three or four times til the filth be washed off from it then boyl it in cleer water in a large pan or earthen vessel gently take off the scum but the crust which is one the top after it hath covered the whole top take off with a wooden scummer spread it upon a brown paper wash it again in cold water and dry it well then grind it into fine pouder and keep it in a glasse close stopped that it may touch no mettal Crocus Martis Take of a bar of Iron or Steel which being heat very hot thrust into a great heap of brimstone a bason being placed underneath with cold water in it the Iron will run out like wax which being separated from the brimston grind it to pouder in an Iron mortar put the pouder in square earthen dishes which are not of above a fingers breadth in deepnesse place them at the hot fire of a Reverberatory for three or four daies so will the substance be reddish and like a spunge let the top be taken away with an Iron instrument and the rest driven up by the fire til it may be brought into a very fine pouder Also you may prepare it by the fire of a Reverberatory without brimstone Crocus Metallorum Take of Antimony shining with long veins salt-peter of each equal parts beat them into pouder severally then mix them together and put them into a brass or iron mortar then set fire to them by putting a coal in which wil burn with great noise on the top place a tile or an iron plate at least three fingers bredth distant from the matter burning when the noise is ceased let the mettal which wil look of a deep red colour be separated from that whitish crust at top and kept for your use being sweetned with clean distilled water Flos Sulphuris Take of yellow Brimstone which when you have rubbed it if you hold it to your ear will make an noise grind it with its equal part of Colcolthar of Vitriol viz. the residue of the distillation of the oyl put it in a long earthen pot putting to it a glass head large enough give fire to it in sand by degrees and drive up the flower stirring it with an hares foot It will be the better if you sublime it again with fresh Colcothar Lapis infernalis septicus Take of the lye in which black Sope is boyled burn it in a pan to a stone but yet take heed all the moisture be not consumed and it wax too dry when it is cold cut it in the form of dice and keep it close stopped Otherwise Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces Sal Armoniack Tartar calcined to whiteness quick Lime of each three ounces put to them being bruised ly made of Fig-tree or Spurge or Sope dissolve them in it strain it and in a brass vessel boyl it to the consumption of the moisture keep the residence in a vessel close stopped Lapis prunellae or Niter purged with Brimstone Take of pure salt-peter a pound put it in a crucible w th coals round about it let it not burn but run like mettal that being melted put in two ounces of flower of Brimstone in little bits as big as hazel nuts which when it is consumed pour out the Niter into a brass bason and when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped that the air come not to it to dissolve it Magisterium Perlarum et Corallorum in quo etiam sales eorum continentur Take of Pearls or Coral as much as you will grind them into exceeding fine pouder then pour upon them so much Radical Vineger that it may overtop them three or four fingers bredth digest them in ashes till they are dissolved pouring off the old liquor and pouring in fresh till all of them be dissolved filter the liquor through a broun paper and putting a little oyl of Tartar into it the Pearls which were dissolved will fall down to the bottom in white pouder which is to be seperated from the liquor and washed with cleer water till it be sweet at last washed with Cordiall waters Radical Vineger is that which is distilled in sand with Bay salt Mercurius Dulcis sublimatus Take of Sublimatum prepared with salt Vitriol two ounces crude Mercury purified with salt and Vineger and ground upon a Marble an ounce and an half let the Sublimatum be exactly mixed with the crude Mercury upon the same Marble then put the pouder into a phial of a foot in length place the phial being stopped well with Cotten or Bumbast up to the middle in sand at first let the fire be gentle then encreased by degrees for six hours that which ariseth up to the middle of the glass let it be taken for that which ascends up to the top is of an exceeding poysonous nature fit for nothing but ulcers that which remains in the bottom is of no use if that which is in the middle be sweet without any acrimony it is wel made if not you must sublime it again the second time that so you may seperate again what is at the top and the oftener you do it the more perfect will your medicine be Mercurius Dulcis precipitated Take of crude Mercury distilled in a retort with Bay salt or revived with common Cinnabarum one part Aqua fortis of two parts of Vitriol calcined and one
pith being taken away steep thē in juyce of Quinces three daies with a moderate heat then dry them and keep them The preparation of Goats blood Take a Goat of a middle age feed him a month with burnet Smallage Parsly Lovage Mallows and such like things then take the blood which flows out of his Arteries being opened let it settle then pour the water from it and dry the blood in a fornace the Goat must be killed towards the latter end of the summer about the Dog daies The way to burn Swallows Let young Swallows be so killed that the blood may run upon their wings then sprinkle them with a little salt and burn them in an earthen vessel well glazed and keep the Ashes for your use After the same manner are burnt Hedgehogs Toads and Frogs but without salt The preparation of Gum Lacca Take of Gum Lacca which is foul for it were labor in vain to wash what is clean bruise it a little and boyl it in water in which Schaenanth and Birthwort of each equal parts have been boyled til the purer part swims at top and the drosse is sunck to the bottom evaporate away the moisture from that purer part either in the sun or in a bath and so keep it for your use The preparation of Lapis Lazuli Take of Lapis Lazuli finely bruised and wash it in so many waters till the water remain cleer after washing and this preparation is enough when you put it in pills but when you use it in Confectio Alkermes it must first be burnt The preparation of Earth worms Take of Earth worms cut and cleansed as many as you will wash them so often in Wine till they are cleansed from their filth then dry them and keep them for your use The common way of preparing Pearls Beat Pearls into very fine pouder in an Iron or Steel mortar putting to them a little Rose water that so the more subtill parts may not fly à way In like manner is Coral and other precious stones prepared The preparation of Sows or Woodlice Take of Sows as many as you will wash them in white Wine then put them into a new glazed pot dry them in a fornace that so they may be 〈◊〉 into pouder The way to make Oesipus Take of wool cut off from the neck ribs and under the pits of the forelegs of a Sheep not washed but well wearied wash it in warm water so long till it have left all its 〈◊〉 in the water then press it out and lay it by let that fat and foul water be poured from on high out of one vessel into another a long time 〈◊〉 it be froathy then let the froath settle and take off the fat that swims on the top then pour the water to and fro again till neither more fat nor froath appears then wath the froath with the fat in cleer water till it be cleansed from the dross and will not bite your tongue if you touch it with it then keep it in a thick earthen clean pot in a cold place Washed lead Dioscorides I 〈◊〉 water being put in a leaden mortar be stirred up and down with a leaden pestel painfully till it look black and grow thick like lime then strain it through a linnen cloath putting 〈◊〉 to it that so whatsoever is dissolved may pass through when it is setled pour off that water and wash it in other 〈◊〉 water till no blackness remain in it at last make it up into balls to be kept for your use Furnt Lead Dioscorides Take very thin plates of lead put them in an earthen pot putting 〈◊〉 one between every plate so pile them up till the pot be 〈◊〉 then set 〈◊〉 in the fire 〈◊〉 the lead up and down till it be brought into ashes then shut your 〈◊〉 lest the steem either of the Brimstone or of the lead do you mischief take it off from the fire then wash it as you wash Ceruss Pouder of raw lead Fernelius Take very thin plates of Lead and cut them very small then steep them three 〈◊〉 in sharp Vineger changing the Vineger every day then dry them by the fire but burn them not so beat them into a fine pouder The preparation of Fox lungues Take of Fox lungues being fresh the Aspera Arteria being taken away wash them diligently with white Wine wherein Hysop and Scabious have been boyled dry it gently in an oven but burn it not then lay it up wrapped in Wormwood Horehound or Hysop dried Simple preparation of Scammony Take of Scammony in fine pouder a pound juyce of Quinces eight ounces mix them together and having stood in infusion twenty four hours evaporate away the juyce 2. Or take of Scammony in pouder and put it in a Quince the core being taken out and so roast it in the ashes or in an oven then take out the Scammony and keep it for your use Or 3. Take four ounces of Scammony put it in a glass viol cover it over with juyce of Quinces the breadth of three fingers let it stand in a bath till it look like milk then put out that and put in other juyce do so till it look no longer white let this liquor stand and settle and dry the setlings in the sun A. The Colledg here set down a way to prepare Squils for troches which they say is not unlike the former and comparing them together I find them as like as a Permain is like a Apple therefore I pass it The way to boyl Turpentine Take a pound of Venice Turpentine to which add a great quantity of water to wit twenty four pound in which let it be boyled so long till it loose its smell and be as hard as Rozin brittle as glass and white The preparation of Tutty Take of Tutty heat red hot three times in a crucible and as often quenched in Rose water then grind it very small and put it in a clean linnen cloath swing it up and down this way and that way in a vessel full of cleer water that the fine and profitable part thereof may come through into the water and the gross and filthy part remain still in the cloath let it settle and then pour off the water let this operation be repeated till nothing worth any thing be left in the cloath A CONCLUSION THus Courteous Reader have I gone through the whol Work I am not conscious to my self that I have justly given offence to any by translating this Work If any take offence it is to be shrewdly suspected it ariseth from self interests Once more let me advise the ignorant not to be too busie with what they have no skill in for as Physick as the never dying Hippocrates truly saith was never ordained for disorderly and disobedient persons so was the administration of it never ordained for dunces therefore let every one that administers physick seriously consider the great account must be made another day before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
Oak of each five drachms Maidenhair Time Epithimum of each half a handful Raisons of the Sun stoned half an ounce Fennel seeds two drachms the seeds of Purslain and Mallows of each three drachms Liquoquoris half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and in the decoction dissolve pulp of Cassia two pounds Tamarinds one ounce Cinnamon three drams of the best Sugar a pound boyl them to a perfection according to art Cassia Extracted with the leaves of Senna Take of the Electuary of Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna two pound the leaves of Senna in pouder two ounces mix them together according to art A. This is also a fine cool purge gentle cleansing the bowels of choller and melancholly without any griping very fit for feaverish bodies and yet the former is gentler than this Diacarthamum or Diacnicum Arnoldus de villâ novâ Take of Species diatragacanthi frigidi half an ounce pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce pulp of seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron half an ounce Ginger two drachms Diagrydium beaten by it self three drachms white Turbith six drachms Manna two ounces Honey Roses solutive Sugar Candy of each one ounce Hermodactils half an ounce white Sugar ten ounces and an half make of them a Liquid Electuary according to art A. I wonder what art it must be wherewith a man should make up an Electuary and have not wherewithal I tell you truly that to make up an Electuary of this without more moisture for here is not a quarter enough is a task harder than all Hercules his twelve labours abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell or it may be they intend you should go back to Species Electuarii Diagalangae to fetch Honey from thence where they have appointed three times more than needs for my part I shall trouble the reader no further but leave the recept to Arnoldus and the Colledg for a pure piece of nonsence Diaphoenicon Mesue together with Feruelius Take of the pulp of Dates boyled in Hydronel and strained through a pulping Sive Penidies of each half a pound sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half let all of them be bruised and mixed then ad clarified Honey 2. pound boile them a little then sprinkle in Ginger Pepper Mace Cinnamon dryed Rue the seeds of Fennel and Carrots of each two drachms Turbith four ounces in fine pouder Diagrydium an ounce and an half make of them an Electuary according to art A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in feavers taken downwards as Authours say for it is a very violent purge Indeed I beleeve being mixed in Clysters it may do good in chollicks and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humours Diaprunum Simple more rightly called Lenitive Nicholaus Take a hundred Damask Prunes fresh and ripe boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft then draw the pulp of them through a Sive and in the liquor they were boiled in boil an ounce of Violet flowers strain it and in the Decoction dissolve two pound of Sugar and boyl it into a syrup then add of the pulp spoken of before a pound pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each an ounce then put in these following pouders of white and red Sanders Spodium Rhubarb of each three drachms Roses Violets the seeds of Purslain endive Barberries Gum Traganth Liquoris Cinnamon of each two drachms of the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm make them into an Electuary according to art A. It may safely and is with good successe given in acute burning and all other feavers for it cools much and loosens the body gently it is good in agues hectick feavers and Marasmos Diaprunum Solutive Nicholaus Take of Diaprunum lenitive whilst it is yet warm four pound Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art Seeing the Dose of the Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this medicine you may use a lesse weight of Scammony if you please A. And therein the Colledge said true for the medicine according to this recept is too strong violent corroding gnawing fretting and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes which simple people take to give themselves a purge being fitter to do them mischeif poor souls than good unless ordered with more discretion than they have it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb that no carrion will kill a Crow Diacatbolicon Nicholaus Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds the leaves of Senna of each two ounces Polypodium Violets Rhubarb Annis Seeds Penidies Sugar Candy of each one ounce Liquoris the seeds of Guords Citruls Cucumers Melons of each three drachms Let the things to be beaten be beaten and take of fresh Polipodium three ounces Fennel seed six drams boyl them in four pints of rain or spring water to the consumption of the third part strain it and ad to the decoction two pound of the best Sugar boil it again with the pulps of Cassia and Tamarinds and the pouders being added in theend make it into an Electuary according to art A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body and very gentle it may be given an ounce or half an ounce at a time according to the strength of the patient in acute in peracute diseases for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen gouts of all sorts quotidian tertian and quartan agues as also head-aches It is usually given in Clysters Diacrocuma or Species Electuarii de Croce Mesue Take of Saffron the roots of Asarabacca the seeds of Parsly Carrots Annis Smallage of each half an ounce Rhubarb the roots of Spignel Indian Spicknard of each six drachms Cassia lignea Costus Mirrh Schoenanth Cubebs the roots of Maddir the juyce of Wormwood and Maudlin made thick Opobalsamum or oyl of Nutmegs of each two drachms Cinnamon Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half Scordium Stoechas juyce of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half Traganth one drachm make it up into an Electuary with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Endive water and clarified according to art A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey it is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach liver or spleen corruption of humours and putrifaction of meat in the stomach ill favored colour of the body dropsies cold faults in the reins and bladder provokes urine Electuarium de Citro Solutive Take of preserved Citron pills conserves of Violets and Bugloss Diatragacanthum frigidum Diagridium of each half an ounce Turbith five drachms Ginger half a drachm the the leaves of Senna six drachms sweet Fennel seeds a drachm white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boiled according to art ten ounces make them all into a sollid Electuary according to art A. Here are some things very cordial