and Liver once heated They gently and pleasantly remove and repel all Inflammations as well internal as external The dose is two three four or five at a time Rotulae Carminativae or Carminative Rowls Take of our Carminative Oyl a dram and a half Cinamon and Cloves of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Carminative water sixteen ounces Mix them and according to Art make all into little Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They dissipate the wind and ventose humors lurking in the Ventricle and Guts They help Digestion and sour Belchings and give ease in the Nephritick pains by moving Urine and bringing away the Stone They are given as necessity requires three four or five at a time Rotulae Diacymini Take the species of Diacymini and Dianisi of each half an ounce of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram Balsam of Sulphur with Aniseeds Oyl of Fenil of each a scruple Oyl of Oranges and Mace of each ten grains white Sugar dissolved in our Aqua benedicta Serpilli sixteen ounces Mix them and make a Confection in Rowls Virtue Use and Dose They powerfully dissipate the flatulencies of the Bowels and are good in all cold Distempers They wonderfully relieve old Folks and all those troubled with distempers of the Brain Vertigo Stomach Arteries Liver Spleen also in the Cough Asthma passion of the Heart Wind-Colick Quartan Agues c. They help digestion amend ill habits of body and free the Hypochonders when distended with wind Let the sick take one or more as he pleases Rotulae contra Vermes or Rowls against the Worms Take of our species Diacina two ounces white Sugar dissolved in water of the roots of Couch-grass and Tansie of each sixteen ounces Mix them and make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose They kill Worms and bring them away They are given some days together to Children troubled with the Worms two three four or five at a time more or less as need requires Rotulae Mithridaticae praeservantes or preservative Rowls of Mithridate Take Extract of Mithridate prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Citron seeds husked compound flowers of Sulphur Emerauld prepared Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of Tormentil and Zedoary of each half a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Camphire of each a scruple Oyl of white Amber rectified Oyl of Angelica of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Rue of each four grains the best Sugar dissolved in the waters of Sorrel and Roses sixteen ounces Mix them and make all into little Rowls Rotulae Theriacales liberantes Take Extract of Venice Treacle prepared with distilled Vinegar a dram and an half Elks horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth seeds of Sorrel Tincture of Sulphur Hyacinth prepared of each a dram roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each half a dram wood of Aloes bone of a Stags heart white Amber prepared of each a scruple Oyl of Camphire and red Myrrh of each ten grains Oyl of Cassia lignea and Zedoary of each four grains white Sugar sixteen ounces Dissolve the Sugar in Carduus and Scabious-water and make little Rowls for use Rotulae Angelicae praeservativae pro gravidis or preservative Rowls of Angelica for Women with Child Take Extract of the roots of Angelica made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined sealed Earth Bole Armenick prepared roots of female Peony seeds of Sorrel of each a dram Troches of Pearls Magistery of red Coral Hyacinth prepared of each half a dram Mace macerated in Vinegar and again dryed Cassia lignea Oriental Saffron of each a scruple Oyls of white Amber rectified and Zedoary of each ten grains Oyl of Cloves and Citrons of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in water of Tormentil and Betony sixteen ounces Mix all and make little Cakes Rotulae Zedoarticae pro Pueris or Rowls of Zedoary for Children Take Extract of Zedoary made with distilled Vinegar a dram and a half Elks horn Spagirically calcined white Amber prepared sealed Earth Oriental red Bole prepared of each a dram roots of male Peony of white Diptamus and Tormentil of each two scruples Emerauld prepared Hyacinth prepared seeds of Citrons husked seeds of Sorrel and Cina of each half a dram Magisteries of red Coral Oriental Pearls and Crabs eyes the bone of a Stags heart Balsam of Sulphur with Oyl of Aniseeds of each a scruple Oyls of Cinamon Mace Citrons of each four drops white Sugar sixteen ounces Mix all and with the Sugar dissolved in water of Roses and Water-lily flowers make little Cakes Virtue Use and Dose They are good against the Contagion of the Plague and defend and preserve the body from being hurt by any malignant and infectious Air. The dose when there is occasion is two or three at a time Rotulae Catarrhales calidae or hot Rowls for a Catarrh Take species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each a dram species of Aromaticum rosatum Diaireos simple of each half a dram Frankincense Mastich Harts-horn prepared of each a scruple white Sugar dissolved in Betony-water five ounces Make little Rowls and smear them gently with Oyl of Cloves Virtue Use and Dose When the humor is preternaturally sent from the Brain to the Eyes Nose Mouth c. or if it falls upon any other part and is perceived to hurt the actions of that part by altering it from its natural quality and state in such a case these Rotula's are of excellent use for they stop all cold Catarrhs and comfort the Head and Breast The dose is three or four at a time Rotulae Catarrhales frigidae or Rotula's for a cold Catarrh Take seeds of white Poppy bruâ—sed four ounces of the heads that contain the seeds grosly powdered two ounces Let them infuse a few days in water of Scabious and Coltsfoot of each a like quantity then distil them and in a sufficient quantity of this distilled Liquor dissolve an ounce of Mastich let it boil a little and then filter it to which add of white Sugar eight ounces and so make little Rowls according to Art Virtue Use and Dose When the Catarrh is thin and sharp the Head hot and the Face and Eyes appear red the humor exasperating and exulcerating the part upon which it falls and a bitter saltness is perceived and a Feaver begun then are these Rotula's of great use The dose is three or four at a time SECT VIII Of Morsels Morsuli Cephalici or Cephalick Morsels TAke Conserve of the flowers of Peony and Rosemary of each half an ounce species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each two ounces Mans skull Spagirically calcined Elks horn prepared in the same manner of each a dram roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Oyl of white Amber rectified a scruple Oyls of Lavender Nutmegs and Caraways of each four grains white Sugar dissolved in our Epileptick and
compound flowers of Sulphur half an ounce wild Boars teeth and the Iaw-bone of a Pike of each two drams Poppy flowers a dram Mix them and make a fine Powder which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose It cures not without amazement to the Beholders the Pleurisie all putrefactions Imposthumes c. Dose from half a dram to a dram in Chamomil flower and Poppy water of each a sufficient quantity There is not a Remedy more effectual to be given and certainly this only draught edulcorated with a little white Sugar Candy and given often is a most admirable help which I have very often used and always by the blessing of God restored the sick to their former health Species Febrifugae Take the long shells of Shell-fish prepared Elks claws calcined without fire of each an ounce salts of the lesser Centaury of Carduus benedictus and Wormwood of each half an ounce Tartar vitriolated Magistery of Vitriol of each three drams Calamus Aromaticus Nutmegs of each a dram and a half seeds of St. Iohns-wort Cloves long Pepper Camphire of each a dram roots of Tormentil round Birthwort Zedoary and Laserpitium of each half a dram Mix them and make a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It drives away all Feavers especially Quotidian Tertian and sometimes the Quartan is by it cured also It is given in the Fit or a little before in water of Carduus or a little Centaury or in a draught of warm Beer or Ale The Patient being in his Bed let him compose himself to sweat The dose is from a scruple to a dram the age and strength of the Patient considered Pulvis Febrilis probatus or an approved Feaver-powder Take Calamus Aromaticus an ounce roots of Gentian round Birthwort white Ginger of each half an ounce salt of the lesser Centaury Carduus Wormwood of each three drams Harts-horn calcined without fire seeds of Marigold Camphire of each a dram white Sugar Candy an ounce and a half Mix them and make a fine Powder The dose is from half a dram to a dram in specifick and appropriate Vehicles Species Nephriticae or a Powder for distempered Kidneys Take Crystals of Tartar an ounce Magistery of Pearch stones and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce salt of white Amber a dram Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple white Sugar Candy four ounces Mix all into a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It gives ease to those who are pained in the Kidneys it breaks the Stone and tartarous matter in the Reins and Bladder and other members and brings it away It is a present help for the Ischury Dysury and Strangury without any great trouble it is indeed a Secret and so it ought to be esteemed against Stones of all kinds The dose for preservation is one scruple at the Quarters of the Moon in our Nephritick water but in curing the dose is from half a dram to a dram in the before-said water or in the water of Restharrow Parsley or Ground-lvy Species Cholagogae or a Choler-purging Powder Take Magistery of Scammony an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce acid Tartar two drams red Roses vitriolated flowers of the lesser Centaury of each a dram Mix them and make of all a fine Powder Virtue Use and Dose It carries off yellow Choler without trouble and opens obstructions it relieves the Stomach Heart Liver Lungs Joynts and Bowels and conserves and increaseth their strength it cures the Heart-passion Consumptions yellow Jaundice c. It is taken with good success by ancient and weak people in burning and Tertian Feavers Dose from half a dram to two scruples Pulvis Carminativus or a Carminative Powder Take Cummin seed prepared with Vinegar seeds of Car away and Anise of each three ounces white Ginger six drams Mace three drams Oriental Saffron a dram Of these make a Powder Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth that wind that distends the Guts and by its acrimony causeth pains It may be taken constantly or in time of necessity by continuing of it certain days and for the first month in some Broth or with water of Fenil or Anise or our Carminative water The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half Farina Virginea Nobilis Take River-flints calcined and pulverized six ounces Pumice-stone prepared an ounce roots of Flower-de-luce half an ounce Gallia moschata a dram Oyl of Roses a scruple Mix all and make a Powder like Meal which keep for use Virtue Use and Dose There is not a more excellent Medicine to cleanse the Teeth and take off the corrosive Tartar if they be daily and diligently rubbed with a woollen Cloth and this powder than this is and therefore I do commend this sweet and pleasant powder of Flints to the use of all Pulvis Haemorrhoidalis or a Powder for the Piles Take fine Flour an ounce Crocus Martis half an ounce red Oriental Bole prepared roots of Mullein of each two drams white Hermodactyls infused all night in spirit of Wine and again dryed flowers of wild Poppy white Sugar Candy Dragons blood Olibanum of each a dram and a half Mix them and of all make a fine powder Virtue and Use. It presently stops the bleeding of the Haemorrhoids and wonderfully allays their vehement pains And when it is used make a Cataplasm either of the White of an Egg spread upon a Pledget of Tow or of stale Butter upon Lint on which sprinkle a little of this powder and so apply it to the bleeding Piles or Haemorrhoids Pulvis de Verbasco or a Powder of Mullein Take of the green herb Mullein what quantity you please put it into a Crucible and stuff in as much as you can cover it with another Crucible and lute it well then set it on the fire that it may wax black but not burn to ashes and when it seems to be enough let the Crucible cool and take out that black matter and reduce it into a fine powder then Take of this black powder an ounce elect Rhubarb two drams Mix them and make of all a fine powder Virtue and Use. This powder is a certain Experiment against the Condylomata and blind Piles the use of which is thus Let such person take a piece of Linen that is much worn and wet a little of it with his own Spittle and upon that sprinkle some of this powder and so apply it to the part repeating it so often till the Piles are dissolved and discussed which will be in a short time Pulvis probatus or an approved Powder to dry consolidate and heal the small Pox. Take meal of Lentils Beans and Orobus or Fitches of each half an ounce of Litharge of Ceruss washed Tutty prepared Pompholix of each two drams shells of Sea-shell-fish prepared roots of Reeds Crocus Metallorum of each a dram Mix them and make a fine powder Virtue Use and Dose After the seventh day when the small Pox are ripe open them with a golden or silver Needle wipe off the matter lest it
of Suffocation for if one or two be taken in the morning for three days together in our Hysterical water or in any other appropriate they do under God cure the Patient for which Divine gift let God alone be blessed Trochisci de Alumine or Troches of Alum Take crude Alum roots of Pellitory of each half an ounce long Pepper a dram seeds of Henbane Wheat-meal white Chalk Nitre prepared of each a dram and a half white Ginger Cloves Opium prepared of each a dram Mix them and with Juyce of the lesser Nettles make Troches Virtue and Use. They take away pain being applied to the Teeth and Gums due Purgation or Phlebotomy being first used Trochisci de Satureja pro Lixivio or Troches of Summer-Savory for a Lixivium Take dryed Savory half an ounce Marjoram and Origanum of each two drams Lavender flowers red Roses Rosemary flowers of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Gum Arabick white Tragacanth roots of Avens and Flower-de-luce of each a dram Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the less Cubebs of each a dram Ambergriese and Musk of each a scruple Mix them and with the Whites of Eggs make Troches each weighing a dram Virtue and Use. Boil two three or more of these Troches in a sufficient quantity of Lixivium and with that wash the Head in the morning fasting having first been at stool and presently let the Head be rubbed and dryed with warm Linen It takes away all the sweat and filth of the Head and strengthens it opens the Pores of the Skin drys up Catarrhs comforts the Memory and quickens the Sense Trochisci de Nitro or Troches of Nitre Take Rotula's of the juyce of Barberries and Rotula's of the juyce of Goosberries of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with spirit of Vitriol Nitre prepared of each an ounce powder of red Roses vitriolated two drams Oyl of Cinamon four drops Mix them and with Tragacanth dissolved in Juyce of Citrons make Troches Virtue Use and Dose They are of great use in the Quincy Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue boiling of the Blood heat of Urine burning Feavers and especially putrid Semi-tertains The dose is from one dram to two in appropriate Vehicles Styli Dentrifricii or a Medicine for the Teeth Take the powder of calcined River-flints two ounce Pumice stone prepared burnt Alum of each half 〈◊〉 ounce roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce white ashes of Indian Tabaco of each two drams Gallia Moschata oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Mix them and with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in rose-Rose-water make little Rowls to cleanse the Teeth Virtue and Use. They are most used to cleanse the Teeth and to remove their ill colour For when the Teeth turn yellow black c. this Powder doth wonderfully cleanse them and make them white if they be often rubbed and cleansed with it Pomum Ambrae Take roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce Cloves Mace Cinamon of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each two drams Ambergriese a dram Alexandrian Musk half a dram Balsam of Peru Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple All being diligently mixed add of true Civet two drams then with Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each alike dissolved in water of Marjoram Narcissus Roses and Lavender make a mass of which make Troches Balls Cakes c. which put into a Glass and kept will grow hard Virtue and Use. It is a specifick odoriferous Medicine which in cold Cephalalgia's Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy pestilential Air Colick suffocation of the Matrix falling out of the Womb c. and especially when Medicines cannot be taken into the Body if these be applied to the Nose or other parts they comfort the Heart and vital Spirits exceedingly Sapo odoratus or perfumed Sope. Take Venetian Sope dissolved in water of Narcissus a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce an ounce Styrax Calamit Benjamin of each half an ounce wood of Aloes yellow Sanders of each two drams Ambergriese and Civet of each a dram of Musk Balsam of Peru of each half a dram the Oyls of Rhodium Lavender Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix them and with Oyl of Tartar per deliquium make little Balls and as you are making them up anoint your hands with the aforesaid Oyls SECT X. Of Suffiments Suffimentum Angelicum TAke Styrax Calamitis and Benjamin of each equal parts Dissolve these in the best Rose-water and presently well prest afterwards dryed pulverized and kept for use Take of this powder thus prepared an ounce wood of Aloes two drams red Roses dryed and Ambergriese of each a dram true Civet and Musk of each half a dram Balsam of Peru and Oyl of Rhodium of each a scruple Ivory calcined till it be black a sufficient quantity Mix all well and with Rose-water make a Paste of which make little black Cakes put them among Rose-leaves and dry them in the shade then put them in a glass Vessel and keep them for use Virtue and Use. They are used for a Perfume by Kings Princes and Great men for one or two being laid upon hot Coals or infused and boiled in Rose-water give a most sweet delectable and celestial Odor which doth refresh the Brain and vital Spirits and prevents the contagious Infection of a malignant Air. Suffimentum Imperiale or an Imperial Perfume Take Styrax cleansed Benjamin of each half aâ— ounce wood of Aloes two drams true Civet a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple Oyl of Cloves and Roses â—f each ten grains Mix them and make all into little Balls or Cakes which keep for use Virtue and Use. These sweet Balls being laid upon hot coals send forth a most grateful Odor which doth not only correct a poisonous stinking and putrid Air but sweetly and pleasantly refresh the internal Spirits of man the Fume also conveyed by a Tunnel or other such Instrument into the Orifice of the Womb doth wonderfully help Women that are almost suffocated and stays all the inordinate motions of the Matrix But when it is thus used take care to cover the Head close lest the Patient should receive the odor by the Nostrils also Suffimentum Epilepticum or an Epileptick Fume Take white Amber eleven drams red Myrrh elect Mastich Gum Animae Galbanum and Elemi of each two drams Misleto of the Oak seeds of Peony huked Iuniper-berries shavings of Elks horn of each a dram Wormwood Marjoram Lavender flowers flower of Lily of the valley red Roses of each half a dram Mix them and with an Infusion of Tragacanth made in our Epileptick water make little Troches or Balls Virtue and Use. These being laid on coals and the Fume received up into the Nose by one that is grieved with the Epilepsie takes away the fit and is very profitable for those who are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head as the Apoplexy and Palsie c. It is also used against the suffocation and falling out of the Womb. Suffimentum de Sandaracha Take of the
Peony and Pellitory of the wall of each a pound seeds of Peony shavings of Cyprus wood Misleto of the Oak of each half a pound Cinquefoil Millefoil Rue Mullein Lavender Rosemary Henbane of each four ounces flower of Primrose Stoechas Teil-tree Peony and Elder of each two ounces Being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory and then add the ashes of young Magpies and Swallows and Peacocks dung of each an ounce And with an appropriate Liquor according to Art make a white crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is effectual in all Epilepsies Vertigo Lethargies and other stupefying Diseases 't is also given to those who fear or are troubled with dangerous diseases of the Head The dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in Teil-tree flower-water or in our Epileptick water Sal Cordiale or a Cordial Salt Take roots of Avens and Bugloss of each two pound the herbs Rosemary Sage and Balm of each a pound seeds of sweet Basil Citron peels of each half a pound the five Cordial flowers Clovegilly-flowers of each four ounces Mix them and calcine them into ashes the Vessel being close shut then add ashes of Cinamon three ounces ashes of Cloves and Cardamoms of each an ounce and a half ashes of Oriental Saffron and Mace of each three drams From these ashes thus mixed with Cordial waters extract a white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is most useful in Lipothymies Syncopes and other affects of the Heart to strengthen and refresh the Spirits The dose is from ten to twenty grains more or less in Cordial waters Sal Pectorale Take roots of Liquorish two pound Florentine Flower-de-luce Elicampane and Marsh-mallows of each a pound roots of Comfry and Mallows of each eight ounces both sorts of the herb Lungwort Horehound Hyssop Coltsfoot Fluellin Ground Ivy Maidenhair Scabious of each four ounces seeds of Fenil and Anise of each three ounces flowers of Coltsfoot Chamomil and Hearts-ease of each two ounces From these being mixed and well calcined with Pectoral waters extract a most splendid Salt Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent in Pectoral Diseases for it doth attenuate thick tough and viscous Flegm gathered in the Lungs and doth inlarge and cleanse the Breast Moreover it provokes Urine and purgeth the Reins and Ventricle The dose is from ten to twenty and thirty grains in Pectoral or other appropriate Vehicles Sal Stomachicum or a Salt for the Stomach Take roots of Burnet two pound Calamus aromaticus white Ginger of each a pound Sea-wormwood Water-Mint Sage Rosemary of each half a pound Quinces dryed and Zedoary of each four ounces Calcine all in a close Vessel and then add the ashes of the lesser Galangal and Cinamon of each three ounces ashes of Cloves both sorts of Cardamoms Nutmegs round Pepper of each an ounce Mix them and with Mint or other specifick Water make a Spagirick Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It wonderfully roborates and warms a cold Stomach it helps Digestion and Loathing of Meat It is useful in all distempers of the Nerves it quickens all the Senses allays pains of the Head preserves old people from Catarrhs and gives ease in the Dropsie The dose is a scruple more or less respecting both Disease and Patient in specifick Vehicles Sal Epaticum Take roots of Agrimony two pound roots of Chicory and Scorzonera of each a pound bitter Costus Eryngo Turmerick of each half a pound Calamus aromaticus Rhapontick of each four ounces Pontick Wormwood Southernwood Agrimony Harts-tongue Fluellin Liverwort Cascula of each three ounces These being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add ashes of Rhubard and Cassia lignea of each an ounce and a half Then with some Epatick or other convenient water draw a Spagirick Salt Virtue Use and Dose It takes away the hardness wind and obstructions of the Liver and dissolves the scirrhous Tumors there It helps the ill habit of body and takes away dropsical Humors It cures the Jaundice and amends the ill colour of the Skin moves the Terms provokes Urine and dissolves the Stone The dose is from a scruple to two in appropriate Vehicles Sal Spleneticum or a Salt for the Spleen Take Pontick Wormwood two pound Carduus benedictus a pound Rosemary Harts-tongue Fluellin and Ceterach of each half a pound roots of both sorts of Fern Calamus aromaticus of each four ounces bark of the Caper-tree Tamarisk Ash of each three ounces flower of Chamomil the lesser Centaury Broom of each two ounces Bring all into Ashes and with the distilled water of the aforesaid Herbs extract a Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It opens Obstructions mollifies and resolves the pains tumors and hardness of the Spleen It is good for aged people and those troubled with Quartan Agues The dose is every morning from a scruple to half a dram in Harts-tongue water or other convenient Liquor Sal Nephriticum Take roots of Parsley and Restharrow of each two pound roots of Dropwort and Vervain of each a pound roots of Eryngo and Burnet of each half a pound Beans dryed the cores of Medlars of each six ounces berries of Bays and Iuniper Winter-cherries and seeds of Gromel of each four ounces Ground-Ivy Fluellin Horstail Fumitory Strawberry leaves of each three ounces flowers of great Mallows Elder and Broom of each two ounces seeds of white Lilies of white Saxifrage and Burdock Barberries of each an ounce and a half Let all be calcined into white Ashes according to Art to which add ashes of Lignum Nephriticum of Peach-stones and kernels bitter Almonds round Pepper the lesser Galangal white Ginger of each an ounce Nitre prepared six drams Mix all and with Rain-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It breaks the Stone expels Urine and Gravel and helps those that piss with difficulty and relieves those who are troubled with other distempers of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in water of Restharrow Parsley Burnet or Ground-Ivy or any other other Specifick Sal Hydropicum Take of the whole Iuniper-tree cut small two pound roots of Flower-de-luce Elder red Mugwort and Dwarf-Elder of each a pound roots of Swallow-wort Acorus and Turmerick of each half a pound leaves and stalks of Pontick Wormwood the lesser Centaury Agrimony Carduus benedictus Bindweed of each six ounces flowers of Liverwort Elder and Broom of each four ounces seeds of Ash Rocket and Cummin of each three ounces All being mixed let them be calcined in a Reverberatory then add the ashes of Sarsaparilla Cubebs Rhubarb Nutmegs and Mace of each an ounce Mix these Ashes and with Elder-water make a crystalline Salt Virtue Use and Dose It discusseth wind and carries away water and is good in Dropsies of every kind for it potently drys up the swellings of the Microcosmical Earth caused by too much moisture It corrects the ill habit of body and exterminates
all depraved Humors The dose is from a scruple to a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Uterinum Take roots of Bryony two pound roots of white Diptamus and Peony of each a pound Misleto of the Oak Dwarff Elder and common Elder-berries of each half a pound Rosemary Balm Motherwort Nep and Penny-royal of each four ounces Mix all and calcine them to ashes and with Balm water or any other appropriate Water extract a most white Salt Virtue Use and Dose It opens all obstructions of the Womb helps Convulsions precipitates Suffocations and Fumes and provokes the Terms It removes sterility and takes away many other infirmities of those parts The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in appropriate Vehicles Sal Carminativum Take Chamomil two pound Pennyroyal Mother of Tyme Water-mints and Dill of each a pound Let them be calcined according to Art into white Ashes then add the Ashes following i. e. ashes of Anise Cummin Caraway and Fenil seeds of each two ounces ashes of the lesser Galangal white Ginger and Zedoary of each an ounce Mix all and with Chervil-water make a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is excellent to discuss wind It helps the Gripes and allays all pain proceeding from wind The dose is from a scruple to half a dram in our Carminative water Sal Febrile Take Sal Armoniack divers times sublimed Nitre prepared Salt of Carduus benedictus of Wormwood and the lesser Centaury of each an ounce Dissolve them all in Succory-water and make of all a most white Salt according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most excellent Alexipyretick in Feavers of all kinds whether Quotidians Tertians Semitertians or Quartans c. without danger It is given from half a dram to a dram two or three hours before the Fit in Centaury-water or any other Specifick expecting Sweat toward the end of the Fit And the same dose is to be repeated if the first or second dose doth not perform it Annotation If any one proceeds so ingeniously that from the forementioned specifick Compositions he desires to prepare with the safe and secret Spagiâ—ists the Essential Salts as they call them let him â—ake the simple Herbs or mixt with other Ingrediâ—nts and being well dryed by a temperate heat boil â—hem in common Water according to Art till all â—heir strength and native Salt is well excocted for otherwise his labour is in vain then pour off the Deâ—oction and again boil that to the consistence of Hoâ—ey or to the thickness of a Syrup put that into a â—ery cool place till it shoots into Crystals which â—ake off and purifie well by divers Solutions Filtraâ—â—ons and Coagulations until it be fit for Physical â—se This excellent Salt is also extracted from the â—uyce of Herbs made thick concerning which see â—eguinus Lib. 2. cap. 17. And do thou know Reaâ—er that three grains of these Essential Salts will be â—ore effectual than a scruple of the vulgar made by â—alcinations SECT XII Of Marmelades Marmelada Cephalica or a Marmelade for the Head TAke Diacydonium simple four ounces Rotula's of Diamoschu dulce and Diambrae of each two ounces preserved roots of Peony an ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce preserved Walnuts three Nutmegs preserved in India one Emerauld prepared a dram Elaeosaccharum of white Amber Marjoram and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them and without any other additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Brain and resists all the affects thereof It is also happily given in the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy Palsie Trembling c. The dose is from a dram to half an ounce Marmelada Stomachica frigida or a cold Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved rooâ— of Succory two ounces Rotula's of Diarrhodon Abbatâ— an ounce preserved Emblick Myrobalans Conserve 〈◊〉 red Roses of each half an ounce Nitre vitriolated haâ—â— a dram Mix them and without any additional Medicine make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It relieves the Stomach oppressed with hot Humors It comforts and provokes Appetite Moreover it alters a hot Temperature and is happily given to those that have pains about the Heart or are subject to vomit The dose is the quantity of a Chestnut Marmelada Stomachica calida or a warming Marmelade for the Stomach Take Diacydonium simple four ounces aromatick Rotula's Succulata Inda of each an ounce Bengale Ginger preserved Calamus aromaticus preserved Chebul Myrobalans preserved of each half an ounce preserved Orange and Citron peels of each two drams Elaeosaccharum of Cinamon and Cloves of each a scruple Mix all and without any addition make a Marmelade according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It roborates the Ventricle and parts serving for nutrition It helps Digestion moves Appetite discusseth wind and preserves from putrefaction It opens the obstructions of the Veins and helps Hiccup and Vomiting The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Pectoralis or a Pectoral Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces our Pectoral Morsels and Rotula's prepared with the juyce of Violets of each two ounces compound flowers of Sulphur an ounce preserved roots of Fenil and Elicampane of each half an ounce extracted juyce of Liquorish two drams species Diaireos simple Confectio Alkermes of each a dram Mix them and without any other addition make a Marmelade and cover it with gold Virtue Use and Dose It helps those who are troubled with infirmities of the Lungs Coughs Asthma's pains of the Breast It also helps those who are subject to a deflux of humors from the Brain upon the Thorax and vital parts The dose is from a dram to two Marmelada Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple four ounces preserved roots of Borage and Bugloss of each an ounce and a half aromatick Rotula's species of Aromaticum Rosarum species de Gemmis and Diambra of each six drams preserved Citron peels and Confectio Alkermes of each half an ounce Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix all and make a Marmelade according to Art without any other addition Virtue Use and Dose It strengthens and exhilarates the Heart and all the vital Spirits hurt by cold and refreshes them by its heat It wonderfully helps old people and women troubled with cold Diseases and is very proper for the distempers of the Womb. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg Marmelada Cordialis frigida or a cold Cordial Marmelade Take Diacydonium simple three ounces Manus Christi perlati Rotula's of Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and an half Pulp of preserved Citrons Conserve of red Roses of each six drams preserved roots of Succory half an ounce Confectio Alkermes two drams precious Stones prepared of each a scruple Mix them and bring all into a Marmelade Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and extinguisheth the heat thereof it contemperates the
all other hot Cholerick distempers proceeding from mixt and complicated causes and is used by Kings and Princes It purgeth both kinds of Choler without trouble or any offence to the Stomach and kindly draws out the other offending humors even from the Joynts and Limbs and carries off the tartarous humors that oppress the Reins and Bladder It refrigerates the Heart mundifies the Blood and addeth strength to all the principal Members The dose is from a dram to four scruples Annotation For the ordinary and common sort of people you may instead of Confectio Alkermes substitute Conserve of Violets vitriolated and the Composition will be equally efficacious Catharticum Rosatum or a Purge compounded with Roses Take Conserve of red Roses vitriolated seven ounce Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis moistned with Spirit of Vitriol an ounce Nitre prepared a dram and a half Oyl of Cinamon a scruple With a little Syrup of Roses solutive vitriolated mix them into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It expels yellow Choler without trouble and purgeth a hot Liver It is a worthy Remedy for all distempers of the Joynts proceeding from a hot Cause and for Tertian Feavers and is also of a good and grateful taste and therefore pleasant to the Stomach and Bowels It is an appropriate and suitable Purge for tender Virgins Children and Old people that are oppressed with Choler and cholerick Nauseating The dose is from two drams to three given with great profit and no trouble nor disturbance to the sick Catharticum Violatum or a Purge compounded of Violets Take new Conserve of Violets vitriolated four drams true Hermodactyls cleansed from their busks three ounces Magistery of Scammony ten drams Tartar vitriolated six drams Cinamon Cloves white Ginger of each a dram Oyl of Cummin seeds a scruple With Syrup of the Juyce of Violets vitriolated mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose This Confection of Hermodactyls is of admirable virtue and forde in the Gout Sciatica and such like pains of the Joynts for it safely purges all gouty humors we have also seen many Patients languishing with that tormenting pain and rouling in their beds to have been so restored by the use of this Medicine twice thrice or more and the help of external Unctions that they have soon returned to their former business And they would do wisely not to use it only under the impending pain but for their preservation to use it twice every year that is Spring and Fall The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Caryophyllatum or a Purge of Clovegilly-flowers Take Conserve of Clovegilly-flowers vitriolated seven ounces white and gummy Turbith two ounces Scammony rosated ten drams of the best Cloves an ounce Cream of Tartar six drams Cinamon and Mace of each a dram and a half Oyl of Oranges a scruple And with Syrup of Citron peels muskified mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It doth pleasantly and plentifully purge all cold Humors but chiefly Flegm from the Head Breast Stomach Joynts Guts and other principal Members and also from those deputed for nutrition It is good for complicated and continual Feavers and is very useful in the Colick coming of a cold Cause and for all other Diseases that proceed from frigid humors It is a good Remedy for those who are troubled with sour Belchings they being constantly troubled with Loathings and do generally abound with Spittle The dose is from a dram and a half to three drams especially in strong bodies more or less according to the age strength and season Zingiber Purgans or Purging Ginger Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers four ounces condited Ginger of Bengal three ounces Scammony rosated ten drams species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce the lesser Galangal and Mace of each a dram Cardamoms the less Cloves of each two scruples yellow Orange peels and Citron peels of each half a dram Gallia Moschata a scruple And with Syrup of the before-mentioned candied Ginger make all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It safely purgeth the whole body of Flegm and all other vicious Humors It draws away Choler of both kinds from the Stomach gives a sweet Breath comforts the Intestines being too cold and removes all Frigidity It dissolves thick flatulent Humors and clarifies the Blood neither hath it any ungrateful smell or taste It is very profitable in all kind of Feavers and in all other Diseases proceeding from a cold Cause also in the Colick Wind and pain of the Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Reins and Back The dose is from two drams to three in the morning early Cinamomum Laxativum or Laxative Cinamon Take white Sugar dissolved in Cinamon water four ounces Scammony rosated six drams species of Diacinamon half an ounce Oyl of Cinamon a scruple Mix all into the form of a Bole. Virtue Use and Dose It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy from the Head Thorax Stomach Liver and Joynts c. and that without any trouble And this Composition may be also made into a solid form The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Cholagogum or a Choler-purging Medicine Take juyce of red Roses exprest white Sugar of each eight ounces species of Diarrhodon vitriolated nine drams Magistery of Scammony an ounce Spodium a dram and a half Gallia Moschata a scruple Let the Sugar be boiled to a consistence with the Juyce of Roses and then let the Species being pulverized be added so make all into an Electuary of the Juyce of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it to purge hot and cholerick Humors in all hot and cholerick Diseases and Affects The dose is from two drams to three Catharticum Vitae or the Purge of Life Take Venice Treacle three ounces our species of Diaesula an ounce and a half Mercurius vitae a dram Mix them and with our Pectoral Syrup make an Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Medicine in Feavers Plague diseases of the Head Pox Leprosie ill habit of Body Dropsie fetid Ulcers c. and is a Secret in Quartan Agues for it leaves no impurity behind it in the body The dose is from a dram to two But let it not be given before meat but after it and so the sick do vomit sooner and easier Diaturbith Minerale Take Mithridate of Damocratis four ounces true Turbith Mineral species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each half an ounce our species of Diavitrioli and our Carminative Oyl of each a scruple Mix them and with Syrup of Jujubes bring them into the form of a thick Electuary Virtue Use and Dose It is an excellent Purge in all desperate Diseases as the Dropsie Pox Gout and Jaundice and by its expulsive force nothing is more excellent and noble in Fistula's malignant Ulcers Plague and most kind of Feavers c. The dose is from a dram to a dram and a half drinking after it a little white Wine Confectio Passulata or a
ounces Cinamon water buglossated in which species Diarrhodon Abbatis hath been infused two ounces Nitre prepared a dram and a half Mix them and boil all into the consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It potently refrigerates penetrates drys and defends the parts from Putrefaction It is of excellent use in malignant cholerick Feavers and other contagious Diseases It powerfully resists Sur feits by drinking Poysons and Pestilence It extinguisheth Thirst and all intemperate heat of the Head Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Reins and Bowels It provokes Sweat and Urine represseth cholerick Vomitings and cures the Cholera It helps the passions of the Heart Dysenteries and griping of the Guts the body being first purged The dose is from half an ounce to two either by it self or in any other Vehicle respecting the Disease Syrupus Antiscorbuticus or a Syrup against the Scurvy Take of the juyce of Norway black Berries three pound juyce of Watercresses Brooklime Sorrel and Scurvygrass of each half a pound These being mixed add of white Sugar a pound and a half and so make a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It is a most noble and approved Remedy against the Scurvy The dose is from an ounce to two or three by it self or with our Antiscorbutick Water Syrupus de Pyrethro or a Syrup of Pellitory Take of the best Agarick an ounce and a half roots of Pellitory an ounce roots of Acorus Burnet and male Peony of each half an ounce seeds of Peony and Fenil Iuniper-berries of each three drams Motherwort Agrimony Hyssop Primrose wild Mints Nep of each two drams flowers of Lily of the valley Mullein Bugloss and Rosemary of each a dram and a half Cinamon Nutmegs and Cubebs of each a dram All being cut and bruised let them be infused in water of Sage and Rosemary of each three pound Let them stand and infuse a whole night and then boil them to the consumption of the third part Take of this Liquor strained and clear four pound white Sugar two pound Mix them and boil them to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is very useful in all passions of the Nerves as the Palsie Convulsions Epilepsie Hip-gout c. For it potently dissolves the peccant matter and mitigates pain The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce by it self or in any other convenient Vehicle Syrupus Nephriticus or a Syrup against the Stone in the Reins Take of our Aqua Antinephritica and Lithontriptica of each ten ounces Salt of the Pearch stone and Crabs eyes of each half an ounce Being mixed and dissolved add flowers of Marsh-mallows new dryed as many as sufficeth Let them stand in digestion a few days until the Liquor be perfectly tinctured afterward with two pound of white Sugar boil it to the consistence of a Syrup Virtue Use and Dose It is given to those troubled with the Stone and Gravel from an ounce to an ounce and a half by it self or with some other agreeable Vehicle for it breaks and expels the Stone though great as you may see by daily Experience how sand and fragments of Stones lye at the bottom of the Urine Syrupus Stipticus or a Stiptick Syrup Take Sloes ripe and dryed a pound roots of water-Acorus Snakeweed Tormentil and Zedoary of each an ounce rinds of Pomegranates dryed Quinces of each half an ounce Turkish Galls red Roses Balaustines of each two drams seeds of Sorrel Bloodworth and Plantane of each a dram and a half Boil all according to Art in a sufficient quantity of white Wine till it be perfectly tinctured Take of this clear strained Liquor four pound white Sugar two pound Boil it again till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup and let it be aromatized with Cinamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs Oriental Saffron white Ginger the lesser Galangal of each a dram wild Poppyflowers and Clovegilly-flowers of each half a dram Let these be all tyed up in a thin Cloth and boiled in the Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It helps Hepatick Dysenteries that arise from the sharpness of the Humors It moves Appetite to meat helps those that cannot hold their water But it is chiefly agreeable to those who are afflicted with long protracted Fluxes of the Belly caused of a watry humor as well cold as hot It stops Vomiting the flux of the Haemorrhoids overflowing of the Terms c. The dose is from an ounce to two universal Medicines being premised Syrupus Dysentericus laxativus or a purging Syrup for a bloody Flux Take roots of Polypody of the Oak two ounces Liquorish Burnet of each an ounce roots of Tormentil and Succory of each six drams leaves of Harts-tongue Agrimony Fluellin Knotgrass of each half an ounce Make a Decoction in water of Comfry-roots Plantane and Oak-leaves of each a like quantity boil it to the consumption of the third part and strain it Take of this strained Liquor three pound the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half Mechoacan yellow Myrobalans leaves of Sena of each an ounce Troches of Agarick half an ounce flowers of red Roses white Lilies Elder Chamomil and Mullein of each two drams seeds of Anise Quinces and Dill of each a dram and a half Cassia lignea Cloves and Nutmegs of each a dram Let them infuse in a warm place all night and in the morning let them be gently boiled and strained and prest and to the strained Liquor add of white Sugar two pound and make it into a just consistence of a Syrup according to Art Virtue Use and Dose It gently moves the Belly downwards without trouble and purgeth all sharp and cholerick Humors from whence proceed the Ulcerations of the Bowels Moreover it mitigates the pain and its purging operation being over it stays the Flux The dose in young people is from an ounce to an ounce and a half But in those full-grown from two ounces to three Syrupus Pantagogus Take roots of Polypody of the Oak white Hermodactyls of each four ounces white and gummy Turbith Mechoacan of each two ounces the best Rhubarb an ounce and a half black Hellebore prepared the best Ialap of each an ounce Troches of Agarick of all the Myrobalans of each half an ounce Let them be cut and bruised and put into a sufficient quantity of white Wine in which let them infuse for certain days afterward boil them according to Art and in four pound of the strained Liquor again infuse the following Ingredients Sena three ounces small Raisons three ounces Cream of Tartar an ounce Maiden-hair Fluellin and Fumitory of each half an ounce Anise and Fenil seeds of each two drams flowers of Peaches Violets and Roses of Acacia and Epithymum of each a dram Let them stand in Infusion all night in the morning let them be boiled strained and pressed and then with two pound of white Sugar boil them to the consistence of a Syrup adding these things following Cardamoms the less Cloves Galangal
two drams leaves of Eyebright Vervain and Rue tops of Rosemary Sage of Pennyroyal Dill and Fenil of each a dram and a half flowers of greater Celandine Betony Lavender red Roses and Rosemary of each a dram Let them be macerated in six pound of Spanish Wine the space of eight days and afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is very effectual universal Medicines being premised for the weakness and dulness of sight and to comfort the visive Spirits and to rectifie the Brain and the humors thereof The dose morning and evening is from half an ounce to an ounce and a half Aqua Pectoralis or a Pectoral Water Take bitter Almonds and small Raisons of each half a pound roots of Florentine Flower-de-luce roots of Liquorish Marsh-mallows and Coltsfoot of each an ounce roots of lesser Mallows Comfrey and Elicampane of each half an ounce seeds of Fenil Anise Quinces Carduus benedictus Carduus Mariae Myrtles and Nettles of each three drams Oriental Saffron Cardamoms the less Mace Cinamon of each two drams both sorts of Lungwort Fluellin Horehound Ground-Ivy Maidenhair Scabious Hyssop and Sage of each a draâ— and a half flowers of Chamomil Coltsfoot Violets and Hearts-ease of each a dram Let them be cut and bruised and infused in twelve pound of the best old Hydromel and digested for eight days afterward distilled in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It operates to a Miracle in all the distempers of the Thorax as straitness of the Breast Asthma and Cough c. It cuts attenuates and deterges thick and viscous flegm gathered in the Lungs and cavity of the Breast and renders it easie to be spit out It also comforts the Stomach and with the help of our Species Diasulphuris it preserves from and cures all Putrefaction and Apostems Moreover it doth effectually help those who are troubled with Phthisicks Pleurisies shortness of Breath destillations of Rheum spitting of Blood and other purulent Matter The dose is from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Antiphthisica or an Anticonsumptive Water Take roots of great Comfry flowers of red Roses of each a pound crums of Wheat-bread four ounces Pine-apples and green Pistick Nuts of each three ounces roots of China two ounces flowers of Liverwort and Rosemary pith of Indian Nuts of each an ounce Mace half an ounce Let them be bruised and broken and put into a large Matrace with water of Calves Lungs two pound Plantane water and Capon water of each a pound water of Cinamon buglossated water of Fluellin and Scabious of each half a pound Let them stand in digestion for eight days often shaking them in the time and afterward add to them exprest juyce of Coltsfoot and Goats milk of each half a pound the blood of one Pig Snails taken from their shells and bruised an ounce and a half Hens Livers three Oriental Saffron a dram Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath a wonderful operation it certinly cures the Phthisick or Consumption it heals Ulcers of the Lungs and cleanseth the Breast from thick humors But in Phthisicks coming of Rheumatisms in the Thorax and in Asthma's Pleurisie c. we usually give it in this Form following with good success Take of Aqua Antiphthisica nineteen ounces white Sugar candy three ounces Lac Sulphuris two drams flower of Sulphur a dram and a half Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each a dram Mix them ready for use The dose is morning noon and night from a spoonful to two And by the use of this Liquor only a man will grow fat because it moistens lenifies nourishes comforts restores the radical Moisture and allays the Cough and is the only relief to extenuated consumptive and hectical bodies for it restores them to their pristine health and expels the Disease but before it be made use of it should be diligently moved Aqua Pulmonis Vituli or Water of a Calves Lungs Take the Heart Lungs and Liver of a Calf the fat and veins being cut off and add to it great Comfry roots four ounces French Lungwort Pimpernel Fluellin Hyssop Sage and Agrimony of each half an ounce Pour upon them a sufficient quantity of the same water also and boil them in a new well glazed earthen Pot close covered Take of this Broth with the other things three pound water of Borage Bugloss and Roses of each a pound species Diamargariton frigid roots of Pimpinella Cinamon of each an ounce the foâ— greater cold Seeds of each two drams the Cordial Flowers of each a dram Mix them and distil them in an Alembick Virtue Use and Dose Hectical and consumptive people may be nourished a long time by the use of this Water therefore not without reason was this Description always esteemed among us of great price The dose by it self is from one spoonful to two Aqua Caponis or Capon-water Take a Capon which you must boil in a well glazed new earthen Pot according to Art with small Raisons Pine-nuts and Liquorish of each an ounce Iujubes and Sebestens of each twelve new dryed Figs eight Lungwort Coltsfoot Endive and Lettice of each half an ounce flower of Violets and Betony of each a dram The Decoction being finished let all be bruised in a stone Mortar then take good Canary Wine three pound water of Coltsfoot Horehound and Bugloss of each a pound the crum of white Bread steeped in Goats milk half a pound Conserve of Borage Roses and Maidenhair of each four ounces species of Diamargariton frigid half an ounce Cinamon Mace and Aniseeds of each two drams Mix them and distil it in an Alembick according to Art and the distilled Liquor keep for use Virtue Use and Dose This Capon-water is most famous and effectual in all Pectoral Diseases as the Cough Asthma Phthisick c. and is given by it self The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cinamomi Buglossata or Cinamon-water Buglossated Take Bugloss water six pound flowers of Violets and Roses of each two pound Cinamon a pound bark of the roots of Bugloss three ounces flowers of Borage and Balm of each an ounce species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce Mix them and after due digestion distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It concocts mollifies and resists Poysons it also comforts the Brain Heart Stomach Liver and Spleen It clears the Sight provokes Urine and gives ease in diseases of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua ex Corde Cervi or Water of a Stags Heart Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Cardamoms the less Galangal the less Mace Oriental Saffron of each two drams wood of Aloes yellow Sanders Citron peels seeds of Basil that smells like Avens of each a dram and a half flowers of Lavender Rosemary Balm and Sage of each a dram Let them be macerated all night in Spanish
Wine and in the morning distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It comforts the Heart and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous accidents sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and natural Spirits and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing The dose is from one spoonful to two or three Aqua Cordialis frigida or a cooling Cordial Water Take Conserve of red Roses a pound and a half Rasberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton frigid of each an ounce and a half seeds of Docks an ounce Sanders red white and yellow of each half an ounce the Cordial Flowers of each two drams Mix them and infuse them in these Waters following water of Sorrel water-Lily Strawberries Violets Borage and Bugloss of each a pound Mix them and digest them for some days and then again add Cinamon water buglossated a pound and a half juyce of Quinces depurated juyce of Lemmons and Citrons of each half a pound Again mix them and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It doth sweetly and effectually refresh and strengthen the Heart in all burning Feavers and all other hot and corrosive Diseases by which means it removes imbecillity and fortifies strength through the whole body It also helps those who are disturbed in Mind whether it takes its Original from the Heart or Stomach it discusseth and throws off all Poyson and poysonous qualities that offend the Vitals and it restores the Spirits that languish with weakness from an excessive heat to their pristine state and strength The dose is from one ounce to two Aqua Cordialis calida or a hot Cordial Water Take Cinamon four ounces roots of Avens three ounces Cloves sealed Earth of each an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms Galangal the less Mace Zedoary the peels of yellow Oranges Citron peels seeds of Basil of each half an ounce odoriferous wood of Aloes Oriental Saffron Spicknard Pennyroyal dryed of each three drams flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each a dram and a half All being pulverized and mixed let them infuse eight days in four pound of Spanish Wine then add Cinamon water distilled with Wine Clove gillyflowers of each a pound and a half flowers of Rosemary Lavender Balm and Sage of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo let it be distilled Virtue Use and Dose It doth help wonderfully in all cold affects of the Heart and is a good Remedy for its palpitation and the defect of the Mind It cureth the Syncope and Swooning refresheth the vital Spirits it takes away a sorrowful heaviness and the cause thereof and exhilarates the Heart It also restores those to health who are weak by the continuance of a lingering Disease and is an excellent Roborative It renders the whole body lively retards Baldness For whosoever is old and useth this Medicine will need no other Conservation for his Health The dose is from one spoonful to two or three at a time Aqua acetosa Stomachalis or a tart Stomach-water Take white Sugar a pound Conserve of Roses and Rose-water of each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified half an ounce Make a Mixture and when it is strained keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose This tart Stomach-water is good in any intemperance as well cold as hot and is very effectual in the loss of Appetite or Loathing which is caused by the vitriolated Juyce that is vitiated in the bottom of the Stomach and for this property it cannot be sufficiently praised For it doth most excellently restore Concoction whether it be lost impaired or vitiated and fortifies the Stomach It is to be given in some proper Vehicle two hours before meat without exercise or an hour before meat with exercise after it respecting the disease for in a hot distemper it may be given in Pomegranate-wine or Syrup of Lemmons or of the Juyce of Citrons or Tincture of Roses c. but in a cold defect with our hot Cordial or Stomach-water Wormwood-wine Malmsy or other generous Wine c. The dose of it is so much as will make the Liquor it is taken in tart and sharp Aqua Stomachica calida or a hot Stomach-water Take lesser Galangal an ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon white Ginger Mastich roots of Burnet Elicampane water-Acorus of each an ounce water-Mints six drams Rosemary Sage and Wormwood of each half an ounce both sorts of Cardamoms sweet Reed Mace long Pepper Cummin seeds of each three drams Squinanth Spicknard wood of Aloes of each two drams Bruise and mix them and macerate them in eight pound of Malmsy Wine and of Balm and Pennyroyal water of each a pound let them digest eight days and then distil them in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It warms the Ventricle and rectifies the coldness thereof It allays the Gripes pains and punctures of it It also digests and concocts Flegm and crude Humors collected there It stays Vomiting and Loathing and is a present Remedy for sour Belching It is a Divine help in Leanness and the disposition of Old age and to excite appetite and heat in old people to expel thick ventose humors to open obstructions and to resolve moist humors and corrupt superfluities The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from half an ounce to one or two Aqua Epatica frigida or a cold Epatick Water Take ripe Strawberries a pound species Diarrhodon Abbatis four ounces roots of Succory Agrimony Scorzonera and Eryngo of each an ounce flowers of the lesser Centaury Liverwort Borage and red Roses of each half an ounce Rhubarb three drams Sanders three sorts of each two drams the four greater and lesser cold Seeds Dock seeds of each a dram and a half Let them be cut and bruised and infused in four pound of red Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the flowers of Liverwort Purslain Sorrel Endive Melons Succory Rasberries and Dodder of each a pound Mix them and distil by an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose The use of this Water is most safe and happy in its success in all Feavers as burning Tertians Quotidians Quartans and other noxious distempers rising from the heat of body in which the Liver suffers Moreover it corrects and amends the intolerable and corrosive heat of the Stomach Lungs and Spleen The dose is every other hour from one ounce to two or three by it self or with some specifick Syrup Aqua Epatica calida or a hot Epatick Water Take species Diacubeba three ounces roots of bitter Costus roots of Smallage Turmerick and Fenil Iuniper-berries seeds of Anise Cummin and Carrots of each an ounce sweet Reed Rhubarb Cassia lignea of each six drams Spicknard Oriental Saffron and Squinanth of each three drams Southernwood Wormwood Agrimony Mother of Thyme and water-Germander of each half an ounce flowers
of Liverwort and golden Stoechas of each a dram and a half All being faithfully bruised and mixed put them into six pound of generous Wine and let them digest eight days afterward add waters of lesser Centaury Succory Fluellin Maiden-hair Chamomil Fumitory Horehound Harts-tongne and Liverwort of each half a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is happily given in all cold diseases of the Liver and the obstructions thereof It is good in ill habits of body and Dropsie It also eradicates the old chronical distempers both of Liver and Spleen and is a good remedy against their cold and moist affects For it cuts and attenuates thick and viscous humors collected in those parts The dose is from one ounce to two or three by it self or with appropriate Syrups Aqua Splenetica or a Water for the Spleen Take roots of both sorts of Fern of Polypody and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of round Birthwort water-Acorus sweet Reed and Lovage of each an ounce Rhubarb Cappar bark and Tamarisk of each six drams Pontick Wormwood Mugwort Agrimony Fumitory Harts-tongue Dodder and Spleenwort of each half an ounce seeds of Lovage Fenil Anise and Caraway of each two drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into ten pints of Rhenish Wine and after eight days digestion distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It attenuates and mollifies thick matter and melancholy Juyce collected in the Spleen and Mesaraick Veins and opens their obstructions It dissolves Wind and Tumors and cures the black Jaundice Hypochondriack Melancholy and Quartan Agues The dose is morning and evening from one ounce to three Aqua Antihydropica or a Water against the Dropsie Take seeds of Rocket half a pound Ash Cummin and Smallage of each an ounce and a half roots of Acorus Avens Swallow-wort Turmerick bitter Costus dwarff Elder Carduus and Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Rhubarb the lesser Galangal Nutmegs and Cloves of each six drams Cappar bark the middle bark of Elder and Tamarisk of each half an ounce Agrimony and Bindweed the tops of green Iuniper of each half an ounce flowers of Liverwort and Elder of each two drams Let them be cut bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine and after fourteen days digestion in a warm place the Vessel being shaken often every day then add water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each half a pound of both sorts of Liverwort Mugwort Carduus and Mother of Thyme of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It is a most proper Remedy for the Dropsie For it heats and comforts a cold Liver opens its obstructions and restores it to its faculties It dissipates thick flatulent Humors consumes the cause of ill Habits and Dropsies and expels it by its Diaphoretick force The dose is from one ounce to two or three Aqua Antiscorbutica or an Antiscorbutick Water Take wild Radishes cut into small pieces a pound roots of Polypody two ounces Masterwort Angelica and Zedoary of each an ounce and a half chips of Guajacam and Sassafras sweet Reed the lesser Galangal of each an ounce Cardamoms the less Oriental Saffron Fenil seeds bark of Cappars and Tamarick of each six drams Let them be cut and bruised and put them into six pound of Spanish Wine and set to digest in a warm place for eight days shaking the Vessel often and then add water of Scurvy-grass of the lesser Nettle of Water-cresses of Stone-crop of Celandine of Money-wort and Fumitory of each a pound Mix them and distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae Virtue Use and Dose It properly cures in these Northern maritime Regions that disease which they call the Scorbute or Scurvy for it opens obstructions of the Spleen mollifies and attenuates the feculent melancholy humor It also rectifies the blood through the whole body and comforts the Spleen exceedingly It is to be given for divers mornings successively from one ounce to two or three Aqua Anticolica seu Carminativa or a Carminative against the Colick Take the rind of yellow Oranges six ounces roots of Zedoary three ounces Bay-berries husked and Iuniper-berries of each an ounce and a half sweet Reed lesser Galangal Cinamon of each an ounce of the four greater and lesser hot Seeds seeds of Chervil Nigella and Dill of each three drams Let them be grosly bruised and mixed and put into eight pound of Malmsey Wine Let them infuse eight days and then add water of the juyce of Chamomil thrice distilled of Mother of Thyme distilled with Wine of each a pound Mix them and in an Alembick in Balneo distil them Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Colick to a Miracle which hath its Original from a cold and moist matter with wind universal Medicines being premised The dose is from one spoonful to two or three or from one ounce to two or three Aqua Benedicta Serpilli or Aqua Benedicta of Mother of Thyme Take Mother of Thyme with its flowers and gather it in the morning before Sun-rising the Moon decreasing eight ounces Roman Chamomil two ounces Savory and Thyme of each an ounce Put them into eight pound of the best Rhenish Wine and let them infuse certain days and distil them and in the distilled Liquor again infuse Mother of Thyme with its flowers eight ounces Cassia lignea an ounce wood of Aloes and Mace of each half an ounce Cut them small and after due digestion distil them again in an Alembick in Balneo and so it is truly prepared Virtue Use and Dose It stops all Catarrhs and Defluxions and preserves the Head from them It roborates the Brain Stomach and all the Intestines being vitiated with Cold. It stirs an Appetite provokes Urine expels the Stone mitigates the pains of the Belly but chiefly the Colick It dissipates wind from the Bowels and Hypochonders It allays Pains and Hiccup stays Vomiting provokes Womens Courses brings forth the Birth After-birth and dead Child It dissolves concreted Blood It is a good Remedy for those oppressed with a Compression of the Lungs difficulty of Breathing or any Rupture in those parts The dose is from half an ounce to two Aqua Castitatis or the Chast Water Take sealed Earth four ounces seeds of Agnus castus an ounce and a half seeds of Rue water-Lily Lettice and white Poppy of each an ounce seeds of Hemp Sorrel Purslain Gromel Endive Cummin and Coriander prepared of each six drams roots of white Diptamus Hounds-tongue Bistort and Florentine Flower de luce of each half an ounce of all the sorts of Sanders Magistery of Saturn and Camphire of each three drams Pontick Wormwood water-Mints Shepherds-purse Sowthistle Vervain and leaves of Willow of each two drams Let them be cut and bruised and put into ten pound of red Stiptick Wine let them digest eight days and then digest them in Balneo
bruised and then infused in the following Waters i. e. water of wild Poppy flowers and both kind of Mallows of each a pound and a half water of Plantane Purslain Violets Lettice leaves of Oak and Moneywort of each a pound Let them digest some days and then distil them in an Alembick in Balneo Virtue Use and Dose It takes off the heat and difficulty of Urine and obtunds the acrimony thereof that arises from hot Meats c. It deterges glutinates and cicatriseth all Ulcers and Ulcerations in the Bladder Reins Ureters and urinary passages For which it is a present Remedy which I have also experienced in Old people who are subject to a heat in the Bladder and from thence are subject to make water often This Water therefore sweeps away all mucous rough and painful filth and dregs of the Urine The dose is from one ounce to three Aqua contra Vermes or a Water against the Worms Take shavings of Harts horn four ounces crude Mercury well cleansed with Salt and Vinegar two ounces the best Sena seeds of Cina and Citrons true Corallina of each an ounce and a half Peach kernels Rhubarb Agarick and Myrrh of each an ounce roots of white Diptamus the pith taken away round Birthwort and Zedoary of each six drams white Tartar Nitre prepared Oriental Saffron of each half an ounce the tops of lesser Cantaury and Tansie chips of Hazel-tree of each three drams Let them be cut and bruised and then infused in four pound of Hydromel and after eight days digestion add to it water of Pontick Wormwood and Southernwood of each a pound and a half of Carduus Grass and Scordium of each a pound Mix all and distil them by an Alembick in Balneo Aqua Theriacalis or Treacle-water Take Venice Treacle eight ounces sealed Earth two ounces roots of Angelica and Tormentil Elicampane of each half an ounce Harts-horn and Elks hoof Spagirically calcined Sassafras Iuniper-berries Citron peels of each an ounce Boletus cervinus red Myrrh of each six drams Diaphoretick Antimony and Oriental Saffron of each three drams All being pulverized and mixed let them be infused in eight pound of Malmsey Wine for fourteen days and then distilled in Balneo with a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Because this Water by its tenuity and thinness doth quickly insinuate it self into all the Members and puts the native heat into action we happily use it in all diseases where Sweat is desired as Feavers Jaundice Putrefaction Worms Pox punctures of the Sides trembling of the Heart Plague rectification of the Blood c. The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua de Cornu cervino or Water of Harts-horn Take Harts-horn Spagirically calcined two ounces sealed Earth and Oriental red Bole of each an ounce roots of Tormentil white Diptamus Scorzonera and Zedoary of each half an ounce Sassafras yellow Sanders Cassia lignea of each three drams seeds of Sorrel Angelica and Citrons dryed of each two drams Oriental Saffron Mace and Marigold flowers of each a dram and a half These being cut and bruised let them be infused in the depurated Juyce of Carduus and Sorrel of each two pound of Scabious and Fluellin of each a pound of the husks of green Nuts and Scordium of each half a pound Let them macerate 24 hours then with a gentle fire distil them in Balneo with glass Vessels cohobating the second time Virtue Use and Dose This Water hath great force in the Plague and all other poysonous Diseases but especially in Women and Children for whom the Treacle-waters are not convenient Of this water an ounce or two or more according to the strength and nature of the Patient may be given either by it self or with other sudorifick Medicines in the place of Specificks c. Aqua Aloetica solutiva or a solutive Water of Aloes Take Epatick Aloes sixteen ounces juyce of the leaves of green Sena expressed Elaterium of each four ounces red Myrrh an ounce All being well mixed let them be distilled in glass in Balneo by the help of a gentle fire Virtue Use and Dose Anoint the Stomach often with this water and lay on after it a warm Cloth or Sponge and you shall see a wondrous Operation For it is a most excellent Medicine and only fit for Kings and Princes Aqua Cosmetica or a Beauty-water Take Goats milk four pound water of Aron roots Bean flowers white Roses white Lilies and Solomons seal of each a pound white Virgin Honey four ounces white Sugar candy and white Frankincense of each two ounces white Hermodactyls Florentine Flower-de-luce Venetian Borax of each an ounce Salt of white Tartar burnt Ivory and Camphire of each half an ounce flowers of white Narcissus of common white Mallows of white water Lily of each two drams Mix them and distil them in Balneo for the richer sort you may add a scruple of Gallia Moschata with Cotton to the neck of the Alembick Virtue Use and Dose It is used outwardly to cleanse and clarifie the Face For it takes off Spots Pimples c. from the Face and it hath a singular faculty in amending the foulness of the Skin in the Jaundice To accomplish which the Face must be often washed with it in the day Or take of this Cosmetick water six ounces of the Mercurial Cosmetick two drams Mix them and make a Lotion like Milk with which anoint the Face often SECT XX. Of mixed Liquors Nectar Vitrioli or Nectar of Vitriol TAke white Sugar candy ten ounces Spirit of Vitriol rectified two ounces Mix them and in a glass Vessel close covered keep out the flies and filth let them stand for some months till it all appear black like Pitch then take of this black matter four ounces Rose-water an ounce and a half water Mint-water half a pound Cinamon water buglossated six pound Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces Manus Christi simple two ounces Mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is commended in all intemperature of the Stomach as well cold as hot For it refresheth the languid and decayed strength thereof It provokes Appetite prevents Putrefaction It is good in malignant Feavers and allays Thirst. The dose by it self is from two ounces to three Liquor Vitriolatus or a Vitriolated Liquor Take Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half a pound juyce of Citrons or Lemmons four ounces Mix them diligently and being mixed add water of Endive ten ounces water of Sorrel and Roses of each eight ounces of water-Lily and Scabious of each six ounces of Cinamon water buglossated two ounces Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make all tart and grateful Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose It is of a curious cooling quality in the Plague Hungarian disease burning Feavers and all other Inflammations It also allays Thirst c. The dose is from two ounces to three Liquor Ophthalmicus subalbidus or a whitish Water for
is also a good Remedy in drying Erysipelas's and healing Fistula's But in applying it take heed lest you touch the Eyes or Teeth therewith Liquor Cerussae or a Liquor of white Lead Take the best white Lead an ounce of Pompholix half an ounce of Lapis Calaminaris and Litharge of each two drams Tutty prepared and Spodium of each a dram Let all be finely pulverized and mixed and then pour upon them water of Housleek Plantane and red Roses of each three ounces Again mix them and keep them for use Virtue and Use. It is used externally and cools and drys any part infested with a Tumor Redness or Inflammation It allays pain cures blood-shot Eyes It takes away the yellow spots of the Face and Body and renders a mans Countenance clear and vivid The use of it consists in often using divers day together Liquor Tutiae or a Liquor of Tutty Take Tutty prepared Litharge and Ceruss of each half an ounce Camphire a dram crude Alum half a dram Let all be diligently mixed and then add water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Again mix them and keep it for use Virtue and Use. It cools and drys the external parts of the Body infested with Tumors and Inflammations Liquor Mercurii Saccharatus or a Liquor of Mercury with Sugar Take water of Plantane and Roses of each four ounces Ceruss an ounce sublimate Mercury white Sugar Candy and the best Spirit of Wine of each half an ounce Mix them and then add to it a scruple of Aqua fortis Virtue and Use. It cures all contumacious Ring-worms Tetters and such like disease of the Skin But before it is used let it be shaken and the part effected touched with a Feather or such like thing Liquor Mercurii Acetosus or a sour Liquor of Mercury Take white Vitriol and Camphire of each half an ounce sublimate Mercury Ceruss white Tartar and burnt Alum of each two drams white Pompholix half a dram Mix all and make a Powder Take of this powder half an ounce the best Wine Vinegar four ounces Mix these and keep it for use Virtue and Use. We use it in the same manner as before to cleanse the Skin It perfectly cures all Ring-worms Tetters and such like SECT XXI Of Emulsions Emulsio Rosata or an Emulsion with Roses TAke sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Rose-water eight ounces water of Strawberries and Vervain of each four ounces Of these make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with Julep of Roses Virtue Use and Dose I happily use it in all hot affects of the Head burning of the Stomach Thorax Breast Heart and all the lower Belly Emulsio Violata or an Emulsion with Violets Take sweet Almonds an ounce seeds of Violets twâ— drams seeds of white Poppy a dram water of Violetâ— eight ounces water of Lettice and water-Lily of eacâ— four ounces Of these make an Emulsion which eduâ— corate with Julep of Violets to make it grateful Virtue Use and Dose It is good in a hot intempeâ— rature of the whole Body for it cools and moistenâ— allays Thirst induceth Sleep relieveth the Breasâ— and resists the Acrimony of Choler The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Somnifera or a sleeping Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two drams white Poppy seeds a dram Melon seeds half a dram Lettice seeds half a scruple water of Violets and water-Lilies of each an ounce and a half of our Hypnotick water a dram Make an Emulsion and edulcorate it with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Candy and add Magistery of Oriental Pearls and red Coral of each three grains Mix all for one dose and drink it in the evening at going to bed and it gives rest Emulsio Pleuritica or an Emulsion for the Pleurisie Take seeds of Carduus Mariae an ounce seeds of Carduus benedictus half an ounce seeds of white Poppy two drams water of Carduus Mariae six ounces water of Carduus benedictus water of wild Poppy flowers Chamomil flowers and Scabious flowers of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art and edulcorate it with Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets Virtue Use and Dose It cures the Pleurisie and suddenly it allays all the pains of the Sides to the amazement of the Beholders but it is convenient that the sick should be daily purged or at least the Belly kept open by continual Clysters The dose is from two ounces to three or four Emulsio Laxativa or a Laxative Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces of the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram water of Succory and Peach flowers Acacia and Violets of each four ounces Make an Emulsion according to Art in which dissolve Manna two ounces Let it be then strained and then add Cinamon water buglossated half an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is experienced in Children who are subject to be bound in their bodies Also in acute and burning Feavers in continual Tertians Hecticks Marasmus Synochus c. The dose is a moderate draught Emulsio Stiptica or a Stiptick Emulsion Take sweet Almonds two ounces white Poppy seeds half an ounce the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram Lettice seeds half a dram water distilled from the juyce of Quinces and Millefoil of each four ounces water of Plantane Tormentil and wild Poppy of each three ounces water of Oaken leaves and Cinamon buglossated of each an ounce and a half Of these make an Emulsion according to Art to which add Iulep of Roses four ounces Magistery of red Coral a dram Mix them Virtue Use and Dose It cools and binds it cures the loosness of the Belly and Dysentery coming of a hot cholerick Cause It also helps cholerick Coughs and brings sleep The dose is a good draught at a time Emulsio Cannabina or an Emulsion of Hemp seed Take Hemp seed an ounce and a half the four greater cold Seeds of each a dram With water of Water-Lily flowers and Roses of each a like quantity to make an Emulsion Take of this Emulsion fourteen ounces Syrup of the juyce of Violets two ounces Cinamon water buglossated an ounce Mix them for use Virtue Use and Dose It is profitably given to stop the Gonorrhoea or Flux of Seed Pollutions and other vices of those parts It is also good in burning Feavers and other distempers of Choler and Blood The dose is from two ounces to three SECT XXII Of Clarets and medicated Wines Claretum Antepilepticum Laxativum or a Laxative Antepileptick Claret TAke leaves of Sena two ounces the best Turbith and Mechoacan of each half an ounce filings of Elks hoof and mans Skull Nutmegs of each two drams roots and seeds of Peony duly gathered Misleto of the Oak of each a dram and a half the lesser Cardamoms Cassia lignea Cloves of each a dram flowers of male Peony Lily of the valley Lavender Teil-tree of each half a dram Let them be macerated in twenty
a dram Let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of sharp Wine in Balneo for five or six days till the Vinegar be perfectly tinctured then filter it and keep it for use Virtue Use and Dose The smell and odor of the Fume upon hot Coals immediately raiseth Women that are suffocated c. it is also good in the Vertigo's Lethargies and other sleepy diseases And if it be taken inwardly it also performs the same The dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Acetum Vomitorium or a Vomiting Vinegar Take bark of the roots of Thapsia four ounces â—oots of fresh dryed Asarabacca two ounces seeds of Cart aâ—us or bastard Saffron an ounce Cinamon half an ounce All being bruised and mixed infuse them in four pound of the best Wine Vinegar Let them digest in a Glass close shut for a month often shaking them in the time after distil them in Sand in a Copper body with a Leaden top to it And so you shall have distilled Vinegar impregnated with Saturn and a little sweet all which keep for use not rejecting the flegm Virtue Use and Dose It is a sweet and pleasant Vomit and purgeth all Humors as well cold as hot and is given in Quotidian and Tertian as well true as bastard both which it cures it takes away debility and loathing caused by super fluous sharp humors it is also an approved Medicine in renewed Feavers after seven Fits The dose is from two ounces to three more or less And to delicate bodies it is given in Syrup of Vinegar SECT XXIV Of Epithems Epithema generale or a general Epithem GOod in Melancholy Madness Phrensies immoderate Watchings pain and disorder of the Head in general from any cause Take water of wild Poppy Lettice and Roses of each four ounces of our Troches of Radice Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem Another of the same efficacy Take water of Henbane Sage and Vervain of each four ounces our Troches of roots of Rhodia an ounce Mix them for an Epithem and when there is a necessity of using it wet a double linen Rag therein and press it gently and apply it warm to the Temples and Forehead and this direction is also to be observed in the following Epithems An Epithem for the pain in the Head coming of a cold Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Betony Rosemary and Vervain of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce Cubebs three drams Nutmegs and Sandarack of each a dram roots of Mandrakes half a dram Mix them and make an Epithem and apply it warm Another in a hot Cause Take water of Chamomil Sage and Rosemary of each four ounces Peach kernels half an ounce the best Olibanum two drams Cloves Mace and wood of Aloes of each a dram roots of Zedoary half a dram Mix them for an Epithem An Epithem for pains of the Head coming of a hoâ— Cause with or without a Catarrh Take water of Roses Violets and common Mallows of each three ounces all the Sanders of each a dram and a half white Amber prepared a dram flowers of wild Poppy and Vervain of each half a dram Camphire a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Head Another in the same Case Take water of wild Poppy and Roses of each three ounces mans Skull calcined without fire a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram Mix them for an Epithem for the Head which operates wonderfully Epithema Hypnoticum or a Sleep-bringing Epithem Take water of Roses and Lettice of each four ounces Opium Spagirically prepared a dram Oriental Saffron half a dram of the spongy knot growing on wild Roses a scruple Mix them and dissolve them faithfully the mixture being prepared wet a linen Cloth in it and apply it warm to the Temples and moisten the Nostrils with it also and presently they begin to sleep Another to procure Sleep Take water of Nutmegs Lettice and Night shade of each four ounces seeds of white Poppy half an ounce seeds of Henbane and Dill of each two drams roots of Hounds-tongue a dram and a half flowers of Elicampane yellow water-Lily and Violets of each a scruple Bruise the Seeds in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then mix them and press them and so make an Epithem for the Head An experienced warming Cordial Epithem Take water of Cinamon Balm and Bugloss of each three ounces Elks horn Spagirically calcined Cloves Nutmegs and Citron peels of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes a dram Pearls prepared red Coral prepared of each half a dram seeds of Marjoram and Basil of each a scruple Oriental Saffron and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the same Case Take water of Roses Basil and Clove-gillyflowers of each three ounces species of Diamoschu dulce and Diambra of each a dram and a half Dianthos and Gems calcined of each a dram Mix them and make an Epithem to be applied to the region of the Heart A cooling Epithem in the Syncope and other Affects of the Heart Take water of red Roses four ounces water of Sarrel and water-Lily of each four ounces Vinegar violated an ounce red Coral prepared all the Sanders of each a dram sealed Earth and Bole Armeniack of each two scruples of the five precious Stones prepared bone of a Stags heart Pearls prepared Mace Cinamon Camphire of each ten grains Mix them for an Epithem for the Heart A most noble Epithem in the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Marjoram Basil Balm Roses and Malmsey Wine of each three ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species de Gemmis calid of Diambra and Diamoschu dulce of each a dram wood of Aloes and Mace of each two scruples Cinamon and Rosemary of each half a dram bone of a Stags heart Pearls and red Coral prepared Citron peel of each a scruple the five precious Stones prepared a scruple Mix all for an Epithem for the Heart Another for the Palpitation of the Heart Take water of Roses Sage and Borage of each three ounces odoriferous Wine an ounce Vinegar violated half an ounce species Diathameron and Diamargariton frigid of each a dram and a half Harts-horn Spagirically calcined Cassia lignea yellow Sanders Cardamoms the less of each half a dram Oriental Saffron flowers of Cloves and Rosemary of each a scruple Mix them for an Epithem to be applied to the Breast An Epithem for the Weakness and Inflammation of the Liver Take water of Water-Lilies Wormwood Endive Roses and Succory of each two ounces Vinegar rosated an ounce species Diatrion santalon half an ounce Crystals of Saturn two drams Rhubarb a dram and a half red Coral prepared two scruples seeds of Purslain and Sorrel of each a scruple Camphire Mace and Spike of each ten grains Mix them and make an Epithem according to Art Another in the same Case Take water of white Epatick flowers Rasberries Strawberries and the lesser Centaury of each three